Best Gig You've Ever Seen?

[Paisley Red]

There might already be a similar thread on here but I couldn't find it ...

 

I went to see Janelle Monae last night in Glasgow - absolutely fuckin' brilliant. She's an amazing singer and dancer, her band are as funky as the JBs, every song was fantastic and her backing singers and dancers were stunning. Right up there with the best gigs I've ever seen along with the Pixies, Horace Andy, Jane's Addiction, Al Green, Radiohead and Public Enemy.

 

Who is the best live act you've ever seen?

[WrongIslander]

Rodrigo y Gabriella

[TheResonator]

British Sea Power, Avalon Tent, Glastonbury 2009.

 

Had foliage and everything, superb.

[Anubis]

Texas at the Royal Court. Southside tour. So quite some time ago.

[corro]

Springsteen Manchester apollo may 81. 4 hrs of pure energy.Ruined ever since.Regret not getting tickets off city fans for the next night selling cos they were playing spurs the next day ( the ricky villa final). Never seen anything close.

[Vincent Vega]

Metallica in Bradford St Georges Hall on the And Justice For All tour 1998

 

Faith No More - The Real Thing Tour - The Royal Court 1990

 

Pink Floyd, De Kuyp stadium Rotterdam, 1995

 

Rage Against The Machine - RATM album tour - The Royal Court 1993

 

The Verve with Beck in support - Haigh Hall, Wigan 1998

 

Radiohead - Victoria Park , Warrington 2000

 

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible tour, MEN 2007

 

David Bowie - Sound & Vision tour - Maine Road, Manchester 1990

 

All awesome, impossible to pick which was best.

[Croque Monsieur]

Clutch - in the Manchester Academy on Oxford Road. An amazing live band.

 

Metallica in the MEN a couple of years ago. Even though they're arl bastards (as am I) they were magnificent.

 

Skindred at Sonisphere last year were a revelation - their frontman was superb.

[Sheeks]

Daft Punk - Marley park

 

Amazing!

[WrongIslander]

Daft Punk - Marley park

 

Amazing!

 

They're on my list big time.

[Chinandeler Bong]

The La's - Shephards Bush

 

Supergrass - Barfly: Cardiff

 

Oasis - Wembley & Finsbury Park

[Skrtel Milk]

Rage Against the Machine - O2 Dublin 2010 - Absolutely mental. Fantastic crowd.

 

Radiohead - Roskilde Festival 2008

 

Tool - Roskilde Festival 2006

[razor]

 

David Bowie - Sound & Vision tour - Maine Road, Manchester 1990

 

Top performance that. I loved that projection veil over the stage.

 

I've seen hundreds of top performances, some small, intimate gigs (Stone Roses, Stephen Duffy, Johnathan Richman) with a handful of people in the audience interacting, others at about 10 Glastonburys (plural?) I've been to or big "concerts". The La's and Mission (and Wylie) at Royal Court in 1989 was special.

 

It's a hard choice, but I can't think of any better than McCartney at Glastonbury for me. Springsteen in Sheffield was close. As were Pixies in Manchester.

[jeremy]

The Verve - Reading festival 1997 in the Melody maker tent, closely followed by Queens of the stone age - Munchen brewery Stockholm, like 200 in the crowd.

 

Tonight seeing The white lies at Cirkus in Stockholm with GertLush and Ris.

[jonnybastard]

Stone Roses at the sugarhouse, because it was my first. The Who at summerpops, because it was The Who.

[Ziggy Stardust]

Arcade Fire - Cardiff 2010.

[The Tott]

Daft Punk at oxegen 07

[WaltonRed]

Far too hard to pick just one:

 

Oasis at Glasto

Noel at the Zanzibar

The Libs in Liverpool uni pre up the bracket

The Libs at the Zanzibar

Macca at the Kings Dock

Neil Young at Glasto

The Boss at Glasto

[macc]

Have never been to a gig in my life...

[Sut]

More than one I know but...

 

Shack at the O2 last Christmas.

Joan Baez the week before at the Phil.

Bruce Springsteen at the MEN with the Seeger Sessions Band, 2006 (I think).

[Faustus]

Leonard Cohen at Glasto, just as the sun was setting. He was also unreal at the Echo Arena the year later. It's more like a religious experience than anything else. There's nobody else quite like him.

[withnail71]

guns n roses/skid row/ nine inch nails. wembley 1992 ?? ish ??

inxs - get out of the house tour- cardiff uni-1993 ish ???

Crowded house- Cardiff CIA 2010

[Malarkey]

U2 at the City of Manchester Stadium (Even though Bono's a knob)

 

Arcade Fire at Manchester Central.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Slayer in a tent at Download a few tears back.

[theghost]

The Specials and Orbital - Coachella 2010

Jenny Lewis, by her self, in a theatre with 150 other people, tops. I was less than 10 feet from her the whole night. Almost cried.

[RedinSweden]

New Order and Happy Mondays - Manchester 1989

Arcade Fire - Stockholm 2008

Supergrass - Stockholm 2010