Best act you've seen live?

[Mule]

For entertainment value Alice Cooper or Rolf Harris

[russbeer]

slag off time...

Best I've ever seen was probably Daniel Bedingfield @ Manchester Apollo around March of 2004. Saw him again since and was good again.

Michael Jackson was good at Don Valley in Sheffield about 5 years or so ago, and Bryan Adams was a decent gig at Stoke Citys ground a year or so ago too, but not as good as i would have expected.

Got a ticket for George Michael in Manchester in November and that will be awesome i expect. hope so anyway, at £80 a ticket!!

[marcode]

coldplay at bellahouston park the day of live8... they flew back from london for the gig i think.

open air.. was fuckin great atmosphere...

[WalterPill]

slag off time...

Best I've ever seen was probably Daniel Bedingfield @ Manchester Apollo around March of 2004. Saw him again since and was good again.

Michael Jackson was good at Don Valley in Sheffield about 5 years or so ago, and Bryan Adams was a decent gig at Stoke Citys ground a year or so ago too, but not as good as i would have expected.

Got a ticket for George Michael in Manchester in November and that will be awesome i expect. hope so anyway, at £80 a ticket!!

[wavesta]

That's a great eclectic mix.

For me Orbital have probably been the best live show I've seen. The Prodigy fall into the same kind of live category whom I've seen two or three times as well but they don't hold a candle to the Hartnolls.

Musically maybe the most accomplished musicians I've seen tied with the best sound was Mercury Rev in Melbourne.

I'm so happy to have been able to catch The Stone Roses live as well. I'll never convince anyone that they were a consistently great live group but on that one occasion I saw them in Newport in maybe 94 or 95 they were fucking ace and the riot outside between Newport and Cardiff fans inspired by Ian Brown ripping his shirt off half way through Tears and showing off a Bluebirds shirt underneath really capped off the evening especially as the microdots I'd necked were still in full swing.

Yeah I've seen Orbital 9 or 10 times over the years, Glastonbury a few times, 99 or maybe it was 98 was a sublime gig although they did play both those years, Glasgow Barrolands a few times, the best venue in the uk, can't beat a glasgow crowd for a gig. Also saw them in princess st gardens here in edinburgh in 99 the setting made it and a stunning gig from the Hartnol bros backed that up nicely saw the Prodigy also at glasto but I can't remember what year that was Primal Scream are also excellent live seen them about the same number of times as Orbital never been to a bad one of theirs either. Never saw the Stone Roses sadly went to see Ian Brown a few years ago he rolled on stage more fooked than me....so I left !

you could start a whole other thread just on great gigs you've seen at glastonbury

[digidump]

Alice Cooper - welcome to my nightmare tour at Reading 1987
Fugazi - Queen's Hall Bradford early 90's
Massive Attack - MEN Manchester Mezzanine Tour
Underworld - every time I've seen 'em including in the pissing rain at V98 in Leeds
Faithless - every time I've seen 'em

But without any shadow of adoubt the best ever was Black Grape - Town and Country Leeds - It's great when ya strait tour

[reverend]

Over ever RHCP live, they were awesome!

Going to have to go see a few more this year I think!

[evilsatan]

Lol I keep adding to my list, I used to hate Coldplay, found them slow and depressing, it was only after seeing them at V2003 (I think?!) I found my love for their music. Not up there with my best as I like to get pumpin at gigs but they were the perfect chill-out for a headline at the end of a festival. Yellow still sends shivers down my spine each time I hear it.

[karlos130]

Just back from V myself weston park

could only get day ticket for the sunday,,,
thaught Keane were excellent... orson were ok

Managed to see radiohead,cardigans,kula shaker...and a bit of girls aloud lol

All in all my first V and im hooked will be back next year tickets on sale tomorrow

[russbeer]

whats with the faces walterpill? Just coz i'm not a fan of the great unwashed indie scene? I do like that type of music, just not enough to mix with the smelly students who toss money on it!

[WalterPill]

99 or maybe it was 98 was a sublime gig although they did play both those years

I think 98 was the night show when they had the torch specs and all that. the year after was the day gig which didn't have the same impact due to the music not being accompanied by the light show. Impact (The Earth Is Burning) has to be the one of the most incredible live tunes I've ever heard.

Someone mentioned Underworld as well and they're a good live outfit. The best show I've seen by them was a Megadog night in Manchester when Emerson who also DJ'd was still a member. Fluke were also quality that night.

[WalterPill]

whats with the faces walterpill? Just coz i'm not a fan of the great unwashed indie scene?

No, it's because I'd never 'toss' money on acts like Daniel Bedingfield, Bryan Adams, George Michael and possibly to a lesser degree Michael Jackson. Anyway, didn't you invite that kind of reaction with your opening 'slag off time...' statement? So you must recognize the naffness of those acts? Great Unwashed indie Spotty Herberts or not I'd rather spend £15 on seeing decent acts like Massive Attack or Doves than spend fuck knows how much on hacks like Bryan Adams and Daniel Bedingfield and £80 for a ticket to see that cottaging greek Wham singer???

[stimpy]

Top of the list has to be The Levellers in Liverpool on their 'Drunk in Public' tour which is all acoustic and to about 100 or so people so it was really close and personal (I had a seat right next to the stage and they played Just The One for my missus just because she told them she would show them her tits if they did!)

The rest, in no particualr order

Prodigy, Reading 96
Prodigy, MEN, Manchester 2005
Moby, Various
Muse, V2002 (or maybe 2003, can't remeber which)
Levellers, V99
Chemical Brothers, Various

And many, many more which I can't think of right now.

[urbsy]

As said before Micheal Jackson was breathtaking when he played Roundhay Park in 1988, I was only young honest but it was by far the best concert I have ever experienced.

urbsy

[ereader]

has to be UB40 supershow at st Andrews, had the Pogues , Robert Palmer, Ranking Roger from the beat and, a bangra band called allapp that rocked

oh and n-joi at raindance (Techno Gangsters)

[salvadorescobar]

I went to see The Prodigy on The Experience Tour at Leeds T&C in 95 (ish) and it was the best gig I have ever been to. They were tops. We were wasted to boot. It was well hot and louder than you can imagine. Crowd surfing to the front to have Keith Flint scream in yer face...

[wavesta]

I think 98 was the night show when they had the torch specs and all that. the year after was the day gig which didn't have the same impact due to the music not being accompanied by the light show.

yeah you're right I do have a memory of standing front and centre shin deep in mud,in the dark bouncing up and down along with what seemed like a million other folk. wasn't it at that gig they dropped in the belinda carlyle before satan kicked in and some other track...aarg! cant remember at the moment some rock classic perhaps!?.....anyway the croud just went mental....the biscuit's I had for dinner kicked me in the head and then we were off ! I could be wrong as most of those gigs are strangley fuzzy and a lot of memories from the 90s got misfiled/misplaced somehow


fuck the 90s were awesome ! Happy Days

[WalterPill]

Yeah it was around that time they were using a Belinda Carlisle 'Heaven Is A place on Earth' mix that always got the odd puzzled glance until they realised it worked pretty well and I believe the rock song was that Bon Jovi 'Shot through the heart' song?

and yeah, the 90s. Pills were actually pills the majority of that decade.

[wijit]

What a thread!!
In no order whatsoever;
KISS-'76/81/92/96/97 (some of their tours were uttershite)
Seen Motorhead over 20 times and I just like the raw noise of it, GnR at Wembley were good, but they were blasted out of the water at Milton Keynes by support band The Cult. Funnily enough, Tina Turner Wildest Dreams tour at Wemley aws fantastic, ive Aid (85) was a great gig but that night not be for musical reasons, Manic Street Preachers were good, as were their support band Catatonia Sex Pistols showed they'd not lost it on the Filthy Lucre tour. Queen at Wembley and Knebworth in 86.
But, maybe a bit of a surprise, I took my Mum to see Dr Hook in 85 ad they were just fantasic entertainment. Fianlly, Hole at Manchester Academy were brilliant, but then I reckon you can't go wrong thre.

[DrunkenSteve]

Oh i just remeber faithless at IOW last year, my 21st birthday, pished stoned raving like a loon- fantastic beats any birthday party