The Best and The Worst Concert

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best 10CC way back in the 70`s and the Quo at the nec.

worst probably girls aloud with the mrs ,they were at Battle Abbey for an outdoor gig ,it rained and they were more than put off by it.
 
Loads of really good ones, Jools Holland is always top notch, Rod Stewart in the 70's, Elton John + loads

Worse was Amy Winehouse - out of her head and totally unprofessional!
 
Best The Who Glasgow Apollo
Worst Toyah Glasgow Apollo

Before they were famous, Black Eyed Peas, Carling Acadamy Glasgow
Kevin Bridges Jonglers Glasgow & The Stand Comedy Club Glasgow

Guilty secret Peter Andre with my 13 year old Daughter (15 years ago) and her friend, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Mum was meant to go but took unwell on the day
Ps Toyah was worse.
 
Best :- Queen - Elland Road (Brian May was interviewed at Milton Keynes and actually said that that concert summed up why they do what they do)
Honourable mention :- Gary Glitter - Apollo Manchester (Twice)

Worst :- Hard to split Cranberries / Lilly Allen. Both Apollo Manchester and both being too lazy to do a sound check. Awful. Although Allen's sound men got it sorted for the on chore....but the damage had been done. Most of the girls were at the bar !!!!!
 
Interesting thread..

Best

Oasis, Knebworth 96' - Blew the doors off. Got to the front and looked back at 125,000 people behind us. Unnerving.
Alice Cooper, Cropredy 13' - what a pro...
Prodigy, Cambridge 96ish - astonishing bass
Black Grape, mid 95' I think - With Bez. Nuff' said
Any of the many Levellers gigs

Worst

Iggy Pop, V Festival - Still shaking my head at that one...
Pogues with Shane MacGowan - So looked forward to this one but dear old Shane had been a little too free with the shandies and the PA was dire
 
I'm not a great fan of live music but..

Best- Scissor sisters BIC 2006, I discovered my inner gay.

Worst - Foreigner with Lou Gramm at Southampton, there was a fella in front with massive hair, I couldn't see a thing :o
funny thing was, his 'date' had a matching hair style but was about 2 feet shorter, a 'mini me' if you like
 
Worst: U2 at City of Manchester Stadium during the Atomic Bomb tour. Truly awful experience. Mainly other fans' faults but the concert wasn't that great.
Best: Eels at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. Any gig where the 4 guest female string section get vibrators out halfway through a song to add to the ambience has to be a good gig!
 
Best

Prince at the NEC. It has been scientifically proved that it is impossibly for Prince to do a bad gig.
Flaming Lips at the Hummingbird in Birmingham
Radiohead at the Wulfrun halls in Wolverhampton in the early 90s, plus many others over the years.
Kylie in the late 80s
1D the other week
Pulp in the mid 90s at Rock City just as they were going massive
Sigur Ros at many places, especially Nottingham Arena as it was a hometown gig for me.

Worst

PJ Harvey did a particularly challenging gig I was at once, she just seemed to not want to be there

Saw Ian Brown supporting the Manics I think, and he just can not hold a note. He can probably get away with it if you have the Stone Roses tunes to back you up, not so with his solo material. Fog horn.

Had to sit through Oasis at a festival once, mostly awful plodding meat and potatoes music and Liam, who I do admit does have a great voice on record, was mostly just shouting the songs.

There were a few poor ones I sat through that I would not have paid to see, but an old girlfriend used to write the music column for a local paper (well I mostly wrote it for her as she was not into music). So Deacon Blue and Tanita Tikaram spring to mind. The girlfriend also interviewed her afterwards and she was a bit dull. Once she interviewed the Monkees as well and they spent the whole interview trying to hit on her, which I found a bit creepy.
 
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Best: Rush - Tour of the Hemispheres - Manchester Apollo 1979
Worst: Probably another vote for Meatloaf. Sat side on to stage lots of yellin' and a hollerin' but we were quite disappointed.
Biggest regret......having a ticket for Zeppelin at Knebworth in 1978 and selling it - doh :-(
 
therod said:
I'm not a great fan of live music but..

Best- Scissor sisters BIC 2006, I discovered my inner gay.

Worst - Foreigner with Lou Gramm at Southampton, there was a fella in front with massive hair, I couldn't see a thing :o
funny thing was, his 'date' had a matching hair style but was about 2 feet shorter, a 'mini me' if you like
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I saw them at Rock City in Nottingham once and they put on one hell of a show. Camp as a row of tents but brilliant at the same time.
 
Hacker Khan said:
I saw them at Rock City in Nottingham once and they put on one hell of a show. Camp as a row of tents but brilliant at the same time.
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Another vote for the Scissor Sisters oddly - saw them as they were breaking with around 150 people at Norwich Waterfront and they were utterly fantastic
 
Best. I've seen the Stone Roses a few times, 'Phonics many times (always put on a good show), had my name mentioned on stage by Oasis (beck before they were famous) but there's one that's simply head and shoulders above the rest, INXS at Portsmouth. Around 93 or 94. Never seen anyone run a crowd the way that Hutchence could. Just a brilliant gig.

Worst, again by a country mile, Red Hot Chilis in Brum (was still at school so about '92). Came on late, got booed off stage after only a few songs. Awful.
 
Best - Queen in 1986, A Kind of Magic Tour. Saw them at Knebworth Park. No concert has ever come close.

Worst - Texas. Thankfully the tickets were free but I left after 45 minutes as I was utterly bored.
 
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