The Best and The Worst Concert

[Lord Tyrion]

Yeah, saw them at Wembers. Supported by The Alarm and some breakthrough Aussie band, INXS.

They were supported by Big Country, dull, and Status Quo, really good, at mine. You may have got the better deal on this although Quo were very good to be fair. Never seen a front man get close to Freddie since. What a showman.

 

[Hacker Khan]

Think I'd better flounce back to the 'best engine note' thread

Well I was going to go there as well, but the title scared me with its overt displays of heterosexuality and manliness. But as soon as anyone starts a 'Favourite member of the Village People' thread I'll be all over it.

And in case you are wondering, it's the construction worker.

 

[ADB]

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

...and that was my worst gig, if you can call it that - i was about half-way back and bored stiff after the Prodigy smashed it!

Best: Pixies at Ally Pally about 10 years ago (IIRC)
Worst: Stereophonics at Earls Court, dull, dull, dull

 

[Spear-Chucker]

Well I was going to go there as well, but the title scared me with its overt displays of heterosexuality and manliness. But as soon as anyone starts a 'Favourite member of the Village People' thread I'll be all over it.

And in case you are wondering, it's the construction worker.

I so get that choice.

 

[Spear-Chucker]

...and that was my worst gig, if you can call it that - i was about half-way back and bored stiff after the Prodigy smashed it!

Best: Pixies at Ally Pally about 10 years ago (IIRC)
Worst: Stereophonics at Earls Court, dull, dull, dull

Can imagine it was tough further back, how anyone could see anything amazes me. We got really lucky wandering down the front in the morning and were given wristbands to let us back in later. Loved the Prodigy too - when Keith appeared looking like a demented meerkat was a seminal moment for me!

 

[GB72]

The Prodigy are immense live. Saw them at Download, last on, raining, cold and ankle deep in mud but still stayed to the very end. Saw them in the early days as well. Played a gig at my halls at uni back in the Charlie Says days

 

[User62651]

Best gig I saw was Bon Jovi 1986 Playhouse Edinburgh, looking back it was probably really cheesy but it was my first gig and I was pretty young and into that album/music then and probably the concert I enjoyed the most. Plenty of other good ones but the worst for me at least was Neil Young in Glasgow 1996 maybe, I so wanted to hear all the acoustic classics from Harvest etc but all we got was his version of grunge without any heavier classics like Cortez the Killer....disappointed.

 

[BoadieBroadus]

best is tied between David Byrne in Glasgow 1995 ish and Big Star in Hyde Park not long before Chilton passed away.

worst was Van Morrison, Albert Hall 2000. absolute mince that was, partly because my expectations were high for that

 

[Craigg]

No one mentioned young Bowie? "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Tour" wish I'd been old enough! Think I was only 6 or 7 years old.

 

[Crow]

Best - The Darts at De Montfort Hall Leicester

Worst - The Doomed at Leicester Polytechnic (The Damned going through a troublesome patch)

 

[virtuocity]

Best:

Ben Folds Five- o2 Glasgow
10CC (or part of)- Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
The Magic Numbers- Barfly, Glasgow
The Bluetones- Barrowlands Ballroom

Worst-

Deftones- Braehead arena (horrible venue)

And best/worst:

Biffy Clyro supporting Hundred Reasons at Barrowlands. Biffy absolutely destroyed them, with a large portion of the crowd leaving a few songs into HR's set. Although I still adore HR's "Ideas above our station".

 

[Liverbirdie]

But as soon as anyone starts a 'Favourite member of the Village People' thread I'll be all over it.

And in case you are wondering, it's the construction worker.

Pah, pick the obvious one.

Leather, biker man rocks.:thup:

 

[Khamelion]

Best

First by a mile, Queen at St James Park with Status Quo supporting
Next Dio Newcastle city hall
Alice Cooper, Winnipeg
Brian Adams Whitley Bay Ice Rink
Iron Maiden Newcastle city Hall
Kylie Metro Arena, within touching distance of the stage

Worst
Iron Maiden, Metro Arena, sound was just abysmal
Motley Crue, Metro Arena, again the sound was just awful

I think with the Metro Arena, the sound quality depends on where you sit, get towards the back on the sides, and it's just rubbish.

 

[Spear-Chucker]

The Prodigy are immense live. Saw them at Download, last on, raining, cold and ankle deep in mud but still stayed to the very end. Saw them in the early days as well. Played a gig at my halls at uni back in the Charlie Says days

That's so cool. Remember seeing Charlie Says on TV and just being blown away

 

[Imurg]

Keith appeared looking like a demented meerkat

Hold on....
Are telling me he's NOT a demented meerkat....????

 

[KenL]

Great thread. Funny how "best" means about 20 gigs to some. With that in mind I will join in!

Best...
the Stranglers, Glasgow Apollo, when Hugh Cornwell was still the main man. Still great to this day.
Mike Oldfield. Seen him twice. Edinburgh Playhouse in 82 and the premiere of Tubular Bells 2 at Edi Castle. The man is a genius.
Magazine, they reformed for a spell in 2009-2011. The reception they got (and their music) at their first gig in Glasgow was amazing.
Devo (Apollo 1978).
the Jam 1978
Brian Ferry (about 1988)

Worst...
The Pixies at Glasgow SECC. Brilliant band but the stage collapsed after 3 songs!
Simple Minds (Gateshead ~1992), so dull - I only went to see the Stranglers!

Wish I had seen...
Pink Floyd - with or without Waters
Dead Kennedys (with Jello Biafra)
Talking Heads
Ian Dury and the Blockheads

 

[GG26]

Many great gigs over the years, but the standouts were:

Thin Lizzy - Hammersmith Odeon 1980
Metallica - Nottingham Arena 2009

Honourable mentions to:
Slade
Quo - any of several 1979-82
Ramones - four times in 1980
Pet Shop Boys - Performance Tour (1990?) - thought that it would be boring, but combined with the English National Ballet put on a great show at he NEC
AC/DC - Hammersmith Odeon 1979 (supported by a bunch of teenagers called Def Leppard who blew us all away)
Def Leppard - NEC 1992 in the round

There are a few gigs that stand out as being poor
Blondie - Hammersmith Odeon 1980 (surprisingly Debbie Harry had no charisma)
Elvis Costello - Margate Winter Gardens c1983
Bon Jovi - NEC c1990 (sound was awful)

 

[virtuocity]

Damn! How could I forget Alice Cooper in Las Vegas, in front of a crowd of 350! Great gig.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Queen were great and Freddie knew how to play a crowd. Saw them at Live Aid, The Kind of Magic Tour (Wembley Arena) and the Works tour (Wembley Arena)

 

[Blue in Munich]

Wish I had seen...
Pink Floyd - with or without Waters
Dead Kennedys (with Jello Biafra)
Talking Heads
Ian Dury and the Blockheads

They were my first……...