I met Billy Joe and Tre and had beers with them in the pub beforehand, and stood in the audience chatting with Tre whilst the support band was on....couldn't do that now.
Dirty Pretty Things @ The Cauliflower, doing an anti BMP thing. It cost a £5 had 5 acts playing including an awesome band with the drummer from Asian Dub Foundation can't remember there name though?
Arcade Fire
Polysics
Fuck Buttons
The Hunches
Immortal Lee County Killers
Dizzee Rascal
Bjork
The Bureau De Change
The Hives (before they were shit)
David Bowie
he had a HUGE following in Oz... Good for you.
(I am from Melbs and my friends were all part of his fan club.. they saw him before I actually met them / started hanging out with them).
they were the last band that left me truely blown away, but this is more likely to happen when you've not seen someone before I think, otherwise you have expectations etc.
Hole
Animal Collective
...And you will know us by the trail of dead
Low
At the drive-in
Afrirampo
Broken Social Scene
Lightning Bolt
Pulp
Pavement
Liars
in wolverhampton last year was pretty special - tiny venue (for them anyway).
Muse always put on a great show.
Ryan Adams - saw him once solo and it was amazing. Saw him again solo and it was amazingly atrocious.
Bad Brains
MDC
Nation Of Ulysses
Cocteau Twins
Breeders
Broken Social Scene
Little Axe
Ian Dury And The Blockheads
Gossip (last night)
Melt Banana
Parkinsons/Ikara Colt/Eighties Matchbox B Line Disaster (great triple bill)
Link Wray
Babes In Toyland
Mclusky
Nina Nastasia
Cocachwhips
Quasi
Vaselines
D.R.I
Teenage Fanclub
Blondie
Nirvana
Pixies
Pogues
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Low
The La's
Dinosaur Jr
Super Furry Animals at Bestival
QOTSA with Dave Grohl on drums
Nick Cave solo(ish)
Neil Young solo
Portishead / Massive Attack / Robert Plant charity gig in Bristol
Chas n Dave
consistently one of the best live bands on the planet, then -
mogwai
part chimp
cat on form
todd
bearsuit - most of the time
hyperkinako - the one time I saw them
smashing pumpkins 96 era
pavement - ultimate festival band
... were jaw droppingly great. Also Six by Seven, Múm, Godspeed, Fugazi were all very very good, but Mission of Burma was the winner, just edging out Six By Seven circa European Me.
Joanna Newsom at Bridgewater Hall last month.
A Perfect Cirlce at the Apollo.
Down at the Academy.
DJ Shadow at the Academy.
Pulp at Leeds Festival 2000.
Badly Drawn Boy, 2000 at the Academy.
Will Oldham at Bridgewater last month.
2)Broken Social Scene
3)Josh T Pearson
4)Mogwai
5)Carla Bozulich
6)tool
7)Hrsta
8)Tom Greenwood
9)The Who
10)Kasabian- at the time i liked them, and enjoyed it a lot, it was a really small gig as well. Theres no point lying to myself now i hate them about how much i enjoyed it at the time.
Ladytron
Saul Williams
Elastica - Cockpit
Coral at Tent in New Brighton, Wirral were good, Libertines supporting were ace too, minus Pete prob why
Not a massive fan of Charlatans but saw them at Halifax Victoria Theatre, they were tight as f___
Arab Strap Leeds Festival '99 and add n to x were cool
Mansun - Leeds Town and Country Club
Le Tigre - Leeds Joseph Wells
DJ Format - Somewhere in Leeds can't remember
Yes Boss at pub in Halifax few months ago was good
SFA - Bradford Uni
...You Black Emperor! It was so intense my mate had to leave halfway through and sit in the bar on his own.
(2)Mogwai never fail to blow me away either.
(3)Guns n' Roses at Wembley Stadium 1991 - total event. Biggest band in the world at the time. My Dad compared it to seeing Led Zep at Earls Court in 1975.
At Birmingham Academy on the tour just finished were very good. Also Daitro at the cross keys in nottingham, they played at floor level to about 15 people. I thought Be Your Own Pet at the social were good too.
...in the guise of K2 Plant Hire. Their 23 minute version of What Time Is Love featuring the Retired Lifeboatmens Choir and the Williams-Fairey Brass Band. Fucking mental.
radiohead at glasto 97
suede on the Dogmanstar tour several times
spiritualized at RAH
REM at Tabernacle off portobello rd
PJ Harvey at some Too Pure night under some arches near LondonBridge
Bad Seeds on several occasions
REM at NEC on thr Green tour
JAMC/MBV many years ago on a couple of stollercoaster dates
Janes Addiction Ritual tour
Fishbone at Astoria
Cure at some MTV show near Tower Bridge
SFA on many many occasions
F LIPS on several occasions
Pistols at Finsbury Park. I loved it
Nirvana at Kilburn National
Anti Pop COnsortium in Harlem
Prodigy in Rekjavik
Buttholes at Reading
New Order at Readin 88 or 89
Neil Young at Finsbury Park
Damned 10th Anniversary shows at Finsbury Park
OMD in Cardiff many thousands of years ago
Trail of Dead Madonna tour in Bristol
Dalek on several occasions
The Fall a couple of times on teh extricate tour
REM at glasto
The Beat a few yerars ago at Glasto.
supergrass/bluetones joint tour several times
80s MBD several times
arcade fire at reading
pixies a few times
lemonheads a few tmes
patti smith at SBE a few years back
Love
British Sea Power at Cargo
Morrissey
Jane's Addiction
Gang of Four @ Wireless
Pixies
Lots of 80s Matchbox gigs
Weezer
Juan Atkins
Redshape
Brian Jonestown Massacre
when i saw them Anton was just too high to get angry. i liked that, so they just got on and played very very well.
when you saw them was it like half gig half Anton talk show? with the band asking the crowd for lighters and stuff?
it was so chilled.
Bright Eyes-Camden Dingwalls, felt so intimate and exciting, now i have to stand half a mile back at the astoria to watch them :(
2 Gallants-Rescue Rooms, fantastic show, that felt extremely important!
These Arms are Snakes - Underworld, ,my mate got bitten on the hand by the singer, so i slapped his head, he then ran into a wall, OUTSTANDING ENTERTAINMENT BEAT THAT THE FRAY
Tool- London atoria- the aenima tour, incredible!! and never beaten by them!
The Paper Chase-The Garage, excellent banter with an incredinbly detuned live show!!
the skaters
negative approach
magik markers
wooden wand
mv + ee
wolf eyes
alex neilson and richard youngs
liars
animal collective
no neck blues band
afrirampo
james blackshaw
i'm going to stop now, otherwise i'm just going to end up naming every band who played at the last nightmare before christmas.
Aerosmith [always, always the best thing ever. This will never change.]
Trail of Dead [ditto]
Selfish Cunt [...........ditto.]
Six By Seven [once upon a time]
Justin Timberlake [seriously]
Dizzee Rascal
Elliott Smith
Wolf Eyes
Arab Strap [*whimper*]
HTRK [so, SO intense live - they suck you right in and spit you out at the end, bruised & battered]
Part Chimp
Lightning Bolt
Today is the Day
I suspect somewhere in the future Torche will become the kind of band I put on lists like these. Seen Torche twice, and the second time they got royally screwed by the sound. First time round they were the most delicious, crude, perfect thing I've seen in two years.
underworld at every festival ever
sfa on guerilla tour
lightning bolt at atp 2 years back
idlewild at glasto 1998
pulp at v96
kaito in southend - their last ever gig?
lcd soundsystem at atp
tvotr - bush theatre 2 years back
the national @ ulu 1 year ago
mclusky @ garage between albums 2 + 3
arcade fire at the astoria 2 years back
radiohead at shepherds bush empire
prolapse in chelmsford y club
the faint supporting bright eyes
arab strap (everytime)
new order at temptation 1998-9
radiohead in newcastle
liars at ulu
animal collective at astoria
the knife at sonar
flower-corsano duo at the luminaire
lightning bolt at highbury garage
dizzee rascal at reading
..trail of dead in edinburgh
joanna newsom at the barbican
mogwai in edinburgh
vampire belt last week !!! at barden's
GnR
Pixies
Foo Fighters (back when they were good)
Prodigy
Jane's Addiction
Bloc Party
Iron Maiden (Their live show is incredible)
Tenacious D (ditto^^)
Hell is for Heroes
2 Many DJs
BRMC
Kings of Leon
Arctic Monkeys (inaugural Reading 05 gig)
liars
then radiohead.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
lamb of god?
Broken Social Scene
Seeing them twice in three days was one of the better decisions I've made.
Seriously, incrediblely good.
Arcade Fire aren't far behind though.
Radiohead
Nottingham, a couple of years back. Blew me away, tears etc
Arcade Fire
as a band. Rufus Wainwright solo.
I can't decide
Brand New
Hundred Reasons
Deep Purple
65daysofstatic
Mewithoutyou
Pixies
Green Day
British Sea Power
Cult Of Luna
No way!
You've seen Green Day! *jealous*
I HAVE to see them live or I may spontaneously combust!
Also Alanis Morissette, but I'm scared I may combust if I ever hear her voice (DOGMA style!)
Yeah
Leeds Festival 2004.
I wasn't going to see them but ended up staying in the main field. So glad that I did too.
Green Dday
were fucking magnificent headlining reading that weekend as well. I enjoyed it a lot.
Yeah me too
I somehow knew all the songs despite not being a huge fan.
agreed INIT
I saw Green Day at the Leadmill in Sheffield
on the Dookie tour!
I met Billy Joe and Tre and had beers with them in the pub beforehand, and stood in the audience chatting with Tre whilst the support band was on....couldn't do that now.
I'd have to say
Dirty Pretty Things @ The Cauliflower, doing an anti BMP thing. It cost a £5 had 5 acts playing including an awesome band with the drummer from Asian Dub Foundation can't remember there name though?
I hate the BMP.
GO DPT!!!
The Wrens
without a hint of a shadow of a doubt. Incredible.
As an aside - I saw The Shins on Monday and they've improved massively as a live band in the past year or so.
they were really good weren't they
i dont think i'd like to see them try and pull it off in a big venue though.
!!!
Arcade Fire
Polysics
Fuck Buttons
The Hunches
Immortal Lee County Killers
Dizzee Rascal
Bjork
The Bureau De Change
The Hives (before they were shit)
David Bowie
The Hunches
I hate you Brainlove!
They were SO fucking good.
I dunno
I suppose I have to go by 'gigs I can remember mostest', innit.
Suede
Arcade Fire
Chumbawamba
My Life Story
Franz Ferdinand
Patrick Wolf
Suede were amazing
when I saw them. I would probably include them in my list.
Radiohead
TV on the Radio
Broken Social Scene
Mogwai
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Jeff Buckley
Stars
Jeff Buckley?
I fucking hate you.
that was a lucky one
think it was 96, back home in Brisbane
I had only heard 'Last Goodbye' at the time, a friend had a spare to the show
it was amazing!!
Oooh - Australian boy
he had a HUGE following in Oz... Good for you.
(I am from Melbs and my friends were all part of his fan club.. they saw him before I actually met them / started hanging out with them).
I hate you too.
Christ.
Details please: where, when, what did he sing? Sigh.
65daysofstatic
Million Dead
Isis
quite possibly jaga jazzist
they were the last band that left me truely blown away, but this is more likely to happen when you've not seen someone before I think, otherwise you have expectations etc.
radiohead and mogwai are always amazing.
Um...
Animal Collective
Gang Gang Dance
!!!
The Wrens
Suede
Low
and a few others have all been amazing.
65 Days of Static are always good
Arcade fire have been great both time I've seen them.
Fugazi
At The Drive-In
Arcade Fire
...Trail of Dead
Low
Mogwai
Yo La Tengo (sometimes)
Pavement (sometimes)
You've seen At the Drive-In and Fugazi!
Damn it, I was born just a few years too soon to get there in time to see them.
Mogwai
Hole
Animal Collective
...And you will know us by the trail of dead
Low
At the drive-in
Afrirampo
Broken Social Scene
Lightning Bolt
Pulp
Pavement
Liars
i forgot
arcade fire
Radiohead
in wolverhampton last year was pretty special - tiny venue (for them anyway).
Muse always put on a great show.
Ryan Adams - saw him once solo and it was amazing. Saw him again solo and it was amazingly atrocious.
At The Drive In
British Sea Power
Trail of Dead (c. 2000)
Akron/Family
Broken Social Scene
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
THE BRONXXXXXXXXXX
Hot Snakes
Less Than Jake
The Drips
hot snakes :'(
i hate you
aww
don't cry! you've seen Lighting Bolt, and I'd love to see them!
oh and Brand New,
they were fab.
.
Arcade Fire
The Darkness
There, I said it.
Shit, that's a good one
I loved them live. Ace stuff.
The Darkness
were good at Leeds '03. Not '04 however, I left after the opening 5 minutes.
...
The Icarus Line
Comets on Fire
Sunburned Hand of the Man
Monks
Earth
Dead Meadow
...
Oh yeah, and At The Drive In rocked my 17 year old world at Reading in 2000.
Plant and Page with their Egyptian orchestra - best gig I've ever been to. By far.
You asked for one and you got it!
In no particular order
Bad Brains
MDC
Nation Of Ulysses
Cocteau Twins
Breeders
Broken Social Scene
Little Axe
Ian Dury And The Blockheads
Gossip (last night)
Melt Banana
Parkinsons/Ikara Colt/Eighties Matchbox B Line Disaster (great triple bill)
Link Wray
Babes In Toyland
Mclusky
Nina Nastasia
Cocachwhips
Quasi
Vaselines
D.R.I
Teenage Fanclub
Blondie
etcetc
Yeah
I'd add 80's MBD to my list.
_
Jeffrey Lewis band
Ben Folds (Five)
never fails to put a massive grin on my face
Radiohead.
Sorry for being terribly predictable.
Runners-up:
The Dears (first time I saw them they were shit, second they were astonishing)
Morrissey
The Mars Volta
Best performance ever
was Test Dept. But I've seen jaw dropping sets from Kaito, The Fall, Sonic Youth, Arcade Fire etc etc etc
The Libertines
and Babyshambles if they want to can put on an amazing performance.
Span
Fucking Genius
Hmm..
Surjan Stevens
Arcade Fire
Pixies
Flaming Lips
Radiohead (at Glasto)
Sigur Ros
and Happy Mondays in 99
Seriously - on their original comeback tour they were actually brilliant
i would consider my top 3 live performances to be
Explosions in the Sky
...Trail of Dead
Lightning Bolt
Not forgetting Sigur Ros
Brixton Academy....shivers
For sheer rock spectacle
Nine Inch Nails
Also Beastie Boys were awesome...
and Thursday shit...too many
In no order
Nirvana
Pixies
Pogues
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Low
The La's
Dinosaur Jr
Super Furry Animals at Bestival
QOTSA with Dave Grohl on drums
Nick Cave solo(ish)
Neil Young solo
Portishead / Massive Attack / Robert Plant charity gig in Bristol
Chas n Dave
best live band
it's gotta be pete and the pirates . they rule.
Loads
RATM, '96
NiN, '04
Oasis, '95
ATD-I, '00
Queens '99, '00, '02
Mark Lanegan, '01
Faith No More, '96
Radiohead '00, '06
Pearl Jam, 00, '06
Deftones, '97, '00
well...
1. Radiohead
2. Coldplay at Glastonbury
3. White Stripes at Maida Vale (Radio 1)
Radiohead
never fail to blow me away.
Super Furry Animals were immense on the last tour; all of Love Kraft ten a blast through the greatest hits.
Blur on the Think Tank tour.
Recently, Patrick Wolf and ...Trail of Dead were fantastic. First time I'd seen both.
*then
OH OH OH
Arcade Fire at the Leadmill in Sheffield, crazy
Brand New in London
Jimmy Eat World in Northampton
yes!
THE WURZELS!!!
Killed it in Exeter town centre, 2002
Shoulda been there
Arcade Fire
hmmm...
Neptune
Thomas Truax
Ikara Colt
British Sea Power
eels
65daysofstatic
trail of dead
consistently one of the best live bands on the planet, then -
mogwai
part chimp
cat on form
todd
bearsuit - most of the time
hyperkinako - the one time I saw them
smashing pumpkins 96 era
pavement - ultimate festival band
Best recent show
Gallows
all joint #1:
Animal Collective, Tilly & The Wall, Explosions in the Sky, Conor Oberst solo
MARS VOLTA
at All Tomorrow's Parties. A Religious experience.
Mission of Burma...
... were jaw droppingly great. Also Six by Seven, Múm, Godspeed, Fugazi were all very very good, but Mission of Burma was the winner, just edging out Six By Seven circa European Me.
Tool at Glasgow last June
Joanna Newsom at Bridgewater Hall last month.
A Perfect Cirlce at the Apollo.
Down at the Academy.
DJ Shadow at the Academy.
Pulp at Leeds Festival 2000.
Badly Drawn Boy, 2000 at the Academy.
Will Oldham at Bridgewater last month.
Constantines
Coldplay.
It was a special occassion, that gig.
I'm sure it was,
but I'm still not happy at that.
Seeing Coldplay wasn't like watching any other band.
Their songs seemed dull to me prior to seeing them.
Stadium gigs tend to be crap and horrible. But they made the Reebok seem like it was too small for them. It was amazing.
AND there was fireworks! I bet Tool didn't have fireworks, DID THEY?
No, they don't need fireworks
nor any other pyrotechnics as a matter of fact.
Coldplay just needed fireworks to warm up your brains after being numbed by mediocraty.
.
It was the only gig where the memory is still fresh of all the songs.
They had loads of things to overcome:
Horrible weather
Crowd full of 30somethings
Late start due to dickheads not being able to drive
Elbow being on before them, being good
And they performed astonishingly. And they filmed the video for Fix You there.
I BET TOOL DIDN'T FILM THEIR VIDEO AT YOURS DID THEY!?
Couldn't give a rat ass if they filmed a video
it's not as if you can see yourself in that DVD. I bet you felt ashamed to buy said DVD at the local DVD outlet in Burnley.
Anyway, Down filmed their DVD at the Academy and I was one of the few people there with short hair, so you can spot me a mile off.
what's your problem
with 30somethings ?
Bets live acts for me
Prodigy
Maximo Park
Sigur Ros
Muse
Howling Bells
Arcade Fire
At least in the last 6 or so years... don't feel like getting a headache to make a list of all timem bands...
kate nash
but this is because i am obsessed with her!
honestly - probably the afghan whigs
Simon & Garfunkel
Ab. ubelivable!!
Also Have to say
fleetwood mac
Moby
Bell x1
Kraftwerk
1) A Silver Mt Zion
2)Broken Social Scene
3)Josh T Pearson
4)Mogwai
5)Carla Bozulich
6)tool
7)Hrsta
8)Tom Greenwood
9)The Who
10)Kasabian- at the time i liked them, and enjoyed it a lot, it was a really small gig as well. Theres no point lying to myself now i hate them about how much i enjoyed it at the time.
Was it at Oldham Castle by any chance?
Also: Who is this 'Tom Greenwood'? My friend is called Tom Greenwood.
Leeds Festival 05
Ladytron
Saul Williams
Elastica - Cockpit
Coral at Tent in New Brighton, Wirral were good, Libertines supporting were ace too, minus Pete prob why
Not a massive fan of Charlatans but saw them at Halifax Victoria Theatre, they were tight as f___
Arab Strap Leeds Festival '99 and add n to x were cool
Mansun - Leeds Town and Country Club
Le Tigre - Leeds Joseph Wells
DJ Format - Somewhere in Leeds can't remember
Yes Boss at pub in Halifax few months ago was good
SFA - Bradford Uni
STING
snow patrol
duran duran!?!
artic monkeys
keane
train
athlete
crowded house
(1)Godspeed...
...You Black Emperor! It was so intense my mate had to leave halfway through and sit in the bar on his own.
(2)Mogwai never fail to blow me away either.
(3)Guns n' Roses at Wembley Stadium 1991 - total event. Biggest band in the world at the time. My Dad compared it to seeing Led Zep at Earls Court in 1975.
easy
Tool
probably
Guillemots
or
Muse.
I both saw them last year but I'm young and haven't been going to gigs that long....
Mono
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Andrew WK
Shitmat
Sigur Ros
Opeth
Andrew WK
Andrew WK - he was good.
"biggest band in the world at the time"
so if i went to see Spice Girls back in the day, that would be equivalent right?
None of those gigs ere at oldham castle
so no. Tom Greenwood from jackie-o-motherfucker.
Lightning Bolt were fucking immense
Animal Collective
Beck
LCD Soundsystem
Deerhoof
Melvins
Akron/Family
Much too hard. But I'll go with:
Fugazi
Pavement
The Fall
Sunburned hand of the man
Two Gallants
Spiritualized
dEUS
These Arms are Snakes
And two non-bands that I can't leave out:
Edan
Jeff Mills
REALLY OBVIOUSLY
Sufjan Stevens Barbican '06
fabulous
Trail Of Dead
At Birmingham Academy on the tour just finished were very good. Also Daitro at the cross keys in nottingham, they played at floor level to about 15 people. I thought Be Your Own Pet at the social were good too.
used to be flaming lips
now:
animal collective
Blurt x2
Elastica
The Courtesy Group
Alien Sex Fiend
!!!
Cardiacs
Nirvana
Also the KLF...
...in the guise of K2 Plant Hire. Their 23 minute version of What Time Is Love featuring the Retired Lifeboatmens Choir and the Williams-Fairey Brass Band. Fucking mental.
hmm
radiohead at glasto 97
suede on the Dogmanstar tour several times
spiritualized at RAH
REM at Tabernacle off portobello rd
PJ Harvey at some Too Pure night under some arches near LondonBridge
Bad Seeds on several occasions
REM at NEC on thr Green tour
JAMC/MBV many years ago on a couple of stollercoaster dates
Janes Addiction Ritual tour
Fishbone at Astoria
Cure at some MTV show near Tower Bridge
SFA on many many occasions
F LIPS on several occasions
Pistols at Finsbury Park. I loved it
Nirvana at Kilburn National
Anti Pop COnsortium in Harlem
Prodigy in Rekjavik
Buttholes at Reading
New Order at Readin 88 or 89
Neil Young at Finsbury Park
Damned 10th Anniversary shows at Finsbury Park
OMD in Cardiff many thousands of years ago
Trail of Dead Madonna tour in Bristol
Dalek on several occasions
The Fall a couple of times on teh extricate tour
REM at glasto
The Beat a few yerars ago at Glasto.
supergrass/bluetones joint tour several times
80s MBD several times
arcade fire at reading
pixies a few times
lemonheads a few tmes
patti smith at SBE a few years back
et
c
"JAMC/MBV many years ago on a couple of stollercoaster dates"
i am truly, truly jealous.
IIRC
Dinosaur Jr and Blur made up the bill
Low
the first time I saw them, 10 years ago...
.
The Smiths
Joanna Newsom
Cocteau Twins
Stone Roses
Einstellung
Blood Red Shoes
mogwai
at the ica blew me away.
that or million dead at truck
or possibly yeah yeah yeahs in the old market in hove (support from the locust!)
The Clash
Victoria Hall Hanley 1977
hmmm...
Mogwai - Reading '01
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Hackney Ocean '01
65Days - Highbury Garage '05
Explosions In The Sky - Electric Ballroom '04
Battles - Truck '06
All post rock bands I know but they all blew me away and made me realise why I love music so much.
tv on the radio.
or.
sufjan stevens.
:)
mmm
either Happy Mondays, London Astoria 1988 or Pavement, Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach 1997.
Sonic Youth
Can't believe no-one has said that yet.
Also !!! and Liars
You lucky fuck
Flackcaptain.
Mmmmooooggwaaaaaiii
Big fuck off wall of SOUND
hmm
Trail of Dead sometimes
At The Drive-In
Flaming Lips sometimes
Fugazi
erm
Million Dead (final tour, I nearly wept)
The Bronx (every time)
Battles (Dour)
Melvins (ATP)
Low (every time)
to keep it from becoming a pointlessly long list.
and Subtle
yeah
million dead
difficult one
its between:
les savy fav
joanna newsom (as "live act" rather than band.)
yeah yeah yeahs
sonic youth
the melvins and negative approach are up there too for pretty fantastic performances at atp last dec.
..
Love
British Sea Power at Cargo
Morrissey
Jane's Addiction
Gang of Four @ Wireless
Pixies
Lots of 80s Matchbox gigs
Weezer
Juan Atkins
Redshape
Brian Jonestown Massacre
oh and
The House of Love!
BJM BJM BJM!
they're amazing live.
when they manage
to play a full set. some cunts were really trying to provoke a situation/
that's s annoying
when i saw them Anton was just too high to get angry. i liked that, so they just got on and played very very well.
when you saw them was it like half gig half Anton talk show? with the band asking the crowd for lighters and stuff?
it was so chilled.
nar, they
just ploughed through the hits, but thats all i really wanted really. i remember the 15 minute version of swallowtail being quite special
ah!
the 15minute freakouts! i love them so much.
les savy fav
animal collective
lightning bolt
arcade fire
dillinger escape plan
ac/dc
rival schools
final fantasy
youthmovies (the first time i saw them)
weezer
radiohead
the cribs
arcade fire
cursive
65dos
sonic youth
metallica
the white stripes
...
Smiths - Oxford , Meat is Murder tour '85
Mudhoney - Birmingham '88
Nirvana - Birmingham '89
Sonic Youth - Kilburn National '89
My Bloody Valentine
Ride
Butthole Surfers @ Brixton Acadamy
!!!
Trans Am
Hella (2 piece)
YMSS
my top 5 would be something like..
sonic youth
pulp
beck
pixies
part chimp
Chronologically...
The Clash Peterborough 1978
SLF Peterborough 1979
Killing Joke Norwich 1981
Xmal Deutschland Retford 1983
Sonic Youth/Rapeman Astoria 1988
Sonic Youth Kilburn 1989
Manics Cambridge 1992
then..
Ride/Slowdive Cambridge 90's
Spitualized Cambridge 2003ish
and some others..
If I had to pick one though it'd be The Clash.
very hard but
the best i've seens
Bright Eyes-Camden Dingwalls, felt so intimate and exciting, now i have to stand half a mile back at the astoria to watch them :(
2 Gallants-Rescue Rooms, fantastic show, that felt extremely important!
These Arms are Snakes - Underworld, ,my mate got bitten on the hand by the singer, so i slapped his head, he then ran into a wall, OUTSTANDING ENTERTAINMENT BEAT THAT THE FRAY
Tool- London atoria- the aenima tour, incredible!! and never beaten by them!
The Paper Chase-The Garage, excellent banter with an incredinbly detuned live show!!
I do believe I was at three of those....
in the last fortnight
The Maccabees were pretty triumphant, silly names and all.
agreed
very much so
Sigur Ros and Metallica top the pile
The Gorgeous were amazing more recently
Got to Be
Arcade fire @ QMU - 2005
Followed closely by Broken social scene @ Glasgow school of art - 2006
Although the Wrens @ ULU in Feb was awesome!
Misty's Big Adventure
Every time.
yes sigur ros and 'tallica
also radiohead obvs
Flaming Lips
every time I've seen them (lots)
Bowie in the early 70's - dsiapointing subsequently
Same for the Stones
Broken Family Band at Glasto
Sufjan
Joanna
Bright Eyes
Weezer
Death Cab
...in that order.
prodigy
pixies
super furry animals
dizzee rascal
roots manuva
the knife
iration steppas
Jesus Christ
Elvis Presley
Jimi Hendrix
Beethoven
Razorlight
The Verve in 1993
Carter USM
Therapy?
Popular Workshop
Muse
Carina Round
Toots And The Maytals
Nine Inch Nails
John Otway
Where's the dEUS?
We're going to have WORDS about this.
sonic youth
the skaters
negative approach
magik markers
wooden wand
mv + ee
wolf eyes
alex neilson and richard youngs
liars
animal collective
no neck blues band
afrirampo
james blackshaw
i'm going to stop now, otherwise i'm just going to end up naming every band who played at the last nightmare before christmas.
Noteable recollections
dEUS
Trail of Dead
dEUS
Shellac
dEUS
etc.
Primal
Scream
a whole bunch
Aerosmith [always, always the best thing ever. This will never change.]
Trail of Dead [ditto]
Selfish Cunt [...........ditto.]
Six By Seven [once upon a time]
Justin Timberlake [seriously]
Dizzee Rascal
Elliott Smith
Wolf Eyes
Arab Strap [*whimper*]
HTRK [so, SO intense live - they suck you right in and spit you out at the end, bruised & battered]
Part Chimp
Lightning Bolt
Today is the Day
I suspect somewhere in the future Torche will become the kind of band I put on lists like these. Seen Torche twice, and the second time they got royally screwed by the sound. First time round they were the most delicious, crude, perfect thing I've seen in two years.
My Morning Jacket
Nov '04
Tiny room, so close to Jim James I could touch him and his voice was amazing that night.
Sigur Ros
Tilly and the wall
Bright Eyes
Broken Social Scene
oh and death cab too
bf
Archie Bronson Outfit
Last year, Tapestry Festival...utterly brilliant
Since nobody's said it yet:
Rammstein.
radiohead
.
/
The Flaming Lips
Hundred Reasons
Idlewild
65daysofstatic
Mogwai
Hell is for heroes
Help She Can't Swim
ooh!
underworld at every festival ever
sfa on guerilla tour
lightning bolt at atp 2 years back
idlewild at glasto 1998
pulp at v96
kaito in southend - their last ever gig?
lcd soundsystem at atp
tvotr - bush theatre 2 years back
the national @ ulu 1 year ago
mclusky @ garage between albums 2 + 3
arcade fire at the astoria 2 years back
radiohead at shepherds bush empire
prolapse in chelmsford y club
the faint supporting bright eyes
arab strap (everytime)
new order at temptation 1998-9
Easy!
Iron Maiden! Even if you don't like the music there is no denying they are a phenomenal live act.
Especially for a bunch of 45 years plus blokes
these...
radiohead in newcastle
liars at ulu
animal collective at astoria
the knife at sonar
flower-corsano duo at the luminaire
lightning bolt at highbury garage
dizzee rascal at reading
..trail of dead in edinburgh
joanna newsom at the barbican
mogwai in edinburgh
vampire belt last week !!! at barden's
shit!
forgot corsano. him at the old blue last on his own = better than him with the band he and thurston moore played with 20 minutes later.
underworld at every festival ever
you cunt you cunt you cunt i hate you.
sorry, nothing personal.
*vicious, hate-filled envy*
Either...
These Arms Are Snakes or
Radiohead
Crowded House
My tastes as a whole
...are much more "indie" than that. But the fact remains that the best gig I've ever seen was by the aforementioned Kiwis.
i'm gonna make the effort
this time round and make sure i get 2 see them!
Radiohead Glastonbury 97
Winner.
xg
umm
Brand New
Gomez
Daft Punk
My Top 3 are....
3 bands that I knew nothing about before seeing them;
1. Sigur Ros (Hammersmith Appollo - March 06)
2. CocoRosie (ATP - Dec 05)
3. Sonic Youth (ATP - Dec 06)
Mine
Bob Hund (Quart festivalen, norway 2001)
Pulp (Reykjavik, 1996)
Sigurros (Reykjavik, 1999)
Radiohead (Oslo, 2002)
That CocoRosie set was amazing
especially the cover of "Turn Me On" by Kevin Lyttle
Has to be
Sebadoh. The Beta Band were pretty good at times too.
...
GnR
Pixies
Foo Fighters (back when they were good)
Prodigy
Jane's Addiction
Bloc Party
Iron Maiden (Their live show is incredible)
Tenacious D (ditto^^)
Hell is for Heroes
2 Many DJs
BRMC
Kings of Leon
Arctic Monkeys (inaugural Reading 05 gig)