Everyone seems to be getting annoyed in that other thread. I know I am. Shut your face! If you've seen At the Drive-In play inside your fridge, I don't want to hear it. And I don't want to see Cedric's footprints in the butter.
But you know, we're all big music fans here, and we all go and see bands. So eventually, time will march on, and we'll all be able to show off about how we saw *that* band, in *that* venue. And those young 'uns will cry hot salty tears of jealousy. And we'll laugh. Oh god, we'll laugh.
But.....which band is that?
Animal Collective
I need to see them, because I have a feeling they're going to be talked about in 20 years' time with the same awe Talking Heads get at the moment.
nah
nah coz talking heads were good
HA
cunt
I completely agree with the Animal Collective one... already people are going 'i saw them on the sung tongs tour/feels tour/hcti tour/ spirit tour/ hollindagain era/ danse manatee/ all the other random wierd stuff they've done that you can only get bootlegged' and it fills people with jealousy and rage etcetera...
They are the most forward thinkling band at the moment, and they will probably be an enormous influence to most of the futures (decent) bands.
I've seen them twice, and whilst the coronet performance was a bit of a letdown due to sound, I was so all over the LA2 gig, it was sweeeeeeeeeet. Will stand out as a classic gig in my mind forever.
i don't think it's going to be the case for anyone, really
I'm going with
Blood Brothers, by the way. Especially now they've broken up.
Other candidates of mine include Converge, Melt-banana, and The Dillinger Escape Plan.
Les Savy Fav
"Yup, I saw them in a tiny room filled with 200 sweaty people. Okay son, off to bed now." And the Pixies. "Yup, I went all the way to Spain just to see them. Okay son, off to bed now." I'm gonna be screwed if I don't have a son.
i saw Coldplay
at the Leadmill back in 2000.
i don't even like Coldplay, but when i tell people they're always vaguely impressed.
Radiohead and Bjork
I saw Radiohead
I went and sat at the back about half-way through because it was SO BORING.
I hope you are being sarcastic
best live band EVER.
Not when they're playing their own songs
Arcade Fire on the Funeral tour
No question
one of the music highlights of my life.
yep
Arcade Fire in the Radio 1 tent at Reading 2005. Highlight of the year, possibly the decade
Arcade Fire
at Austin City Limits in 2005 and again at St Johns Smith Square last year... amazing
yep, that did have a sense of the epic about it
oasis and blur
since then music has peaked
Radiohead
Lost Prophets
probably. Some Nu-Metal mates worship the ground I walk on as I not only saw them in the Barfly but have a set of their drum sticks from the Fake Sound of Progress era.
Biffy Clyro
Playing the toilet circuit. Good times and fantastic gigs. I'll be boring my kids with my stories.... ;)
Lift to Experience
in a half-full Dingwalls in 2001
i am already jealous
no need to wait to gloat : )
oh and
lol at people mentioning biffy clyro
git!
THAT is something to boast about.
I remember the first time I saw the White Stripes at Reading
Jack White was amazingly charismatic and compelling and it's the closest I've been to feeling that this was what it must have been like to watch Elvis or Buddy Holly or someone all those years ago.
ive seen a few gigs like that
ive also seen at the drive in, not in my fridge , but in the manchester roadhouse (which isnt much bigger lol)
but back to the point, i think its hard for a band to become legendary now, only a few seem to make it. i cudnt choose a small band now whos gonan be massive in a few years time and whose gigs will become legendary, noones really changing the face of music at the moment are they, and if they are, only a small number of people know about it! haha
I'm doubtful
anything I like will ever become that famous to show off about when I'm older, not like my Dad anyway, who saw Led Zep and The Who etc in their early days. I saw Biffy Clyro play their first UK tour in front of about 6 people in a tiny local venue, and The Mars Volta at the cockpit way back when they released the EP.
everyone was sat down when biffy played
hope for an angel scared the crowd half alive
(potential) Ones I've seen...
Interpol in the Cardiff Barfly right after Turn On The Bright Lights came out.
Arcade Fire at ULU.
(smaller Ones)
Future Of The Left's first ever gig.
Los Campesinos playing a tiny pub function room.
I think The Unicorns will become One Of Those Bands as well, so fair dos to anyone who got to see them.
Even bands
that do make it to legendary status in terms of being around for years, consistently selling out stadium tours.
I'm not convinced that our kids will look back with the fondness that we look back on them, or indeed in the same way that most people of our generation are prepared to be wowed by uncle someone or other who was at isle of wight festival etc.
Quick think of the biggest selling rock acts in the world right now... U2, Foo Fighters, RHCP, Coldplay even?
They get a lot of stick. For being bland, repetative, money grabbing, general idiots etc. They will all leave legacies and be celebrated in the future, but i dont think they will become the stuff of legend. Maybe Radiohead and maybe GnR will. I just cant see it for some reason.
This probably doesn't make sense. But yeah, I can't see many bands making that status. Unless people want to do a Nirvanna. Just thinking, how many times do we hear of people (U2, Oasis, RHCP, Robbie Williams) breaking record gig attendances at legendary venues? Its still Led Zep at Knebworth that everyone remembers.
Meh.
I will be proud to say i saw Mistys Big Adventure touring the solar hifi system. And prouder still because in 20 years time, no one will know, care or know why they should care.
foals.
*fools
.....
It was funnier the first time.
i was there
mistys. cambridge junction. your birthday. 2004. ftw.
unfortunately far to many people say "I was there at Knebworth" and they mean Oashit.
MMISL
You can't really say stadium bands (I'm counting Radiohead + Bjork in that) because loads of people have seen them.
The Strokes....
....at the Lift in Brighton in 2001. Capacity 110.
Oh yeah
The Strokes at Heaven in London, when a tout offered me £140 for my ticket (face value: £8.50)
MMISL, definitely.
"I knew Cats In Paris BEFORE their groundbreaking debut album Court Case 2000 was released!"
Do I get shot for...
suggesting Muse? With the Wembley shows coming out on DVD, I can see that being the kind of show that people will look back on in the future. It's not usually those tiny shows that people talk about in years to come but those huge events.
hadouken, unfortunately.
I saw Hadouken a few years ago at a youth night, they did a cover of a dizzee rascal song if i remember correctly. But if people are still talking about them in 20 years i'll be long dead.
Velvet Revolver
were very good last week and i can crow on about seeing Slash playing the guitar god in the flesh alongside the equally charasmatic Scott Weiland.
Do they still do
the 15 minuite vocoder solo? Cause 14 year old me HATED that.
You and me both!
I remember seeing them in the Cardiff Int. Arena, and though Slash was magnificent, that was a bit much.
yeah they do
and I also saw Guns N Rose with Skid Row and Nine Inch Nails in 91. Was Izzy Stradlin's last gig with em. I enjoyed Nine Inch Nails but the hairy arsed biekrs at the front kept calling them "synth fags" and looked utterly bored when they played. But then again Trent Reznor's lyrics of being in his own personal hell cos the pretty girls never noticed him in high school and now he wants to kill them quite work in the broad day light of an August afternoon.
Pixies, The Verve, RATM, Chemical Brothers & Muse
Chemical Bros is always a good shout
but i think they really come into their own when do their DJ Sets (perversely)!
.
Nick Cave
Liars (even though i ain't seen them yet)
British Sea Power
Josh T. Pearson
Joanna Newsom with orchestra
Arcade Fire on the Funeral tour
Boredoms
i hate to say it but
The Libertines. I only went those times because my cousin is massively into them and got me a ticket. I don't mind them but i just don't see why people seemed to fall in love with them the way they did. When i mention in passing that i've seen the Libertines to 17/18 year olds in clubs and whatever, they're like "You've seen the Libertines!? IMSOFUCKINGJEALOUS" or something.
I saw Muse with about 200 other people as well this one time. Now they're selling out Wembley Stadium. haha.
Kasabian at a half-full Camden Barfly. Though hopefully they won't be around in 10 years so no one will care about that one.
Oh and the first night of the Pixies reunion tour they did at Brixton a few years back. They opened with Winterlong. Brilliant.
million dead
hmmm
the ones I'll bore my children with, aside from the greats (nirvana at reading 92, pumpkins ad naesuem, carcass in a converted toilet in 94) will be
Trail of Dead @ ULU in 2004,
Bearsuit at Bush Hall in 2003,
Silversun Pickups @ 100 Club July 07
Kid 606 @ ICA 2002
Cutting Pink With Knives @ Electrowerkz
"daddy daddy tell us about the time you got punched by silversun pickups again!"
oh man
that trail of dead gig was astounding.
i think battles and lightning bolt will enter the realm of 'those' bands.
If Million Dead turn into one of "those" bands...
then I'm quids in, because I saw them a good eight or nine times.
....
they won't.
the vines
oxford zodiac. april 2002. supported by an unknown and now-forgotten act called 'The Libertines'[sp.?}.
I saw a similar show
at Nottingham Rock City, The Libertines were pretty good but Vines were shocking.
The Flaming Lips will probably be remembered well, although I can see them going on forever. The amazing Sunn O)))/Boris show at the Forum will probably be spunked over for years too.
the knife
:)
Lightning Bolt and Melt-Banana
in the Hull Adelphi. The weirdest venue ever, it's like somebody's house that's been converted into a venue, with the front of a double decker bus as a bar.
Both gigs where crushingly loud, I had ringing ears for about a week afterwards.
hadouken
sadly
it depends
probably bands like Bloc Party and Coldplay. my mum always mentions she saw Black Sabbath and Pink Floyd before they were huge, I only just found out last night she saw CAN on their first UK dates. as awesome as it is to see bands such as Animal Collective/Lightning Blolt in twenty years no-one will care
Definitely Arcade Fire,
although it's been said before. Saw them at the Tower Theatre in Philadelphia last year, and I was absolutely blown away.
but will they?
Fair enough not in the mainstream, but I suspect Animal Collective will remain underground legends, especially if they continue their incredibly fantastic career for at least a few more years... Lets face it, if they aren't still around, people who discover them in 10 years or so are going to go mental when they discover I/others have seen them. I would.
Earl Brutus
for me were pretty good live especially cos they were bonkers and slightly chaotic.
the ones i'll never shut up about
"when the mars volta...did the whole album back to front at the electric ballroom"
The No Age/Liars tour will always stay with me. Liars were absolutely sensational at El Ray, LA.
Battles at Truck.
British Sea Power.
My first Bromheads gig at the Montague Arms.
Battles at Truck
was unbeliebavable
i dont think i've ever been so impressed in my life
Battles at Big Day Out
It was a hot day, the security were spraying everybody with hoses and their were about 20 Helmet fans dancing in the front row... better than it sounds.