This thread has got me thinking about gigs that were anything but iconic. Anyone else go and see The Mission in Brighton in around 1995 or 1996? Can't remember the venue, possibly the Dome. There were so few people there - can't have been more than 30 in whatever big space it was - that they...
Nirvana, Reading Festival 1992
Skid Row, Wembley Stadium 1991 - don't know if it was "iconic" but it was supporting Guns n Roses and was in the news a fair amount at the time as a "collapse of civilisation" kind of story because of the foul language (Skid Row got banned from playing Wembley...