Your best ever live gig

[Lord Bracknell]

Cream at Sussex University, 1967.
Hendrix at the same place a year later.

Most memorable gig I have ever performed at ... As an Albionette (don't ask!), with the Albion Band at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon. Casting pearls before swine, believe me.

 

[Turgid]

This is proving to be a fantastic memory jogger for me - forgotten Motorhead - saw them at Bracknell Sports Centre - not the best venue acoustically, but hey, it was Motorhead so it didn't matter sooooooooooooo loud.

 

[Yorkie]

The Who - Brighton 1967
Paul McCartney - Manchester 2003

 

[Seagullmatt]

Cream at Sussex University, 1967.
Hendrix at the same place a year later.

Respect!

You have cool taste Lord B. My dad brought me up on those bands and others. I think I turned out OK in my musical taste. Shame about the rest!!!

 

[readingstockport]

Also just remembered
Poison Girls at Glastonbury
Billy Bragg same.
John Otway all of them but especially THE HIT.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Casting pearls before swine, believe me.

You lot are well OLD

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Lord

Jimmiy Hendrix live, thats impressive stuff.

 

[readingstockport]

And Style Council Brockwell Park.
F*** they were good days

You're right Turgid, it is a memory jogger.

Oh god - another

Test Department during the miners strike. Superb set with striking welsh miners reading poetry to the bagpipes and industrial metal inn the background.

 

[The Large One]

• Madness at Finsbury Park 1992 (supported by Ian Dury & The Blockheads and Morrissey)
• The Undertones at Concorde 2, 2003
• Attacco Decente at the Treble Clef, 1994

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

Take the piss but Russell Watson was awesome.

I can believe someone said , whose Jean Michel Jarre, they have to be joking, please say they are !.

nope never heard of him!

i am only 15 though and my type of music is punk and metal

i went to one of his websites and listened to a few clips from his songs and noway will i be able to listen to his for more than 2 minutes! its just so dull and boring!

 

[readingstockport]

Shit, you have set me off.

Pogues. Mainly because I was always so pissed I couldn't stand up.

 

[Curious Orange]

The Darkness, Love, Mercury Rev, Alice Cooper, The Stranglers, The Undertones, Madness.

Guilfest last year, bloody good lineup!!

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Jean Michell Jarre is a hero of mine tread carefully mate.

He is a total total genious and anyone , I said anyone who wants to disagree can see me to discuss it at anytime.

 

[Yorkie]

Jean Michell Jarre is a hero of mine tread carefully mate.

He is a total total genius

I completely agree with you Gareth (for a change)

Absolute class


Btw Nathan, he didn't record songs, they were instumentals.

 

[Turgid]

Attacco Decente - had forgotten all about them - for some reason I always associate them with the Brighton Bottle Orchestra - now there was an act that could blow

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

I completely agree with you Gareth (for a change)

Absolute class


Btw Nathan, he didn't record songs, they were instumentals.

oh

im not sayin that i dislike him, im just sayin i dislike the type of music

 

[Turgid]

Electronic knob twiddling in my mind - more about lights than music - but that is only my opinion

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Nothing to do with lights , infact the concert at Wembley Arena in 1999 when it was just the music was awesome.

JJM is a modern composer of wonderful symphonies.

 

[Turgid]

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on JJM - perhaps we should still to the stranglers who I believe we both share a liking for.

 

[fatbadger]

Ground Zero at the Tolbooth, Stirling, about 5 or 6 years ago. It was one of their last ever gigs. I have never seen such a reaction - the audience were going loopy. At the end of their third encore, as they left, one member of the audience jumped up to the door they were exiting through, dropped to his knees and BEGGED them to stay. Got his wish, too. Only one member of the press was there (reviewer for the Herald) and he agreed with the audience, saying it was the best gig he had gone to in his twenty-odd years as a music-writer.

They were incredible - the most powerful, mesmerising, entertaining, inventive gig I could ever even imagine.

Next has to be the two Keijo Haino gigs I've had the pleasure of being to. He's not over here very often - if he comes to Brighton, you must go, but prepare for a very physically-demanding (on the audience) gig.

Shouldn't forget Sun Electric in Leicester about 12 years ago, or Fugazi's tenth anniversary gig in Washington DC (summer of '97, I think).