Who's the best band you've seen live?

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Here's a few of mine.

Pearl Jam
The Cure

The Wonderstuff
Ocean colour Scene
Elbow
Exit Calm
 
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Hayseed Dixie...no contest - they even threw cans of beer to us in the audience when they realised the bar was shut...
 
Mogwai at the Brixton Academy. My favourite band at my favourite venue, who manage to be so loud my ears rang for a week and yet the music was superb!
 
Four Tet @ ATP
Mogwai @ Queen Elizabeth Hall
De La Soul @ Snowbombing
Massive Attack @ Hammersmith Apollo
Sigur Ros @ Main Square Festival, Arras
My Bloody Valentine @ ATP (you though Mogwai was loud......think again)
Kraftwerk @ Bestival

Too much good stuff......less than two weeks until Leftfield and Aphex @ LED festival :D
 
The Jam
Genesis

And on reflection- Bucks Fizz,January 1986 at the Coventry Hippodrome & The Nolans in Torquay when I was 17 in 1979!!!!

Beat that then!

John
 
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Genesis
Billy Idol
Moody Blues
Simon & Garfunkel

Bruce Springsteen
 
Steve Reich (& seventeen other people) performing Music for 18 Musicians, Carnegie Hall, October 2006.

Clive Gregson & Christine Collister, various performances at the Thekla on Bristol dock late 80s/early 90s. They were always fabulous.
 
Pink Floyd probably

Maiden, Metallica, Nirvana, AC/DC, Slayer + all the various bands from all the Donnington Monsters of Rock Festivals.

Oh and the Macc Lads
 
Genesis 1979 Odeon Hammersmith - as was (several times afterwards too - exceptthe last two, Knebworth and Earls Ct with the Scottish bloke - a definite advert of when to go at the top and not carry on)
 
Genesis (70s)
ELP
Led Zep (74)
Greenday
Bruce Stringsteen ( Giants stadium09)
 
The Specials and Babyshambles, but that could all change tomorrow as I'm off to see Kasabian at Brixton Academy :D
 
Dr Feelgood.

At a very exclusive festival where the organisers had bought shedloads of booze but had neglected to apply for a license! The local authority refused a late application and the festival was effectiuvely cancelled but too late for the bands to get rebooked, so they all played to a small audience of other bands and performers. Since the organisers didn't want to have to store all the booze, they were giving it away. I was so pished, I nearly danced!
 
Pink Floyd
Queen
Bruce Springsteen
Genesis
Rush
ZZ Top
UFO
Rainbow
 
Oasis, Kasabian, The Who, The Fratellis. Enjoyed all of those.
 
Manic Street Preachers - Cardiff, Millennium Stadium 1999-2000.

Kasibian - Inverness Ironworks

Only seen a handful of gigs if I'm being brutally honest, but doubt I'll see anything better than those two.....unless I get the chance to see the Boss live.
 
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Bruce Springsteen at Sheffield
Runrig

Two of the best gigs ever!
 
Of course not a band but Kanye West was fantastic. His shows match his personality and they become egotistical streaks of showmanship. Superb.

Coldplay and Jay-Z at Old Trafford were terrific also.

The worst? Kings of Leon at the O2. I had expected amazing things but there was minimal interaction with the crowd, snidey remarks about fans who'd "got on board after Sex on Fire" and no real verve in them.
 
Level 42 & The Boomtown Rats...
 
Rolling Stones @ Wembley Stadium
Dire Straits @ Wembley Arena
both absolute quality
 
Deep Purple, Rainbow, Iron Maiden and my personal favourite the Scorpions who stood in for Thin Lizzy at Reading
No one knew what to expect and they were really superb, we'll burn the sky still sounds great today

AC/DC at the Marquee weren't too shabby either
 
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Social Distortion, at the House of Blues in Hollywood. They ROCKED :thumbs:
 
Bowie, 70's Aladdin Sane tour.
Springsteen, The River tour (about 1980).
Neil Young and Crazy Horse, 70's @ Hammersmith Odeon.
Thin Lizzy and The Faces @ the Reading festival.

Would have loved to have seen...
Nick Drake
Stevie Ray Vaughn.
Jimi Hendrix.
 
The Rolling Stones - in the days of Brian Jones, in Brighton, c.1965

Anthony.
 
YES on their Magnification tour when they had a full orchestra with them at the Brighton Centre

Pink Floyd The Wall at Earls Court

and recently

Rick Wakeman doing the six wives of Henry 8th at Hampton Court
 
Guns N' Roses, Skid Row & Nine Inch Nails in '91 @ Wembley, Get in the Ring tour. :)
Closely followed by Aerosmith at the Nissan Arena in Virginia in '98.
And that was closely followed by AC/DC @ the MEN Arena in Manchester in 2000.
 
Billy Idol @ Rock City
Within Temptation @ Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
Sisters of Mercy @ Josephs Well, Leeds.

I've seen a lot of bands but these are the three gigs that stand out for varied reasons.
 
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Guns N' Roses, Skid Row & Nine Inch Nails in '91 @ Wembley, Get in the Ring tour. :)
Closely followed by Aerosmith at the Nissan Arena in Virginia in '98.
And that was closely followed by AC/DC @ the MEN Arena in Manchester in 2000.
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Ooo I saw NIN a couple of times a few years back. Fantastic especially when Trent does Hurt at the end.
 
Queen - superb performers closly followed by Pink Flloyd (doing the whole of the darkside of the moon album as an encore), Radio Tarifa, Radiohead, Gypsy kings in Madrid

Best virtuoso performance goes to: Al de meola (with paco de lucia and John Maglauglin)
 
In no particluar order; all were fantastic for different reasons:
  • Rush at Wembley Arena in 2007
  • Biffy Clyro at Brixton Academy in 2008
  • Rammstein at Brixton Academy in 2007
  • Pink Floyd, The Wall at Earls Court in 1980
  • The Who at Charlton in 1976
 
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