bands you've seen more than once

[upsidedownwalrus]

One of the main things I missed out on by going to China for so long is like 5 years worth of gigs...

Still, when the boy gets older and more manageable it will be easier to sneak off to some again

 

[Spark]

nick cave
pj harvey
breeders
throwing muses
electrelane
the donnas
joanna newsom
dirty three
blood red shoes

probably some others too, but can't remember right now

 

[the button]

Rachel Unthank & the Winterset
Miso Soup (as Damo Suzuki's backing band first time, then on their own)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
The Pixies
Sonic Youth
Big Black
Butthole Surfers

.... loads of folk musicians from when I was going to clubs regularly.

 

[dlx1]

this including seen at fest or one of gigs

The Orb Orbital Ozzy Pink Floyd Banco De Gaia Prodigy Leftfeild 808 State ADF
Zion Train Dreadzone charltons Massive Attack OMD Mercury Rev FADS Underworld Primal Scream Air Liquide Hard Floor Ozricks Kraftwork Jar Shaka Lee Perry FSOL Moby Bad Manner Madness edit: Beastie Boys Lemon Jelly Royksopp Njoy

Edit: Iration Steppas

never got to see Queen or Underground Resistance

 

[stethoscope]

Beck
New Order
Orbital
Aphex Twin
Massive Attack
Chumbawamba
Orb
Prodigy
Asian Dub Foundation
Prince

..and probably quite a few more if you include festival appearances.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Fuck - too many bands to mention....lots and lots that people here have already mentioned....some good lists on here.

 

[ringo]

one I can't think of S London Dub (mark) they have sound systems to played alot at Rootshall Southend

Markie Lyrics who runs RDK HiFi? No idea how many times I've seen them.

 

[Voley]

Alabama 3 (I've seen these by far more than anyone else)

Me and El Jefe had a brief chat about this once and came to the conclusion that we'd both seen A3 about fifty times.

I think the next contender for me would be Primal Scream because they used to be on at pretty much everything I ever went to. Nick Cave after that, I'd imagine. I've probably seen New Order about a dozen times or so.

 

[Clint Iguana]

Gordon Bennett!

Must have seen a couple of hundred bands more than once, the list of bands i have seen twenty times would probably be a few dozen.

I just wish i could remember them all

Most seen bands list would probably include The Damned, Ozric Tentacles, Tofu Love Frogs, PAIN, Headmix, Tarantism, Zion Train, Kilnaboy, Sick Note, Citizen Fish, Alabama 3, New Model Army, Stiff Little Fingers, Spear of Destiny, Dreadzone, Baka Beyond, The Vibrators, John ottway, Dub War, Eat Static, Inner Terrestrials, Tagic Roundabout ... most by choice but one or two cos they bloody turn up everywhere.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

I was at that Therapy gig upsidedownwalrus, the one with state of the nation supporting?

I've seen the slackers a few times, gogol bordello, seen civ/gorilla biscuits a few times, sick of it all, pogues, dwarves.

 

[cesare]

I used to go and see Barbara Thompson over and over again, but she's ill now I still go and see Joe Jackson whenever I can. Rachel Unthank & the Winterset, Nick Cave, Gordon Giltrap.

 

[dlx1]

El Jefe work out my giprish - Iration Steppas who I was thinking off

 

[Maggot]

Quite a few, the ones I can remember are:

Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Cure
The Dead Kennedys
Dr and the Medics
The Pixies
Alabama 3
Dread Zone
(Billy Bragg
Hank Wangford
Frank Chickens) all regulars at GLC gigs in the 80s
Gil Scott Heron
The Orb
Orbital
New Order
Credit to the Nation
Jah Wobble
John Cooper Clark (about 25 years apart)
MSQ
Yu
The Marines
Julian Cope
Echo and The Bunnymen
St Etienne
Forest Hillbillies

 

[Maggot]

Genesis, Bebop Deluxe, Bees Make Honey, Martin Simpson, Dave Burland, Essential Logic, The Clash, X Ray Spex, The Raincoats, Stiff Little Fingers, Trimmer and Jenkins, The Cannibals, Sparks Fly Upwards, Laughing Apple, OK Jive, The Scars, Television Personalities, Gloria Mundi, Jasmine Minks, Blurt, Revolving Paint Dream, Nikky Sudden, Richard No Soup For Me, The Pastels, The Nightingales, Formica Tops, Beevamp, Furniture, Weather Prophets, Twelve Cubic Feet, John Cooper Clarke, Weekend, Eyeless In Gaza, Jazz Butcher Conspiracy, MSQ, The Barely Works, Flavell Bambi Septet, Lost T-Shirts Of Atlantis, The Happy End, Ali Farka Toure, Bollywood Brass Band, Asian Dub Foundation, Sahara Hotnights, The Hives, Montgolfier Brothers, Captain Soul.

Off the top of my head. I may have missed a few.

MSQ the ska band? My mate was in them.

 

[DeepStoat]

Orbital
Alabama 3
Dreadzone
Zion Train
Slackers
Rolf Harris
Manu Chou
Radiohead
Seize The Day

Plenty more but cannae be arsed

 

[felixthecat]

Bloody loads. The first ones that come to mind are as follows:

Nick Cave (all versions thereof, over many years)
The Damned
The Clash
The Cure
Siouxsie and the Banshees (3 times in one week if I remember correctly.....)
Ian Dury
Gogol Bordello
Selector
The Specials
Mark Lanegan (by himself, with Isobel Campbell and with the Gutter Twins)
Madness
Generation X (and they were rubbish everytime)
Nirvana
Jimmy Cliff
The Pogues
The Stray Cats
The Stranglers
The Afghan Whigs
Subhumans (every bloody weekend at one point)
Burning Spear
New Order
Take That (and thats my credibility blown.....)

So many duplicates at festivals too - like the ubiquitous Dreadzone.

I've been around a long, long time............

 

[trevhagl]

Gimp Fist
Business
Subs
Sparrer
Goldblade
Kunt & the Gang


hang on i could go on for years here

 

[ericjarvis]

MSQ the ska band? My mate was in them.

So was mine. On trombone.

They were bloody good.

What a small world it is.

 

[chico enrico]

Actually, i think the bands i have seen most are Oi Polloi, Whitehouse and HTRK, all of whom i must have seen well over 20 times. and Ikara Colt who band I was in played countless gigs and two tours with. In fact, i've probably seen Oi Polloi well over a hundred times, but that's going back to 1983.

 

[Badgers]

Pogues are the band I have seen live most. Almost by accident I was quite fanatic about them from the age of 13 and saw them several times a year at first. Part of me was thinking that Shane was living on borrowed time and the gigs got more fractious, so I wanted to hear them every chance I could get. I am pretty sure that I have seen the Pogues/Popes at least once every year since 1991.

 

[Fedayn]

Spear of Destiny
SLF
Madness
Toots and the Maytals
Skatalites
Dennis Alcapone
The Pogues
The Wakes
The Business
The Smiths
New Model Army
Crass
Desmond Dekker

 

[Mation]

Bowie - about 40 times
Blur twice
PJ Harvey three times
Robyn Hitchcock (and the Egyptians) about 5 or 6 times
Roni Size twice
The Gentle People a couple of times cos a friend was in them
Wham! (Junior Best Disco in Town and Live Aid)

 

[ouchmonkey]

Gimp Fist
Business
Subs
Sparrer
Goldblade
Kunt & the Gang


hang on i could go on for years here

please don't. we'll probably just think you made 'em up anyway

so, starting with the stuff already listed....

Nick Cave
The Cure
The Specials (this year with Terry Hall and Neville's version a while back)
Nirvana
Hole
The Pogues
The Afghan Whigs
New Order
Orbital (more than 10 and next week too, yay nostalgia!)
Alabama 3
Dreadzone - Zion Train (almost certainly although I've never stuck a full set by either that I recall)
Pixies (again over 10 and again soon, hmmm. nostalgia )
Billy Bragg
The Orb
Julian Cope
Echo and The Bunnymen
St Etienne
The Fall
Spiritualized
Dinosaur Jr
Come
Shonen Knife
The Cramps
NoMeansNo
the shamen
Broken Family Band
Pet Shop Boys
Big Country (oh dear, yes)
MBV
Silverfish
Happy Mondays (first time was supporting James, they were incredible)
James
Inspiral Carpets
Butthole Surfers
Rev. Horton Heat
Young Gods
Stereolab
Sonic Youth
Billy Childish
White Stripes
The Rockingbirds
Mogwai
Flaming Lips
Mercury Rev
morrissey
gallon drunk
pop will eat itself
the wonderstuff
Underworld
Sisters of Mercy
L7
Mudhoney
Toots and the Maytals
Skatalites
Lee Perry
New Model Army
Spear of Destiny
Primal Scream
The Sugarcubes
Bjork
Loop
Godflesh
World Domination Enterprises
napalm death ......
Cranes
Throwing Muses
Blue Aeroplanes
R.E.M.
Pavement
Alex Chilton
Undertones
Buzzcocks
That Petrol Emotion
Fatima Mansions
Lemonheads
Public Enemy
George Clinton, P-Funk etc
Dr. John
Irma Thomas
Johnny Cash
Iggy Pop (& The Stooges)
Jonathon Richman
Jesus & Mary Chain
Tindersticks
PJ Harvey
Blur
Teenage Fanclub
The Woodentops
The Membranes
Faith No More
El Vez
Quintron
The Wedding Present

and all manner of other indie bands you couldn't care less about to boot

 

[Santino]

Vitalite
Eminent Cheeks
2D
The Bouncing Nonces
They Can't Hear Us
Terence the WonderDog
Manson Family Singers
The Hillbilly Goats
bliquid

 

[Orang Utan]

what's the point of seeing a band more than a couple of times? no one's that good live. apart from the jesus lizard. even then, i haven't bothered with them in years.

 

[sojourner]

The Pogues
Big Audio Dynamite
Gillan
The White Stripes
Alabama 3
Damo Suzuki
Half Man Half Biscuit

can't think of anymore at the mo

 

[ouchmonkey]

what's the point of seeing a band more than a couple of times? no one's that good live.

depends.

What's the point in going out dancing to guys playing records?

 

[Andrew Hertford]

My only recreation these days is boring anyone who'll listen about how I saw the Sex Pistols three times before they got really famous.

I saw The Fall loads of times, but then I suppose evryone must have seen them at least once by now, if only by accident.

 

[Voley]

what's the point of seeing a band more than a couple of times? no one's that good live. apart from the jesus lizard. even then, i haven't bothered with them in years.

What a fucking ludicrous thing to say.

 

[Maggot]

So was mine. On trombone.

They were bloody good.

What a small world it is.

My mate played keyboards, but I knew Neil too.