bands you've seen more than once

[8ball]

I've probably seen more bands more than once than I've seen just once.

Not including support acts, but even then it wouldn't be that far off.

Not the thing to admit on a thread like this, but the Levellers, Chumbawamba and New Model Army are probably the bands I've seen the most times.

Others prob include I Am Kloot, Futureheads, Lamb and local bands no one here will have heard of.

 

[rutabowa]

Gimp Fist
Business
Subs
Sparrer
Goldblade
Kunt & the Gang


hang on i could go on for years here

hey we played supporting The Menace last night! i bet you know them. they were very good actually, they have an excellent new singer.

 

[Voley]

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

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

Nick Cave
The Cure
Nirvana
Hole
The Pogues
New Order
Orbital
Alabama 3
Dreadzone - Zion Train (almost certainly although I've never stuck a full set by either that I recall)
Pixies
The Orb
Echo and The Bunnymen
St Etienne
The Fall
Spiritualized
Dinosaur Jr
Silverfish
Happy Mondays saw Black Grape a few times too
James
Butthole Surfers
Sonic Youth
White Stripes
Underworld
Mudhoney
Primal Scream
Bjork
Loop
R.E.M.
That Petrol Emotion
Lemonheads
Public Enemy
George Clinton, P-Funk etc
Iggy Pop
Jesus & Mary Chain
PJ Harvey
Blur
Teenage Fanclub
The Wedding Present

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

My edit of ouchmonkey's post. It was quicker that way. I have to slightly shamefacedly add Oasis as I used to really like them in the early days. Similarly I've seen Paul Weller in all his incarnations, The Jam being the best unsurprisingly. I must've seen Radiohead 7 or 8 times. Only saw Pixies twice first time round but will be seeing them again in a few weeks. I've lost count of the amount of times I've seen Massive Attack and The Chemical Brothers - again, they just seemed to be on at every festival I ever went to.

ETA: Forgot about The Stone Roses and, speaking of Stones, the, err, Stones, too. I'll stop now. I've got some ironing to do.

 

[Orang Utan]

depends.

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

they play different records

after the fifth or sixth time of hearing a band play the same material, it must get a bit dull, no?

 

[stupid dogbot]

No.

 

[Voley]

No.

 

[Orang Utan]

i must have a short attention span then

 

[Voley]

You've never watched a film you like a few times?

 

[8ball]

It's not even the same each time, neither the performance or the material.
Unless you've been seeing some pretty dull bands.

I can see OU's point if you go and see the same tour several different times at different locations, I suppose, but not many people do that.

 

[ouchmonkey]

they play different records

after the fifth or sixth time of hearing a band play the same material, it must get a bit dull, no?

there's your gap in the argument surely?

I was happy to see Nick Cave a couple times this summer despite having seen him a ton of times before 'cos I'd never heard the Dig Lazarus Dig! stuff live before, 'cos he's always great, and 'cos they're on especially scorching form at the moment (no sit down at the piano ballads these days, although they too have their place)

 

[kained&able]

also good bands don't always play the same material and release new albums with new songs that you haven't heard live.


dave

 

[Orang Utan]

You've never watched a film you like a few times?

never more than a couple of times - i know what's going to happen, so i'm less keen on seeing a film more than once, unless it's a comedy - there's a lot of unseen films out there that need seeing.

 

[chico enrico]

they play different records

after the fifth or sixth time of hearing a band play the same material, it must get a bit dull, no?

what bands have you gone & seen FIVE OR SIX times who have played the SAME material each time?

Tribute acts playing covers? The local cricket team's trad jazz band at the village fete? can't be very good bands otherwise.

 

[Clair De Lune]

Unfortunately not seen any of my favourite bands more than once so my list is a bit sad

The levellers Once in Glastonbury, once in Hyde park after whatever protest it was....

SLF

The Stooges...but only cos I passed out at their first show at ATP and had to sneak in to see them again the next night.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

in no particular order and off the top of my head (although KK would be the clear winner for me on this, must have seen them about 50-60 times altogether ) are:

King Kurt
Guana Batz
The Meteors
Coffin Nails
Restless
Frenzy
Long Tall Texans
Stingrays
Spear of Destiny
New Model Army
Men They Couldn't Hang
Ramones
Motorhead
Snuff
Back to the Planet
Ruff Ruff and Ready
AK47s
Citizen Fish
Tofu Love Frogs
RDF
Spasm
The Cramps
PWEI
Godflesh
Napalm Death
Extreme Noise Terror
Pogues (as with everyone it seems)
No Means No
Public Enemy
Credit to the Nation
ChumbaWumba
Redskins
Blaggers ITA
Whitesnake
Cypress Hill
Batmobile
Reverend Horton Heat
John Wayne Army
Demented Are Go

 

[Orang Utan]

what bands have you gone & seen FIVE OR SIX times who have played the SAME material each time?

Tribute acts playing covers? The local cricket team's trad jazz band at the village fete? can't be very good bands otherwise.

most bands always play their biggest hits, as well as new material.

 

[Orang Utan]

i know i'm being perverse.
i get sick of things too quickly.
i even have to fast forward through titles of tv shows cos i get so sick of them, even true blood.

 

[goldenecitrone]

The Smiths
Billy Bragg
Bob Dylan
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Stray Cats
Roy Harper
Broken Family Band
Mark Eitzel

 

[Clint Iguana]

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.

Cos they play different sets; cos they are human and never play a song exactly the same way twice; cos they ad lib and do differnt versions; cos of the interaction between band and audience; cos half the point is the meeting people, drinking beer and having a laugh; cos it is better than sitting in the house watching TV or posting on message boards; cos live music is better than drugs; cos whilst it is good to discover new bands, occasionally you want the security of seeing a band you know will be ace.

 

[ericjarvis]

also good bands don't always play the same material and release new albums with new songs that you haven't heard live.


dave

Best I've encountered for that were Eyeless In Gaza. Caught them at a gig, bought their double album on the strength of it. They had played absolutely nothing from the album. Went to another gig a month or so later, and they did a completely new set of songs I had never heard before. Now that's prolific songwriting, one might almost say "profligate".

 

[Mation]

they play different records

after the fifth or sixth time of hearing a band play the same material, it must get a bit dull, no?

Bowie has enough material to play different sets from night to night...

 

[clandestino]

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.

Back when Belle & Sebastian hardly ever played live, I went to all three dates of their UK tour - Leeds, Nottingham, and London. At the Nottingham show, they didn't play a single song they'd played in Leeds.

Also, if you follow a band over quite a few years, you just end up seeing them loads of times - and the gigs are usually different because they've got new albums to promote and new songs to play. I've probably seen Teenage Fanclub over 20 times, and the most recent shows were very different to the first ones I went to, almost twenty years ago.

 

[Kidblast]

The Hamsters at The Half Moon in Putney. About four times now. It's a family thing!

 

[Riklet]

Bonobo
Shpongle
Quantic
Eat Static
Skream
Benga
Rusko
Mungo's Hi-Fi
Slackbabba/Pieman/Weetamix/Oood - all that omgohnoes psytrance lot...
High Contrast
Joe Driscoll
N-Type
Atomic Drop

Probably a few more I can't remember...

 

[ouchmonkey]

i know i'm being perverse.
i get sick of things too quickly.

what about recorded music? that's always the same right? I know you can get more from listening to things repeatedly but it is still the same isn't it? Live stuff is always different (even if that difference is minor). There is a sense of possibility, which is why I've come to think that whole 'we're playing our classic album' thing is a bit lame, although it too offers something different - that's not the normal set anyone would choose to play, there'll be songs that wouldn't usually get played live and so on.

Also, if you follow a band over quite a few years, you just end up seeing them loads of times - and the gigs are usually different because they've got new albums to promote and new songs to play. I've probably seen Teenage Fanclub over 20 times, and the most recent shows were very different to the first ones I went to, almost twenty years ago.

Are they still about? I've happy memories of a bunch of their early gigs, chaotic and beautiful, but I haven't actually seen them play since........God knows....probably just after Brendan left or something?
what are they like these days?
It's not all sad and a bit beardy and dull is it?

 

[Orang Utan]

what about recorded music? that's always the same right? I know you can get more from listening to things repeatedly but it is still the same isn't it? Live stuff is always different (even if that difference is minor). There is a sense of possibility, which is why I've come to think that whole 'we're playing our classic album' thing is a bit lame, although it too offers something different - that's not the normal set anyone would choose to play, there'll be songs that wouldn't usually get played live and so on.

but it's the same with all music in my experience. i prefer seeking out new music to listening to older stuff repeatedly. i tire of things quickly.

 

[ouchmonkey]

but it's the same with all music in my experience. i prefer seeking out new music to listening to older stuff repeatedly. i tire of things quickly.

that's not a bad thing though is it?
I'm like that too, perhaps to not such a great extent
or perhaps the live experience is something I enjoy more than you do generally
I dunno.




I quite like albums too


it's 'cos I is old

 

[Orang Utan]

me: 'i like this, what's next?

 

[ViolentPanda]

Adam and the Antz
The Adverts
Aswad
American Music Club
The Associates
Bauhaus
Blancmange
Belly
The Birthday Party
Blondie
Big Country
Buzzcocks
Buffalo Tom
The Clash
Albert Collins
Crass
Cramps
Julian Cope
Cowboy Junkies
The Damned (plus various mutations)
Dead Kennedys
Darling Buds
D-A-F
Diesel Park West
Echo and the Bunnymen
Einstuerzende Neubauten
Fairport Convention
Fatima Mansions
Four Letter Word
Gang of Four
Generation X
Hawkwind
The Human League (original and second line-up)
House of Love
Iron Maiden
Jah Wobble
Jesus and Mary Chain
Killing Joke
Kitchens of Distinction
Leatherface
Lemonheads
Loop
The Lurkers
Magazine
Steve Marriott
Microdisney
Mekons
Mighty Lemon Drops
Mighty Diamonds
Ministry
The Mission
Christy Moore
Bob Mould
Motorhead
My Bloody Valentine
Naked Lunch
Nirvana
OMD
The Only Ones
Pale Saints
Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls
Penetration
Pavement
Pixies
The Prefects
Pogues
The Perfect Disaster
Primal Scream
Power of Dreams
Psychedelic Furs
R.E.M.
The Ramones
The Rezillos
The Revillos
Ride
Rise
The Ruts
Send More Paramedics
Simple Minds
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Sisters of Mercy
The Skids
Spacemen Three
Squeeze
Steel Pulse
Stiff Little Fingers
Suede
Sugar
Steeleye Span
The Sundays
June Tabor
Tangerine Dream
Teenage Fanclub
Terminus
That Petrol Emotion
The Ex
The Teardrop Explodes
The Telescopes
The The
Thin Lizzy
Throwing Muses
U2
Ultravox (John Foxx on vocals, NOT Midge Ure )
The Undertones
The Vibrators
The Wedding Present
Wire
Kathryn Williams
X-Ray Specs
XTC
Neil Young
Zion Train

They're the ones I remember seeing more than once, anyway. I wish my short-term memory was as good as my long-term memory!

E2A:
Theatre of Hate
The Meteors
The Stranglers
The Young Gods

 

[no-no]

Faith No More
Electrelane
The Cure
Tool
Tv on the radio
Rage against the machine
Clinic
Cypress Hill
Espers
Tinariwen
Beta Band
Tunng
White Zombie
Massive attack
Bjork

probably some others...