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Gig of the decade! Whats yours?
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twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
I've always wanted to see DEP live but i've missed them everytime, still, new album soon (ish)
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Pixies at Brixton Academy on 2004, or the Stooges at the first reunion gig I saw, or Magazines Valentines reunion in Manchester this year would all be contenders, but.....I can't bring myself to say that a reunion gig is really the best one I've seen, so...
Shellac @ ATP 2005 (I think) was utterly awesome
Julian Cope @ the Lyric Theatre Hammesmith, 2003
SFA @ Leeds University, 2003 (?)
The Fall @ Sheffield Boardwalk, 2005 (?)
all absolute blinders
Shellac @ ATP 2005 (I think) was utterly awesome
Julian Cope @ the Lyric Theatre Hammesmith, 2003
SFA @ Leeds University, 2003 (?)
The Fall @ Sheffield Boardwalk, 2005 (?)
all absolute blinders
The_Reverend_M
More bass, vicar?
Hmmm... gigs that spring to mind ...
The Flaming Lips @ Royal Festival Hall, 2000
Roots Manuva @ Somerset House, 2003ish
The Arcade Fire @ Kings College, 2003/4
Trans Am @ ATP, 2004 (?)
Pixies @ Brixton Academy (3rd night), 2004
Edan @ Cargo, 2006ish
Sleepy Sun @ The Lumanaire, 2009
The Flaming Lips @ Royal Festival Hall, 2000
Roots Manuva @ Somerset House, 2003ish
The Arcade Fire @ Kings College, 2003/4
Trans Am @ ATP, 2004 (?)
Pixies @ Brixton Academy (3rd night), 2004
Edan @ Cargo, 2006ish
Sleepy Sun @ The Lumanaire, 2009
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
Ladytron @ Sonar Festival 2003
I hadn't heard of them before going to the festival and I thought I didn't like electroclash, but a mate was going on about them so I figured I might check them out if I wasn't doing anything else when they were on.
Come the night I'd had the strongest pill I've ever taken. Like, really fucking strong. What you expect when you hear old timers going on about the good old days. I was totally shit faced, didn't know left from right, in a state of total confusion. My girlfriend, who'd sensibly only had a half, took my hand and led me into the back room just as Ladytron came on.
Now, my perception of things was a bit enhanced, but right there and then I totally fell in love with them. They were fucking amazing. They were exactly the new sound I'd been looking for, even though I didn't know I'd been looking for a new sound. It was one of those road to nazareth conversions to a whole new scene that I've had perhaps three times in my life.
Of course I can barely remember anything about it, but that was totally the gig of the decade
I hadn't heard of them before going to the festival and I thought I didn't like electroclash, but a mate was going on about them so I figured I might check them out if I wasn't doing anything else when they were on.
Come the night I'd had the strongest pill I've ever taken. Like, really fucking strong. What you expect when you hear old timers going on about the good old days. I was totally shit faced, didn't know left from right, in a state of total confusion. My girlfriend, who'd sensibly only had a half, took my hand and led me into the back room just as Ladytron came on.
Now, my perception of things was a bit enhanced, but right there and then I totally fell in love with them. They were fucking amazing. They were exactly the new sound I'd been looking for, even though I didn't know I'd been looking for a new sound. It was one of those road to nazareth conversions to a whole new scene that I've had perhaps three times in my life.
Of course I can barely remember anything about it, but that was totally the gig of the decade
rikwakefield
Born to be Mild
Kraftwerk at M/cr Velodrome this year. But the decade ain't finished yet...
I came to post the same thing.
Mogwai at the ICA in 2006.
I'd been introduced to them a year so earlier, by our KittyP here, as it happens. She said they were great live, I said I couldn't imagine them as being a live act. But I had faith, so I splashed out on a pricey ebay ticket, and shuffled off to that little 300 person box on the Mall.
And they tore my brain out.
"Wrap up your ears: Mogwai, the Glaswegian masters of arty guitar menace, make a triumphant, deafening return to London...
...it's the scouring, carbolic power of their guitars at full whack that stays with you, ringing in your ears for hours afterwards." - Kitty Empire, Observer.
I'd been introduced to them a year so earlier, by our KittyP here, as it happens. She said they were great live, I said I couldn't imagine them as being a live act. But I had faith, so I splashed out on a pricey ebay ticket, and shuffled off to that little 300 person box on the Mall.
And they tore my brain out.
"Wrap up your ears: Mogwai, the Glaswegian masters of arty guitar menace, make a triumphant, deafening return to London...
...it's the scouring, carbolic power of their guitars at full whack that stays with you, ringing in your ears for hours afterwards." - Kitty Empire, Observer.
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
without a shadow of a doubt parliament Funkadelic at Fuji Festival 2002.
best gig i've been to in my entire life.
and, incidentally, as i made the list for some facebook nonsense i was invited to do a while back, here is a list of other bands i have seen:
Crass
Ramleh
Swans
HTRK
Sham 69 (Glasgow Apollo after Pistols broke up and Cook & Jones joined them onstage)
Amebix, Antisect, Subhumans, Disorder, Napalm Death (Nottingham, 1982)
Siouxsie & The Banshees (Join Hands tour)
The Clash
Phuture
DAF
Larry Heard
Whitehouse
Boredoms
Acid Mother’s Temple
David Sylvian
Tindersticks
Ladytron
The Skids
Specials, Madness, Selector (Two Tone Tour, Stirling Uni)
Gang of Four/Pere Ubu/Delta 5 (Stirling Uni)
Mark Stewart & the Maffia
Tackhead
Killing Joke
Cabaret Voltaire
New Order
Husker Du
David Bowie
Cocteau Twins
Incapacitants
The Plastics
Cornelius
James Brown Allstars
Trouble Funk
The Fall
Nitzer Ebb
Front 242
Parliament Funkadelic (Fuji Festival, 2002. best live show i have EVER seen)
Public Enemy
Flux of Pink Indians
Conflict
Buzzcocks
Poison Girls
Nirvana
Pavement
Psychic TV
Throbbing Gristle (alas, not when they meant something)
PIL
Dead Kennedys
Theatre of Hate
Southern Death Cult
UK Decay
Jesu
4-Skins
Konono No1
23 Skidoo
Liquid Liquid (alas, only on their reformation tour)
A Certain Ratio
Madonna
Prince
Oi Polloi
ATV
Fire Engines
Here & Now
Twisted Sister
best gig i've been to in my entire life.
and, incidentally, as i made the list for some facebook nonsense i was invited to do a while back, here is a list of other bands i have seen:
Crass
Ramleh
Swans
HTRK
Sham 69 (Glasgow Apollo after Pistols broke up and Cook & Jones joined them onstage)
Amebix, Antisect, Subhumans, Disorder, Napalm Death (Nottingham, 1982)
Siouxsie & The Banshees (Join Hands tour)
The Clash
Phuture
DAF
Larry Heard
Whitehouse
Boredoms
Acid Mother’s Temple
David Sylvian
Tindersticks
Ladytron
The Skids
Specials, Madness, Selector (Two Tone Tour, Stirling Uni)
Gang of Four/Pere Ubu/Delta 5 (Stirling Uni)
Mark Stewart & the Maffia
Tackhead
Killing Joke
Cabaret Voltaire
New Order
Husker Du
David Bowie
Cocteau Twins
Incapacitants
The Plastics
Cornelius
James Brown Allstars
Trouble Funk
The Fall
Nitzer Ebb
Front 242
Parliament Funkadelic (Fuji Festival, 2002. best live show i have EVER seen)
Public Enemy
Flux of Pink Indians
Conflict
Buzzcocks
Poison Girls
Nirvana
Pavement
Psychic TV
Throbbing Gristle (alas, not when they meant something)
PIL
Dead Kennedys
Theatre of Hate
Southern Death Cult
UK Decay
Jesu
4-Skins
Konono No1
23 Skidoo
Liquid Liquid (alas, only on their reformation tour)
A Certain Ratio
Madonna
Prince
Oi Polloi
ATV
Fire Engines
Here & Now
Twisted Sister
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
Don't think I can pick a favourite but...
Mogwai first time I saw them at Liverpool Academy was good, at Manchester last year I though Fuck Buttons were better.
Shellac when I made the trip down to see them at Koko was a great experience.
Queens of the Stone Age at Manchester Apollo
Joe Gideon and the Shark at the Ruby Lounge, one of my favourite live acts.
Specials at Manchester Apollo with my son
Dwarves at Manchester Hop and Grape was a top show, took the young un to that too.
Beastie Boys put on a good show at Manchester last tour
Stewart Lee at Salford Lowry
Daniel Johnston, Adem and Jeffrey Lewis at The Comedy Store is probably close to the best given I'd heard nothing by Adem or Jeffrey Lewis beforehand and was unsure what DJ would be like.
Fugazi? HMHB? Go Team?
fuck knows
Mogwai first time I saw them at Liverpool Academy was good, at Manchester last year I though Fuck Buttons were better.
Shellac when I made the trip down to see them at Koko was a great experience.
Queens of the Stone Age at Manchester Apollo
Joe Gideon and the Shark at the Ruby Lounge, one of my favourite live acts.
Specials at Manchester Apollo with my son
Dwarves at Manchester Hop and Grape was a top show, took the young un to that too.
Beastie Boys put on a good show at Manchester last tour
Stewart Lee at Salford Lowry
Daniel Johnston, Adem and Jeffrey Lewis at The Comedy Store is probably close to the best given I'd heard nothing by Adem or Jeffrey Lewis beforehand and was unsure what DJ would be like.
Fugazi? HMHB? Go Team?
fuck knows
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
ooh, jsut checked, last fugazi gig in Leeds was 2002, so that would defintely be on there
A Dashing Blade
Takes horses to water but can't make donkeys drink
Gotta be the Brixton Acadamy Kraftwerk gig
followed by a Primal Scream (possibly a Hammy Odeon one)
followed by Gallows supporting MC5 (well, MC3 + a Sister Of Mercy guitarist and a new singer) at the Underworld
followed by a Primal Scream (possibly a Hammy Odeon one)
followed by Gallows supporting MC5 (well, MC3 + a Sister Of Mercy guitarist and a new singer) at the Underworld
HAPPY CHEF
Well-Known Member
Roger Waters in Hyde Park in 2007.
stupid dogbot
Haughty and Superior
Oh yeah, I forgot, George Clinton and "Parliament Funkadelic", Manchester Academy, 2007.
That's useful. I've made a note of that.
their singer is a cunt. i'm going to boot his balls next time i see him
i did not speak to them long enough to work that out, quite possibly though.
El Sueno
Dabbler
Grandaddy, Brixton Academy on the Sumday tour.
They played most of the Sophtware Slump album, finally ending with 'He's the Pilot' and because it was the last date of the tour, they smashed up half their stuff. Didn't even need drugs, I was crying with happiness.
A close second would be Cardiacs at the Astoria, 2003. They played a set full of ALL the big album tracks, none of the usual fodder, which nobody was expectiong. Incredible, just amazing artistry and performance - all adding up to so much more than the sum of their parts.
They played most of the Sophtware Slump album, finally ending with 'He's the Pilot' and because it was the last date of the tour, they smashed up half their stuff. Didn't even need drugs, I was crying with happiness.
A close second would be Cardiacs at the Astoria, 2003. They played a set full of ALL the big album tracks, none of the usual fodder, which nobody was expectiong. Incredible, just amazing artistry and performance - all adding up to so much more than the sum of their parts.
johnny collins at chepstow two rivers folk festival ... 2007 ( RIP Johnny )
The Imagined Village at Towersey this year
Super Furry Animals at Brixton Accadamy supported by Goldie Lookin Chain
Martin Carthy in a pub off Goodge street last year
too difficult to just pick one
The Imagined Village at Towersey this year
Super Furry Animals at Brixton Accadamy supported by Goldie Lookin Chain
Martin Carthy in a pub off Goodge street last year
too difficult to just pick one
