Urban's Top 10 Gigs ... Ever!

[Dubversion]

low - union chapel - 2003?

ah yes, that would make my top ten. Of all the times I've seen them, that was the 'one'

 

[bluestreak]

kinell rev....

right, let's have it then....

ATR @ the garage. easily one of the greatest gigs i've ever been to
fugazi / shellac - exactly the same effect on me as the rev.
radiohead, south park. nuff said.
pwei @ shepherds bush the other year cos i'd waited sooo long.
radiohead @ glastonbury 03
orbital -@ glastonbury 02
squarepusher @ glastonbury 03
msp @ reading 97 (not perhaps a legendary gig but i'd been waiting sooooo long)
ratm @ the astoria in about 99/2000
silver mt zion @ scala about 01/02 - music had never made me trip like that

though i bet if you ask me tomorrow i'll give a different list.

 

[k_s]

Hmm, perhaps a 'favourite live act' thread would have been more sensible. Oh hang on a minute, you lot all go to exactly the same gigs coz you're all so cool innit?

 

[pagan]

James Brown, Melbourne 1987.
On U Sound Collective, London 1990ish
Bauhaus, Edinburgh 1983
Eat Static, The Robey 1992
Ojos de Brojos, Glastonbury 2004
U2, Edinburgh 1984
Ali Farka Toure, Edinburgh 1989ish
Grandmaster Flash, Ibiza 2005
Hayseed Dixie, Ullapool 2006
Culture, Ediburgh 1986
The Pogues, any one of a dozen gigs. (yeah, ok, that's 11)

 

[felixthecat]

1979 the Cramps - Bristol Locarno.
The downside was the Police were supporting altho I have a good backstage story connected with them which is only told when very drunk

1978 or 79 The Damned + Motorhead -Bristol Locarno.
Amazing, and I have a scar to remember it by

1999 Jimmy Cliff - a field, St Lucia
Out of this world, what an amazing voice!

 

[pagan]

Shit, reading through the replies I realise I'd forgot The Smiths, Edinburgh 85, The Cramps, Edinburgh 86, and The Damned, Edinburgh 81: Asian Foundation and Bentley Rhythm Ace in Cornwall 1998, Fuck.

 

[LDR]

In no particular order.

1. AC/DC Nov 91 - Athletic Park, NZ
2. Kid Rock Jun 01 - Brixton Academy
3. Gogol Bordello Aug 06 - Sziget, Budapest
4. Shihad with Head like a Hole supporting Early 90's - Victoria Uni, NZ
5. Muse with Soulwax supporting Years ago at ULU
6. Broken Family Band Can't remember when -What's Cookin', Leytonstone
7. I'm From Barcelona Sep 06 - JAMM
8. Steve Earle & the Dukes - Aug 89 - Wellington Town Hall, NZ
9. Iron Maiden Sep 99 - Paris
10. Hayseed Dixie Aug 04 - Borderline

 

[bluestreak]

Hmm, perhaps a 'favourite live act' thread would have been more sensible. Oh hang on a minute, you lot all go to exactly the same gigs coz you're all so cool innit?

you what?

 

[k_s]

oh fine...

-Manic street preachers; plymouth 2002
-Spiritualized; eden project 2002
-Radiohead; glasto '03
-Dionysos; paleo, switzerland 2006
-Super furry animals; eden project 2003
-Ikara colt; nottingham 2002
-Mercury Rev; reading 2002
-Jimmy Cliff; glasto '03
-Pixies; switzerland 2006 (seen by accident!)
-And a wet-behind-the-ears manics at some crummy radio 1 roadshow in ilfracombe when i were but a nipper (6) back in '91