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Your Daily Question, Monday April 20th. Music gigs.
Tikay10
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Best gig you've ever been to?
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Metallica headlined with a set that felt like hours, such a great band.
During the gig people kept throwing plastic bottles onto the stage while Marilyn Manson was performing. He stopped halfway through a song to warn the crowd that if one more bottle was thrown then he would "kick somebody's ****". Another bottle flew onto the stage and true to his word, he climbs down from the stage, jumps over the barrier and starts trading punches with some guy in the crowd. He then finishes the rest of his set before smashing up the drums with his guitar, showing us his testicles and stomping off stage. We didn't care though because Metallica were on next!
What a band.
Best gig with a band I actually like was seeing F*cked Up, a Canadian hardcore punk band, when I lived in the U.S. some time after Chemistry of Common Life came out. This was one of those small, dimly lit bar affairs. The singer was in the crowd interacting with people through the whole show. At one point he ripped his shirt off and smashed a beer can into his forehead, then looked directly at me and started walking towards me while he bellowed away. I was pretty intimidated as he's a big guy but as soon as he got in front of me he just hugged me and walked away. Been a big fan of this band since their first record came out and that interaction cemented them as one of my favourites.
The first to be conducted by a female, the first half highlighted by Nigel Kennedy’s brilliant performance of The Lark Ascending. He would, in the less formal second half, perform a fun filled version of The Csardas , which had the audience and orchestra laughing in equal measures. The soaring voice of Joyce DiDonato taking Somewhere Over The Rainbow to new heights.
Finally, arm in arm, my three brothers and I sang raucously along with Rule Britannia, Land of Hope and Glory, Jerusalem and the National Anthem. A night never to be forgotten.
Boss!
Tremendous, a great concert in my wee home town, Bruce Foxton was in my local having a drink, disnae get any better than this.
Yes, but have you seen any proper bands, that, you know, can play their instruments & sing properly?
2 hours plus of material from the first 7 albums and Avenged Sevenfold as special guests
Cant count festivals and such as gigs as its a different experience otherwise its Download, always Download, absolutely Download.
Saw Avenged Sevenfold at Rock City in Notts. Another great gig.
Gants Hill Odeon. 14/06/1978.
Brilliant gig in a small venue. Great musicians and an amazing man.
Happy memories.
Carnt remember that incident but it was a long time ago.
If you were there small world.
First Festival Bob Dylan Blackbushe Aerodrome 1978
Support: Eric Clapton and Band, Joan Armatrading, Graham Parker and The Rumour, and Lake
Best? Bob Marley 12 July 1980 in Chester or was it Ian Dury & Blockheads , Theatre Mogador, Paris 1981.....hmmmm
Sorry but so difficult to choose one AND it doesn't include Muse in France 2017!
My biggest regret is never having been to Download. But I would have loved to have seen Graham Parker...
Brilliant atmosphere and many a great night out at the Vitoria Hall in the 80's.
Shed Seven at Castlefield Bowl in Manchester, June 2018.
Gloriously sunny day, their biggest ever headline show (at that time) so they were well up for and it was a monster set. A great day but the hangover next morning was off the scale. Think it was more through accident than design but we had an incred view of the proceedings.
Editors (Leeds O2 Academy, 2015 and 2018)
A finer live band you simply won't see, and it is all about the music with Editors.
Little to no chit chat between songs; they get on stage, nail it for 2 hours and slink off into the evening.
I've seen them in larger venues (most recently at the arena in Birmingham back in February), but its these academy sized joints where they take the roof off and really come into their own.