dhajjieboy
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Re: Top three gigs
Mar 13, 2017, 20:30
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Roy Buchanon
Ted Nugent/Blue oyster cult
Foghat...yes Foghat.
All 1970's gigs.
Another standout was Joan Jett/Cheap trick and Chuck Berry around 1981 in San diego.
Then Wham and Duran Duran and Boy George and the like took over the scene...That's when music kinda died for me.
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garage flower
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Re: Top three gigs
Mar 13, 2017, 20:36
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Oooh for me it would be
Australian Pink Floyd at my local Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall
Travelling Band at Cropredy
RHCP at Hyde Park, mainly because James Brown was supporting
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IanB
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Re: Top three gigs
Mar 14, 2017, 07:20
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Fitter Stoke wrote: Don't really know how I missed this thread first time around, but here goes:
1. Ultravox!, Newcastle Mayfair, 1978
I was lucky enough to see them on that tour (supported by The Skids if I remember rightly). A real highlight of that period. I remember the low end being absolutely monstrous. Thanks for the reminder. Time to dig out Slow Motion again.
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elegant chaos
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Re: Top three gigs
Mar 14, 2017, 08:17
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1. Kraftwerk - Tate Modern (Radioactivity night) 7 Feb 2013
2. The Montgolfier Brothers - Bush Hall 28 Sept 2002
3. New Order - Wembley Arena Oct 27 2006
4. (close 4th) - Vic Godard & The Sexual Objects -Star & Shadow, Newcastle. 30 November 2012.
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caldervalium
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Edited Mar 24, 2017, 20:58
Re: Top three gigs
Mar 14, 2017, 09:28
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elegant chaos wrote: 1. Kraftwerk - Tate Modern (Radioactivity night) 7 Feb 2013
2. The Montgolfier Brothers - Bush Hall 28 Sept 2002
3. New Order - Wembley Arena Oct 27 2006
4. (close 4th) - Vic Godard & The Sexual Objects -Star & Shadow, Newcastle. 30 November 2012.
Montgolfier Brothers at no.2? I'll tell Mark, he'll be most flattered to come in second behind the Teutonic technocrats. Come to think of it, he's still got my copy of 'I Was A Robot'.
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Fitter Stoke
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Re: Top three gigs
Mar 14, 2017, 10:13
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The support at the gig I was at was The Doll (one hit wonders of 'Desire Me' fame). I think Ultravox toured twice in '78; my gig was in the January when Stevie Shears was still present, promoting Ha! Ha! Ha!
It was a truly fine evening.
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IanB
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Re: Top three gigs
Mar 14, 2017, 11:47
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Fitter Stoke wrote: The support at the gig I was at was The Doll (one hit wonders of 'Desire Me' fame). I think Ultravox toured twice in '78; my gig was in the January when Stevie Shears was still present, promoting Ha! Ha! Ha!
It was a truly fine evening.
Ah. Mine was definitely end of year and promoting Systems of Romance.
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Kid Calamity
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Re: Top three gigs
Mar 14, 2017, 12:12
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1: Hmmm... Twelve years on and I think T.REX at the Birmingham Town Hall, 1976 still holds its place as my favourite. It was just a 'wow!' kinda night! Probably not all that technically proficient and all that but... https://bolan-boogie.bandcamp.com/album/birmingham-76
A lot of wonderful experiences do get leapfrogged by so many others. I guess I'm a lucky person to witness such spectacles.
2: Goldfrapp: Wolverhampton 2008. Utterly lovely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYzqWfBfphI
3: The Human League, Sheffield, 1978 Standing in for The Skids as a local support band for the Strangers, this band were just stunning. I'd not seen anything like this before.
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elegant chaos
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Re: Top three gigs
Mar 14, 2017, 14:19
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I haven't heard from Mark for a while - I knew him when I worked at Poptones in 2001. I'll never forget that gig - especially "Inches Away" - I was almost in tears when that song ended.
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jb lamptoast-morsley
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Re: Top three gigs
Mar 14, 2017, 20:41
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Well I have probably averaged a gig a month in the last 7 or 8 years which isn't particularly prolific, but far more than before and up to 2005.
I will organise it by 3 of the most frequented venues in that time:
Miss Peapods (sadly no more as a music venue)
Six Organs of Admittance 2009
Mono
Jeffrey Lewis 2015
Eden Project
PJ Harvey 2016
How they measure up to my previous choices I couldn't fathom. Different times.
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