Kid Calamity
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Re: Top three gigs
Aug 24, 2005, 19:22
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I'd like to see the Orb. Supposed to be great lights and FX.
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Beautiful Day
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Re: Top three gigs
Aug 24, 2005, 20:28
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It's funny really as I saw 'em about four or five times between 92 and 95, the other times in Manchester Academy at regular gigs and once as part of a Megadog lineup. The first time they were brilliant, partly because the set was relatively upbeat for them. They were still quite new at gigging on a national level so it was quite amusing being in a venue packed to the gills with people no quite sure whether to dance or just sit on the floor. The Sheffield arena night was excellent too, but after that each time I saw them it was pretty dull partly due to bad sound, uninspiring set choices and understandably under those circumstances a generally apathetic crowd response and atmosphere. Those first two gigs for me were unforgettable though
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TheBear
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Re: Top three gigs
Aug 24, 2005, 22:40
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Hey, it's just like deja vu all over again....
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Kid Calamity
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Re: Top three gigs
Aug 24, 2005, 22:43
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Was it like deja vu the first time then, as well?
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keith a
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Re: Top three gigs
Aug 25, 2005, 00:54
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Blimey. Is that all. Me and JT are '60 kids - and proud of it!
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Merrick
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Re: Top three gigs
Aug 25, 2005, 00:57
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doing well to see the Jam in 1983.
Their final gig was in Brighton in December 1982...
not that you'd ever catch me doing a typo, oh no....
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Merrick
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Re: Top three gigs
Aug 25, 2005, 01:01
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Bowie, Glastonbury 2000.
The best gig anyone will ever see.
REM, Manchester Gallery, April 84
First UK tour, when they still had a right load of fun on stage before the megamoney and po-facedness ate away at their live persona.
Pixies, Liverpool Royal Court, Doolittle tour (88?)
Awesome power and blistering furious noise, and all the more brilliant for following the Wolfgang Press who were fucking appalling, one of the worst gigs I've ever seen.
Honourable runners-up:
Radiohead, supporting REM @ Milton Keynes, 1995
Electric Sex Circus, Champers, Southport 1989.
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BUBBLEHEAD
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Re: Top three gigs
Aug 25, 2005, 02:57
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Difficult to pick just three but todays choice is......
HERE & NOW BAND / MISTY IN ROOTS - Carey Place Youth Centre,Watford 1978
First gig I ever went to and still the most memorable. ( Probably 'cos I was young and sober)
THE FALL - St Albans Civic Hall, 1984 or 85
Seen the Fall more times than I can or care to remember ( first time in '81 ) but this was easily the best.
FOETUS - Town and Country Club, Kentish Town, 1990?
I'd waited years to see good 'ol Uncle Jim live and was blown away by him and his bludgeoning band of ex-Swans.
Other contenders would be Pixies ( always brilliant),
Spiritualized- Albert Hall 97, Bunnymen - Albert Hall '83 / Glasto '86.
A friend recently said to me do ya remember when we went to see Joy Division at the Lyceum ? TBH I don't !!!! Aaargh, was I there or was it a figment of her imagination ? She swears blind that I went.
( I went to the Reading Festival in 79 but don't remember anything about that either and that was for 4 days so guess an evening lost is a possibility).
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TheBear
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Re: Top three gigs
Aug 25, 2005, 07:16
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Oh all right smarty pants! 1982 while the Falklands fiasco was on, ok????
:D
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TheBear
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Re: Top three gigs
Aug 25, 2005, 07:19
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Remind me, why are you called BUBBLEHEAD again? :)
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