Bands/music acts seen live

[cite]Posted By: stonemuse[/cite]

[cite]Posted By: Algarveaddick[/cite]With you on the nightclub thing - me neither, the volume and the music they play...

That's because you're an old sod now P ... just like me lol

True enough, but I never did like the music played. Now, turn Sonny Burgess up to 11... that's a different matter. :-)

If you knew me soundas you'd realise that i love to talk and talk to love!! Never stop gassing honest guv! Used to do a bit of labouring and they used to call me Ollie Chat-a-lot!! And that was an understatement! So if i aint chatting, cos of someone else chatting to music then i aint happy!! no what i mean arry

But i see what you mean tho

oh, and my guvnors band, Tumblin Dice

UB40 7 times 8 in dec.
WAILERS without bob marley, but peter tosh is good.
THE STRANGLERS
CHICAGO
SIMPLY RED
JOOLS HOLLAND with ruby turner.

EXCEL in the summertime for concerts is a must, nice warm night n great music;o)

Old thread - hope I haven't done this already!

ELO (twice: Fairfield Halls and Wembley)
Sparks
Fusion Orchestra
Bad Actors (mates band - released a couple of singles)
Bad Company
Blues Band
Average White Band
Gillan
Led Zeppelin (Earls Court, Knebworth)
Nazareth (thought they were Led Zep imho!)
The Manfreds
Mick Ronson and Ian Hunter
Eric Clapton
Cream (re-union gig)
Pink Fairies
Ian dury
Elvis Costello
Wreckless Eric anf the New Rockets
Nick Lowe's Last Chicken in the Shop
Larry Wallis's Psychedelic Rowdies
Rockpile (Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe)
Golden Earring
Queen
Elton John
Rod Stewart and the Faces
Kikki Dee
Tina Turner
Dean Martin
Hogan's Heroes (ft Albert Lee)
BB King
999
Black Slate
Junior Wells
Van Morrison
Wishbone Ask
Walter Trout
Extreme
Gary Glitter
Motorhead
Alice Cooper
Showaddywaddy
Chas and Dave
Bad Manners
Mud
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Gary Moore
George Harrison (guest appearance with Gary Moore)
Paul McCartney and Wings
Thin Lizzy
The Who
Joe Strummer's Mescaleros
Bruce Springsteen
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
Dolly Parton
Frankie Miller's Full House
The Hamsters
Otis Grand
The Zutons
Elizabeth Cook
Mari Wilson
Q-Tips (Paul Young)
David Essex
Bootleg Beatles
Counterfeit Stones

Those are the one's that spring to mind - I'm sure there are lots more.

Aren't many I wish I'd seen. Too young to have seen Jimi Hendrix or my favourite band, Free.

The Strokes (secret gig)
Interpol
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead (secret gig)
Battles
Broken Social Scene
Los Campesinos
Rage Against the Machine
Les Savy Fav

Loads of others, unsigned, support acts or at festivals. And a few rubbish bands as a youngster but those listed were my favourites.

Well, this is the list from the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music from 1970. I was there so I must have seen them:
The Byrds, Canned Heat, Colosseum, Donovan (most of the bands were stuck in the traffic so he did a massively long boring set to cover up the fact that nobody else was actually there), Fairport Convention, Maynard Ferguson Big Band, Flock, Formerly Fat Harry, Keef Hartley, Hot Tuna, It's A Beautiful Day, Jefferson Airplane, Dr. John, Led Zeppelin, John Mayall (with Peter Green I think - they were supposed to be on at 7pm but didn't start till 5am the next day!), Country Joe, The Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Santana, Steppenwolf, Johnny Winter, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. John Peel & Mike Raven provided "continuity". Both Hawkwind and The Pink Fairies played but they weren't on the offical list of performers. Anyway enough of my ramblings but it must have been good because you can still buy the t-shirt.

Then the list goes on but includes off the top of my head in no particular order: The Stones (a couple of times), Rod Stewart, Audience, Family, East of Eden, Feeder, Eurythmics, Ten Years After, John McLaughlin & the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Status Quo, Zappa (numerous times), Dweezil Zappa (several times) Bloc Party, Eric Clapton (several times), The Climax Blues Band, Curved Air, Dire Straits, Elton John, Alison Moyet, Sade, Steve Vai, The Sugababes (yes, I know but they weren't bad really.) And the highlight, in Vegas, the one and only John Lee Hooker.

I'm in Chicago next month & tried to get tickets for the Springsteen gig but sold out :-(

Where I live is just a stone's throw from Hylands Park where the V Festival is held. I haven't seen any of the acts but I've heard all of them!

I would estimate that I went to 15 gigs a year between 16-19, 30 gigs a year in my 20s and 10-15 gigs a year since my 30s. That's some list to compile!

suzisausage said:

I think it'd be better to ask if there was one band/singer you regret not seeing that you could of in your life time before they died/split up etc who would that be? ie, you didn't buy tickets for it

I've seen many bands, but always regretted never seeing Pulp. Was too young for when they played glastonbury. My mates saw them loads and ended up being groupies and going to parties with them, but I never went. Saw Jarvis Cocker at a Stephen Malkmus gig at the ULU though. As well as John Peel who I didn't realise who it was until I asked him where the toilet was! oops.

I regret never seeing Queen, we had tickets for St James's Park but decided to go on holiday, cannot remember the holiday

Not sure if these have been mentioned.....Yardbirds, Major Lance, Ruby Turner (without Jools) & 1066 Rockit Men (big in this part of the world).

First band seen live : Sad cafe at the Fairfield halls as the girlfriend at the time liked them ( 1981 ) last performer seen live :Daryl Hall at the Shepherds Bush Empire last month - the missus is a big fan .have seen loads of different performers at different venues in the meantime.Standouts for giving great shows whether you like the music or not : Tom Robinson Band , Squeeze ,Stevie Wonder,the Chameleons ,the Killers and .....Catherine Jenkins ( my mum likes her and so do I ....but for different reasons !)

Elton John, Take That, Spice Girls, Mr Hudson, Jay Z, Kanye West, Kano, Tinchy Styder, Dizzee Rascal, Hot Chip, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Ne-Yo, Pussycat Dolls, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Wretch 32, Chris Brown, Skepta, Wiley and Example.
Pretty mixed bag

Blimey, it looks as if I am the only one old enough to be able to say I saw The Beatles - seven times in 1963 and 1964, including gigs at the then Lewisham Gaumont and Woolwich Odeon. I even saw The Beatles and The Rolling Stones on the same NME PollWinners Concert.

Nadou said:

Blimey, it looks as if I am the only one old enough to be able to say I saw The Beatles - seven times in 1963 and 1964, including gigs at the then Lewisham Gaumont and Woolwich Odeon. I even saw The Beatles and The Rolling Stones on the same NME PollWinners Concert.

The Winner!! Brilliant.