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Best Concerts You Ever Saw In Person? Worst?

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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,606
    Stalker alert
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,232
    I've just read the last four pages of this thread in one go... so i thought that story sounds familiar!

    I cant be bothered to go back and see if i whinged about Oasis at Knebworth.  


  • StigThundercock
    StigThundercock Posts: 3,722
    Best gig: Hot Club of Cowtown, Dingwalls, Camden 2004
    Worst: God's Hotel, Marquee, Charing Cross Rd, early 90's
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Must admit, i doff my hat (if i had one) to some of the experiences that you people have had, wow, Buddy Holly,Led Zep,Beatles,Kinks and all the rest.

    best - Stones (although i wasnt particularly a Stones fan) Wembley circa 98? Voodoo Lounge ? Absolutely brilliant.

    Worst - Bowie (yet i was , and still am a huge Bowie fan) at Wembley Arena circa 96 , where he was appalling, and retired to the bar, with what seemed like half of everybody else. And then Stones at Twickenham circa 2003/4 - where they could have put a CD on of their greatest hits and it would have been better.
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    Any lifers who fancy popping along to The Iron Horse in Sidcup Saturday night, my band is playing, we have a couple of Addicks in the band, do come along and say hello, it may be the best gig you’ve been to or it may not 
    anyway bring some rotten fruit!
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,686
    edited September 2019
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  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,020
    Seen some great shows:

    Bob Dylan 1981 Earls Court
    John Martyn 1981 Hammersmith Odeon
    Ian Dury and the Blockheads 1982 Lyceum
    Miles Davis 1982 Hammersmith Odeon
    The Pogues 1987 Town and Country Club
    Tom Waits 1987 Hammersmith Odeon
    John Otway 1988 Woolwich Tramshed
    Pixies 1989 Town and Country Club
    Lemonheads 1990 Astoria
    Pixies 1990 Hammersmith Odeon
    Kevin Coyne 1990 Cricketers Kennington Oval
    Sugar 1992 Forum Kentish Town
    Bob Dylan 1993 Hammersmith Odeon
    Vic Chesnutt 1995 Queen Elizabeth Hall
    PJ Harvey 1995 Shepherds Bush Empire
    Bob Dylan 1995 Brixton Academy
    John Cale 2000 Huntingdon Hall Worcester
    John Martyn / Danny Thompson 2001 Huntingdon Hall Worcester
    Bob Dylan 2002 Birmingham NEC
    John Martyn 2006 Cheltenham Town Hall
    Bellowhead 2013 Warwick Arts Centre




  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,606
    EveshamAddick said:
    Seen some great shows:

    Bob Dylan 1981 Earls Court
    John Martyn 1981 Hammersmith Odeon
    Ian Dury and the Blockheads 1982 Lyceum
    Miles Davis 1982 Hammersmith Odeon
    The Pogues 1987 Town and Country Club
    Tom Waits 1987 Hammersmith Odeon
    John Otway 1988 Woolwich Tramshed
    Pixies 1989 Town and Country Club
    Lemonheads 1990 Astoria
    Pixies 1990 Hammersmith Odeon
    Kevin Coyne 1990 Cricketers Kennington Oval
    Sugar 1992 Forum Kentish Town
    Bob Dylan 1993 Hammersmith Odeon
    Vic Chesnutt 1995 Queen Elizabeth Hall
    PJ Harvey 1995 Shepherds Bush Empire
    Bob Dylan 1995 Brixton Academy
    John Cale 2000 Huntingdon Hall Worcester
    John Martyn / Danny Thompson 2001 Huntingdon Hall Worcester
    Bob Dylan 2002 Birmingham NEC
    John Martyn 2006 Cheltenham Town Hall
    Bellowhead 2013 Warwick Arts Centre




    I saw John Ottway at the Tramshed, might have been a bit later than 88 though. A brilliant night.
  • Alex Wright
    Alex Wright Posts: 8,214
    Stuart the Red said:
    Absolutely worst ever was a Dire Straits tribute band that used an alto sax instead of a guitar for all of Mark Knopfler’s solos!
    Go figure.
    One of the best gigs I'd ever been to was Dire Straits at the old Albany Empire in 1978(?) before it burnt down.

    One of the worst was Dire Straits at Lewisham Odeon a year or so later,  Mark Knopfler was high or pissed or both.

  • Alex Wright
    Alex Wright Posts: 8,214
    other notable gigs on my list...
    Peter Gabriel at Earls Court on the SO tour
    U2 at the NEC on the Joshua Tree tour
    Slade at Goldsmiths College Christmas Ball in the late 70s
    Genesis at the marquee club in 1982 (warm up gig for the Milton Keynes Bowl)
    The who at Charlton 74 and 76 (of course)


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  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 7,909
    happy mondays wembley arena circa 1990 - had a fight with each other and left us with donovan - dog shit- that and primal scream - brixton circa 2014 - shit
  • Isawsummersplay
    Isawsummersplay Posts: 1,428
    The worst I ever attended was when the first Mrs Isawsummersplay dragged me to somewhere in Catford to see David Soul and the Brotherhood of Man. Even now, I can't believe that I agreed to go. It was so bad, it was laughable.

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