The Best Gig You've Ever Been To

Moby at Sheffield City Hall. Went there under protest, came out thinking like..........wow, how flipping good was that!!

 

Love these memories chaps and chapesses - music when done properly is incredible.

 

Supertramp at Wembley Arena 1979

 

Forgot about Cast!

 

Can’t believe you forgot Pulp on the Saturday, favourite group at that time, gutted we missed tickets for the Saturday.

 

Best gig? A toss-up between Chuck Berry at Sheffield City Hall in 1964 with the Animals on the same bill, or Gene Vincent at the Unity Hall Wakefield sometime later in the 60s (I can't find any record of this gig happening but it did.) Both performances by giants.

 

I was drunk during the entire 90s.

I remember them being a bit punky if that helps.

They might have sung Motorcycle Emptiness amongst other songs.

 

I can't say I'm a massive Rush fan, though I like a lot of their stuff and Moving Pictures is a fantastic album. But their live shows looked absolutely incredible. All that sound from just three musicians. RIP Neil Peart.

 

The Holy Bible tour, just before Richey Edwards disappeared. They will have been very raw and punky. Saw Suede at the Octagon in 1993 which was pretty awesome. Unfortunately I didn't see the Manics for the first time until 1996 when they toured Everything Must Go. Saw them at Norwich Students Union, an absolutely tiny venue. Fantastic gig.

 

I was there. Really good gig, though in my opinion REM just kept getting better with age. My favourite show was on their final tour in 2008 in Manchester. They played a proper career retrospective, spanning pretty much everything from Reckoning onwards.

 

Manics played on the Saturday as well, along with the Bootleg Beatles. Personally The Prodigy was the highlight for me. Absolutely stunning. I thought Oasis were pretty **** though.

 

Love the Prodigy, their gig at Gmex on the fat of the land tour was unbelievable. Also Saw them do an all-nighter at Brixton on invaders must die tour, the place was mental, the whole crowd bouncing.

 

Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, Wembley Arena, November 1980. His last ever UK gig. He was smokin' that night.

 

Most bands are great live, so don't really have a 'best, the last one was Supergrass at O2 Academy Leeds Feb 2020. But, 3 bands didn't manage to be anywhere near great- Happy Mondays Refectory Leeds 1988ish poor, Charlatans again at refectory Leeds probably 1989 repetitive and All About Eve 1991 supporting The Cure at Crystal Palace Garden Party, just drab(The Cure were brilliant, as always).

 

I was at those three at the Civic, at about that time...might have been at one of them...saw a band called Geordie, the singer was a guy called Brian Johnson, I wonder what happened to him

 

Two of my worst gigs were PWEI at Sheffield probably around 95-96 just before they split up. The entire gig lasted about 40 minutes and it looked like they had a major barney before the gig. The other was Janes Addiction at Doncaster Dome - they were just "by the numbers" and pretty boring.

 

I've only been to four gigs. Ronan Keating at Doncaster was the best. With a backing group and proper instruments he was palatable. The others were Madness at Doncaster races. They were Madness. Then there was Olly Murs at York which was that bad he started doing Tom Jones cover versions and wiggling his arse on stage because the songs off the album he was promoting weren't getting the desired effect. The last was Boyzone at Manchester Arena. Total crap. Waste of a weekend. The gig wasn't while 9pm. Laura caught wind that they were meeting fans in the city centre near city hall at 2pm so we had to wait for that. Then we got to the arena and watched all the backing groups first. We left the arena and went to Macdonalds and Laura just ordered her own snap. I sulked most of the weekend.

 

I was at that one too - I thought James were better than The Smiths though!