Best gig you ever went to?

kirk buttercup

RADIOHEAD -Hail to the Thief @ THE OLYMPIA, BLEW MY PANTS and face OFF!

threein99

Paul McCartney in the 02

Arctic Monkeys in the Tivoli Theatre in Brisbane

alastair

U2, SFX 1982
The Smiths, SFX 1984
Golden Horde, Nikki Sudden, Stars of Heaven, NCAD 1985
Aiden Walsh and the Screaming Eagles, Cathedral Club 1987
Frankie Goes to Hollywood, RDS, 1987
Public Enemy, McGonagles 1988
Evil Priest, Belfast, 1989?
The Stone Roses, Maysfield Leisure Centre, Belfast, 1990
Joshua Trio, Islington, 1991
The Fatima Mansions, Islington 1992
Pulp, SFX 1995
Bjork SFX, 1995
Beastie Boys RDS, 1995
Kraftwerk, EP 2005
LCD Soundsystem, EP 2005
Daft Punk, Marley Park, 2006
Beastie Boys, EP, 2007
Grace Jones, EP 2008
Underworld, EP 2008
The Correspondents - sole saviours of an awful Mumford gig in Salthill, 2012
David Byrne & St Vincent, EP, 2013
Rolling Stones, Glastonbury 2013

TroutMask

Butth0le Surfers - at the Washington DC 'Smoke In' near the White House. Butts in great form, sex change operation on large screen, crowd surrounded by DEA narcs, black helicopters overhead.... sublime!

B52's at CBGBs

Gods of Grind tour: Napalm Death, Carcass, Entombed, Obituary at CBGBs

Killing Joke at Maxwell's New Jersey

Pogues in SFX Hall when the drink was still working for them and Cait was in the band.

Nazareth in the Button Factory

Judas Priest 'Defenders of the Faith' tour Nassau Coliseum, also 2005 Meadowlands NJ both awesome.

Grateful Dead at Nassau Coliseum

Cramps at The New Ritz NYC

Boomtown Rats at The Ritz NYC

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TroutMask wrote: »

Butth0le Surfers - at the Washington DC 'Smoke In' near the White House. Butts in great form, sex change operation on large screen, crowd surrounded by DEA narcs, black helicopters overhead.... sublime

Sounds like something out of modern day Eurovision...

irishgrover

3 of my favorites

U2 - New years eve '89 - point depot
Stones - around 2005 in VA, USA
Beck - VA, USA late 90's (fecking amazing)

tibor

My Bloody Valentine in the Auditori, Primaverasound 2009. Was lucky enough to be sat right in the front row, centre, for this. One of the first shows of the reunion, they had played the main stage outdoors the previous day but a lot of the experience was lost. They are very much more at home and best seen in a dark room with bespoke sound system. Like a lot of other people's top gigs, this was one I thought I'd never get to see.

Arcade Fire @ Electric Picnic, 2005. Funeral was the album of the year, everyone was buzzing all day in the build up, they came on to a packed tent in a relatively early slot around 7ish. The atmosphere was absolutely captivating and by the time they came on and blasted out 'Wake Up' it was already set to be the gig of the year.

Other notables:
The National @ The Olympia, 2010.
Interpol with Franz Ferdinand support @ The Village, 2001.
Explosions in the Sky @ The Hub, 2004.
Bloc Party @ Whelans, 2005.
Sleater-Kinney @ TBMC, 2005.
Foo Fighters @ SFX, 1995.

corm500

My favourites include:

Rolling Stones - Point Theatre 2003
Paul Simon - Vicar St 2011
Big Country - Slane 1987
Boomtown Rats (Farewell gig) - Self Aid 1986
Bruce Springsteen - RDS 2012
Crosby & Nash - Vicar St 2005
Eels - Oxegen - 2006
Foo Fighters - Wembley Stadium - 2007
Guns N' Roses - Seville 1992
Iggy Pop - Feile 1993
James Brown - Vicar St 2004
Jeff Beck - Vicar St 2009
Paul McCartney RDS 2003
Ray Charles - Tramore 1993
Ray Davies - HQ 1998
Roger Waters O2 2011
Tom Petty - O2 2012
U2 - RDS 1993
Simple Minds - Croke Park 1986
Who - Oxegen 2006

There are other gigs that ive loved but these stick in my mind for one reason or another:)

UsedToWait

TroutMask wrote: »

Grateful Dead at Nassau Coliseum

When was that, and what was it like? ... I heard even the car park was a mad place to be at a Dead show

Mental Mickey

Metallica 2006 in RDS. MOP in full. Mad f&!@ing gig( and I was in the stands lol!)

Viva La Gloria

Green Day in the Odyssey in 2009. Purely because I got on stage

beecee

Hmmm... very favourites I think:

Tom Waits (Amsterdam 2004, Dublin 2008)
Blur (Glasto 2009)
Public Enemy (Vicar St 2003, Red Box 2000... both amazing Vicar St prob my favourite)
Beastie Boys (RDS 1995)
Gomez (Olympia)
The The (Olympia)

This is too hard... so many others I could include. Planxty, Brian Wilson, Macca, Basement Jaxx, Damien Rice (acoustic in Vicar St - amazing), Radiohead (glasto 2003), Neil Young, David Kitt, Bjork (SFX 1995), Doves, Super Furry Animals, Crosby Stills & Nash (Point 1992), Kila, Paul Simon, Prodigy (Feile 95), Flaming Lips, Sigur Ros, Pet Shop Boys (Glasto 2010), Django Django, Nick Cave, Madness....

broders3

Basement Jaxx in the Olympia in 2009 for me. The energy, crazy costumes of their dancers and singers and wall to wall hits made it incredible. On the ground level of course

Mr.H

Went to the album launch of DREA in the red hen last friday night. They are playing in Cobblestone Joes this weekend. great gig

endacl

Mr.H wrote: »

Went to the album launch of DREA in the red hen last friday night. They are playing in Cobblestone Joes this weekend. great gig

Did you just go and open an account to pimp a band? Are you in the band?

Naughty, but cleverly done! Wonder what the mods'll make of it....?

StickyMcGinty

tibor wrote: »

Interpol with Franz Ferdinand support @ The Village, 2001.

Jealous!

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endacl wrote: »

Did you just go and open an account to pimp a band? Are you in the band?

Naughty, but cleverly done! Wonder what the mods'll make of it....?

Am I missing something?

viv2

Hotale.com wrote: »

Am I missing something?

We've all posted our favourite gigs except this poster who thinks an album launch for a band was the best gig hes ever been to. Also mentioned that the band have an upcoming gig.....not sure what else you could have missed.

Pinch Flat

Metallica top hat 88
Queensryche Sfx 90
GnR / Soundgarden / Faith No More - Würzberg 92

Within the last 10 years:

Tom waits, Phoenix Park, Dublin 2008
esborg svenson trio, Vicar Street ~ 2004
Air, Olympia,approx 2004

Enjoyed Depeche Mode at the o2 last year (November). Had never seen them before - really enjoyed the show.

Bluefoam

Hotale.com wrote: »

Am I missing something?

The poster opened an account to talk about the launch of a record by some band no ones heard of and to promote their next gig... He is being accused of being a schill.

If they were a popular band, or if the poster had an existing account with some posts under their belt, there would be no big issue.

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viv2 wrote: »

We've all posted our favourite gigs except this poster who thinks an album launch for a band was the best gig hes ever been to. Also mentioned that the band have an upcoming gig.....not sure what else you could have missed.

I thought there was some hidden joke or something :P

I am pie

Run DMC, Suger Hill Gang in Tramps Nightclub NY.

Green Day in a small stinking place in Belfast (prob ' winter 92) called "Giros" when they were on Lookout records and were touring their first album, totally brilliant, not really into them anymore but I have to say it was an utterly brilliant show.

Oops. Also, the Beastie Boys in Belfast too. Marvellous

Pavement in 1992 in London, cant remember when, first album tour.

hynesie08

Ask me 10 times and I'll give ya ten answers, but some of them

Green day (academy 04)
Metallica (rds 04)
Velvet revolver (point 05)
Qotsa (oxegen 05)
Foo fighters (point 05)
Gaslight, Frank turner, billy joel, Springsteen, McCartney, ac/dc.


Honestly, if you have one answer, you're doing gigs wrong.

smilerf

The Immediate Whelans 2006

That_Guy

AC/DC in Punchestown was quite special. I'll still always have the image of Angus on a podium playing a good 15-20 minute solo in the pissings of rain. Magic.

Mr.H

endacl wrote: »

Did you just go and open an account to pimp a band? Are you in the band?

Naughty, but cleverly done! Wonder what the mods'll make of it....?

lol no I can see how that could be seen though

Im doing a social media course and as part of a project I have to drum up a bit of talk about this venue. Not the band but the venue. Not just on boards but on fb and twitter too. Just wanna see what people think of the place.

Not trying to be deceptive. My comment was all truth



* the gig was actually a great gig. very intimate setting. didnt wanna mention that though as it was in the venue I'm not trying to get feedback about:D The actual best gig I've ever been to is probably the Swell season in Limerick at St Johns Church

Bobby Baccala

Another vote from me for Watch The Throne in the o2, perfect mix of songs from kanye and jigga's older albums and anything they performed together from WTT was flawless, unbelievable getting to see 2 of the biggest rappers in the world swapping lines on stage like it was nothing. For a douchebag, kanye has unbelievable stage presense, he managed to make songs by him that I hate an absolute pleasure to watch. Jay Z was probably the slickest motherfùcker I've ever seen on a stage, he made it look like tearing the roof off the o2 was easy

When jay spat one of his verses in big pimpin I was half expecting Pimp C to come back from the dead and walk on stage haha

Viva La Gloria

I am pie wrote: »

Green Day in a small stinking place in Belfast (prob ' winter 92) called "Giros" when they were on Lookout records and were touring their first album, totally brilliant, not really into them anymore but I have to say it was an utterly brilliant show.

UNREAL.

lertsnim

QOTSA in the Olympia 2011 without a doubt. The energy in there that night will never be forgotten.

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lertsnim wrote: »

QOTSA in the Olympia 2011 without a doubt. The energy in there that night will never be forgotten.

Was that the full self-titled album gig?