Gigs you'll never see the like of again.

Beasty, You mention You were at Live Aid. Then You saw the one performance I have never got to see personally and never will. The 4 members of Pink Floyd. I have seen a million times on YouTube, but would love to hear what You thought of it?

Professional level photographs of notable concerts in history by Beasty thread :)

Rodrigo & Gabriella - it was a few days after the 9/11 attack. They were playing Metallica's Orion among other incredibly technical songs in front of about 30 people in a pub in Rathmines and we were in touching distance - had a chat with them afterwards about how brilliant they were. You just knew you were seeing something very special and they were going to go on to much bigger things.

Lucky enough to have seen David Bowie in Slane on the Glass Spider Tour and in the Point for the Sound and Vision Tour. My favourite was the two nights he did in the Point in 2003 on the Reality tour. I only had a ticket for the first night but it was so brilliant I went back the second night and bought a ticket off a tout. Little did I know that would be his last tour and performance in Ireland. Fantastic gigs. My favourite memory is being in the middle of 8,000 people singing along to Life On Mars. First song each night was Rebel Rebel.

David Bowie - Rebel Rebel (A Reality Tour) - YouTube

This was literally the same memory of this as me. The most no stress gig ever, just rocked up and got tickets outside, straight in and really enjoyed the gig. Michael Stipe and Peter Buck watched the whole gig about 10 feet away from us and nobody hassled them it was deadly.

Another shout to McGonagles, went to see Inspiral Carpets there and the start of the Manchester wave and watched the roadie do his thing for a bit as had just started ro play guitar. Found out 20 yrs later is was Noel Gallagher. Read in Hot Press we broke the floor that night, will probably be the first place I go back to when Time Travel is invented, and then over to Prince in Malahide Castle again.

SFX...I remember The Smiths, ABC, and if memory serves me correctly a U2 gig?

Smashing Pumpkins in the SFX, 1995, prior to the release of Mellon Collie, £12.75.

David Bowie in the Olympia, 1997, £24.50.

Foo Fighters, Olympia, 2000. £22.50. Memorable for Dave Grohl climbing from the stage to the box on the side, climbing over to the circle, walking along the front row of the circle - playing guitar - before returning to the stage via the opposite side.

Kate Bush, Hammersmith Odeon, 2014. A show that nobody thought they would ever see and that we really won't see the likes of again.

Have to agree about McGonagles, saw some great stuff there. MBV, Loop, Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, Jonathan Richman etc etc

One that stands out is Fugazi (1989 show below)

Hey BD, was that the one with Spacemen 3 and Suicide also on the bill? Lucky man if so!

Seen them about 30 times but two of the best were in the Rock Garden in 1991 and '92. Still two of the greatest gigs i've ever seen. Strobes, projections and smoke all the way through so that a lot of the time you couldn't even see the band. From 1991-1993 they were untouchable.

Other notable gigs in the Rock Garden i saw were Mercury Rev (David Baker era, their best imo), Pavement, The Boo Radleys, Lush plus plenty others. Gutted i missed both Stereolab and Monster Magnet in there though.

McGonagles, wonderful venue. After missing the MBV and SY gigs mentioned above i decided that if i wanted to see these gigs i'd have to start going on my own. Ride in 1990 was the first and i never looked back...Loop (w/Therapy? as support), Dinosaur Jr., Curve, Nomeansno etc. all seen in there. Remember the sweat used to be running down the walls!

I was at that aforementioned Smashing Pumpkins gig in the SFX too. Another place i saw loads of great gigs.

Probably the main one for this thread though was Moe Tucker in the Baggot Inn circa 91/92. A wonderful surprise when the band walked out and her guitarist was Sterling Morrison. Half of the Velvet Underground right there in touching distance! I still have the empty box of Silk Cut Purple that i got signed that night. Plus, support came from the Whipping Boy who were very much the best band in Ireland at that point imo and still kicking up a great noise, before they became just another indie band with Heartworm (that's a whole other topic though!)

Just remembered: Mogwai in Whelans touring Young Team.

Led Zeppelin's 2007 reunion gig at the O2 in London. It was literally the golden ticket of rock gigs in this century so far. Wonderful night.

Yeah U2 played three nights in the SFX in 1983, last one on Xmas Eve, complete with artificial snow. I was there!

Yep. Sonic Boom (Pete Kember) released solo records and also as Spectrum and E.A.R. While Jason Pierce formed Spiritualized. I am a Spacemen fanatic since the late 80s, hence my user name (it's one of their albums). BTW, i used to love that Accept album 'Balls To The Wall' when i was a young fella!

@NewbridgeIR : It seems we were at a lot of the same gigs. That Sugarcubes one was the first 'cool' gig i went to. Saw JAMC in Top Hat two weeks later and then Wonder Stuff two weeks after that. Chumbawamba were fantastic in SFX. Not only dressed as nuns but Danbert wearing a nappy and bowling around the stage in a wheelchair flashing a spotlight into the crowd. The ticket folded out into a booklet about AIDS and safe sex. Whipping Boy were also support on that Therapy?/Silverfish gig.

Saw Underworld there on the 'Second Toughest...' tour, Primal Scream, The Verve, Eat Static (what a night!) that Foo Fighters show (went purely out of curiosity, not my thing). I know there were plenty more.

That Eat Static SFX gig was on a Tuesday/Wednesday so I had to take it relatively handy. But I saw them about a year later headlining Dance Valley in Amsterdam in 1996. Nobody else seemed to have had a clue who they were but I loved the Ozrics (who played the Mean Fiddler in the late 90's?) and Eat Static are pretty much still my favourite "Techno" outfit. That was some morning/day/evening/night - we kept going till the next afternoon. Dutch chemical assistance of course.

Another great gig at a very unlikely venue.

I think it was about 10 years ago at the annual Derby horse racing meeting at the Curragh.

I think the last race of the evening was around 20h00 and then Status Quo performed from around 9. I thought it was thoroughly enjoyable. Rossi was amazing, He kept interacting with the audience. Felt like a session in O’Donoghues all those years ago with Brush Shields & Skid Row.

I don’t know why, but afaik nobody has performed at the Curragh since. Pity!!!

Saw JAMC in Top Hat two weeks later

Missed that because Primal Scream were playing that night in Trinity Arts Block and I, without thinking, had said I'd help with set up etc :( Rest of lads went off to Top Hat with PS!

I like Spacemen 3, got The Perfect Prescription in 1989 & then Playing With Fire a few weeks later. Fine albums. Have Recurring somewhere too. The Sonic Boom Spectrum album cover was visually striking. Was always placed in the front of record racks as it used to draw people in.

Yes - there's a lot of gig crossover with people of our age. I always used to see the same faces at McGonagles, SFX etc back in those days. That's right re Chumawamba and Danbert, had forgotten. Yes, Whipping Boy support for Therapy? - saw them quite a bit in the early 1990s. The best one was the Newpark Inn in Kilkenny, 1991. Fantastic photo by Malcolm Noonan.

Paul Weller, back in the October bank holiday weekend in 2001 was finishing off his acoustic Days Of Speed tour and was booked last minute into a new venue, actually a new nightclub in Tramore, called South, October 27th if I recall… mad fun… real great weather, a heatwave, nice packed crowd and Mr. Weller on form and enjoying it… playing a wealth of stuff from his catalog.

I could have gone but didn't. My biggest regret!