best concerts i have been to

Kiss - Stafford Bingley Hall (yes where Dubfreeze is held) with a new band called Bon Jovi in 1984.
Madness at the reunion gig ""Madstock" in London Finsbury Park 1992 - Ian Dury support.
A-ha - 3 times nec/nia absolute excellent live band and the voice is as good live as recorded.
Gary Moore/Whitesnake - nec, Moore was excellent 'snake dissapointing.
Chas and Dave - The Robin 2 Bilston- wicked!
These gigs stand out for me off the top of my head, i've seen many more bands including some strange ones.....(M-people!)
I have more fun watching tribute bands to be honest.
check out HI-on Maiden, Dressed to Kill, Times like these. 3 tribute bands i see a lot.

 

Elvis Presley. The real one.

 

Cor blimey, where to start.......ok off the top of my head, though I reserve the right to change my mind at any time and in no particular order -

The Meteors - 1981 Middlesborough Poly
Moby - 1997 Glastonbury Dance Tent
Culture Shock and RDF - 1989 Bournemouth (name of the venue escapes me)
Chumbawamba and Credit to the Nation - 1992ish Peterborough Shamrock
The Pogues - 1990 Newcastle City Hall
Orbital - 1996ish Alexander Palace NYE
Lily Allen with Terry Hall and Lynval Goulding of the Specials (the precursor to The Specials reforming) - 2008 Glastonbury
Back to the Planet - 1992 Castlemorton

 

1. Rolf Harris - Eastleigh Festival
2. Rolf Harris - Eastleigh Festival another time

 

Just to show my advanced age

The Beatles .. Festival Hall Melbourne 17th June 1964
The Rolling Stones .. Palais Theatre Melbourne 25th Feb1966
The Who .. Festival Hall Melbourne 25 Jan 1968 with The Small Faces as support

These were the early gigs & a lot more since ;D

 

gary moore-garage highbury
mick taylor (ex rolling stones,and the man who really wrote 3/4 of of the greatest rolling stones album of all time )garage highbury
guns n roses wembley stadium

seen quite afew bands over the years ....strangest one was when the lead guitarist couldnt play his own lead parts ,had to have a session man play em ......oh yeah that was dave gilmour ....what a faker......i always thought when listening to his later cd,s that the leads are all cut together in the studio ......cheesy but true .....

 

Wow some great gigs there but i'm not envious of Terrordales MUCH!, heres mine
The Who charlton football ground with great support
Alex Harvey band chatham central hall
David Bowie Alladin sane tour chatham central hall
The clash countless times
The Damned countless times
The White stripes secret gig in a club in North london
Some russian choir in canterbury blew me away.
nick

 

Nick, the really scary thing is I still have the ticket stubs & programmes from every concert I've ever been too. :-[
SAHB, I'd love to have seen them, one of his ex bass players lives near my brother up north.

 

Led Zep - Earls Court 1974

 

now thats just boasting ..you oldie....led zep woooow love em to death

 

ELO Part II. (Without Jeff Lyn), and the Moscow orchestra. Absolutely brilliant O0

 

All time favorite - Wildhearts & Love / Hate @ JBs J10 1991
Recently - Soil @ Kasbah Coventry 2010

 

wildhearts ...see them when they were starting out years ago in a pub in bethnal green .....dont think they liked being heckled from 2 foot away ...you could see the fear in there eyes ....loved the gig tho...

 

1972 Jethro Tull at the Royal Albert Hall.

I was 16 and they played the whole of 'Thick as a Brick'

Blew me away!

1975 Carol King at the Rainbow.

You could get stoned just breathing in the air around you O0

 

....B'ham NEC this April, Jethro Tull doing the whole of Thick as a Brick as one show 40 years on !! bernjb56 - try and get tickets!!

 

God cant remember the years..
Rainbow bingleyhall stafford.. 1980 ish
queen works nec 80's
spandau ballet. nec, 80's
ultravox nec, 80's
status quo end of the road trenham gardens late 80's
Status quo the quarry shrewsbury 2011....its a long friggin road..

 

Toyah... early 1980s
Accept...early 1980s
Mettalica 1980s
Scorpians
Ac Dc and others at Donnington 1984
Deep Purple, UFO, Motley Crew and others at Knebworth 1985
Marillion, Jethro Tull , Magnum and others at Milton Kynes.
Iron Maiden and others at Donnington 1985 or 6...it's all a bit vague
Heaps of bands at small gigs like the Marquee club when it was in Wardour St, done a bit of roadieing for a band called Seducer.
Ozric Tentacles lots of times at the Crypt in Deptford :hippy:
Hawkwind, Doctor and the Medics and Dame Vera Lynn and others at Crystal palace.
Blondie, Terrorvision, Motorhead and heaps of others at bike rallies.
Roadied for Elton John.....I think he's a git but a very professional performer, can't fault him...cept the git bit.
Orbital and the Freestylers in Jerez Spain.
Bex Marshall.....good parties at her gaff...lots of peeps playing blues
Supertramp.
Loads more, but as you can imagine, my memory is vague as I wasn't exactly straight at any of them