Best Concert/Gig You've Been To?

Zombienosh

I ain't been to nearly enough yet
but one of my favs was Raging Speedhorn
great stuff
:mad:

nadir

In no particular order, here are 3 of the better ones, althought im sure im missing loads i cant think of right now.
*dates may be wrong
Milton Keynes - 1999 : ACDC , QOTSA, MEGADEATH.
Temple Bar Mussic Centre - 2001 : My Dying Bride.
ECCO, Utrecht - 2003 : Explosions in the sky.

I am MAN

This is an odd one for me and I dont know why I enjoyed it so much it was probably the drugs consumed. Greenday at Witnness when they had the guys up playing guitar and stuff.

Gonzo

Im not 100% certain that the years listed are correct as most of these concerts were quite a while ago:) I know ive listed alot here but they are all as good as each other for different reasons.

1989 - Iron Maiden suported by Wolfsbane, Point Debut, - Dublin
1990 - Death - McGonigles (sp?) (dublin) supported by Loudblast from France
1992 - Sepultura & Paradise Lost - SFX Dublin - Sepultura in their prime on the Arise Tour.
2002 - Tool - SFX Dublin
2002 - Slayer, Cradle Of Filth, Biohazard + other bands at The Point
2002 - Tool, System Of A Down, Slayer, American Head Charge, Mushroomhead + too many other bands too mention - Ozzfest '02 Kildare
2003 - Motorhead, Soil, Raging Speedhorn, One Minute Silence - RDS (the security were terrible for the fans that day but Motorhead & Raging Speedhorn made up for the bitter feelings towards event staff earlier on in the day)
2003 - Ministry - TBMC - Dublin
2003 - Suicidal Tendencies - TBMC - Dublin
2004 - Monster Magnet - Ambassador - Dublin

John

6 November 2000 - Smashing Pumpkins, Olympia
7 June 2001 - Tool, SFX
8 October 2001 - Tindersticks, Olympia
7 December 2001 - Opeth, The Shelter (my 18th birthday, nice way to spend it)
26 May 2002 - Tool, Ozzfest, Punchestown
13 May 2003 - Neil Young, Vicar Street
4, 5, 6 October 2003 - Nick Cave, Vicar Street
31 March 2004 - Juan Martin & Arte Flamenco Puro, National Concert Hall
4 April 2004 - Einstuerzende Neubauten, TBMC

DerekD Goldfish

Ive been to lots of good gigs but Radiohead at the olympia probably just shades it

Pugsley

Bloodstock 04 Bodom put on amasing show altogether.

gary the great

placebo olympia 2000

Zaph

Either of the Radiohead gigs at the Olympia that I've been to (last year and just before The Bends came out) or David Byrne at the Ambassador last year would be my choices. It really is too hard to decide between those three.

Karl Hungus

John2 wrote:

7 December 2001 - Opeth, The Shelter (my 18th birthday, nice way to spend it)

That was seriously one of the best gigs I've ever been at. It was beyond unreal!

Basq

Best gigs i've been to:

The first Homecoming Slane gig for U2 with the Chili's and Coldplay supporting.
Last year's Slane with the Chili's, Foo's, QOTSA, Feeder!

Green Day's gig at the Ambassador at the end of August!

Can't take my pick between these 3!

Jim

Belle & Sebastian at Oxegen this year.
Never seen them before, amazingly brilliant.
Went to London a few months ago to see Al Stewart. That was pretty brilliant to.

Baggio

Ahh memories , memories... and some recent ones too!::

Rush 1980 at Hammersmith Odeon on the 3rd of 5 nights there.
Rush Wembley Arena 81, 92, 88 and of course 2 weeks ago 0, 30th anniversary tour..all tremendous.
78 Thin Lizzy/ Horslips wembley arena Live and Dangerous special 2 nights.
1979 Horslips Hammersmith Odeon
1979 Jethro Tull Hammersmith Odeon on THEIR 5 night stint at the Odeon.

Great live acts who would blast the balls off the mugs around now,.,,,oh thats right: Rush are STILL blasting the balls off today's so called class acts.,,,*laughs*

ciao' amigos..............Baggio.........

40crush41

ah yes, my favorite question, and my favorite answers:
dmb -first dmb concert i went at madison square garden 12/21/02 "the god father of soul- james brown!" guest starred -dave and him had a dance war, great set list, great times
-when i saw dave and tim, beautiful evening -found out that dave matthews could have been just as successful as a comedian,
-dave and friends, best cover songs left and right -beatles, led zeppelin, simon and garfunkle, bob marley -crowd sang half the songs while dave just danced for us =D
-and ending with dmb again -sat in 13th row center, i think dave waved to me... could see a big smile on boyd (the violinist) face and seeing carter beuford on the drums that close -the ease and perfection, and hes great big smile knowing hes enjoying every second, .. awesome awesome awesome

seeing timmy reynolds from a foot away and getting to shake his hand, that was exciting =D his hands were a blur for two hours..

and seeing simon and garfunkle in their reunion tour -that was neat, -historic moment and all

and bruce springsteen was incredible -my first concert ever and my first intoduction to that sweet smelling cloudy air. he even danced on a piano!

oh yes, and to mix it up a little.. just recently saw gloria estafan in concert. she had costume changes and everything!! =P had a really great violinist (i was in bliss -i play the violin =D) and 4 drum kits.. mmmmmm pleasantly surprised to say the least

acts i am to enjoy before i die -U2, Flecktones,coldplay, damien rice, Rush (yea baggio!), speaking of which wanna see -Opus (baggio's band)- agiven, playtoh, skandas, new colour soul.. and so on and so forth..

blah blah blah ... ~beth

nicryan

I'd be hard pushed to separate green day at the ambassador and POD at the, uhh, ambassador....

the ambassador has to be one of the best venues in dublin...

Nic

Baggio

Hey Beth 40crush41...thanx for the plug and kind words,,,yes some day you'll see us,,and maybe the 3 mastercraftsmen from Canada too!

ciao' amigo...Baggio.....

I am MAN

Most envious of baggio seeing Thin lizzy in 78' !

Civilian_Target

Yeah, my gigs sound pathetic in comparison.

Winner: The Mars Volta Witness '03
Runners-up: Machine Head - Queens SU June 2004, Iron Maiden - The Point 2003, Therapy? and Bruce Dickinson - Queens SU May 2004

mayordenis

Tattoo the planet whenever that was on with slayer and biohazard, or rancid there last year.

Ph3n0m

In no order at all and only a small list

Opeth, The Shelter
Sepultura & Paradise Lost - SFX Dublin
Suicidal Tendencies - TBMC - Dublin
Firebird - Whelans
Megadeth - Point Depot 91 (i think)
Pantera - SFX
Machine Head - Ambassador
Anthrax - Ambassador
Metallica - Point Depot 92
The Haunted - Whelans
Entombed - The Village

and soon to be added to the list this coming Sunday

Obituary - The Village

Alana

I'd have to agree with Nadir, QOTSA definitly , then maybe Foos, (simpley cos dave grohl is dave grohl :cool: ) seen them too many times tho, but they were animal at witnness a few years ago after they played their lil gig in the ambassador...

...I'm not a big fan but i'd have to say the Manics at the last witnness (never will it be oxegen..long live witnness!!!) simply for the main reason that i didnt have to put any energy into jumping around, i'm rather ickle and ended up next to two HUGE lads..so as they jumped i endd up "jumping" too, it was great....


However for novelty value I really did enjoy the sugarhill gang, man i shook my booty that night

bringitdown

Manics - Cork Opera House (can't remember date) - great set, small venue, class
Foo Fighters - Point - 03
Tool / SOAD - Ozzfest 02 - Tool are unreal live

p.pete

Radiohead @ Olympia
Radiohead @ Hurricane fest
Pixies @ Aerodrome fest
Chilis @ Slane
McCartney in Prague
Orbital @ Oxegen

Alana

oh my god i forgot about the pixies. I should be shot. kim and frank i salute you and humbly beg ur forgiveness.

Tiriel

Radiohead Punchestown 'n Belfast
Metallica 2003 'n 2004
Foo's @ Slane
QoSA @ Slane

Angie Stone in Vicar St. Brilliant gig

Tiriel

oh and of course Pixies!!!!! :eek:

Creamy Goodness

erm only been to four but in order of favourite

Biffy clyro supporting the cooper temple clause (bit sad going to see a support)
Biffy clyro supporting hundred reasons
Idlewild
Foo fighters

therecklessone

Slayer/Machine Head/Downset - SFX 1994
Sepultura - Brixton Academy 1996 (last ever show with Max)
Pearl Jam - Point Depot 1996&2000
Tool - SFX 2001
At The Drive In/Murder City Devils/Clearshot - TBMC 2001
Basement Jaxx - Witnness 2002
Radiohead - Olympia 2003 (both shows)
Jetplane Landing - Metro Club London 2003

ferdi

rancid in the olympia, wow.

mwoah

radiohead at glastonbury 2003
i was at the very very very front & almost got squashed to death, no joke <there are no barriers/pit at the pyramid stage, & with over a hundred thousand people pushing up behind you its not v. fun> id been there from 11am cuz i wanted to make sure i had the best possible place to see them & wasnt allowing myself to drink water even though it was ridiculously hot cuz i didnt want to havta pee & lose my place. ended up being the only girl in like a 20m radius cuz they all started dropping like flies. waited through ozomatli, jools holland, jimmy cliff, polyphonic spree, turin brakes, supergrass & flaming lips until radiohead finally came out at around 11pm
...and my god was it worth it!!!

Alana

i am so jealous..you lucky lucky lucky lucky lucky thing....if only i'd a time machine..or had a helicopter at the time (because the tickets went and i could really make an enterancre).. well coming to think of it helicopters are xpensive..so maybe just a ticket at the time...yea, a lot less hassle then a time machine, or absailing down from a helicopter...

Treebeard

uh lets see

Dream Theater - Vicar St - 2002
Roger Waters - The Point- 2002
The Darkness - Vicar St - 2003
Muse - The Olympia - 2004

Civilian_Target

Alana wrote:

I'd have to agree with Nadir, QOTSA definitly , then maybe Foos, (simpley cos dave grohl is dave grohl :cool: ) seen them too many times tho, but they were animal at witnness a few years ago after they played their lil gig in the ambassador...

...I'm not a big fan but i'd have to say the Manics at the last witnness (never will it be oxegen..long live witnness!!!) simply for the main reason that i didnt have to put any energy into jumping around, i'm rather ickle and ended up next to two HUGE lads..so as they jumped i endd up "jumping" too, it was great....

QOTSA at Slane last year were pretty damn good, the Foos were a real letdown IMO, not up to much at all.

And the Manics at Witness were pretty crap TBH, I enjoyed it a lot because of the massive adreneline rush that happened right in the middle of the Mars Volta (now *they* were good) and all the other fantastic stuff that happened that day, but Manics were pretty lifeless that night.

I could have been that big bastard that did the jumping. It was me and another big guy both bouncing, with 2 girls beside us, one who seemed quite happy to be propelled and on bitch who kept kicking me and eventually went for the balls, which is just not on. If you don't want to get jumped about then don't come to the front of a rock gig, they are not civilised affairs

wanwarlock

ferdi wrote:

rancid in the olympia, wow.

my best gig ever!!!!!!! my fave punk band!!!! i went berserk when they played roots radicals....

Faddymackshyte

I think for sure The Leeds festival this summer with TBS, F4AF, Green Day, Lostprophets, Thrice etc.Twas amazing.
Back here on home soil:
F4AF in TBMC
F4AF in The Ambassador
Idlewild supporting Coldplay in the Point

Mixie

(alphabetical order )

Interpol in the Scala, London
Killers in the Forum, London
Kings Of Leon in the TBMC, Dublin
Powderfinger in the Olympia, Dublin
Snow Patrol in the Ambassador, Dublin

gline

The gathering@the village 2003
Napalm Death@the village 2004
New wave of american metal@ambassador 2004

Bard

Metallica, the 2nd last time that they played the Point Theatre (1997, I think). Fantastic pre-Load thrashfest. And I was in the pit too. Brilliant!

Shiminay

Converge in Voodoo Lounge earlier this year. Mental vibe, mental mosh, mental music.

Slayer in the SFX (on the Diablos tour) were nuts - I wasn't so much of a fan of theirs at the time, so some of the impact was lost on me, but jesus! At Ozfest they destroyed.

Fury Fest of course - not so much a gig as a festival, but it was mental.

Matthewthebig

The Distillers At the Ambassador. it was ****ing legend. iwas running around soaking wet at the end

therecklessone

Bard wrote:

Metallica, the 2nd last time that they played the Point Theatre (1997, I think). Fantastic pre-Load thrashfest. And I was in the pit too. Brilliant!

1996, and that was a pretty amazing show all right. The collapsing stage was cool!

RichyX

JJ72: the Savoy Oct 2002
Athlete: the Village Oct 2003

Here's hoping Divine Comedy: Everyman Oct 2004 will continue the trend!

jesusjones

Either Manic Street preachers The point 2002

or this last Monday When Ash played 10.That absoulety rocked!And Charlotte was looking great as an added bonus.

robbie1876

AC/DC in The Point on their Ballbreaker tour.

Imposter

Radiohead '95 Galway
The Doors '04 Wiesen
As for third can't decide between concerts from:
Ash (95 I think), Supergrass(95 support to Blur - who were sh1t), REM(2000 or was it 2001 in Lansdowne) or Scissor Sisters (2004 Linz - but it was very short).

ghostchant

glassjaw- last year in TBMC
hell is for heroes-last year in TBMC too

cournioni

The Haunted, supported by Stampin' Ground and December in Whelan's. February 2003 I think.

Great gig altogether.

Pyr0

Anthrax - 2004 - Ambassador
Supported by Stomping grounds

Class gig altogether

MrJoeSoap

1/ MUSE @ Witnness - 04/08/01
2/ MUSE @ The Olympia - 23/02/04
3/ MUSE @ Randalls Island, NY - 31/07/04
4/ MUSE @ Dublin Castle - 05/05/02

Civilian_Target

Matthewthebig wrote:

The Distillers At the Ambassador. it was ****ing legend. iwas running around soaking wet at the end

What?! Are you very small or something?! I like the Distillers and went to that gig and straight away realised that I had no concept of who the Distillers were really aimed at, because it was full of 15-18 yr. old hoodie/skateboard kids, but very bored looking parents watching from afar. It was terrible, I actually left and came back when I reckoned the Distillers would be one, I felt that out of place.

Then, when they did come on, to be fair they were very good, but played a very short set comprising of mostly new stuff. And the crowd were crap, it was full of little squirts who clearly had no idea what was going on, so I just decided to ignore everyone and just headbang on my own. A circle formed around me as I got on with it, and everyone else left me alone.

Such a sorry little gig it was, despite the fact that the band played rather well. My recommendation is that you go to a real punk or metal gig at somepoint, the sooner the better.

honru

Civilian_Target wrote:

My recommendation is that you go to a real punk or metal gig at somepoint, the sooner the better.

I went to Iggy and the Stooges that day instead, fúcking great.

Can't really choose a best gig, yet some of my favourites include J Mascis at Whelans (November 2002), Guided by Voices at The Ambassador (August 2002), Pixies at London Brixton Academy (June 2004) and Radiohead at The Point (December 2003).