Your Best Gig

cherryghost

Based on the Indie Festival thread recently, lets imagine you had to a small festival.
So, 8 slots to fill, what bands would you like to see play your concert? Out of the fun, you can choose a band that no longer plays together for one reason or another.

Go! And hopefully some important person is listening to us :pac:

Ricosruffneck

UNKLE,
The Beach Boys,
Radiohead,
The Jimi Hendrix Experience,
Muse,
Q.O.T.S.A,
Pink Floyd,
Simian Mobile Disco,

Well that will set the ball rolling.

We'd have to dig up a few bodies and re-animate some corpses but hey, that's modern science for you.

11811

Hmm this is a tough one, but in no particular order,

Joy Division
Modest Mouse
Pavement
Pixies
The Smiths
Man or Astroman?
At the Drive in
Mogwai
Sigur Ros

cherryghost

for myself

Blur
The Kinks
Wolfmother
Radiohead
Flogging Molly
Jack Penate
Modest Mouse
Cherry Ghost

Dudess

Seeing as this thread is concerned with live music, please bear in mind the thread stickied on this forum regarding MCD - e.g. don't mention MCD festivals.

And keep it alternative/indie.

AnonoBoy

Cuddleworthy wrote: »

Hmm this is a tough one, but in no particular order,

Joy Division
Modest Mouse
Pavement
The Smiths

I am extremely jealous of you.

Gavin "shels"

Kasabian
Arctic Monkeys
Delorentos
Muse
The Courteeners
The Pigeon Detectives
Kings of Leon
White Lies (because I haven't heard them live and they're album is class)

mac123

pearl jam
the smiths
soundgarden
ratm
qotsa
prodigy
muse
jack johnson

X-Calibre

Modest Mouse
The National
RATM
Radiohead
Pink Floyd
Hot Chip
Muse
LCD Soundsystem

Creamy Goodness

weezer - vicar street (aiken promotions)

they opened with tired of sex, my favourite weezer song. much better than their point gig 4 months later which was still excellent.

biffy clyro - 4 album nights in King tuts in Glasgow.

1st night - blackened sky
2nd night - the vertigo of bliss
3rd night - infinity land
4th night - new songs some which made puzzle, puzzle songs sound much better live .

Xavi6

Muse x6
Rage Against The Machine
Interpol
Doves
Idlewild
Death Cab For Cutie
Arcade Fire
JJ72
Bon Jovi :cool:

kraggy

Arcade Fire
Radiohead
The Doors (he ain't dead baby, he's just havin a kit kat)
The Saw Doctors
Noelie McDonnell
Ratatat
Air
Galway hurlers winning the All-Ireland 2009

No particular order you see...

red_ice

UNKLE (leccy piccy)
Q.O.T.S.A(second dublin show last year, closely followed by the first the day before)
Beasty boys (also the second dublin show of ep, closely followed by the first the day before)
Interpol (ox...07)
arcade fire
Biffy Clyro
Tom vek
abam.. saturday night just gone - whoah! amazing gig.

homerun_homer

I'm not going to go for dead heroes like Kurt Cobain and reform Nirvana for this event so I've just brought one band back from the dead because I would loved to have seen them in their prime, and one other who were a fun band to see back in the day. Everyone else is my favourite live bands of the last 10-15 years.

Muse
Interpol
Franz Ferdinand
Black Rebel Motorcycle club
Manic Street Preachers
Mansun
Jape
Turn

AnonoBoy

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I am extremely jealous of you.

I am extremely stupid also. I thought you'd seen all those bands live. I should learn how to read threads properly.

banjopotato

Kraftwerk
Pavement
The Velvet Underground
Deerhoof
AC/DC
The Fiery Furnaces
Spoon
Ramones

Dudess

Moved from Alternative/Indie... because ACDC and Bon Jovi and the Saw Doctors are not Alternative/Indie. :mad:

TelePaul

Dudess wrote: »

ACDC and Bon Jovi and the Saw Doctors are not Alternative/Indie. :mad:

Yeah, and thank **** for that.

11811

Dudess wrote: »

Moved from Alternative/Indie... because ACDC and Bon Jovi and the Saw Doctors are not Alternative/Indie. :mad:

In fairness the OP did specify Indie music...
Ah here it goes...

Dudess

Indeed the OP did specify indie music (by posting it in Alternative & Indie; I also emphasised it in post #5) yet other posters couldn't bother their arses sticking to that - that's what caused me to move it.

cherryghost

diversity in music, eh?

back on topic, i should have added Interpol to my list, they have great energy on stage

Dudess

Jeez, how come people can't see that Alternative & Indie is not "music" in general, it's a genre? People wouldn't stick irrelevant acts in Jazz/Rock & Metal/Hip Hop/Dance/Soul... etc, yet somehow it's ok to do so in Alternative & Indie.
Don't put Bon Jovi (completely not Alternative/Indie) in Alternative & Indie - "that's not allowing diversity in music!" WTF?

If you want to talk about music in general, open a thread here in the Music forum.

cherryghost

calm, im in agreeance with you

yevveh

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

biffy clyro - 4 album nights in King tuts in Glasgow.

1st night - blackened sky
2nd night - the vertigo of bliss
3rd night - infinity land
4th night - new songs some which made puzzle, puzzle songs sound much better live .

how i wish i had been there and yeah, puzzle songs do sound much better live, though some of them are still awful!

Dudess

cherryghost wrote: »

calm, im in agreeance with you

Sorry, sorry, sorry!

It's just, it's been happening a lot lately and it's frustrating that some people can't abide by a very simple request.

Mars Bar

Dudess wrote: »

Moved from Alternative/Indie... because ACDC and Bon Jovi and the Saw Doctors are not Alternative/Indie. :mad:

TelePaul wrote: »

Yeah, and thank **** for that.

Thank God the Saw Doctors aren't indie, why would a band that great want to be associated with a genre that spits out common-as-muck bands such as the Blizzards?! (I think I might be getting something nasty going here but my heart and brain are not telling my fingers to stop typing!)

Echoing Kraggy on two fronts here:

Saw Doctors
Noelie McDonnell(ma home boiz)
Meat Loaf
Bruce Springsteen
Status Quo
Jackson Browne
Elton John
Queen(my back from the dead band!)

Dudess

True... it's a shame what indie has come to mean.

Nailz

Okay, 8 bands in no particular order (but I'll make up the order when I have the thinking power).

Pantera,
Stone Roses
Slayer,
Megadeth,
Aphex Twin,
In Flames,
Iron Maiden,
Pendulum,

TelePaul

Dudess wrote: »

Moved from Alternative/Indie... because ACDC and Bon Jovi and the Saw Doctors are not Alternative/Indie. :mad:

Actually, come to think of it, Joy Division aren't indie either, they're post-punk. This is why the notion of an 'Alternative' genre is BS. It's enduring shortcoming as a means of describing a category of artistic composition is highlighted through the following anecdote:

When Tom Waits won won his first Grammy for Best Alternative Album with Mule Variations, he replied "Alternative to what?". Therein lieth the problem.

Dragula003

Blink 182
New Found Glory
Rise Against
Saosin
Bowling For Soup
Rufio
Green day (Pre American Idiot)
Alexisonfire

Pop Punk/Harcore Galore!

cautioner

Jimmy Eat World
The National
Death Cab
Modest Mouse
Sigur Rós
Explosions in the Sky
Neutral Milk Hotel (just ITAOTS stuff tho plz )
And to finish...perhaps Pearl Jam. Or Elbow. Hmmm.

Tawfee

Trash Can Sinatras
Pixies
Deus
New Young Pony Club
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Clap your hands say Yeah
The Beta band
Wolf parade

Cicero

In order of appearance on stage, Starting at 5pm, With lots of booze, and my own box right at the stage, with the Jacks close by, ..oh and burgers, ...lots of burgers, and hotdogs, ...gotta have hot dogs (well it is MY gig):

Bob Dylan with Tom Waits (slow start I know, but ya need a song and dance man ..then

Fleetwood Mac (sunny June evening, just perfect as the 3rd pint of Guinness is drawing to a close, ..never break the chain, never break the chain,...then

U2 (well I have to goto the jacks at some stage ) then,

The Waterboys...(much better than U2, and it would really get their back up (literrally ) ..then

Pink Floyd (best of Dark side of the moon) ...then...

Led Zep....... then



Bettles........then from 7pm onwards:


John Coltrane, backed by Miles Davis and Keith Jarret, with Nina Simone and Ella Fitzgerald on vocals where applicable

ZiMZuM

Hmm..

Prodigy
Nightwish
Blink 182
KISS
R.E.M
Queen
Black Sabbath
Guns n Roses

The Pontiac

Tom Waits
Flaming Lips
Bonnie Prince Billy
Buena Vista Social Club
Pink Floyd
Ry Cooder
Elbow
Massive Attack