First gig you went to?

Marty McFly

Hi just wondering what was everyones first gig they went to? ~Any your memorys of it?

For me it was Slane in 1998 headlined by the Verve, with Manic Street Preachers, Robbie Williams, The Seahorses, James, Junkster and Finley Quaye.

Was an amaizng gig, I wouldve been 14/15 at the the time went one my mates, we were delighted with geting served drink at it, also got tickets into the mosh pit which was amazing, also as much as it pains me to say this Robbie Williams kind of stole the show really got the crown pumped up. Ill also always remeber The Manic Street Preachers singingif You Tolerate This for the first time about two months before it got released have loved that song ever since.

foolelle

Slane 2002.
Relish
JJ72
Kelis
Coldplay
The Chili's
and of course U2.

went with a critic from a local newspaper who I worked with, we got a lift with another guy and his dad. They collected me and we set off for Slane, as we were arriving they produced a simple hi vis jacket with an alumnus yellow sticker stuck to it, saying 'U2 Slane Official 2001' Man 4 of those jackets got us everywhere, i remember watchin Coldplay from the side of the stage. unreal.
Funniest part was me, after gettin into the VIP area in front of the castle, collected a press pack from the media tent, got a few free drinks, spotted Lord Henry himself fluttering around trying to look very important with an arm full of guest passes, there's me with quite a bit of dutch courage waltzes right over to him and asked him for 3 passes for my friends. after a quick look up and down I was promptly told to '**** off'

So i did.......:D

Blikes

First concert if you could call it that was o2 in the park in 2003/2004 i think, Was very exciting

The first real concert i went to was Bud Rising when i was 18, Kaiser chiefs. Unreal

and of course, electric picnic last year, wow
Few smaller ones in between but those are the ones that stick out in my mind the most!

run_Forrest_run

my first gig at the ripe age of 15 was Guns N' Roses in Slane. I still have vivid memories of it (May 16th, 1992!) (amazing how much one remembers when not drinking:)).

With Faith No More and Kilkenny band, My Little Funhouse supporting it was a fantastic experience.

karaokeman

Most people will slate me for admitting this but my first concert was Westlife at the Point Theatre:p

Dublinstiofán

Oasis Landsdown Rd 8th July 2000 was great.

8k2q1gfcz9s5d4

oxegen 2004, when it was a rock-indie festival!

stargazer 68

Haha Paul Young in the RDS - guess it was around 1984. I was up the front and still have the photos - fab!! Showing my age now! :rolleyes:

setanta74

Power of Dreams. The old SFX centre in Spring '91.
Still one of the best gigs I ever went to. Load of crusties there from England that we had a blast with. Never saw a crustie before until then.

StaticAge11

Metallica, Machine Head, HIM and Mastodon in Wembley Stadium back in 2007. It was a present for my 16th birthday

stargazer 68

StaticAge11 wrote: »

Metallica, Machine Head, HIM and Mastodon in Wembley Stadium back in 2007. It was a present for my 16th birthday

Now I do feel ancient! :eek:

Melion

Witnness 2000, back when it was a decent festival

ondeball

Oasis at the Point in 1995.

Unreal gig just before they hit their peak.

Think it was just a week before the girls was crushed to death at the Smashing Pumpkins gig as well. The Point was an awful kip back then with crush barriers causing more harm than anything else.

the_syco

'98 or '99, SFX, for a Type O Negative gig.

trad

Horslips, National Statium about 1975/6.

Dibble

Simple Minds, Croke Park, 1986.

Furious-Red

Stereophonics in the Point 2005

rainbowdrop

Not a stand-alone gig, but Creamfields at Punchestown in 2002 was the first big event I was at.

Underworld on the main stage, followed by Faithless, when Faithless were at the absolute top of their game:cool:

horslips

trad wrote: »

Horslips, National Statium about 1975/6.

My man! Horslips at the Hibernian Hotel, Mallow - April 1976

Miguel_Sanchez

First 'proper' gig I was at was REM at Slane. 1995.

Belly, Spearhead, Luka Bloom, Sharon Shannon and Oasis supported.

blastman

AC/DC, October 23rd 1982 @ RDS Simmonscourt, a few days after my 15th birthday. Awesome stuff.

Ironman76

MC Hammer in the Point in 1990. Snap and the dude that did the theme song for Rocky V as support acts.

You cant touch that . . .

music crazy

Westlife in the Point , I was mad about them at the time

leakyboots

foolelle wrote: »

Slane 2002.
Relish
JJ72
Kelis
Coldplay
The Chili's
and of course U2.

went with a critic from a local newspaper who I worked with, we got a lift with another guy and his dad. They collected me and we set off for Slane, as we were arriving they produced a simple hi vis jacket with an alumnus yellow sticker stuck to it, saying 'U2 Slane Official 2001' Man 4 of those jackets got us everywhere, i remember watchin Coldplay from the side of the stage. unreal.
Funniest part was me, after gettin into the VIP area in front of the castle, collected a press pack from the media tent, got a few free drinks, spotted Lord Henry himself fluttering around trying to look very important with an arm full of guest passes, there's me with quite a bit of dutch courage waltzes right over to him and asked him for 3 passes for my friends. after a quick look up and down I was promptly told to '**** off'

So i did.......:D

Think this was mine too. Was in the pit for the Chillis and U2. Got the shift. Great day.

old gregg

Rory Gallagher, Macroom Mountain Dew Festival 1978

years later, I brought my son to his first gig when he was 2 and that was Gallagher in College Green in 1992

ned rierson

BQQ

Ice-T and bodycount at the sfx.
think Helmet were the support act, but can't remember tbh

crowd were chanting for an encore for ages and still no sign of them. some gave up and went home. me and my brother stuck it out a bit longer, but eventually gave up the ghost and headed for the exit. just got to the back of the venue when....






COP KILLLLLLLLER! *headbangs*

StaticAge11

Dovies wrote: »

Now I do feel ancient! :eek:

I was a late bloomer! More than made up for it now though, 30+ big name gigs and festivals along with countless smaller acts, I am catching up on years of missed gigs!

Yellowledbetter

The Trip Is In,1995 The Point. Kind of an indoor Trip To Tipp Thingy but in The Point. Foo Fighters,Manic Street Preachers,Afgan Whigs,Beck and Joyrider.
Foo's were muck and The Manics completely stole the show

essex

Diana Ross in concert - fab

glennhysen

Ned's Atomic Dustbin - McGonagles Dec 1991

The Princess Bride

Croke Park 1985- U2 .
Was very young- asked a friend of a friend of my sister to buy the ticket, then had to tell ask my parents' permission.

Great gig- The Alarm,In Tua Nua supported, plus some little known American band who were a bit odd ...... REM, I think they were called.

poundhound

David Bowie at Slane 1987.
I was 15 and went with my mate, also 15. I don't remember witnessing the pissed up zombies pinballing off people, that is pretty much standard these days.

quaidox

hellbastard, mcgonagles, sunday afternoon gig, 1988:cool:

old gregg

poundhound wrote: »

David Bowie at Slane 1987.
I was 15 and went with my mate, also 15. I don't remember witnessing the pissed up zombies pinballing off people, that is pretty much standard these days.

Big Country stole the show that day for sure

foolelle

rainbowdrop wrote: »

Not a stand-alone gig, but Creamfields at Punchestown in 2002 was the first big event I was at.

Underworld on the main stage, followed by Faithless, when Faithless were at the absolute top of their game:cool:

oh my word i had totally forgotten i was even at this gig, am i right in saying that it was the only time creamfields came to ireland?

oh the memories, all i remember from faithless were the lasers.........:cool:

ItsAWindUp

rainbowdrop wrote: »

Not a stand-alone gig, but Creamfields at Punchestown in 2002 was the first big event I was at.

Underworld on the main stage, followed by Faithless, when Faithless were at the absolute top of their game:cool:

I'd say that was something special! Mine was The Prodigy at the Marquee in Cork in 2009.

homerun_homer

Oasis in 1996 in Páirc Uí Chaoimh, support from Prodigy. Excellent day.

rainbowdrop

foolelle wrote: »

oh my word i had totally forgotten i was even at this gig, am i right in saying that it was the only time creamfields came to ireland?

oh the memories, all i remember from faithless were the lasers.........:cool:

Yeah, was fantastic. Think there was another one in 2000, but I wasn't at that one. Been to loads of gigs/festivals since, but would still say that 2002 Creamfields was the best ever. Anybody I have spoken to since about it has agreed that the atmosphere there that day was something special. I know most people were off their heads, but everyone seemed to be on the same friendly 'vibe', and all the trance music that was around then was fresh.

Carlsberg don't do atmosphere's, but if they did they'd be pretty much like this video (fast forward to 2.10)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7SNj_eIqtY&feature=related

Loved Judge Jules/Paul Van Dyk/Lisa Lashes/Lisa Pin-Up/Mauro Picotto/Mr Spring/Pressure/Mark Kavanagh back then, even loved 'Tiesto' *shudders:o* All the skangers discovered it then and it became chart music. Or maybe I just got older and the drugs got shtter. Totally turned me off trance whatever it was.

Even though I wouldn't go to something like that nowadays, I still say Creamfields 2002 was one of the best days of my life:D

marwelie

setanta74 wrote: »

Power of Dreams. The old SFX centre in Spring '91.
Still one of the best gigs I ever went to. Load of crusties there from England that we had a blast with. Never saw a crustie before until then.

I was at that gig too. The best Irish band ever. I was at their last gig in the Rock Garden and their recent gig in Whelans too. They still have it! Hearing a new album may be on the way. Keith the drummer has left the band because he is now based in the US. Hope there is a tour to follow the album, if it materialises.

who the fug

msthe80s wrote: »

Croke Park 1985- U2 .
Was very young- asked a friend of a friend of my sister to buy the ticket, then had to tell ask my parents' permission.

Great gig- The Alarm,In Tua Nua supported, plus some little known American band who were a bit odd ...... REM, I think they were called.

My excuse for being in Dublin was the matriculation, holy hour meant we actuallu showed up for the concert

I did not throw any of them plastic bottles with yellow liquid at REM and had left Grafton street before the cop charge

Skerries

Michael Jackson 1988 Parc Uí Chaoimh

foolelle

rainbowdrop wrote: »

Carlsberg don't do atmosphere's, but if they did they'd be pretty much like this video (fast forward to 2.10)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7SNj_eIqtY&feature=related

Even though I wouldn't go to something like that nowadays, I still say Creamfields 2002 was one of the best days of my life:D

dont tunes just bring people together!!

QuinnC88

Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Pixies, Groove Aramada, The Thrills and Hothouse Flowers, when i was 15 Phoenix Park June 2004.....was Epic!!!

setanta74

marwelie wrote: »

I was at that gig too. The best Irish band ever. I was at their last gig in the Rock Garden and their recent gig in Whelans too. They still have it! Hearing a new album may be on the way. Keith the drummer has left the band because he is now based in the US. Hope there is a tour to follow the album, if it materialises.

Very underrated band. Their first 2 albums were really good and they were unlucky not to make it like a lot of irish bands at that time I suppose.
The whole Madchester / Indie thing in England just blew that stuff out of the water unfortunately.

Teyla Emmagan

Chris de Burgh in the Point in 1987.

I was 12 and he was AWESOME

johnnyk66

Rory Gallagher Leisureland Galway 1978...what a gig:)

kc66

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

First 'proper' gig I was at was REM at Slane. 1995.

Belly, Spearhead, Luka Bloom, Sharon Shannon and Oasis supported.

Me too. Couldn't see the sky at one stage with the amount of paper cups being thrown around. Oasis were on fire. Great gig.

delbertgrady

Extreme, SFX, December 1992
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They had played the Point on their previous tour, and this was due to be in the Point again, but was downsized (dramatically) due to total lack of interest.

Million-selling album with massive, radio-friendly hit singles = huge interest and big ticket sales.
Double concept album with twenty minute song suite = a surefire way to kill your career stone dead.

In keeping with the move to the smaller venue, support band Thunder were also removed from the bill, and were presumably replaced by someone local, but I don't recall who. It's one of the few tickets in my collection that isn't one of those horrible, generic print-outs. I went to see Extreme again in the Academy in 2008 (they hadn't played here since 1992) and they were superb.

Dangerdunf

Slane last Saturday

Taxedalot

U2, Croke Park 1985