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best band you ever saw live

  • 02-06-2011 07:46PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 406 ✭✭


    the pixies , national stadium in 1990

    take your face off , the most exciting thing i'd ever seen ...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,479 ✭✭✭Hootanany


    Kraftwerk in the Olympia Ditto Bowie there as well


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,883 ✭✭✭smokedeels


    In general... I don't know, but Shellac at Primevera last year was the best I've heard a rock band sound live..... EVEEEEEER


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5 Hexagrams


    Rammstein, twice last summer. Amazing live act!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭roy rodgers


    rage against the machine i'd have to say


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,296 ✭✭✭shamrock55


    metallica


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45 jungleland86


    Fleet Foxes/Bruce Springsteen/Arcade Fire/Metallica

    All for completely different reasons.

    but for their monumental gig in the Olympia 2 weeks ago Queens of the stone Age take it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 406 ✭✭denlaw


    Love live music , nothing gets me as horny as a great live band ..




    Except u2 ..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭TommyTippee


    Best band I have seen live was the Happy Mondays at the T in the Park festival.

    Not a fan at all, but the sheer fun and atmosphere in that tent was amazing. Really unexpected too....was dragged away from the Manic Street Preachers to see them....glad I was in the end.

    Other greats live were New Order at Reading 98, Suede at Dublin Castle 96 and the Saw Doctors (would you believe) at Reading too.

    3pm in the afternoon....it felt like New Years Eve watching them :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,429 ✭✭✭Pierce_1991


    Green Day at Wembley Stadium last year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 210 ✭✭writhen


    Clutch .....unreal


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭MikeHoncho


    Blur at Glastonbury 2 years ago was pretty special.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 647 ✭✭✭deeks


    My Bloody Valentine at Electric Picnic a few years ago.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 ✭✭part time punk


    Wilco - both nights, Vicar st in 2007. Fist time seeing them, such an incredible band, great back catalogue and live they just seem to take it up another notch.
    Honourable mention to Bruce Springsteen & the E street band, who always know how to put on a show.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭MoodeRator


    Pink Floyd at Wembley Stadium in London on 06 August 1988.
    Mind blowing! literally!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    Faith no More in Olympia Aug 09.

    The guys looked so happy to be there playing, the crowd were amazeballs and it was the perfect gig for intensity, sound, venue (MC hammers sitting room)

    frAg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭AwayWithFaries


    Arcade Fire in Oxygen a few years ago. Was standing around in the rain, soaked, covered in mud and pretty fed up but then they came on stage and the sun shined and everything was ok :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭fasty


    Foals have blown my mind any time I've seen them live.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 520 ✭✭✭damselnat


    I always risk ridicule when I say this one but....Coldplay. I saw them a few years ago in Dublin, don't know what I was expecting - actually I do, something of a snoozefest tbh :D:D - but I was blown away, totally not what I was expecting at all, I was shocked and seriously impressed. In fact, I was so impressed by their live show I've seen them another two times since then (brought my mother to them in Phoenix Park - it's her that was the Coldplay fan that I ended up seeing them in the first place - and in Wembley in 2009, with Jay Z who was also a revelation!), best was probably Phoenix Park, but the first time I saw them I remember just being so shocked that they weren't what I was expecting at all and put on an amazing show with quite a party atmosphere that my opinion of them changed immediately and I'd definitely still go see them again!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,797 ✭✭✭sweetie


    some that come to mind:

    beastie boys ill communication tour, 1994 (i think) rds
    Wilco being there tour whelans (95/96)
    hamell on trial whelans (first gig, cant remember when)
    springsteen (last year in rds)
    kraftwerk/vampire weekend pukkelpop 09
    band of horses primavera 07 (or 08)
    pavement/pixies/pet shop boys primavera '10


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,445 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    weezer - boston circa 1997.

    if i could go back to that gig i would 1000 times over.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭Adiaga 2


    Ben Folds Five in the Redbox in december '98.

    On a larger scale, Depeche Mode never dissappoint. 1st saw them in the point in december '93 and they blew me away(not literally of course)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    kasabian the o2 dublin 2009 best live performance i ever saw


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,191 ✭✭✭Feelgood


    Pearl Jam @ The Point in 1996


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 308 ✭✭kellso81


    sufjan stevens - spring and airbrake in 2005


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 806 ✭✭✭AssaultedPeanut


    Placebo in the Olympia about 10 years ago when I was ~17, left a big impression on me.

    The Prodigy. December '09, excellent


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    Eric Clapton/ Stevie Ray Vaughn/ Robert Cray - Alpine Valley Music Theater - East Troy Wisconsin

    August 27, 1990


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,940 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    REM in hyde park in london in 2005. the original date was cancelled due to the london bombings so they rescheduled and finished the european tour there. don't think i've ever been to a concert where the sound was so absolutely perfect, the band were on a high, the crowd were out for a good day and the sun was shining bright.
    as the honda ad says, isn't it great when everything just, works.

    notable mention to chic, electric picnic 2009.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    notable mention to chic, electric picnic 2009.

    They were fantastic weren't they? I got headbutted by someone halfway through the gig and still had a great time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,184 ✭✭✭Patsy fyre


    They were fantastic weren't they? I got headbutted by someone halfway through the gig and still had a great time.

    Nothing like a good headbutt to get the party started :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭Android 666


    Brendan Benson in the Thatch in Rahan in Offaly. I sat there with maybe 50 other souls in a perfect little venue watching Brendan and Mark Watrous strum and tinkle their way through his back catalogue. Absolutely amazing and sitting there I just knew that this was never going to happen again. I think it would be my favourite gig ever...

    Any of you that don't know the guy's work get acquainted with it straight away. Lapalco is my perfect summer album...



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