Best gig or event you've been to?

zcorpian88

Metallica RDS 2006, first ever gig. I was 17, which yes is probably too old for your first concert.

Should have been at the show they had there in 04 but for the best part of the year leading up to that show I had been arguing with my parents over the fact that they wouldn't let me go, because of the bolloxology they threw at me that "those concerts are dangerous" still never let them live it down and rightly so. Two of my mates got to go and I didn't. Would have been the cheapest Christmas ever for my folks because all I wanted was a ticket for that gig.

So when 06 rolled around I couldn't f**king wait, Master Of Puppets in it's entirety, Epicness but the bouncers wouldn't let me near the bar because I was 17. Waaaaah!

Turtyturd

hynesie08 wrote: »

Don't think it would be possible to pick just one, limp bizkit in the Olympia? Frank turner in brixton? Bruce in 09? AC/DC In punchestown? Gaslight Dublin night 2? Ask me 10 times and I'll give ya 10 answers. Don't trust anyone who can give a definitive answer

Would agree with some of those.

I have never seen a crowd as crazy as the one at Limp bizkit in the Olympia...closest I have seen was alexisonfire in the temple bar music centre.

Gaslight Anthem's 2nd night during the summer was amazing...especially their rendition of howl.

Green Day were great around the time of American Idiot....but only the first time you see them.

clappyhappy

Saw James Brown, the Supremes (without Diana Ross) and the temptations in the early 90's in Atlanta Georgia, it was the best night of music I have ever been to, they played for almost 4 hours and they still had it.

Jamiroquai in Dubai in 2002/3 were amazing, honestly thought Jay Kay was going to die from heat exhaustion, he was amazing.

Also when Sting was touring with his Desert Rose tour, he played Dubai around 02/03 also and he so good. Such a talented guy.

shroom007

Gill Scott Heron Dublin couple of months before he passed,took a long time but I eventually got to see him, He was magic

TouchingVirus

Sports wise it's a very tough one but all of them revolve around Dublin GAA. If I was pushed I'd have to name the 2011 AI Final final against Kerry as the best day out. Most recently it would be the 2013 semi-final against Kerry, far superior to the final IMO.

Into music it would be one of my last trips to the Ministry of Sound to see Markus Schulz play a 7 hour set non-stop set, I was in tatters after it. Some others of note were AC/DC in Punchestown in 2009 and Muse in Munich in 2012. I'm heading Snowbombing in April where I'll get to see The Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers so it may eclipse the others

Miprocin

krudler wrote: »

Tool in 2006 in The Point

That was an incredible show!

bogmanfan

Boredoms in the Village, 2008 is the best gig I was ever at. I've seen them a few times, but this one was just incredible. A mate of mine who doesn't really like their albums still says it's the best gig he's ever been to.

Boredoms doing 77Boadrum in NYC, on 07/07/07 was amazing. 77 drummers in a park overlooking Manhattan.

Broken Social Scene in TBMC in 2006 was another cracker. The self-titled album had just come out, but I hadn't got it yet. They played for over 2 hours and I fell in love with all the new songs they played. Still one of my favourite albums, and all subsequent gigs I've seen involving them have been brilliant.

Dan Deacon in Crawdaddy in 2007 was great fun. It was like being in somebody's flat.

At The Drive In in TBMC in 2000 was fantastic. Never seen a band give off such energy on stage.

Other highlights were: Cut Copy in the Village, 2008; Portico Quartet in Whelans, 2007; Steve Reich at NCH, 2006; Sam Amidon in Newbridge, 2012; Stars of the Lid in Whelans, 2009.

Lyaiera

I'd love to see Boredoms. I am jealous.

Ash.J.Williams

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

Slane

all slanes?

Ash.J.Williams

That Rammstein gig in the o2 takes some beating...

PropJoe10

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

all slanes?

That Chilis Slane in 2003 was pretty hard to beat. Definitely the high point of the Chilis career I reckon. The DVD of the gig is absolutely brilliant.

Ash.J.Williams

PropJoe10 wrote: »

That Chilis Slane in 2003 was pretty hard to beat. Definitely the high point of the Chilis career I reckon. The DVD of the gig is absolutely brilliant.

great day...wasn't so sure about the chili's though, for me they had lost it...

Ericaa

Download '09.

Saw Slipknot, The Prodigy, Limp Bizkit, Pendulum and some other favourites of mine too. I had backstage passes too, which made it all so much more surreal.

One of the best weekends of my life.

omega man

Duck's hoop wrote: »

Seeing Nirvana in Top Hat in '91 and not having a clue who they were, yet being pretty damn impressed, will always be one of the most memorable.

Cure in RDS in '89 was very excellent. Pixies in '90 fantastic.

Every Fugazi gig is a gift. Likewise No Means No.

Now where's my fixodent?

Jeez haven't heard the top hat mentioned in quite a while!! Think I saw faith no more there back in the day. Nirvana played a gig in cork the night before that too and think they might have played mcgonagles in Dublin too....??

Another favourite of mine was the SFX which held some memorable gigs up to 2001 when it finished as a concert venue. Can't name them all but Megadeth, alice in chains, green day, foo fighters, smashing pumpkins, Nine inch nails, korn are some that spring to mind.

Agree on fugazi too and many a Steve albini's shellac gigs also. Really enjoyed deus and girls against boys shows in the mean fiddler back in the late 90's too.

Kept most of my ticket stubs over the years too which I often reminisce over......

PropJoe10

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

great day...wasn't so sure about the chili's though, for me they had lost it...

If you thought they'd lost it then, you obviously didnt see them in the Phoenix Park a couple of years after that. They were awful! Watch the Slane DVD and then come back to me

Bradt Pitt

Eric Clapton in the o2 last year.
Steve Jordan on drums, Willie Weeks on bass - fcuking amazing!

carolinespring

Without a doubt Springsteen -amazing show man.

Tom Petty was pretty amazing. Sting was great in the Point, as was Texas. Dylan again the point back in the late nights or perhaps 2000

keano_afc

Slane 2 in 2001. The one where the Ireland v Holland match was shown. Just incredible.

PropJoe10

keano_afc wrote: »

Slane 2 in 2001. The one where the Ireland v Holland match was shown. Just incredible.

That was a highlight for me as well I must say. The atmosphere during and after the match was amazing! Terrific day.

The Wild Bunch

Muse - Temple Bar Music Centre, May 2000

Supporting Elastica, about 50 people there, greatest night of my life.

Honourable mention to Muse/JJ72 in the Olympia in October of that same year. Blew the roof off the place.

lukesmom

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Kasabian, Prodigy, Oasis. What a line up. Oasis weren't on top form but the others certainly were. Still though, purely for reasons of nostalgia, singing masterplan up on the hill with people I had been friends with since Oasis were in their prime. Yep. It could be up there alright. 5 years ago - feck :eek:

Yep the Prodigy were out of this world! And when Noël Gallagher finished it all off by saying the gig had been 'biblical' he was right.

lukesmom

PropJoe10 wrote: »

That Chilis Slane in 2003 was pretty hard to beat. Definitely the high point of the Chilis career I reckon. The DVD of the gig is absolutely brilliant.

I started a petition to get RHCP playing slane that year, got a thousand names on it and ended up with the sun newspaper interviewing me and taking my photo for which I'm absolutely mortified, and speaking live on Dave fannings show. I brazenly wrote to lord Henry mountcharles asking him for a ticket and he sent me a letter by reply and two tickets to the RHCP gig. Such a hard neck I had

Don't Chute!

Rage Against The Machine in the O2 and at Oxegen and the Beastie Boys at the RDS in 1995 i think, fantastic!

Push Pop

Dave Clarke, Red Box 2003 maybe 2004.
Love Parade Berlin 2001 beyond epic
Leftfield Witness 2002 I think
Bruce Springsteen a few times
Richie Hawtin Ibiza 2010
Biggest regret is not ever seeing Nirvana live although very few in Ireland have unfortunately

Birneybau

Maybe not the best but Beach House/Fleet Foxes in Whelans was pretty good. Met Fleet Foxes after, had a smoke.

Also saw Arctic Monkeys in Whelans...

Osgoodisgood

The Rolling Stones, Brisbane 1973

The set list according to wiki (I didn't keep notes at the time)

1. "Brown Sugar"
2. "Bitch"
3. "Rocks Off"
4. "Gimme Shelter"
5. "Happy"
6. "Tumbling Dice"
7. "Love in Vain"
8. "Sweet Virginia"
9. "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
10. "Honky Tonk Women"
11. "All Down The Line"
12. "Midnight Rambler"
13. "Rip This Joint", "Bye Bye Johnny", or "Little Queenie"
14. "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
15. "Street Fighting Man"

Menas

Osgoodisgood wrote: »

The Rolling Stones, Brisbane 1973

The set list according to wiki (I didn't keep notes at the time)

1. "Brown Sugar"
2. "Bitch"
3. "Rocks Off"
4. "Gimme Shelter"
5. "Happy"
6. "Tumbling Dice"
7. "Love in Vain"
8. "Sweet Virginia"
9. "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
10. "Honky Tonk Women"
11. "All Down The Line"
12. "Midnight Rambler"
13. "Rip This Joint", "Bye Bye Johnny", or "Little Queenie"
14. "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
15. "Street Fighting Man"

Wow, very impressed. That was when they were at their menacing peak in my opinion, long before they became the caricature they are now.

Slaygal

For me best gig Prince in O2 London. He was amazing.
Witness festivals at Fairyhouse were brilliant.

Ash.J.Williams

metallica RDS - Master of Puppets anniversary

Tar.Aldarion

Tool. 2006 in the point.

Was amazing, wish they would come back.