What was the best concert you were ever at ???

PTH2009

Seen as there is a thread on 'the worst concert you ever at' why can't there be one on 'the best concert you were ever at' ??

I've been to many concerts and find it hard to pick one as ive been to many great show so I picked my top 5

1. U2- 3Arena 24th November 2015- one of the best stage productions I've ever seen and the band were fantastic that night. Setlist was good but would of loved to hear ISHFWILF and one but the performance of bad was brilliant (and apparently was only added to that setlist mid show for some reason)

2. Bruce Springsteen- Nowlan Park Kilkenny night 1 July 2013- amazing show, the band was on fire that night, the whole bitusa album was played along with the classics. Bruce is an unreal show man. Saw him 4 times (most recent was Croke Park on the 27th May last) and all were great gigs but nowlan park was unreal. Great venue too

3. Rush- 3arena may 2011- unreal show, one of the best live bands around, performed for just over 3 hours and done the whole Moving Pictures Album. First time playing in Ireland too

4. Bon Jovi- RDS Night 1 June 2011- brillent show and one of the best setlists I've ever heard (full of classics). Jon had a leg brace on as he fell doing another concert somewhere before the Dublin shows. Voice sounded brillent and Richie Sambora was top form that night.

5. Alice Cooper/Motley Crue- Manchester November 2015- prob cause it was my first concert abroad but both acts were brilliant that night. Alice Cooper is an unreal showman and the show itself is cool (stabbing people, cutting his head off, giant Frankenstein coming on stage etc). Although Motley Crue were going through the motions a bit there show was brilliant and the guitarist Mick Mars (who suffers from a rare bone disease) is one of the best of all time and really underrated

Could go on and on as I'm seen other amazing shows , Fleetwood Mac (3arena 2015), Metallica (Marley Park 2009), Acdc(Aviva stadium 2015). honorable mention to Aslan (saw them in Waterford just before Xmas last year) always put on a good show and Christy still sounds amazing with all his recent health problems going on

Toots

The Who in Marlay Park were amazing, I'm delighted I got to see them live.

Slane 2003 with the foo fighters, QOTSA and the red hot chilli peppers was probably the best thing I've ever been to. No other festival has quite measured up since, for me.

Sheeps

Stevie Wonder in the O2

Olishi4

Iggy Pop at Kilmainham. He was mental on stage. Created a great atmosphere.

Fleetwood mac at the O2. Lindsey Buckingham was amazing.

Everlong1

U2 in Croke Park in 1985. It was the first time they played Croker, they were touring one of their best albums (The Unforgettable Fire) and were just on the cusp of world domination. It was a very special atmosphere and a great selection of songs. The band themselves have said often that it was one of their favourite gigs.

Everlong1

I also had the privilege of seeing the late and much lamented David Bowie at the Point in 2004. He was fantastic, great selection of songs from right across his career. Being in the middle of 8,000 people singing along to Life On Mars is one of those great gig memories I'll carry to my dotage.

me_irl

Meshuggah Glasgow. Such a fun, messy day and night.

hairyslug

My wife dragged me along to take that, was dreading it but turned out to be a great show

carltonleon

Toots wrote: »

The Who in Marlay Park were amazing, I'm delighted I got to see them live.

Another for The Who at Marley Park. Wasn't really into them but got a free ticket and they were absolutely fantastic.

REM at Marley Park was another brilliant gig that I really enjoyed

David Byrne at the Feile (Trip to Tipp) in 92 was absolutely superb as well

Winterlong

Olishi4 wrote: »

Iggy Pop at Kilmainham. He was mental on stage. Created a great atmosphere.

Nailed on!!

Arghus

Rammstein in the O2 back in Febuary 2012.

Unbelievable spectacle and a great atmosphere.

I can still feel the visercal roar of heat from the pyros.

When all the crowd around you, young and old, parent and child, are rapt with joyous wonder at the sight of two middle aged German fellows engaging in mock sodomy - then you know you're witnessing something special.

RobertKK

Last year was at the Taylor Swift concert at the 3Arena, went with a friend who was not a fan. He was sure he wouldn't enjoy it that much.
He was raving about her when the concert was over and Vance Joy who was the support act was also top notch.
She puts on a great show.

The Backwards Man

The one where Chrissie Hynde kissed me on the cheek

I haven't washed my face since!

Omackeral

Shayne Ward in the Point.

Utah

Elton John - Valetta, Malta 2010

JinkyJackson

Planet Love 07. I'm still skagged

Metallica, Knebworth, 2011. Pure electricity both onstage and in the crowd, brilliant playlist.

Weather not so good.

Conall Cernach

Robert Plant and Jimmy Page in The Point in 1995. They opened with "Thank You", I don't think anyone else could pull off opening a rock concert with such a slow ballady type love song. The riff from Four Sticks played by an Egyptian ensemble was stuck in my head for days. And it was the hurdy gurdy players wedding anniversary. A great gig despite not playing "Stairway" but we did get an awesome version of "Kashmir."

Second place must go to Kiss in the O2 in 09. The complete opposite of Page and Plant in that it was all about the show but what a show! The drummer had his own bazooka. Paul Stanley's voice was a bit shot but they got through all the old staples and the video footage behind the band depicting the late Eric Carr during "God Gave Rock and Roll to You II" brought a collective cheer from the crowd.

nerobert

The Chemical Brothers at longitude last year.

GLaDOS

I've a few that I count amongst my best

Porcupine Tree in Tripod, 2010
Rush and Roger Waters within a week of each other in the O2, 2011
Rammstein in the O2, 2012
Steven Wilson in Glasgow, 2013

A few others that probably just miss out: God is an Astronaut, Godspeed you Black Emperor, Sigur Ros, Blind Guardian, Hans Zimmer.

LightsStillOn

Kanye & Jay Z a few years back in the o2. In terms of a pure sonic and visual spectacle, it's unmatched. Know a lot of people who wouldn't necessarily be the biggest fan of either but even they were blown away with how good it was!

IrishZeus

PTH2009 wrote: »

4. Bon Jovi- RDS Night 1 June 2011- brillent show and one of the best setlists I've ever heard (full of classics). Jon had a leg brace on as he fell doing another concert somewhere before the Dublin shows. Voice sounded brillent and Richie Sambora was top form that night.

+1, it was a fantastic gig.

FizzleSticks

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jester77

Flaming Lips and Modest Mouse are ones that stand out, awesome gigs.

siblers

Muse at the Olympia in 2004, when they were at their best imo. Seen them a few times since and they always put on a great show but it was in a bigger venue so never had quite the same atmosphere as The Olympia

Walter H Price

Me and my OH go to allot of gigs , so I would have to split it into 4:

Best at a festival : Foo Fighters at Oxygen
Best Stadium: Kings of Leon in the Allienz Arena in Munich
Best Arena: Fleetwood Mac in the o2
Best small Venue: Passenger in some Shi**y pub in Cork

Honorable mentions to Mumford and sons , Adele , Elbow , Gavin James and Ben Howard all savage gigs and immense live performers.

siblers

ScienceNerd wrote: »

I've a few that I count amongst my best

Porcupine Tree in Tripod, 2010
Rush and Roger Waters within a week of each other in the O2, 2011
Rammstein in the O2, 2012
Steven Wilson in Glasgow, 2013

A few others that probably just miss out: God is an Astronaut, Godspeed you Black Emperor, Sigur Ros, Blind Guardian, Hans Zimmer.

I was at that Porcpupine Tree gig, I never thought I'd get to see them
Crowd were a bit **** though, remember one guy kept calling for them to play Trains.

lertsnim

Queens of the Stone Age at the Olympia in 2011. The band were on fire and the crowd was electric. There was some atmosphere in there that night.

farmchoice

Conall Cernach wrote: »

Robert Plant and Jimmy Page in The Point in 1995. They opened with "Thank You", I don't think anyone else could pull off opening a rock concert with such a slow ballady type love song. The riff from Four Sticks played by an Egyptian ensemble was stuck in my head for days. And it was the hurdy gurdy players wedding anniversary. A great gig despite not playing "Stairway" but we did get an awesome version of "Kashmir."

Second place must go to Kiss in the O2 in 09. The complete opposite of Page and Plant in that it was all about the show but what a show! The drummer had his own bazooka. Paul Stanley's voice was a bit shot but they got through all the old staples and the video footage behind the band depicting the late Eric Carr during "God Gave Rock and Roll to You II" brought a collective cheer from the crowd.

i was at that page and plant gig. kasmir stands out alright.

best gig i was ever at was probably orbital in the point just before new years eve 1999. its wasn't just the gig it was the gang i was with it was like the high point of the whole ecstasy era for us but also the end of an era in its own way.

razorblunt

Slane 2003, only really went along as my friends were into RHCP, QOTSA and the Foos but I came away as a fan of all the bands that played that day, weather was incredible, it was Feeder's first gig back with their new drummer and thanked the fans during their set for "helping them prove they were right to keep going". There was then a run of PJ Harvey, QOTSA, Foos and RHCP.

My now wife dragged me along to Justin Timberlake at the RDS too and for an awful venue he put on a brilliant show.


Jay Z at the Marquee was one of those "he's playing WHERE?" concerts, but it was part of his warm up for Glastonbury and in fairness he gave it socks for the entire gig.

GAAman

Toots wrote: »

The Who in Marlay Park were amazing, I'm delighted I got to see them live.

Slane 2003 with the foo fighters, QOTSA and the red hot chilli peppers was probably the best thing I've ever been to. No other festival has quite measured up since, for me.

That slane was amazing and was my all time fave until I finally got to see AC/DC live in 2009 they were unreal!

Edit: have to mention Metallica's 2006 concert they played entire Master of Puppets album I still listen to it weekly

Fleawuss

Showing my age but Simon and Garfukel in Dublin. Extraordinary musicians and supreme professionals. Some gigs bring you to your feet but I was genuinely in awe and couldn't move! I'm back there now!

py2006

Michael Jackson in Landsdowne Rd

Olishi4

jester77 wrote: »

Flaming Lips and Modest Mouse are ones that stand out, awesome gigs.

The Flaming Lips really put on a great show. I had never heard of them and they were supporting Bob Dylan in Kilkenny. They took about 20 people from the audience on stage and dressed them up as aliens and they just stood on stage dancing. There were these huge party popper things exploding from the stage and the lead singer at one stage went out into the crowd in this kind of hamster bubble thing

It was mad because there was all that and then Bob Dylan came out and just sat in the corner on his piano. He was still good but said nothing to the crowd where as The Flaming Lips were so interactive.

Rothko

Olishi4 wrote: »

The Flaming Lips really put on a great show. I had never heard of them and they were supporting Bob Dylan in Kilkenny. They took about 20 people from the audience on stage and dressed them up as aliens and they just stood on stage dancing. There were these huge party popper things exploding from the stage and the lead singer at one stage went out into the crowd in this kind of hamster bubble thing

It was mad because there was all that and then Bob Dylan came out and just sat in the corner on his piano. He was still good but said nothing to the crowd where as The Flaming Lips were so interactive.

Lol, I love both of them but it seems odd to have them as a support act for him.

8-10

Michael Jackson - RDS
Arcade Fire - Olympia Theatre
Daft Punk - Oxegen

Top 3 I'd say, any order

siblers

Also, QOTSA at Oxegen in 04 or 05. Was right at the front, it was nuts. Played a lot of heavier stuff in that set too, was in bits after it.

Gunslinger92

lertsnim wrote: »

Queens of the Stone Age at the Olympia in 2011. The band were on fire and the crowd was electric. There was some atmosphere in there that night.

Came here to post this word for word pretty much. I had an exam the next day that I failed, but it was worth it :pac:
I've seen them three times since and they're like a fine wine, they get better with age.

Muse in the 3arena this April were unreal.
Feeder in the academy - they're coming back in october
Rammstein
Green Day are great live. I'm not as big a fan of them as I used to be but their wembley stadium gig was amazing.
Biffy clyro are fantastic, saw them in Belfast a couple of weeks for the fifth time, brilliant stuff as always.

rainbow kirby

Arghus wrote: »

Rammstein in the O2 back in Febuary 2012.

Unbelievable spectacle and a great atmosphere.

I can still feel the visercal roar of heat from the pyros.

When all the crowd around you, young and old, parent and child, are rapt with joyous wonder at the sight of two middle aged German fellows engaging in mock sodomy - then you know you're witnessing something special.

This. Absolutely amazing gig.

I'd also add Rush in the O2 in 2011 - partly because all the middle aged blokes pushed the women forward in the standing area and I ended up in roughly the second row for the last half an hour of the gig! Moving Pictures straight through was fantastic.

Apocalyptica were fantastic too both times I saw them - the gig in Shepherd's Bush Empire in November 2015 in particular. I was nearly 6 months pregnant at the time and the little one kicked away through the heavier songs

Burial.

Jay Z's 'retirement' gig at the Garden. Jay Z is one of the best live artists of all time but he really went balls to the wall there.

valoren

Radiohead at Punchestown in a tent during the Kid A tour, Oct. 2000.

Loved it.

crosstownk

AC/DC in Punchestown.

Queen in the RDS (The Works Tour) better than the Slane gig, imo.

buck65

valoren wrote: »

Radiohead at Punchestown in a tent during the Kid A tour, Oct. 2000.

Loved it.

Forgot about that gig, that was good as was their RDS show in 97. Saw Therapy? in Leisureland that was good craic and later in a pub in Limerick!
Leonard Cohen in Kilmainham was good too.

Shemale

Paul Weller in the Olympia and Audioslave in the Point, Chris Cornell made it sound like a good venue, superb singer and power in his voice.

Mint Sauce

Its a close thing between Micheal Jacksons Dangerous Tour at Wembley in 1992, and Ash's 1977 gigs at the London Astoria in 1997.

Micheal Jackson was all about going to see my favourite singer, and the excitment of the months of waiting, queing outside Wembley for about 4 to 5 hrs before getting inside, support from Kris Kros, before Micheal took to the stage for an amazing gig in the eyes of a 13 year old. Ash and 1977 at the Astoria was billed as their only shows that year, was advertised in NME so maybe only applied to Britain/UK. Think we went to the 3rd night of 5, and was pretty much 1800 people moshing for the duration.

Unfortunately the Astoria is now gone due to Cross Rail, and Wembley now demolished and rebuilt again, but both are ahead of any gig since.

Beasty

The Stones at Roundhay Park, Leeds, 1982
Bowie at Milton Keynes Bowl, 1983
Queen at Knebworth, 1986

They were all pretty good, but the best concert I was at was on 13 July 1985. The day after I sat my last exam I got a train down to London and the following day over to Wembley to see Live Aid

PTH2009

Beasty wrote: »

They were all pretty good, but the best concert I was at was on 13 July 1985. The day after I sat my last exam I got a train down to London and the following day over to Wembley to see Live Aid

Id say that was an amazing day. Such iconic talent sharing the one stage.

Live 8 and Live Earth were amazing id say too but seeing the oringal live aid in person must of been very memorable

Would love to see another live aid type show take place but its very doubtful

Beasty

PTH2009 wrote: »

Id say that was an amazing day. Such iconic talent sharing the one stage.

Smuggled a camera in and placed myself maybe 25m away from the stage shortly after the gates opened at 10am. It was very hot and I managed to make it until 10pm without a toilet break!

Took over 500 photos that day. Had to draw the line somewhere though and flatly refused to take any photos of Spandau Ballet....

LordSutch

Ian Dury & the Blockheads, The Grand, Clapham, 1990 ish . . .
Pink Floyd, Wembly Stadium - London 89'
Roger Waters @The Aviva, Lansdowne Rd, a few years ago.

eviltwin

Rammstein at the point three or four years ago. Just incredible. The husband still watches YouTube footage of it to this day.

Special mention to Slipknot who were a support act to Metallica one year and were completely amazing.

davidglanza

Rod Stewart nowlan park Kilkenny.
He was outstanding from start to finish..