Exceptional Live Performance

sparksfly

What for you is the ultimate live performance that showcases the artist's unquestionable talent. One to kick off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvWgOUMnBNQ

bodhrandude

One that still sticks in my mind is Iggy Pop & the Stooges at Electric Picnic 2007, there seems to be no decent clips from this event so the Glastonbury 2007 one will have to do. Bjork that year was also incredible too.

dragonfly!

Off topic slightly but this would be a great name for a band

mr_edge_to_you

The clip of U2 in Slane performing All I Want Is You,leading into Where The Streets Have No Name

Peatys

Faithless insomnia at the Olympia theatre.. long time ago.

Birneybau

Easily the most intense performance I've ever seen

Pidae.m

Manic street preachers in the opera house in Cork in 1998.It was my first gig and I was 15. It blew my mind. I think I just couldn't get over how loud the music was,it wasn't even sold out.
Actually bloc party in the ambassador I think in early 2007 was a good gig too.
Never been to a bad kerbdog gig either to think of it.

PTH2009

In today's scene everybody who plays a gig here ends up being exceptional and we get all this bollocks being reported on these clipbait sites

https://www.joe.ie/music/irishman-gets-on-stage-with-enrique-iglesias-after-claiming-to-speak-spanish-gets-found-out-instantly-645195

paddylonglegs

Iv always been blown away how radiohead can recreate their tracks so well live.

eviltimeban

paddylonglegs wrote: »

Iv always been blown away how radiohead can recreate their tracks so well live.

= backing tracks.

TheIrishGrover

For me, the best recent performance I've seen personally live was Eddie Vedder in The Point in 2017. It just felt like he was having so much fun and didn't want it to stop:
Amazing setlist that went on for hours
Great audience (Guy at the start was a little bit annoying but not too bad
So few phones even without the pouches. (Well done audience )
Individual performances in this set?

Elderly Woman. The NOISE from everyone from "Hello" on was just breathtaking. Everyone singing along a wee bit subdued...... waiting.... waiting..... annnnnnd.... "Helloooooooooo"

Jeremy on String Quartet. Went with a friend who loves his stuff but isn't one to rave about something... or even acknowledge something at times sits down after than and says "Well that didn't suck" Supreme high praise.

Hard Sun. Everyone givin' it loads at this stage. Had to end at that 'cos I think we'd all have been bloody kicked out

argentum

https://youtu.be/MUiqpfKAqV0 for the day that's in it ...The perfect end to a pop concert which shows why she sells out so fast

Thundercats Ho

Queen at live aid

Ricosruffneck

Arcade Fire

In the round

Everything now tour 3Arena

Ricosruffneck

Muse

Marley Park

Torrential Rain which somehow evaporated and turned into a mist before it hit the ground. Lazers in the mist with the music was amazing.

Ricosruffneck

St Vincent

olympia theatre

Fear The future tour

delbertgrady

Kate Bush, Hammersmith Odeon, 2014

setanta1000

I am torn between two:

a.) Tina Turner, Madison Square Gardens 1987 - just an out and out pop masterclass by her at the very height of her career - all she had to do was move and the place went bananas!.....I also went with the girl next door I was trying very hard to impress, and I think it worked!

b.) Page and Plant The Point 1995 (I think) I was too young to see Zep in person so this was the closest I was ever going to get and it was a million times better than I ever thought it could be - pure joy!

Billy Mays

Spiritualized at Radio City Music Hall 2010

Keyzer

Sigur Ros in the 3Arena a couple of years back, closest thing to a spiritual experience I would assume. Absolutely mind bogglingly good.

banie01

I was on the side of the stage for Bjork at the last Feile and it was an amazing experience...
Turned my opinion of what I thought was a meh act to something beautiful!

Kings of Leon at Oxegen '09 were great too.
But hands down one of my favourite acts live, The Darkness!!
Last 2 gigs I've seen em at were brilliant

PawneeRanger

This is one of my all-time favourites.
The energy and fun is amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1twvwbB_cU

MadYaker

LCD Soundsystem playing All My Friends at glastonbury in 2016 will stick with me

PTH2009

https://youtu.be/NxYNoEmXEjg. That whole pinkpop show by pearl jam is amazing

Nirvana MTV unplugged is on hell of a show

Pidae.m

PTH2009 wrote: »

https://youtu.be/NxYNoEmXEjg. That whole pinkpop show by pearl jam is amazing

Nirvana MTV unplugged is on hell of a show

And live at Reading is a belter of a show

jacool

Been to thousands of gigs, loads of them superb, but based on ELP (no not Emerson, et al.) as in title, then
Future Islands Cork Opera House 2017
Runners-up
REM RDS 1989
Whipping Boy Astoria 1996

Prodigy at the Olympia - Started off naff, by the end I was surprised to see the walls were still standing due to the crowd losing their mind that much.

Beck at the Olympia - That table winched down from the ceiling is one of my favourite moments ever in a gig.

Helmet at Dalymount part of Sunstroke. Heaviest, loudest gig I'd been too at that point.

White Zombie at Sunstroke the following year. Blew the headliner, Soundgarden, off the stage.

yannanevotna

Carter USM: The Final Comedown 2014 @ the Brixton Academy...unreal gig, crowd, venue, the emotion
Radiohead: The OK Computer Tour @ the Sydney Ent Centre 1997is. Mind blowing
The Frank & Walters: Whelans 2016. They still have it
Stone Rose: Heaton Pk (Sat). Mean't a lot to the crowd of us who headed over. What a day / night topped off with having a good yarn with John Robb about the 90's

bodhrandude

I'm I the only mentioning gigs from the Picnic, c'mon people dig out your Picnic memories.

Conall Cernach

setanta1000 wrote: »

b.) Page and Plant The Point 1995 (I think) I was too young to see Zep in person so this was the closest I was ever going to get and it was a million times better than I ever thought it could be - pure joy!

I was there too. They were incredible. Four Sticks played by the Egyptian ensemble was stuck in my head for weeks.

dmc17

Tigerbaby

Conall Cernach wrote: »

I was there too. They were incredible. Four Sticks played by the Egyptian ensemble was stuck in my head for weeks.

I saw Zeppelin live in 1979 ( Knebworth) and 1980 (Frankfurt), but I have to say the "No Quarter" gig in the Point in 1995 was way up there.

also Plant in Olympia 2005? / 6?

It shows real genius when they can rework songs to become some kind of other beauty.

Bigmac1euro

bodhrandude wrote: »

I'm I the only mentioning gigs from the Picnic, c'mon people dig out your Picnic memories.

Deadmau5 electric picnic 2008
He put me and a group of my friends on his guest list for electric picnic after we met him backstage at creamfields a few weeks before. Epic show.

Fatboy slim creamfields 2008 was pretty memorable.

Also the XX at the tivoli this year was absolutely epic.

sweetie

Wilco, 96/97 Whelan's
Pulp this hardcore tour ambassador 98?
Sufjn Stevens TCD 2003(?)
Springsteen RDS (05?)

HeidiHeidi

Can't believe nobody's mentioned David Byrne last night!


I was properly blown away.

Joe prim

David Byrne's gig last night was indeed phenomenal...choreography, musical content ( all live) and DB's own performance were astonishing , and the man is only six months away from his bus pass.And I'd forgotten how good the old Talking Heads stuff was.

HeidiHeidi

Joe prim wrote: »

David Byrne's gig last night was indeed phenomenal...choreography, musical content ( all live) and DB's own performance were astonishing , and the man is only six months away from his bus pass.And I'd forgotten how good the old Talking Heads stuff was.

I couldn't get over his voice, that's the first time I've seen him live and he was bloody fantastic.


Another voice that blew me away, although the gig itself was average enough, was Billy Joel in the O2 a few years ago. All I'd heard in advance about him (again, first time to see live) was that "he'll start the songs and the audience will finish them", so I went with low enough expectations. But my God, that man can sing!!!


But the sheer theatre of David Byrne last night.....

loadwire

Arcade Fire EP 2005
Incredible atmosphere, the band feeding off it and going into space.

Radiohead Belfast 2001
A couple of days after 9/11. Thom was tense and quiet to begin but by the end it was joyous.

U2 Zoo TV RDS 93

Bowie The Point 2003

Pearl Jam The Point 96

Neames

The Cure at Electric Picnic

Leonard Cohen in Kilmainham

And definitely on a par with both acts, Little Green Cars in Dublin last year...super band...superb live.

Peatys

greenspurs

Pearl jam - Slane 93.
Faith No more - The Point 92 + Dalymount 93
Megadeth - Point 91 (I got nick menzas drumstick)
Beastie Boys - Electric picnic 07
Elbow - Electric Picnic 07
Queens of the Stone Age - Ambassador -2008
U2 - ZooTv tour Cork 93
Michael Jackson - Cork 88 (my 1st gig)
Pearl Jam - Hyde Pk 2010
Eddie Vedder - Hammersmith Apollo - 2012 (honourable mention to Glen Hansard!!)
The Doors (of the 21st Century) The Point 2004

grudgehugger

Pavement, Rock Garden, 1994
Beastie Boys, RDS, 1995
Super Furry Animals, Middle East (Boston), 1999
Nick Cave, Liss Ard, 1999
Primal Scream, Hammersmith Palais, 2000 (w/ Kevin Shields on guitar)
Chemical Brothers, EP 2011
David Byrne & St Vincent, EP 2013
Phoenix, Primavera Sound, 2013
Aphex Twin, FF 2018
David Byrne, 3Arena, last Wednesday
Chemical Brothers, 3Arena, next Monday (fingers crossed!)

mono_mac

Chilli Peppers at SLANE a few years ago was haunting

mollser

https://youtu.be/KO5sPkssrmM

I'll leave this here. Wild frontman + rowdy crowd, it's a spectacle that we need more of!

bogmanfan

Boredoms in the Village in 2007
Broken Social Scene in TBMC in 2006
Sigur Ros in TBMC in 2000
At The Drive-In in TBMC in 2000
The Go! Team in the Village in 2005
Dan Deacon in Crawdaddy in 2007
Portico Quartet in Whelans in 2008
Punch Brothers in Whelans in 2012
Grouper in Unitarian Church in 2018

Been to hundreds of gigs, but these ones stood out. Exceptional performances from exceptional artists.

kwestfan08

The Jay Z x Kanye West "Watch the Throne" shows back in June 2012 in the 3 arena were unbelievable. Two bona fide legends trading 40+ songs over about 2.5 hours along with exceptional staging and production. Still the bar for me in terms of arena shows.

TimeToShine

Too many to count...

Few standouts are Portishead at EP, NMH in Vicar Street, RHCP at Slane, Arctic Monkeys at Marlay Park when Alex got the acoustic guitar out at the end for A Certain Romance...

AnnaSophia

PawneeRanger wrote: »

This is one of my all-time favourites.
The energy and fun is amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1twvwbB_cU

Twenty minutes of sheer joy right there!

Arghus

This is an unreal performance from a band at their peak. Great intensity. Even the intro music gives me chills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lbFfiLAj_A

ED E

Ricosruffneck wrote: »

Muse

Marley Park

Torrential Rain which somehow evaporated and turned into a mist before it hit the ground. Lazers in the mist with the music was amazing.

Ohhh yes. That was a good'un.




PS: Its Marlay

ED E

Franz doing this in the Olympia was a good one too. Great vibe that night.