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The best live act you’ve ever seen

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    #32
    Thrashssacre
    Registered Users Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭Thrashssacre


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    Slane will be number 10 for me, should be good

    It’ll be my first, picked up the ticket recently. Absolutely dreading doing slane again.


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    #33
    eviltwin
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    Rammstein in the Point a few years back. No contest. Me and the husbag still talk about it to this day.


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    #34
    Drumpot
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    Radiohead 97 (i think rds)
    Rem slane 95
    jamiroquai
    Massive attack - 96?!
    Stevie wonder 2014


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    #35
    Lynnington3
    Registered Users Posts: 178 ✭✭Lynnington3


    Big Words wrote: »
    Look at me everyone I did the boss not once but three times.

    I meant every time I’ve seen him was up there with the best, but way to show everyone what an a**hole looks like


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    #36
    Wanderer78
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    Thrashssacre wrote:
    It’ll be my first, picked up the ticket recently. Absolutely dreading doing slane again.


    It's a fcuking ****hole, band should be good though


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    #37
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Don't get to gigs as often as I'd like to but the most recent ones I really enjoyed were Neil Diamond and Guns n' Roses in 2017.


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    #38
    Thrashssacre
    Registered Users Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭Thrashssacre


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    It's a fcuking ****hole, band should be good though

    Here’s hoping was disappointed enough with gnr last time but a couple more decent support acts and a solid set list from Metallica and it could be a good day


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    #39
    OldRio
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    Hawkwind in 1970.
    Nothing was ever the same again.


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    #40
    Rothko
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    Heckler wrote: »
    Gary Numan in the Cork Opera house a few years ago. Am a big fan of Tubeway Army but just a casual fan of Numan.

    But that gig was the best I've been at. I bought a ticket in the hope he'd play Jo the Waiter. He did and it just got better and better.

    I was there too. Great gig.


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    joe swanson
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    Red hot chili peppers - john frusciante era. Unbelievable


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    #42
    Strumms
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    I can’t think of just one that stands out so it will be amongst these few...

    Richard Hawley - Whelans (2007?)
    Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Liverpool University Academy (2002)(last ever gig)
    Morrissey - Dublin Castle (2004)
    Rodney Crowell - Whelans (forget year)
    The Decemberists - Vicar St (2018)


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    #43
    Bobby Baccala
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    The War on Drugs in the electric arena tent at electric picnic 2015. Saw grown men crying when they were playing "Under the pressure". 😂


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    #44
    Third_Echelon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,889 ✭✭✭Third_Echelon


    Saw 'Rage Against the Machine' at the Reading Festival in 2000. Probably one of the best live acts that there has ever been. The sound and atmosphere that they created on stage was phenomenal. The energy was bouncing off the stage! Unforgettable experience.

    In terms of being flawless in an arena as well as a smaller venue, Radiohead and Blur were superb live.

    Love them or hate them, U2! Always a brilliant live gig. Great live act.


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    The Satanist
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    frag420 wrote: »
    RATM

    With Tool supporting in the Tivoli, around 93? Great show

    I'll go with Cannibal Corpse in The Mean Fiddler around 96 I think it was, mental show


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    selwyn froggitt
    Registered Users Posts: 475 ✭✭selwyn froggitt


    I saw loads of really great bands when I lived in Bristol in the 1980’s
    Motorhead,Stranglers,AC/DC,Sabbath and Priest

    But for pure and utter mayhem and joy it had to be Pop Will Eat Itself at the students union at Norwich UEA in 1990


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    #47
    lbj666
    Registered Users Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭lbj666


    Faith No More Olympia 2009 but I am waiting for some old fart to tell me..." nah they we way better at sunstroke in dalymount back in 1891 "


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    #48
    The Satanist
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    Thrashssacre wrote: »
    It’ll be my first, picked up the ticket recently. Absolutely dreading doing slane again.

    There's a campsite beside the castle, avoid the ridiculous traffic after the gig


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    #49
    dasdog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,508 ✭✭✭dasdog


    OldRio wrote: »
    Hawkwind in 1970.
    Nothing was ever the same again.

    Wow...where did you see them?


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    #50
    eamonnq
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    David Byrne, Dublin Oct 24, 2018


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    #51
    MonkieSocks
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    Michael Jackson in Cork.

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



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    #52
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Pink Floyd, The Wall tour, Earls Court, London, 15th June, 1981


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    #53
    Pauliedragon
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    UB40 are a good live show.


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    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users Posts: 10,575 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    Nine Inch Nails

    Queens Of The Stone Age

    Prodigy

    Daft Punk

    Aphex Twin

    Deftones


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    selwyn froggitt
    Registered Users Posts: 475 ✭✭selwyn froggitt


    OldRio wrote: »
    Hawkwind in 1970.
    Nothing was ever the same again.

    What a band! Brilliant live.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Pearl jam. Will give you at least three hours. No two gigs the same. You're enjoying it because they're enjoying it


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    tinpib
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    Spring Party in 2001 at the Point with Carl Cox followed by Laurent Garnier, then in a matter of seconds they cleared out all his gear and some fella was sprinting/pushing the mixing desk onto the stage and on came Dave Clarke for 1 hour.

    First song was turned up to 11. It was live on 2FM and you can find the set online.

    Electric atmosphere, complete mayhem.

    Here it is:

    https://www.mixcloud.com/BreakAbeaT/dave-clarke-spring-party-2001/


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    #58
    The Princess Bride
    Registered Users Posts: 18,582 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    I have been to so many gigs over 3+ decades.
    BellX1 accompanied by Dowry Strings last month just blew me away.
    It was such an intimate and special performance, beyond anything I've ever seen or heard before.
    Just wow.


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    #59
    Gorgeousgeorge
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    Duke special supporting snow patrol in the point 2006/2007


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    Sorry about that
    Closed Accounts Posts: 632 ✭✭✭Sorry about that


    Doves in the Olympia 2005, they were amazing, brought the house down. Being in the audience that night was a magical experience.


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    #61
    sabat
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    The Satanist wrote: »
    With Tool supporting in the Tivoli, around 93? Great show

    I was going to post the exact same gig. It was a case of the tickets going on sale right before the band became huge so you were seeing probably the hottest act in the world at the time in a tiny venue for about a tenner. The same thing happened again with Oasis in the Tivoli about a year later.


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