Gig Regrets

PTH2009 · 20-04-2020 10:13pm #1

Is there any past gig you regret not going too ??

I regret not going to Pearl Jam when they played here in 2010

Green Day in 2017 in Kilmainham esp after what's after happening in regards this year

Any of the Metallica shows here in the early 2000s. Belfast in 2010 another one cause they had Volbeat as support

Although they didn't play much here and the tragic death of O Riordan. I would of loved to see The Cranberries live. There show in the BGE in 2017 really went under the radar and wasant published much to my memory

scudzilla · 20-04-2020 10:16pm

Sat in the pub back in '86, i was 15 (yeah, we started young back in Wales, cracking rock pub too and crazy as fcuk)

Mate : "Spare place on the coach on Saturday to see Pink Floyd, interested?"

Scud : "What do i wanna go see them for, they're shite"

Been kicking myself over that one for many a year

Blazer · 20-04-2020 10:20pm

Iron Maiden. My favourite band and I’ve never
bothered to go see them.
Not a concert goer type person etc.
I can see them on the telly

SoundOfSilence · 20-04-2020 10:25pm

Prince in Malahide Castle 2011. F**kin raged about it. My justification was that 100eu was way too expensive which it seemed at the time. Even writing this annoys me

ConcertKing · 20-04-2020 10:32pm

SoundOfSilence wrote: »

Prince in Malahide Castle 2011. F**kin raged about it. My justification was that 100eu was way too expensive which it seemed at the time. Even writing this annoys me

One of the greatest concerts I've ever seen!Had the crowd eating out of the palm of his hand!

He was so funky and the jamming he did on the night was fipping amazing.

Get teary eyed when I think bout it knowing I'll never see The Purple One again!

Thrashssacre · 20-04-2020 10:33pm

Gojira 09 in whelans
Anathema in 15 in the academy

Both look like cracking gigs from what ive seen on YouTube and heard from mates that went. Raging about the anathema one in particular played for nearly 3 and a half hours.

kal7 · 20-04-2020 10:37pm

Saw Prince in London 1990, didn't think he was great.

Older mate of mine was at Isle of Wight and saw another band not Jimi Hendrix and always regretted it.

I went up to manchester the day after the Hacienda closed, gutted

machiavellianme · 20-04-2020 11:24pm

Thrashssacre wrote: »

Gojira 09 in whelans
Anathema in 15 in the academy

Both look like cracking gigs from what ive seen on YouTube and heard from mates that went. Raging about the anathema one in particular played for nearly 3 and a half hours.

Wouldn't worry about it, Anathema haven't been good since the 90s. They were in their prime back in the days of the Abbeyleix Metalfest. They used to be here every other month, or at least the Cavanagh brothers were, haven't heard them in a while though.

My biggest regret had been nine inch nails. Three times I've tried to see them, travelling to London, Belgium and Germany. All three were no shows. A perfect circle played instead, supported by Skunk Anansie. Hardly the same thing.

Rothko · 20-04-2020 11:27pm

Sufjan Stevens 2015 in the Helix

It was around the time Carrie & Lowell was released. It's an album that took a while to grow on me so I passed on the chance to go to one of the gigs he was playing there. Since then, I've grown to love it and I really regret not going to see him.

antimatterx · 20-04-2020 11:29pm

Drake last March.

I'm sure he'll be back though

DukeCaboom · 20-04-2020 11:31pm

Nada surf in cork 2006, i skipped it to see a girl that wasn't that into me

only after that i really got into them. Fecking kills me even thinking about it now.

mojesius · 20-04-2020 11:32pm

Not going to Tom Petty in Dublin 2012. I think we had a few pricey gigs that summer. Paul Simon, Stone Roses, Electric picnic and there was another I can't remember.
Absolutely raging I missed it! Listen to him all the time.

PTH2009 · 21-04-2020 1:47am

One gig I would of loving to see was Simon & Garfunkel supported by The Everly Brothers in the RDS in 2004. Anyone at that gig ??. Obv none of those acts are touring anytime soon unless time travel or resurrection become a thing

Sadly too young at the time and wasn't allowed go too gigs til a few years after that.

Regret not seeing Elton John live but hoping to pick a ticket for one of his Dublin shows on the current tour if it still goes ahead

nuttyboy79 · 21-04-2020 1:59am

Maybe not popular now after the way things turned out with him but Michael Jackson Páirc Uí Chaoimh in 1988.
I was 16 had my ticket, had my money for the train ticket down from Dublin I was going on my own. Bossman in work wouldn't give me the day off told me I'd be fired my dad found out when I was thinking of taking the hit he told me he'd feck me out of the house for missing work and getting fired.
I didn't go.

delbertgrady · 21-04-2020 7:17am

PTH2009 wrote: »

One gig I would of loving to see was Simon & Garfunkel supported by The Everly Brothers in the RDS in 2004. Anyone at that gig ??

Yes. It was very good. They did two or three solo Paul Simon songs too. The Everly Brothers performance was a short one and was in the middle of the Simon and Garfunkel set, more like an interval act than a support.

I went to Kilkenny the next day to see Bryan Ferry and James Taylor.

quickbeam · 21-04-2020 7:23am

delbertgrady wrote: »

Yes. It was very good. They did two or three solo Paul Simon songs too. The Everly Brothers performance was a short one and was in the middle of the Simon and Garfunkel set, more like an interval act than a support.

I went to Kilkenny the next day to see Bryan Ferry and James Taylor.

Me too. And I'd been to The Doors (Manzarek, Krieger and Ian Astbury) earlier in the week too. Three in one week. I was exhausted by the last one.

Mushy · 21-04-2020 7:52am

In Australia in 09, was getting into a band called Cog who were playing there with support from Oceansize. Said I'd go to family friends bbq instead, would catch Oceansize again as they're from the uk, so will have chances. Soon after the tour they called it quits.

RayCon · 21-04-2020 7:54am

Gary Clark Jr - The Button Factory in 2014.

Cory Wong - Sugar Club last year (couldn't go - had to travel with work):(

exilec · 21-04-2020 8:27am

Noel Gallagher olympia 2011 . Gave my ticket away for free cause i got a ticket for united city match in old trafford . Paid a fortune for flights and we got hammered 6-1

seandotcomm · 21-04-2020 11:14am

Faith No More 2009 Olympia

keith_d99 · 21-04-2020 11:35am

Bowie's last performance in Ireland ... the Point 2003

Gave the pair of tickets (were O2 Club tickets) to mate ... who ended up sat beside The Edge for the gig.
Have no recollection what was so important that I couldn't go

Del Griffith · 21-04-2020 12:42pm

exilec wrote: »

Noel Gallagher olympia 2011 . Gave my ticket away for free cause i got a ticket for united city match in old trafford . Paid a fortune for flights and we got hammered 6-1

Honestly one of the best gigs ever.

SFC1895 · 21-04-2020 12:45pm

Arthur Lee- Whelans in 2002. Had a ticket and all but sacked it off on the day. Gutted.

Say Your Number · 21-04-2020 1:05pm

Motorhead 2008/9 didn't bother with either, thought they'd be back again.

Chris Cornell at the Olympia in 2016 is almost a regret of mine, I was thinking 'Ah I'll see him again some other time' really glad I decided to go now.

lordgoat · 21-04-2020 1:42pm

Bowie and Prince.

Elliott Smith but I would have been 18 and not able to get to Dublin for it.

bodhrandude · 21-04-2020 4:35pm

Not getting to see Pink Floyd in 1980 doing the The Wall as I was too young to travel to London but had the opportunity to see Thin Lizzy with Phil Lynott in 1985 but couldn't make it.

dinneenp · 21-04-2020 4:37pm

The Avalanches, Galway. Pure entertainment & joy from what I heard

Violent Femmes- last time they played Dublin. Well past their prime but I'm sure would have been great.

mitchelsontour · 21-04-2020 4:40pm

1995 REM in Slane - for many reasons other than the music

thecretinhop · 21-04-2020 4:42pm

the tom Petty gig was unreal it rained literally for about 18 hours straight.
we went to pub after and sat in silence for about 40 minutes supping pints. after this we realised we were in a rough bar with manic 2000 or something playing went to whealans, back in ****ty hotel room eating chips and raving about gig till about 5am. an epic night.

my biggest regret was not seeing crowded house live. i did see Neil finn and his son though we were right up front at the olympia

Outlaw Pete · 21-04-2020 9:51pm

keith_d99 wrote: »

Bowie's last performance in Ireland ... the Point 2003

Have no recollection what was so important that I couldn't go

Missed it too. We had tickets for Ozzy which was four weeks before it, but he cancelled the gig and I think we were waiting for a refund for ages and it was the reason we chose not to go. The rescheduled Ozzy gig was supposed to take place in Jan or Feb the following year but he crashed his quad bike in December in the UK and we're still waiting for that gig 17 years later

Anyway, Bowie. Sure did seem like an awesome night.

This video not only will not only make you nostalgic for Bowie, but also the Point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF551z9KlA8

PTH2009 · 21-04-2020 10:03pm

Regret missing the Bruce Springsteen Seeger Sessions shows in the point

Few years before my gig time sadly

no.8 · 21-04-2020 10:10pm

Audioslave - Dublin (early 2000's)
Daft Punk - various festivals

prunudo · 21-04-2020 10:26pm

Two extremes but as others have said, raging I missed Prince in Malahide but also had tickets to the Prodigy in and around Christmas 2011 or 12 and sold them as too much on. Never did get to see them properly

LoughNeagh2017 · 21-04-2020 10:32pm

Linkin Park, I only realised how good they were after Chester Bennington died and it annoyed me so much that I considered stopping listening to them but I figured that if I could see Mike Shinoda live that would ease my annoyance a bit. A saw him live last year which eases my annoyance a bit as he was band leader and main song writer but it will still cause me annoyance until the grave. It also caused me to go to concerts more often incase other musicians die.

For a normal person this sort of thing would just be an occasional thought but for someone whose mind is plagued by over thinking and OCD things like this cause me considerable annoyance.

I pity the people who had Linkin Park tickets for a cancelled show and I also pity people who were fans of a solo musician who died without having seen them, in that scenario you can't even see another band member in concert.

The other good thing to come out of it is that I appreciate seeing other bands live, I think that fans in 50 years won't experience seeing these bands live. Bands like Slipknot and Korn will have fans long after they die I would say.

adox · 21-04-2020 11:02pm

keith_d99 wrote: »

Bowie's last performance in Ireland ... the Point 2003

Gave the pair of tickets (were O2 Club tickets) to mate ... who ended up sat beside The Edge for the gig.
Have no recollection what was so important that I couldn't go

It was a truly brilliant gig. He seemed to have a brilliant time playing as well. Up there with the best gigs I’ve been to.

Prince for me as well in Malahide Castle is a huge regret. My folks lived about a mile and a half from the venue so could have walked to their place afterwards to crash.

Beth Hart has played here a a couple of times in the last half dozen years or so and I’ve missed both. I’ve never seen her love and she’s always been on my list. At this stage I’m nearly too old to be going to gigs.

adox · 21-04-2020 11:09pm

thecretinhop wrote: »

my biggest regret was not seeing crowded house live. i did see Neil finn and his son though we were right up front at the olympia

Saw them when they played The Point in 94. Brought my then girlfriend(now wife) and it was her first ever gig. They were fantastic and top of their game at the time.

4Ad · 21-04-2020 11:10pm

The Smiths in Limerick 1984, I think...(though I try not to think about it)..damn.

hynesie08 · 21-04-2020 11:14pm

Oxegen 05, went to see foo fighters instead of James brown, foos were great and all, but I regret that decision way more than I should.

Dj Stiggie · 21-04-2020 11:24pm

LoughNeagh2017 wrote: »

Linkin Park, I only realised how good they were after Chester Bennington died and it annoyed me so much that I considered stopping listening to them but I figured that if I could see Mike Shinoda live that would ease my annoyance a bit. A saw him live last year which eases my annoyance a bit as he was band leader and main song writer but it will still cause me annoyance until the grave. It also caused me to go to concerts more often incase other musicians die.

For a normal person this sort of thing would just be an occasional thought but for someone whose mind is plagued by over thinking and OCD things like this cause me considerable annoyance.

I pity the people who had Linkin Park tickets for a cancelled show and I also pity people who were fans of a solo musician who died without having seen them, in that scenario you can't even see another band member in concert.

The other good thing to come out of it is that I appreciate seeing other bands live, I think that fans in 50 years won't experience seeing these bands live. Bands like Slipknot and Korn will have fans long after they die I would say.

I was a massive LP fan all through my teenage years. I listened to them non-stop and had my auntie in America send me over a hoodie from Hot Topic or something because I could never find anything in Dublin. I saw Mike Shinoda/ Fort Minor in 2016.

Then in 2017 I went to Hurricane Festival in Germany. I was still a big fan but not nearly as fanatic as I was in their (or my teenage) prime. Anyway they were playing late on the mainstage and myself and my then-girlfriend had been in the arena area all day and by the time they came on we were shattered. We stayed way at the back for about three or four songs. I think we left after we heard one we knew and figured we'd see them again on tour, not a festival with dodgy sound. Less than a month later Chester was dead.

gabria · 21-04-2020 11:25pm

keith_d99 wrote: »

Bowie's last performance in Ireland ... the Point 2003

Gave the pair of tickets (were O2 Club tickets) to mate ... who ended up sat beside The Edge for the gig.
Have no recollection what was so important that I couldn't go

+1 my biggest concert regret ever. I was all set for his Oxygen performance the following year and that was cancelled as his health scares started

dasdog · 21-04-2020 11:32pm

U2 (1985) - One of the neighbours had a spare ticket for me but I was still in primary school and wasn't allowed go
Slayer (1988) - I would have seen the big four of thrash in the space of a year but didn't go to Slayer (and Anthrax walked off stage when they played)
Bootsy Collins (1995) - Mean Fiddler - Probably didn't go due to lack of funds and it was supposedly superb
David Byrne (2018) - Just too many gigs on that year and I gave it a miss - looked like an amazing show

Also to my shame I never saw Motorhead and had my chances. A friend of mine from years ago was even a roadie for them at one stage.

Zaph · 21-04-2020 11:37pm

Springsteen at Slane in 1985. Myself and a guy I worked with talked about going and then he decided he didn't want to go so we never got tickets. Fcuker ended up going anyway when a mate of his was sick on the day and there was a spare ticket going. To be fair to him though, he did feel pretty bad about it. Or so he said!

The other one I regret missing is Alabama 3 at Tripod in 2007. I actually had a ticket for it but I had an accident and was still recuperating by the time the gig came around and couldn't go. Never managed to see them live in the end, and it just wouldn't be the same now since Jake Black died.

Zaph · 21-04-2020 11:39pm

dasdog wrote: »

David Byrne (2018) - Just too many gigs on that year and I gave it a miss - looked like an amazing show

It was. Best gig I've ever been to, and probably ever will be.

garyskeepers · 21-04-2020 11:40pm

Biggest regret, Bruce Springstein.

Although Only reason I didn't go is my daughter was born that day. Way to ruin my plans Katie

Nigel Fairservice · 22-04-2020 12:30am

Mine is not going to see Tom Petty in Cork in 2012. I really wanted to ask my gf to go but we had only been going out a few weeks at the time and I didn't know if she liked him or not so I never asked. Turned out she loved him.

I also regret not going to David Byrne and Incubus in 2018 and The Cure last year.

parttime · 22-04-2020 6:54am

Nigel Fairservice wrote:

I also regret not going to David Byrne and Incubus in 2018 and The Cure last year.

Jesus, me too. I saw them in 92, and didn't see them since. Really hope they tour again. They probably will

Wanderer78 · 22-04-2020 7:44am

Bb king London, shortly before he died, was just shy of buying a ticket

jack presley · 22-04-2020 3:11pm

seandotcomm wrote: »

Faith No More 2009 Olympia

Yeah, I was on holidays when that was on so missed it too. Not really a regret though as it was out of my hands.

My biggest regret is missing the Foo Fighters in the Olympia on the TTILTL tour. I had just started a new job and was told there was a 50% chance I'd be working away when it was on so I didn't buy a ticket. And of course that trip never materialised so I was around that night but couldn't get a ticket at that stage.

furiousox · 22-04-2020 3:15pm

Pink Floyd sometime in the mid 90's.
A few friends were going, coach, ticket, accommodation all available.
"Ah, I won't bother. I'll catch them next time..."
Still waiting.......:(

niallo76 · 22-04-2020 3:44pm

Jeff Buckley played the Tivoli in 1995,was in January so I was probably broke after Christmas at the time,but regretted it not getting to see him.

holly8 · 22-04-2020 8:37pm

Bob Marley Dalymount Park 1980 ... huge regret!

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