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Gigs you'll never see the like of again.

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    #182
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Saw Marillion in a school hall in Poland, Jethro Tull, with up to a dozen guitars on stage, in the pouring rain in Germany, had my mind blown by Prince, also in Germany, a gig I had never even planned to be at, and then there was Jane's Addiction in a nightclub in Spain. He was most unimpressed with people gobbing on him!

    There was also one sweaty night in Edinburgh with old school rockers, Dr Feelgood, with the original lead singer.

    For sheer instant reaction it was Muse at Oxegen in July 2004. First time to see their stunning live set. That was the Bowie gig that didn't happen sadly, so rocked it out with Basement Jaxx!



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    #183
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,702 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119290096#Comment_119290096

    Good to hear . Enjoy if you get a chance .



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    #184
    HBC08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,393 ✭✭✭HBC08


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118944235#Comment_118944235

    I'm a big U2 fan and have to ask what lyric?



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    #185
    dasdog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,145 ✭✭✭dasdog


    Saw Thin Lizzy in a local hall near home in 1973

    Close the thread.

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    #186
    Everlong1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭Everlong1


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119290212#Comment_119290212

    Boys Play Rock n' Roll - from Vertigo.



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    #187
    rino87
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119290292#Comment_119290292

    Shinrone hall??!



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    #188
    Doc07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭Doc07


    Prodigy supporting Oasis Cork 1996..my first gig and hard to top.

    Prodigy Olympia 2005, thought the roof was going to come off or else the floor collapse. 2000 people jumping as one sweaty unit to Smack my bi&ch up.

    Underworld and Orbital one after the other at Homelands Mosney I think 1999

    ultrasonic (uk hardcore ravers ) in an old hotel outside Drogheda 1997…definitely nothing like that these days



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    #189
    Beasty
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118936448#Comment_118936448

    Covid put paid to the Stones in 2022, but I do still have those memories from 40 years ago. Roundhay Park, Leeds, their final gig for 6 years. Around 120,000 in attendance, and at the time the largest concert stage ever built. Well actually there were two of them. They were constructing the Roundhay park one at the same time the Stones were playing Slane

    The thing I like about this one is the guy in the tree to the right of Mick - he was probably 15 feet up to get that view

    Stones 4.jpg Stones 2.jpg Stones 3.jpg Stones 1.jpg




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    #190
    Goldengirl
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119290864#Comment_119290864

    Em , no !



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    #191
    RayCon
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119286504#Comment_119286504

    Brilliant list of gigs 😎.... but I'm most jealous of XTC - fantastic band.



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    #192
    cosatron
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119290120#Comment_119290120

    Muse was unbelievable at oxygen, the place went wild for plug in baby. Personal favourite of mine was slipknot at the rock am ring in 1999. Never experienced a mosh pit like it



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    #193
    rino87
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119291510#Comment_119291510

    Ha ha, sorry, bit of an in-joke around the midlands!



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    #194
    thebaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭✭thebaz


    Bob Marley at Dallymount was pretty special - was involved in punk in the early days saw some great gigs - the Radiators at the legendary Morans hotel, the Clash , the Stranglers and the Jam at the local Top Hat. Then worked in music indusrty for awhile and caught lost of great bands from the Stones to Bowie at the Olympia - pretty special - a few Glastonburys - somewher I got old and dont go to gigs now , when you work in something it eventually become mundane - last gig was Sleaford Mods about 6 years ago. getting old now listen to jazz and old Country and Western and some good old school reggae.



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    #195
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,702 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    How could I forget...

    The alternative Top of the Pops in Camden Palace ( where else )

    Headlining , Curiousity Killed the Cat , with Swing out Sister , supported by two locals , The Pet Shop Boys !

    And forgot to mention New Order in the Kentish Town and Country Club later in 1985 .


    There were some great music pubs in Camden as well where bands would play in the back at the weekends.

    Rockabilly , Ska or Rockers depending on the night , in the Caernarvon Castle opposite Dingwalls and Camden Market . (Believe it is gone now, burnt in a fire in the late noughties and subsumed into Camden Market ? )

    We just changed our hairstyles depending on the night . We knew loads of people on the music scene then and most were like us , going to as many bands and enjoying the craic .

    Also an older relative of mine used to frequent the Dublin Castle on Parkway and while he drank in the bar , we would be in the back dancing , all for the princely sum of 2 quid or 4 if the band were well known .

    Saw Madness play there, among others .

    The bands often used to have a few drinks and stay for a chat after if they were regulars .

    There was another music pub down that street as well . Can't remember the name though . 🎶

    It was a fabulous place to be in the 80s if you had a job . And were young and healthy I guess , Maggie Thatcher notwithstanding .



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    #196
    Goldengirl
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119292669#Comment_119292669

    Would have loved to see The Jam



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    #197
    Dreamweapon
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119290939#Comment_119290939

    I remember going to a F*ck Homelands party on Baltray beach after one of them. Mixture of crusties, festival attendees and local yahoos. Some muppet set a car on fire.

    The place in Drogheda was Luciano's in the Boyne Valley Hotel. Some mad nights in there alright.

    …^……<…./?::;;:::@"! ((((((*))))))#=)))))~



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    #198
    Dreamweapon
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119291226#Comment_119291226

    The chap in the tree is Ronnie. Can't see the Wood for the trees i guess. Although surely Ronnie would of been out of his tree. I'll get me coat...

    …^……<…./?::;;:::@"! ((((((*))))))#=)))))~



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    #199
    thebaz
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119293786#Comment_119293786

    They were brilliant , but like lots of gigs back then a lot of fights. some atmosphere.



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    #200
    Goldengirl
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119294462#Comment_119294462

    Heard Paul Weller burned the Irish flag at one after the Guildford bombing. It was next to home for him, tbf , from Woking , so he was very emotional.

    It certainly lit up the concert by all accounts 😯



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    #201
    bullpost
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    The Ramones in the State Cinema Phibsboro 1978 was another for me.



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    #202
    holly8
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    this one! Support by Golden Horde


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    #203
    [Deleted User]
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    The Guildford bombing was 1974. I know The Jam formed in 1972 but not sure how regularly they were gigging in those early days. Their first single wasn’t released until 1977.



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    #204
    Goldengirl
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119299986#Comment_119299986

    I was told by my someone who was at the gig and who is from Woking . . Don't know when it was but think it was early on .



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    #205
    Del Griffith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭Del Griffith


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118937381#Comment_118937381

    Radiohead in Galway in 96 was one of the best ever. Very special gig.



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    #206
    Beasty
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    A separate conversation with PTH2009 has just reminded me of this little encore at Manchester Apollo back on 19 November 1982

    Elton did 3 nights, but his special guest only appeared at the one I was at. It never happened again in that tour, and AFAIK, other than when the pair of them were on the Wembley stage at the end of Live Aid, this was the only time it ever happened:

    elton and freddie.jpg

    Freddie had borrowed one of Elton's red numbers



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    #207
    bodhrandude
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    I'll give this a little bump but saw this on Sky Arts the other night, they have it titled as 2016 but its actually 2013. Soundgarden.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCwpNj_t83M&t=4s


    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #208
    paulinhio
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    Yeah, good times, I was at most of the ones u mentioned - and Oasis. Definitely Maybe had just come out that week.

    20240206_140659.jpg
    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119035830#Comment_119035830




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    #209
    Suvarnabhumi
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    Saw AC/DC in Paris in 2001 and they came out after "For those about to Rock....." and played "Ride On". They'd never performed it before (even with Bon), and they've never performed it since.



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    #210
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121729385#Comment_121729385

    I was at that

    Liam Gallagher in menacing form



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    #211
    rossie1977
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    Meat Loaf in a tent in Bundoran during a hurricane

    https://m.independent.ie/style/celebrity/fans-lap-up-late-meat-loaf/26462462.html



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