Best gig or event you've been to?

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

Garth Brooks this July.

If you think that going in to it, it definitely won't be.

The Stone roses in Heaton park is up there for me....aided by the 25 year wait.
Iggy Pop at kilmainham was suprisingly fantastic as were a few of the metalica dublin gigs.
When I was a young fella U2 at croke park in 86 (or was it 87) was a big deal too but I would not cross the street to see them now.

On the sports front the kentucky derby 2001 was great craic all together.

I should probably say Nine Simmone in Chicago in 2001 or Joe Strummer in the Olympia in (I can't remember the year) but it was Gorky's Zygotic Mynci in (can't remember the name of the venue) in Dublin in 2001 or there about (I'm **** with dates and venues).

I went alone as no one else would come with me, brought my whole CD collection (about 10 CDs in total including singles, EPs etc). I knocked back a load of beers and got the Dutch Courage to approach the band who were having a drink before the gig. I sat down with them and chatted to them while they signed all of them for me. Met a guy from my hometown who was also a fan and I didn't know, so I'd someone to hang out with. I was buzzing for weeks after! Great memories.

Also meeting Dave Couse from A House at a solo gig in London in 2006. I'm a big A House fan, so decided to go up and talk to him after the gig. He was so sound. Told him my story about I used one of his CDs as a mirror in the changing room at work to put on some mascara and it slipped behind the hand-dryer and how any time the hand-dryer was turned on, you'd hear the CD banging of it (I must've been baloobas telling him that story. Scarla for me! ). He thought it was hilarious and gave me another signed copy of the CD and a t-shirt and asked me to join him for pints after (I couldn't go as I had to get the last bus home and work the next day).

Good times.

ROCKMAN wrote: »

AC /DC Monsters OF Rock ,Donington Park 1991



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I won all expenses paid, (flights and accommodation and backstage passes) vip tickets to see them in Donnington in 2010.

Yep, was right up there as one of the best days of my life so far.

Brian Johnston is a really sound bloke, they all were tbh, but he went out of his way to relate with you (starting telling me of some Irish pubs he was locked in in his time)

Coldplay in Belfasts Odyssey (05 or 06, not sure) was pretty good too.