Best gig or event you've been to?

Been to hundreds over the years, but the ones that really stand out, you know, where you're just hypnotized by the performance I could probably count on my fingers. Most recent ones -

The Stooges in the South Bank Centre in London last year. Iggy Pop to the audience:
"I wanna invite every ass in this room up on stage to dance with The Stooges". Cue 300 strong stage invasion for the following tune!

Also last year Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds at the Hammersmith Appollo and The Fall in the Islington Assembly Rooms. Mesmerizing!
Afghan Whigs in the Koko blew my brains out, as did Mudhoney in the same venue about two years previous.

Older gigs include Patti Smith also at the South Bank Centre, at various points in the gig accompanied by Flea/God Speed You Black Emperor/Silver Mt.Zion Orchestra/The Master Musicians of Jajouka who had performed on the street outside the venue for free before the gig.

Wire in The Barbican in 2002 were really intense. Interpol in Shepherds Bush the same year I think.

Best ever for me was Joe Strummer in the Olympia in 2000 I think it was, and went to see him in The Brixton Academy a couple of days later with John Cooper Clarke opening. Even the bouncers were pi$$ing themselves laughing he was that funny!

Really early ones would include a pre-global Nirvana opening for Sonic Youth in front of about three to four hundred people in 1991. Buzzcocks in Galway back in '91 as well, plus probably some of The Golden Horde gigs at various venues around Ireland from the late 80's to early 90's still make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up when I think of them.