Best gig you ever went to?

Hotale.com · 09-05-2014 10:45PM #1

Mine had to be QOTSA in the O2 last November, getting crushed during A Song For the Dead was some craic

Yours?

BadTurtle · 09-05-2014 11:02PM

Tie between Daft Punk at Oxegen - probably the most exhausted I've ever been after a gig, absolutely nonstop for the whole set, and one of the best encores ever devised (Human After All/Prime Time of Your Life/Together/Music Sounds Better With You/One More Time all mixed into one) - and Watch The Throne at the O2 in 2012. Incredible set, so much packed into it, and again an immense encore in the form of 4 performances of N*ggas in Paris.

bodhrandude · 09-05-2014 11:17PM

Mine is mainly from some sets at Electric Picnic, LCD Sound System 2005, Iggy Pop & the Stooges 2007 and Fever Ray 2010 in joint place with Aphex Twin at RockNess 2010.

smallgarden · 09-05-2014 11:18PM

Tie between Leonard cohen and take that!

run_Forrest_run · 09-05-2014 11:31PM

it was so good I can't remember

dunno, could be my first, Guns N' Roses @ Slane for nostalgic reasons. Who knows.

SusanneKn · 09-05-2014 11:37PM

Kacey Musgraves last year in October in Whelans.

A.Gorilla · 09-05-2014 11:59PM

For me it has to be Roger Waters in the Aviva.....I don't think it will ever be topped!

grudgehugger · 10-05-2014 12:00AM

A list...

Sultans of Ping, ??? In Sligo, 91
Pavement, Rock Garden ca. 93 (legendary stuff)
Beastie Boys, RDS, ca 95
Nick Cave, Liss Ard, 98
Primal Scream (with Kevin Shields!), 01
Chemical Brothers @ EP, 11
Day 1 @ Primavera, 13 (Tame Impala/Killer Mike/grizzly bear/dino jr/phoenix/animal collective)
David Byrne & St. Vincent @ EP, 13

nxbyveromdwjpg · 10-05-2014 01:09AM

Hotale.com wrote: »

QOTSA in the O2 last November

Been going to gigs in Dublin since about '93 and that was definitely up with the best I've been at

InReality · 10-05-2014 01:22AM

Smashing Pumpkins in .. Vicar St I think 94/95 maybe.

GnR at Slane was my first gig that was mad too.

Engine Alley in Galway in 93/94 was a standout as well. Hot drummer

kwestfan08 · 10-05-2014 03:11AM

Another vote for Watch the Throne in the 02 here. It's the barometer for arena shows in my eyes now. The set design, light show everything.

That's even before you talk about the performances, 2 and half hours in the company of two of the worlds biggest stars playing a 40+ song set list. I''ve said it before but I think I'll be boring my grand kids with stories of how I seen Jay-Z and Kanye West share a stage the way some do now about seeing the Beatles or the Stones.

The Wild Bunch · 10-05-2014 08:37AM

Too many to choose from

Muse in the old Temple Bar Music Centre (Button Factory) May 2000
Muse in the Olympia with JJ72 October 2000
Placebo/Idlewild in the Olympia December 2000
Manic Street Preachers Journal for Plague Lovers tour Olympia June 2009
Happy Mondays Witnness 2000
The Vines Ambassador May 2003

Taxburden carrier · 10-05-2014 08:43AM

Stardust in Artane end of 78. The Greedy Bastards, made up of parts of Thin Lizzy and the Sex Pistols. The support act were U2.

Icaras · 10-05-2014 08:59AM

Nick Cave at Oxegen - Shane MacGowen came on and sang Lucy with him for the Encore
Flaming Lips at Oxegen the year White Stripes dropped out. I only went for the weekend to see the White Strips and decided to hang around when they announced they would not be playing - Im really glad I did their performance was unexpectedly brilliant.
Radiohead on their Hail to the Theif tour - some great live songs and they played creep on the second night!

Honourable mention to the Pet shop boys - a band I would have zero interest in, saw them in Oxegen to get out of the rain and they did put on a really good show.

MrBobbyZ · 10-05-2014 09:06AM

The Pixies, Phoenix Park. Honestly never thought I'd get to see them live.
The Prodigy. Feile, many many moons ago! Serious live act.

smallgarden · 10-05-2014 10:04AM

[QUOTE=Icaras;90320491
Flaming Lips at Oxegen the year White Stripes dropped out. I only went for the weekend to see the White Strips and decided to hang around when they announced they would not be playing - Im really glad I did their performance was unexpectedly brilliant. .[/QUOTE]

This was the best performance by someone I've never heard of, the gig at oxegen or possibly witness at the time was phenomenal! I didn't know a single song, still don't and was thoroughly entertained

washiskin · 10-05-2014 10:08AM

Top Three:

Springsteen, Slane 1985
David Bowie, Olympia Theatre 1997
George Michael. The O2 2006

Mint Sauce · 10-05-2014 10:13AM

Possibly Ash at the London Astoria, 1997. Night 3 of a 5 night set.

One big mosh pit, played most of 1977, and a few from Trailer.

Starscream25 · 10-05-2014 10:16AM

Ash in galway 2004 during their meltdown tour, fainted by the last song due to dehydration, the moshing was too much for me, epic gig tho.

Witchie · 10-05-2014 10:35AM

Massive contender from last night -Michael Franti in Whelans. Arrived to queue up and he was outside busking and chatting and getting photos with fans. Set the tone for the night. Unreal performance and was down dancing and singing in the crowd almost as much as he was on stage. I think he hugged or shook hands or high fived pretty much everyone in the venue.

At end of gig his guitarist did a dj set and he was just out partying with us all. Loads of fans on stage partying with him and the band, myself included. Beautiful man, beautiful music and a beautiful atmosphere of love in the room. Will be hard to beat.

stanley1 · 10-05-2014 10:38AM

Led Zeppelin, stadium 1971, awesome.

Mental Mickey · 10-05-2014 10:41AM

Two Metallica gigs(both in the Point), in 92 & 96. Insane gigs......especially '96 during the Load album tour.

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stanley1 · 10-05-2014 10:58AM

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Think it was '98, set list here.

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/jimmy-page-and-robert-plant/1998/the-point-depot-dublin-ireland-3d2cda3.html

Irish Aris · 10-05-2014 11:10AM

The first time I saw Duran Duran (though I was 33 at the time) - I actually cried: my first music love ever.

Both times that I saw Sigur Ros live, what an experience it is to see the Icelanders live.
And all 4 times that I've seen Simple Minds. One of the best live bands ever!!!

OldMrBrennan83 · 10-05-2014 11:12AM

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Birneybau · 10-05-2014 11:32AM

InReality wrote: »

Smashing Pumpkins in .. Vicar St I think 94/95 maybe.

GnR at Slane was my first gig that was mad too.

Engine Alley in Galway in 93/94 was a standout as well. Hot drummer

Vicar Street opened in September '98?

Anyway, off the top of my head, St. Vincent in the Olympia earlier this year. Wow!

melekalikimaka · 10-05-2014 05:31PM

Die Antwoord - the academy

serious tunes

Arnold Layne · 10-05-2014 05:39PM

Metallica wih Danzig supporting in the Top Hat in Dun Laoghaire in 1988.

Bowie in Glastonbury in 2000

fuerte1976 · 10-05-2014 05:41PM

The Stunning in the savoy in Cork about 15 years ago. Stone cold sober too :pac:

Best gig you ever went to?

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