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The best live act you’ve ever seen

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    #62
    FrKurtFahrt
    Registered Users Posts: 899 ✭✭✭FrKurtFahrt


    Tom Waits, Rat Cellar, Phoenix Park, July 2008. Just magnificent.


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    #63
    smurgen
    Registered Users Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    Future islands


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    #64
    Top_Guy
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭Top_Guy


    Daft Punk Oxegen 2007
    Foals 3 Arena 2016


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    #65
    Kevin Finnerty
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    Fuckit I haven't lived.


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    #66
    Laphroaig52
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    Frank Sinatra. The Point, Dublin, 1991.
    You won't beat that.


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    bodhrandude
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    OldRio wrote: »
    Hawkwind in 1970.
    Nothing was ever the same again.

    You sound like you have seen some great space rock through the years, my first time seeing Hawkwind was 1983. :)

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



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    Hellrazer
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    For me it has to be basically any90s metal gig but my most memorable.

    Ozzy in Mcgonagles in 1991--went to both nights cos the tickets were only 8.00 old pounds.
    Metallica in the top hat in 1988.
    RHCP in the Point in 1995 .
    Another one that was a fantastic night was Mud / Sweet / Showaddywaddy and Suzi Quatro in the Point in 1993--don't know how I ended up at that one but I remember being in the rock garden and someone said cmon we`ll head down and see if we can get cheap tickets. Think we paid something like 2.00 pound each from a tout who couldn't get rid of them quick enough. But look at that line up. All for 2.00 quid!!


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    #69
    AllForIt
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    R Kellly on CBS News yesterday


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    #70
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,775 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Black Country Communion at Vicar St. in 2011 were amazing.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w82V4gsSW-4


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    Hellrazer
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    lbj666 wrote: »
    Faith No More Olympia 2009 but I am waiting for some old fart to tell me..." nah they we way better at sunstroke in dalymount back in 1891 "

    No one better than that I saw them in the Top Hat in Dun Laoire in 1990 I think. Now that was a good gig!!


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    #72
    Giveaway
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    Josh Ritter Vicar Street


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    #73
    wally79
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    Leonard Cohen at kilmainham

    The weather was great
    The atmosphere was great
    And the man himself was great
    RIP


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    #74
    storker
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    Springsteen
    Steve Marriott


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    #75
    Elemonator
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    Chic at Electric Picnic 2018.


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    #76
    sligojoek
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    I've seen The Pogues many times from the early 80s in Paddy Kennedy's in Puckane, to Dublin, Manchester, Birmingham, and Paris in 2013 (I think) . The band were always great and when Shane was on his game it was even better. Drummer Andrew Rankin said, 'All pogues reviews go like this, "The band were good, the singer was drunk and tears were shed for the famine." '.

    Movin' Hearts. Puckane again

    Ozzy. Leicester

    Gary Moore. Birmingham

    John Martyn. Grange Co. Sligo. 200 capacity

    Old Crow Medicine Show. Olympia

    Hayseed Dixie. Sligo


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    #77
    Ian OB
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    Therapy?

    The energy off the stage when they play is something else entirely.

    RATM run them a close second place


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    bodhrandude
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Pearl jam. Will give you at least three hours. No two gigs the same. You're enjoying it because they're enjoying it

    Would be better if they decided to play Ireland again.

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



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    Rubberchikken
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    michael jackson. cork. 198?. cant remember year!
    excellent concert.


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    Mad_maxx
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    U2 pop mart 1997 Dublin

    Others might not agree at all but I was just gone twenty and life was pretty perfect, all came together

    Saw them again in slane 2001 and didn't get as much out of it


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    Hellrazer
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    Forgot one--Bodycount in the SFX
    The controversy leading up to it was nuts. Gardaí saying they`d arrest the band if they played cop killer--yep think they started with cop killer.
    Amazing gig.Has to be in my top 3 ever.

    Im too old now for these rock and metal gigs--saw Suicidial Tendencies last year in the academy--may aswell have stayed home with my slippers and my pipe. Old rockers don't age well!!!


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    shamrock55
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    For me it's Metallica in Donnington in late 90s, and at the point, also u2 zooropa in Páirc Uí Chaoimh was pretty special


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    kenmc
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    Any sawdoctors gig, the energy they have is unreal.

    Counting crows Olympia 1997 I think, got to see them both nights, each night was like they were playing a private gig, to everyone there, surreal. Saw them in point/3 arena since and disappointed. The venue makes huge difference.

    Grandaddy in vicar street 2017, a couple of weeks before Kevin (bassist) passed away. First saw them in tbmc around 2000, excellent then too.

    Dave Matthews band in the Olympia 2017 or 18. Again way better than point or whatever it's called at the time, where they played around 2015 or so, didn't love.

    Damian rice in paradiso, amsterdam, 2002 or 2003. Savage venue, old church.


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    lertsnim
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    Queens of the Stoneage at the Olympia. Was a phenomenal show with the band and audience feeding off each other.


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    10-10-20
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    I've seen some great gigs and epic singers, the memories came back as I read through the thread.

    1. Richard Ashcroft, specifically singing Space and Time in the Olympia in about 2005.
    2. David Bowie, Point Depot, 2004.
    3. Prodigy, Olympia 2004. Epic head-banging. Oh, the sadness of Keith's passing.
    4. U2, Slane 2001. The night of the Irish football match. OMG. What a gig.
    4. Ocean Colour Scene, The tent, Oxegen, 2003. The tent barely survived the thunderous rain...

    Gigs which I'd love to see on this shore:
    1. Damien Rice.
    2. Reina del Cid and Josh Turner


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    happyoutscan
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    Thrashssacre wrote: »
    Here’s hoping was disappointed enough with gnr last time but a couple more decent support acts and a solid set list from Metallica and it could be a good day

    Disappointed? The were great, not sure how you were disappointed.

    Rammstein are phenomenal live.


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    bleonard1976
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    My best ever gig has to be Led Zeppelin in the O2 Arena in London on 10th December 2007. A gig most of the world thought they would never see. Me included. Unbelievable gig


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    eagle eye
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    Best show for me was Michael Jackson in Lansdowne Road in '92.
    Best music and atmosphere was UB40 in the RDS in '94.


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    Bannasidhe
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    The Specials + The Beat + Laurel Aitken.
    17th January 1981.
    Downtown Kampus
    Cork.

    I've seen a lot of bands in a lot of venues since then but that one set a benchmark no one else came close to.


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    Taxuser1
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    Both in Sir Henry's in Cork in 1994 and 1995

    Manic Street Preachers - maybe 100 at it.

    Sasha and John Digweed - place was bouncing, unbelievable.


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    Strumms
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    [QUOTE=sligojoek;109617396

    John Martyn. Grange Co. Sligo. 200 capacity

    [/QUOTE]

    Saw JM in Vicar St one of the last shows he ever played if not THE last show and he was beyond great. There was a punkish edge to the folkiest softest heart, a contradiction in person that seemed to suit the general narrative of the music... he was beyond funnny and mischievous in between the songs, had a real soulful genial ‘real’ presence and made Vicar St feel like a small pub with some friends and an old lad on guitar, everyone having a sweet time. I think May You Never is one of if not THE finest most genuine love songs committed to tape and when he sang it in front of you, you could feel the love in the room get magnified by 120000


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