concerts... best/worst/first??

celtictiger32 · 31-03-2011 3:00am #1

just putting it out there ive been to a good few over the years i think my first was bon jovi back in the eighties still remember it. best and worst im not really sure id have to think back.....

Gunslinger92 · 31-03-2011 10:47am

First - Stereophonics in the INEC in Killarney.
Best - Really really hard to choose between Green Day in Wembley Stadium and Avenged Sevenfold in the Olympia, but I'll go with A7X.
Worst - Paramore supporting Green Day in Marlay park. Never. Again.

splashthecash · 31-03-2011 11:01am

First - The Verve in the Point. Great gig as far as I remember....the sights, the smells, the sounds...

Best - There are a few here, U2 in Slane 2001 (first time seeing U2, couldn't believe they were right there in front of me...absolute blast!), Green Day in the Point in either 1999\2000 (these guys can put on a show...the energy is immense. Class songs too), Coldplay\Elbow in Phoenix Park last year (Coldplay have great anthems that work well in large arenas and Elbow...wow, they were AS good if not better than Coldoplay.....going to see them tonight in the O2!)

Worst - Stereophonics in Slane 2002...no energy or interaction at all...no pride or enthusiasim in the songs they were playing

celica00 · 31-03-2011 11:07am

Best: James Blunt ....this guy is awesome! Its not my favorite kind of genre but his show was just mind blowing!

Worst: I think that was Bring me the horizon 2009 @ a Festival...Oli's Voice just sucks live (but I love their albums

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First: I think that was 2005 , Robbie Williams

XcupcakeX · 31-03-2011 11:20am

first was michael jackson in wembley back in the early 90's

Worst was korn in the point...... No interaction and seemed like a going through the motions gig

Best has far too many to pick from.....my chemical romance, green day, alkaline trio, papa roach were all amazing. And limp bizkit was awesome.... But I think I will go with aexisonfire, purely for the fact that I wasn't a huge fan before the gig, but they really blew me away live

StaticAge11 · 31-03-2011 12:02pm

First Metallica in Wembley Stadium in 2007

Best Green Day in Wembley Stadium in 2010 or Avenged Sevenfold in the Olympia in 2010

Worst Glasvegas. Saw them support Muse and Oasis. Terrible both times. How they make money is beyond me!!

Mushy · 31-03-2011 12:14pm

First: metallica at rds in 03

Best: any porcupine tree or pearl jam ones.

Worst: ozzy with black label supporting.

marwelie · 31-03-2011 12:15pm

First: Queen at Slane 86.

Best: Radiohead in the RDS in 97 (week after OK Computer was released), Richard Hawley in Vicar Street 2007 (I think!), U2 in Cork in 87. Special mention for Macca in the RDS. Lifelong ambition to see him. Good but not nearly as good as his show in the O2.

Worst: Badly Drawn Boy in the Olympia, Fountains of Wayne in The Ambassador.

jossnjuice · 31-03-2011 12:23pm

First - Either Christy Moore or Meat Loaf, both in the point, and within a few weeks of each other in late '93

Best - Springsteen in the RDS in 2008 and 9, Bon Jovi in croker 2005, Christy Moore, in the grand canal last December

Worst - Clapton in Malahide Castle......Speakers blew during the solo in Layla twice, and he just kept going....nobody told him.....coupled with pissing rain and 60 mile an hour winds.

bogmanfan · 31-03-2011 12:42pm

FIRST: US3 in the Olympia around 1994

BEST: Boredoms in the Village 2007 or Broken Social Scene in TBMC 2005

WORST: Mum in Vicar St in 2004 I think. Animal Collective supported. Both were rubbish

optogirl · 31-03-2011 12:49pm

First: David Bowie in the Point in 1995

Best: Leonard Cohen in Lissadel House in 2010/ Radiohead in Malahide Castle 2008

Worst: Oasis at Slane 2009. What a clusterfu*ck.

glennhysen · 31-03-2011 1:02pm

First: Ned's Atomic Dustbin in McGonagle's (used to be in Sth Anne Street) in 1991

Best: The Cure, Wembley Arena 2008 or Radiohead in the Point in 2003

Worst: The Eagles in the RDS sometime in mid 90's?

hidinginthebush · 31-03-2011 1:13pm

First: Metallica in the point, back in 1999

Best: Either that Metallica gig, Pearl Jam in London in in 2009 or Ocean Color Scene in the Olympia a few weeks back ,talk about a trip down memory laqe!

Worst is either the Red Hot Chili Peppers in Lansdowne Road, absolute shyte, think they placyed for a shade over an hour, or

jossnjuice wrote: »

Worst - Clapton in Malahide Castle......Speakers blew during the solo in Layla twice, and he just kept going....nobody told him.....coupled with pissing rain and 60 mile an hour winds.

Really broke my heart, should have been epic, but no, it was a huge disappointment. The fact that he didn't even apologise for the sound going sealed the deal.

celtictiger32 · 31-03-2011 1:27pm

its funny how when it comes to the best people can never decide so they put down a couple..... and im going to do the very same i cant decide, i remember alice cooper played the point years ago great concert even the special effects alone were woth a look (the guy that did terminator 2 did them), seen metallica there aswell another great gig, another one that stands out was bon jovi in the rds it pissed rain there was thunder and lightning but it looked like it was part of the show brilliant concert.

the worst was probably brian may (queen guitarist) my mate rang me out of the blue he had a couple of free tickets there was a good reason they were free, oh ye and i went to see soul asylum in the sfx on paddys night years ago was only a youngfella drank too much all day and conked out at the gig

humanji · 31-03-2011 1:44pm

My first was Pearl Jam in either '95 or '96 and it's still one of my favourites.

But my No. 1 gig would be Black Stone Cherry in possibly the Academy in Dublin (can't quite remember the venue). They were brilliant. Full of energy and sounded fantastic.

The worst was Cat Power in, I think, Whelan's in Dublin. She had had some sort of fall the previous day and was a mix between having a concussion and being stoned. The hair was matted with blood, or so she kept saying. She played one song for about 3/4's of an hour, starting and stopping and trying to sort out the sound system. So we threw in the towel and left. Should have asked for our money back, but were so pissed off we didn't even think about it.

Dibble · 31-03-2011 1:59pm

First gig: Simple Minds in Croke Park 1986
Best gig: Neil Young in Slane 1993
Worst gig: I think the worst performance I ever witnessed was Finlay Quaye when he appeared on the Verve line-up in Slane '98 - absolutely atrocious!

ned rierson · 31-03-2011 2:10pm

First - Stiff Little Fingers TV Club Dublin 1982
Best - Echo & The Bunnymen SFX Dublin 1984
Worst - Vandals TBMC Dublin ????

rainbowdrop · 31-03-2011 2:19pm

First: Faithless @ Creamfields, Punchestown 2001. Brilliant gig:D

Best: Probably Gorrilaz in the 02 last year. They were fantastic I thought, the crowd was really up for it and all the special guests made it even better.

Worst: Mumford and Sons. Electric Picnic last year, they are shit live!!

Special mention for general shitness must go to UB40 in Millstreet about 5years ago. I have never seen so many fight in my life, nor so many members of our 'travelling brethren'. The sound was crap and they had to stop the music a few times so Ali Campbell could tell the crowd to 'stop fighting, start dancing'. The Wailers supported them and were excellent though, way better than UB40!!

Mint Sauce · 31-03-2011 2:20pm

Best - Ash - London Astoria - 1997.

One big mosh pit.

First - Michael Jackson - Wembley Stadium - 1992

WOW!

Worst - Oasis - Lansdowne Road - 2000

No crowd interaction, literally only played the songs and walked off within the hour

ghostdancer · 31-03-2011 2:27pm

irish-stew wrote: »

Worst - Oasis - Lansdowne Road - 2000

No crowd interaction, literally only played the songs and walked off within the hour

i have a recording of this (it was actually my 1st gig), and that's not true at all. they talk between most songs, and it's 90mins long, pretty standard gig time.
16 songs:
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/oasis/2000/lansdowne-road-dublin-ireland-6bd28ac6.html

Mint Sauce · 31-03-2011 2:46pm

ghostdancer wrote: »

i have a recording of this (it was actually my 1st gig), and that's not true at all. they talk between most songs, and it's 90mins long, pretty standard gig time.
16 songs:
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/oasis/2000/lansdowne-road-dublin-ireland-6bd28ac6.html

My memory of it was pretty bad anyway, and I left very disapointed. Prehaps in that disapointment I have forgotton the good in it. The only highlight I have from it was the guy who danced on the top of the sound tent, and Liam commenting on it.

I do remember being better impressed by Supergrass though, whose music I knew very little of before hand.

NIBBS · 31-03-2011 3:39pm

gotta say I've been blessed to see a lot of amazing gigs over the years, and for me it's also quite difficult to pick one for the worst - the more gigs you hit the higher the risk of seeing a band on a truly off night or just a **** live band.....

First - Anthrax/Testament, S.F.X. 30-10-1987

Best - Slayer in the Top Hat in '88, Jeff Healey in the Stadium, Suicidal Tendencies in the TBMC, Marillion Button Factory Dec '09 and WASP the night before Marillion in the same venue........

Worst - Chilli Peppers in Lansdowne is up there, taking the money and running, no energy, no interest in being there, could have been a bad day and therefore unfair on them, but I'd never pay to see them again - Monster Magnet in the Ambassador, truely shocking performance, completely blown away by the supports (Glucifier and The Quill)

old gregg · 31-03-2011 6:20pm

First - Rory Gallagher, Macroom Mountain Dew Festival 1978 (0r 9, too far back to remember)

Best - hard to say, there's been so many but perhaps Radiohead in the Olympia in 03, Sigur Ros in the Olympia, Pixies also in the Olympia ... the Olympia is a great place to catch a gig I reckon, Dreadzone at Life, Lamb of God at the Point, Cancer Bats at the Academy, Rob Hood in the Twisted Pepper .... crikey where do you stop

Worst - probably some night seeing the Rolling Stones in recent years as they phone in another piss poor performance, U2 at Croke park on the last tour, Black Crowes we pretty awful at Wembley in 95 ... dunno really, Chili Peppers at Phoenix Park were blown away by the Pixies so that was crap.

evillive · 31-03-2011 6:31pm

First - Metallica - Top Hat 1988 - total blur, just sorry i cant remember any of it

Best - Ozzy - McGonagles - 91/92 - a privilege to have seen him up close and personal in such a small gig - and i got one of Randy Castillo's drumsticks which he signed later - although its obv pretty hard to write on a stick

Worst - Thunder SFX - early 90's - support band, No Sweat blew them away and it was all they could do to stay on stage and finish their set

hellyeah · 31-03-2011 8:16pm

FIRST : Def lepard in the olympia around 97 me thinks.

worst : iron maiden at the rds a few year back when manson was in support. sound was awfull.

best : soulfly for the dark ages tour in the temple bar. slipknot at the rds( shadows fall in support) every metallica gig ive been at.:D Kiss last year at the point.

unreggd · 31-03-2011 8:25pm

First: O2 in the Park [First in a venue, Greenday @ The Point]

Best: Imelda May @ The Olympia, Dec 2010.
Everything was just PERFECT! She looked and sounded incredible, the stage was great, the lights, the atmosphere, and she did a Christmassy encore in a santy suit with ACTUAL snow!

Swoooon......

Worst: Dont really have one, but Maroon 5 @ Grand Canal ended up crap because Adam Levine is a cocky, arrogant, disprepectful and unappreciative bastard

Pauleta · 31-03-2011 8:40pm

1st big concert was Guns n Roses in the RDS 2006

Best concert - AC/DC in the o2 in 2009

Worst Concert - Guns n Roses in the o2 2010 :pac:

celtictiger32 · 31-03-2011 11:46pm

Pauleta wrote: »

1st big concert was Guns n Roses in the RDS 2006

Best concert - AC/DC in the o2 in 2009

Worst Concert - Guns n Roses in the o2 2010 :pac:

was at the gnr one in 2006 good concert seb bach came out and did a bit with them

christeb · 01-04-2011 11:24am

First - Feeder supported by Low and Snow Patrol. MTV Brand New gig with Zane Lowe, in the Tivoli Theatre ca. 1999. Great gig.

Best - Macca in the O2, December 2009. Beautiful, I couldn't believe it was him and he was in amazing form. Seeing Queen + Paul Rodgers is close, but Macca just gets the nod. The Raconteurs in the Olympia close too.

Worst - Lynryd Skynyrd in the O2 last year. Midweek gig, no one was there and I just felt sorry for the poor guys.

sydthebeat · 01-04-2011 12:27pm

First:- U2 Zoo TV tour 1993

Best:- (one 1??) roger waters (marquee in cork), nice cave (electric picnic), mike oldfield (the point)

worst:- dylan (the point)

nobby grande · 01-04-2011 12:38pm

First - Massive Attack + Radiohead RDS 1997. OK computer and Protection. Two great albums, two great acts. Sunny weather, couldnt ask for more.

Best - Pixies 2nd night of reunion tour in Europe - Brixton Academy 2005 - never thought i'd get to see them live. Amazing show, great sound, atmosphere was euphoric.

Worst - Oxegen 2009 - Non stop rain. Scumbags everywhere. Even in the tents there was aggro.

Sugarlumps · 01-04-2011 1:31pm

First: The Cult yonks ago in The Point which was the Sonic Temple album. Electric was the first album I ever bought and it still rocks.

Best: NIN...the energy in there playing, sound & tightness is at another level, and I’ve seen lots.

Worst: Soundgarden in the RDS I think? Pretty sure it was there last date of their European or World tour, I could be mistaken which would make it worse still. They were probably knackered but I couldn’t give a f*ck as they were lifeless as a droopy c*ck. Matt Cameron was excellent full and of energy as usual but the rest sucked ass juice. Shepherd gave the fingers several times to the crowd, a mannequin would have more moves than Kim Thayil and Cornell’s voice was shot.

bigfeller · 01-04-2011 1:43pm

First: Inxs in the Point...'90ish.

Best: Nine Inch Nails ('93 in the SFX), Flaming Lips in Vicar St. or Faith No More (Sunstroke or Olympia...decisions...) or Frank Black and the Catholics as Vicar St. or any of the Pixies gigs.

Worst: Kings of Leon supporting Pixies - they just didn't want to be there or Soundgarden at Sunstroke - came on after White Zombie and flopped.

schemingbohemia · 01-04-2011 4:53pm

humanji wrote: »

The worst was Cat Power in, I think, Whelan's in Dublin. She had had some sort of fall the previous day and was a mix between having a concussion and being stoned. The hair was matted with blood, or so she kept saying. She played one song for about 3/4's of an hour, starting and stopping and trying to sort out the sound system. So we threw in the towel and left. Should have asked for our money back, but were so pissed off we didn't even think about it.

Think that might be my worst gig too, Bright Eyes in Whelans was also a contender.

Best i'll have to give a few can't make up my mind - Wilco in Whelans, Sigur Ros & Godspeed you Black Emperor in TBMC, Sufjan Stevens in Ambassador, Sugarcubes & Pixies in a small venue in Boston in '88 which was either my first gig or Fugazi in McGonagles (if you don't go counting Larks in the Park*)

*only remembered by fellow ancient folk, think i saw light a big fire playing in dun laoghaire or blackrock

acquiescefc · 01-04-2011 5:33pm

id say

First: Pet Shop Boys in Brum NEC about 88 - odd, supprted by an orchestra, the whole crowd were bored and di mexican wave throughout.

Best: Rage against the Machine at Reading Festival 1996 - words cant express how good this was.

Worst: Cant really think of any specific, maybe Limp Bizkit the other year at RDS. Was only there to see QotSA and thought Limp Bizkit were just complete c0ck. Obv GnR 2010 gets a special mention, the gig itself was good-ish. You know the rest.

karaokeman · 01-04-2011 6:52pm

Best : Green Day at Marlay Park, absolutely nothing like it. Great energy, great crowds, all the hits you just can't get any better

First : Westlife at the Point, 2000

Worst : Barbarellas supporting Boyzone

johnnykilo · 02-04-2011 1:23am

First: Frank Black & The Catholics - Vicar Street - 2001. Got to meet Frank Black outside as a nice little bonus

Best: Hard to pin down, but these are contenders
Sigur Ros - The Ambassador - 2002. It was like a religious experience.
Interpol at Oxegen 2005. Just remembered the moment they started to play everyone went mental.

Worst:
Edit: just remembered Bob Dylan - Kilkenny - 2006. Heard that he can either be brilliant or awful, he was definitely the latter that night.
These two are runners up:
Possibly Interpol at The Olympia -2005. No crowd interaction whatsoever as I recall plus I was in a hoop that night.
The Frames - Electric Picnic - 2006. Used to love them, but hadn't seen them in a while and they weren't doing it for me anymore.

Gunslinger92 · 02-04-2011 11:46am

karaokeman wrote: »

Best : Green Day at Marlay Park, absolutely nothing like it. Great energy, great crowds, all the hits you just can't get any better

I'm friends with the 2 who got picked for Longview

cee_jay · 02-04-2011 3:23pm

First: Blur, RDS, 1995
Worst: Probably Slane in 2002 - really enjoyed Ocean Colour Scene but Nickleback and Stereophonics really let the day down.
Best: Bon Jovi with Matchbox20 supporting, RDS, in 2001.

david75 · 02-04-2011 3:30pm

First:
Michael Jackson, Lansdowne road, 25 july 1992
Best 'big spectacular' gig ever. lookit this for an intro(go 18 seconds in)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QKKuVP4WoA

Best gig ever;

Pearl jam or the frames..millions of times in millions of places

worst:

Muse. Overrated sh!te.

leincar · 02-04-2011 6:23pm

First - Queen at the RDS Simmonscourt November 1979.

Worst - Queen at Slane 1986(Thats some admission as I'm a Queen fanatic.)

BEST - Too many highlights but Live Aid 1985 at Wembley, U2 Joshua Tree tour Croke Pk 1987, Paul McCartney December 2009 at the O2 and maybe as its very fresh in the mind but Elbow on 31/03 at the O2 was just fantastic.

poundhound · 03-04-2011 2:55pm

First: David Bowie at Slane 1987

Best: AC/DC, Point, 1991

Worst: Guns N Roses, RDS, 2006

westies4ever · 03-04-2011 3:03pm

ac/dc were awesome at punchestown in 2009. the verve at slane (98 or 99?) were really boring as was the U2 gig at crokepark in 2009 - saw them previously at lansdown, slane and croker and they were great but just found the last one so dull.

but1er · 03-04-2011 3:42pm

First: 50 cent point 2005

Best: Oasis Slane 09...Snoop P Diddy Point 06... Coldplay live the o2

Worst: Kanye West in the park just after his mam died terrrible gig

AnalogueKid · 04-04-2011 8:09am

First - Prince in Páirc Uí Chaoimh in 1990. He sold it out very quickly and the promoters added a second show which was subsequently cancelled as only 15,000 tickets were sold for the second one. The upshot was that they allowed people with tickets for the cancelled one to attend the first show - Páirc Uí Chaoimh was like sardines, well over 50,000 at that show - no such thing as health and safety back in those days. Savage show even though high winds had destroyed the backdrop to the stage.

Best - A three-way tie between Cornelius in Amsterdam in 2002, Rush in Birmingham in 2004 and The Residents at Roskilde in 1999. It's artists like these who put most to shame, in the studio and live on stage.

Worst - Wyclef Jean at Roskilde in 2001 :mad: - I wouldn't normally cross the road to see this gimp, but he was on the main stage on a very sunny afternoon so we decided to check him out. He came out stoned out of his bin, babbling away with all his 'one time' nonsense. Played House of Pain's Jump Around then asked the crowd "Is Germany number one!?" - met with a deafening silence from the Danish crowd. Asked it again and again, clueless as to why the crowd weren't reacting. Then his bass player leaned over and told him he was in Denmark, not Germany. The eejit then played Jump Around again, and left the stage. 30 minute set, if that. If he did that at Oxegen he wouldn't have left the festival alive.

AnalogueKid · 04-04-2011 8:20am

Best gigs I ever saw in Ireland -
David Bowie in the Olympia in 1997.
Prince in The Academy (or HQ or whatever it was called back then) in 2002.
Sparks at the Electric Picnic in 2005 or 2006. Hands down the best show of that festival imo - and still their only ever Irish show I think.

delbertgrady · 04-04-2011 8:41am

AnalogueKid wrote: »

Sparks at the Electric Picnic in 2005 or 2006. Hands down the best show of that festival imo - and still their only ever Irish show I think.

Yeah, I'm sure that's their only Irish appearance. I didn't see them at Electric Picnic, but I saw them doing Propaganda as part of their series of one-album-a-night shows in London, which was one of the best concerts I've ever seen. I asked Ron if there was any chance of them coming to Dublin later than year, to which he said that was the plan, but regrettably it didn't transpire.

Nice to see someone else on here who like Sparks AND Rush.

AnalogueKid · 04-04-2011 9:56am

delbertgrady wrote: »

Yeah, I'm sure that's their only Irish appearance. I didn't see them at Electric Picnic, but I saw them doing Propaganda as part of their series of one-album-a-night shows in London, which was one of the best concerts I've ever seen. I asked Ron if there was any chance of them coming to Dublin later than year, to which he said that was the plan, but regrettably it didn't transpire.
Nice to see someone else on here who like Sparks AND Rush.

I desperately wanted to see one of those Sparks gigs in London, but alas funds did not allow it.

seachto7 · 04-04-2011 11:35am

First - Metallica, The Point 1992

Best - Hard to pick one, but Wilco in Vicar Street stands out from a few years back as an outstanding gig.

Worst - Hole 1999 - Courtney Love off her head, a pity....

delbertgrady · 04-04-2011 12:34pm

AnalogueKid wrote: »

I desperately wanted to see one of those Sparks gigs in London, but alas funds did not allow it.

I just went to the Propaganda gig, which is probably my favourite album of theirs, and it was phenomenal to see them playing those songs in such a tiny venue. Kimono My House sold out first (not surprisingly). Fortunately, the day of the Propaganda show was also the day Ron and Russell decided to do a signing session in Borders, just around the corner from the venue, presumably because most of those songs were regularly in their set anyway, so they didn't need to do too much last-minute rehearsing on the day.

Marty McFly · 04-04-2011 5:59pm

First: The Verve at slane, was an amaizng day, was only 15 at the time so whole thing was a big deal to me.

BEST: Tough one would either have to be Kasabian in Dublin castle perfect venue for a gig, or Arctic Monkeys in Malahide castle.

Worst: Between two, either bloc party in the marquee in phoenix parkm nothing to do with bloc party have seen them live before and they are good but the sound that night in the marquee was atrocious, the other one being The Polce in croke park was really looking forward to that one, got there there was no atmosphere in the crowd and the police looked like they just didnt give a **** up on stage.

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