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Performances that have blown you away

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 256 ✭✭Pasteur.


    Stumbled across a Bee Gees Tribute on Sky Arts or one of them channels and although I would have been a huge fan they have written some fairly decent tunes.
    Near the end, Celine Dion (who had only a short time before that lost her husband and brother) sang Immortality and they had part of the original video with Maurice and Robin and Barry in the background - sounds so cheesy - it was like she sang it just to Barry who was in the crowd and he sang along..

    I ugly cried

    Bee gees should probably win every award

    They were that good


  • Registered Users Posts: 715 ✭✭✭Stihl waters


    Jesse Winchesters performance of shama ling dong ding onstage with neko case, elvis Costello, Sheryl crow and Ron Sexsmith, the show was called spectacle iirc and ron did an outstanding performance with Costello with every day I write the book, but jesses solo blew me away, it was the first time I'd ever seen him and listen to his stuff regularly since, Neko Case was also a new one to me and is always top of my playlist, maybe someone can link the video as I can't, I'd love to have seen Jesse live but he died a while after that episode was made


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Jimbob1977 wrote: »
    The binary sunset in Star Wars

    When Luke Skywalker looks into the distance across the Tattooine desert and thinks of his destiny
    I dunno about performance JimBob, but I remember that scene very clearly as a kid in the 70's when it came out. I was 8 or 9. That film hit me in a way that such things only can when they're brand new and fresh and you're a child. Though that said my dad who brought me thought it was brilliant too. :)

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    Wibbs wrote: »
    I dunno about performance JimBob, but I remember that scene very clearly as a kid in the 70's when it came out. I was 8 or 9. That film hit me in a way that such things only can when they're brand new and fresh and you're a child. Though that said my dad who brought me thought it was brilliant too. :)

    It was my first time to a cinema. Savoy 1. The screen was wider than our house. My Dad brought me and some of my friends for my 8th birthday.

    I completely understand what you mean. My son is now almost 14 and also a big Star Wars fan.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 412 ✭✭Alejandro68


    Queen's live aid set and Susan Boyle's audition on BGT.


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    pipelaser wrote: »
    https://youtu.be/t7ayocfGDzU

    Seems he was only ever given one opportunity to play, and with his few minutes he turned in a once in a lifetime performance!
    Amazing what a room/gymnasium full of positive energy can do to make you better than ever!


    Oooo right in the feels


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,960 ✭✭✭billyhead


    Watching the video for Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson when I was about 7 or 8.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Apparently a similar performance in early 1960's London where a couple of BBC employees were present gave the idea to one of them of coming up with the Doctor Who villains the Daleks. That smooth movement minus feet and legs of the women in that dance.

    The precision in that is amazing and the tune is pretty damn good too. :) Watch the men though going en pointe(sp) like ballet dancers minus the support of ballet shoes. You'd have to have legs and feet of iron for that. :eek:

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,081 ✭✭✭sheesh




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Frankie Machine


    One of my earliest memories is hearing Buddy Holly's 'True Love Ways', and the sax solo still often comes to my mind. First thing I bought myself probably ten years later when I started working, was a tenor sax.

    So I suppose that performance blew me away, since it has stayed with me and changed my life in such a positive direction. Anyway...

    Coleman Hawkins, Body and Soul

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUFg6HvljDE

    Sonny Rollins, 'You Don't Know What Love Is'.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn6VFGVwPGE

    The quirky virtuosity of Rahsaan Roland Kirk, playing three saxophones simultaneously.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIqLJmlQQNM



    Dexter Gordon in the film 'Round Midnight'.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 410 ✭✭ofthelord


    Seen these guys live a few times, was checking out some of their videos earlier today before I spotted this tread.
    Excellent live band.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,506 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Everytime a thread like this comes up, i have my 2 go-to videos: 1 is the George Harrison tribute with Prince that was posted already, the other is this - Paul Weller and band going hell for leather on Jools Holland



    Edit: and a 3rd, Roads by Portishead in Roseland NYC. Even the yanks screaming at inappropriate moments doesnt ruin it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Frankie Machine


    A true story -

    Salsa lessons every day in Havana for three weeks, with people who it transpired were old friends of Ibrahim Ferrer, the vocalist with Buena Vista Social Club.

    Spent an afternoon at his house, dancing Salsa and getting locked on rum and coke. We sang Bruca Manigua together and I was bawling like an ass going out the door

    :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjTcKP7JwfY


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,952 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    When I was about 15 in the 80s we had a half day from school and a few of us went round to a friend's house. The friend had rented AC/DC's Let There Be Rock concert video. It's still one of the best concert videos around.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭Ikozma


    https://youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y
    Tom petty, Jeff Lynn, Steve winwaad, dani Harrison, and of course PRINCE stealing the show
    Sorry about the link I don't know how to put the video up

    While my guitar gently sleeps well worth a watch


  • Registered Users Posts: 748 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    This is a Sufi dance called a zikr, in this case I think they're Chechens(according to Youtube comments) but can't be certain... correction welcomed. They seem to enter some sort of trance state through dance, it's quite fascinating to watch.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,696 ✭✭✭dasdog


    jiltloop wrote: »
    If we're going with in the flesh then the last time I was blown away was Bjork's Cornucopia gig in the Point last year. Absolutely incredible production, probably the best thing I have ever experienced live. No youtube videos exist unfortunately, I really hope a DVD is released of it soon because I'd love to try and relive it.

    It was a theatrical masterpiece - an absolute sensory overload. I was in the flat seating area and the sub bass was too much for some people :pac: As brilliant as it was I would only put it down as the third or forth best show I saw last year as there is a difference between performance and overall concert experience. But she is something else to be still creating at that level.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,666 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    dasdog wrote: »
    It was a theatrical masterpiece - an absolute sensory overload. I was in the flat seating area and the sub bass was too much for some people :pac: As brilliant as it was I would only put it down as the third or forth best show I saw last year as there is a difference between performance and overall concert experience. But she is something else to be still creating at that level.


    Also worth seeing is When Bjork Met Attenborough, a look at Bjork's Biophilia concept, album and subsequent tour, talking about things like the sounds she searches for and the use of the Tesla in her performance among other things.

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



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,952 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    Vita nova wrote: »
    This is a Sufi dance called a zikr, in this case I think they're Chechens(according to Youtube comments) but can't be certain... correction welcomed. They seem to enter some sort of trance state through dance, it's quite fascinating to watch.


    This has to be one of the strangest , yet mesmerizing thing I've seen tbh .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,205 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    dasdog wrote: »
    It was a theatrical masterpiece - an absolute sensory overload. I was in the flat seating area and the sub bass was too much for some people :pac: As brilliant as it was I would only put it down as the third or forth best show I saw last year as there is a difference between performance and overall concert experience. But she is something else to be still creating at that level.


    I'm wondering now what were the 2 or 3 performances that topped that for you last year? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Out of all the bands I've seen I think Sabaton were probably one the most memorable.

    Great band!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭MrCostington


    Led Zeppelin Dazed and Confused, Royal Albert Hall



    Korn Live - Another Brick In The Wall @ Sziget 2012



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    These give me goose bumps





  • Registered Users Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭Spudman_20000


    2 of my favourites:





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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,976 ✭✭✭Marty Bird










    Not a performance but always loved this clip.

    🌞6.02kWp⚡️3.01kWp South/East⚡️3.01kWp West



  • Registered Users Posts: 421 ✭✭lemmno


    Anyone remember the T mobile Heathrow Welcome Home ad?
    Just an advert but what a performance to pull off all the same!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Saw them for the first time at Oxegen in 2004 and was blown away. Pretty much this stage set.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭olestoepoke




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,696 ✭✭✭dasdog


    jiltloop wrote: »
    I'm wondering now what were the 2 or 3 performances that topped that for you last year? :D

    I actually looked up a post of mine from the gigs forum and I had her down as fifth best of the year and that was posted before seeing Fontaines DC :pac:

    Sleaford Mods, Kamasi Washington, Durand Jones & The Indications, Dry Cleaning, Fontaines.

    She came ahead of ten others though - it was a wonderful show. I don't think a DVD could replicate the sound scape but it would be nice. The phone footage clips of the tour on YT do it no justice.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭ILikeBoats


    Great thread. Getting a lot of goosebumps!

    There are many many great performances from Pearl Jam, love this more recent one.



    This one is random, brilliant and probably a bit subjective because I love the song. Aaron Lewis from Staind filmed on a sh!tty phone. He has one serious set of pipes and this makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck.



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzwByz9k-Fs


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Gruffalux




    This was the best play I ever saw. One of the best live shows of anything I have seen. Catalpa. This extract shows Donal O Kelly's power to conjure. It was amazing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,234 ✭✭✭bullpost


    This is great - love the drumming.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,017 ✭✭✭10000maniacs


    Have you ever come across Youtube clips that have left you in awe?

    I came across this one by accident and it just looks genius.


    Morricone had to wait till 2015 for the Hateful Eight soundtrack to get his first Academy Award. Totally unjustified and shows the bare faced snobbery in Hollywood. He should have got one 50 years earlier.


  • Registered Users Posts: 330 ✭✭RurtBeynolds


    KaneToad wrote: »
    The vocals.
    The moves.
    The theatrics.
    Unexpected and brilliant.


    Well that was a massive let down.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 548 ✭✭✭JasonStatham


    Paco DeLucia's Rumba, on YouTube. Sounds great in good quality headphones.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 480 ✭✭ewc78


    Paul McGrath vs Italy in USA'94..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭zico10




  • Registered Users Posts: 9,841 ✭✭✭buried


    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,872 ✭✭✭John_Rambo


    tusk wrote: »
    First time I saw Disturbed perform Sound of Silence, I had tears.

    I cringed so much my ears met at the back of my head when I heard it.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 257 ✭✭pummice




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    Well that was a massive let down.

    It is my Happy Song (TM). Every time I am down that is actually the exact video I watch to cheer up again. And it works every time.

    Perhaps KaneToad overstaded it's brilliance a bit but that video will forever have a place in my heart :)

    It is hard to pick a performance that "blows me away" every time I watch it. Not many do. But the last time I saw a performance that blew me away the _first_ time I saw it is easy to pick. It absolutely has to be this one. Not because it is brilliant or amazing or transcendent. But simply because I did not see it coming.



  • Registered Users Posts: 392 ✭✭bewareofthedog




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,688 ✭✭✭storker






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    The one to one gigs blew me away I think



  • Registered Users Posts: 392 ✭✭bewareofthedog


    Elvis goes into his own little solo, goes ape!



  • Registered Users Posts: 375 ✭✭pajosjunkbox


    There's a version of Man in the Box by Alice in Chains that I always go back to, live in Dallas, it's just audio. Layne Staley's vocals are even better than the recorded version imo. Also the unplugged version of Down in Hole.


    Down in a hole unplugged.....haunting. Still my favourite band of all time after all these years !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 381 ✭✭ToddDameron


    Down in a hole unplugged.....haunting. Still my favourite band of all time after all these years !

    Same as! Great going back to listen to all the bootleg stuff on Youtube that wasn't available when growing up. The Dallas show I mentioned is incredible, Layne on top form throughout.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭wexandproud


    was at a christmas concert in WIT about three years ago when music students put on a show with all sorts of instruments and musical styles . For one act they all came together and performed that music from braveheart . it was UNBELIEVEABLE you could almost see and smell the highlands . Hair standing on back of the neck time .
    You know that split second in between when a performer stops playing and the applause starts , you could have heard a pin drop for about 3 seconds everybody was mesmerised then the place erupted . Can honestly say i never heard anything like it live or recorded
    I can often be quick enough to say '' youngsters today bla bla bla ... but by f..k there are some great ones


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  • Registered Users Posts: 335 ✭✭Redderneck


    Well that was a massive let down.

    I can't help myself. A watch it and all that springs to mind is a young Joe Dolan nursing a leaking colostomy bag.


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