Showing my age but most memorable - Jimi Hendrix at Woburn 1968 scaled the fence to get in, sound was rubbish for some of the time, even through a massive beer haze! Led Zep at Southend Kursaal 1975 way too loud though! Best musically was Ry Cooder Kingston Folk Club mid 70's
Rolling Stones, Miami Orange Bowl, Bridges to Babylon tour... 1998. Black Sabbath, NEC, Last Sabbath of the Millenium... December 1999. Green Day, Wembly Stadium, American Idiot tour ( at the start of the tour, and again when they came back at the end)... Difficult to choose between the three. No doubt at all about the worst - Van Morrison at Cornwall Colluseium - there's a man who really couldn't be bothered to make any effort at all.
Deep Purple at the Academy in Brixton. Blackmore and Lord were utterly awesome. And van Halen at the Rainbow at Finsbury Park, despite the smashed up seating and the crush at the front also unforgetable
Deep Purple at the Academy in Brixton. Blackmore and Lord were utterly awesome. And van Halen at the Rainbow at Finsbury Park, despite the smashed up seating and the crush at the front also unforgetable
Roy Wood is an amateur compared to Chuck Berry. I've stood next to Promoters,literally begging him to go back on and do an encore Chuck just puts his hand out for more cash....if cash goes in,he goes back on....
Thin Lizzy My first ever concert, my cousin took me to Newcastle city hall when I was still as school 1979 I think. Black Rose tour with Gary Moore on lead guitar ...epic to a young lad it was !!
Best concert probably either The Rolling Stones at Wembley, Urban Jungle Tour or Oasis at The Rose Bowl Most Iconic performer seen, Bob Marley at Crystal Palace Bowl The one I enjoyed most, Take That in Amsterdam or Men at Work in Palmerston North
U2 The Joshua tree at elland road. About 1988 ish and Genesis The invisible touch tour. Round hay park are probably my favs.
Love Big Country - must have seen them five or six times in my teens. Brilliant Live. Best live gig ever? That's tough. Radiohead at Glastonbury 2003 was amazing... But Queen, Wembley '86 will live long in the memory.
By a country mile Madness at Peel Festival during TT fortnight in 2007. The warm up act was The Stranglers. All in Europe's biggest tent, in a field and it was tipping it down outside
never got into big gigs much when younger all my money was spent on bikes although I took my daughter to see steel panther last year great live band loved the amount of people dressed in 80s glam rock gear (badly) with wigs for the the glamrock hair had to laugh as I still have my long hair lol
I omitted to vote for The Who at Wembley Stadium 1979. OK, so Moon was no longer with them, but it was a superb concert. Supported by Nils Lofgren (forgettable, except for his somersault on a trampoline), AC/DC - with Bon Scott, The Stranglers (also quite forgettable apart from their firework display. They elected to play the whole of Black and White, which had only just been released and no one knew, and nothing else. And didn't do an encore.) Never to this day seen such a good laser show as The Who had.
Hard to say which was the best but a couple of notable inclusions would have to be AC/DC Southampton Gaumont Theatre Back in Black Tour 1980, if only because it was the first proper concert I'd been to and was absolutely blown away by the whole thing, couldn't hear a thing for 3 days afterwards, loved it. A couple of years later Six of the Best at Milton Keynes Bowl, if only for a couple of reasons, to say I've seen Peter Gabriel performing Supper' Ready and because despite it pissing down with rain all day it was the warmest atmosphere I've ever experienced at a gig. Steve Hackett came on just after and played the Knife as an encore. We hooked up with some Japanese who had come over especially and despite the language barrier we all knew why we were there. Great gig and fond memories ... Bowie was exceptional as well, BB King another ....
The Who a few months ago at Liverpool echo arena Nickleback in Dubai, no kidding brilliant live band Andre bocelli incredible voice Never done many concerts to be honest....mostly made raves in Ibiza ...but can't remember much about them
