What gigs and concerts have you been to?

[Webzcas]

This no doubt could be a very long list, but seeing as the I am currently listening to thread seems to be an ever active thread here on Casinomeister and is in its second incarnation, genuinely interested to hear what you guys and gals have seen and who live, up close and personal. Here is my starter for ten of some of the bands and acts that I have seen:

• The Prodigy - 3 Times. Newport Centre, Glastonbury 97 and Cardiff about ten or so years ago
• U2 - 2 Times. Cardiff Arms Park in 93 and the Old Wembley in 94 I think
• Rolling Stones. Voodoo Lounge Tour - Wembley 95
• Radiohead - Glastonbury 97
• Underworld - Bristol Fleece & Firkin
• The Mission - 2 times. First ever gig I went to at the Bristol Studio in 1987. Also saw them in Bristol in 2000
• Sisters of Mercy - a few years back in Bristol
• The Horrors - Bristol a good few years ago
• Oasis - Maine Road in 1996 - Had VIP Ticket as worked for their distribution company Vital back in the day.
• Orbital - Bristol
• Mogwai - Bristol
• The Editors - Exeter
• Sir David of Gilmour - Opening night of his Rattle that Lock Tour in Brighton in 2015
• Australian Pink Floyd - Hammersmith Apollo in 2022
• Suzanne Vega - Gibraltar, I think back in 2005
• Various famous DJ's such as Paul Oakenfold, Jon Pleased Wimmin etc etc
• Guns & Roses - London Stadium
• RPWL - 4 times in one week, during the UK leg of their Crime Scene tour in April 2023
• Karnataka - Wolverhampton, October 23

Edited to add most recent gigs:

• Bleach Lab - Bristol, Nov 23
• Cardinal Black - Bristol, Dec 23
• Editors - Bath, March 24
• Lucia and the Best Boys - Bristol, March 25
• Bleach Lab - Bristol, March 25
• Airbag - Chepstow, April 25
• Stuckfish - Abingdon, July 25
• Sylvan - Abingdon, July 25
• RPWL - London, November 25
• Also Eden - London, November 25
• Kloud - Bristol, April 26
• Art School Girlfriend - Bristol, April 26

There are more, but these are just off the top of my head. Your turn...

 

[Mark_Lottomart]

Interesting thread. My list will be much smaller... off the top of my head...

Phil Collins x 2 - Manchester & Liverpool.
Beautiful South - Manchester.
Deacon Blue - Liverpool.
Adele - Las Vegas.
Lady Gaga - Las Vegas.

I thought it would be longer than that! Will give it some more thought.

 

[Webzcas]

I would love to see Deacon Blue and for my sins Lady Gaga and Adele. Seeing them both in Vegas must have been brilliant, did they both have a residency spot?

 

[Jono777]

Bon Jovi - Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton, can't recall the year 2004ish I'd guess, and there ends my list lol

Love to have seen Deacon Blue also.

 

[Mark_Lottomart]

I would love to see Deacon Blue and for my sins Lady Gaga and Adele. Seeing them both in Vegas must have been brilliant, did they both have a residency spot?

Yup, Adele in Caesars and LG in Park MGM. The Colosseum at CP is amazing!

 

[Jono777]

Music aside, just reading the start of this new thread makes me feel, I really need to get out from in front of this keyboard more often

 

[thebigs]

Stiff Little Fingers 73 times

Madness once

Echo and The Bunneymen once

Yep i know i am a boring fart lol

 

[Webzcas]

My wife and brother in law are big fans of Ian McCulloch and have seen Echo and the Bunnymen several times. Sorry, but I passed on the opportunity as not my thing personally!

 

[goatwack]

• Metallica, Marylin Manson, Placebo - Milton Keynes '99

• 3 Colours Red - Astoria '97

• Machine Head - Brixton Academy '99

• Slipknot - Brixton Academy '99

• Feeder - Wembley Arena '99

• Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blur, Chemical Brothers, Fun Lovin' Criminals, The Offspring, Silverchair, Echo & The Bunnymen etc - Reading & Leeds '99

(1999 was quite the year it seems)

• Red Hot Chili Peppers '95 Wembley Arena, '99 twice, '17 (O2 Arena)

• Marina & The Diamonds 3 times, '15, '19 twice

• Rob Zombie & Marilyn Manson - O2 Arena, '12

Those are the ones I remember at least, I'm sure there are a few I've missed!

As for support bands, there are dozens, notable mentions: Babymetal with their manic onstage presence!

 

[Webzcas]

Ah yes support acts, didn’t think of them - Utah Saints and Stereo MC’s are two that spring to mind.

I saw Marilyn Manson perform Personal Jesus in New York on the Letterman Show. My wife and I were in NYC for her 30th and managed to get tickets to be in the audience.

Here it is!

 

[ternur]

I've seen a few bands over the years. Here are some that I remember, the list is by far not complete. So I made it a list of 25 concerts.

Dio was my first concert in 1986 in Helsinki and Lordi/BABYMETAL/Sabaton the latest this year. Funnily enough, at the same venue as Dio some 37 years ago

I can't really remember what happened yesterday, so I went with an alphabetical list instead of trying to remember the dates (and places).

Metallica tops the list of most concerts attended (lost count) and most memorable ones have to be Nirvana, Soundgarden and BABYMETAL. Honorable mention goes to Faith No More.

Live music is something I really enjoy and will try to go and see bands whenever possible.

• Amorphis
• Anthrax
• BABYMETAL
• Bring Me The Horizon
• D-A-D
• Danzig
• Death Angel
• Dio
• Faith No More
• Ghost
• Lordi
• Massive Attack
• Megadeth
• Metallica
• Mustasch
• N.E.R.D. (?!)
• Nirvana
• Ozzy Osbourne
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Sabaton
• Slayer
• Slipknot
• Soundgarden
• Suicidal Tendencies
• Therapy?

 

[Webzcas]

Ahem reminds me of another 'claim to fame'. So I used to work for a record distribution company in Bristol, called Vital Distribution, now known as PIAS. Vital were at the time the largest independent record distribution company in the UK, we distributed labels such as Creation ( Oasis, Ride etc ), the now defunct React and other labels such as Warp, All Saints and Beggars Banquet.

Anyhow, my boss at the time was great friends with and grew up with Grant Marshall aka Daddy G from Massive Attack. I came back from lunch one day, this was around 1995 and Daddy G was only sat at my desk in our office filling in his white label dj return sheets.

If I was sat on my chair, which I wasn't as he was sat on it, I would have fallen off it LOL

Very down to earth guy as it happens, talking about when he was out in the US in 94 and managed to see as in get tickets to the World Cup final. He happened to omit the fact the reason he was in the US was because they were working and recording with Madonna!

 

[Jono777]

Just remembered another one, although not quite "Premier League" more so "Championship"

Went to see the Bootleg Beatles in Birmingham some years back. Don't recall much other than they were REALLY good and it was a cracking night out.

 

[Downsman]

Too many to list..first ever gig was Van Halen at the Rainbow in London 1978.

Late 70's early 80's Hammersmith Odeon was almost a home away from home.

 

[The Dude]

My very first concert was Eric Clapton at the Cow Palace in '73, then George Harisson's Dark Horse tour - then loads after that in the SF bay area. Many awesome bands - loads I can remember quite well, and many are just a blur (it was the mid-late 70s lol)

Sometimes I brought my Nikon

Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Armed Forces tour (Armed Funk) Santa Cruz civic auditorium. I still have my ticket stub.

I actually remember the song for the last photo - Chemistry Class. He was getting pretty emotional with his hands and everything - it was a real entertaining blast.


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[Jelena_PragmaticPlay]

• Nirvana

Whaaaat, really?

 

[neilw]

• Boomtown Rats - many, many times
• Gary Numan
• Beyonce
• Diana Ross
• Whitney Houston
• Bruno Mars
• Elton John
• Rhianna
• Depeche Mode many times
• Take That / Robbie Williams
• Pet Shop Boys
• Erasure - many times
• Coldplay
• Sweet
• OMD

U2 in Las vegas next week

 

[Jelena_PragmaticPlay]

But what a great topic! I'll have to dig through my memory, but let's see in random order:

Madonna
Depeche Mode
Metallica (went bcs of friends as I didn't fancy, but was great fun)
Guns n Roses (no Slash)
Sting (with his son)
Jessie Ware
The Cure
Suede
Moloko
Thievery Corporation
Kovacs
Parov Stelar
Prodigy
Garbage
(early) Rihanna ?
Pussycat Dolls ?

On my wishlist - Tame Impala, Royksopp, Cannons, The Cardigans, more Suedeee
Hardly to ever happen ? - Stone Roses, Duran Duran, Vaya con dios

 

[ternur]

Whaaaat, really?

Yes, 1992 @ Ruisrock, Turku.

Also, I got (surprisingly) very drunk and drove my bicycle into a ditch on the way back home. Fun times!

 

[Jelena_PragmaticPlay]

Yes, 1992 @ Ruisrock, Turku.

Also, I got (surprisingly) very drunk and drove my bicycle into a ditch on the way back home. Fun times!

You Finns always had amazing festivals, gotta visit Flow one day. This year there was Suede, but couldn't go

 

[ternur]

You Finns always had amazing festivals, gotta visit Flow one day. This year there was Suede, but couldn't go

There are better ones, I'm sure you'd love Tuska

Embrace your inner demons Jelena!

(There's dancing too)

 

[spoo42]

My list of bands/artists I've seen is also very short - mostly because I'm not much into live music. I don't mind some stuff, but tend to be just happy listening to the recorded stuff.

So the earliest I recall seeing was early 90's, a few 80's artists, Eddie grant , Squeeze.. etc Then it was some years until I saw another live band/artist again. Stereophonics a few years ago , which i thought were pretty good, noel Gallagher who was ok. And over the last 10 years I've seen the composer/pianist Ludovico Einaudi 4 times.

And that's pretty much all I've seen, mixed in with a lot of text to make it look better.

 

[johnnymcc1966]

I have never ever been to a musical gig or concert in my 50+ years on this planet. Ironically I have taken up both guitar and keyboards in the last few years too. I think it would kill me to watch those instruments being played competently for a change rather than me sounding like I murder kittens on a regular basis!

 

[Downsman]

I have never ever been to a musical gig or concert in my 50+ years on this planet. Ironically I have taken up both guitar and keyboards in the last few years too. I think it would kill me to watch those instruments being played competently for a change rather than me sounding like I murder kittens on a regular basis!

Haha..my best friend and I started playing guitar in the mid 70's, and he reckons my ability on the
instrument hasn't improved much since then!

 

[johnnymcc1966]

Haha..my best friend and I started playing guitar in the mid 70's, and he reckons my ability on the
instrument hasn't improved much since then!

With friends like that you don't need enemies!

 

[sufferinsilence]

I've been to quite some festivals in the early 2000s but not that many single artist gigs. Let's see what the most memorable were in non-particular order:

1. James Brown and Joe Cocker at Night of the Proms 2004 at the Sportspalace in Antwerp. Very happy I've seen both artists in concert and at the same night. Of course this was only a 150 minute show with various other artists so both of them had about 45 minutes as they were the main events. Other artists included Shaggy and John Miles.

2. Coldplay in 2005 at the same location as NotP. I had seem them before at Rock Werchter in 2003 but had to see them at a non-festival gig.

3. Pukkelpop 2001 as a whole because it was my first festival. Most memorable were definitely Royksopp, The Prodigy, Muse and Orbital.

4. Pukkelpop 2006. The last festival I attended. 3 headliners any festival can dream of: Radiohead on the 1st night, Massive Attack on the 2nd and to top it off Daft Punk to close it out on night 3! Music wise this was the best festival and a great end of an era for me.

5. Roskilde 2004. We were going there mainly for the experience and bought tickets before a single artist was announced. Then they announced David Bowie and I was extatic. A couple of days before he was supposed to appear at the festival he had to cancel and was replaced by Slipknot... Still saw some awesome concerts by Muse, Fatboy Slim, Morrissey and NERD just to name a few.

Other memorable concerts were DJ Tiësto, The Chemical Brothers, Placebo, Faithless, Mogwai, REM, Underworld, Infected Mushroom and of course Foo Fighters.

In 2009 Kraftwerk played at Pukkelpop and I was planning on buying a 1 day ticket but they were sold out in minutes, I didn't have a chance. I'd have loved the chance to see them back then.

Earlier this year I actually attended a concert for the first time since 2006. It was a gig from a local artist Tijs Vanneste.

 

[paul7388]

Never really bothered much with live concerts as such. Went to few when younger then ended up settling down in early 20's with kids and basically gave up most things in life as had different priorities then.

Reached 50 now and you can say I have many regrets about how my life went but what the hell.

Anyway will just mention a couple that have not been mentioned yet in here. Went to Australian Doors at Barrowlands in early 90's was good night.

Main one was to a concert where I was not even interested in the artist. But pal had spare ticket and someone had pulled out. So from Friday night we drank non stop , got totally stoned and let's face it by the time the concert started on the Saturday we were all totally wasted.

Was Prince concert when he played at the piggery in 1992 I think. Just sitting in the terracing rolling joints non stop before it started as was before they seated the dump. Actually a great concert from what I remember but then again think I'd have enjoyed any concert that day.

 

[Jelena_PragmaticPlay]

So the earliest I recall seeing was early 90's, a few 80's artists, Eddie grant

Awww, I literally grew up just changing sides of Eddy Grant's audio cassette (album Going for Broke) ?
Had no clue what he was saying and who knows what I was singing along xD

But fun fact is that he has a song about Belgrade ?

 

[spoo42]

I don't quite recall what the event or concert was for - just a few different bands/artists, and Eddie grant was one i remember the clearest. I just walked in part way through the thing without question from anyone! So stayed and watched the rest of the bands/artists left to go.

 

[09237653]

Saw Prodigy in 2006, 2009 and 2010, there may have been other bands there like coldplay, foo fighters, primal scream etc. but prodigy was the reason I was at these festivals.

 

[johnnymcc1966]

I don't quite recall what the event or concert was for - just a few different bands/artists, and Eddie grant was one i remember the clearest. I just walked in part way through the thing without question from anyone! So stayed and watched the rest of the bands/artists left to go.

You didn't want to dance?

 

[OliverCooper]

What cool lists everyone has! The one of the best that I remember were Hollywood Undead, Three Days Grace and Hugh Laurie

 

[Webzcas]

I am going to see Bleach Lab who are touring on the back of their debut album next month!! Can't wait

 

[gonzo fonso]

I've not been to anything with thousands of people but I'm into prog rock so smaller audiences,anyway

1.ELP
2.HAWKWIND
3.CURVED AIR
4.RICK WAKEMEN
5.JETHRO TULL
6.PENTANGLE
7.FAIRPORT CONVENTION
8.STEELEYE SPAN
9.NAZARETH
10.FOCUS
11.ALL ABOUT EVE
12.VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR

 

[gonzo fonso]

I've not been to anything with thousands of people but I'm into prog rock so smaller audiences,anyway

1.ELP
2.HAWKWIND
3.CURVED AIR
4.RICK WAKEMEN
5.JETHRO TULL
6.PENTANGLE
7.FAIRPORT CONVENTION
8.STEELEYE SPAN
9.NAZARETH
10.FOCUS
11.ALL ABOUT EVE
12.VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR

?

 

[Webzcas]

Can't beat Prog Rock

But then I am nearing my 50th year on this planet. Smaller venues are much better than stadium gigs or dare I say it festivals with the huge crowds of people that that entails.

You cannot beat a smaller venue where you can get close to the stage and up close and personal. All 5 gigs I have been to this year I have been lucky to have been in this position.

 

[gonzo fonso]

Can't beat Prog Rock

But then I am nearing my 50th year on this planet. Smaller venues are much better than stadium gigs or dare I say it festivals with the huge crowds of people that that entails.

You cannot beat a smaller venue where you can get close to the stage and up close and personal. All 5 gigs I have been to this year I have been lucky to have been in this position.

That is very true my friend,I'm also nearly mid 50s now,talking of smaller venues omg I remember about 20 years ago in a small town in Lincolnshire I went to see Pentangle and only about 18 people turned up,the band still played there full potential

 

[Webzcas]

Ok so bumping this thread as I have some more concerts to list. Last month, a couple of weeks ago I saw Bleach Lab in Bristol, which you can view the highlights of here

The mother of the lead singer Jenna, also has found this vid I took and uploaded and commented on it!



Next Tuesday going to see Cardinal Black in Bristol - hopefully will have another video of this too

 

[Kroffe]

Already meeting with the parents eh?

 

[The Dude]

Some Girls tour:

Peter Tosh
Toots and the Maytals
Santana (local band)
Eddie Money (played a full set )
and the Stones.

Yeah, it was $12.50 back then.

 

[The Dude]

The Who's By the Numbers tour - Day on the Green, Oakland Coliseum 10 October 1976.

Last tour with Keith Moon.

Grateful Dead (local band) opened for them. Hippies!!!

 

[The Dude]

And then my punker days....

Devo blew my mind when they played on Saturday night live, and I became an instant fan.

And here's their playlist. Lol
(it's in my scrap album from the 70s

 

[weesie]

Well, I've only been to one, it was Three Dog Night, so long ago that I can't remember the date..... BUT if you want to add a "gig" and you are in the areas on the following list: They would love the support. All original music. I did post a couple of their songs in "What are you listening to" And thanks if you go!

 

[Webzcas]

In 12 hours time, I will be seeing Cardinal Black!!

7th and final gig of 2023 for me!

 

[Webzcas]

Guess who managed to get up close and personal in a packed out venue last night!?

 

[dpp00]

yep time to bring some class here,

shakin stevens 84 support band the star gazers and 92 brilliant

 

[LocoEsquire]

Best concert ever? Nirvana - 1993 at the Roseland Ballroom in NYC. Also just scored 4-nights of Phish at The Sphere in Las Vegas in April.

 

[Webzcas]

Here is the highlights video of the Cardinal Black gig I went to on Tuesday night. What a way to close my 2023 gig year!

 

[Webzcas]

Tickets bought for potentially the first gig of 2024 that I will be going to. The Editors are playing in Bath in March!!!

Last saw them well over 10 years ago in Exeter. It should be a good one!

 

[Webzcas]

Second and third gigs of 2024 currently being lined up. Webzcas on tour though!!! Germany in June for not one but two gigs!!!! June also happens to be the month that I join the half century club!!