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What has been the best live gig you have been to?

There is a few I can not split.

Best show: Depeche Mode, Devotional tour, Crystal Palace. Their only UK outdoor gig. It was an all dayer and the main suport was Sisters of Mercy.

Best to dance to: Orbital, V96. Ok it was chemicaly enhanced, but what a gig.

Best to mosh 1: Metalica, Big day out, Milton Keens. Another all dayer. Lots of bands.

Best to Mosh 2: Iron Maiden, NIA notts. Big group of mates rocking together.

Over to you.

All the best,

The 42%er.

Your optimistic eyes seem like paradise to someone like me.

Best Festival: Glasto 95. The best one for a long time apparently. Prodigy played twice, massive attack did a 24hr sound system and the weather was so nice i looked like i had been varnished.

Best Band: I was lucky enough to see Spirtualised on the `Electric Mainline` tour in 94 or 5. It was an almost magical experience.

Best Dance: Prodigy in the Derby assembly rooms in 96. a few months before they released firestarter (ie. got crap). They had a sound system that could be used in an aircraft hangar, with a bass that made you feel sick. And i got spat on by keith!

The best gig ive been to in the last few years was actually a bob marley tribute band, `Buffalo SoulJah`. They were really really good. You could have cut through the fumes of all the Jazz Cigarettes.........

Fortunate enough to attend the Festival of the Tenth Summer gig at G-Mex in July 1986 (to celebrate 10 years of punk), featuring A Certain Ratio, OMD, The Smiths, The Fall and New Order - great gig for a tenner !

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All my best gigs are Levellers ones...torn between the ANL festival in 1994 when they were on with Billy Bragg, Manic Street Preachers and Credit to the Nation, the one in a forest, singing along to `What a Beautiful Day` on a glorious summers day with the sun going down, or the most recent one I went to, just because the atmosphere was great and I remember it best :D

Sisters of Mercy, went to see them three or four years ago, and it was the best best gig I`ve ever been too.

Pink Floyd:- Division Bell tour, thought I`d died and gone to Heaven when they played the entire Darkside of the Moon album. spoilt the show by playin the songs from Division Bell, and Momentary lapse of reason. .

Monsters of Rock `92 Headlined by Iron Maiden, and where I was also a huge fan of Skid Row.

David Bowie:- Sound and Vision tour, was too young to fully appreciate him, but I still loved the show, wish I could see him again.

Worst gig I`ve been?

Smashing Pumpkins (their last show together), first half was the melodic songs, and the second half was mainly their new stuff. They didn`t do an encore and worst of all they hardly played any of their popular songs such as Zero!!! Hate them now for puttin on a s***ty show.

floyd
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Sweet zombie Jesus!

Fishbone at Manchester Academy in 1993. They had the whole crowd running around in a huge circle at one point. Brilliant.

Rage Against the Machine at Newcastle Mayfair. Great venue for bands I fell over at the front and couldn`t get back up for what seemed like ages, thought I was gonna die.. Brilliant gig though.
Guns n` Roses Wembley Stadium, really hot Summer`s day loads of girls getting their boobs out and a great line up. GnR, Skid Row and Nine Inch Nails.
Kiss at Donington Park first time I`d seen them with the make up back on. (My favourite band since I was 13).
And seeing Madonna for the first time at Leeds Roundhay Park.
Houourable mentions to The Darkness, Therapy? and Iron Maiden.

Rocky..

"How come we play war and not peace? Too few role models."

Oasis at Maine Road, first night! That was an amazing gig, right at the height of their popularity! Later that year I went to Knebworth too but that was no comparison.

I`ve not really been to that many gigs, but I`ll go with The Who at the Forum in March this year. Just finally see them live for myself (well half of them) was amazing. They played for 2 and a half hours and did a great set, a nice mix of classics and a couple of new songs from their next album.

Next best would have to be Iron Maiden last year at Earls Court which was great.

Rich

Not been to a lot so I`m obviously biased towards those I have seen, but Prince is the best by far live.

Although a very close second best was The Who and Garry `the fiddler` Glitter performing the full Psychedelia at the Princes Trust Party in the Park one year. Ticket prices were ridiculous, something like £7 each, for hours and hours of entertainment.


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