Bands You've Seen Live

[Blayney]

craig1912 said:

Bruce Springsteen
The pretenders
Wilco Johnsons Solid Senders
UB40
Kiss
Rory Gallagher
Barclay James Harvest
Genesis
Deacon Blue
Simply Red
Dire Straits
Rainbow
Uriah Heep
Budgie
King Crimson
Yes
Judy Tzuke
Joe Jackson
Lynyrd Skynyrd

Edited by craig1912 on Thursday 3rd September 09:03

Some crackers in there! Dire Straits, Rainbow, Uriah Heep, Budgie, King Crimson, Yes, Joe Jackson and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Very cool.

[dudleybloke]

The JB's.

[worsy]

From memory

ACDC
Iron Maiden
WASP
Magnum
Bon Jovi
Cinderella
Dio
Big Country
The Alarm
Marillion
Fish
Within Temptation
Delain
Evanescence
FM
Metallica
Anthrax
Roger Waters
Simple Minds

Some more than once

[Muzzer79]

My first live gig was when I was 26. I've never been that into any band to make the effort to go and see them, but I've done a couple (literally) since:

Oasis
UB40
U2
Muse

Biffy Clyro(?) supported Muse. Not sure if that counts.

[craig1912]

Blayney said:

Some crackers in there! Dire Straits, Rainbow, Uriah Heep, Budgie, King Crimson, Yes, Joe Jackson and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Very cool.

Cheers- most at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester during the 70's- forgot to add Ted Nugent

[Aphex]

I can't begin to explain how much it bothers me that these lists aren't in alphabetical order

[Bradgate]

I don't keep a record of bands I have seen live, but there is no question as to which was the best : Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street band.

I'm not even a huge Springsteen fan, but as a live act they are without equal.

[Zod]

Arcade Fire 4x
Blur 3x
Dry the River 2x
Band of Skulls 3x
Ash
Black Keys 2x
Jesus and Mary Chain
Fleetwood Mac
Page and Plant

[option click]

From (very hazy) memory:

Sisters of Mercy (Wembley Arena 1990 - my first ever gig)
The Cure x2
The Cranes
Carter USM x30+
PWEI x4
Ned's Atomic Dustbin x4
Senseless Things x5
Mega City Four
The Wonderstuff x4
Eat
Inspiral Carpets x3
Lightning Seeds
Jesus & Mary Chain
Blur
Dinosaur Jr
Catherine Wheel
(The) Verve x3
My Bloody Valentine
Fields of the Nephilim
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Dr and the Medics
Supergrass
Ride
Sultans of Ping
Therapy?
The Cult
Kingmaker
Smashing Pumpkins x4
Foo Fighters
Filter
Daisy Chainsaw
Faithless
Ash
Mercury Rev
Jesus Jones
New Model Army
The Mission
The Levellers
The Wedding Present

and many more (plus countless support acts) who I can't remember at the moment

Edited by option click on Thursday 3rd September 15:28

[edh]

The best
Undertones

followed by
James
The Fall
Gregory Isaacs
Al Green

Most disappointing
Van Morrison
Stone Roses - Spike island

Strangest
Sun Ra

Best line Up
Gang of Four
Delta Five
Pere Ubu

The one I regret missing
Joy Division

Great live bands who never made it
Family Cat
Mirror Cracked (Sheffield mid '80'S)

[thismonkeyhere]

edh said:

Great live bands who never made it
Family Cat
Mirror Cracked (Sheffield mid '80'S)

Great category!

Can think of a few who have disappeared without trace.

One in particular stands out - in the late 80s/early 90s, I used to frequent a Friday night 'rock club' in a community centre in Chester. Some great bands, but one, calling themselves 'Tai Shan' really blew me away with their live act. One of their tracks, self-penned AFAIK, should have been a hit IMO. God knows who they were or what happened to them. I still have the tape I bought that night, complete with amateur artwork, photocopied (B&W) for the sleeve.

Good times.

[Bradgate]

edh said:

Great live bands who never made it
Family Cat
Mirror Cracked (Sheffield mid '80'S)

The Tansads.

[andysgriff]

Not a full list but over the last 35 years; (memory is going)

AC/DC
Gary Moore
ZZ Top
Whitesnake
Steve Vai
Guns n Roses
Thin Lizzy
Motorhead
Judas Priest
UFO
Michael Schenker Group
Genesis
Boston
Def Leppard
Dio
Gillan
Deep Purple
Robert Plant
Queen
UB40
Pink Floyd
Blackfoot
Bon Jovi
Bob Dylan
Aerosmith
Peter Gabriel
Uriah Heep
Focus
Anthrax
The Black Crowes
Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden
Billy Idol
Terrovision
Jethro Tull
Kings X
Krokus
Machine Head
Megadeath
Montrose
Magnum
Wishbone Ash
Extreme
Mr Big
Motley Crue
Poison
Nazarath
Ozzy Osbourne
Faith no More
Nine Inch Nails
Pantera
Queensryche
Rainbow
The Ramones
Rollins Band
Sex Pistols
Stiff Little Fingers
Black Rose
Tigers of Pang Tang
Van Halen
Rush
The Who
Santana
Stone Temple Pilots
Yes
Thunder
TNT
Kings X
Y & T
Twisted Sister
Status Quo
Rolling Stones

[TheChampers]

Tom Robinson
Katrina And The Waves
Tears For Fears
The Psychedelic Furs
The Moody Blues
Hawkwind
Queen
Dire Straits
The Cure
Gary Numan (twice)
The Sisters Of Mercy (twice)
The Darling Buds
The Blue Aeroplanes
Queen and Adam Lambert

To the above will be added Florence + The Machine, a week on Saturday.

[Blayney]

Aphex said:

I can't begin to explain how much it bothers me that these lists aren't in alphabetical order

Mines chronological sorry

[CubanPete]

Quite a few, lots of small ones, the highlights for me are


Awolnation - great band
Amy Winehouse - for a crowd of about 30 in a room above a pub

[AnimalMkIV]

Acid Reign
Alice Cooper
Angel Witch
Anthrax
Anvil
Arch Enemy
Armored Saint
Beholder
Benediction
Bonded By Blood
Blood Red Throne
Bludvera
Bolt Thrower
Cancerous Womb
Candlemass
Cannibal Corpse
Carcass
Cerebral Bore
D.A.M.
Dark Angel
Dave Lee Roth
Death Angel
Def Leppard
Deicide
Desecration
Detritus
Devin Townsend
Diamond Head
Dio
Dismember
Eradikator
Evil Scarecrow
Exodus
Exxxecutioner
FM
Foetal Juice
Foo Fighters
Gama Bomb
Girlschool
Guns n' Roses
GWAR
Hawkwind
Helloween
Hospital of Death
Iggy Pop
Immortal
Incipit
Insidious Discrepancy
Introrectalgestation
Iron Maiden
Katatonia
KISS
Korpiklaani
Kremated
Lawnmower Deth
Left For Red
Levellers
Line of Fire
Little Angels
Machine Head
Megadeth
Metallica
M.O.D.
Motley Crue
Motorhead
Municipal Waste
Mutant
Napalm Deth
Neuroma
Nuclear Assault
Obituary
Onslaught
Osric Tentacles
Overkill
Pandemik
Prostitute Disfigurement
Putrid Pile
Re-Animator
Redmist Destruction
Reign of Fury
Resin
Rob Zombie
Sabaton
Sabbat
Saxon
Sepultura
Skindred
Skyclad
Slayer
Sodom
Suicidal Tendencies
Testament
Thunder
Trivium
Twisted Sister
Vader
Voivod
W.A.S.P.
Warlock
Within Temptation
Wolfsbane
Xentrix


and loads more I've forgotten

Edited by AnimalMkIV on Friday 4th September 08:18

[interloper]

I have gone through phases with gigs, I made a big effort in my late teens early twenties. Then kind of on an off ever since. So instead of a list here are some random memories.

Saw Ian Gillan in 1990 on the what I think was the naked thunder tour. It was at one of Readings smaller night club venues, I don't think the sound was quite right as my ears were ringing so hard afterward everyone sounded like they had a lisp.

A few years later went to see page and plant unledded at Wembley and got stung on the head whilst killing time before getting in the queue to get in!

Last silly memory I was at the Reading festival in about 97. We had heard that there was this new band playing with an ex Nirvana bloke in it, the Foo something?! Could we get near the little marque they were playing? The crowd was massive we had no chance! Damn it!

[stuartmmcfc]

Over the last 35 years I've seen hundreds and hundreds of bands from the 1 hit wonders to the "big boys" like The Stones, Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson and Madonna etc.
However, the first band I ever saw was Saxon, who were supporting Nazareth and the last band was Take That.

The "coolest and strangest" band I ever saw was probably The Residents at the Hacienda.

[AXlawrence]

Kings of Leon
Kaiser Chiefs
Dananananaykroyd
The Prodigy
Fall Out Boy
Placebo
Arctic Monkeys
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Bloc Party
Radiohead
The Big Pink
AC/DC
Muse
Them Crooked Vultures
As I Lay Dying
Rage Against the Machine
Motorhead
Stone Temple Pilots
Aerosmith
Foals
The Civil Wars
Explosions in the Sky
Maybeshewill
And So I Watch You From Afar
Frightened Rabbit
Twin Atlantic
Sonic Boom Six
Turbowolf
The Bronx
Nick Kershaw
ABC
Billy Ocean
Defeater
Faith No More
White Lies
Starsailor

There's more but I can't remember. Favourites were Radiohead, Muse who I've seen 3 times now, Rage Against the Machine, Aerosmith and Stone Temple Pilots. Never really been a Kaiser Chiefs fan but seen them twice and thought they were great both times.

Worst were some of the support acts and bands I saw at festivals I didn't want to see. Fall Out Boy. White Lies. The Big Pink.