[Music] Best 3 Bands You Have Seen Live

[bobbab5]

U2 - Joshua Tree tour, Wembley Stadium '87
Rush - Roll the Bones tour, Wembley Arena '91
Iron Maiden - Brave New World tour, Shepherds Bush Empire '01

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

Like many other of the music threads it’s virtually impossible and quite fluid

From the superstar category it would be Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band just ahead of Stevie Wonder

The slightly less mega category would be Arcade Fire just ahead of Dexy’s/Elvis Costello/UB40(same era and can’t split)

Relatively minor in many people’s eyes would be Laura Cantrell who I’ve seen many times and Luke Combs

But then ABBA/Dixie Chicks(pre name change)/Rod Stewart(in the 70s - brilliant)/EWF/Commodores/TRB and many I’ll remember tomorrow

PS I know you didn’t ask me Weststander but I saw ABBA at Bingley Hall in Stafford circa 79

 

[clapham_gull]

Never really been one for the "big event", an exception being Nirvana at Reading which was special.

A couple I wish I'd left at half time. One was the self indulgent nonsense of Achtung Baby U2 at Wembley. Never really liked them but dragged along. The other being Pink Floyd (minus Roger Waters) also at Wembley on the Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour.

Both horrible corporate rock experiences.

 

[pasty]

Queen
Floyd
Green Day

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I work in artist relations for a couple of large musical instrument/accessory brands. Chances are, that our gear is used at every gig you go

Wow. Nice one.

 

[Snowflake]

1.) Queen - Wembley (1986)
2.) The Prodigy - Cardiff (2018)
3.) Pop will eat itself - Portsmouth Uni (89ish)

 

[GT49er]

Difficult - and I'm going to have to cheat and include two bands at joint third .....

1st. - The Who - last gig before the Live at Leeds one;
2nd. - Wolfstone - Gloucester docks, mid 90s;
3rd.= Velvet Underground - Liverpool Uni 70/71;
......= Jethro Tull - support band to The Searchers, Liverpool Uni 68/69.

 

[ShandyH]

Led Zeppelin
The Who
David Bowie


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You absolute bar steward for seeing Led Zep live.


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[ShandyH]

Wu Tang Clan
Prince
Royal Blood

(Super Furry Animals and Paul Simon miss out narrowly).


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[Withdean and I]

1. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
2. U2
3. Foo Fighters


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[Gordon the Gopher]

1) The Ruts Marquee 79
2) The Ramones Top Rank Suite 86
3) Adam and the Ants Margate Sunshine Rooms 78

 

[Binney on acid]

Springsteen Brighton Centre twice May 1981
Jackson Browne on numerous occasions
Dylan / Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Wembley Arena October 1987.

 

[rbridd]

Queen : Knebworth

The Stranglers : Top Rank Suite

The Vibrators : The New Regent (We thought they would go on to be huge!)

 

[BadFish]

Stone Roses - Melbourne (first half was average but they got their groove halfway through Fools Gold and never looked back. Complete with Ian Brown temper tantrum involving him throwing a bin at someone.

Ride - The Event. Wall of sound, so loud so good.

Paul Weller - Royal Albert Hall around Wild Wood time.

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[CliveWalkerWingWizard]

Cure - prayer tour Wembley arena
Stone roses - Liverpool poly feb? 89
Nirvana - reading 93

 

[JackB247]

Kasabian and the Killers both at the 2018 Isle of Wight festival were class.

Also not a band I know, but Avicii at Earls Court in 2014 would make by top 3.

 

[ExmouthExile]

U2 (1993) Cardiff
The Cult (1984) Brighton
Boomtown Rats (1981) Bristol

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Morrissey @ battersea power station 1997
The Monsters in Barcelona 2014
The Meteors @ The Garage in Islington summer 2002 boiling hot packed to the rafters and they were on form.

 

[Juan Albion]

Jackson Browne on numerous occasions

Ditto. Hard to beat a JB live performance.

 

[sydney]

ian dury and the blockheads glasto 84

kid creole and the coconuts brighton centre 82

paul simon and ladysmith black mambazo seapoint stadium capetown 92