The Concert Thread

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Originally Posted by suziginajackson

I have a scrapbook, with all my old ticket stubs and local newspaper reviews in it

I saw Nirvana on their first British tour, at the Portsmouth Poly, when they were promoting the 'Bleach' album. They were the support band! At the time, they were a four piece, and Dave Grohl had yet to join them

If memory serves, they were very shambolic, and I thought that they would soon fade into obscurity, while the headline band (Tad) would go on to world domination

Guess I was wrong!

Tad and Mudhoney totally eclipse Nirvana in my book. Some cool bands in your list, Man or Astroman, Zodiac Mindwarp, The Black Crowes, Slayer, Chuck Berry the great Redd Kross and of course the mighty Hawkwind, Bob Calvert and Huw Lloyd Langton. No Nik Turner or Inner City Unit though.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly

No Nik Turner or Inner City Unit though.

I have vague memories of seeing Nik Turner's All Stars sometime during the late 80's, but I don't have any hard evidence (i.e ticket stub), so I'm not sure if I did see them, or whether I am getting confused with a Hawkwind show

[darthelvis]

Bands/Artists I've seen live include, some multiple times:

Iron Maiden
Wolfsbane
Little Angels
RPLA
Thunder
Screaming Jets
Faith No More
Fantomas
Peeping Tom
Alice In Chains
Gutter Twins
Joan As Police Woman
Weezer
Ugly Kid Joe
James Brown
Stevie Wonder
Prince
Tenacious D
Scissor Sistors
Coldplay
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Queens of the Stone Age
Electric Six
The Wildhearts
Sigur Ros
Bjork
Fly Panam
Godspeed you Black Emperor
Star Wars in Concert
Fugazi
Marilyn Manson
Foo Fighters
Prodigy
Manic Street Preachers
Band of Horses
Grinderman
Kings of Leon
Jay Z
Neil Young
Radiohead
The Shins
Nine Inch Nails
Janes Addiction
Blur
Pulp
Oasis
The Strokes
Suede
Dodgy
Black Grape
Supergrass
Jimmy Eat World
Audioslave
And you will know us by the Trail of Dead
Mercury Rev
Flaming Lips
Gnarls Barkley
Idlewild
Kerbdog
The Almighty
Tricky
rem
Biffy Clyro
Teenage Fanclub
Polyphonic Spree
The Darkness
The Charlatans
Driveblind
Massive Attack
Wu Tang Clan
Public Enemy
Green Day
Travis
The Killers
Snoop Dogg
Interpol
Super Furry Animals
Bernard Butler
McAlmont & Butler
The Pixies
Juliette & The Licks
Incubus
Sleator SKinney
Lemonheads
Evan Dando
Iggy & The Stooges
NOFX
Kanye West
Lupe Fiasco
NERD
Ash


That's a few off the top of my head, hundreds more no doubt and probably missed a few of my favourite bands!

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

That's really impressive list, darthelvis, with an eclectic blend of music.

[Baseball Fury]

Yeah, that Skid Row, but not with Bach, which is probably why they sucked!

[Baseball Fury]

I just set myself a challenge of remembering 150 bands I've seen off the top of my head, and here they are! haha

KISS
3 Colours Red
A
AIR
Alec Empire
And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead…
Andrew WK
Aphex Twin
Athlete
Beastie Boys
Biffy Clyro
Black Dahlia Murder
Black Stone Cherry
Blackalicious
Bon Jovi
Boris
Bright Eyes
Bush
Cave In
Cay
Chris Cornell
Coliseum
Comeback Kid
Converge
Dashboard Confessional
De La Soul
Def Leppard
Deftones
Dillinger Escape Plan
Doomriders
Down
Dragonforce
Duran Duran
Earth
Echo and the Bunnymen
Elbow
Electric Six
Faith No More
Far
Foo Fighters
Frank Turner
Gallows
Gentlemans Pistols
Glassjaw
Gratitude
Green Day
Growing
Gun
GWAR
Har Mar Superstar
Hatebreed
Hell Is For Heroes
High on Fire
Hopesfall
Hundred Reasons
Iggy Pop
Integrity
Jane's Addiction
Jenny and Johnny
Jetplane Landing
Jimmy Cliff
Jimmy Eat World
Joan Osbourne
Jonah Matranga
Journey
Judas Priest
Jurassic 5
Killswitch Engage
Knuckledust
Korn
Kula Shaker
Lamb of God
Lawnmower Deth
Limp Bizkit
Lostprophets
Lovvers
Luke Vibert
Madball
Manic Street Preachers
Meshuggah
Mew
Mike Patton & Rahzel
Million Dead
Mix Master Mike
Moby
Mogwai
Motley Crue
Motorhead
Muse
New Order
NOFX
Oceansize
Ozomatli
Pelican
Poison The Well
Polyphonic Spree
Prince
Radiohead
REM
Rise and Fall
Rival Schools
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Rolo Tomassi
Roni Size
Royksopp
Sabbat
Scissor Sisters
Scratch Perverts
Shai Hulud
Shellac
Sigur Ros
Silverchair
Skid Row
Skunk Anansie
Slipknot
Smashing Pumpkins
Spank Rock
Sparta
Squarepusher
SSS
Steel Panther
Sunn O)))
Super Furry Animals
System Of A Down
The Bravery
The Cooper Temple Clause
The Flaming Lips
The Hope Conspiracy
The Kennedy Soundtrack
The Levellers
The Mars Volta
The Offspring
The Prodigy
The Roots
The Streets
The Sword
The Wildhearts
These Arms Are Snakes
ThisGIRL
Thursday
Tool
UNKLE
Volbeat
We Are Scientists
Weezer
Whitesnake
Yes
Your Demise
Zwan
ZZ Top

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

You could have just listed Alec Empire and it still would have been an awesome list.

[darthelvis]

Awesome list Baseball Fury, you helped me remember some more! Were you at Download in 2008?

3 Colours Red
Beastie Boys
Cave In
Def Leppard
Down
Dragonforce
Journey
Judas Priest
Killswitch Engage
Korn
Kula Shaker
Limp Bizkit
Lush
Moby
Mogwai
Money Mark
Oceansize
Skunk Anansie
Slipknot
Symposium
The Mars Volta
Tiger
Tool
Whitesnake
ZZ Top

[Baseball Fury]

2008, is that when Kiss played? I went for just the Kiss day that year, and the full weekend the year after for Faith No More

[darthelvis]

I'm thinking Faith No More year which was 2009. I was there as well which is where I saw majority of the bands you mentioned. It was a great festival, huge FNM fan!