Anyone better live than these?

by **adge** » Mon Mar 19, 2012 7:29 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I6QTipR ... re=related

Thought not!

by **plastic scouser** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 9:45 am

I've never seen Big **** live.......but I've also never stuck my head in a vice.

(Some) of the best live sets I've seen:

Shack.
The Pixies.
Supergrass.
Blur.
Jesus & Mary chain.
Pulp.
Spiritualized.

(Some) of the worst:

Oasis.
Nirvana.
Blur.
Black Grape.

by **slobbydan sillibic** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:11 am

The Specials at the locarno

Roxy Music (with Brian Eno ) at the Lanchester polytechnic

The Stranglers at the locarno

Graham parker at the Birmingham odeon

Focus at the navy club

Paul kelly at The Kuranda ampitheatre

by **bolix** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 4:21 pm

Led Zeppelin and Bob Marley.
Didn't like Queen but brilliant live.

Saw Oasis once - crock o shit

Slob sillybitch: "Focus" was that the yodelling Thijs van Leer dude?

by **slobbydan sillibic** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 9:45 pm

That`s the geezer,flute tootling , yodelling keyboard player... check out "Sylvia" The guitarist wasn`t too bad either... I think his name was Jan Akerman

by **king chillout** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 11:04 pm

Haircut 100/Nick Heyward quite a few times

Buzzcocks/Pete Shelley too many times to remember

The Alarm

Kraftwerk/Karl Bartos

Matt Bianco

Human League 3 times

OMD 3 times

Howard Jones

Bad Manners

UB40

China Crisis

The Truth 2 times and I swear I saw Blur supporting them in Oxford but to be fair I really remember that gig for the punch up the Truth lead singer had with a bloke in the crowd midway through the concert !

Only two of those stand out as poor......China Crisis and the first time I saw The League in the eighties. The first time I saw The Truth, they were four hours late and played only three songs.....and they were still better than China Crisis !

by **the boss** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:32 am

if there is a better live show than The Boss I have yet to hear of it. 3+ hours of pure rock. In fact I will be seeing him in Gran Canaria in a few weeks and even at 62 he puts the rest to shame.

by **Timbo** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:40 am

The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, Love, My Morning Jacket, Flaming Lips, Fatima Mansions.... best gig I ever went to was at The Duchess of York in Leeds circa 1992 but I can't for the life of me remember the bands name.

by **Des** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 6:36 pm

Wensleydale is quite good.

by **Realist** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 8:42 pm

Journey.
Bryan Adams.
Guns N Roses.

by **Roger Mellie** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 8:53 pm

I was amazed that Journey stayed out this thread for so long.

by **Burf** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:37 am

me too.

I'll go for Cabaret Voltaire at the Tic Toc Club,Coventry, sometime in the mid-late 80's...

" nag nag nag..."

by **skyblue** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:09 pm

Guns N Roses in about 93' was the best live band I have seen. Axl had one of his good nights, I heard that the people who went the following night got one of his "I couldn't give a fuck" nights.

Therapy? were brilliant when I saw them in 93' and pants when I saw them about a year later.

I've seen Oasis 3 times, and the first two they were piss poor. The third time they were good, but not to the level that all the hype says they should be.

The Prodigy are always awesome live, at least they were the 4 times I saw them about ten years ago. Manic St Preachers are also pretty impressive.

Green Day and Bon Jovi both surprised me with how good they are live in a stadium setting.

The Chemical Bros are the most pointess band I have seen live, two guys standing behind a desk. Total waste of money.

But the worse band I have ever seen probably goes to Kasabiabn. The singer, I can't remember his name, was off his face and all over the place, kept missing his ques and he was totally out of tune. The rest of the band were obviously embarrased by him, and I was surprised they didn't split up not long after that.

by **Nick** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:24 pm

The Angelic Upstarts - now they were superb

by **bolix** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 3:29 pm

wont come close but there's now a film:

http://www.bobmarley.com/marley_the_movie.php