FabSwingers.com forum: Best gig

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Just wondering what fellow fabbers think is the best gig they have been to.

Let me start you off with a naff Pet Shop Boys in Birmingham 3 years ago.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Stone Sour's most recent tour was incredible when I saw them in Birmingham, but my favourite gig ever (so far, got one coming up September that'll probably top it) was Halestorm, Shine down, and Black Stone Cherry on their Carnival of Madness tour in Birmingham

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Man O War were awesome.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Any time I've seen Motorhead, but particularly the Iron Fist tour at the Birmingham Odeon in 1981.

And any time I've seen Rammstein. Or Metallica.

Or Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate in 2005.

Or Nightwish in Brum in 2005.

Blimey, so many to pick from....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Stone Roses- Blackpool Empress Ballrooms.

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By *oupleofkooksCouple
over a year ago

local

Rammstein mutter tour.

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By *lik and PaulCouple
over a year ago

Flagrante

Rory Gallagher at the Rainbow Theatre in 1974.....been to so many gigs but this one stands out for me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Funeral for a Friendnin a tiny little venue

or Queens of the Stone Age at Reading festival.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Evernessance in Glasgow

Nightwish in Helsinki

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

So many to mention.

Massive attack at the NEC arena on their mezzanine tour was awesome.

Porcupine Tree at the wulfran was amazing.

Tool in Nottingham Arena was stunning.

Aphex twin in Birmingham was brilliant yet mind blowing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jane's Addiction at a tiny club (Burburry's) in Birmingham, just after the release of 'Nothing's Shocking')

Guns 'N' Roses at Manchester Apollo on the 'Appetite...' tour.

2 dates on the most recent Steven Wilson tour.

That's more than one but they were all brilliant and memorable.

I could probably fill a book, given the amount of gigs I've been to.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Motorhead's 10th birthday gig at Hammersmith in 1985 takes some beating for me. Skid Row at London Docklands was a damn fine gig, too.

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By *aven RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool

Foo fighters set at Glastonbury last year. Might have something to do with the atmosphere and alcohol but I thought it was magical x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

BonJovi at Huddersfield stadium in 2000 (ithink that was the correct year)

Absolutely brilliant atmosphere and who would have expected to hear them play Shout by Lulu!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

AC/DC 1978 Glasgow Apollo.

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By *idlandiaMan
over a year ago

Birmingham

"So many to mention.

Massive attack at the NEC arena on their mezzanine tour was awesome.

Porcupine Tree at the wulfran was amazing.

Tool in Nottingham Arena was stunning.

Aphex twin in Birmingham was brilliant yet mind blowing "
you absolute git, I'd love to see him properly live. Only seen him doing a dj set., which was still awesome

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By *elshsunsWoman
over a year ago

Flintshire

Eagles .... 1975 .... Stafford

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

People have some good musical taste on here!

For a big show, I saw Rage Against The Machine in 94/95 which was pretty fucking good.

For smaller bands. Dillinger Escape Plan & Converge sometime in the 2000s. In a small pub venue. Epic.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Siggur Ros in Paris over 10 years ago

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

Guns n Roses would definitely be up there, their set over ran by about an hour, they just didnt want to leave the stage

James Brown was mega late on stage but so awesome when he got there.

The Stone Roses were great at Glasgow Green but that's maybe just because I love them so much.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Massive Metallica fan so Metallica at Sheffield one age only time I’ve seen them

Also, slayer at rock city were amazing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lindi Ortega at the Brudenell Social Club

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Most recent Mumford and Sons they were excellent but Ozzy for me is my fav live

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By *otSoNewWalesCoupleCouple
over a year ago

South Wales

Too many to mention, but Wham! The Final was pretty awesome (to pick one at random.

The worse was David Bowie on the Glass Spider tour.

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By *idlandiaMan
over a year ago

Birmingham

"Siggur Ros in Paris over 10 years ago"
oooh, good one!

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By *otSoNewWalesCoupleCouple
over a year ago

South Wales

"Eagles .... 1975 .... Stafford

Envious

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By *otSoNewWalesCoupleCouple
over a year ago

South Wales

"Rory Gallagher at the Rainbow Theatre in 1974.....been to so many gigs but this one stands out for me."

Rory Gallagher was my first proper gig.

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By *ornylittlesubWoman
over a year ago

Grangemouth

Been to lots of gigs but there are two that stand out....ond was in a little venue in Dundee, Fat Sam's, where I saw The Buzzcocks and a local band called The Trade, was a memorable night. The second would have to be Bob Dylan...well, because it was BOB DYLAN lol...oh, the "support" act was Mark Knopfler...all good lol.

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By *entish79Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

Far too many to choose from. But Prince’s Hit’n’Run show at the Electric Ballroom in Camden a few years ago was pretty special.

Queued for three hours, £10 to get in, just time to get a drink, then a blistering two hour set to a tiny audience with his all girl band Third Eye Girl. I still can’t believe he’s gone.

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By *idlandiaMan
over a year ago

Birmingham

I've been to too many gigs and festivals to narrow it to one, chemical brothers live were amazing, ditto prodigy, loved pop will eat itself a couple of years back. Dan le sac v scroobius pip awesome, rage against the machine back in the day... The list could go on and on

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By *oiluvfunMan
over a year ago

Penrith

So many to choose from for me; Sleeper with Longpigs in support at Lancaster was an amazing night; the Manics at Carlisle Sands Centre on the ‘Australia’ tour were blinding; but Pulp headlining the V Festival at Warrington was a stand-out night

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Coldplay 2016...those light up wristbands were incredible

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Monsters of rock

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By *atural-born-thrillerMan
over a year ago

oulton broad

Stiff little fingers -1978 West Runton pavilion x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Prince at the Apollo and the RHCP at Koko

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Guns n roses. Use your illusions tour in London

Muse opening Wembley after refurb .

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

So many I couldn't name just one:

Madness comeback gig in Finsbury Park 1992

Madness playing in a small bar to launch their Liberty Of Norton Folgate album

Muse at the Emirates and Etihad in 2014

U2 at Don Valley Stadium in 2009 (I think)

Green Day Hyde Park 2017

The Beat at Hammersmith Palais in 1982

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By *ain n MableWoman
over a year ago

Milton Keynes

Stiff Little Fingers at the Camden Palace is my top gig.

Best concert was Bruce Springsteen in Wembley Stadium in 1986.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Springsteen, Villa Park 1988. Now that was fabulous and a very long time ago.

The Odeon on New Street in Birmingham used to have a lot of bands. Duran Duran, Howard Jones, Tears for Fears. Happy Days. x

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By *an_LexaCouple
over a year ago

Sunderland

Beck 1997 Mayfair Newcastle

Runners up being Nick Cave at the Sage. Acoustics just made that amazing

And Dinosaur Jr late runners up for being disappointingly not as loud as I’d hoped

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By *oman wantedCouple
over a year ago

Cheshire/Liverpool/Manchester

October 7th Manchester Apollo 2002

Prince.one night alone tour.

3 hours and 30 minutes of amazingness. Greatest I've ever seen my life. Really miss Him . X

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By *p4funCouple
over a year ago

Plymouth

Bon jovi at the 02

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By *den-Valley-coupleCouple
over a year ago

Cumbria

Taylor Swift RED Tour in London

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By *_Yeah19Couple
over a year ago

Lincoln

"Stone Sour's most recent tour was incredible when I saw them in Birmingham, but my favourite gig ever (so far, got one coming up September that'll probably top it) was Halestorm, Shine down, and Black Stone Cherry on their Carnival of Madness tour in Birmingham

We saw them at Nottingham at rock city and agree if was one mother of a gig

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

Bon Jovi and friends MK bowl (90s)

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By *idlandiaMan
over a year ago

Birmingham

"So many to choose from for me; Sleeper with Longpigs in support at Lancaster was an amazing night; the Manics at Carlisle Sands Centre on the ‘Australia’ tour were blinding; but Pulp headlining the V Festival at Warrington was a stand-out night

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I was at that v festival

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

I was a big fan of Kula Shaker and was gutted when they split up. But months later some of them formed a new band called The Jeevas. I went to a gig in a very small venue in Bristol. It was fantastic, as they had recently formed they didn’t have a big new repertoire so most of the songs they played were Kula Shaker ones.

The venue was small but packed so it made for a real party!

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By *ily WhiteWoman
over a year ago

I was at this V festival...it was amazing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh castle donington. Guns and roses. Their first ever uk gig. A couple of guys died in the crush and that’s unforgivable on the part of the organisers, security etc

But it was a good show. Just not worth anyone’s life.

Hopefully lessons were learned.

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By *ruly50Woman
over a year ago

ely

Green day last year in Hyde park

Royal blood at Cambridge corn exchange both excellent gigs great atmosphere

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By *aradisecircusMan
over a year ago

Derry

"I've been to too many gigs and festivals to narrow it to one, chemical brothers live were amazing, ditto prodigy, loved pop will eat itself a couple of years back. Dan le sac v scroobius pip awesome, rage against the machine back in the day... The list could go on and on "

Need to see the Chems again. Saw them in 1997 in Dublin. Amazing live then and even more amazing now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Springsteen, Hyde Park. The Boss at his best. The last time I saw The Big Man as well.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oh castle donington. Guns and roses. Their first ever uk gig. A couple of guys died in the crush and that’s unforgivable on the part of the organisers, security etc

But it was a good show. Just not worth anyone’s life.

Hopefully lessons were learned. "

It wasn't their first ever UK gig

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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago

harrow

Toss up between stone roses Wembley or oasis at Hammersmith Apollo

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Paul McCartney in Liverpool. He loved it. I loved it! Haha

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Led Zeppelin, Knebworth 1979

Jean-Michel Jarre, Barcelona 1993

Rainbow, Donington 1983

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Either 30 Seconds to Mars or.... Biffy Clyro

or maybe Green Day in Milton Keynes bowl.. must have been 15 years ago now

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By *loswingersCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

Cradle of Filth , Cambridge , July 2012 . A couple of weeks before we got married in a small venue , junction 2 if I remember rightly .

My wife got the tickets through the fan site and it was a one off before they toured Eastern Europe as they needed to get a gig in with the new drummer .

I was deaf for a week afterwards , so loud , but bloody amazing . Easily the best gig we’ve ever been too .

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"AC/DC 1978 Glasgow Apollo."

Fuck me, I saw them as a 15 year old at the Queen's Hall in Derby on the Dirty Deeds tour in 1977

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By *ctionnotwords69Man
over a year ago

ENFIELD

Relatively new to her music....but saw her performance at the Omeara in London Bridge last Monday. Awesome.

Joan as Policewoman

Check out one of her tracks on You Tube - "Tell Me"

...otherwise....OMD at Chilfest 2017

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