Bands that you've seen live.

Subject: Bands that you've seen live. 2009-06-24, 12:28

Lindisfarne
Genesis(who were Lindisfarne's support band,with Peter Gabriel)
Mud
Sparks
Wizzard
ELO (at Wembley and Edinburgh)
ELO part 2 with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Chuck Berry
10 C.C.
The Strawbs
Pink Floyd
Goodbye Mr.Mackenzie x 9(twice in Germany)
The Police
The Who
+ lots of others that I'm not going to mention !(that includes Gary Glitter and Gilbert O'Sullivan !)

Subject: Re: Bands that you've seen live. 2009-06-24, 12:29

I'm off to see Lenny Kravitz in about 30 mins. Just waiting for the babysitter to arrive!

Subject: Re: Bands that you've seen live. 2009-06-24, 12:33

St. John wrote:: I'm off to see Lenny Kravitz in about 30 mins. Just waiting for the babysitter to arrive!

Are you gonna go my way ?

Subject: Re: Bands that you've seen live. 2009-06-24, 12:47

Ones I can remember off the top of my head:

Kings of Leon (recently at the 02)
Terrorvision
Thin Lizzy
Iron Maiden
Metallica
Pink Floyd
Limehouse Lizzy (tribute band)
Prodigy
Mansun
Kaiser Chiefs
Strat Pack Live in Concert (Brian May, David Gilmour, Ron Wood, Gary Moore, Joe Walsh, Paul Rodgers, Paul Carrack, Jamie Cullum, Theresa Andersson, Albert Lee, Phil Manzanera, Hank Marvin, Mike Rutherford, Amy Winehouse) - Now that was an amazing evening!!!!

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Oasis (supported by Kasabian and The Enemy) two weeks ago
Foo Fighters
Supergrass
Iggy Pop (and the Stooges)
Green Day
Manic Street Preachers (pants)
The Music
The Verve
Suede
Stereophonics
Jet
James Brown (about 20 mins of him... RIP!!)
Reverand and the Makers
Girls Aloud (great gal's awful performance!!)
Chicane
Kylie
Robbie Williams (in Perth, WA!)
Richard Ashcroft

All of them apart from Girls Aloud were really good, even Robbie Williams surprisingly.... I've also got the V Festival to look forward to in August so there'll be a few more newbies in there then!!

How many of the above have you heard of Flaps??!!! Big Grin

Cheers,

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Bit of a Rock gig veteran myself.From AC/DC to ZZ Top

Location : swansea Spotter Watch Member : no

Saw ACDC, Pink Floyd, Faith no More, guns and roses and a few others many moons ago.
Bought the wife and mother-in-law 2 front row tickets for IL Divo for £300 from get me tickets.com which went bust Mad

....paid £320 for 2 more from another company as I bottled out from telling them and 3 days before the gig at Cardiff, had the first 2 tickets from the liquidators......Me and the father-in-law sat next to each other in the front row....see the looks we had Embarassed

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Best group I have seen live was INXS....fantastic Clap

Location : Sheffield Spotter Watch Member : no

Sparks
Toyah Wilcox
Boy George (literally singing into me face!)
Alison Moyet (who still owes me a can of Coke)
Madonna (but not singing, she wuz acting - and very well too)
Kylie
Girls Aloud
Steps
DReam
Atomic Kitten
Sonique
Steps
Elaine Page
Margarita Pracatan (rah!)
Beverley Knight
Sonia (bless)
Nolans (double bless)
Mc Fly (well if u count having to take a pee with em in a portacabin!)
Probably quite a few others but I'm usually too drunk to remember!

Subject: Re: Bands that you've seen live. 2009-06-24, 17:47

The Police
Deacon Blue
Simple Minds
Dina Carroll
Michael Bolton (oh God why)
Paul Carrack
Nine Below Zero
Bernard Allison
Walter Trout
Buddy Guy
BB King
The Hamsters
Trevor Burton Band
Eric Sardinas
Paul lamb and the Kingsnakes
Chaka Khan's Sister! lol (got a kiss on the cheek from her)
Ruth Brown
Noel Redding Band
Lots of Blues acts
Ike Turner
Peter Green Splinter Group
John Mayalls Bluesbreakers
Robben Ford
Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters
etc

Location : Ipswich, Suffolk Spotter Watch Member : No

slipknot (twice) - my fave band
stone sour (twice)
slayer
mastodon
hatebreed
red hot chili peppers
flyleaf
forever never

and manymore i still want to see! (im abit of a metal head)

Location : Mid Cheshire Spotter Watch Member : Yes

Before they were famous (I used to work in a club in Nott'n that put loads on:-

Wet Wet Wet
T'Pau (Got a snog off Carol Decker)
Transvision Vamp
and Duran Duran!!

As they were famous:-
Live Aid (All of it)
Bruce Springsteen
Billy Joel
Erasure
Simply Red (My birds fault not mine ,,,,,,honest)
Black Sabbath (1976)
Michael Ball x2 (Took my mum,,,,honest)
Spandau Ballet
Squeeze
The Jam
Earth Wind and Fire (In L.A. in 80)
But perhaps the best till last
Gary Glitter (Sorry)

Loads of others but not too many famous ones.

Location : Manchester Spotter Watch Member : No

Coldplay, Doves
Muse
Dragonforce, Turisas (twice, once here and once in Germany)
Pendulum
Rise Against
Genesis (without Peter Gabriel) Mad

Oasis with The Enemy and Kasabian
Rob which day did you see Oasis?

Subject: Re: Bands that you've seen live. 2009-06-25, 05:13

Gonna show my age on this one...

Madness (3 Times)
Bad Manners
Simply Red (twice)
Robbie Williams
David Bowie
Beautiful South
Status Quo (Children in need @ Brize Norton)
Girls Aloud (Children in need @ Brize Norton)
Wet Wet Wet
Tony Christie (Children in need @ Brize Norton)

Plus quite a few more who I can't remember.

Location : Irvine North Ayrshire Spotter Watch Member : no

Well here goes if can still remember Laugh

INXS twice
SEAL
ICEHOUSE
THE SHAMEN eboneezer scrooge
THE DARKNESS
ASH
DAVID SYLVIAN
INNERPARTSYSTEM twice
Gig on the green QOTSA FOO FIGHTERS.
BIG COUNTRY

Dougie strength and honour Cheers

Location : Kirkcudbright

Metallica x8
Iron Maiden x4
Slayer x 3
AC DC x 3
Whitesnake
Bon Jovi
Europe
Skid Row
Megadeth
Anthrax
Testament
Aerosmith
Poison
Motley Crue
Queensryche
Machine Head
Alice Cooper

And gawd knows how many others I was too drunk to remember Roll Eyes

Location : sunderland Spotter Watch Member : no

Kaiser chiefs, faithless, green day twice, metallica, prodigy, the editors, muse, quo, trivium,
ordinary boys, inxs, css, boomtown rats, and ramones. 3 x T in the park.
best of the best - Queen at St.James Park '84(one of onlt two times I've enjoyed myself
there) Worst of the worst - Snoop Dog at T in the park.
What about comedians - been to see Lee Evans (best), Ross Noble, Eddie Izzard, and
Ricky Gervais (worst suprisingly)

Location : Swindon Spotter Watch Member : no

We are keen visitors to smaller music festivals, so have seen loads of live music.
Have also been to some amazing arena shows.
Gigs that stick in the mind are Queen at Knebworth, INXS Wembley Stadium, Metallica Milton Keynes Bowl

Next on our calendar is Beautiful Days Festival. Hawkwind flower

, The Pogues drunken

and The Levellers Clap

are the headliners . Lots of other great bands too

Recently we have also seen Queen + Paul Rodgers, Nick Lowe, Pete Brown, Fairport Convention, Dave Edmunds + Joe Brown, The Levellers, Supergrass, Peatbog Faries, 3 Daft Monkeys, The men they couldn't hang.

Keep it Live

Subject: Re: Bands that you've seen live. 2009-07-08, 15:00

Best one ever was ROD STEWART at warwick castle a few years ago, amazind sound and great showman with super backing

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Wet Wet Wet
Tina Turner - Woburn Abbey 1990
Bruce Springsteen - Wembley Stadium 1985?
Genesis
Erasure
Madonna - 1987 and 2007!!! Wembley Stadium and Arena
Michael Jackson - Wembley Stadium 1988
Kylie Minogue
Tpau
Robbie Williams
Top Loader

It wasnt until I took my 14 year old daughter to see Madonna in 2007 that I felt old. It suddenly dawned on me that it had been 20 years since I had last watched Madonna in concert lol!

Subject: Re: Bands that you've seen live. 2009-07-09, 04:49

Enter Shikari
Dizzee Rascal
Hadouken! x2
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Little Boots
HIM
Funeral For a Friend
Fightstar
Black Ghosts

..and a whole host of DJ sets!

Location : Grimsby Spotter Watch Member : No

Well here goes, just a few of who i've seen since 1995

Marilyn Manson x6
Greenday x10
slipknot x2
Foo fighters x8
The Wildhearts x13
The prodigy x9
Placebo x12
The Offspring x8
The Sex pistols
Blur x2
Oasis
Pulp
Muse x2
Linkin park
The audience x3
Dodgy
Terrorvision x4
Liaka dog
AFI
Andrew wk
Alien ant farm
Beck x3
Bjork
Billy Talent
The cult
The dandy warhols x3
Republica x2
Blink 182
Bullet for my valetine
The Hives x2
The cardigans
The Darkness x2
Depeche mode
Echo and the bunnymen
Dragonforce
Eminem
Feeder x 14
Garbage x5
Death in vegas
the Chemical brothers x3
Him
Lostprophets x2
Evanessence
my chemical romance x2
papa roach
Peaches
Iggy pop x3
The Shamen
Queens of the stoneage x2
the rasmus
Kiss
The stranglers
Lena Lovich
The twisted world of Arthur Brown
spunge
suede
Transplants
System of the down
U2
Murderdolls
30 seconds to mars
the mars volta
franz ferdinand
The cure
The Dammed
Bowling for soup x4
David Bowie
supergrass
simpleminds
Presidents of the usa
Electric six x2
polyfonic spree
Massive attack
Paul weller
Iron maiden x2
Metallica x2
Manic street preachers
The Verve
The Whitestripes x2
Good charlotte
The black crowes
soundgarden
Run dmc
Pendulum
Nick cave and the bad seeds
nickleback
Sheryl crow
New order
Portishead
Elastica
Underworld
Space
Ocean colour scene
kula shaka
Chumbawamba
Texas
Mansun
cast
catatonia
Fatboy slim
Alanis morrisette
Travis
reef
bush
Daftpunk
PJ Harvey
the boo radleys
the lightning seeds
Orbital
the orb
Blondie
paul heaton
billy bragg

And that's just a few of over 400 bands i've seen live. Have also been to..

Glastonbury x3
Reading festival x7
leeds festival x4
V festival x4
Phoenix festival
Download x3

But i still like aircraft more, lol Clap