Music What are your favourite live music performances?

Run The Jewels. Manchester Academy 2. In 2014, before they got big.

In an intimate setting, their bangers banged harder than anything else I've ever experienced at a gig.
 
2 favourites for me, not necessarily the best but the 2 that stand out for me.
Saw The Smiths just as were starting to break through with This Charming Man and just thought were amazing.
The Chameleons earlier this year, a long time wish and 1 shared with my 2 girls and they didn't disappoint.
Been to hundreds of gigs over the years but these 2 stand as favourites.
 


High energy, jumping crowd, spinning drummer. What’s not to like
 
No visuals, but this Mogwai performance from ATP 2004 is unreal and ends in pure euphoria:
 
Hard to think of specific favourites when there's so many to choose from, but I love this performance so here it is. Siamese Dream has my favourite guitar sound. Wish they'd carried on in this vein.

 
This is just insane. No human being should be able to make noises like this. Fecking amazing

 
The Orb in the 1990s- early 2000s
 






These are probably my 3 favourites of recent discoveries, the guitar playing in all 3 is another level, Knopfler has probably gone to the top my guitar god list on the back of these performances they are insane

Of gigs I've been to live I went to Green Day this summer and they were unbelievable easily in the top gigs I've ever been to
 
1997 - Daft Punk in a tiny club in Dublin, The Red Box. It only fit just over a thousand and everyone I knew was there. It was amazing. I had the bootleg on tape for years but it's long gone now unfortunately.

I also saw Pearl Jam in 1996 it was either the first time they played Dublin or the first time in years. The atmosphere was fantastic, they were visibly taken aback by the reception. It was a fantastic gig.
 
Withnail said:
1997 - Daft Punk in a tiny club in Dublin, The Red Box. It only fit just over a thousand and everyone I knew was there. It was amazing. I had the bootleg on tape for years but it's long gone now unfortunately.

I also saw Pearl Jam in 1996 it was either the first time they played Dublin or the first time in years. The atmosphere was fantastic, they were visibly taken aback by the reception. It was a fantastic gig.
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Having mentioned their 1993 show higher up the thread, I think they may have topped it at Marley Park last night. Unreal performance.
 


I was front right for this show *drooling emoji*

Matt Berninger seemed genuinely overwhelmed for much of the show that 200 odd people in the outback of Stoke-on-Trent knew every word to every song he sang. Incredible experience.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Having mentioned their 1993 show higher up the thread, I think they may have topped it at Marley Park last night. Unreal performance.
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I was there!

Great gig but it didn't top the 90s show for me. I was a much bigger fan at the time and a teenager, I couldn't tell if objectively the show was actually better.

EDIT: Did you get caught up in the queue for jax after Richard Ashcroft. It was nuts. Every bloke in the place must have gone at the same time.
 
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Withnail said:
I was there!

Great gig but it didn't top the 90s show for me. I was a much bigger fan at the time and a teenager, I couldn't tell if objectively the show was actually better.

EDIT: Did you get caught up in the queue for jax after Richard Ashcroft. It was nuts. Every bloke in the place must have gone at the same time.
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I just thought the vibe was a bit better (1993 show I went to was full of Saw Doctors fans) and the visuals and sound were better too. Although, admittedly, it helped that I was utterly twisted on edibles. Definitely enhanced the whole psychedelic buzz they seemed to be leaning into.

Toilets were a shambles. I actually made an early decision not to piss at all, until the gig was over. Didn’t want to break the seal.

It was gas watching them first as a teenager and again as a middle aged man. There was a pathos to a bunch of auld lads roaring the chorus to Alive that would have passed me by, back in the day!
 
@Pogue Mahone @Withnail

Pearl Jam remain one of the best live shows on the planet. Full on crowd service. They give back what they receive. Happily play the back catalogue.

One of my top 5 gigs is Pearl Jam in Hyde Park. Bumped into Eddie the night before the gig in some random pub in Mayfair. Had a couple of pints with/around him. Properly solid dude.
 
UnrelatedPsuedo said:
@Pogue Mahone @Withnail

Pearl Jam remain one of the best live shows on the planet. Full on crowd service. They give back what they receive. Happily play the back catalogue.

One of my top 5 gigs is Pearl Jam in Hyde Park. Bumped into Eddie the night before the gig in some random pub in Mayfair. Had a couple of pints with/around him. Properly solid dude.
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An encore of Yellow Ledbetter live is a bucket list-level event.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
I just thought the vibe was a bit better (1993 show I went to was full of Saw Doctors fans) and the visuals and sound were better too. Although, admittedly, it helped that I was utterly twisted on edibles. Definitely enhanced the whole psychedelic buzz they seemed to be leaning into.

Toilets were a shambles. I actually made an early decision not to piss at all, until the gig was over. Didn’t want to break the seal.

It was gas watching them first as a teenager and again as a middle aged man. There was a pathos to a bunch of auld lads roaring the chorus to Alive that would have passed me by, back in the day!
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That set list on Saturday was just quality.

Even Flow was brilliant. Corduroy, Alive... all of them.

I wish I could relive it.
 
McGrathsipan said:
That set list on Saturday was just quality.

Even Flow was brilliant. Corduroy, Alive... all of them.

I wish I could relive it.
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So good. Luckily I found a review which included the set list. Because my memory is shite. Had to do a long drive yesterday, so made a Spotify playlist and listened to the whole thing all over again. Obviously not a patch on the live versions but brought me right back there.
 
The great: Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour '74

 
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band - Live Bullet

 
Prince. Piano and Microphone tour, about a month before he died.

Small venue, songs stripped back to the basics. Just him, not band or backing vocalists. Always be thankful I got to see him one last time.
 
UnrelatedPsuedo said:
@Pogue Mahone @Withnail

Pearl Jam remain one of the best live shows on the planet. Full on crowd service. They give back what they receive. Happily play the back catalogue.

One of my top 5 gigs is Pearl Jam in Hyde Park. Bumped into Eddie the night before the gig in some random pub in Mayfair. Had a couple of pints with/around him. Properly solid dude.
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As a teen they were my favourite band by a mile. Must have listened to 10 hundreds of times. Just a pity I’ve only seen them twice in my life. Thirty years apart. What a show though.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
So good. Luckily I found a review which included the set list. Because my memory is shite. Had to do a long drive yesterday, so made a Spotify playlist and listened to the whole thing all over again. Obviously not a patch on the live versions but brought me right back there.
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Did you see the disturbance at the end with the PA guy getting attacked?
I must be the only one that missed it.
 
Not my type of music, or my generation, or anything. One of those where one wishes to be born in another place and time to witness it:


My favorite I ever saw live was Mobb Deep in a night club when I was about 14.
 
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