Topic: The Concerts and Festivals Thread!

[LiamG]

What Concerts or festivals have you been to and where were they??
Coldplay x 2 (M.E.N and Wembley)
U2 (Wembley)
Bon Jovi x 5 (R.D.S Dublin x 3, Maine Road, Brittania stadium)
Stain'd (Manchester Appollo)
Creamfields x 2 (Warrington)
Net Aid (Old Wembley)
Robbie Williams x 2 (M.E.N and Phoenix park,Dublin)
Just Timberlake (M.E.N, It was free ok!!! lol)
Muse (Wembley)
The Prodigy x 2 (Creamfields and Doncaster Dome)

Who would you like/going to see in Concert?
Going to see Muse in wembley stadium again in september, Will go see Coldplay when they tour again! Would definatley like to go see the prodigy again aswell but thats because they are fresh in my mind lol

What Venues would you like to go to?
Maddison square gardens,The o2 arena london

[Mr Mojo Risin']

and you are 24? You don't get out much do ya?

[Degs]

Music is objective of course but barring the Prodigy that's a bad list.
Stain'd 

I'm off the Greenman festival in August where the Flaming Lips are headlining Saturday night.

[LiamG]

Ive worked weekends for the past 3 years

I dont get that much time off as there aint much concerts and stuff during the week

[Lent§]

Ive worked weekends for the past 3 years

I dont get that much time off as there aint much concerts and stuff during the week

There are GIGS every night of the week lad.

[LiamG]

Yeah but not usually bands that I like

[Veinticinco de Mayo]

Music is objective of course but barring the Prodigy that's a bad list.
Stain'd 

I'm off the Greenman festival in August where the Flaming Lips are headlining Saturday night.

Packed yer wellies lad?

[CHOPPER]

The Doncaster Dome!

Fucking hell, I've heard it all now.

[Nick110581]

Music is objective of course but barring the Prodigy that's a bad list.
Stain'd 

I'm off the Greenman festival in August where the Flaming Lips are headlining Saturday night.

I am off to that or EOTR.

And Lollapalozza if I can get tickets ok!

[oldboybailey]

Been to leeds fest quite a few times, download a couple, t in the park once. This year definitly going to download, probably leeds and maybe sonisphere seein as they have rammstein.

as for gigs, used to go to loads as a teenager, probably twice a month for a good 5/6 years. Dont get ot as many now but the best ones i've seen in no particular order and all for different reasons are probably - system of a down, bad religion, flogging molly, rival schools, therapy, less than jake, slayer, iron maiden, devil driver... i dunno, loads more!

[Degs]

Packed yer wellies lad?

Is right same ones as last time, Flaming Lips is all I need to know and I'm there.

[INABITSKI]

Empress Ballroom Blackpool last night. Prodigy. Absolute class. Bumped into many an old face from years ago. What a belter of a night.

[Veinticinco de Mayo]

Empress Ballroom Blackpool last night. Prodigy. Absolute class. Bumped into many an old face from years ago. What a belter of a night.

Now there is a venue that holds some boss memories for me.  Summer of '89.

[INABITSKI]

Now there is a venue that holds some boss memories for me.  Summer of '89.

Love that bouncy floor!

[CarraIsBoss]

Only just started going to concerts last six months. Been to Glastonbury, Bruce Springsteen (at Hampden Park), The Pogues (Sheff o2) and Lily Allen (Sheff o2)

Who would you like/going to see in Concert?

Erm, hopefully, U2, Billy Joel, Brian Wilson, Macca, Social Distortion and Daniel Johnston. Should get to see U2 at Glasto and then just hope the rest tour sometime over the next few years.

[Party Phil]

superb opening post

[Degs]

Daft Punk start a 2 year world tour this year, I'll try my best to get to a show.

[Lent§]

Daft Punk start a 2 year world tour this year, I'll try my best to get to a show.

Yes, yes yes yes yes yes!

[grifter]

What Concerts or festivals have you been to and where were they??
Coldplay x 2 (M.E.N and Wembley)
U2 (Wembley)
Bon Jovi x 5 (R.D.S Dublin x 3, Maine Road, Brittania stadium)
Stain'd (Manchester Appollo)
Creamfields x 2 (Warrington)
Net Aid (Old Wembley)
Robbie Williams x 2 (M.E.N and Phoenix park,Dublin)
Just Timberlake (M.E.N, It was free ok!!! lol)
Muse (Wembley)
The Prodigy x 2 (Creamfields and Doncaster Dome)

Who would you like/going to see in Concert?
Going to see Muse in wembley stadium again in september, Will go see Coldplay when they tour again! Would definatley like to go see the prodigy again aswell but thats because they are fresh in my mind lol

What Venues would you like to go to?
Maddison square gardens,The o2 arena london

Off topic but remarkably your list is exactly the same as my list for people who's head I would most like to hold under water until they stopped struggling.

[Cribertinokes]

I'm probably going to Leeds fest this year. I'm really hoping The Strokes play, fucking love em.

[Lent§]

I'm probably going to Leeds fest this year. I'm really hoping The Strokes play, fucking love em.

IoW Festival for The Strokes, i'll be there!

[Degs]

Also looking at Dan le sac vs. Scroobius Pip in March at the 02 academy /old carling in town

[Veinticinco de Mayo]

Also looking at Dan le sac vs. Scroobius Pip in March at the 02 academy /old carling in town

Pondering that one myself at the mo.  Not sure though.  Next gig for me is probably going to be Los Campesinos at the Academy

[Degs]

Pondering that one myself at the mo.  Not sure though.  Next gig for me is probably going to be Los Campesinos at the Academy

Was massively unimpressed by them a few years ago at Greenman.

[Veinticinco de Mayo]

Was massively unimpressed by them a few years ago at Greenman.

Ah, well I was massively impressed by them a couple of years ago at Greenman.
That's music.

[georgiejones]

my first ever gig was when i was 15 in 1984,went to see metallica on the ride the lightning tour at the london lyceum.also saw slayer on their hell awaits tour in their 1st ever uk gig at the old marquee club on wardour st,i grabbed kerry kings tremelo arm when i was on stage and he threatened to kill me if i did it again.
bought tickets to take my daughter to see n dubs yesterday at the hexagon in reading.god how the mighty have fallen.

[shippers]

Deep Purple, Knebworth 1985

Donnington for a few years in the late 80's

ZZ Top, Stafford

AC/DC 1986, NEC

Georgia Satellites, London Town and Country Club

Tesla, the Old Marquee Club

Justice Concert an Anfield. Manic Street Preachers where brilliant.

Macca at the Kings Dock. Kylie, Hall & Oates and The Christians at The Pier Head (Yes, I know. Okay! :-)

Bit of a break for a few years, occasional gigs. Moby at the L2. Went to see The Coral, Libertines and others in New Brighton

Big Chill pretty much every year since 2003

Glastonbury the year Macca headlined, mate played the Jazz stage.

Going to Green Man for 3rd year again. Ace festival, and it wasn't "too" wet this year imho. Going for the week before too.

e2a. The Pixies and Red Hot Chilli Peppers in Dublin a few years ago, and The Rolling Stones in Cardiff (most expensive single concert I've been to, the exes 40th present from me, cost £300+, luckily I can't remember how much the whole 3 days away cost me.)

e2a2 How could I forget. Tom Waits at Le Grand Rex in Paris :-) One of my favourite ever musical memories. Berlin Philharmonic with Simon Rattle at The Phil. Brilliant.

[Lent§]

my first ever gig was when i was 15 in 1984,went to see metallica on the ride the lightning tour at the london lyceum.also saw slayer on their hell awaits tour in their 1st ever uk gig at the old marquee club on wardour st,i grabbed kerry kings tremelo arm when i was on stage and he threatened to kill me if i did it again.
bought tickets to take my daughter to see n dubs yesterday at the hexagon in reading.god how the mighty have fallen.

I'd honestly rather chop my bollocks off with a blunt knife.

[Degs]

Going to Green Man for 3rd year again. Ace festival, and it wasn't "too" wet this year imho. Going for the week before too.

This place is fast becoming the RAWK festival of choice

[itsgunnabebarnes!]

bruce springsteen - old trafford cricket ground.
bruce springsteen - Old trafford
bruce springsteen - MEN
bruce springsteen - O2
bruce springsteen - The point
bruce springsteen - NEC
bruce springsteen - Neu camp
bruce springsteen - emirates
bruce springsteen - millenium stadium
bruce springsteen - Olympic stadium Munich
bruce springsteen - Frankfurts stadium
bruce springsteen - hampden park
bruce springsteen - Giants stadium ney york x2
U2 - city of manchester

[oldboybailey]

bruce springsteen - old trafford cricket ground.
bruce springsteen - Old trafford
bruce springsteen - MEN
bruce springsteen - O2
bruce springsteen - The point
bruce springsteen - NEC
bruce springsteen - Neu camp
bruce springsteen - emirates
bruce springsteen - millenium stadium
bruce springsteen - Olympic stadium Munich
bruce springsteen - Frankfurts stadium
bruce springsteen - hampden park
bruce springsteen - Giants stadium ney york x2
U2 - city of manchester

Do you like bruce springsteen then?

[Veinticinco de Mayo]

This place is fast becoming the RAWK festival of choice

Festival of second choice, behind Primavera in Barcelona for me.  That is nailed on the best festival I have ever been to.

[Degs]

Festival of second choice, behind Primavera in Barcelona for me.  That is nailed on the best festival I have ever been to.

Fucking hell this is scary, I was looking at Primavera last May for Aphex Twin among others, and thinking about it this year but money and a slight chance of UEFA Cup final puts me off.

[Veinticinco de Mayo]

Fucking hell this is scary, I was looking at Primavera last May for Aphex Twin among others, and thinking about it this year but money and a slight chance of UEFA Cup final puts me off.

Not sure I am going to make it this year (similar reasons to yours) but I went last year and in 2007 and it was superb both times.  All the bands are on at night so you get some time during the day to bum round Barca. Great venue, great weather, great line-ups, no camping in the rain, NO MUD!

[Zeppelin]

Blimey - there's quite a few

First gig - Led Zeppelin, Liverpool Stadium 29/11/71

after that

Deep Purple
Black Sabbath x 2
Free
Led Zeppelin again (Empire 14/1/73)
Pink Floyd
Mott the Hoople x3
Wishbone Ash x3
Yes x4
Uriah Heep x 2
The Strawbs x2
Rainbow
Hawkwind x3
Queen (as a support to Mott the Hoople)
Curved Air
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Sassafras x3
Argent
Lynyrd Skynyrd x2
Genesis (Peter gabriel version)
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
10cc
ELO
Black Oak Arkansas
Nazareth x3
Camel
Boomtown Rats
Van Morrison x2
Echo & Bunnymen x4
Stiff Little Fingers
Siouxsie and the banshees x2
Dead Kennedys
The Alarm x2
U2
The Undertones
The Waterboys
Home x2
The Proclaimers
The Rolling Stones
The Housemartins
Clannad x2
Big Country
The Pogues
Deacon Blue
Peter Gabriel
Style Council
Billy Bragg x2
Elvis Costello x4
The Sugarcubes
The Wedding Present
Latin quarter
Kate Bush
Jon Anderson
Bob Dylan
Counting Crows
kate Rusby
Chris Wood
Fairport Convention
Show of Hands
The Hold Steady
Martin Simpson
Letz Zep
Led Zed
Think Pink
Steeleye Span
Focus x2
Richard Thompson
Golden earring
Bad Company
barclay james Harvest

I've only been to a couple of festivals

Reading 1975

Yes
Wishbone Ash
hawkwind
Supertramp
Thin Lizzy
Judas Priest


Knebworth 1976

Rolling Stones
Lynyrd Skynyrd
10cc



That's all I can remember off the top of my head - don't think I've missed anyone major off there

[red_lfc_costello]

Michael Jackson Wembley Stadium when i was 7 or 8!

Limp Bizkit - Wembley Arena

Red Hot Chilli's - V fest, Wembley Arena, Hyde Park

Foo Fighters - V fest, Wembley Arena

V Fest -  the only year it was any good - chillis foos qotsa coldplay loads more i cant think of.....

Funeral for a Friend - at my local alternative nite club years and years ago, then the Garage in Islington, then about another 5 times all over london. Brixton / Camden Underworld etc

Korn - Wembley Arena

My Chemical Romance - Camden Underworld, Brixton

Underoath - Peel, Kingston

Taking Back Sunday - Brixton

System of a Down - Brixton x2

Deftones - Brixton

Poison the Well - Underworld

Muse - Dublin 02 (and going Wembley in Sept)

Avril Lavigne - Wembley Arena (gf took me for my birthday!! then the 02 arena, took my little sisters! )



Coldplay - V fest and Wembley.

loads more i cant really think of right now........ taproot, Ateyru, avenged sevenfold, Guano Apes,

[Dr Cornwallis]

This thread is fucking jamming the high end of the gayometer

[Demandred]

Greg Dulli & Mark Lanegan
Innerpartysystem
Bloc Party
Fighting With Wire
Fanfarlo
Killers
Goldie Lookin' Chain
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Gomez
Maccabees
Mumford and Sons
Doves
Placebo
Idlewild
Kasabian
For A Distant Horizon
Temper Trap
iLiKETRAiNS
Puressence
Broken Records
Mew
Flaming Lips
Skunk Anansie
Primal Scream
Marilyn Manson

and Latitude festival

That was 2009 - I'll fill in the other 15 years if I find the time ;-)

[Seebab]

Blimey - there's quite a few

That's all I can remember off the top of my head - don't think I've missed anyone major off there

Great list, mate. Which one was your favourite then?

[LiamG]

The Doncaster Dome!

Fucking hell, I've heard it all now.

The Venue is weird! It was a bloody sports hall!

Empress Ballroom Blackpool last night. Prodigy. Absolute class. Bumped into many an old face from years ago. What a belter of a night.

Glad you enjoyed it, 1st time id seen prodigy since Creamfields years ago and they were brilliant!

No idea why they are doing tiny weird venues though!

The only shameful name on my list is justin timberlake(I got free tickets for working in McNasty's, our store got in top 10 in region or something), I was brought up listening to Bon Jovi as my mum n dad love them thats why when i was younger they always took me to there gigs, Stain'd was when i was going through a bit of a "gothic" phase in school

And Robbie Williams was with an ex