Your best ever music concert?

[raleighnut]

Dweezil Zappa playing his fathers album 'Apostrophe' in order, absolutely note perfect was pretty special, likewise Rory McCleod is always good and the most recent was John Otway and 'Wild Willy' Barrett's 50th anniversity gig at the musician pub in Leicester...............Can't believe those pair have been playing together for 50 years now

 

[UphillSlowly]

Probably Guns N Roses at the Milton Keynes Bowl back in 1993.

More recently there was a double header of Holiday Ghosts and the Bug Club at the Portland Arms in Canbridge last year that was pure indie heaven.

I would have loved to have seen GnR in their pomp!,Slash is probably my favourite guitarist

 

[captain nemo1701]

Glasto 2000 David Bowie.

If I had a Tardis: U2 Slane Castle, 1994 Pink Floyd pulse (the one with Douglas Adams on guitar), Woodstock (Jimi)

 

[stephec]

It's probably one of my Iron Maiden ones, at the O2 about 10 years ago.

And if you like that kind of thing, Livewire, the best AD/DC tribute act that you'll ever see, Brian Johnston replaced Bon Scott seamlessly in the middle of a non stop two hour show.

 

[Sterlo]

Roger Daltrey playing the Tommy album in full, followed by some of his/Who hits in the second half at Hull City Hall, awesome.

 

[Threevok]

Shakin' Stevens at the Newbridge Memo - Best 37 seconds I ever saw

Never, in the field of human concert, has so much, been thrown by so many, at so few

 

[netman]

Manic Street Preachers, Wembley Arena 2002 - pure genius!
Setlist:

1. Speed of Life
2. Motorcycle Emptiness
3. Australia
4. You Stole the Sun From My Heart
5. The Masses Against the Classes
6. There by the Grace of God
7. Kevin Carter
8. Slash 'n' Burn
9. Tsunami
10. Motown Junk
11. Suicide Is Painless (Theme from MASH)
12. Stay Beautiful
13. Life Becoming a Landslide
14. Little Baby Nothing
15. Faster
16. From Despair to Where
17. Roses in the Hospital
18. 4 Ever Delayed
19. The Everlasting
20. Everything Must Go
21. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
22. You Love Us
23. A Design for Life

Not the best recording, but gives you a taste...


Honourable mentions to...
Spear of Destiny, One Eyed Jacks 40th Anniversary tour, Exeter
The Dead South, Portsmouth
Morrissey, Bournemouth
The Handsome Family, Exeter
New Model Army, 1983ish, Exeter

 

[Threevok]

Manic Street Preachers, Wembley Arena 2002 - pure genius!

I saw them in Blackwood Miner's Institute.

Of course, they weren't quite as famous then

 

[DRM]

We were away in the caravan at Redcar Racecourse, there was a concert on at the same time, it was an all day thing iirc called Redcar Rocks, the last act was a Pink Floyd tribute band who were utterly fantastic, can’t remember what year it was, but they were note perfect, fantastic night sat outside listening to them, sometimes a good show can be found quite by accident

 

[numbnuts]

I've only been to two, yeah I kid you not,
Yes in Southampton around 1975 and ELO 1977 in Aussie
I've lived a sheltered life..........

 

[Ian H]

Several of the evening concerts when the Proms did a Stockhausen retrospective a few years ago. Los Lobos were superb live in Shepherd's Bush. Richard Thompson in Exeter & somewhere else. Jean Toussaint and Soweto Kinch have both played locally. Courtney Pine a week or so ago. I'm sure I'll remember others as soon as I hit 'reply'.

 

[Legs]

I kid you not - James Blunt, Manchester Arena, Feb 2020. The man’s a genius and knows how to work a crowd.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Difficult choice

The Stray Cats;
Manchester Apollo 2019
40th anniversary tour
New & old tracks interspersed
To see Setzers guitar technique was great!

The relevant CD



'coasters'/beer-mats (same as box cover
2 x sticker (Cat & girl)
Postcard (concert)

 

[Sterlo]

Manic Street Preachers, Wembley Arena 2002 - pure genius!
Setlist:

1. Speed of Life
2. Motorcycle Emptiness
3. Australia
4. You Stole the Sun From My Heart
5. The Masses Against the Classes
6. There by the Grace of God
7. Kevin Carter
8. Slash 'n' Burn
9. Tsunami
10. Motown Junk
11. Suicide Is Painless (Theme from MASH)
12. Stay Beautiful
13. Life Becoming a Landslide
14. Little Baby Nothing
15. Faster
16. From Despair to Where
17. Roses in the Hospital
18. 4 Ever Delayed
19. The Everlasting
20. Everything Must Go
21. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
22. You Love Us
23. A Design for Life

Not the best recording, but gives you a taste...


Honourable mentions to...
Spear of Destiny, One Eyed Jacks 40th Anniversary tour, Exeter
The Dead South, Portsmouth
Morrissey, Bournemouth
The Handsome Family, Exeter
New Model Army, 1983ish, Exeter

Seen Manics 3 times to date, never a bad show.

 

[Chromatic]

Michael Rother at Glasgow Art School, Sept 2016.
Here's a thread from the time: https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/krautrock-in-praise-of-michael-rother.208155/

Honourable runners up: Yes at New Bingley Hall, Stafford, Nov 1977 and Human League, Colston Hall, Bristol, Dec 2014