Your Top 3 Gigs EVER!

Your Top 3 Gigs EVER!

We've had these before, or similar ones, but lets see.

Name your BEST 3 GIGS You've ever been to - this can be a festival event, club night or live band, mine are :

1> The Prodigy - Demontfort Uni, 2nd Nov 1994 The Gilted Generation Tour, it was my birthday and they played my uni - i freaked out to 'Out of Space'... Keith still had his long hair!

2> Guns N' Roses with NIN, Wembley '91 - BLEW ME AWAY and how i got into nine inch nails... they were full throttle right from the start, when they were a proper band!

3> The Verve + the Real People, '94, Leicester 'The Charlotte' - about 150 people - the early days of the verve - i think i wet myself it was so good

the were the ones that have stood out, however, i've had some amazing club nights too, crasher in 97, a few Promise nights were real special too....

1> Placebo, The Mayfair, Newcastle, 1996
Mainly cos it was the first gig I went to. Still like Placebo now though

2> Fun Lovin' Criminals, Newcastle Union, 1996
Just cos they're cool as fuck

3> Prodigy, V97, Leeds
Headline act on the first night, best live show I've ever seen, huge giant ants crawling about the stage and Keith, Maxim and Leroy going mad at the front

Suede- Doncaster Dome November 1999 it was the Head Music tour, unbelievable atmosphere

Primal Scream- Carling weekend 2000 they were on second to last, just before Oasis, and hearing swastika eyes with the strobe lights

Arctic Monkeys- The Casino Club May 2005 even then you could tell they were gonna be special

been to many more that could make the list, but i would have to pick these three

Tiesto In Concert 2 @ Arnhem Gelredome

If anyone saw the DVD then you know what im talking about - amazing!

Wolfmother @ Melkweg Amsterdam - 27/06/06

Proper rock and roll!!!

Oasis @ City of Manchester Stadium

Nuff said.

Michael Jackson, Don Valley, Sheffield - 97

Queen, Newcastle Arena - 05

Ash, some charity gig, Newcastle - 98ish

Good thread

The Sneaker Pimps- The Riverside- 1995 (Might have been 96)
First gig l ever went to, first time in the riverside, was awesome

James Brown- Glastonbury- 2004
Legend even at 70+ one of my heroes, even though it was raining and he had to keep sitting down was an amazing experence

The Pixies- V2004 (Again might have been 03, my memory is rubbish these days)
Although it was the first time l'd ever done mushrooms was that day, was the first time l'd seen the pixies

Prob not the top three of all time but special ones that stick out

Underworld & Faithless @ Creamfields 2002

Sunset in one part of the sky, dark on the other. Thousands of people outdoors on a nice night. One act straight after the other - Insomnia, God Is A Dj, We Come One, Dark and Long, Cowgirl, Born Slippy etc etc

Prodigy @ Arena, Newcastle 2005

Missed them in the late '90's when a few mates went to see them - so I had to do this. It was class

Oasis @ City Of Manchester Stadium (Sunday) 2005

Beer, fit birds, nice hotel for the weekend and plenty of Columbia's finest chucked in for good measure. The atmosphere was immense and we met some great people....

Also good:

* Chemical Brothers @ Creamfields 2004
* Basement Jaxx @ Creamfields 2005
* Moby, The Darkness & Robbie Williams @ Knebworth, August 2003 (Even if just for the sight of 120,000 people enjoying the music, beer, smoke and the red hot sun all day )

forgot about the prodigy! i've edited mine!

Straight in at number one

Good swap

Saw them in March '95 aswell, 2nd leg of the tour, just as 'poison' came out, then that summer they blew away Glasto aswell!

daft punk - mayfair

jamiroquai - city hall

oasis, prodigy, chemical brothers - knebworth

prodigy@GMEX manchester can't remember the year, it was the last concert they did with keith as lead singer.

niteversions@hifi, totally rocked my world.

the modern@bulletproof

Was very good imo too....

Take That- MEN Arena, Manchester, May 2006

Manic Street Preachers- V99

Michael Jackson- Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield, July 1997

Aye, I remember that one - was ace!

Gotta be either -

Death in Vegas @ Glastonbury

or

Massive Attack @ Creamfields - Cant remember much of it but i know it was fuckin quality, pure heavenly!

oasis - manchester apollo 2001

Depeche Mode - o2 Wireless Festival 2006

Keane / Kasabian - Glastonbury 2005

Aerosmith - Newcastle City Hall 1989-ish (I think!)

I went Wireless on the friday and saturday. Was joking all day about how shit James Blunt was going to be on the Sat night, but by the time we'd been drinking etc all day, he blew me away Was nearly crying

Reminds me, one i would add to my list:

The Flaming Lips, Wireless London, 2006
Anyone who comes on stage and walks across the crowd in a ginat plastic orb is pretty cool in my book. Also 10ft Giant Spacemen, a choir dressed in pink, Spiderman, Superman, Mr Invincible, Superwoman, and the band all on stage. They're fucking nuts

Faithless - Newcastle Arena, April 2005
Madonna - Girlie Show, Wembley Stadium, September 1992
Texas - Newcastle Arena, sometime around 1998

Honourable mentions:
Sunscreem - Northumbria Uni, sometime in 1992/93
Groove Armada - think it was at GC SSS around 2002
Madonna - Drowned World, Earls Court, think it was in 2001
Jose Gonzales - Somerset House, July 2006
Texas - Newcastle Arena, think it was 2001/02
Madness - Newcastle Arena, think it was December 1999
Catatonia - Newcastle Uni, sometime in 1997/98

Ozzfest, Donnington - 2002 - Was well into slayer, seeing them live was unbelievable.

Korn, London Arena - 2002 - I wasn't the biggest fan of them until i seen them live, the sound was incredible.

The Datsuns, Northumbri Uni - I think it was the NME tour, they blew the other 3 bands off the stage

ZZ Top, Newcastle Arena - 2003 - Total legends, beer drinkers and hell raisers

Leeds Festival 2002 - Amen, Prodigy and even Axl Rose and his session musicians were amazing.

Doubt i could get away with the really heavy gigs now, but it's class looking back