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Most Memorable Live Show

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nedrichards is confused

00:46 / 09.04.03

Sahara Hotnights and The Hives at the Astoria last year. Damn good stuff.

pomegranate

17:33 / 11.04.03

the make-up at a small house in detroit (zoot's--alas, no more) in dec '96. infuckingcredible, a religious experience really.
blonde redhead at a small club called the shelter (yes, that one from '8 mile')...uhhhmm sometime in '96.

i'm trying to think of more recent exhilarating experiences, and there have been some good shows, but it's not the same. i think cos i'm old now.
off to hang myself...

busy licking richard nixon

19:05 / 11.04.03

the last gig by Great White was pretty hot too

Jack Fear

19:24 / 11.04.03

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha cunt.

Old brown-eye is back

22:01 / 12.04.03

The Blue Oyster Cult at the Portsmouth Guildhall, somewhen. The first gig I ever went to - so memorable even if it hadn't FUCKING ROCKED.

George Clinton last year. The Mothership descends, an old man in nothing but a nappy climbs out clutching a guitar, George funks us till we fart.

Prince. Have seen the little guy a few times, but the two most memorable were a little club just off of Regent Street in 1995 and last year at the Apollo in Hammersmith (followed quickly by a little club in Angel.)

The Magnetic Fields in 2001. All of the 69 Love Songs played in order over two nights. We laughed, we cried, we really ought to get out more.

(By the by, I was at the Pixies gig you speak of young Belbin. Did you have space to do the monkey dance?)

Mourne Kransky

10:00 / 13.04.03

While Ganesh was doing the screaming girlie teen thing for Jarvis at T In The Park, I was watching The Afghan Whigs in King Tut's Wah Wah Tent (and then nipped out for the end of the Pulp show on the main stage). They were stellar.

But nothing ever comes close to the magnificent genius that was Bowie on the Ziggy Stardust tour in 1973 (when I did the screaming girlie teen thing).

jcoriha

21:27 / 16.04.03

The Sno-Core tour a couple of years ago with Mr. BUngle here in Sacramento. Never have I hated this city more, and never have I seen a band this incredible live.

Bridge School Benefit '99;
Only time I ever got to see the Pumpkins live(too young for my parents to let me go before). I await Zwan.

Ipecec New Years Eve Fest 2002:
Dillenger opened with "Malpractice". I was officilly dead for 10 seconds.

Rev. Orr

22:20 / 16.04.03

Dr. John, live on the waterfront in New Orleans on Mardi Gras. Mindfucked from travelling alone at an impressionable age, on my own in a strange country, finally finding a beer in the states that could get me buzzing, and grooving like a tool with several thousand of my closest friends that I'd never met before. Bliss.

fidrich

08:19 / 18.04.03

AMEN at the Cathouse, only about three months ago. The tiny venue was completely sold out, and just about *everyone* was moving... you simply couldn't resist from jumping up and down, crashing into your neighbours, and screaming your head off. For me it was an especially intense night because during my jumping around like a possesed lunatic my bag opened, and everything but my purse fell out. After ten or fifteen minutes of anguished "Fuck! Shit! What the fuck am I going to do?"'s, I decided that I might as well go completely apeshit as I'd already lost anything anyway.

If only it wasn't so expensive, I'd do that at every gig I went to - amazing what happens when you totally don't care. Also, the band stood at the stairs as everyone left so we all got to chat to them and make them sign things. Which was nice of them.

-fid

minor 9th

09:06 / 18.04.03

I've not been to an enormous number of gigs, but the one that stood out in terms of having the most amazing atmosphere was the Cinematic Orchestra at Shepherd's Bush last year. Blew me tiny socks off, that did. Dave Flowers = liquid arms.

FinderWolf

12:47 / 18.04.03

I love every THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS live show I see (seen 'em 4 times). And Elvis Costello always puts on a fucking terrific show (saw him this past Nov. at the Beacon in NYC).

Sunny

21:46 / 22.04.03

last friday yeah yeah yeahs in the henry fonda theatre. Karen is the coolest woman in the world. the show had started and I was late but I still had to wait in a line-what the hell is that?

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