Right, purely because of yesterdays mission statement I am now roughly a 7.8 on the Oliver Reed hangover scale. I began by diving headlong into a tall frosty one, then a quickfire cheeky red, then a treble brandy and all before I had even left the “quick bite” dinner table.
That’s all gone though, a distant memory just lingering now because of the fumes, a great gig it was, loney dear showered the audience with tunes, had a quiet word with Mr Svanängen afterwards, he seemed nice although probably didn’t understand a single syllable, and so another musical event passes by.
I need your input today though as I have no inspiration and no tales to tell, my question is this, name the top 3 gigs you were ever at, it can be a full on orchestral concert or a one man band, a spoken word gig in a back alley flea pit or perhaps you were one of the people in an audience of eighty thousand strong, please share it and that means you too lurkers.
on Apr 17th, 2009 at 11:03 am
1. Butthole Surfers - Vicar St ‘08
2. Public Enemy - RedBox ‘03
3. Claude Young - DJ set in Eamon Dorans, sometime in the nineties!
on Apr 17th, 2009 at 11:06 am
Berkeley, a little natural ampihtheatre, grass terraces, trees waving above, completing the circle. Screaming Trees, Soul Asylum, Spin Doctors.
Glen Hansard in the International, and various New Year’s Eve Frames gigs. Soundtrack to my youth.
The Pixies. Enough said.
on Apr 17th, 2009 at 11:18 am
1. Speedy J live at the Funnel. (Proper live! no laptop: synths, machines and cables all over the place and any time he turned a knob something exploded)
2. Creation Warehouse party (Or maybe one of the beach parties - indoor club gigs just can’t compare to a free party out in the wild)
3. Olympic Ballroom NYE 1990.
They’re all pretty random of the top of my head. I could probably come up with another 50 random nights. Noit sure which ones deserve the top 3.
on Apr 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Ah crap, I forgot to ask you to ask him (should you have had met) about Regulate. I’m sure you didn’t think of it… and wouldn’t have asked and would just have let on you didn’t meet him. Damn.
Might give a real list later, but here are the top three I didn’t/couldn’t have witnessed.
1. The Band’s ‘Last Waltz’ - Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, 1976
2. Grandmaster Flash - any block party, Bronx NY, circa 1979
3. Lightning Bolt - Whelan’s, Dublin 2006 [assuming they didn't play on the stage]
on Apr 17th, 2009 at 11:50 am
1. Burt Bacharach - NCH, unknown (can’t remember, sometime this decade, probably 2004)
2. Galaxy 2 Galaxy - The Village, 2005
3. Underground Resistance DJ assault squad - the Pod, circa 1996
on Apr 17th, 2009 at 11:59 am
shit, scratch the third one. The Advent in the Kitchen, sometime in the late ’90s. Probably ‘98.
on Apr 17th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Aidano you are right, forgot about the Advent, fuck!
Is that the night you took your clothes off in the bar in the Kitchen?
on Apr 17th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Guns and Roses - Slane 1992
Massive Attack - The Point in a lost year
Roger Sanchez - Spirit 2004
on Apr 17th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
no, that was kemistry and storm. six for a cider
on Apr 17th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
my personal top 3 from three to one are as follows.
3. Kenny Larkin - Dublin 1993 (not the Detroit techno purveyor, this guy was from Athlone, and he played covers of U2 songs on the spoons) great times.
2. Kenny Rogers - Caught him at a private show in the basement of a sex museum in Amsterdam. good times.
1. Kenny Loggins - Los Angeles circa 1996 - he had just reached the pinnacle of his fame, ‘highway to the danger zone‘ blew the crowd away. Wonderful times.
on Apr 17th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Well, he does say you’ve got to know when to hold it…
on Apr 17th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
I don’t like ranking things, but here are three shows I still remember and love:
The Replacements and Elvis Costello, 1991, Nashua NH (my very first concert)
The National, 2005, Cambridge, MA (no advance ticket required. Saw them on a whim. New favorite band)
Robyn Hitchcock, 2005, Cambridge, MA (just him, taking requests. He played “Glass Hotel,” and I got his autograph)
Ask me on a different day, and you’ll get a different answer, but those three are good ones.
on Apr 17th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Hmm
Bob Marley @ Dalymount, Dublin.
Van (in good form) + Chieftans @ City Hall, Cork.
Various punks, West Kensington, London, July 1977.
on Apr 17th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Three I can think of which were fairly spectacular for one reason or another.
Manu Chao - The Point, Dublin, 2003 (for atmosphere alone)
Kila Christmas gig, Vicar St., 2003(?) (incredible show)
Dirty Jazz Ensemble, The International Bar, (most) Tuesday Evenings during Summer of 2007 (perfect room for the mind blowing stuff they were playing back then).
on Apr 17th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
The National in Whelans.
Pearl Jam in the Point, June 2000.
Early Frames gigs, many of.
on Apr 17th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Rod ’spit on me rodders’ stewart, every time.
on Apr 17th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
The Verve in the SFX just before they hit the big time. A great sweaty gig in a fine stinkpit of a venue.
Calexico in a fine stinkpit of a venue called Lee’s Palace in Toronto, summer 2000. Another great sweaty gig.
Sigur Ros, anytime anywhere. Fine live band.
Did Bob Marley play in Dalymount? Mad Ted.
on Apr 17th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
I’m highly, highly ungignified me, I don’t get out much. I have seen the Frames though, loved ‘em.
Anything else I’ve been to was in the noble pursuit of copping off with some young wan, so it was just a load of sappy shite to be endured before her eventual swoon and succumbing to my multifaceted charms.
Terence McDanger. Not one for the gigs. I do like music though, just don’t bother with the gigs so much.
on Apr 19th, 2009 at 1:26 am
I haven’t been at many gigs
1. Springsteen-RDS-Last Year
2. the National-Oxegen-Both times(although 2007 was the better musically)
3. Jarvis Cocker/Stooges(onstage)/Beastie BoysX2/etc-Electric Picnic 2007
Galway is sh!t for gigs… I see Final Fantasy is playing the day after I go home though after nothing being there all year.
on Apr 20th, 2009 at 1:55 am
Alanis Morisette in Rome ~2003
Found Magazine Night~ 2008
Don’t have a third!
on Apr 20th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
More mainstream than most I’ll admit but it’s the context of them:
(in no order)
1. Camille O’Sullivan - Union Chapel, London 2008
2. 1 Giant Leap - Glastonbury 2004
3. David Bowie - Olympia, Dublin circa 1998
Orbital’s last Glasto gig, Moby (in same Glasto and in the Red Box some years earlier), that blues underground dive somwhere in Prague that Will Tizzard took me to when my friend was sick… and quite a few others come close. It’s difficult to just select three.