Hey Music fans.

[Mervyn Beasley]

See if you can name your top 10 all time best gigs you have been to?

Be interesting to see how different we all are.

Only allowed to bag a fellow poster if they mention Shannon Noll, Brian McFadden, or Vanessa Amorosi.:p:D

Heres mine. No particular order.

REM and Go Betweens - Festival Hall 1989
Radiohead - Forum, Camden Town, 1994.
Nick Cave & Bad Seeds - Big Day Out 1993
Paul Weller - Forum 2008
Foo Fighters - Festival Hall 2003(I think) - Stood next to Dave Grohls guitar rack on side of stage due to chick I work with knowing guitarist. Back Stage afterwards!!!
Died Pretty - Old Greek Theatre. Late 80's early 90's (man i wish Old Greek still existed - now a freakin Sportsgirl Shop)
Died Pretty - Final show at Corner Hotel 20005ish.
Pete Yorn - Prince of Wales 2007.
Pearl Jam - Tennis centre 1998.
Bruce Springsteen - Showgrounds 1984

Honorable mentions.
You Am I - Metro late 90's.
Stone Roses - "" ""
Elbow - POWales 2007
Weddings Parties Anything - Any of their old Xmas shows.
Paul Kelly - Never failed me every time I've seen him.
Dan and Al - Any Sunday at the old Punters Club.
Teenage fanclub - Palace,HiFi bar.
Buffalo Tom - Corner, Hi Fi, PoWales.

[hawks_time]

Well I'm only just 19 so I haven't even been to 10 gigs, but my best couple are Daft Punk last year at the sydney myer music bowl last year, Rage Against the Machine at BDO in Jan and UNKLE at BDO

[Kardinia Boy]

REM and Go Betweens - Festival Hall 1989

Wow. Good call. Not many people remember REM's 1st tour of Aus let alone seeing them. An excellent show and two great bands.

[suedehead]

Great topic! These are my top eight that immediately spring to mind. I've been to many others, but these are the ones that stand out as special:

Radiohead - Sydney Entertainment Centre, 2004. My all-time favourite band.
The Polyphonic Spree - The Palace, 2005
The Flaming Lips - The Palace, 2004
Brian Wilson - Regent Theatre, 2004.
DJ Shadow - The Forum
The Cure - Rod Laver Arena, 2007. They still sound amazing live, despite not writing a decent song since the early 90s and looking like utter crap!
Ash - The Corner Hotel, 2001. I had just turned 18 in time see them and was incredibly excited. i went to both shows they put on, as well as an in-store at Gaslight and was not let down.
Augie March - The Spiegeltent, 2001. Amazing venue to see an amazing band who I've had the pleasure of seeing quite a few times.

[Mervyn Beasley]

Great topic! These are my top eight that immediately spring to mind. I've been to many others, but these are the ones that stand out as special:

Radiohead - Sydney Entertainment Centre, 2004. My all-time favourite band.
The Polyphonic Spree - The Palace, 2005
The Flaming Lips - The Palace, 2004
Brian Wilson - Regent Theatre, 2004.
DJ Shadow - The Forum
The Cure - Rod Laver Arena, 2007. They still sound amazing live, despite not writing a decent song since the early 90s and looking like utter crap!
Ash - The Corner Hotel, 2001. I had just turned 18 in time see them and was incredibly excited. i went to both shows they put on, as well as an in-store at Gaslight and was not let down.
Augie March - The Spiegeltent, 2001. Amazing venue to see an amazing band who I've had the pleasure of seeing quite a few times.
Knew this would happen. You have reminded me of one that I forgot. Was at the Cure 2007 one (which was very good!), but it was not a patch on the 1992 'Wish' tour. It was their first time in Aus since late 70's. Needless to say the fans were restless. I think the same fans turned up in 07 but were all 15 years older and wore less make up.:thumbsu:

[suedehead]

Knew this would happen. You have reminded me of one that I forgot. Was at the Cure 2007 one (which was very good!), but it was not a patch on the 1992 'Wish' tour. It was their first time in Aus since late 70's. Needless to say the fans were restless. I think the same fans turned up in 07 but were all 15 years older and wore less make up.:thumbsu:

I wish I could have been there in '92, but unfortunately I was 8!

[jiphoc]

No particular order...

My Chemical Romance (brought the emo out in me :p)
Killswitch Engage
Wolfmother
Jet
Marilyn Manson (yep its true)
DevilDriver
Parkway Drive
Flyleaf
Alexisonfire
Rage Against the Machine

Disappointing Gigs with high expectation:

Linkin Park (Most recent tour, there first tour I saw them and they where good)

Nine Inch Nails - Just in general he was $h!t on stage

Red Hot Chillie Peppers - May have been the crap view I had or the extremely high expectation I had coming into it.

Been to quite a few others but non others stand out to much.

[Linzman]

Iron Maiden Rod laver 2008
WolfMother Prince Of Wales 2006
Ozzy Osbourne Festival Hall 1997
Kiss Melbourne Park 1994
Metallica Melbourne Park 1993
Guns n' Roses Caulder Park 1993
Def Leppard Melbourne Park 1991
Motley Crue National Tennis Centre 1990
U2 National Tennis Centre 1989
Poison National Tennis Centre 1989

[harrislp]

Strokes/Kings Of Leon @ Palais
Wilco @ Palace (their first tour here, before they jumped the shark)
Grandaddy @ Corner (so glad I saw them before they broke up)
Dale Watson @ POW (missed Wayne Hancock when he toured though, boo!)
Teenage Fanclub @ Hi-Fi Bar (Man-Made tour)
Dr. John & Keb Mo @ Palais (only for Dr. John though, Keb Mo is MOR)
The Thrills @ Hi-Fi (first tour)
Maximo Park @ POW

That's all I can think of for now, but I should also mention the two worst concerts I've been to, jay Farrar solo at the corner and Sufjan Stevens' recent tour (his band was god awful and I was so excited to see him too:(

Also my top 5 wishlist, dead or alive:
Sam Cooke
Tom Waits
Merle Haggard
Donny hathaway
James Booker/Professor Longhair (either would do)

[Mervyn Beasley]

Strokes/Kings Of Leon @ Palais
Wilco @ Palace (their first tour here, before they jumped the shark)
Grandaddy @ Corner (so glad I saw them before they broke up)
Dale Watson @ POW (missed Wayne Hancock when he toured though, boo!)
Teenage Fanclub @ Hi-Fi Bar (Man-Made tour)
Dr. John & Keb Mo @ Palais (only for Dr. John though, Keb Mo is MOR)
The Thrills @ Hi-Fi (first tour)
Maximo Park @ POW

That's all I can think of for now, but I should also mention the two worst concerts I've been to, jay Farrar solo at the corner and Sufjan Stevens' recent tour (his band was god awful and I was so excited to see him too:(

Also my top 5 wishlist, dead or alive:
Sam Cooke
Tom Waits
Merle Haggard
Donny hathaway
James Booker/Professor Longhair (either would do)
Grab me a ticket if u can.
Mate saw him in London just recently. Very jealous

[Wilco]

[quote=harrislp;12163379]
Wilco @ Palace (their first tour here, before they jumped the shark)

To suggest there is nothing inside of A Ghost... and Sky Blue Sky made me spit my wine!

[hawka187]

only been to one concert, and that was Snoop Dogg at Rod Laver, that night was insane :thumbsu:

[The Cryptkeeper]

Midnight Oil - Her Majesty's Theatre (Sydney) 2002
The Divinyls/The Church - The Forum 2008
U2 - ANZ Stadium Sydney 2006
Split Enz - Sydney Entertainment Centre 2006
Mark Knopfler - Sydney Entertainment Centre 2005
Foo Fighters - Hordern Pavillion 2003
Hoodoo Gurus/Radio Birdman - The Forum 2008
Hunters & Collectors - Mackay QLD 1997
The Police - MCG 2008
The Cure - Rod Laver Arena 2007
The Panics/Little Red - Corner Hotel 2008

I had a break of about 10 years when I barely went to a show. Really disappointed with myself for doing that.:(

[delirious1]

Iron Maiden
Mindless Self Indulgence
Slayer/Mastodon
A Perfect Circle
Gerling

Cant remember the rest

[kimirocks]

The White Stripes - Rivley Ballroom 2007
The Verve - The O2 2008
Arcade Fire - Alexandra Palace 2007
Of Montreal - Scala 2007
Death Cab for Cutie - The Gov 2006
Tiesto - (Well kind of a gig) Elements of Life Privilige Ibiza 2007
Sigur Ros - Hammersmith Apollo 2006
Feist - The Metro 2008

leave it at that for the moment, them really being the standouts, obv not including festivals and such.

[buddy23]

Kaiser Chiefs @ Festival Hall 07
Arctic Monkeys @ Festival Hall 07
Iggy Pop @ BDO ~ 06 I think
Booka Shade @ Stereosonic 07
JUSTICE @ Parklife 07
Bloc Party @ Festival Hall 07
Wolfmother @ BDO 05
Living End @ Fed Square 05

[rockstarr]

Foo Fighters @ Hyde park London
Red Hot Chilli Peppers @ Earls Court Arena London
Arctic Monkeys @ Forum Camden London
Living End @ Festival Hall
The Strokes @ Apollo London
The Streets @ O2 Arena Manchester