Gigs of your life (2 Viewers)

[Frank Discussions]

FIRST GIG:
Shakin' Stevens, National Stadium, 1981.

Now we’re talking. Shakin’ Stevens, not Sufjan Stevens

 

[Frank Discussions]

Think we've all seen these things before but sure..

FIRST GIG:
Dalymount '83.Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Twisted Sister, Anvil, Mama's Boys

LAST GIG:
Baronness in the Academy

BEST GIG:
AC/DC with KIng's X. 1991

WORST GIG:
Mercury Rev in the Olympia. Left early.

LOUDEST GIG:
Motorhead (see above)

SEEN THE MOST:
I think it's Marillion

MOST SURPRISING:
Pantera, support Megadeth. Surprising because I didn't expect them to be THAT good.

MOST DISAPPOINTING:
Sloan in Toronto. They were playing a weird show where they just played their first EP along with a load of other bands from the same time. It wasn't a proper gig, plus the venue and audience were shit.

HAPPY I GOT TO SEE:
Def Leppard with Steve Clarke, Metallica with Cliff Burton. Marillion with Fish (not dead).

SORRY TO HAVE MISSED:
Jonathan Richman's gig in Limerick where he played with no PA to people sitting on the floor. Sounded like it was amazing.

I’d definitely pick Pantera as one I’m sorry I missed.

 

[pete]

Now we’re talking. Shakin’ Stevens, not Sufjan Stevens

circle of life

 

[Anthony]

SORRY TO HAVE MISSED:
Jonathan Richman's gig in Limerick where he played with no PA to people sitting on the floor. Sounded like it was amazing.

Shit I forgot. The time I saw The Beths in Whelan's and Johnathan said it was their 4th time in Ireland. WHAT?!! You mean I missed them 3 times! I went looking up setlist.fm and questioned my whole existence for the last few years.

 

[therealjohnny]

SORRY TO HAVE MISSED:
Jonathan Richman's gig in Limerick where he played with no PA to people sitting on the floor. Sounded like it was amazing.

If I were contributing to this I would say his gig in Whelans in the early-mid 90s was one of the best, most memorable gigs I ever attended. Just him and his guitar. Magical, heart warming...

 

[Kermit McDermott]

I'll have a go at this, but I have a terrible memory for gigs.

FIRST GIG:
Metallica, in the top hat in October 1988

LAST GIG:
Deerhunter in Whelans, November 2019 (it's been a while)

BEST GIG:
David Bowie, the Olympia 1997.

WORST GIG:
Probably spiritualized in the red box, 1997 or 98. Just a wall of noise & he can't sing live.

LOUDEST GIG:
I'm not sure. I remember my ears used to be ringing for a few days after gigs in the 90s.

SEEN THE MOST:


MOST SURPRISING:
Grant lee buffalo in the Olympia....1996. I knew they had the songs, but didn't expect them to rock the place. They were great.

MOST DISAPPOINTING:
Probably the pixies when they reformed in 2005, or 06. Mr. Francis was just phoning it in. Going through the motions.


HAPPY I GOT TO SEE:
David Bowie in the Olympia in 1997.

SORRY TO HAVE MISSED:
I dunno. I'm not that bothered about missing gigs anymore.

I'm going to change my most surprising to, Ben Watt in Whelans 7 or 8 years ago.
I didn't know any songs. I went because Bernard Butler was playing guitar with him.
Mellow singer songwriter type stuff. 2 guitars, drums & a rhodes electric piano.
Really enjoyable gig. Warm, intimate atmosphere. You could feel the connection he had with the audience. I think I saw Graham Linehan in the crowd.

 

[Cormcolash]

MOST SURPRISING:
Taylor Swift at Croke Park 2018. Free tickets! An amazing production, even if it started in broad daylight, with two of the biggest screens I've ever seen. Also it was the kid's first proper big gig and she had a blast, so that helped.

SELLOUT

 

[snakybus]

FIRST GIG:
Smokie in the school gym, Headford County Galway. Beat that!

LAST GIG:
Music City in the Button Factory upstairs, plus karaoke.

BEST GIG:
Wilco in Razzmatazz, Barcelona, 2007. Or recently I saw Bonnie Prince Billy at the NCH and he was off the charts good. Both contenders. Oh or Big Thief last year at the National Stadium, if I wasn't so drunk.

WORST GIG:
Arooj Aftab recently in the NCH, on the recommendation of a friend. Friends of mine loved it (sorry Hugh) but for me it was a melange of jazz-world-music fusion that I can't get with. Good musicians though. Or maybe Ray LaMontagne at a gig I was made go to back in the 2000s. Snore.

LOUDEST GIG:
The Wedding Present in the Academy, 2019 I think?

SEEN THE MOST:
Either Wilco or Magnetic Fields, seen them a bunch of times.

MOST SURPRISING:
Jonathan Richman in The Village, 2009. I knew he was great, just didn't expect him to blow my mind. Also Nick Cave once at ATP. I'm not a big fan or anything but he put on a heck of a show. Teenage Fanclub, twice in the Academy. Not sure why I keep being surprised by these guys, since they're amazing, but I do.

MOST DISAPPOINTING:
Maybe Sonic Youth in Vicar Street a few years ago, before Kim left. It was a fine gig to be honest but I think I'd had enough of them at that stage. It was when The Eternal was released and I just didn't like it. Left early. Sorry SY.

HAPPY I GOT TO SEE:
Page & Plant at the Point way back.
Mary Margaret O'Hara. Beat that!
Loads of others. All gigs are a privilege.

SORRY TO HAVE MISSED:
Bowie when he played the Point back in 2003. I'd seen him during the Outside tour and that was not amazing and all very industrial and arty, but this time he played all the classics. Why didn't I go??

 

[rettucs]

FIRST GIG:
Queen, Slane 1986

LAST GIG:
Some christmas thing with 2 Latvian kids doing traditional Latvian christmas music. It was nice.

BEST GIG:
Toss-up between Silver Jews in Whelans and Stars of the Lid, also in Whelans

WORST GIG:
Tily on the fucking Wall fucking shite

LOUDEST GIG:
My Bloody Valentine the first time they played EP

SEEN THE MOST:
Christy Moore or Divine Comedy

MOST SURPRISING:
The first Tuneyards gig in Whelans.

MOST DISAPPOINTING:
Brian Wilson, EP.


HAPPY I GOT TO SEE:
Someone who died. Maybe Jay Reatard or Sparklehorse.

SORRY TO HAVE MISSED:
the Beach House/Fleet Foxes double-bill in Whelans. Clashed with Leonard Cohen.

I need to add Vic Chesnut and Jason Molina to the 'Happy I got to see' section. I feel really privileged to have gotten to see them both, and even saw Jason Molina at that Vic Chesnut gig.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Most of the smokie hits were written by the 70's glam hit machine Chinn & Chapman.
I didn't know that until recently.

 

[seanc]

But did you see Vic Molina and Jason Chestnut? Or Chestnut Vic?

*Chesnut

 

[Kermit McDermott]

I was at that too, terrible band

I still like pure phase & ladies & gentlemen we're floating... lost touch after that.

 

[rettucs]

But did you see Vic Molina and Jason Chestnut? Or Chestnut Vic?

*Chesnut

Jic Molinut

 

[ann post]

WORST GIG:
Arooj Aftab recently in the NCH, on the recommendation of a friend. Friends of mine loved it (sorry Hugh) but for me it was a melange of jazz-world-music fusion that I can't get with. Good musicians though. Or maybe Ray LaMontagne at a gig I was made go to back in the 2000s. Snore.

you don't have to retrospectively suddenly like the show or anything but this has been one of my faves of the past few months

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[egg_]

BEST GIG:
Wilco in Razzmatazz, Barcelona, 2007. Or recently I saw Bonnie Prince Billy at the NCH and he was off the charts good. Both contenders.

Bonnie Prince Billy has played more than one of the best gigs I was ever at. Didn't realise he was playing in the NCH, woulda gone if I'd known

I did see that Bowie gig in the Point that time, my 2 brothers were there too (though I wasn't with them, thank fuck) roaring along with every word. Some lad asked them to shut up, saying (reasonably enough) that he was here to listen to David Bowie rather than two drunk fucks from Wexford, and they started aggresively quizzing him on his knowledge of obscure Bowie shit, thereby establishing that they were more dedicated fans and entitled to sing along

... so it could be worse @snakybus, you coulda gone to the Bowie gig and got stuck beside my infuriating brothers

 

[egg_]

FIRST GIG:
U2 Croke Park 1987

LAST GIG:
IDLES in the Olympia in Nov - spent 2 hours in the moshpit, and my sore back was miraculously better the next day

BEST GIG:
Bonnie Prince Billy in Whelan's
First time I saw The Redneck Manifesto - was some upstairs place in Limerick and they dragged all their stuff off the stage out onto the floor and played surrounded by the crowd and it fucking rocked
Final Fantasy first 2 times I saw him (Whelan's and EP)
Martin Hayes & Denis Cahill in Vicar St
Nick Cave a couple of the times I saw him
Hothouse Flowers at Féile 90

WORST GIG:
Meat Loaf at Féile 90
Keiji Haino somewhere in Dublin in the early 00s

LOUDEST GIG:
The Fall in the Mean Fiddler

SEEN THE MOST:
Probably Watercress, a Nordie band me and Mrs. egg_ were huge fans of in the late 90s/early 00s. Or maybe Jinx Lennon

MOST SURPRISING:
Flaming Lips at (I think) Witness. Never was a big fan, but "Do you realise?" blew me away that day

MOST DISAPPOINTING:
Lou Reed in Liss Ard, 1998. Got so bored I left the tent and sat outside on the grass

HAPPY I GOT TO SEE:
Beastie Boys, Lee Perry, Bowie

SORRY TO HAVE MISSED:
Leonard Cohen when he played Dublin that time

 

[shitepipe]

FIRST GIG:
Neil Young in Slane, 93. I was 15 and so went along with a mate and his da. Mind blown. Support: Pearl Jam / Van Morrison / Saw Doctors / James/ 4 Non Blondes/ The Blue Angels

LAST GIG:
Beak> at the Butt Fact.

BEST GIG:
Meredith Monk in NCH last year was up there but really its impossible to have a best gig ever right?

WORST GIG:
My bad gig memories are mainly due to fucked up organisation or taking the wrong drugs. Plenty instances of both

LOUDEST GIG:
So many. Sunn at NCH last year was up there because i forgot earplugs / Boris in Whelans / Merzbow in Brum. Oh MBV too probably

SEEN THE MOST:
Possibly Sunn o)))

MOST SURPRISING:
Moin at Haunted Dancehall a couple of years ago. Blew me away

MOST DISAPPOINTING:
Never got to see a truly great Sonic Youth gig. Or maybe not even a very good SY gig

HAPPY I GOT TO SEE:
Tom Waits, even though the gig was kinda meh, it still scratched an itch i would have had to this day

SORRY TO HAVE MISSED:
Prince. It just wasn't to be

 

[pete]

SORRY TO HAVE MISSED:
Prince. It just wasn't to be

We were in Las Vegas over Christmas the year of his weekend midnight - 4am residency at the Rio, but it wasn't on that weekend...

 

[shitepipe]

We were in Las Vegas over Christmas the year of his weekend midnight - 4am residency at the Rio, but it wasn't on that weekend...

Aggh, so close. I always figured there'd be another time... til there wasn't

 

[pete]

i wouldn't be a big Prince fan by any means, but that would have been something.

we got to see Penn & Teller's show (also in the Rio) on christmas day anyway, and jerry seinfeld in caesar's palace on stephenses day