The best concert/gig you've been to

OK, screw it. My favourite gigs...

U2, Rounday Park Leeds, 1993, Zooropa tour - ground-breaking multi-media experience
Coldplay, Etihad Manchester, 2006, Head Full of Dreams tour - with my wife and kids, joyous, colourful, a fantastic experience
Simple Mind Roundhay Park Leeds, 1989, Street Fighting Years Tour- first proper gig on a scorching hot day and I was very close to the front, loved every minute - and special mention for SM at Leeds FD Arena in April this year. First post-lockdown gig and it was brilliant.
Favourite smaller gig was Neil Finn at Newcastle City Hall in the late 90s, Try Whistling This tour. Edit: 1st October 1998. Isn't t'internet great?
 
'best' can be for musical reasons or emotional reasons etc so it's tough, can just about reduce a v long list to 1 per decade

Captain Beefheart at the Club-a -go-go Newcastle, 1968 (tho tough to exclude Doors and Jefferson Airplane at the Roundhouse 1968)
Sex Pistols at Rock Garden 1977
REM and Waterboys, Manchester Apollo 1989
Mazzy Star and Sparklehorse, Manchester Hop and Grape 1996
Love at Manchester Academy 2003
Lana Del Rey at Carcassonne 2014.
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OMD at the Sage in Gateshead a few years back
Jools Holland at the Globe last November
Bon Jovi at Huddersfield....not cool for most of you but they are one of my favourite bands and I have seen them 5 times live. We got front row and I got to have a bit of interaction with Jon Bon Jovi and I discovered the beauty of Matchbox 20 (their support) that day
 
Brian Marwood said:
Pretty sure I was there too, did Cast support?
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Cast supported in 1998 at the Popmart tour at Roundhay. Also saw them supporting James at Newcastle Arena in 2000ish. The lead singer was throwing a massive tantrum at the sound people and I remember it being the loudest gig I've ever been to. Was deaf for 2 or 3 days.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
My favourite is Springsteen and have seen him at SJP, Roundhay Park, Old Trafford, Stadium of Light and Hampden Park but my favourite gig was Dave Bowie’s Let’s Dance tour at Murrayfield. Springsteen is busy on stage but Bowie’s show was something else.
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Love Springsteen, off to see him at Murrayfield next year👍.
 
Either my first ever 'proper' gig seeing Cannibal Corpse in Glasgow or watching Helloween (with their original line-up) about four rows back amongst 80,000 people at Wacken in Germany 😍🎃
 
Just a few experiences off the top of my head

Nile Rodgers and Chic Glastonbury 2013 West Holts Stage headline set
Springsteen Roundhay Park
Brian Wilson Cropredy Festival 2019
Drive By Truckers The Cluny about ten years ago?
Michael Kiwanuka Wylam Brewery Newcastle (was also amazing playing an acoustic set at The Crows Nest Glastonbury)
 
Peter Gabriel has been one of my greatest experience in terms of entertainment and pure fantasy. I’ve been to a few of his concerts in London in 1984 and San Jose 2003 are best remembered. Maybe Coldplay before the hit the big time circa 2000 was decent also. However, I think Depeche Mode’s concert in San Francisco back in the early 90s was far an wide the best— David Gahan was seemingly drug free and the height of his creative powers.
 
Littlejimmy said:
OK, screw it. My favourite gigs...

U2, Rounday Park Leeds, 1993, Zooropa tour - ground-breaking multi-media experience
Coldplay, Etihad Manchester, 2006, Head Full of Dreams tour - with my wife and kids, joyous, colourful, a fantastic experience
Simple Mind Roundhay Park Leeds, 1989, Street Fighting Years Tour- first proper gig on a scorching hot day and I was very close to the front, loved every minute - and special mention for SM at Leeds FD Arena in April this year. First post-lockdown gig and it was brilliant.
Favourite smaller gig was Neil Finn at Newcastle City Hall in the late 90s, Try Whistling This tour. Edit: 1st October 1998. Isn't t'internet great?
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I was at that U2 gig too and it would be my favourite too.
 
Can't single one out, but here's a few that stick out. Rory Gallagher at Newcastle City Hall 1977, a year later the Clash in Birmingham and Coventry, the Stones at Sid James Park in 1981 or 82 and a few years ago, the Congo Faith Healers at a wedding at Guisborough Hall.
 
Hard one to call but ones that spring to mind
Nightwish set Wacken 2013
Delain 10th Anniversary Paradisio Amsterdam
Beyond the Black Live Music Hall Cologne
Within Temptation Wembley Arena
Best small gig Skarlett Riot, Sister Shotgun, Fahran, and Pretty Little Enemy(disbanded) at the Anvil Bournemouth
£6 and finished at midnight full value for money, and shorter journey for me
 
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