Gigs/Bands.

[Summers]

What bands have you seen? Obviously I don't mean little local bands we'd have no desire to really see, like.. proper big bands. Some people are obviously unlucky and haven't seen many whereas I know a lot of us here are avid gig/festival/whatever goers.

I'll work on mine in a bit, as it's a bit long.

YAY4WRONGFORUM.

Someone wanna move it? (Y)

Edited March 3, 2006 by Sumzy

[Dingle]

I still have to actually go to a proper gig, I've been to a few little shitty shows that school hold and that the local theatre has there, but nothing big at all.

[Liam]

In just gigs (with the support if I remember it):

Amen/Little Hell

Disturbed

Deftones/A Perfect Circle/Revolution Smile

Machine Head/Sikth/Breed 77

Drowning Pool/Die So Fluid

Ill Nino/Breed 77/Violent Delight

Apocalyptica/Breed 77/Amplifier

Trivium/3 Inches Of Blood/Still Remains

Lamb Of God/Throwdown/As I Lay Dying

I've seen some small time bands as well, but no-one of note. I'm also not too big a Breed 77 fan believe it or not, just happened to have seen them 3 times, with only the Ill Nino gig being to see them (the first one being to see Machine Head, the third one to see Amplifier, and cos the ticket was free)

At festivals (a rough list, as I can't remember for sure):

Goldie Lookin Chain

Metallica

System of A Down

White Stripes

The Darkness

The Used

The Bronx

The Offspring

The Futureheads

Icarus Line

Ash

Placebo

Lostprophets

Morrissey

The 5,6,7,8's

Minus

The Streets

The Libertines

The Roots

Franz Ferdinand

The Hives

Hundred Reasons

Primal Scream

Good Charlotte

Sum 41

Biffy Clyro

Sugarcult

The All American-Rejects

And that is about it.

Best band live was Machine Head, closely followed by A Perfect Circle and Metallica.

Worst band live was.....hmmm....probably The LIbertines at Reading 2004. Just not as good as I hoped they could have been, and it was when they didn't have Pete, so the songs just didn't have any oomph, I guess. Other than that, most bands I've seen live have been good, or at least competent.

Edited March 3, 2006 by rvdwannabe

[Summers]

Right.. I'll go for the same format as Liam.

Gigs:

Slipknot w/ One Minute Silence, American Head Charge and In Flames.

Jimmy Eat World w/ er.. Promise Ring.

Papa Roach w/ Murderdolls and.. er.. Hell Is For Heroes

Blink 182 w/ some shit band and er.. .. Sugarcult

Marilyn Manson w/ Peaches

Coheed & Cambria w/ Mae (or something) & Mewithoutyou

Coheed & Cambria w/ Thrice and someone else, I forgot the name.

Fightstar w/ Reuben, Last Days Of April & Brigade.

Festival:

(End of) Fozzy

Lordi

Underoath

Apocalyptica

InMe

My Chemical Romance

Megadeth

Garbage

Trivium

American Head Charge

A

Everytime I Die

Unearth

Meshuggah

Bullet For My Valentine

Lamb Of God

Chimaira

In Flames

Black Sabbath

Mudvayne

Papa Roach

Killswitch Engage

(Bit of) Slayer

Funeral For A Friend

Slipknot

System of a Down

I know I'm forgetting a couple/few gigs. I'd originally forgotten about Manson and Blink, so many more could have slipped my mind.

Coming up?

Panic! At The Disco

Disturbed

Trivium

Ember And The Infernos (;D)

Download 2006.

Edited March 17, 2006 by Sumzy

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Top few in order of "Woah!-ness"

1) Polysics - Birmingham '04

First time I saw them, just 20 people crammed into Bar Academy. Proper great it was too! Frantic electro-poppy punk tracks - frenzied!

2) Chemical Brothers - Birmingham '03

First stop on their World Tour. Dancing with hundreds of people to Block Rockin Beats, Hey Boy Hey Girl and Under The Influence just did EVERYTHING for me. Unbelieveable.

3) Muse - London Astoria '99

Did two trips down to London in a week with my housemate. He came with me to see Feeder (supported by My Vitriol who were amazing) and then I went to see Ash with him...Who were supported by MUSE! Blew me away. Went out and bought their album the next day and been hooked since. Interestingly you can see the back of my head on the original video for Muscle Museum which was clips of loads of live performances...

4) Ladytron - Birmingham '03

Strangely one of my first gigs with my now-wife. Great atmosphere and classy intelligent dance music to enjoy. Completely different vibe to all the others but still oved it.

5) Polysics - Birmingham '05

Second time we went to see 'em, this time at Barfly with a few more people. New song, great interaction with the crowd and a definite highlight when electro and guitars enjoyed a happy marriage with a recorder! They're supporting Kaiser Cheifs in April so they'll get big and too expensive to see.

[John Stones' Paint Trophy]

Gigs:

Ordinary Boys (Say what you will, they're great live.)

The Coral

The Rakes

Arctic Monkeys - The Cluny

Arctic Monkeys - Sunderland Manor Quays

Maximo Park

Milburn/The Rifles

Festivals:

None yet I hope to go to Reading or Leeds this year though. I just need to gather up £125 in time.

[Dyko]

I've been to a few shows, actually...all within the last couple of years:

Metallica (I later found out that while I was having a grand time seeing my favourite band, my friend who was there with me was almost passing out due to a high fever)

Iron Maiden

System of a Down

The Killers

Disturbed

Nine Inch Nails

Green Day

A Perfect Circle

Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Out of those, the most amazing had to be Metallica (show and awesomeness-wise), Disturbed (quality-wise), Green Day (over-all awesome show from start-to-finish).

The Trans-Siberian Orchestra is a tough one to call, because the show was absolutely fantastic, but it's really more of a stage production than a concert, so it wouldn't be fair to rank it against straight-up bands.

As for festivals, I've only been to one, but I feel it's the only one that matters (to me, anyways):

Summer Sanitarium

Right now, other than Iron Maiden, Metallica, or Greenday again, the concerts that I'd like to see are Our Lady Peace, Tool, Mathew Good, and Rob Zombie.

[Rich]

I have been to bucket loads of gigs, mainly local shows with small bands with at most 100 people in the room, mainly seen larger bands at festivals who are:

Metallica

slayer x2

biffy clyro x2

greenday

supergrass

soulfly x2

damageplan

ill nino

korn

slipknot

Iron Maiden

DFA 1979

bloc party x2

futureheads

Goldie looking chain

thrice

taking back sunday

foo fighters

Bedouin soundclash

offspring

pixies

franz ferdinand

Avenge sevenfold

Dillinger escape plan

sick of it all

funeral for a friend x2

lost prophets

yourcodenameis : Milo x2

coheed and cambria

From Autumn to Ashes

Libertines

Hundred Reasons

The killers

Kings of Leon

Machine Head

My chemical Romance

Thursday....

there are probably more i can't think of off the top of my head, as i know i have seen more lol

Edited March 3, 2006 by Rich__H

[Tarheels.]

I've seen quite a few people. I'm going to see Hawthorne Heights, FOB, and All-American Rejects with my girlfriend soon (shut up ) but I've seen much better.

Greenday

Panic! At The Disco

The Academy Is...

Something Corporate

Jimmy Eat Wolrd

Foo Fighters

The Eagles

Rolling Stones

System Of A Down

Sum 41

The Offspring

My Chemical Romance

Story Of The Year

Chevelle

Blink 182

I've seen more that I just can't remember too.

Oh yea, and Avenged Sevenfold like a month or two ago

Edited March 4, 2006 by TH4L

[Toe]

I don't need to make a long list, as I've seen CKY live. And to me, there the best band out there.

I just noticed I am wearing a CKY shirt as I am typing this.

[K]

Days Of Worth / Zero Cipher / Sugarcoma / Skindred

Mastadon / Hatebreed / Slayer / Slipknot

Talib Kwalli / Beastie Boys

Diamondhead / Megadeth

Head On / Fozzy

PHDM / The Duke / Suffrajettes / Fozzy

80's Matchbox B-Line Disaster / System of a Down

Engerica / Sum 41

Jurassic 5 (No support)

Misfits (Can't remember supports)

Trivium (Can't remember supports)

Panic Cell / ForeverNever/ Stuck Mojo (Forgot the other supports)

Coheed And Cambria (Can't remember supports)

Edguy / Dragonforce

NinteenthCentury / ForeverNever / Fozzy

Skindred / Soulfly

Panic Cell / Stuck Mojo / American Head Charge / Soil

Zero Cipher (And some crap supports)

Wolfmother / The Longcut / Nine Black Alps

And coming up..

Trivium, Trivium, Trivium, Pitchshifter, Beatallica, Me First And The Gimmie Gimmies, Disturbed and a mini festival in Camden.

edit:

One Minute Silence

Were they any good? The lead singer Yap does a bit on the new Zero Cipher album, it's awesome.

[Liam]

Do you mean live, Keith, or in general?

I've not seen them live, but they were good on CD. Some people said they were a bit like a UK-RATM, with the metal-rap-y combo and political lyrics, but yeah, they are well worth checking out.

[apsham]

Sum 41

Treble Charger

Jersey

Green Day

My Chemical Romance

Fall Out Boy

The Starting Line

Motion City Soundtrack

Panic! At The Disco

Boys Night Out

Those are it for now, but we plan on heading out to Warped Tour this year in Montreal.

EDIT: Fixed so it looks longer, but still grouped by bands that were at the same show.

Edited March 4, 2006 by Apple Shampoo

[YI]

Gigs;

Alkaline Trio

Bad Religion

Blink 182

Break The Silence

Fire Apple Red

Funeral For A Friend

Goldfinger

Iron Maiden (Not really a fan, but the atmosphere was incredible)

Less Than Jake

Lost Prophets

Murderdolls

OPM

Saliva

Stretch Arm Strong

Sugarcult

The Departure

The Killers

A few more who's names i've forgotten.

Festival;

Funeral For A Friend

British Sea Power

Dillinger Escape Plan

Von Bondies

Placebo

Ash

Bloc Party

The Libertines

Kasabian

I know i've missed some out...but I just can't seem to remember anything else....damn my old age.

Edited March 4, 2006 by YI

[K]

Do you mean live, Keith, or in general?

I've not seen them live, but they were good on CD. Some people said they were a bit like a UK-RATM, with the metal-rap-y combo and political lyrics, but yeah, they are well worth checking out.

Just in general. I've heard the Uk RATM claims as well, although that's a big claim, so I didn't put too much faith into it. I might check them out someday.

[Guest muddatrucker]

I'm going to see Jason Mraz in Birmingham on Tuesday Nite, Hoorah.

[fineintent]

I go to a gig every few weeks, so it'd take ages to list. I'll just list my favourites:

Sikth supported by Aconite Thrill

Killswitch Engage supported by Johnny Truant

Nas

The Streets supported by Kano and the Mitchell Brothers

Unearth

Lostprophets supported by Avenged Sevenfold and The Bronx

Roots Manuva

Dizzee Rascal

Shystie

DJ Format and MC Abdominal

[Liam]

Do you mean live, Keith, or in general?

I've not seen them live, but they were good on CD. Some people said they were a bit like a UK-RATM, with the metal-rap-y combo and political lyrics, but yeah, they are well worth checking out.

Just in general. I've heard the Uk RATM claims as well, although that's a big claim, so I didn't put too much faith into it. I might check them out someday.

Check out the "Buy Now...Saved Later" album, as thats the one I've got. I also would recommend the songs "Holy Man" and "Revolution" if you want a taster.

[Skummy]

I haven't seen that many, let's see...

Bob Geldof supported by Mike Peters

Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra supported by Chris Holland

Paul Weller

Neil Diamond

Nine Inch Nails supported by Saul Williams

The Black Velvets

Art Brut (twice)

The Ordinary Boys

The Futureheads

The Ivories

Dead! Dead! Dead!

Blackwire

The Veras

The Delays

Vincent Vincent & The Villains

Kid Carpet

The Resarch

The Others

Coming Up (potentially):

Download Festival (still undecided on this one)

Route Du Rock Festival (ditto)

Jersey Live Festival

Bearsuit

Robot Dinosaur Ninja Bastards

[Summers]

One Minute Silence were odd live. The lead singer kept hitting one of the guitarists with his microphone.

Poor guy.