Bands you've seen live

[EndOfAnEra]

This is going to be tough to remember everyone...

AFI x2

Poison The Well

Nine Inch Nails (and again in July!)

System of a Down

Audioslave

Seether

Death From Above 1979

Anti-Flag x3

Yellowcard x2

Brand New

Chevelle

Sparta

Ima Robot x2

Matt Good

Queens of the Stone Age (and again in August)

Thrice x3

Comeback Kid

Shiny Toy Guns

Edgefest 2002

-Blink 182

-Sum 41

-New Found Glory

-Project Wyze

-Jimmy Eat World

Taste of Chaos

-Dredg

-Killswitch Engage

-Atreyu

-Deftones

Warped Tour

-NOFX

-Bouncing Souls

-Pennywise

-Alkaline Trio

-Senses Fail

-Thursday

-Lillix (for two whole seconds...The Sounds cancelled their set)

Bad Religion

The Killers

Hot Hot Heat

Rise Against

Muse

Fiest

Henry Rollins (spoken word though, no music)

Autopilot Off

Alexisonfire

The Used (I pulled off a stagedive at this one, and when I went to SOAD, security knew me and wouldn't let me walk myself out after a crowd surf, hahaha)

Grady

Vanilla Ice~!

Swollen Members

Eve 6

Further Seems Forever

Mellowdrone

Mars Volta (bleh)

I know there's more, particularly at the festivals, but ah well.

ApSham, I have to ask you. Did Matt Good act like a pretentious ass at your show? Every one I've been to he's delayed the start by at least two hours.

[TheRyno]

Himsa

Bleeding Through

Arch Enemy

Cradle of Filth

3

Chiodos

The Dillinger Escape Plan

Coheed and Cambria

[Toa]

Andromeda

Annihilator

Arcturus

Baroness

Circus Maximus

Communic

Cryptopsy

DéspairsRay

Dir En Grey

Dream Theater

Fair To Midland

Fish (the guy from Marillion) x 3

Gallhammer

Holmgang

Iced Earth

In Gowan Ring

Inme

Iron Maiden

Jimmy Page/Robert Plant

Kill The Thrill

Kylesa

Loch Vostok

Manticora x 5

Mew x 3

Moonlight Agony

Nightlight

Saga

Scar Symmetry

Serj Tankian

Skitliv

Suede

Type O Negative

Turisas

Týr x 3

Vesania

Visceral Bleeding

+ a handful more that I either can't or won't think of

[Farmer Reil]

Depressingly few

Machine Head (God Forbid, Caliban)

Dragonforce (Edguy, Sabatton)

Bloodstock 2007

- Kiuas, Firewind, Testament

- Voodoo Six, Epica, Wolf, Memfis, Korpiklaani, Nevermore, Lacuna Coil,

- Freedom Call, Nephwrack, Speed Theory, Sinnergod, Dream Evil, Finntroll, Sabbat

Korpiklaani (Keltic Jihad)

Kamelot (Firewind, Forever Slave)

It's funny that, with the exception of Korpiklaani, all the support bands have been way better than the headliners (reffering to Caliban in the first instance, definately not God Awful). Hell, I didn't even bother watching Sunday's headliner at Bloodstock (Arch Enemy followed by InFlames? Ick. Time was much better spent in the beer tent rocking up the kareoke with a drunk Scot ).

Edited April 10, 2008 by Farmer Reil

[Darloboy]

Yeah I've been to like a handful of gigs, support in brackets if I remember them.

The Darkness x2 (Do Me Bad Things, Ash, The Ark, Juliette and The Licks)

Blink 182 (Sugarcult, The Kinison)

Guns N' Roses (Bullet For My Valentine, Sebastian Bach)

Ian Brown (no idea )

[British_Boy]

-Guns N Roses

The Trews

Die Manniquin

-April Wine

-Aerosmith

Cheap Trick

54 - 40

-Ozzy Osbourne!

In This Moment

Think thats about it,, and Alice Cooper later this year..

[apsham]

ApSham, I have to ask you. Did Matt Good act like a pretentious ass at your show? Every one I've been to he's delayed the start by at least two hours.

I saw him on his last acoustic tour, around fall of 2007. He really liked the venue and while he started out a little bit late, he was generally really good. He was drinking a shit load of wine, which only seemed to make the show better... because he ended up doing drunk rants and telling stories about how they stole shoes and Commodore 64s from the big stores back in Vancouver during his day. He also lost his set list and played whatever came to mind, which turned out better than his actual lists that I saw from other shows. All in all, it was the best show I've ever been to and could really hope to.

[GoGo Yubari]

Oh god. Watch the evolution of my taste in music from bad to less bad as I attempt to figure this out chronologically and then degenerate into complete rambling. WARNING: Featuring bands you've never heard of!

Chuck Mangione (yes, really. I was like eleven), Tantric (? I think that was their name. They had one hit and it sucked), Lifehouse, 3 Doors Down, Gorillaz, Vendetta Red (like four times), Botox Aftermath, fuck I can't remember I think it was the Black Eyed Peas or some shit, Cold, Evanescence, Weird Al Yankovic, the Left Hand of Fate (like three times), Audio Learning Center aka The Worst Band Ever Jesus Christ, Rasputina (twice), The Orphan Project, United State of Electronica, Death Cab for Cutie, The Presidents of the United States of America (twice), The Marley Brothers, Built to Spill, The Pixies, The Caesars, Hot Hot Heat, Social Distortion, Interpol, Queens of the Stone Age, Visqueen, DeVotchKa, Harvey Danger, Digable Planets, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Billy Preston, Elvis Costello, The Stereo Future (twice), The Pillows (twice), The Video Game Pianist, Optimus Rhyme, Mon Frere, Blue Scholars, Kanye West, The Trucks, No-Fi Soul Rebellion, The Cops, The Saturday Knights, Common Market, The Apples in Stereo, Art Brut, Schoolyard Heroes, Lupe Fiasco, noodles

I know there are a lot more, but basically those are the ones that I can actually coherently remember.

If I had to rate my five favorite live acts I've ever seen, it'd go something like...

1. The Pillows

2. Rasputina

3. Art Brut

4. Weird Al Yankovic (though if you went by sheer stage effects and presentation value, he'd be #1. I'm not even a big fan or anything but he goes all out)

5. Digable Planets

With honorable mentions to the Presidents and Left Hand of Fate, who were the most awesome band I've ever seen that nobody who didn't go to one of their shows will ever know of.

[GRIFT]

I am going to leave off the huge list of local bands and obscure punk shows but I've seen...

Tool

Rage Against the Machine

Modest Mouse

Head Automatica

Our Lady Peace

Bob Dylan

Elvis Costello

3

Coheed and Cambria (in a tiny ass club before they got super popular. Actually before Eppard was in the band.)

Thursday

Moneen

The White Stripes

Fiest

Bright Eyes

The Magic Numbers

Killswitch Engage

Lamb of God

Ozzy (but only because my friend Sonny's band [Twisted Roots] opened for him.)

The Wailers

Bad Religion

Flogging Molly

Ween

Every Time I Die

Hopesfall

Evergreen Terrace

Anti-Flag

Dropkick Murphys

Rancid

Alexisonfire

Atmosphere

Robbie Williams (by accident, but fuck it the show rocked.)

The Vandals

Henry Rollins (it was a spoken word tour though... but I got to interview him for the Free Press!)

Jenny Lewis

Sarah Harmer

Raine Maida

Taking Back Sunday with Saves the Day (Worst show ever, and the only show I've ever left early.)

Foo Fighters

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Rustic Overtones

Paranoid Social Club

Weezer

Jimmy Eat World

Tenacious D

Ryan Adams

Ani DiFranco

Damian Rice

Ugh, I forgot a ton but I have to close up shop in the real world now.

[tomroe]

Casting Crowns

Nathan Shaver Band

38 Acres

Eric Church

MercyMe

Wavorly

Dizmus

Fireflight

Disciple

Hurt

Seether

Breaking Benjamin

Three Days Grace

And I'm going to see Casting Crowns again next Thursday and I'm going to a Carrie Underwood and Jason Michael Carrol concert in June.

[Liam]

I'll try and remember, but my brain is rubbish. I'll also stick in the support acts where I can remember them.

Drowning Pool (Die So Fluid)

Disturbed

Amen

Apocalyptica (Amplifier, Breed 77)

Machine Head (Breed 77, Sikth)

Ill Nino (Breed 77)

Fear Factory (Breed 77)

Deftones (Revolution Smile, A Perfect Circle)

Trivium (3 Inches of Blood, Still Remains)

Lamb Of God (Throwdown, As I Lay Dying)

Reuben (Kill Kenada, Enjoy Destroy)

The Dillinger Escape Plan (Stolen Babies, Between The Buried And Me)

Turisas (Alestorm, Norther)

Reading 2003

- Metallica

- System Of A Down

- Primal Scream

- Good Charlotte

- Sum 41

- The Used

- All American Rejects

- Sugarcult

- Biffy Clyro

Reading 2004

- The Bronx

- The Icarus Line

- Goldie Lookin' Chain

- Hundred Reasons

- Ash

- The Hives

- The Offspring

- The 5,6,7,8's

- Franz Ferdinand

- The Libertines

- Morrissey

- The White Stripes

- Green Day

- 50 Cent

- Placebo

- Lostprophets

- The Streets

- Minus

And, as I had the pleasure of going to 2 Party In The Parks, I guess you can add these (got from Wiki, so apparently not the full list, but close enough)

2003

Atomic Kitten

Avril Lavigne

Beyoncé Knowles

Blue

Busted

Craig David

Daniel Bedingfield

Dannii Minogue

David Gray

Emma Bunton

Gareth Gates

Girls Aloud

Kym Marsh

Liberty X

Meat Loaf

Melanie C

Mis-Teeq

Nelly Furtado

Shania Twain

Simply Red

Sugababes

2001

A1

Anastacia

Architechs

Atomic Kitten

BBMak

Blue

Catatonia

Craig David

Damage

David Gray

Destiny's Child

Eddy Grant

Emma Bunton

Geri Halliwell

Hear'Say

Jamiroquai

Lil Bow Wow

Nelly Furtado

Ricky Martin

Ronan Keating

Shaggy and Rayvon

Sisqó

Sugababes

Tom Jones

Usher

Wheatus

Wyclef Jean

Although admittedly, there are some I really don't remember from the lists, so I'm not sure they are 100%.

And as can be seen earlier on, there are a lot of Breed 77 gigs......used to be friends with fan clubs member types, so went toa few gigs with them.

[Turbo Yannis]

The Academy Is, Ash, Atreyu, Biffy Clyro, CKY, The Darkness, The Datsuns, Every Time I Die, Fall Out Boy, Foo Fighters, The Futureheads, Goldie Lookin' Chain, Green Day, The Hives, The Hush Sound, Idlewild, Jimmy Eat World, Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian, The Killers, Lostprophets, Metallica, Motion City Soundtrack, Paramore, The Proclaimers, Queens Of The Stone Age, Reuben, Still Remains, We Are Scientists, The Who.

That's all off my iPod I can think of. Add in Bullet For my Valentine and a shitload of others that I can't remember off the top of my head.

[SwantonEdge]

Tenacious D

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Chris Cornell

Linkin Park

Muse

Arcade Fire

Bjork

Rage Against the Machine

Foo Fighters in May

Unfortunately, living in NZ, it's not often that I get a chance to see the big acts. The Smashing Pumpkins were just down here with QOTSA and I didn't go due to lack of cash and people to go with. I'm sure the Queens will be here again, so I'm not too torn up about that, however I can't help feeling like I might have missed my only chance to see Billy Corgan

[VerbalPuke]

I'll go ahead and avoid the scores of local shows I've seen as others have been doing.

Lynrd Skynrd, ZZ Top, Elvis Costello, CCR, Primus, Blue Cheer, Charged GBH, Anti Nowhere League, Flatfoot 56, River City Rebels, The Queers, Primus, and a bunch of bullshit at Ozzfest last summer.

[Guest Ricc]

Not a huge list..I don't go to many gigs anymore.. heres what I can remember

Less Than Jake (x6)

Green Day

No Doubt

Rival Schools

Allister

A

Wheatus

Sum41

Bowling for Soup

Spunge (x2 or 3)

Madness

Dropkick Murphys

Reel Big Fish (very hazy memory, they supported sum41..I was very very wasted)

Alien Ant Farm

There is more. I'm forgetting supports, and the line ups from festivals. and the odd other ticket I have on my wall at home. but yeh, this is my list pretty much.

[lari]

In the past ten years I've been to more than a dozen festivals and at least a hundred club gigs. I don't know if it's feasible to list all the bands I've seen. Actually, I doubt I could even remember half of them, but it's mostly hard rock and heavy metal.

[R.W.]

Easiest way is to run backwards, so must recent first (excluding supports, coz most of them were rubbish ):

The Feeling

Crowded House

Duke Special

Muse

Ghosts

The Killers

Aqualung

Sheryl Crow

Natasha Bedingfield

Coldplay

Neil Finn

Radiohead

Bryan Adams

Genesis

[probablyoliver]

Funeral for a Friend (x4)

Reuben (x4)

Frank Turner

The Mars Volta (x2)

Arctic Monkeys

Pixies

Futureheads

Future Kings of Spain

Nine Black Alps

Exit Ten (x2)

YETI

Razorlight

John Spencer Mighty Blues Explosion

Mae

Coheed and Cambria

Finch

Kanye West

Taking Back Sunday (x2)

Willy Mason

We Are Scientists (x3)

Maximo Park

Fighstar (x2)

mewithoutyou

Rise Against (x2)

Underoath

Hundred Reasons

Billy Talent

Biffy Clyro

Tsnumai Bomb

Tyranosaurus Alan

Ludwig Amadeus

i said yes

and some that I can't remember...

[thuganomic]

In order, I think.

Dave Matthew Band, Def Leppard, Jars of Clay, Kaiser Chiefs, Kanye West, Linkin Park, Jay-Z, Maroon 5, Rob Thomas, Bon Jovi, Sarah McLachlan {Live 8 Philadelphia}

18 Visions, Avenged Sevenfold, Coheed & Cambria

Goo Goo Dolls, Counting Crows

Rufus Wainwright

Five for Fightings, Gary Jules

Ben Folds, Third Eye Blind

The Shins

Polyphonic Spree

Ben Kweller

Joshua Radin, Meiko, Ingrid Michaelson (x2), Eric Hutchinson, Cary Brothers

[Timmoru Suzuki]

Barely been to any gigs, and I can't remember for toffee who the suppots were.

1. Buck Cherry. Were fairly good.

2. Electric 6. Were fucking immense.

3. Shiny Toy Guns. I went for the birthday of a mates who likes them. They were shite.

All last year, all around Sheffield.