mine would be Counting Crows @ the city hall....Suede @ the Octagon...Bruce Springsteen @ Utds ground.....Alice Cooper @ the city hall

Jeez this brought back a few memories, I have been to loads of gigs as music is my passion.

Here is my top 10 in no particular order

The Jam - Farewell tour at the Top Rank (Steeleys)
Thin Lizzy - City Hall
David Gray - Octagon
Dire Straits - Arena
Judas Priest - City Hall
Boy on a Dolphin - Leadmill
Joe Cocker - Arena
Boo Hewerdine - Rockingham Arms
Neil Diamond - Arena
Motorhead - City Hall (banned after this gig)

Originally posted by "mikey"

Jeez this brought back a few memories, I have been to loads of gigs as music is my passion.

Here is my top 10 in no particular order

The Jam - Farewell tour at the Top Rank (Steeleys)
Thin Lizzy - City Hall
David Gray - Octagon
Dire Straits - Arena
Judas Priest - City Hall
Boy on a Dolphin - Leadmill
Joe Cocker - Arena
Boo Hewerdine - Rockingham Arms
Neil Diamond - Arena
Motorhead - City Hall (banned after this gig)Boo Hewerdine - Rockingham Arms lovedto have seen that i loved the Bible

Hey I am impressed, I didn't think anybody would have heard of him.
I am going to see him on Saturday in Ashbourne and he is playing the Rockingham Arms later in the year. He is fantastic live and plays old Bible songs Honey be Good, Gracelands ect. They did a reunion concert last year and I have a bootleg recording.

Underated hugely talented Britsh Songwriter, check outh the list of people he has written for on his web site.

Check out his site

www.boohewerdine.net

Originally posted by "mikey"

Hey I am impressed, I didn't think anybody would have heard of him.
I am going to see him on Saturday in Ashbourne and he is playing the Rockingham Arms later in the year. He is fantastic live and plays old Bible songs Honey be Good, Gracelands ect. They did a reunion concert last year and I have a bootleg recording.

Underated hugely talented Britsh Songwriter, check outh the list of people he has written for on his web site.

Check out his site

www.boohewerdine.net I saw All About Eve @ the Rockingham Arms

Originally posted by "Jon"

mine would be Counting Crows @ the city hall....Suede @ the Octagon...Bruce Springsteen @ Utds ground.....Alice Cooper @ the city hall

I really wish I had seen the Springsteen concert at Bramall Lane.

Nirvana @ Octagan Centre
Counting Crows @ Sheffield City Hall
Thunder @ Sheffield City Hall
Def Leppard @ Sheffield Arena 1992
Counting Crows @ Sheffield Arena
Metallica @ Sheffield Arena

Dead by Friday - Classic Rock Bar
CRF - Classic Rock Bar
Treebeard - Classic Rock Bar
Eagles - Sheffield Arena
Elton John - Sheffield Arena
Thunder - City Hall
Def Leppard/Ugly Kid Joe/Terrorvison - Stadium
Bryan Adams - Sheffield Arena

Classic Rock
Why dont you post a gig list of who you have got appearing?

hmmm..definitely Def Leppard at Sheffield Arena 03

Morrissey - City Hall
Thomas Dolby- Octagon
Oasis- Arena
Bauhaus- Top Rank
Killing Joke- Leadmill
These are the first ones that spring to mind but there are many more.

Specials at Herringthorpe in Toytown in about 1980? Great day out long walk back to Sheffield after clashes with fascists and the police.

I've still got the scar on the hand where I caught a blade.

M.

Hi Mikey did you go see Boo in Ashbourne on Saturday?

Oh yes, great night. Back room of a pub only 35 people there.
What a man, the world doesn't what they are missing.

Ps he is headlining an festival in Chesterfield in July - Stainsby Festival
and then Rockingham Arms in November

Boo Hewerdine is so underated, his last 2 albums Anon & Thanksgiving are excellent. I saw him a couple of months ago in Milton Keynes & he was amazing.

Check out his web site

www.boohewerdine.net

he has a few mp3's on there

Hi mikey i have just been on Boo Hewerdines website downloading them songs you told me about love the song Paper Planes thx :D

Originally posted by "Lickszz"

Nirvana @ Octagan Centre
Counting Crows @ Sheffield City Hall


Exactly what I was going to say! Nov '91?

The band came out front to watch Shonen Knife play - guess who was standing right next to them :D I was 15 and very impressed at the time.

Originally posted by "Lickszz"

Nirvana @ Octagan Centre



Exactly what I was going to say! Nov '91?

The band came out front to watch Shonen Knife play - guess who was standing right next to them :D I was 15 and very impressed at the time.

What is the best gig/concert that you have been 2?
have you ever been 2 a festival? what was it like?


for me i would have to say the BUSTED concert at the city hall was the best ever! it was WKD!

I have mainly been 2 pop concerts like STEPS, Westlife, blue, pop idol and Hallam FM charity concerts, Never a festival tho.

dee:D

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huwj, yeah, i've thourght about giong 2 the leadmill, i'll have 2 try it sumtime.

what R your other interests? pm me.

Eminem Concert (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?threadid=1213) is the last place I went to.

Read the review!

the best gig iv bit to would be the recent westlife one or the whitesnake gig at the arena... i know its not everyones cup of t but it was ace

John Spence Blues Explosion at the Leadmill

The Tansads, at the Lomax, Liverpool, 1994.

Nothing has come close to the sheer exuberance and all round good feeling generated by the crowd and the band at that one gig.

Definitely Pulp, on various occasions (V97 (or 98), Finsbury Park, Sherwood Forest, Brixton Academy) 'cos Jarvis is just barking! Closely followed by Placebo'cos it's good to shake your head sometimes.

The Tansads, at the Lomax, Liverpool, 1994.

Nothing has come close to the sheer exuberance and all round good feeling generated by the crowd and the band at that one gig.

Dire Straits - Arena
The Jam - Top Rank

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I must be so old ...

...my favourite gig was The Who at Newcastle City Hall in about 1981

Some of you werent even born then....sigh

It was wonderful though, a great light show to accompany great music and my hero Pete Townshend with the windmill arm guitar playing

Bliss.

Aswad at Sheffield Top Rank in about 1984 - well before they went all poppy. They were still playing righteous roots reggae with a live dub feel.

I was just 17, and watched wide-eyed as this Rasta bloke built the most enormous spliff I've ever seen (apart from the one in Withnail & I!)

Aswad's 1983 live album 'Live And Direct' gives a pretty fine feeling of what that gig was like. Amazing.

We have had another thread like this one

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?threadid=827&highlight=concerts+in+sheffield

Maybe a mod could merge them

Originally posted by mikey
We have had another thread like this one

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?threadid=827&highlight=concerts+in+sheffield

Maybe a mod could merge them

Good idea, thanks. I've now merged them and adopted the topic title "What's the best gig/concert you've ever been to?" so it's no longer restricted to just gigs in Sheffield.

8)

In no particular order:

Skunk Anansie @ Leicester De Montfort Hall
Skid Row @ Birmingham NEC
Skid Row/Guns n Roses @ Wembley
Oasis @ Wembley
Counting Crows @ Sheffield Arena
Offspring @ Leeds 99 (I think!)
Papa Roach @ Manchester Academy
Garbage @ Manchester Arena
Sona Fariq @ some tiny community centre in Aldershot
Metallica @ Milton Keynes Bowl
Def Leppard @ Manchester Apollo
Limp Bizkit @ Manchester Arena
:D

Either Porno for Pyros at Reading Festival in 1993 or Faith no More at Brixton Accademy around 1991.

just found this thread !!! I seen loads so here goes
not in any particular order

springsteen @ bramall lane (only time I would go in that ground)
led zeppelin @ sheff university
T. rex @ city hall
free @ city hall
bryan adams @ arena
the jam @ top rank
david bowie @ top rank (doncaster)
bad company @ city hall
:P wish I could remember every minute of everyone

hey!:evil:

I did a thread juust like this!
y u copied me?
now mine dissapeared!:evil:

Shirehorses, NMB, 1999. Absolutely hilarious!

Originally posted by katndee
hey!:evil:

I did a thread juust like this!
y u copied me?
now mine dissapeared!:evil:

If you read the thread, you'd realise that your thread has been merged with this one. This thread was originally posted before yours - so you were the one copying... ;) :P

Originally posted by Jon
mine would be Counting Crows @ the city hall

When did Counting Crows play the city hall? I think it must have been before I moved to Sheffield, otherwise I'm sure I would have gone! I saw them this year in January at the Arena...

Originally posted by Lou
When did Counting Crows play the city hall? I think it must have been before I moved to Sheffield, otherwise I'm sure I would have gone! I saw them this year in January at the Arena...

hey, likewise I saw them in January as well. I got a good bootleg of it. They played at City Hall 20/2/2000 - I have the bootleg for this too.

Originally posted by Lickszz
hey, likewise I saw them in January as well. I got a good bootleg of it. They played at City Hall 20/2/2000 - I have the bootleg for this too.

Ah, 20/2/2000 was before I moved to Sheffield... How d'ya get the bootlegs?

Didn't you think the Arena was pretty empty in January? It seemed to only be half of the Arena so I was thinking it might have been better for them to have played city hall instead? Or is half the Arena's capacity bigger than a full city hall?! I haven't been to the city hall so I don't know how big it is.

Originally posted by Lou
Ah, 20/2/2000 was before I moved to Sheffield... How d'ya get the bootlegs?

Didn't you think the Arena was pretty empty in January? It seemed to only be half of the Arena so I was thinking it might have been better for them to have played city hall instead? Or is half the Arena's capacity bigger than a full city hall?! I haven't been to the city hall so I don't know how big it is.

I trade CC bootlegs. Lots of traders will burn you the boots for nothing as long as you pay postage/packing and send them cd's. Yes, it was disappointing to see it that empty. I went to the MEN arena show and that was full. That arena is much bigger than Sheffield. I went in 2000 to City Hall and it was a great atmosphere as most of the time small halls are. I wasn't disappointed because they put on a great performance in January but it must be hard when the arena is only half full. I not sure aobut the half arena size to city hall but I would imagine that CC thought they may sell more than they did and once the arena is booked obviously cannot switch, so the only other alternative is cancellation.

I once saw U2, Public Enemy and Kraftwerk on one bill in Manchester in the early 90's...

Cost nowt to get in either due to a local contact..

I agree with katndee!

i went to see BUSTED at the city hall and it was AMAZING!!!!!
the best concert EVER by far! the atmosphere was just brill!!!
can't wait 2 c them at the arena nxt year!!!!!

Busted rock!!!:headbang:

The Levellers, a few years back. I've never danced and sang so hard and so loud in my life. It was WILD:D :D
I also went with a load of people who were bigger than me, and they made a circle around me so I wouldn't get squashed by the crowd. I had no idea, I was bouncing around so much and then after they all had a story to tell about people crashing into them, while I was bruise-free. That's a night I'd relive in an instant.

I saw Rod Stewart live and Luther Van Dross. Both were amazing.
I recently saw The Osmonds at Sheffield Arena:love:

I've seen Metallica, Guns n Roses, the original line up of Black Sabbath, Eminem, The Dandy Warhols, Slipknot, The Prodigy, Paradise Lost, Therapy, White Zombie, Sepultura, Motorhead & Frank Black & the Catholics ....... But the best gig ever was Lawnmower Deth at the Astoria.

Complete madness & a combination of drinking, mosh pit & fish dance :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1iKBNxsXFE

Leeds Festival in 2003 - best weekend of my life!

David Bowie's following:

1983 - Serious Moonlight Tour
1987 - Glass Spider Tour
1989 - Tin Machine
1990 - Sound and Vision Tour
1995 - The Outside Tour
2002 - Heathen Tour
:thumbsup:

it's not always the music but the way they go about their work.

bluesman Lowell Fulson turned up to do a Sunday afternoon matinee at the Leadmill sometime in the mid 80s. Performed a brilliant set with a pick up band and then afterwards, we spotted him just place his guitar on the back seat of an empty car, get in on the driver's side, and head up to Newcastle where he had a better paying gig that night with a bigger band and a brass section. Fulson was about 65 years old at the time.

I was glad to catch harmonica ace Charlie Musselwhite down the Queens Rd Working Man's Club around 1991 too.

I've been to some memorable gigs, but I'm not a fan of large gigs.

My favourite:

Oasis- Maine Road
Pantera - Apollo
Desmond Decker- Leadmill
Skin - Leadmill

The Skin one was great, it was a Sunday night and not many people were there but she still gave it her all and got down from the stage and sang amongst the crowd :)

Alice Russell, Mint Lounge, Manchester, 2008! Amazing... best gig ever!

Prince, O2 Arena, 2007 (http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/prince-o2-arena-london-460367.html)

Prince, O2 Arena, 2007 (http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/prince-o2-arena-london-460367.html)

I saw Prince live, in the 90s, and the experience really put me off him. His ego certainly makes up for his small stature, he came on late and did a very short set (no pun intended) which was definitely not worth the astronomical cost of the ticket.:(

for me it has to be glastonbury...attended the event 5 times in the mid nineties...
awsome

Many years ago I worked as a Steward so I've seen many a gig.

Those that stand out for good reasons are:

Stranglers (classic songs)
Pogues (full bottle of whisky reduced to nothing)
Anthrax (absolute nutters that watched them)
Tom Jones (real showman)

The worst one by a mile was Daniel O'Donnell, we had more aggro at that than any other concert I can recall.

Wish I could say I have been to loads but I haven't:

Of the two that I have been to (both as a teenager) was the Free Trade Hall in Manchester (and no I am not a Mancunian - I always consider myself a proud descendent of traitor county - Cheshire - even to this day the Cheshire regiment does not have Royal in front of it!). My brother-in-law had to go to Keele University so I got to see Yes in concert for free.
The other was Uriah Heep - with my sister and brother-in-law - one of the tracks I liked of theirs at the time was 'Wizard of a thousand kings' but we all had to walk out after 15 minutes to face deafening silence - very disappointing - the sound was penetrating my guts as well - not good after having eaten a medium rare steak with too many greens! You get the picture! So Yes has to be the outright winner for me - I was thirteen at the time.

swarfendor43

I rather liked Woodstock.

Ahhh. Deep in my single vinyl collection I have 'Woodstock' by 'Matthews Southern Comfort'.

The best concert I saw was Gong live in Hyde Park, along with Nico, Kevin Ayers and John Cale doing a Velvet Underground revival. It was a sunny day, it was free and it all just came together.

Woodstock 1970
The stones/Metallica/Led Zep/Atomic Rooster..London
Deep Purple. B'ham
AC/DC. Mucky Duck. Sheff.
Prodigy, sheff
Audioslave. Indianapolis.
Dandy Warhols, Chicago.
Death in Vegas, Seattle.
RATM....London

Westlife and Justin Timberlake!

Not their biggest fan, but AC/DC at download this year was immense

The best by a country mile was The Specials @ Sheff O2 Academy in 2009 (even better than the first time in 1980)

Other great gigs include:
The Clash @ Manchester Apollo in 1984
The Jam @ Roxys in 1984
New Order @ Rotters (Donny) in 1985
RHCP @ Hyde Park in 2004
Madness @ Blickling Hall in 2008

The Stone Roses -Spike Island
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/sevenages/events/indie/stone-roses-at-spike-island/

The Jam @ Roxys in 1984


Think your memory's a bit wonky... their last gig was Dec.11th 1982 :)

Think your memory's a bit wonky... their last gig was Dec.11th 1982 :)It's my typing thats wonky. :P

Prince at Wembley in the 1980's.

I've never seen so many people cry when he launched into '' Little Red Corvette ''.