Best rock gigs you've seen at the City Hall

[RiffRaff 10]

Been to more than I can remember - Free, Hoople, Who, Nice, Floyd - but as regards sound quality and performance closely imitating recordings, there's one stand-out candidate...

Not rock in the true sense, I guess - unless you include the Giant's Causeway! - but the award goes to...

Clannad.

(And no, they weren't miming!)

 

Another stand-out night was Rory Gallagher...or it might've been Taste at the time. He actually turned his Strat down fully, so no amplification was involved at one point in a song. I remember one review saying that it was "like being in a church".

[SputnikBoy 10]

The Everly Brothers, 16 April 1960.  Not 'amazing' or 'mind-blowing' or any of the other superlatives used here for the exaggerated head-banging stuff that has turned so many people on.  Just two guys - Don and Phil - and their backing band - members of Buddy Holly's Crickets - with, if I recall, on-stage plug-in amps, singing some beautiful ballads in their two-part harmony and also belting out some GENUINE 1950's Rock and Roll!