QuoteGood description there, LR. I can nearly see them!Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie
Yeah they'd two of the lads from the posies filling the line up out a bit.nice, esp. since i've read they were never really a 'live' band back in their day. was it everyone together except chris bell do you know?
1st real rock gig was sinead o'connor the night after she caused a storm in the state of new jersey for not allowing the american national anthem to be played before the gig.
loudest - sigur ros (even louder than 14th row at zoo tv)
out and out best is very tough, ween on the womad tour were amazing, david byrne a year ago was mindblowing.
Walked on like a bunch of lost middle aged chemistry teachers who'd taken a wrong turn and introduced themselves "Hi there ...we're Teenage Fanclub".
Brilliant!!! Set was pure class.
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
Good description there, LR. I can nearly see them!
Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere - Martin Luther King Jnr.
First Gig - Haven't a clue. Somewhere back in 94/95 but if I was really pushing the gig description, I was at a band a week every week since I was a small guy in local pubs "down the country".
Best Gig - Couple stand out.
Muse - Olympia
PJ Harvey - Olympia
Tom McRae - Whelans
Mark Geary - Whelans
Queens of the Stone Age - Slane
Josh Ritter - Olympia
I am sure I am forgetting unbelievable gigs. Just the first few to mind. Worst Gig could be one of the bands playing in Eamon Dorans during the Hard Working Heroes Weekend.
First gig GUNS N' ROSES -slane '92 (i think)
Best gig U2 same venue, second visit (the one that didnt have the peppers preforming , but there was a duet with moby and Fr. Dugal Mc Guire with "my lovely horse") Brilliant
Last edited by Terry; 14/04/2005 at 11:30 AM.
hehee that's great
First gig - House of Pain, Theatre Royal, Limerick, 1994. It also counts as the worst gig.
Best gig's - Evan Dando, Dolans Warehouse, Limerick, 2002.
Beck, Point, Dublin, 2003.
Blur, Point + RDS, Dublin, 1995-1997.
Pixies, Phoenix Park, Dublin, 2004.
The Alvin Purple Experience, whenever I saw them in Limerick.
The Hitchers, their first official farewell gig, 2001, Limerick.
Limerick 37, its so shiny and new we dare not take the cover off.
Best gig - Pixies, Phoenix Park, absolutely brilliant
Wost gig - Probably RHCP on the same night.....Yawn
Ok First gig Was in Canada when I was about 5 I think it was the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem at some Exhibition Centre in Montreal.
Best gig... Ok in Ireland it was Roxy Music at the RDS in 1982
outside Ireland... Gary Numan at Wembley Arena in April 1981..
One of those you had to be there moments.
Worst gig.. one I played at... A Battle of The Bands heat at The Underground in 1988. A so called friend of one of the members handcuffed himself while ****ed to the microphone stand. Plus the stage was so narrow the band had to line up in single file like a queue for the jacks total nightmare!
Amen to that! Although I think Frank Black & Catholics was better in vicar street Oct '03 than him with Pixies...
My best concert experience was Marilyn Manson back in Leuven/Belgium in 2003. I was a fan of his music for years but never had the chance to see him live. Then finally my chance came, but I was so stressed that I arrived with a burning headache. I took an aspirine but that takes a while before it starts to work and I already kinda accepted the gig would be a disappointment. But Marilyn had to record a video for his new single backstage, and therefor the gig started with two hours delay. And that proved just enough for the aspirine to work, and by the time he came on stage my headache was gone. It was a great setlist and a superb performance, and afterwards I even met two of the band members... It was a great night.
I saw Manson twice afterwards that year, but the first time's always the most unique one (sounds almost like a quote from a sex messageboards
Other great gigs I have been to:
The Levellers - Ghent (BE), 2003
Placebo - Brussels (BE), 2003
Placebo - Lille (FR), 2003
Placebo - Arras' medieval market square (FR), 2004
Heather Nova - Ostend (BE), 2001
Heather Nova - Tongeren (BE), 2002
Heideroosjes - Kortrijk (BE), 2002
Heideroosjes - Erpe-Mere (BE), 2003
Echo & The Bunnymen - Brussels (BE), 2003
Echo & The Bunnymen - Liverpool (UK), 2004
Manic Street Preachers - Dublin (IE), 2004
Paul McCartney - Antwerp (BE), 2003
Bands I definitely wanna see once:
Indochine (preferably in the Bercy hall in Paris)
Bauhaus (if ever the chance is there, hopefully)
Muse
Blutengel (will normally see them in autumn in UK)
Black Sabbath (will normally see them this summer)
Paul's hardly goth rock now is he..? or was that the Wings album I missed?
Anybody know if the great man will be back in any shape or form soon?
(Wildly off-topic I know)
First gig : The The in The Point around 1990
Best Gig : see above or Feile 92 (Christy in the rain / A house / David Byrne )
Worst Gig : That free gig in the Phoenix park around '92 / '93
Last Gig : 21st Century Doors
Next Gig : U2 in Croker
Small world Nempton. Was at most of the gigs mentioned. Played drums with the two highlighted (sub with APE ...I was the legendary Wolfgang Bierfahrt -their trusty stand in sticksman all the way from Fukstopping, Austria.
Good days indeed.
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
Small world Nempton. Was at most of the gigs mentioned. Played drums with the two highlighted (sub with APE ...I was the legendary Wolfgang Bierfahrt -their trusty stand in sticksman all the way from Fukstopping, Austria.
Good days indeed.
Small world indeed. I saw A.P.E. several times. Always a good laugh.
Anyway, my memory isn't the best, but my first 'proper' gig was either Sultans in Conna castle, or UB40 in Waterford. Only went to UB40 because they were supported by a local band, the wishing stones. Can't remember which was first though.
Some notable ones include:
Spiritualized - Feile ('92 or'93 I think)
Tindersticks - Nancy Spains, Cork
Bad Manners - Forum, Waterford
Morrissey - Opera house, Cork
Wedding Present - every time I saw them, including last feb.
Friday night in Feile '94ish - Teenage Fanclub, Manics, Iggy Pop all on one stage.
"Anybody know if the great man will be back in any shape or form soon?"
Heard something about Pixies in Lansdowne this summer
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First and best: Guns N Roses/Faith No More/My Little Funhouse Slane May 92
Also worth a mension: Slayer June 2000 SFX, Megadeth (a few years back also SFX).
Worst: Bon Jovi 2000(??) RDS it ****ed rain so went to the pub half way trough, serves me right for going in the first place
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Pixies doing US and European festival dates through summer, no Irish one though..Anybody know if the great man will be back in any shape or form soon?
(Wildly off-topic I know)
Nice to have a legend such as yourself Herr Bierfahrt amongst us. I was disappointed that I missed APE's gig in Dolans recently, I was in Barcelona. I suppose you don't know if they will be playing again soon?Originally posted by Lionel Ritchie
Small world Nempton. Was at most of the gigs mentioned. Played drums with the two highlighted (sub with APE ...I was the legendary Wolfgang Bierfahrt -their trusty stand in sticksman all the way from Fukstopping, Austria.
Limerick 37, its so shiny and new we dare not take the cover off.
oof, woulda loved to have seen them around that period
flew over from orrafffertys for both of them.Also worth a mension: Slayer June 2000 SFX, Megadeth (a few years back also SFX).
dave mustaine brought on the irish flag wrapped it around him and said "you guys no a lot about this next song you can relate to it"... and on comes holy wars. i actually thought the sound was very poor that night.
slayer was great that time in the sfx, far better than the next two times. bitter peace was great, the intro everyone head banging together.
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