-Our Lady Peace
-Greenday
-I Mother Earth
-Tragically Hip
-The Headstones
-Blackflag and Rancid
-Pearl Jam
-Stone Temple Pilots
-Live
-Glass Tiger (I was 13)
-Skid Row (13)
-Bon Jovi (14 or so)
-Iron Maden (14)
-Def Leopard (12 or 13…damn)
Bands I’d like to see:
U2
Nirvana
Foo Fighters
Coldplay
Limpbizkit
Offspring
Many more…
Zillions, when I was a kid. In no particular order:
Hole
Echo and the Bunnymen
Davie Bowie
Placebo
James
Suede
Daisy Chainsaw
L7
New Model Army
The Levellers
Julian Cope
Violent Femmes
Bikini Kill
Sonic Youth
Babes in Toyland
The Wedding Present
Thousand Yard Stare
Cud
Lou Reed
John Cale
The Orb
Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine
Marilyn Manson
The Sultans Of Ping FC
Bis
Gene
Morrissey
The Fall
The Chameleons (reformed)
The Pixies
Belle and Sebastian
PJ Harvey
Nick Cave
Tindersticks
Vini Reilly
The Pogues
Manic STreet Preachers
The Prodigy
Probably loads more I’ve forgotten. Would like to see Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, would like to have seen the Doors and Frank Zappa.
Once you’ve seen Dr Hook live in concert everything else pales into significance.
Goes without saying.
I’d completely forgotten about Sultans of Ping FC. One of the finest bands ever. I have all their stuff on vinyl. Wonder where I could get hold of some of their stuff?
‘Dancin’ in the disco, bumper to bumper- Wait a minute - WHERE’S ME JUMPER?’
I forgot to mention Guns N Roses.
Here’s to you Buttercup 
Half of the shit you mentioned didn’t even come to mind but I’m damn sure that I would have enjoyed it just the same. Damn.
Note: I didn’t included DJ’s. Of which I could probably have labeled 80% of the top names out there since 1995.
Goes without saying.
I’d completely forgotten about Sultans of Ping FC. One of the finest bands ever. I have all their stuff on vinyl. Wonder where I could get hold of some of their stuff?
‘Dancin’ in the disco, bumper to bumper- Wait a minute - WHERE’S ME JUMPER?'[/quote]
Did we meet in Co. Cork in 1988 by any chance?
Goes without saying.
I’d completely forgotten about Sultans of Ping FC. One of the finest bands ever. I have all their stuff on vinyl. Wonder where I could get hold of some of their stuff?
‘Dancin’ in the disco, bumper to bumper- Wait a minute - WHERE’S ME JUMPER?'[/quote]
Did we meet in Co. Cork in 1988 by any chance?[/quote]
County Cork, you say? Nm…to you…I’m nada.
Nope, never bin to Oirland.
‘THANKS, Armitage SHANKS! Often did we use you, never did we thank you. Often we abused you, never did we love you.’
All of these were before I was 22 when I cleared off to Asia. Saw Carabao in The Saxophone in Bangkok. And all the super-cool Taipei bands, of course.
[quote=“Buttercup”]Nope, never bin to Oirland.
‘THANKS, Armitage SHANKS! Often did we use you, never did we thank you. Often we abused you, never did we love you.’[/quote]
Thirty years in the bathroom?
Pretty much…
The Levellers! They were shit, though. My friend just wanted to see some boy.
Mudhoney, Butthole Surfers. Keep remembering more.
Concerts I have enjoyed:
Status Quo (really!) 1984
Dr Hook 1988
The Smiths 1986
Neil Diamond (!) 1987
Dire Straits 1991
The Charlatans 1990
The Stone Roses 1990
Def Leppard 1987, 1988
Guns’n’Roses 1991
And the Power of Dreams at some point and also Wu Bai from 1992 to about 1994.
The Stone Roses were rubbish live but I enjoyed the evening. Dire Straits I don’t really like a whole lot but I was dragged to the gig and loved it. I only went to see the Smiths to appease a girlfriend but now I love them. I refused to go to see U2 in 1987 in their “Best Concert Ever” because I hated the sight of them. Now obviously I kind of regret that.
I saw a band during the Trip To Tipp in 1990 or 91 that I really liked but I have no idea who they were.
I saw Pink Floyd at the olympic stadium in Montreal. It sucked. Got lost in the crowd on the way out, and had to hitchhike home, too. Some insignificant little French Canadian bands in pubs. That’s it. Try to beat that! :s
Lots of boyfriend bands, including The Almighty and Fairport Convention, although they were both just sessioning/covering for regulars.
My band. Covers included ‘Marquee Moon’ (fuck, playing that is irritating) and ‘How Do you Sleep’. Played at Queen Margaret Union and downstairs at The 13th Note. Were shite. Broke up over that stupid hoor G.M. Haven’t touched a guitar for 12 years.
Would have liked to have seen the Smiths; have seen Morrissey a few times, in Ally Pally, Motherwell Community Centre, the Apollo. U2 are wank-boring. Stone Roses would be great to see, but there’s no way they could pull off their studio sound live, I don’t think…
I was just looking up the date of the Stone Roses concert I saw in Belfast and begorrah it mentioned a band I had fogotten about: The Four of Us. I had all their stuff. Loved them. Shit. And the Hothouse Flowers. They were great too. Mind you I also bought Souper Tropuer when it csme out. Hey may hand have turned into huge unweidly hams. Tremendous.
The Wonder Stuff! I just noticed the avatar. Saw 'em. ‘Size of a Cow’ and stuff.
Buttercup, that’s a shitload of awesome acts!
Here’s my (incomplete) list:
Bowie
Elvis Costello
Roxy Music
Midnight Oil
Gang of Four
Voilent Femmes
Nina Hagen
John Cooper Clarke
New Order
The Cure…
…and lots of old Kiwi bands, including:
Split Enz, Toy Love, the Clean, Bats, Chills, Look Blue Go Purple, Verlaines, Double Happys…and, and…
Fuck. I’m old. How did that happen?
Wonderful stuff.
Simple Minds
Meat Loaf
Little Steven
Bee Gees
Salt-N-Pepa
Eurythmics
Farafina
Aswad
Dire Straits featuring Eric Clapton
Wet Wet Wet
Sly & Robbie
Ashford and Simpson
Fish
UB40
Bryan Adams
Joan Armatrading
Harry Belafonte
Jackson Browne
Tracy Chapman
Chubby Checker
Joe Cocker
Natalie Cole
Phil Collins
Peter Gabriel
Al Green
Whitney Houston
Chrissie Hynde
Hugh Masekela
George Michael
Youssou N’Dour
Courtney Pine
Curt Smith
Sting
Midge Ure
Stevie Wonder
Paul Young
Paul McCartney
Cliff Richard & The Shadows
Pink Floyd (with Candy Dulfer)
Tears For Fears
Eric Clapton
Dire Straits
Elton John
Robert Plant with Jimmy Page
Status Quo
Madness
The Charlatans
The Kinks
Suede
Naughty By Nature
Wishbone Ash
Chas ‘n’ Dave
The Wailers
Genesis
The Gypsy Kings
Gary Glitter
Peter Green
B B King
Robert Cray
Muddy Basin Ramblers
REM
The Cranberries
Radiohead
Van Morrison
The Pogues
The Chieftans
Sinead O’Conner
Prince
The Cure
Sleeper
Andy White
Christy Moore
The Dubliners
Hothouse Flowers
The Waterboys
Moorcheeba
The Beautiful South
Maria Muldaur
Clarence Clemons
Lenny Kravitz
John Popper
Jimmy Buffet
Blues Traveler
Rusted Root
Natalie Merchant
Rickie Lee Jones
Son Volt
Taj Mahal
A Flock of Seagulls
Shaggy
Gary Moore
more to come when I think of them …
[quote=“Stray Dog”]Simple Minds
Meat Loaf
Little Steven
Bee Gees
Salt-N-Pepa
Eurythmics
Farafina
Aswad
Dire Straits featuring Eric Clapton
Wet Wet Wet
Sly & Robbie
Ashford and Simpson
Fish
UB40
Bryan Adams
Joan Armatrading
Harry Belafonte
Jackson Browne
Tracy Chapman
Chubby Checker
Joe Cocker
Natalie Cole
Phil Collins
Peter Gabriel
Al Green
Whitney Houston
Chrissie Hynde
Hugh Masekela
George Michael
Youssou N’Dour
Courtney Pine
Curt Smith
Sting
Midge Ure
Stevie Wonder
Paul Young
Paul McCartney
Cliff Richard & The Shadows
Pink Floyd (with Candy Dulfer)
Tears For Fears
Eric Clapton
Dire Straits
Elton John
Robert Plant
Status Quo
Madness
The Charlatans
The Kinks
Suede
Naughty By Nature
Wishbone Ash
Chas ‘n’ Dave
The Wailers
Genesis
The Gypsy Kings
Gary Glitter
Peter Green
B B King
Robert Cray
Muddy Basin Ramblers
REM
The Cranberries
Radiohead
Van Morrison
The Pogues
The Chieftans
Sinead O’Conner
Gary Moore
Prince
The Cure
Sleeper
Andy White
Christy Moore
The Dubliners
Hothouse Flowers
The Waterboys
Moorcheeba
The Beautiful South
more to come when I think of them …[/quote]
Lucky Sob.
I fuckin hope I can see more as I grow frail. All of ya are makin me feel as if I haven’t see nothin yet. Haha…back at ya.
They’re all dead. Like I wanted to see the Dogs d’Amour but by the time I got around to it they’d drunk themselves to death.