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Where are you going/have you been?
What artists are you going to see/have been to see?
Simple concept, list who/where/when.
If listing a festival list the bands that you actually went to see, i.e. if you went to download you could break it down to Faith no More, etc etc.
You can also include local bands :)
Past:
Humber fest 06 (too far back to remember most, but i recall dump valve) - Humber bridge
NeverSed - (not sure where, not sure when, but multiple times)
Defenders of the faith 2008 - Devildriver, Opeth, Arch Enemy - Manchester academy
Opeth 2008 - Opeth, The Ocean - Manchester academy
Devildriver 2009 - Devildriver, Behemoth - Manchester academy
Future:
Mastodon 2010 - Mastodon, ?, ? - Manchester academy
Past :
Stone Sour - 06 - Wolverhampton Civic Hall
Black Crusade - Mainly for Machine Head but also Dragonforce, shadows fall - 07 - NEC
Nile - 07 - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
Unholy Alliance - Mainly for slayer and mastodon - 08 - Wolverhampton Civic Hall
Slipknot & Machine Head - 08 - NIA
Defenders of the faith 2 - Lamb of God - 09 - Birmingham Academy
Hammerfest - Opeth, Skindred, Speed Theory, Sepultura, Alestorm...more but was drunk - 09 - Prestatyn
36 Crazyfists - 09 - Wolverhampton Wulfrum Hall
Gojira - 09 - Stoke Sugarmill
Sonisphere - Metallica, Skindred, Lamb of God, Machine Head, Alien Ant Farm, Slyosis, Anthrax...to many to list - 09 - Knebworth
DevilDriver, Behemoth - 09 - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
Dragonforce, Syslosis - 09 - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
Nile - 09 - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
Future :
Mastodon - 10 - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
Lamb of God - 10 - Birmingham Academy
Machine Head - 10 - Birmingham Academy
Maybe - Bloodstock, Download, Hellfest, Sonisphere.
Hmm, this could take a while, time to dig out the box of festival programmes ;)
I can't remember where I saw all of them (the smaller bands especially) but I'll do my best...
Download '04
Metallica, Linkin Park, Sum 41, Iggy and The Stooges, The Hives, The Distillers, Cradle of Filth, Soil, Monster Magnet, Dillinger Escape Plan, Korn, Slipknot, Slayer, Machine Head, Soulfly, Ill Nino, Arch Enemy, Damage Plan.
Download '05
As I lay Dying, System of a Down, Slipknot, Slayer, Nightwish, Killswitch Engage, Papa Roach, Mudvayne, Society 1, Breed77, Velvet Revolver, Anthrax, Alter Bridge, Mad Capsule Markets, A.
Download '06
Viking Skull, Skindred, Lordi, Mendeed, Breed 77, Hatebreed, Dragonforce, 36 Crazyfists, Inflames,, Lacuna Coil, Guns n Roses, Henry Rollins, Metallica, Korn, Avenged Sevenfold, Stone Sour, Alice in Chains, Arch Enemy, Strapping Young Lad, Backyard Babies, Clutch, Deftones, Coheed and Cambria, Soulfly, Soil, Amplifier, Tool.
Download '07
Buckcherry, Hinder, Megadeth, Wolfmother, Velvet Revolver, Hell Yeah, Shadows Fall, As I lay Dying, Bowling for Soup, Machine Head, Slayer, Marylin Manson, Linkin Park, Panic Cell, Necro, Reuben, Papa Roach, Mastodon, Lamb of God, Stone Sour, Killswitch Engage, Evanescence, Iron Maiden.
Download '08
Kiss, Judas Priest, Motorhead, Disturbed, Seether, Incubus, Pendulum, Alter Bridge, Ace Frehley, Stone Gods, Throwdown, 36 Crazyfists, Job for a Cowboy, Sanctity, Testament, Black Stone Cherry, Apocalyptica, Within Temptation, InFlames.
Leeds '08
Plain White T's, Dropkick Murphys, Avenged Sevenfold, Feeder, Tenacious D, Metallica, Dizzee Rascal, Serj Tankian, Biffy Clyro, Queens of the stone age, Rage Against The Machine, Pendulum, Henry Rollins.
Download '09
Faith No More, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Killswitch Engage, Billy Talent, Staind, Motley Crue, Steadlur, DevilDriver, Hatebreed, Down, The Answer, Pendulum, Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, God Forbid, Sevendust, Blackstone cherry, Journey, Dream Theatre, ZZ Top, Clutch, Buckcherry, Papa Roach, Def Leppard.
Sonisphere '09
Soil, Skindred, Airbourne, Alice in Chains, Avenged Sevenfold, Sylosis, Heaven and Hell, Linkin Park, Buckcherry, Killing Joke, Lamb of God, Machine Head, Limp Bizkit, Nine Inch Nails (last uk performance iirc), Metallica.
I've been to see at least half the bands there more than once on tour as well....I'm only just beginning to realise how much I must have spent on gig tickets :-/
There's tickets stubs in the box for Mehshuggah, American Headcharge, Foo Fighters (MEN Arena), All That Remains, Unearth, Hayseed Dixie, Henry Rollins, Orange Goblin, Children of Bodom, Thine Eyes Bleed, Down, a signed Stone Sour ticket (from the same gig as you I think roadkill) and a few other really small bands too but I can't remember where/when some of them were.
Upcoming Gigs -
Henry Rollins - Spoken Word - January 21st Wolverhampton
Machine Head "The Black Procession Tour" w/ Hatebreed, Bleeding Through and All Shall Perish - Feb 21st - Birmingham Academy
Lamb of God w/Job For a Cowboy, August Burns Red and Between the Buried and Me - Feb 9th - Birmingham Academy
First gig I ever went to was Muse supported by Coldplay ( which seems crazy to think of now both being rather huge). It was at the Wolverhampton Civic in 2000.
Mostly play Showbiz mixed with songs I've never heard since and it was pretty special all together.
Not long after I saw Lost Prophets not knowing who they were on a random bar stage. But I went straight out the next day, hunted around for an album (having not found one at the gig) and so I actually have the original clear cased version of fake sound of progress, far superior it is too :)
Also saw My Vitriol before they stopped doing anything of interest, apart from making people wait for new albums etc..
Big gap, there were gigs but nothing of great interest. Pitchshifter were interesting enough.
I was at Download 06 but just for the Friday and although, tool, deftones and Coheed and Cambria (I like them...) were good the stand out band were in the tent, Dredg. They played for about half and hour and were amazing. Having known them for a long time and having missed an opportunity to see them due to the London bombing I had been waiting a long time for that. It was really great :)
Most recently I saw Placebo (a couple of weeks ago), I don't much like them and the support was dire (and the tickets were stupidly priced...) but it was actually the first gig the Mrs has ever really gone to so it was quite special for her and in turn for me.
I went through a phase of not being able to avoid Seth Lakeman a couple of years ago - he turned up at off the tracks, supporting the Levs at Birmingham Academy, then at Greenbelt too!
Otherwise - caught Tori Amos @ Manchester Apollo and Counting Crows @ MEN back in ~ Jan 2003
The Levellers @ Birmingham Academy: Mark Knopfler; The Darkness supported by Ash, both at Birmingham NEC: all in 2005/06
Mostly we catch local bands though (far too many to list, particularly if i added all the gigs I played / supported at as well ;) ) - special mention to Manchester-based Gone Til Winter, who're pretty damn good...
Hmmmm Think I'm going to show my age here :embarrassed:
Bought tickets to (£25!!!) Guns N Roses Wembley 1991 - but my boss at the time would not give me the Saturday off work!!!!!! So .......................
First ever gig was at Brixton Academy in 1992 Suicidal Tendencies supported by Rage against the Machine - What a first gig, thought I was going to get squashed to death against the railings at the front!!!
Then from there I can remember:
95 - 99 Mainly Clubbing days so not many gigs as such, but did see plenty of DJ's!
November 1997 Birmingham NEC DJ Shadow + Radiohead OK Computer
V98 Chelmsford: The Verve, The Charlatans, The Seahorses,Green Day,
Space, Iggy Pop, James, Stereophonics, Ian Brown, Catatonia, Gomez,
James Brown.
1999 Gomez Shephards bush empire
V99 Manic Street Preachers, Kula Shaker, Happy Mondays, Supergrass, Cast, The Levellers, Gomez, Faithless, Afro Celt Sound System.
2001 Charlatans & Starsailor Wembley Arena
2003 Rolling Stones Twickenham
2005 Depeche Mode Paris
2006 The Feeling Brighton Dome
2007 Keane Wembley Arena
2007 Keane 02 Arena London
2007 Magic Numbers Brixton Academy
2007 Arctic Monkeys Brixton Academy
2007 Muse Wembley Stadium (New)
2007 Muse Royal Albert Hall (Teenage Cancer Trust Gig)
2008 The Enemy Brixton Academy
2008 The Coral Camden Roundhouse
V2009 Chelmsford Elbow, James, Snow Patrol, Oasis (on no they cancelled :censored:)
2009 Keane O2 Arena London
2009 Muse O2 Arena London
2009 Fleetwood Mac 02 Arena Dublin
2009 Them Crooked Vultures Hammersmith Apollo
2010: V2010 & Muse Wembley Stadium, so far:)
I'm sure there are a few i've forgotton ! they were probably the best gigs!!!
And you will notice a rather ecclectic mix of music, that's partly my diverse taste and partly to keep the missus happy:)
Past No particular order as I don't really remember the dates
- Greenday @ MK Bowl - American idiot tour and first ever gig, Hard Fi, Jimmy Eat World and Taking back Sunday were support!
- Global Gathering 06 - First and only ever festival I've been to :(
- Television Personalities @ Club 100 (I think) in London
- Polysics @ various Barflys in London - Awesome Japanese band :D
- Supergrass, Richard Ashcroft and the Go Team @ Brixton Academy London
- Mylo @ University of East Anglia - just before DR Pressure was released iirc
- Pendulum DJ set @ Leek Road Venue, Stoke
- We Are Scientists @ Loughborough University
- My Chemical Romance, Madonna, Black Eyed Peas, David Grey, Pussycat Dolls @ Live Earth - Wembley Stadium
- Muse @ Wembley Stadium - week before Live Earth date Harrp was recorded I believe!
- Elliot Minor @ numerous places including Carling Academy Oxford & Astoria London
- McFly @ Apollo London - really good gig despite not really being my thing
- Pendulum @ Bournemouth International Centre (BIC)
- Dance Nation @ Cardiff (unknown venue name) - sadly a crowd filled with teenage girls but on the plus side I did get to see Sash! perform live as well as see September in person :) Sadly missed out on meeting Basshunter, Sash and September and getting photos afterwards like my friends did :(
Future
Prodigy, Pendulum & others @ MK Bowl - 24th July 2010 :)
Hmmm too many bands to list as most were just at my local guildhall at the time.
Machine Head 02 - Southampton Guildhall
Bowling For Soup 02 - Southampton Guildhall
A Perfect Circle 02 - Southampton Guildhall
A 02 - Southampton Guildhall
Machine Head 03 - Portsmouth Pyramids
Breed 77 03 - Portsmouth Pyramids
Bowling For Soup 04 - Southampton Guildhall
Bon Jovi 04 - Southampton St Marys
Trivium 06? - Portsmouth
Inme 06 - Southampton Campus
Machine Head (again) 07? - Southampton Guildhall
Ill Nino 07 - Southampton (little club closed down now)
Feeder 09 - Southampton Guildhall
Queens of the Stone Age 09 - Southampton Guildhall
Bon Jovi 09 - Southampton St Marys
Nickelback 09 - O2 Arena
There are many others but most of it is a blur.. :P
FUTURE:
Creed (when I can get my hands on tickets)
(I've now moved up into the country in Essex so bands don't really come this way :eek:)
Madness / Christmas 1980 / Brighton Entertainment Centre
Then a bit of a gap...
Roger Waters /2002 / Wembley
Chili Peppers / 2003 / Hyde Park
And that's about it.
There just isn't enough space here or memory power to give justice to my 28 years of gigging :embarrassed:
First minor gig was Dr Feelgood in Chelmsford or Southend, I don't recall, Motorhead's Ace up your sleeve tour @ Hammersmith, Metallica Ride the Lightning tour @ the Lyceum Ballroom, Anthrax F*ck the Fallout tour @ the Town & Country with Rogue Male,... Bad Brains, Black Flag. D.R.I. Discharge, GBH, etc in the early/mid 80's... many Donnington park Monsters of Rock & Reading Rock Festivals with the likes of AC/DC, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath etc.
I feel soo old :(
Can't remember the order or venue, but:
Alkaline Trio - 2005 - Glasgow Barrowlands
Green Day - 2009 - SECC
Enter Shikari - 2007 - Glasgow Barrowlands
God Forbid - 2006 - Carling Academy Glasgow (now O2 Academy)
Madball - 2006 - QMU
Unearth - 2006 - QMU
Manntis - 2006 - QMU
Terror - 2006 - QMU
Chimaira - 2006 - QMU
Trivium - 2006 - Carling Academy Glasgow
Fear Factory - 2006 - The Garage
Breed77 - 2006 - The Garage
That's about it I think. Hardly any of my friends share my taste in music so I tend to miss out on a lot of gigs.
hehe join the club:O_o1:Quote:
Originally Posted by 0iD
I'm not exactly young either so can't remember exact details of every gig that I've been to plus I've seen many of them several times ...
Famous Bands
AC/DC
Alice Cooper
Bad Company
Black Eyed Peas
Black Sabbath
Climax Blues Band
Deep Purple
Def Leppard
Fleetwood Mac
Foreigner
Genesis
George Thorogood & the Destroyers
Gillan
Gun
Hall & Oates
Hawkwind
Heaven & Hell
Jethro Tull
Journey
Marillion
Saxon
Michael Schenker Group
Queen
Rush
Simple Minds
Status Quo
Steely Dan
Styx :O
The Beach Boys
The Blues Band
The Eagles
The Rolling Stones
Thin Lizzy
Thunder
UFO
Uriah Heep
Whitesnake
"Solo"
Bryan Adams
Joe Bonnemassa
Arthur Brown (Crazy World of)
Jackson Browne
Robert Cray
Sheryl Crow
Ronnie James Dio
Sammy Hagar
Elton John
B.B. King
Eartha Kitt
Alexis Korner
Kylie Minogue :O
Michelle Shocked
Van Morrison
Roy Wood (Wizard)
& no doubt a good few more ...
Quite a few... but the one that really stood out were the Flaming Lips - man alive those guys know how to put on a good show =D