best performance?

[jody3008]

who/what was the best performance/concert youve ever seen or been to?
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[hau kola]

Muse and MCR at Wembley

[andy-hughes]

Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band 04.07.84. at Wembley.

For the duration of the 'Born In The USA Tour', the band openend with 'Born In The USA', except for this one show, when they played 'Independence Day', then carried on with the usual set.

Nothing was said, they just did that song, then carrried on.

Pure class - never bettered, and I have seen a LOT of bands.

[william c]

Greenday.......................absoluely brill, felt a bit uncomfortable at first, we are a couple of 40 somethings and were in amongst all the teenage goths etc. The music was superb and the performance given even better.

[Shadow Man]

David Bowie at Glastonbury 2000.

There was speculation that he was not going to perform due to laryngitus so anxiety was high.

Further, for the previous 10 years he hadn't really sany many hits on the two rather lucklustre tours of the 90's.

However he came on after excellent build up from Travis and The Pet Shop Boys and blew the audience away.

Michael Eavis says his performance was and still is the best Glastonbury performance ever.

Setlist

01. Wild Is the Wind

02. China Girl

03. Changes

04. Stay

05. Life on Mars?

06. Absolute Beginners

07. Ashes to Ashes

08. Rebel Rebel

09. Little Wonder

10. Golden Years

11. Fame

12. All the Young Dudes

13. The Man Who Sold the World

14. Station to Station

15. Starman

16. Hallo Spaceboy

17. Under Pressure [fea. Gail Ann Dorsey]

Encore

18. Ziggy Stardust

19. "Heroes"

20. Let's Dance

21. I'm Afraid of Americans

Does it get any better than this?

[Goodsoulette]

Glastonbury 2000 was brilliant but I rightly remember Pet Shop Boys were on at the same time as Leftfield on the Saturday night. On the Sunday which was ace, I saw Embrace and the Happy Mondays, rushed over to the other stage for the Beta Band and then back to the Pyramid stage for Bowie. I still prefer Leftfield from that day.

Muse and Mcr were brilliant, that was a show and a half. As for whole things go, with the atmosphere and the lighting, balloon dancers it was unique.

My fave gig of all time though was starsailor at the Bierkeller in Bristol lol or Brixton or DIngwalls. Just one of their gigs anyways.

[China Doll]

I have to say... I've not been a big fan of metalica since I was writing teenage angst poetry in the dark while drinking cheap cider, but... Watching the whole of wembly singing along to nothing else matters at the live earth thing recently sent a few shivers up the old spine.

[saxy_jag]

This a difficult question, because I've been to a few fantastic shows.

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band's recent tour was sheer brilliance - absolute musical mayhem and I hadn't enjoyed a show so much in ages.

El Pussycat's slot at Summer Sundae Weekender - marquee overflowing, everyone bopping and even crowd surfing.

Eric Delaney with the Glen Miller Orchestra last Saturday - an eighty-two-year-old who could put some of the best latter day rock drummers to shame, both in terms of his playing and his showmanship.

But I think the most memorable has to have been Preservation Hall Jazz earlier this year who, for their encore, led an audience-filled New Orleans style parade around the auditorium and onto the stage and had the entire 1000 strong audience up and dancing (and we're not talking kids here, either).

[Reverandfunk]

KISS headlining Donnington 1996

KISS/Aerosmith in LA 2003

[paulos66]

Eminem at Milton Keynes bowl

[welshwil]

nirvana 92 @ reading fest, and the pogues at brixton year before last

[Mr Jagger]

The Prodigy: 1992 at The Aston Villa Leisure Centre. Class!

[pingu97]

red hot chilli peppers @ pride park, with my husband it was strangly romantic as it was the music we lisetened to when we were dating n we've now been together for 6 yrs n have a 4yr old, whom i used to play scar tissue to when she was in my belly. It used to settle her at night when she was born.

[weggiewabbit]

Sadly I never saw Led Zeppelin or Jimi Hendrix live, but I can't pick one out of these two ... Taste at the Marquee in 1969 and Santana at Wembley Arena in 1973