Favourite Gig

[Guest]

What was your favourite ever live gig?

I'll opt for the Cocteau Twins, London Town & Country Club 1990. They'd just released "Heaven or Las Vegas", but insisted on playing mostly tracks from "Bluebell Knoll" instead. They played about an hour, and then came back for the most perfunctory of encores. The crowd was livid. The tension in the hall was electric. You had to be there.

Apparently it's available as a bootleg CD... if only I could find where to buy it.

[Surrealist]

thats way too tough - it's like asking a favourite album

1. meat beat manifesto - the venue, 1992 - jack dangers before he took mbm to america - the crowd was a weird mixture of rockers with their pints and ravers - the tour shirt said "i am a zombie" - they were still using this wall of rack-mounted weirdness that glowed and took up one half of the stage (jack bought it off phil oakey)

2. 808 state - last date on the Gorgeous tour, 1993 (i think) - they played for hours to a home crowd (manchester) - barney sumner was in the crowd trying to get noticed - people had home-made 808 state shirts - it was wild

3. a night of v/vm cabaret in the attic (cowgate), 1999 - utter madness which caused a lot of people to walk out - and they had just got NME's "single of the week" for a minced up version of lionel ritchie, recorded by loin el glitchie - also the v/vm gig which was so loud they shook dirt out of the ceiling tiles - it was raining ash inside the club - there were chunks of stuff falling into peoples drinks

4. i was at aphex twin's first gig. it's just a shame that the club (subterania in london) sound system was about as powerful as a BISCUIT TIN

that's my favourite gig - all 5 of them.

what about worst gigs too - and gigs where the support kicked ass and the main event sucked ass? or gigs where you just got bored and left?

i guess it's the price you pay - i'm just not sure it's worth damaging your hearing at bad gigs on the off chance that they might be good - i have been to far too many %^$£ gigs.

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[paulw]

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No problem with AC/DC Paul. I've never seen them live but I have a couple of their albums.

The Exploited supporting Ice-T? That must have been fairly surreal. You do mean don't you?

Cool.

[paulw]

Yes the very same Explioted!

Bodycount was an attempt by Ice-T to get into the rock/heavy metal market. They were ok but nothing special.

The reason The Exploited were involved was due to a collaboration on the soundtrack for the '93 film Judgement Night (starring Emilio Estevez and Denis Leary among others.) Very good film and soundtrack. Ice-T and Slayer produced a song called Disorder which i think comprises of three exploited songs run together into one.

The gig almost descended into a riot between a group of hardline punks and the 7 foot giant that played guitar for Ice-T.

Very surreal.

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