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Best Gigs Ever

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Hmm, having no joy tracking down the full 100 of Time Out's best london gigs chart they did last issue, but prompted by a thread on PopExcellent I've had a think about my top five gigs... I'm sure I'll think of more later and strike these out...

1. @ , , That London, Reading warmup 1999 (I think) - BLIND drunk, fell in a bush in front of my new boss, and you can see me getting dragged out of the photo pit by security on the South Bank Show Special that was filmed there.

2. @ , January 1991 - they had strippers on stage, you can see me stage diving on the bootleg video of the gig.

3. @ , October 1990 maybe? Can't remember too much about it, but I know I always put this gig on my list, even though I went there on my own. More stagediving.

4. , , July 1997 - Partly just because Idleberry popped up again here and I know she's a monster fan. We paid way over the odds from a tout to get in, but just had to see them. Got into the after show in the back bar, there was no-one there but a few of my friends and , it was ace. No stagediving.

5. , , July 2002 - Fan club gig, first we had to yawn and drink through the new album, but then they played a hits set (which they'd been not doing for a while), then a set where they had a "wheel of fortune" on stage with all the songs they NEVER play, so we got some of their best stuff including "My Dark Star" and "The Living Dead"...

Hmm, I have no local gigs here, from my many years in and , mostly because I can't remember much about them, what a shame... Also none from gigs by my fave bands that I've seen, like , , , and . Also I have no gigs here, even though I've seen them 40 times or more. maybe just because I'm slightly down on them right now. It's time to threaten to go through all the old ticket stubs again and put all these old gigs in my online calendar!

Hello, is anyone still listening?

UPDATE: See my full discography...

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Q Magazine's best gigs ever

Apr28
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Here's something that's wound me up hugely, 's "Top 100 gigs of all time", the top ten of which were in today's Evening Standard:







Apple

Live Aid


How many of those would you describe as a gig? None of them I would say, but as this is something voted for by readers of Q, only gigs that had a huge attendance had a good chance of getting enough votes to appear... so I think the top ten can mostly be written off, but I won't be buying Q just to see what the rest of the top 100 are. Not sure exactly what my top ten would be, but unless you're first choosing your favourite band, and then picking the only time you ever saw them because you don't go to many gigs, a festival is unlikely to have been the best combination of performance and atmosphere. I would have to slot in at , a cheeky warmup in 1999, but as it was a small show there are unlikely to have been enough Q readers there for it to chart. Another reason the full chart might be annoying is the presence of small gigs just like that the voters are unlikely to have attended. Wonder if any shows made it in?

A bit of local news to finish this megapost - there's trouble at Red Square, people who bought live / work units with no intention to work in them are being served with notices that require them to return the flats to business use. Also from the Evening Standard.

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