What Are Your All Time Fave Gigs?

[petesbrew]

Off on a tangent from what are you listening to.

What are your most memorable concerts you've been to? Could be anything, from watching a crappy garage band at the Wenty Tavern, to a dj set, to a massive stadium effort?

I'll start with a couple...

Utah Saints - Glastonbury Festival 2000. . A mate we were there with told us we've gotta see Utah Saints, first time they've gigged in 7 years. Pushed our way to the fence in the bigtop, and it was just awesome.

Tumbleweed - some pub in... I dunno, fairfield? First time I saw em, and my ears rang for a week. Hell yeah. Mosrites rock!

 

[Renegade]

The Tea Party - Phoenecian Club, Sydney 1994

Equinox Festival, Macquarie University 1997 - the day included Tool, Skunkanansie, Midnight Oil and some good acid.

System of a Down - Horden Pavillion, Sydney, about four years ago.

Clutch - The Metro, Sydney last year.

 

[Jez]

Fear Factory on their first Australian tour for their first album in the mid-90's in a nightclub in Lismore, NSW with a crowd of about 30 people.

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion followed straight after by Rocket From the Crypt in the Hordern(?) at the last Sydney Big Day Out at Moore Park.

Smashing Pumpkins followed by the Breeders on a beautiful sunny afternoon at one of the Gold Coast Big Day Outs - maybe 1994.

The Avalanches when they were still a rock band at the Globe in Newtown.

The mAKE uP at the Annandale Hotel in 1998.

Guided By Voices at Newtown RSL on their last tour. A 3 hour gig where they played about 40 songs and drank a huge ice bucket of VB cans in the middle of the stage dry.

Beck on the Odelay Tour at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on my birthday in 1997.

 

[petesbrew]

The Tea Party - Phoenecian Club, Sydney 1994

Equinox Festival, Macquarie University 1997 - the day included Tool, Skunkanansie, Midnight Oil and some good acid.

System of a Down - Horden Pavillion, Sydney, about four years ago.

Clutch - The Metro, Sydney last year.

I reckon we probably bumped into each other somewhere in the moshpit at those first 3, Renegade...
I remember someone jumping from the 1st floor at the Phonecian into the pit... couldn't see if he got up though.

Rancid were also awesome at Equinox... or was that Summersault? Same venue... same era.

Might I just add any Tea Party gig was memorable. Saw em in a little Nth London pub with a shitload of aussies back in 2000 too.

 

[Renegade]

If that's the case, we probably bumped into each other at a lot more than three gigs !

FYI Rancid were at Summersault.

RE; the Tea Party, I thought they started to suck when Jeff Martin's ego got in the way by around the fourth album. Mind you, when I saw JM's electric show this year (a couple of months ago) at the Manning bar, I was totally blown away - the old magic is still there and the ego is in check (a bit, anyway!)

Another completely mind blowing live band was a canberra outfit called Henry's Anger, used to play a lot at the Iron Duke. They were my all-time consistent fave of the time.

Who's going to see Monster Magnet in September ? Or Lamb of God in December ? F&&K YEA !

Some new local bands to check out are Jericco (Melb) and Nucleus (Syd). Both top artists, if youre into heavy new-prog rock.

 

[brettprevans]

Cold Chisel, Last Wave of Summer Tour, Rod Laver (then it was the Tennis Centre) 1998. absolutely rocked.

Jimmy Barnes at Mercury Lounge, Melb Crown Casino, `98-01.

The Witlams, Max Sessions, Sydney (cant remember year)

 

[Katherine]

INXS - Kick tour gosh over 20 years ago.(entertainment centre)

Pearl Jam 19?? Eastern Creek, never seen so many hairy man cry

Fat Boy Slim at Vibes on a Summer Day (Bondi) sometime in my twenties

Massive Attack (enmore) sometime in my twenties

Portishead sometime in my twenties

Robbie Williams only a couple of years ago BRILLIANT

 

[Fents]

Pearl Jam @ sidney myer music bowl. cant remember what year but i was only 16 or 17 (now 30) and it was their vitalogy tour i think, first real rock gig, got really pissed and stoned in a park somewhere then went in and couldnt belive my eyes. about 500ppl then stormed the security fence and got in for free, absolutley nothing security could do, ppl running everywhere.

My first rave was pretty memorable, every picture tells a story @ altona sports centre, cant remember who was headlining but i just remember finding this tiny side room and a DJ called atom1 playing this music called Drum and Bass. The rest is history for me, soon became addict to DnB, started DJ'ing, played in clubs for a good five years, played in front of >2000 ppl, played alongside every big name DnB DJ i could ever want, threw massive DnB partys in Melb then found brewing and a wife and retired.

Some pretty memorable hip hop gigs too...Aceyalone, Beastie Boys, Public enemy, Snoop.

Ahhh also James Brown @ tennis centre few years ago, me and my mate got smasssshed on a thurs night and got free tix. Dancing on seats whilst 70 year old grandma and granpa's were looking at us funny and laughing.

 

[brettprevans]

got really pissed and stoned .

not you mate surely :lol:


somewhere aroun d me being about 20. some shit gig at the old Melb Metro nightclub. The gig was crap but it was the night we were all on the perspex dj booth and it broke. madness ensued! got kicked out and avoided the police, after a long messy night, one mate ended up sleeping in an alley with a homeless bloke and the other got locked up for drunken disorderly.

 

[Fents]

hey i was 16 just paveing the way for the future innit.

 

[petesbrew]

If that's the case, we probably bumped into each other at a lot more than three gigs !

FYI Rancid were at Summersault.

RE; the Tea Party, I thought they started to suck when Jeff Martin's ego got in the way by around the fourth album. Mind you, when I saw JM's electric show this year (a couple of months ago) at the Manning bar, I was totally blown away - the old magic is still there and the ego is in check (a bit, anyway!)

Another completely mind blowing live band was a canberra outfit called Henry's Anger, used to play a lot at the Iron Duke. They were my all-time consistent fave of the time.

Who's going to see Monster Magnet in September ? Or Lamb of God in December ? F&&K YEA !

Some new local bands to check out are Jericco (Melb) and Nucleus (Syd). Both top artists, if youre into heavy new-prog rock.

Ah yeah I remember seeing Henry's Anger supporting The Hanging Tree.
And the Iron duke was the venue of my grunge band's first gig. We were callled Clone, but they misspelt us as CLONT on the blackboard outside. ( a better name IMO)
We really sucked, then we became Spendthrift, and sucked even more. Thank f##k I got kicked out! :super:

 

[Katherine]

12 hour set "Danny Tenaglia' danced for 12 hours. Metro's Sydney

 

[joshuahardie]

Fear Factory on their first Australian tour for their first album in the mid-90's in a nightclub in Lismore, NSW with a crowd of about 30 people.

Seen Fear Factory 3 times in my youth, absolutely fantastic live. Great Memories

 

[.DJ.]

Powderfinger, supported by John Butler Trio. Vulture Street Tour. JBT made it worth the price of admission

all 3 (and soon to be 4) Pearl Jam concerts I have been to. Cant wait for Nov to see Ben Harper supporting..

Grinspoon at what was Molly's in Camden. AWESOME!

a festival in Technology Park, Redfern when I was 18. Bloodhound Gang, Veruca Salt, Grinspoon, Bush....

 

[Pennywise]

I think my fave has got to be about 3 years ago saw Sebastian Bach in St Kilda, you should have seen his face when he walked out on stage, he couldn't believe how many people were going crazy just to hear him. Man, he hasn't lost any of it.

TOOL's Lateralis gig (2nd one, I think was around 8 years ago) was the ducks nuts too, but I don't remember too much of that night, I think that may have been the last time I took acid, but man those 2 nacked c**ts were freakin the shit outa me at one stage.

 

[Renegade]

I think my fave has got to be about 3 years ago saw Sebastian Bach in St Kilda, you should have seen his face when he walked out on stage, he couldn't believe how many people were going crazy just to hear him. Man, he hasn't lost any of it.

TOOL's Lateralis gig (2nd one, I think was around 8 years ago) was the ducks nuts too, but I don't remember too much of that night, I think that may have been the last time I took acid, but man those 2 nacked c**ts were freakin the shit outa me at one stage.

You mean the guys who climbed then hung from the ropes by their feet in an inverted cross pose ? That was the shit. (I was in a similar headspace as you for that show too, and that was bizzare in a very captivating way !)

It was also the first time (in Australia) where the visuals sync'ed with the music.

 

[Pennywise]

Yeah I think it was a guy and a girl, very wierd stuff. Those lights just seemed to go straight through you when they went off hey

 

[brettprevans]

TOOL's Lateralis gig (2nd one, I think was around 8 years ago).

yeah i was there. music was awsome. show was ok. maybe i needed some chemical assistance to fully appreciate it. i did enjoy the show more than Korn concert. you probably had to be in the pit for that one. but im not sure everyone made it out alive. total insanity in there.

 

[Renegade]

Yeah I think it was a guy and a girl, very wierd stuff. Those lights just seemed to go straight through you when they went off hey

At the Hordern show (Sydney) the lasers bounced off small reflectors in the walls and projected complex moving geometric patterns across the ceiling.

 

[Renegade]

The Mars Volta show about a year ago also had some pretty awesome visual backdrops.