Your favorite live shows

by **black francis** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 1:00 pm

#1. Undecided between Frank Black & the Catholics at the Troubadour and Mac solo 2003
#2. Prince at the Hollywood Bowl
#3. Bunnymen OR show in New York
#4. Frank Black solo at the Knitting Factory
#5. Front 242 in Hollywood Re:Boot Tour
#6. KMFDM at the Warfield (my first concert ever)
#7. Sisters of Mercy at the Warfield
#8. Morrissey at the Palladium
#9. Samhain at the Palladium
#10. Bauhaus at the Palladium

Honorable Mention: The Damned in Hollywood

by **withahip** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 1:06 pm

#1. Me in NYC.

by **Frank The Bunny** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 1:54 pm

Crushed that Black Francis played a solo acoustic set last night 3 blocks from my house and I just discovered it this morning...

by **tonywojo** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:06 pm

Comsats 26/04 Sheffield

by **black francis** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:12 pm

Frank The Bunny wrote:Crushed that Black Francis played a solo acoustic set last night 3 blocks from my house and I just discovered it this morning...

That's a bummer. His solo shows are where his personality really comes through. And somehow he gets a full sound from his guitar. It's weird cause I don't really like accoustic sets.

by **withahip** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:54 pm

1. Me in NYC (and EATB doing OR)
2. Butthole Surfers with Jello Biafara and Mojo Nixon, University @ Buffalo
3. Bunnymen and New Order - Darien Lake
4. Marilyn Manson - Japan
5. Bauhaus - Japan and Buffalo
6. Bunnymen Irving Plaza
7. Verbal Assault - basement of some Church
8. Sigur Ros - Toronto
9. Cocteau Twins - Rochester
10. REM Green Tour
11. First Fujiyama Fest - So many bands . . .

by **the ghost of guitarplayer** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 6:20 pm

That's a tough one. Has to be,

#1 Björk London Palladium 11/98 very very closely followed by Pulp, The Junction, Cambridge 05/94 (complete with about only 20 people turning up for the personalised touch)

by **happy_loss** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 3:56 am

[quote="withahip"]

7. Verbal Assault - basement of some Church

You punk rocker you!

by **tonywojo** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 4:01 am

black francis wrote:That's a bummer. His solo shows are where his personality really comes through. And somehow he gets a full sound from his guitar. It's weird cause I don't really like accoustic sets.

bf just loves a solo

by **happy_loss** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 4:09 am

In no particular order:

Roxy Music - Concord Pavilion 2003

Electrafixion - Ventura Theater 96/97 (weird place for them to play, great set, got to meet Will and Mac afterwards)

Slowdive/Ride - Isla Vista-UCSB 91/92

Chameleons - Great American Music Hall (both times, you can barely make me out in the balcony on the DVD they released of their 2nd time thru town)

Gang of Four - Fillmore 2005

Elvin Jones

Pharaoh Sanders

McCoy Tyner

Mogwai - Bimbos 2003

Television - Fillmore

Banshees - Seven Year Itch Tour (Sioux's voice was crap, but I had never seen them the first time around so it was still special)

Robin Guthrie (got to meet him after the show)

I'm sure I'm forgetting some, but that's all my feeble mind can conjure up right now.

by **Kounelaki** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:49 am

*Dons anorak.* Top 20 in reverse chronological order:

Tindersticks, Folies Bergère, 2008
Massive Attack, La Cigale, 2006
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Kool Haus, 2003
Echo and the Bunnymen, La Cigale, 2001
Radiohead, Theatro Lykavittou, 2000
Bauhaus, Warehouse, 3 September 1998
Portishead, Elysée Montmartre, 1997
Beck, Brixton Academy, 1997
Les Négresses Vertes, Kentish Town Forum, 1995
Fugazi, RPM Warehouse, 1993
Sonic Youth, Brixton Academy, 1992
Bad Brains, Marquee, 1991
The Ramones, Brixton Academy, 1990
Pixies, Brixton Academy, 1990
David J, Lee’s Palace, 1990
House of Love, RPM, 1990
The Sugarcubes, Concert Hall, 1990
The Jazz Butcher, RPM, 1989
The The, Concert Hall, 1989
Peter Murphy, RPM, 1988

The Bad Seeds in 2003 is probably no. 1.

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