Best Band You Have Seen Live

[kimirocks]

Title pretty much sums up the aim of the thread.

For me, I can't go past The White Stripes. Seen them 4 times now, twice at festivals and twice on their own, and every single time, just perfection. I really don't know how JW does it.

Other than that I rate Muse, Death Cab for Cutie, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Presets. If any of these bands announced a tour, I would be at the ticket office lined up weeks before they went on sale.

Who are the best bands that y'all have seen live?

 

[Bombers_Forever]

Dave Matthews Band May 2007 @ Hordern
Oasis 2005 @ Hordern

 

[lookkg386]

Dandy Warhols for just being so laid back, left that concert so chilled and happy, great gig.

 

[notting18]

Best concets i have been to are Brand New, MUSE, Placebo and Oasis....other bands have been good but they are just on a different level IMO

 

[Milkman]

Sepultura's classic gig at the Freo Passenger Terminal.

Roger Waters at Glastonbury a few years back.

Napalm Death in Perth.

Pink Floyd at East Freo oval in '88, when I was a kid (first concert).

 

[DaveMorro]

KISS - several times
Paul Stanley solo
The Darkness
Henry Rollins

 

[Bomber Bears]

last 3 gigs i've been to have been the best 3

NOFX @ luna park
Frenzal Rhomb at the Factory
Dropkick Murphys at Roundhouse

 

[fearlessone77]

Kiss always put on a good show.

Prodigy in around 98 on the Fat Of The Land Tour were Excellent.

whist not a gig, Henry Rollins spoken word is always brilliant.

Seeing the Stones live a couple of times is the stand out highlight of my musical life.

 

[Crissy_v]

1. Oasis
2. U2
3. The Mars Volta(dont even like them, but they were sick live)

 

[raskolnikov]

Oasis

 

[driver 8]

1. Radiohead Sydney 04
2. Coldplay Sydney 06
3. REM Byron 05
4. Muse Brisbane 04

 

[goatsby]

Cheap Trick

 

[nick_savo]

The Living End

 

[Noel Gallagher]

1. U2 - Rattle n' hum tour 1989 - Tennis centre - amazing!!!

2. Weezer THe Palace 1996, Only played for an hour but the place went off..

3. Fountains of Wayne -1998? Prince of wales..great band live


4. Ian Brown - Forum 2005 - Never saw the Stone Roses live but this was definately the next best thing -

5. Transvision Vamp - The metro - 1989, they brought the hisue down - awesome!!

 

[MagpieScouser]

the village people at the swagman before it burnt down

 

[WA ROO]

Kiss
Aerosmith
AC/DC
The Living End
Cold Chisel
Steve Earle(before the drugs)
Reba McEntire

 

[Corrosion]

Pearl Jam - November 06
The Offspring - June 04
Oasis - November 05

 

[u-hookin-me]

Oasis.

Kasabian.

Arctic Monkeys.

Rise Against.

 

[pjcrows]

Pearl Jam's two-night stand in Adelaide last year. Oh yes.

 

[Aussie Assault]

Rise Against
Butterfly Effect are always good.
John Butler is also great live.

Coldplay at the Big Day Out going back a few years now were by far the worst and most boring.

 

[Bourky23]

chili peppers april 10 this year!!!!

i'd imagine the living end and jbt would be good live just from wat i have seen

 

[Bomber Bears]

Living End were awesome live

 

[Heisenberg_]

Muse are the shit

 

[UpForGrabs]

Wilco at Metro's in Freo earlier this year
U2 in front of 60-70,000 at Footy Park in Adelaide last year (especially considering I was about five metres away from the very front of the stage)
Eric Clapton and the band he bought out on his latest tour kicked major a**
Radiohead - OK Computer Tour (Bends tour wasn't too shabby either)
The Stooges - BDO 2006
Beasts of Bourbon - BDO 1997 & 2006 (That 1997 BDO was supposedly the 'last ever' and the Beasts played the last set of the night on a side stage. Huge.)

Worst

Chilli Peppers - One Hot Minute tour. Abysmal
Soundgarden - BDO 1997 (Band was falling apart - turned out to be their 3rd last gig ever)

 

[AndSmithMustScore]

Old concerts

The Damned
Echo and the Bunnymen
New Order
The Stranglers
Style Council
Big Audio Dynamite


More recent concerts

Oasis
Blur
Supergrass
Joe Stummer and the Mescalerras