The Best and Worst concerts you have ever been to.

Best - Fish in 2010 in the Arches Glasgow - acoustic set for nearly 2.5 hours. Just keyboardist, 1 acoustic guitar and the 6"5 Scottish legend.

Worst - Chas N Dave - 1999 in Cottiers in Glasgow

Other notable mentions for great gigs:

1994 Marillion - Brave tour in the Wolfrun Wolverhampton
1990 They Might be Giants in Cardiff Uni
1999 Tom Jones Glasgow SECC
2008 Tenacious D - pick of Destiny tour - glasgow SECC

Best Deep Purple Astoria Tottenham Court Road 2006
Iron Maiden Guildford Civic Hall early 80s
Gillan Guildford Civic Hall early 80s


Worst I was force to sit through a Westlife concert on TV once

Too many to choose from for best- though Dream Theater at Wembley Arena would be right up there - also Rush back in the 90s

Worst was certainly Thin Lizzy just before they folded. Not only was big Phil in a bad way but the rest of the band must've been stoned out of their boxes too. A massive disappointment as it was one band I had waited years to see and they were a shadow of their former self. Leeds Queens Hall, must've been around '82

Too many to list but absolutely loved seeing Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Iron Maiden et al however my personal favorite was a set played in Ibiza by Tiesto. It was insane!!

Worst was by far was Meat Loaf where he cancelled it whilst singing Paradise by The Dashboard Light, great show up until that point.

Great gigs U2 joshua tree, Iron Maiden, UB40, Status Quo The fleadh in New York got many more
but the worst is Michael Jackson, Bad Tour

Best...

Green Day - Milton Keynes Bowl
Jimmy Eat World - Portsmouth Pyriamids
Matchbox Twenty - Wembley Arena

Worst...

Meatloaf - Wembley Arena
New Found Glory - Southampton Guildhall

A variation on a theme,the worst group I have seen is Lamb of God they supported Dio/Iommi/Butler/Appice three years ago at Wembley
They were pants the singer just growled

Best support i have seen was Motion City Soundtrack at Wembley Arena when they supported Blink 182!

King Beer wrote:Best support i have seen was Motion City Soundtrack at Wembley Arena when they supported Blink 182!

The best supporting band for U2 was The Pogues

Asdral, Lamb Of God are awesome!

Best gig I've been too has to be Enter Shikari at the Aberdeen Music Hall. 100% the entire and to say I was knackered at the end would be a crazy understatement. Worst has to be Oasis cause I was forced to be there, Liam & Noel :spit:

Best - Enter Shikari in 2006 back when they were relatively unknown, at a local venue they sold way too many tickets and the place was heaving only supposed to hold about 1000 people must have been at least 1500 people!

Worst - Razorlight at Leeds Fest 07, they headlined immediately after Kings of Leon (who were absolutely amazing) and everyone booed them throughout pretty much the whole hour and a half set

best ever:saw Collective Soul,Rasmus,Simple Plan,Seether and Metallica a few years back at Absa Stadium in Durban.All those bands on the same night playing at the Coca Cola Fest.Seether and Metallica were amazing.Havent reall been to any bad ones.

I saw U2 at wembley in 97. They were useless!

Saw them again at the academy... brilliant!

There have been a few good ones for me

Oasis at Heaton Park
Stevie Wonder at the MEN
I am Kloot at Academy 3 in Manchester


the worst would be the Enemy who were supporting Oasis and were absolutely awful

Best:

Amon Amarth in the Academy last August, amazing show
Sepultura same venue as above last November, my favourite band of all time, not the orginal line up but epic
Slayer in the SFX back in the laste 90's, first time seeing them, intense is not the word plus I was locked

Worst:

Megadeth in the SFX, got in for free with a mate, I never really liked them so I didnt know any of their songs plus I was sober....bad times

I also forgot Earth Wind and Fire supported by the Brand new Heavies at the MEN in december, that was amazing

The best:

Metallica 2009 - Manchester - front row and some awesome interaction with Het
Metallica 2009 - Birmingham - front row and again some cool interaction, this time with Kirk
The other 5 times I have seen Metallica (Reading 03, Earls Court 03, Download 04 & 06 and Wembley 07)
The 5 Fozzy gigs (Nottingham x3, Stoke and Manchester)

The worst:
This would have to go to support bands........
Korn (seen them about 3 times)
Slipknot
Machine Head (seen them like 4 times now)
The Sword

The best - Eminem @ The Milton Keynes Bowl, Arctic Monkeys @ Old Trafford, The Courteeners @ The M.E.N

Worst - Razorlight @ Radio 1 weekend Preston

Best: Chili Peppers at V Festival when we got front row, few feet away from the legend that is Dave Frusciante.
Foo Fighters at Leeds festival when they refused to stop playing and the organisers ended up turning off the electrics and dragging them off.
Damian Rice at the Apollo in Manchester on Valentines Day, perfect for wooing the Mrs.
Kings of Leon at MEN arena earlier this year, got to meet the support band the Whigs afterwards.
The Pixies, finally got to see one of my fave bands when they made a return a few years back
Muse, put on such a show.

Worst: Chili Peppers at MEN arena, everyone booed the support act which narked off the Chilis who then really werent up for the show.

I can't think of a "worst" at present but there have been several contenders for the best. Probably the one that springs to mind in recent times was Seth Lakeman at Buxton - brilliant live!