I thought the gig at Galatos the night before was way better, that guy from Killing Joke was funny.
But Qotsa 2nd set at BDO was awesome

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Portishead in 98.

// I personally thought the Foo fighters at the Big Day Out this year was by far the best! :D

They were okay at the bdo... you will be very excited to see them in a tighter venue tho... Foos at welli townhall was amazing.

For me fav gig would have to be Gomez at the powerstation or HDU @ bodega last time....

That is a very hard call.

Tool at the Wellington Town Hall in `97 was cool...

// Foos at welli townhall was amazing. Gomez at the powerstation, HDU @ bodega last time....
Also all very good.

But what leaps to mind would be Sleater-Kinney at the Kings Arms. That blew me away. Yeah. That one'll work.

Although I was never an especially big fan, the gig that stands out is David Bowie at Glastonbury 2000. Pyramid Stage 9:00pm, it had been sunny all weekend (a rare thing for Glasters), a massive exuberant audience in a cow paddock, all the old hits, a few I hadn't heard, fantastic suit, lovely lovely guy, the sunset was so perfect it seemed like he'd engineered that as well. The following day's paper, alongside a photo of Bowie, reported "Could this be The Best Glastonbury Ever?" I suppose they say that every year, but I was at this one, so yes, it was.

3Ds & Pavement @ Warners, chch, 1996
Wicked, two band at the top of their game going off to an adoring crowd. Warners, smelly fire hazard that it was was often a top spot for live music, and this night typified the type of gig you could get. Punters were greeted at the door by Pavement's slightly eccentric drummer (Gary? I think) giving out slices of apple. The 3Ds were loud and poppy and rockin' and as impressive as ever, and seeing Pavement (this was just after slanted and enchanted had come out) was surreal (a bit like when Radiohead played the same venue the next year, or when the White Stripes played at Bodega last year). Here were *superstars* playing at our little bar! Brilliant! The crowd was suitably hot and sweaty and packed into the mosh pit, and the most was one of the most enjoyable I've been in -- grinning faces, jumping around, no stupid stuff, all good. Topped the night off by breaking into Centennial Pool and diving off the 10m board. Ace.

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Can't remember the exact date but it was in the latter half od 2000. The Sunday after the Shihad concert at the Auckland Town Hall.

The Place: The Roadhouse Bar and Diner, Papakura
The Door: $20 a head
The Gig: The D4, Weta, Shihad and Jimmy Barnes for an encore

We heard that this gig was on and hummed and hahhed over wether to go or not. The boys had just seen Shihad the night before and were still buzzing. In the end we decided "Fuck it!!" and the four of us headed up there ... it is a couple of k's up the road from us.

So glad we went. The "stage" at the Roadie then was even smaller than it is now .... and the audience was so close to the stage.

The D4 had not quite hit their straps then but were still a real cool opening act. Then Weta ... why.oh, why did they quit. Quite an amazing set ... about 6 or 7 songs incl Snapshot, Calling On and Got the Ju. Number 2 son managed to purloin the set list of the monitor and it has pride of on his wall These guys just went off ... and then after a shortish break Shihad come on and the mayhem continued. The sheer power of the performance swept people up. And then Barnesy coming on right at the end for a one song encore wrapped the whole thing up very nicely.

For my boys it was a chance to really get close to two of their all time favourite bands (kiwi or otherwise). For me and the missus a chance to be young and stupid again just for a night.

And the next time I saw them again it was Pacifier, at the Roadhouse, Oct 31 2002 and my boys' band opened for them!!!!

shonen knife and the lemonheads at big day out 199something (7?8?). i bet bob mould at the kings arms in december would have been amazing, but i missed that one... anybody see it?

still can't get the hang of making my comments come up in the right place, they always attach to some random subject... durned newfangled interweb technology.

Fugazi at Vic Memorial Hall in 1997 - I learnt to be offensive in a mosh rather than just defensive, )although I was there illegally), Fur Patrol/Superette/3Ds ditto, Hole at the BDO 99, Smashing Pumpkins at the Queens Wharf Events Centre 96 (It wouldn't have mattered to me at the time if their actual sound etc was any good, because I just worshipped everything they did), Shihad at the Powerstation 99 (before I got too old and claustraphobic to enjoy moshing)

Probably Tool '01. silverchair '02.

Nup, none of those could compare to KISS live in Auckland & Sydney!! If the music wasn't enough, the show was SOOOOOOO awesome!!

Tool (Toronto/02) was amazing but definitely upstaged by System of a Down Live in Toronto 02.

I have a few different favourites, depending on how I define 'facourite'

Couple of standouts:

Mountain Rock 95(?) -- for a couple of days of rock and roll debauchery. Getting first injuries moshing to Head Like a Hole (and meeting Sam Hunt in the first aid tent) first up. And then a whole massive orgy of bands one after the other. And unlike the big day out only one stage, so you got to hear em all. So almost back-to-back hearing tim finn, dave dobbyn, supergroove, hello sailor, the mutton birds, the exponents, fagan (the mockers), shona laing, greg johnson to name but a few.

Fur patrol/Weta/Shihad 01 (?) -- three of my fav bands back to back. mmmmm.

and now for something a little random

The Scorpions with the Berlin Philharmonic (Hanover 2000) -- at bit of being there is everything. Pulling a naive "I'm from New Zealand" (flirt flirt) to get a free $150 ticket to get in; and then being in this amazing auditorium full of tens of thousands of germans on an emotional roller-coaster ride with songs like Winds of Change, and everybody crying and hugging and waving cigarette lighters. Then fireworks afterwards, and driving for 8 hours north into denmark on the longest day (so it didn't get dark, just eerie) at 180+km/h on the autobahn and getting lost in hamburg. An amazingly surreal gig.

i have a few fave gigs of all time i just cant pick one!

Best gig for me I think was 3-D's, Superchunk and Buffalo Tom at Vic Uni sometime in the 90's. The worst band of the night were Buffalo Tom who were f'n incredible, Superchunk were a step above and 3-D's a step above again! Other excellent gigs at the same venue, Primus, Fugazi and Dinosaur jnr.

I have been to most of the BDO's in the last 10 yrs or so and found them to be good introductions to new bands but too distracting to really get into them. Best of the BDO's for me; Gerling, New Order & Audio Active from last year; Kraftwerk, Underworld & Rhombus from this year, Nick Cave & Tism from some other year?, Shihad/Pacifer from nearly every year... and I'm sure there are others that I've forgotten about, hmmm............

I was at the Bob Mould gig in December it was pretty f'n good! 3 of us went to the venue to try to get tickets cos it had been sold out for ages. Ended up getting our names on the door and BM was available to answer any questions and generally chat with anyone. An incredibly humble and all round nice dude as was his manager Kevin! He sells alot of his stuff online rather than through traditional means now, check the link.

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