Top ten bands/acts you wish you'd seen live but haven't

i never feel comfortable at concerts surrounded by people tbf ,but would love to have seen the Stranglers in their hay day

good list above -didn't realise Alice in Chains were still doing the rounds  lol

Radiohead (early)
Led Zeppelin
Rammstein
Clash
Pink Floyd
Yes

Would have loved to have seen Bob Marley in his pomp in the 70's

For reasons that to this day remain unexplained I never saw The Jam.

Jam and Clash just missed my list, Slippy. Would love to have heard Levi Stubbs sing too. Not a huge fan, but would also liked to have experienced Janis Joplin live.

Joy Division
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Dolly Rocker Movement
Kraftwerk

Skippy ..dont worry pal..I saw The Jam and they were poor.

The only band i aint seen that i would love too is ZZ Top...and Steely Dan and Joy Division
and The Pistols and The Pixies and Joni and Tom Waits and..oh ffs  could go on for hours!

Saw ZZ sofia, even allowing for the fact it was a big open air job at MK Bowl that really didn't lend itself to their style of being a bar boogie band, they were a massive let down.

Yeah sofiakenny, I had heard they were a bit hit or miss live but still would have liked to have seen them for myself.

HRH, Thin Lizzy would have been a riot I'm sure, never saw them either. Shame really as I spent a lot of time seeing bands including some absolute shockers that I'm far too embarrassed to reveal on here and missed some of the good ones. The Boomtown Rats and The Undertones slipped under the radar as well amongst others.

First band i saw was The Jam, fantastic, though i was a big fan after Setting Sons.

Hendrix
Pink Floyd
U2
Zeppelin
Queen
Who
Sabbath
T.Rex
Joe C0ckEr
Dylan

Bit of a mixed bag

Frank Sinatra
Adele
Beach Boys
Joni Mitchell
Ella Fitzgerald
Roy Orbison

Never did see Zeppelin. Mate of mine asked if I wanted to go to Knebworth to see them, but I decided to got to Wembley to see The Who (again) a couple of weeks later instead, thinking I'd see them next time around. Of course, there was no next time around.

Skynyrd

was a bit young when they were ripped apart

I turned down a ticket to see Nirvana, as had already agreed to go to a local gig with a friend who I thought was gonna' put out that night. She didn't and the band sucked. Bloody women.

Strange name for a band.

Abba and Elvis and had the chance to see both

Sex Pistols
Joy Division
The Smiths

Bradford Elvis.....Kraftwerk are playing Latitude in Suffolk this Summer..

Buddy Holly & The Crickets
The Cramps

Manowar ( all hail Manowar ! ) were playing Leeds O2 last year , to this day and to my dying days I will never understand how I never went to see them play

Have planned trips across the continent to see them in festivals in Germany and France and even Sweden yet missed them when they were playing 2 miles from my front door.

Not my bag, but are they still signing record contracts in their own blood?

I'm on loads of gig mailing lists, and I recall they were charging a daft amount for a gig at Brixton a year or so ago.

No the days of signing in blood are over lol

I think it was around £30 for the Leeds gig

When you consider what sort of spectacle you get from one of there concerts it was well worth the money.

A couple of interesting facts about Manowar

They still hold the World Record for loudest concert ever done , they still hold the world record for longest concert ever done ( nearly 6 hours lol )

Singer Eric Adams recorded a song called 'Father' which was a personal tribute to his Dad , he learnt to sing it in 15 different languages so that no matter where they played he could sing it in the native tongue of the country they were in at the time.

A lot of bands say they are doing it for the fans but Manowar really are a 'fans ' band.

Fair play to them.

I've heard so many say MBV were the loudest band, I sort of took it as read!

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - with Alex - seen them without

Two more...

The Cramps
The B52's

Ah another for the Cramps PR, thought they'd gone done memory lane and turned left!!!

Certainly earlier B-52s PR, I'd agree. Not so keen on their later stuff.

Point taken Ylime but rather fancy the horse has bolted.
The Chameleons are another I never saw yet wished I had and could see now but it wouldn't be quite the same as if I'd caught them first time round.
Oddly enough I've seen all the 1976+ bands mentioned on here.....as someone else said The Jam were poor. The Cramps were the best live of those mentioned on this thread but The Jesus And Mary Chain at Liverpool Royal Court shortly after releasing Psychocandy was my best gig ever.

Zep
Hendrix
Bowie
Nirvana
The Who .....putting this right in June
Deep Purple
Thin Lizzy
Neil Young
Faith No More
Red House Painters

In case you weren't aware, the remnants of Deep Purple playing The Roundhouse in October if you're interested, sixtwosix.

FNM very good live band.

buffalo springfield
the free design
the carpenters
harry chapin
nick drake
ronnie lane
love
john sebastian
hourglass
allman brothers

Would have loved to have seen Talking Heads live, don't think Mr. Byrne fancied being on the road with the others.
Also going to see The Specials in May cant wait.

The Nolans
Brotherhood Of Man
Dawn
Showaddywaddy
The Rubettes

April Wine
ZZ Top
Sex Pistols
Motorhead
Black Sabbath

All depends on what tablets I'm on at the time

johnny cash
little feat
warren zevon
free
fleetwood mac-peter green era
john martyn
richard thompson
neil young/crazy horse
velvet underground
mott the hoople

Always wanted to see The Dead Boys just for the opening bars of Sonic Reducer

Also Lynyrd Skynyrd in there heyday

Elvis in his pomp would have been magnificent, bit before my time though.

lying git

Beatles
Stones
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Bruce Springsteen
Cathy Davey
Love
PJ Harvey
Sparklehorse
Spoon
Talking Heads
The Breeders (roll on June...)
The Maccabees
The Phantom Band
Wolf Parade

I remember very well a newsflash in August 1977, I was at my Aunts house in Kent with Mum and Dad and the siblings, we were having a bbq. They both started crying that Elvis was dead, I was 11 at the time. I may post like an old fogie sometimes but I'm not really. Been there done it, got the tee shirt etc but life left in the old dog yet.

I would have loved to have seen Pulp, I'm sure they would have been brilliant.

Beach Boys
Eagles
ELO
Hollies
(all when they were at the top)
Billy Joel
and I reckon a Barry Manilow concert in the late 70's would have been fun.

Cramps for me as well

Add another to me list...

Bauhaus

Neil Diamond, I love that bloke and never saw him in concert.

Wings
Eagles
Highwaymen
10cc
Argent
Family
Stones
Uriah Heep
Jethro Tull
Cream

for me.

Thin Lizzy
Camel
Eloy
Frank Zappa
Black Sabbath
Caravan
Deep Purple
Magma
Gentle Giant
Phideaux

Sex Pistols
The Doors
Hendrix
Beatles
Talking Heads
The Flaming Lips
The Clash
The Specials
Blondie (late 70's) front row looking up.

Is this a without Milli Vanilli market?

forgot about johnny cash

Would love to have been at one of those West Coast gigs featured on Velvet Underground's Live 1969 LP. Even better, to have been present at one of their rehearsals.

For those wishing they'd seen Joy Division, I can tell you that live they had an intensity and a very special aura that I've never experienced with any other act. The music was well played, but had a violence missing from the studio records. And you simply could not take your eyes off Curtis. It sounds dreadfully trite, but such was the passion with which he performed Wilderness that putting his left hand to his eyes at the line "They had tears in their eyes" left me feeling Id never seen a man in the grip of such emotion.

Very hard to convey ... You had to be there.

Its strange that Joy Division were so good live...and New Order so bad. Only one thing missing, sadly.

Anybody here seen Rammstein live - not really my kind of music, industrial metal or whatever it is, but their live show looks amazing.