Who is the Biggest Band/Singer (in your opinion) You Have Seen Live?

Dumpys Rusty Nuts

Tough one that. Personally I'd say Pink Floyd (3 times), but some would consider Michael Jackson (probably not of late) or Whitney Houston to be bigger.

Pavorotti, Meat Loaf.

Barry White

Throw some liver on the fire.

Hendrix. IOW.

A very tough question to pick out a live performance that I have seen that I would rate above all else.
If pushed I would have to say Bruce Springstein and The E Street Band at Wembley stadium on July 4th 1985, I wasn't even going to go as I didn't really know any of his songs but by Christ he totally rocked 80,000 people senseless with a truly unforgettable performance.

biggest (size)....treorchy male choir

biggest...(most famous)..adam and the ants (when he was famous)

biggest (attendance) ....jon bon jovi

Small world Slippy - I went the following day! Still to this day one of the best, if not THE best, concert I’ve ever seen...

Freddy..Animals concert wembley 88'000

Dylan, Blackbushe Airfield 1978
Led Zep, Knebworth 1979

*Both were completely sh1t.

Saw a grown adult male on the TV earlier today complaining about the sound quality at ... a Spice Girls gig. Apparently he paid 75 quid for the ticket.
I think he may also like "show tunes" which maybe explained it a bit!

Mormon Tabernacle Choir / Demis Roussos

You would have to pay me £75 quid and provide a free bar served by a naked Scarlet Johansson all night for me to go to a 'Spice Girl' gig!

Were all of chit chat at that Wembley Springsteen Gig in '85?

Me and a mate hitched up to Brammal Lane to see him the week afterwards too.

Other than that, Oasis at Glastonbury / Maine Road /Loch Lomond

Was at Bramall Lane too, not one of his best concerts imo. Band seemed all at sea with their stage positions. Now Roundhay Park............

Sloppy, that was apparently the standard cheap standing ticket. I shudder to think what the expensive tickets cost, like those "VIP" ones they like to sell now to bleed gullible people of their money. £150? Who knows.

Maybe if I got 30 seconds backstage in a cupboard with Emma Bunton I'd be up for it. Err ... That would be long enough .

Zig-a-zig-wtf. On ticketmuster, the basic tickets at the etihad for the Spice Middle Aged Women start at 93.5 quid, "platinum" tickets are 225-250, the "VIP" tickets are £176-£291 each.

I'd be wanting 60 seconds in the cupboard with Bunton AND Sporty for that.

J.C. Please don't call me 'Sloppy' as I don't like it!! My username is about a greyhound who made a huge impact on my world and is one of my greatest memories when he won the 1990 Derby @ Wimbledon.'Slippy' from now on if you don't mind china

Ok I don't need a second telling ;)

tom jones. rod stewart. neil diamond who was different class live.

Pavarotti, nigh on 20 stone.

AC/DC with Bon Scott (Leeds Queens Hall )with Brian Johnson (Manc Arena )

By Jove it's Bon Jovi

Andrew "Tiny" Wood

Knights of the Realm:- McCartney, Starr, Dwight and Davies
Legends:- Springsteen, Michael, Bowie, JL Lewis, Joel, Clapton, Waters

That's a point. I saw Clapton when he was second on the bill to Dylan at Blackbushe.

He was sh1t too.

And I saw U2 when they replaced Subway Sect as second on the bill to John Cale at the Lyceum in London (the Subway Sect frontman couldn't make it, owing to having to do a late shift in the betting shop he was working in).

Fair to say U2 re-defined the term 'sh1t' that night.

Poppy, I too saw Waters at the MEN. Bit of a trot for me but well worth seeing DSotM performed live.

As for sh1t I thought Simple Minds fit that description well. Backed by Texas who were awesome.

Rolling stones.paul McCartney,kinks,moody blues .the hollies.idaho showband at my 21st birthday

Only the Idaho showband at my 21st for all the smart arses

I went to a concert where Paul and Linda McCartney were just sitting there as spectators.

Queen , Knebworth

If I could see any band or singer again it would be DEL SHANNON  .but sadly he commited suicide

Rod Stewart, McCartney.  You can't get bigger than those two with hit after hit after hit.  Both just fabulous.

alun2005 • May 29, 2019 12:54 PM BST
I went to a concert where Paul and Linda McCartney were just sitting there as spectators.
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Paul McCartney, get with the program, he was killed by chemtrails and the current guy is a shape shifting member of the illuminutty who beams 5G mind control rays from his quaint electro acoustic violin death-bass, that he used to kill Madeline McCann.

Rod Stewart, McCartney.  You can't get bigger than those two with hit after hit after hit.  Both just fabulous.

I don't suppose this counts but I did at least see one of Rod's roadies assembling some scaffolding in a football stadium in Copenhagen in 2007, the day after the infamous abandoned Denmark 3-3 Sweden Euro qualifier, that was subsequently altered to a 3-0 win for Sweden.

Saw rod Stewart 4 times
Twice at Apollo Manchester
Twice at the Manchester evening news arena

Great shows every time .Maggie may y fav but love loads of hiss records got many albums of his.when I first got married I lived in a two up two down next to belle view  it was a verry hot day and we had the windows open and we heard his complete performance as though we were there .the same thing happened when the Osmond's were at their peak

Rod is an idiot..desperately wants to be Scottish even though he is a cockernee born and bred.

"Rod is an idiot..desperately wants to be Scottish"
Terrible thing to say, mighty mac will get you for that.

SOFEE your my friend but you've got a chip on your shoulder about rod the mod .you sound like Nicola sturgeon indepence for Scotland and only real Scots can apply

I wanted to be a Scot supporter when they had that great side Inthe 60s

Blur Prodigy in their prime, and the very bland Oasis live at Knebworth...

susan boyle

Slade.......... supported by an up-and-coming band called Thin Lizzy.

Beat that.....

Springsteen Sheffield, only big name i`ve seen.

Innovative/original New Order Sheffield and Manchester.

mormon tabernacle choir

Has to be Nirvana at Reading festival

Got to be Frankie Yankovic

I was lucky enough to be at Knebworth to see Queen live. Freddie, as usual, was immense. There has been no bigger showman in my opinion than Freddie.

If you don't like him my post will fall on deaf ears. But as a live performer, he has no match.

Pink Floyd at Earls Court, Knebworth, and Afan Lido Port Talbot. Roger Waters at Wembley.

Other bands (distant second imo), Sabbath, Purple, Maiden, Motorhead, Fleetwood, Rainbow, and more.

Another concert that I went to, which was an awesome spectacle I might add, was Jean-Michel Jarre at Docklands

Wow Aspro, I bet that was absolutely amazing.

Incredible Slippy but not all plain sailing. The concert was put back from (if memory serves) September to October. One night was p1ssing down and the other was absolutely freezing (the night I went on) but lighting up the docklands the way he did was, as you say, absolutely amazing. Even in the bitter cold it was worth the wait.

INXS in Brum when I was 15. Hutchence could get them wet! A fantastic front man

When I come to think of it .it was none of those that I mentioned .The biggest one was the group the stilt walkers.
They didn't have any hit records ,but when on stage they fell over each other to try and give you an experience that even those who didn't like their music would never forget

Sid the stilt (as he was known to his fans )was the biggest member of the group .and at the end of each gig .he did not smash his guitar on the floor of the stage he was unique
He smashed it on the ceiling .once smashing the light bulbs and fusing the electric system which lead to total blackout of the theatre .if that's not rock and roll I don't know what is

The fans loved it especially the boys who groped the girls in the dark arena as they vacated their seats to exit
There was one girl who was screaming as though she didn't like the sexual attention of the male fans
But my friend Maureen who is an usheerrette said that it was all an act as she was the very last one to leave the arena.andcshe had a big smile on her face

Jean-Michel Jarre - Destination Docklands was probably the 'biggest' show I ever saw (reportedly 250,000 attended plus light show was witnessed by many more) but the biggest band I ever saw is Pink Floyd , in terms of record sales / popularity .

What day did you go on Reynard? The rainy day or the bitterly cold day?

Rainy day

So we didn't cross paths

I say 'rainy' but it was so long ago it could have been cold

October 1988 - 30 years ago!

Little did you know that the current season would see you relegated

Probably was the rainy day

Aspro • May 30, 2019 6:40 PM BST
Little did you know that the current season would see you relegated

We're West Ham , it wouldn't exactly have been unexpected

The Beatles!

June 30th 1963

July 28th 1963

Both at the long defunct ABC Regal Cinema, Great Yarmouth!

This is interesting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_concert_tours

Rank     Actual gross     Gross adjusted for inflation
(2019 $)     Artist     Tour name     Year(s)     Shows     Attendance     Average gross per show (millions)     Average attendance per show     Ref.
1     $736,421,584     $820,194,986     U2     U2 360° Tour     2009–11     110     7,272,046     $6.7     66,110     [1]
2     $605,100,000     $605,100,000     Ed Sheeran     ÷ Tour     2017– present     217     6,386,364     $2.71     31,153     [2][3]    
3     $563,300,000     $563,300,000     Guns N' Roses     Not in This Lifetime... Tour     2016–18     159     4,377,126     $3.85     35,017     [4][2][3]
4     $558,255,524     $674,547,559     The Rolling Stones     A Bigger Bang Tour     2005–07     144     4,680,000     $3.8     32,500     [1]
5     $523,033,675     $546,023,369     Coldplay     A Head Full of Dreams Tour     2016–17     114     5,389,586     $4.59     45,128     [5]
6     $458,673,798     $493,336,432     Roger Waters     The Wall Live     2010–13     219     4,129,863     $2.09     18,858     [6]
7     $441,121,000     $506,821,305     AC/DC     Black Ice World Tour     2008–10     167     4,846,965     $2.6     29,023     [7][8][9]
8     $407,713,266     $476,474,639     Madonna     Sticky & Sweet Tour     2008–09     85     3,545,899     $4.79     41,716     [10]
9     $389,047,636     $483,515,954     U2     Vertigo Tour     2005–06     131     4,719,021     $2.96     35,259     [11]
10     $364,300,000     $364,300,000     Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood     World Tour     2014–17     390     6,443,727     $0.96     14,669     [12][13][14][15]

It's shocking when you think about how The Edge blew most of that on black beanie caps made from Unicorn pubes.

And Ed Sheeran is second. What has the music industry become!

I think you're confusing Ed Sheeran with the music industry

I LOVE so many bands , and yet I've never seen anyone playing live . How sad is that .

I've just got an idea . I think The Waterboys may be on tour at the mo , if they are , I'll try and go see them .

saw them on wednesday  culvin, very good.

I was at same Concert as Slippy  to see Springstein in 85, saw Queen the day we heard John Lennon had died, Freddie sang Imagine that night, seemed like yesterday.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KgWEGnJTJc

The actual video is of a different concert but the voice  recording was from that night.

U2 NIA About
The Who Wembley 1979 I think.

Incidentally, I just noticed that Ticketmaster have a flash sale this weekend on The Who at Wembley 6 July 2019.  BOGOF.

Seems strange, but looking at the site it seems legit.