non o moments

[samsonite]

just been reading the proud o moments top in the discussion forum.

was wondering how many of you have evr seen a band that you thought was important. just wondering cos i saw liars last night at the venue and thought it was absolutely incredible. important, vital, life changing.
have any of you ever experienced that? does anyone care? do u think music is important. ive seen my fair share of "life changing" changing bands (please excuse the horrible cliches) like radiohead in the old days, manic street preachers vitriolic comeback, low, sigur ros, pumpkins in the mellon collie era, the first reindeer section gig, snow patrol etc. but liars actually blew me away.

anyone ever had this?

wire were crap btw.

[helen]

er no....coz ive never seen a band live....but i do feel emotionally attached (sounds stupid but i dunno how else to put it!) to some songs. for example Last Train Home by the Lostprophets. its kinda strange. but i do have a thing with music, i always have to have something playing, i hate getting through a day without listening to anything (very rare!)
also some songs bring back memories, of places where ive listened to them.

[harry]

i went to see funeral for a friend at rock city a couple of months ago. not really my cup of tea but a friend from work made me go. the rapture were supporting them. i'm a bit dense about music i just like what i like, i'd never even heard of them before but i thought they were amazing. i love it especially at festivals when you see random bands you weren't meaning to, just cos you woke up in a tent you didn't mean to or something and you just discover something new, not just a new band but something new about the way that you think about music. i wouldn't have thought i would like the rapture, cos it's kind of electronic as well as being a kind of disco punk thing (it's hard trying to categorise stuff) but anyway i think they are brrriliant. and twas a nice surpirse which is the best part.

[harry]

i'm not saying i think the rapture are in any way important btw. they are not, they are just really good fun.

[mharky]

i saw swedish pop duo Fame at Malungs Melody Festival Last year, i had been orienteering

[samsonite]

melons, did u see franz ferdinand that night? did u think they were the most overrated pile of jobby ever? and what about the von bondies? were they good?the rapture are fun arent they.

[rob f]

if anyone listened to ash on one big weekend last sunday you'll know why i'm saying that was noping good

[harry]

ok now it's going to be embarassing. i do think franz ferdinand are overrated but i can't really comment because i haven't seen them live. i arrived late at the gig that night and missed both franz ferdinand and von bondies because i was still out training! we were doing a longish run with interval sections from harvey hadden stadium but we got lost on the way back so it was more like 12 miles instead of 7 or 8. i just had time for a quick shower and arrived at rock city just in time for one drink before the rapture came on.
training first then music...sorry!

[brooner]

the liars featured in a gig of some stature for me, truely amazing, first time i'd heard them, as with the notwist who were up after them... then it was sonic youth - something else completely

i always find the most life changing & soul shattering bands are the ones that are mainly instrumental: múm, sigur rós, gybe and do make sake think have all done things to me. mogwai the first time i saw them was truely inspiring. sometimes its the simplist things done well, its hard not to get a lump in your throat at a low gig.

snow patrol last august was unreal, the love in the air and the seeing how much everyone was enjoying it and wanting it to go on forever. many snow patrol moments were great, the crowd singing along to the chorus of run last may totally stunned gary.

seeing bands you've never heard before and know nothing about, then finding out they're fantastic is always a great feeling too.

[samsonite]

i knew i could reply on you brooner

mogwai - yes.

[bendover]

saw the first ever live performance of common people by pulp in the early 90's... bang on!

also 'Sultans of Ping FC' were spot on...

'The Datsuns' return home gig to New Zealand after touring the UK was an amazing atmosphere, they had these big industrial fans blowing back onto the band, fairly crazy hair going on.

[PorkyFatBoy]

Paul Weller at Glastonbury 1994...showing everyone how it should be done.

Sting in 1986 with all those brilliant jazz musicians.

Oh dear....feel really old now

[Becks]

Man...where to start. I can't say anything I've ever seen has felt important as such, but there's been some fantastic moments. I was at Seafood's first gig after 2 years of illness last night and they were stunning. I really didn't like the Verve but when I saw them in the old days when V festival was at Leeds, they were passable but the reaction from the crowd made them unreal - losing the vocals half the time because the crowd were singing so loud. Blur have made me cry after time I've seen them, though I will be after Mary Ann Hobbs with a scythe if I ever see her for coming on half way through the fade out of Sing at the very end of Leeds Festival and screeching "that was effing amazing wasn't it?" The thousands of bottles hitting the stage soon after really wasn't justice.

Muse's first festival gigs were incredible, despite the overblown rubbish they produce these days. And Pulp - wow is all I can say.

There must be more, but for now all I have to say is: (and this is my first attempt at the quote tool so bear with me!)

also 'Sultans of Ping FC' were spot on...

Where's me jumper?

Genius.

[brooner]

yeah muse when they first started out, playing glow303 in aberdeen samsonite! that was pretty immense. and dare i say it coldplay were damn good back in the day before the nonsense of yellow and whatever their second album was called... no one believed me back then tho...

i'd also like to add weight behind the fact that the sultans are ace!!!

[eddie]

i am going to drag it away from the music and say that watching Dave Gorman in the festival last year doing his Googlewhacking show was funny as fook. that man is the finest story teller ever he does his fair share of randomn stupid jobby and he keeps everyone captivated. Plus you do wet yourself with laughter.

on the music front bellatrix at the Little Civic in Wolverhampton bizarre icelandic combo in the smallest venue in the world just me and my mate when we were wee boys getting bevvied the support was jobby though some boys called coldplay

and add to that the Eels gig in first year in the barrowlands - sweet as