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sp2:
Some of the best concerts I've seen were really cheap in tiny venues.  I saw Mars Volta right after Deloused came out, and that was one hell of an awesome show.  Constantines this summer in a tiny 150 person venue, which was by far one of the most intimate and rocking shows I've seen (though some of the openers sucked and the audience was pretty fucking lame).

The lamest shows I've seen have always been arena concerts; they're expensive and there's nothing intimate about them.  Saw the Pixies this year, and that was incredibly disappointing, for example.

I've got tickets already to some cool shows this fall; Pretty Girls Make Graves and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.  I'm planning on picking up tickets to the Epoxies, and a friend of mine is trying to convince me to go see KMFDM with him....KMFDM is kinda shitty, but the opportunity to rivet up and mosh the shit out of everyone else is pretty appealing.

KharBevNor:
best concert I've seen was Apocalyptica and Rammstein. No question. Apocalyptica were an utterly killer opener. They bought along their drummer, which gave a kick to their old songs, and just rocked out harder than it should be possible for cellists to rock out. Plus, to close, they got everyone clapping along faster and faster to what became an almost impossibly fast rendition of Grieg's Hall of the Mountain King ('Ze oviginal black metaal masterpiece' according to the one they let have the mic).

Rammstein had an awesome set hidden behind Apocalyptica's back screen. Having heard of Rammstein's extravagant stage-shows, I was kinda dissapointed when they walked on through a door in the middle (apart from the drummer, who came up by elevator) and just started playing Reise Reise. I was all 'Yes, cool and all, but where's the awesome dammit'. And then they finished Reise Reise. At that exact moment all the lights went off, the drummers drumsticks exploded and random part of the set started shooting forty foot blasts of flame. Then Till started clapping and chanting "EINS ZWEI EINS ZWEI EINS ZWEI DREI!"

And the rest is history. I think the show reached live Nirvana either when the keyboard player caught fire, or when, during Seemann (Sailor) the bassist took off his trousers, revealing a pair of speedos underneath, then clambered into a rubber dinghy which the roadies (who were all dressed as Micheal Douglas from Falling Down) threw into the crowd and he then proceeded to ROW ACROSS THE CROWD.

As for awful concerts, Hell is For Heroes, We Will be Pilots and some opening band that was far superior to both. Shite local venue. Ye gods that was dire. The only thing that made it any good was bringing my gas mask, boots and gloves and unsuitably moshing like a crazy industrial robo-man.

thehoopiestfrood:

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Hee! I am going to that!!

Leonidas:

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--- Quote from: Leonidas ---Weezer play in Edinburgh
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Hee! I am going to that!!
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Well, if I decide to order it, I might be the one in the TEH t-shirt. ;)

Johnny C:

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Yes. I saw these guys with the Weakerthans and local band Sylvie (who're apparently picking up a lot of buzz, as their guitarist is Despistado's former bassist), and it was one of the best concerts I've ever seen. The Constantines are crazy fun, and The Weakerthans can instill this sense of euphoria over their audience like no band I've ever seen.

The worst concert I've ever seen that wasn't shat locals was the Taste Of Chaos tour. The underground emo bands were shit, and Killswitch pretty much wrecked the whole thing for me. I can't stand metalcore anyway, and secondly they just seemed out of place.

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