I'm looking for big hits: the best gigs (who and where)
and the big misses: and the acts you with you'd got to but never did.
Miss for me was Queen, by all accounts spectacular.
Also never got to see his royal grumpiness Van Morrison
Big Hits:
Luka Bloom Mandela Hall QUB 93 maybe
Simple Minds in the RDS August '89 (texas opened remember Charleen Spiteri?)
U2 that concert in Botanic Gardens- more the occasion than the performance
the 4 of Us in small session in Belfast at the Black Box about 5/6 years ago
Bruce Springsteen Giant stadium NJ '09
Coldplay giant stadium 06 (no hating, Richard Ashcroft opened)
The Verve- Slane
Christy at the Point March 17th '94
Oasis in Cork '96
notable mentions which were great at the time, but have somewhat diminished with age
bryan adams at dundonald ice bowl '91
Bon Jovi in the Ulster hall maybe '90
2 useless facts for you - the ulster hall was where led zeppelin played stairway to heaven for the first time, and Handel's messiah was first played in fishamble in Dublin
by the way the worst thing I ever paid money for was to watch the wolfe tones in an Irish bar in New jersey. An embarrassment for all concerned
There was a thread for 1st real concert which was great - here
http://gaaboard.com/board/index.php?topic=20482.0