What concerts/events have you attended?

[Zimsar10]

Ok, here is my list.........

International Concerts - All attended in New Zealand (Unless stated otherwise) - since 1986

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms / On Every Street World Tours - Mount Smart Stadium, Auckland

Tina Turner - Scene x2 in concert - Support acts - Jimmy Barnes/Collective Soul / Both concerts at Mount Smart Stadium, Auckland

Michael Jackson - History World Tour - Mount Smart Stadium, Auckland

AC/DC - Razors Edge World Tour - Mount Smart Stadium, Auckland

Guns 'N' Roses - Use Your Illusion World Tour - Mount Smart Stadium, Auckland

Genesis - Western Springs, Auckland

ZZ Top - Western Springs, Auckland

The loudest concert ever played in New Zealand, which could be clearly heard from Devonport, apparently reaching upto 120DB at times........WoW!!

Paul McCartney - Western Springs, Auckland

Eagles - Hell Freezes Over - Supporting act - Melissa Etheridge/Greg Johnson - Western Springs, Auckland / Farewell I - (Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Australia)

Rolling Stones - Western Springs, Auckland - Voodoo Lounge / A Bigger Bang World Tours

U2 - Zooropa World Tour - Western Springs, Auckland

Roger Waters - North Harbour Stadium, Auckland

What can I say? What an absolute honour to see/hear one of the founders of the greatest band to ever walk on planet earth, Pink Floyd. Roger was their Bass Guitarist/Lyric writer/Lead singer/Backing vocalist for many, many wonderful years.... 10/10 Concert!!

The Corrs - North Harbour Stadium, Auckland

Bryan Adams - Mount Smart - Super Top, Auckland

Peter Gabriel - Mount Smart - Super Top, Auckland

Foreigner & Doobie Brothers (Two separate concerts) - Mount Smart - Super Top, Auckland

M C Hammer - Mount Smart - Super Top, Auckland

B52's - Mount Smart - Super Top, Auckland

P!NK - Vector Arena, Auckland

Jeff Waynes - War Of The World's - Stage Show - Vector Arena, Auckland

Justin Timberlake - Vector Arena, Auckland

Gwen Stefani - Support act - Gym Class Heroes - Vector Arena, Auckland

Lionel Richie - Vector Arena, Auckland

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Vector Arena, Auckland

I must say this concert was one of the most disappointing concerts I have ever been too. Anthony (lead singer) was so arrogant (never acknowledged the fans!! or introduced his band. He left the stage twice for nearly 10 minutes, including at the end & never said goodbye, or thanks for coming & the play list & sound qaulity were some of worst I have ever heard from any band - I would never see/nor recommend them to anyone ever again

Crowded House - Vector Arena, Auckland

Def Leppard - Vector Arena, Auckland

John Mellancamp & Sheryl Crowe (Two separate concerts) - Vector Arena, Auckland

Foo Fighters - Vector Arena, Auckland

INXS - Logan Campbell Centre, Auckland

JD Fortune gave a superb performance!

The Angels - Australian Rock band - Hamilton Night Club

Queen - (UK based look/sound alike)- Founders Theatre, Hamilton

New Zealand Artists:

The Pink Floyd Experience - Scene x3 in concert (so far).... - Hamilton, Clarence Street Theatre - The Wall Tour, Hamilton Founders Theatre - The Wall Tour, Hamilton Founders Theatre - 10th Anniversary Tour

The only band that I have ever seen/heard - live - to do absolute full justice to the greatest band to ever walk on planet earth - Pink Floyd!

This Wellington based group put on one hell of a "show" in the true tradition of Pink Floyd & they get better & better, every two years that they tour New Zealand!

Check the out here: http://www.pinkfloydexperience.co.nz/j/video.html

The Chain - Scene x2 in concert. (Hamilton, New Zealand based look/sound alike) Fleetwood Mac covers group - Founders Theatre, Hamilton

Super Groove - Scene x2 in concert - Support act for Crowded House & Headline act at the 2008 Hamilton 400, V8 Supercars Racing event

Website: http://www.myspace.com/supergroovenz

Atlas - The Altitude, Hamilton (Support act for The Feelers)

Website: http://www.atlastheband.com/

The Feelers - x3 in concert - x2 at The Altitude, Hamilton & an informal, FREE "Unplugged Concert", which they played about 5 great songs at, located at Tracks Music store in Hamilton

Website: http://www.thefeelers.co.nz/mp3.php

Op Shop - x2 in concert - The Altitude, Hamilton & Bruce Mason Centre, Auckland

Got to meet these guys after their concert at the Bruce Mason Centre, in Auckland. They were really cool to talk to & we got a couple of CD's signed by all of the band members!

Website: http://www.opshopmusic.com/

Split Enz - Vector Arena

Iconic New Zealand group!

Website: http://www.frenz.com/splitenz/

Kora - Hamilton 400 - V8 Supercars Concert

Website: http://www.myspace.com/koraroots

Exponents - x3 in concert - Unofficially at Sounds Music Store, Hamilton & as a support act at Western Springs, Auckland (to a band who escapes me at this time) - Also an official concert at "The Hilly" a local - Waikato University hangout/pub

Another iconic NZ band!

Website: http://www.muzic.net.nz/artists/7.html

Elemeno P - Support act for The Feelers - The Altitude, Hamilton

Website: http://www.ilike.com/artist/Elemeno+P

Late 80's Mercedes - Hamilton 400 - V8 Supercars Concert

Website: http://www.late80smercedes.com/Home.html

Pluto - Support Act for Split Enz - Vector Arena

Website: http://www.muzic.net.nz/artists/617.html

Evermore - Clarence Street Theatre, Hamilton

Website: http://www.myspace.com/evermore

[vifferman]

Skite! Showoff!
I bin to just about nothing.
But then, just about any time someone comes here, I go, "Ah yeah, well, that's fook'n expensive; I could just buy some CDs for that money and have on-going musical enjoyments! (ANd then of course I never buy the CDs either..

[Trudes]

How the hell do you remember all of that? (I remember going to several concerts but can't remember the concert )

[Zimsar10]

How the hell do you remember all of that? (I remember going to several concerts but can't remember the concert )

I know I'm gonna get abused for this........

I don't drink alcohol or smoke *anything* - maybe that helps!

I also do DJ work - so it's my job to remember music.

[Zimsar10]

Skite! Showoff!
I bin to just about nothing.
But then, just about any time someone comes here, I go, "Ah yeah, well, that's fook'n expensive; I could just buy some CDs for that money and have on-going musical enjoyments! (ANd then of course I never buy the CDs either..

Listening to a CD or DVD for that matter is *nothing* like being there at a concert, with the amazing atmosphere & seeing the band/artist that you really enjoy.

[Trudes]

I know I'm gonna get abused for this........

I don't drink alcohol or smoke *anything* - maybe that helps!

I also do DJ work - so it's my job to remember music.

Often I went completely straight but ended up getting stoned on the fumes of others

[Zimsar10]

Often I went completely straight but ended up getting stoned on the fumes of others

Haha, that reminds me of the Roger Waters Concert - a guy was sitting next to us - smoking up large on weed - so I asked politely if he would stop & he did, to my surprise....he then started eating the weed.......lolz

Well before the end of the concert, we were singing out loud together & having a bloody wicked time.

Such an awesome concert!

[BOGAR]

Only one Alanis M when I was in the states years ago. All I remember now was that she was small and jumped around the whole time. It was good but the limo ride with friends was even better.

[Trudes]

Haha, that reminds me of the Roger Waters Concert - a guy was sitting next to us - smoking up large on weed - so I asked politely if he would stop & he did, to my surprise....he then started eating the weed.......lolz

Well before the end of the concert, we were singing out loud together & having a bloody wicked time.

Such an awesome concert!

haha, nice!
We went to that also, we were HIGH up in the stands, but was still awesome!!

[vifferman]

Listening to a CD or DVD for that matter is *nothing* like being there at a concert, with the amazing atmosphere & seeing the band/artist that you really enjoy.

That's only IF the band can bring more to the concert than they can in days/weeks of effort put in in the studio AND the sound system isn't set up by a deaf'n'stoned sound engineer who got his job by having sex with the band manager's brother AND someone next to you / in front of you isn't a complete dick who's going to make sure s/he has fun but no one else around her/him is.
Or you're not so wasted by lying around in the hot sun drinking bourbon (and then wine-in-a-box when the bourbon runs out) that you spend much of the concert puking up the contents of your entire digestive system...
Or the person/band you've gone to see on their final concert of the tour coasts and puts in a mediocre performance because they're tired and jet-lagged and it's a such a pissy and small concert compared to the others that they don't give a crap because they're barely breaking even.
Or the band storms off halfway through the first set after smashing up the gear provided, because the sound system sucks, the acoustics suck, the audience are pissed off because the sound check took so long and the band spend too long out the back snorting coke off the smooth pale bellies of young gurls of questionably legality...
Or you're going to a concert solely because your woman really REALLY wants to go, and for what the tickets cost you could re-tyre your bike or get the front forks overhauled or buy a really good helmet and you wish you'd never agreed to go or waited a couple of days till the tickets were all sold out so you had a good excuse (and meanwhile several other concerts you'd much rather see come along but you can't go because you've already got overpriced tickets to the OTHER concert which yo're going to solely because your woman really REALLY wants to go...

[Zimsar10]

That's only IF the band can bring more to the concert than they can in days/weeks of effort put in in the studio AND the sound system isn't set up by a deaf'n'stoned sound engineer who got his job by having sex with the band manager's brother AND someone next to you / in front of you isn't a complete dick who's going to make sure s/he has fun but no one else around her/him is.
Or you're not so wasted by lying around in the hot sun drinking bourbon (and then wine-in-a-box when the bourbon runs out) that you spend much of the concert puking up the contents of your entire digestive system...
Or the person/band you've gone to see on their final concert of the tour coasts and puts in a mediocre performance because they're tired and jet-lagged and it's a such a pissy and small concert compared to the others that they don't give a crap because they're barely breaking even.
Or the band storms off halfway through the first set after smashing up the gear provided, because the sound system sucks, the acoustics suck, the audience are pissed off because the sound check took so long and the band spend too long out the back snorting coke off the smooth pale bellies of young gurls of questionably legality...
Or you're going to a concert solely because your woman really REALLY wants to go, and for what the tickets cost you could re-tyre your bike or get the front forks overhauled or buy a really good helmet and you wish you'd never agreed to go or waited a couple of days till the tickets were all sold out so you had a good excuse (and meanwhile several other concerts you'd much rather see come along but you can't go because you've already got overpriced tickets to the OTHER concert which yo're going to solely because your woman really REALLY wants to go...

That ^^ sums it up perfectly. You are damn right - there are always potential problems with concerts & all too often *in fact* other than a handful of concerts - Vector Arena has the worst acoustics of ANY venue I have ever been too.

The Management at Vector Arena are a bunch of meataxes - they don't give a rats about the fans opinion & still have not done *anything* adequate in terms of addressing the shit acoustics at the venue - draping a thin black cloth over the glass ballastrades?? is not gonna do jackshit you idiots!

Sadly - the Sound Engineers often DO fuck it up - cranking the sound too fuckin' loud your ear drums BLEED - WHY!!!! You don't need to crank the fuck out of a PA System to make it sound good you dumb fucks!!! <=== TAKE NOTE!!

In fact, that's the worse thing you can do - it's called distortion & at Vector Arena - an $80Million White Elephant you will also get **massive** reverberation to boot.

Of all the concerts that have sounded good at Vector - they were **mostly** controlled by a New Zealand Sound Engineer - who works for College Hill, whose name escapes me - he is the sound man for Super Groove anyway....95% of the remainder were controlled by American Idiots - who don't know jackshit about **qaulity sound & clarity of vocals!!!!** & who are use to venues overseas that - **acoustically sound great** ie - The EXACT opposite of Vector Arena's Shithole Venue.

Cheers, G

[Hitcher]

Bugger-off lining up to see a bunch of recycled rockers, predictable top 10 acts or one-hit-wonders.

In August we went to Cirque de Soleil's "Love" show in Las Vegas as well as to Penn & Teller Live.

In November we took Mrs H's mum to Melbourne to see Andre Rieu.

A couple of weeks ago we went to one of the best concerts I have ever been to and am unlikely to ever have bettered: Leonard Cohen at the TSB Arena Wellington.

[Zimsar10]

Bugger-off lining up to see a bunch of recycled rockers, predictable top 10 acts or one-hit-wonders.

In August we went to Cirque de Soleil's "Love" show in Las Vegas as well as to Penn & Teller Live.

In November we took Mrs H's mum to Melbourne to see Andre Rieu.

A couple of weeks ago we went to one of the best concerts I have ever been to and am unlikely to ever have bettered: Leonard Cohen at the TSB Arena Wellington.

Nothing wrong with Recycled Rockers mate, they get just get better & better with time.....

As for one hit wonders - I have not seen hardly any of them.

Concerts/Events coming up are:

Top Gear - Live - February 13 2009

Iron Maiden - February 20 2009

Cold Play - March 18 2009

The Pink Floyd Experience - May 15 2009 (Hamilton)

[MisterD]

Far too many to list but highlights include:

Various Glastonbury performances: Robert Plant, Prodigy (or was that Reading Festival?), Tom Jones, Janes Addiction, The Feelers.

Charlatans - that was V2, I'm pretty sure.

Soundgarden supporting G'N'R (I left before the headliners)

Soundgarden / Tad / Corrosion of Conformity at Brixton Academy (best line-up ever)

Nirvana in Edinburgh on the Bleach tour an Newcastle on the Nevermind tour.

Pearl Jam on the "Alive" tour
Smashing Pumpkins the next night on their "Gish" tour

New Model Army for Newcastle Riverside's 10th birthday...still my best ever gig.

Hawkwind (lots) and Motorhead (even more), but talking of weed I never made it to Lemmy's mike stand to get his spliff.

I so wish I'd kept all those black gig T-shirts....

[Zimsar10]

Far too many to list but highlights include:

Various Glastonbury performances: Robert Plant, Prodigy (or was that Reading Festival?), Tom Jones, Janes Addiction, The Feelers.

Charlatans - that was V2, I'm pretty sure.

Soundgarden supporting G'N'R (I left before the headliners)

Soundgarden / Tad / Corrosion of Conformity at Brixton Academy (best line-up ever)

Nirvana in Edinburgh on the Bleach tour an Newcastle on the Nevermind tour.

Pearl Jam on the "Alive" tour
Smashing Pumpkins the next night on their "Gish" tour

New Model Army for Newcastle Riverside's 10th birthday...still my best ever gig.

Hawkwind (lots) and Motorhead (even more), but talking of weed I never made it to Lemmy's mike stand to get his spliff.

I so wish I'd kept all those black gig T-shirts....

Damn, I'm jealous of your collection of concerts there mate - great stuff indeed.

I heard the Smashing Pumpkins most recent NZ tour was a disappointment - the lead singer was being a fucktard to the fans - not good karma, considering we *as fans* are his boss.

Hmmm, that reminds me of the biggest wanker in the Musical Business that I have ever seen live - Anthony Keidas from the RHCP.