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  1. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    Had tickets to see him at Glasgow, but couldn't go in the end. Got a feeling I might be regretting that one for some time.

    The Killer is still knocking em dead by all accounts.
     
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  2. Saints_Alive

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    Richard Thompson is a brilliant and underrated Guitarist.
     
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  3. Saints_Alive

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    Saw The Jam a few times including their final gig at Brighton in '82 (was emotional)...They never disappointed and Weller always played like a man possessed.
    Never got to see Kate Bush, but her TV specials were always very good
     
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  4. ChilcoSaint

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    Not underrated by me, I love all his stuff. And yes, the "Unhalfbricking" and "Liege and Lief" era of Fairport saw the best of English folk-rock. Sandy Denny's voice was just sublime and Thompson's guitar the perfect counterpoint.
     
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  5. HarryTipper

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    Saw them play with Hondo Maclean in 2003 but at the time I wasn't really into them. Having said that they played a pretty decent set.
    Just read that they split up last month which is a shame seeing as their last three albums have been really solid.
     
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  6. Saints_Alive

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    Love this..

     
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  7. fatletiss

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    I'll stop being a kill joy... If you can't beat them, join them!
    This is based on people I haven't seen:


    1. Bob Marley - half hour

    2. Blondie - 1 hour

    3. Prince - 2 hours (I had a girlfriend (from Southampton as it happens) who had 2 tickets to see him when we first met, but it was the next week and she'd promised her friend to go) and another girlfriend who when I ended the relationship a month before my birthday, she told me she'd bought me Prince tickets - she took a mate!)
     
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  8. rednright

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    First up - The Jam, second set from Oasis and then Queen
     
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    The Jam, The Who, The Specials and Madness all dipped out of my list. None of them had Debbie Harry in the line up, else they'd have been right in there too.
     
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    Yes - obviously he'd be in the line-up by default. Saw Fairport a few years ago with near-enough original line-up (Thompson etc.). But yes, love a lot of his solo work, and that with Linda Thompson too.
     
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  11. Pelletron

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    Love the Rolling Stone review of his 'Live at the Star Club' album: ''Live at the Star Club' is not an album, it's a crime scene'. :emoticon-0100-smile
     
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    Had to show this video that came up with the Richard Thompson one.

    She nails this solo...there are others too

     
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    Coming into this thread late - sorry, been out of decent internet coverage!

    Glad to find another Rory fan. I had the pleasure to see him a number of times in the 70s and he was always amazing. Met the man himself, too - what a quiet and lovely man he was. Do yourself a favour and get a copy of his first solo album ("Rory Gallagher") - I still think it's one of the finest first albums of all times ........ (hmmm - possibly something to think about for another thread ......)

    For me - I'd be very similar to you, TSS. I'd go for Jimi, Rory and then, probably, Queen (as they are the only ones I never saw and I bet they were amazing live). I'd love to have seen the Stones in their heyday, but I saw Zep (amazing) in 73 and the 'Oo in the Guildhall in 71 (I was deaf for about 3 days after, but they were fantastic ....)
     
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    The Maldives ........ :emoticon-0103-cool:
     
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  15. Le Tissier's Laces

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    That's very impressive. Still doesn't beat me sitting on a sofa with David Gilmour and singing Dancing on the Ceiling with him doing the harmonies during the chorus...

    (Yeah okay, it does).
     
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    Prince is a great shout.

    I never got to see him or Bowie live, to my eternal dismay.
     
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    I saw Blondie about 12 years ago. Sang through the whole concert....luckily they played loud <laugh>
     
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    Saw Madness at Reading Festival - 2011 I think, and The Specials at IOW Festival 2 years ago. Both great.

    Actually The Streets in one of their final ever gigs at Reading festival is probably my favourite. Worst - John Newman at IOW.

    1. The Animals
    2. Arctic Monkeys
    3. Pink Floyd

    Close between the last two but AM songs are relatively short and PF are pretty long so it would even out I think...
     
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  19. fatletiss

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    Twice I was in touching distance of tickets! :(


    Ps. I'm taking this as "cool points" though. I posted on a music conversation and you endorsed. I'll never get closer to making it musically!
     
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    I'd have liked to have see them* in about 1979


    *well Debbie Harry naked in her dressing room anyway
     
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