Music is life for me but it hasn’t always been so… In my early years music wasn’t around much, our lifestyle didn’t cater for it much. I found music in my early teens and fell in totally madly in love with it to the point that when I hit London in 2000 I hopped on the concert scene of a lifetime which eventually took me to Brazil to join in the fun of the Rock in Rio 3 festival.
Many good moments, things that I will remember forever, some bad like the time I got kicked in the head by a granny crowd surfing at Glasto 2000 (no jokes) and landed up in the medical tent. Back stage parties and drinks at the small venues, it was the time of my life to say the least!
That a side music is now integral to my daily life, there is a song for every moment in it, be it sad or happy, angry or mellow. There are songs that bring out the tears that hide in wait and songs that bring out the rage that needs to abate, music is life and in all honestly life is music, for me they go hand in hand.
To prove what a loony tune I was in those days or rather concert addict (alas no more the crowds just irritate me and I am ever fearful of another gran-kicking!) here is an abbreviated list of the concerts I have gone to since 2000 – I can’t remember all of them the ex kept the stubs and the autographed paraphernalia (he was worse than me 🙂 )
I have been asked many times which bands I have seen live so now I will keep them all in one place 😀
Concert List
2000
Asian Dub Foundation | Alice Cooper |
Beck x2 | Beth Orton |
Bob Dylan | Cooper Temple Clause |
Doves | Happy Mondays x2 |
Hefner x3 | Just Jinger |
Lukan | Oasis x2 |
Prodigy | Radiohead |
Rage Against the Machine | Violent Femmes |
Glastonbury | |
Asian Dub Foundation | Badly Drawn Boy |
Bluetones | Brand New Heavies |
Chemical Brothers | Coldplay |
Counting Crows | Cypress Hill |
Dandy Warhols | David Bowie |
David Gray | Death In Vegas |
Elastica | Elliot Smith |
Embrace | Feeder |
G-Love and Special Sauce | Happy Mondays |
Jools Holland | Joseph Arthur |
Ladysmith Black Mambazo | Live |
Macy Gray | Moby |
Muse | Nine Inch Nails |
Ocean Colour Scene | Pet Shop Boys |
Reef | Semisonic |
Toploader | Travis |
The Wailers | Willie Nelson |
Reading festival | |
A | Asian Dub Foundation |
Beck | Blink 182 |
Bluetones | Daphne and Celeste |
Deftones | Delgados |
Doves | Elastica |
Elliot Smith | Embrace |
Foo Fighters | Gomez |
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci | Ian Brown |
Idlewild | limp bizkit |
Oasis | Placebo |
Primal Scream | Pulp |
Rage Against the Machine | Slipknot |
Stereophonics | Super Furry Animals |
Supersuckers | |
2000 | |
Beck x2 | Dido |
Eminem | Finley Quaye |
Hefner x4 | Lee Scratch Perry |
Radiohead | Springbok Nude Girls |
Supergrass | The Darkness |
Tribute show @ Albert Hall | The White Stripes |
Von Bondies | |
Reading Festival | |
Amen | Cosmic Rough Riders |
Eels | Eminem (With D12) |
Fear Factory | Feeder |
Frank Black And The Catholics | Fun Lovin’ Criminals |
Green Day | (Hed)P.E. |
Iggy Pop | King Adora |
Lo-Fidelity Allstars | Manic Street Preachers |
Marilyn Manson | Moldy Peaches |
Mull Historical Society | Papa Roach |
PJ Harvey | Queens Of The Stone Age |
Rancid | Run DMC |
South | Staind |
Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks | The Strokes |
Supergrass | System Of A Down |
The Cult | The Donnas |
The Electric Soft Parade | The Living End |
Travis |
V Festival | |
Coldplay | David Gray |
Doves | Faithless |
Foo Fighters | Ian Brown |
Muse | Nelly Furtado |
Phoenix | Placebo |
Red Hot Chili Peppers | Starsailer |
Texas | The Charlatans |
The Divine Comedy | The Web Brothers |
Toploader | Travis |
Rock in Rio Festival | |
Beck | Dave Matthews Band |
Deftones | Foo Fighters |
Gilberto Gil | Guns n Roses |
James Taylor | Neil Young |
Oasis | Papa Roach |
Queens of the Stone Age | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
REM | Sepultura |
Sheryl Crow | Silverchair |
Sting | |
2002 – 2007 | |
Arno Castens x2 | Collective Soul x2 |
Fatboy Slim | Fokofpolisiekar x3 |
Iridium Republic | Karen Zoid |
Ladysmith black mambazo | Metallica |
Prime Circle | Robbie Williams |
Shaun Phillips | Simple Plan |
Stereo MCs | The Finks |
The Rasmus | Zinkplaat |
w1kkp
•15 years ago
My goodness!! Look at all these concerts you have gone to!
I clicked on “Music Within” because I had tried to play one of the youtube music videos in a recent post (today) you had inserted but got back the message, “no longer available’…so I was simply curious whether you had written about what music means to you.
Do you play an instrument? Or sing? Do you have band?
SanityFound
•15 years ago
Weird, sometimes the videos work sometimes not I normally have to refresh the page each time – pain in the royal arse really.
I have always wanted to play an instrument but never have, I sing and by doing so drive everyone nuts because I sing to everything and anything and normally off key… I’ve been a groupie does that count as having a band?
I like your idea of elaborating on what music means to me, I shall ponder and write 🙂
SanityFound
•15 years ago
Have upgraded 😀