Last live act you've seen

Back in mid April i went to see The Doobie Brothers. It was great. Only thing is that they played two nights, and the night I didn't go, Paul Rodgers was on stage as a guest star. I picked the wrong night eh?

Richard Ashcroft, last night at Derby Assembly Rooms. I got pretty last minute tickets (the gig sold out very very quickly) so we were stuck on the balcony looking mainly at the side of the stage. My view was also nicely blocked by a mass of cables, excellent. That aside, Richard was in fine form. His voice sounded good, could tell a word when he was talking to the auidence between songs, but hey. How many guitar strings did that guy get through, though? The amount of guitar changes mid-song was incredible!

To be honest (probably like 95%) of the people in there last night, I'm really there for The Verve stuff. Don't get me wrong, he solo material is good, very underrated and his new album is fantastic. But the response to his Verve songs was twice the response to his solo songs. Of his solo songs New York was fantastic and Break The Night With Colours was a crowd pleaser. From his Verve selection we got a nice acoustic rendition of History. A 'show and sockless' Bittersweet Symphony sent everyone crazy, a perfect end to any gig.

Eric Clapton at the MEN in Machester last Tuesday. It was a good show. Eric is an amazing player and the two guitarists that played with him were very good too. One of them is called Derek Trucks. Some of you Americans may have heard of the Derek Trucks band, that is a sort of old fashioned rock 'n' roll/blues band. Derek is a finger picker, who plays an amazing slide guitar.

There were 12 musicians altogether. 3 guitarists including Eric, a bassist, drummer. 2 saxophonists, a tumpeter, 2 keyboardists and a 2 female backing singers. They played a wide range of things from Eric's career, with around 4 or 5 songs from the new album which all sounded good, a few that I didn't know and around 5 or 6 well known hits (JJ Cale's Cocaine and After Midnight, Bob Marley's I Shot the Sherriff, Crossroads that I can't remember who recorded it originally, Wonderful Tonight, Layla, and a couple more I can't remember off the top of my head). I was sat at on the bottom tear on the right with a decent view of the stage and a good view of one of the large screens.

Robert Cray and his band played for arround half an hour as support. They were good and I'm gonna check out some of Robert Cray's songs, although I think they over amplified a little. Eric played for arround 2 hours. Overall the performace was good, but the bass and the drums were no where near as good on Crossroads as what they were when Eric used to play with Cream. Although it's understandable I suppose because Jack Bruce on the bass and Ginger Baker on the drums are two great musicians that are up there with the very best on their respectable instruments.

A bassist, you mean the very cool, one and only Nathan East!

either it was bon jovi bounce tour dublin or when red hot chili peppers played slane (can't remember which was last!) in 2003 :s i need to go to concerts more!!!

The last concert I attended was an Oasis one in July of last year, the same day Stevie Gerrard said he was staying at Liverpool !!!!

They were pretty good but the venue (The Rose Bowl) was so large that the sound kinda ddrained away, would rather see them in a more compact stadium. Liam Gallagher was his brilliant best though !

I saw Quireboys in London last weekend! It was truly amazing. Spike sings a lot better live.

13th May 2006 - Bon Jovi - LTU Arena, Dusseldorf, Germany

And this is in "other bands" why, Mr Mod??? You sure got a good show

Kathleen

17th May - Nickelback & Bon Jovi - Linz