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diamond geezer | Homepage | 19.06.22 - 12:25 a.m. | #

Dream Theater (20+ times), Rush (10+ times), Neal Morse Band, Mike Portnoy’s The Shattered Fortress, Flying Colors, Nightwish, GloryHammer, Beast in Black, Def Leppard, Rainbow, Boston, AC/DC, Michael Schenker, Robert Plant, Gary Moore, Frost*, Symphony X, Tesseract and no doubt more I can’t immediately recall.

dg writes: I've reddened the bands who've never had a hit record.

NLW | 19.06.22 - 8:07 a.m. | #

Cliff Richard & The Shadows, Dire Straits, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Genesis, Jimmy Page, Mark Knopfler, Phil Collins, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant, Status Quo, Tears For Fears, Paul McCartney - all in one glorious day, Knebworth 1990

Billy Bragg, Polyphonic Spree, Lindisfarne ... and probably several others at various Cambridge Folk Festivals.

Meatloaf, T'pau. Sweet.

Borderline Cases : Erasure (before fame), The Men They Couldn't Hang

So somewhere in the low to mid 20s depending on double counts, missed names, borderline Cases.

Putters | 19.06.22 - 9:03 a.m. | #

Depending on how you count hits, it's either 92 or 68 for me.

First count are bands who ai think got on Xfm, 6 Music playlists or were featured in music press multiple times, second count is the ones I'm guessing may have got into top 40.

Over lockdown I made a list of gigs I could remember, and then used using things like Way Back Machine to find most of the dates and support acts. I also had tickets filed away for more recent stuff.

Not a huge gig fan, but NME annual tour helped get my score up 1998-2002, the excellent Ben and Jerry's Sundae did 2005-2012, and a few Hal Willner concerts added handfuls of famous older singers.

Peter of London | 19.06.22 - 9:51 a.m. | #

Two - Nena and Bjorn Again.

At least YouTube is enabling me to see things I never experienced at the time.

Paul | 19.06.22 - 9:56 a.m. | #

Two - Barry Manilow and Bon Jovi.
I'll take that as a summing up of my musical taste.

Sally | 19.06.22 - 10:06 a.m. | #

AC/DC, Albert Hammond, Alicia Keys, Amy McDonald
Bananarama, Barbera Dickson, Belinda Carlisle, Bjorn Again
Chas & Dave, Chris Norman
Donna Summer, Denise Pearson
ELO
Gary Christian, Gerry & the Pacemakers, Go West
Heather Small, Heaven 17
Jooles Holland
Katrina Leskanich , Kid Creole & Coconuts, Kim Wilde, Kylie Minogue
Lea Salonga, Leonard Cohen, Lionel Ritchie, Lulu
Madness, Manic Street Preachers, Midge Ure, Missing Andy, Mud
Paloma Faith, Paul Young
Robbie Williams, Rod Stewart, Rolling Stones
Sailor, Scouting for Girls, Searchers, Shania Twain, Slade, Smokie, Sparks, Status Quo, Squeeze, Suzie Quatro, Suggs, Sweet
10 CC, Tina Turner, Thompson Twins, Toyah
Jean Michael Jarre, Bruce Springsteen, Shadows

Regret missing- Abba, plus Bowie and Kate Bush at Hammy Odeon

scrumpy | 19.06.22 - 10:07 a.m. | #

I've used 'appeared in the official charts in some guise' as a rule here... at least 91 artists (may be more as a fair chunk of the earlier bands are from memory & I may have forgotten gigs in the 1970s). But my first gig was 1971 (ELP), so I've been at it longer than you young people.

alt-j, anna calvi, arcade fire, arctic monkeys, babyshambles, baccarat, bastille, beriut, biffy clyro, billy bragg, blondie, bon iver, bruce springsteen, caravan, chas & dave, clean bandit, dan le sac vs scroobius pip, david bowie, django django, editors, elbow, emerson lake & palmer, eric clapton, fairport convention, first aid kit, fleetfoxes, Fleetwood mac, florence and the machine, foals, fountaines dc, frank turner, genesis, gogol bordello, green day, greentea peng, jake bugg, janel monae, jeff beck, jethro tull, jimmy eat world, joan jett and the blackhearts, john fogerty, kaiser chiefs, laura marling, lemonheads, madness, mumford & sons, mungo jerry, mystery jets, nadine shah, neneh cherry, noah & the whale, nova twins, Paloma faith, paramore, paul macartney, paul simon, pete townsend, public service broadcasting, radiohead, rod stewart & the faces, roger waters, rory gallagher, royal blood, scissor sisters, slade, slaves, squeeze, sting, suzanne vega, the beat, the charlatans, the clash, the cranberries, the killers, the kooks, the libertines, the pogues, the police, the sex pistols, the vaccines, the waterboys, the who, tom morello, tom robinson band, ub40, wolf alice, x-ray spex, young fathers

Steve | 19.06.22 - 10:16 a.m. | #

Can only remember 9 - The Beatles, Cream, Long John Baldry and the Bonzo Dog Doo dah band in the 60s, Elton John and Bowie in the 70s. Then a big gap when I was with someone whose interests did not include live music. Much later, Little Richard, Knopfler and - only because it was rugby at Wembley - McFly.

MOTB | 19.06.22 - 10:45 a.m. | #

Unfortunately, I can't remember any of the support acts, but the headliners Ive seen are: Arcade Fire, Blue ( University Summer Ball), Bluetones (the following year's much better Summer Ball), Erasure, Long Blondes, Manic Street Preachers ×2, Martha Wainwright x2, Pipettes x3, Sophie Ellis Bextor.
There is also the acts that have performed pre match and at half time at rugby matches. The Saturdays and Katharine Jenkins are the only two that I can recall.
There are also musical acts that I might have been taken to see as a child. I can remember being forced to listen to Red Red Wine at an outdoor concert, but I couldn't say if that was UB40 or a cover band.
Ive also seen lots of Zambian artists (e.g. B-Flow, Pilato, Wezi, Esther); but I don't think any meet the requirement of having a UK chart hit.

Friar Sven | 19.06.22 - 11:04 a.m. | #

Only 20 that I can remember or find evidence of (and a couple of these only have a single chart entry at number 40.) I'm sure I've seen plenty more - I really regret not keeping a diary when I was younger! Since about 2007 I usually have photos, perhaps social media posts, or email confirmations, but before that the only evidence would be long-deleted SMSs.

CSS, Cut Copy, Ellie Goulding, Girls Aloud, Goldfrapp, Hot Chip, Ida Maria, Interpol, Junior Boys, Ladytron, M.I.A., New Order, New Young Pony Club, Pet Shop Boys, Saint Etienne, Soft Cell, Sting, The Cure, The Go! Team, The Killers

Alan | 19.06.22 - 11:16 a.m. | #

Of your list I've only seen Pet Shop Boys but I'm not much of a live musicgoer apart from the Proms and a number of classical concerts. I have seen Eric Clapton, Peter Gabriel, Fairport Convention, Moody Blues, Public Service Broadcasting and (against all odds) the Police during their 2007 shows. Meant to see The Who a while back but couldn't go. I've probably forgotten a couple.

daveid76 | 19.06.22 - 11:42 a.m. | #

Only two for me, Sam Brown and Status Quo.

Barry | 19.06.22 - 12:07 p.m. | #

You can tell which decades I grew up in - when “bands” were then “groups” and your favourite group with a string of hits could be seen on stage at the local Granada cinema where I first saw the Rolling Stones. Here are all the others I could find in my diaries:

Little Richard, Fats Domino, Marty Wilde, Duane Eddy, The Shadows, John Leyton, Eden Kane, The Platters, The Drifters, Dave Berry, Joe Brown, Craig Douglas, Merseybeats, Hollies, Vernons Girls, Herman’s Hermits, Swinging Blue Jeans, Troggs, Helen Shapiro, Mike Berry, Mark Wynter, Charlie Gracie, Kim Wilde, Bachelors, Fortunes, Lonnie Donegan, Dubliners, Goldie and the Gingerbreads snd Bebel Gilberto.

So my tally is 30 .

Chris K | 19.06.22 - 12:08 p.m. | #

I make my list 80 for the time being, plus numerous sweaty gigs, many of which were indeed in Camden (or Kentish Town)

In no particular order: McCartney, Elvis Costello, CSN, Crowded House, Ringo Starr, The La's, Pop Will Eat Itself, The Wonderstuff, Blur, Oasis, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Yoko Ono, Boy George (what a voice), Siouxsie, U2, Coldplay (same Paralympic ceremony), James Brown, Chemical Brothers, The Charlatans, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, New Order, The Pogues, The Mission, Big Audio Dynamite, Joe Strummer, St Etienne, Carter USM, Manic St Preachers, Belle & Sebastian, Primal Scream, Dandy Warhols, Eric Clapton, Joe Brown, Jeff Lynne, Jools Holland, Billy Preston, Tom Petty, Madness, Squeeze, Sugarcubes, Spiritualized, Ride, Ocean Colour Scene, Electronic, 808 State, Pet Shop Boys, De La Soul, The Divine Comedy, Paloma Faith, James, Elbow, Ray Davies, Randy Newman, The Police, Jacob Collier, Jungle, Jesus & Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Scritti Politti, Brian Wilson, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Burt Bacharach, Neil Innes, The Cure, Fleet Foxes, Aztec Camera/Roddy Frame, The Blue Nile, Robbie Williams, The Verve, Texas, Iggy Pop, Stereophonics, Space, The Lightning Seeds, Paul Weller, Ben Folds, Beck.

Will | 19.06.22 - 1:05 p.m. | #

If you'll excuse me a second bite at the cherry, I think I can get to 92:

The Rolling Stones, Liam Gallagher, The Who, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Morrissey, Patti Smith, Chic/Nile Rodgers, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Billy Bragg, Corinne Bailey Rae, John Otway, Sinead O'Connor.

...and after conferring with my wife, up to 98:

Michael Jackson, Flowered Up, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, The Primitives, Goodbye Mr MacKenzie, The Darling Buds

This is now going to bug me all week!

Will | 19.06.22 - 1:32 p.m. | #

Only been to two

Take That in 95 when there was 5 of them

Brian Adams at the O2 a couple years ago

Roxy | 19.06.22 - 2:45 p.m. | #

Never having kept a diary (d'oh) I've had to rely on my record collection to jog my memories. There must be dozens of other gigs I saw in the late 1970s / early 1980s that I have no memory of (probably because I was either drunk or stoned or both).

So here goes: Automatics, Adverts, Adam & The Ants, A Certain Ratio, Buzzcocks, Bauhaus, Beat, Blondie, Brian Eno (& The Winkies), Birthday Party, Belle Stars, Billy Bragg, Carl Perkins, Clash, Cabaret Voltaire, Cramps, Cure, Crisis, Crass, Chelsea, Dexys Midnight Runners, Damned, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Echo & The Bunnymen, Foreigner, Fall (first line up), Go-Goes, Grupo Sportivo, Gong, Gang of Four, Human League (original line up), Ian Gillan Band, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, Jam, John Otway, Joy Division, Killing Joke, Lindisfarne, Led Zeppelin, Matchbox, Meteors, Motors, Magazine, Madness, My Bloody Valentine, Misty In Roots, New Hearts, New Order, Normal, OMD, Pink Floyd, Patti Smith, Penetration, Pirates, Polecats, Psychedelic Furs, Pere Ubu, Police, Purple Hearts, Radio Stars, Rubella Ballet, Stray Cats, Status Quo, Sham 69, Spirit, Squeeze, Speedometers, Specials, Selector, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Stiff Little Fingers, Spizzoil, Soup Dragons, Sex Beatles, Tangerine Dream, Tom Robinson Band, Throbbing Gristle, Theatre of Hate, UK Subs, Ultravox (before Midge Ure joined), UB40, Wire, X-Ray Specs, XTC.

Mr Lugubrious | 19.06.22 - 2:46 p.m. | #

Only 1!

I've never been to a festival or a big concert, but I did see Cliff Richard at the Billy Graham Crusade at Earls Court in June 1966 - my dad helped organise the Crusade.

I then met him again on 28/01/70 when he sang and spoke after the showing of "Two A Penny" at the Royal Academy of Music Christian Union where a friend was a student (or it may have been one of their family - my diary is not as detailed as yours). A very small audience!

John Simmons | 19.06.22 - 3:05 p.m. | #

20-odd: China Crisis, Lindisfarne, Don McLean, REM, The Las, All About Eve, The Pogues, The Darling Buds, The Primitives, Bruce Springsteen, The Buzzcocks, The Damned, Suzanne Vega, Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, Tom Robinson, Hawkwind, ABC, Leonard Cohen, Tanita Tikaram, 10000 Maniacs, Ruby Turner.

Do Jools Holland and TV Smith count in the absence of the rest of Squeeze and The Adverts?

miker | 19.06.22 - 3:44 p.m. | #

I've tried to delete ones that I don't think made the charts (but I know nothing about the charts from the last thirty years, so I may have missed some).

There are 202 names on my list.

10cc

ABC, Adam Ant, After the Fire, Alessi's Ark, Alison Moyet, All Saints, Altered Images, Amy Macdonald, Ani DeFranco, Arcade Fire, Art of Noise

Bananarama, Barenaked Ladies, Beck ,Belle and Sebastian, Beth Orton, Billy Bragg, Björk, Blancmange, Blondie, Blossoms, Blur, Bob Dylan, Boyzone, Brett Anderson, British Electric Foundation

Camel, Caravan, Carole King ,Christine and the Queens, Christy Moore, CHVRCHES, Clean Bandit, Crowded House

D:Ream, Damon Albarn, David Bowie, David Byrne, Deacon Blue, Desperate Journalist, Dexys Midnight Runners, Don Henley

Eagles, Echo and the Bunnymen, Ed Sheeran, Eddi Reader, Edwyn Collins, Elbow, Eliza Carthy, Ellie Goulding, ELO

Fairport Convention, Fleetwood Mac, Florence + the Machine, Foreigner, Fuzzbox

Gary Numan, Genesis, Gorillaz

HAIM, Hannah Peel, Happy Mondays, Hawkwind, Heaven 17, Howard Jones

James, Jeff Wayne, Jess Glynne, Jethro Tull, John Cale, John Cooper Clarke, John Foxx and the Maths, John Grant, Journey, Julian Cope, June Tabor & Oysterband

Kate Bush, Kate Nash, Kate Rusby, Kirsty MacColl, Kraftwerk

Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ladytron, Laura Marling, Leonard Cohen, Let's Eat Grandma, Levellers, Lily Allen, Lindisfarne, Lisa Hannigan, Little Boots, Lloyd Cole, Lorde, Lou Reed, LUMP, Lush

Magazine, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Marc Almond, Marianne Faithful, Marillion, Meat Puppets, Michelle Shocked, Midge Ure, Mogwai, Morrisey, Mull Historical Society, My Bloody Valentine

Natalie Prass, Neil Young, New Order, Nova Twins

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Pale Waves, Patti Smith, Paul Simon, Penguin Cafe, Pet Shop Boys, Pete Wylie, Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Pop Will Eat Itself, Propaganda, Pulp

Queen

Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, REM, Renaissance, Republica, Richard Thompson, Rick Wakeman

Saint Etienne, Scissor Sisters, Scritti Politti, Seth Lakeman, Sex Pistols, Shane MacGowan and the Popes, She Makes War, Showaddywaddy, Sigur Rós, Sinéad O’Connor, Siouxsie Sioux, Sleaford Mods, Sleeper, SOAK, Soft Cell, Spandau Ballet, Sparks, St. Vincent, Status Quo, Stealing Sheep, Steeleye Span, Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, Styx, Sunflower Bean, Superorganism, Suzanne Vega

Talk Talk, Tanita Tikaram, Tears for Fears, Tegan and Sara, Television, Telman, The B-52s, The Beautiful South, The Blues Band, The Boomtown Rats, The Cranberries, The Cure, The Divine Comedy, The Fall, The Horrors, The Human League, The Icicle Works, The Killers, The Men They Couldn’t Hang, The Mission, The Orb, The Pogues, The Polyphonic Spree, The Primitives, The Psychedelic Furs, The Residents, The Rezillos, The Saw Doctors, The Stone Roses, The Velvet Underground, The Wonder Stuff, They Might Be Giants, Thomas Dolby, Tiffany, Tom Robinson, Tove Lo

U2

Van Morrison, Vashti Bunyan

Wolf Alice

Yes, Yoko Ono

Dave Cross | Homepage | 19.06.22 - 3:56 p.m. | #

Some of these lists are just fabulous, thanks.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 19.06.22 - 4:03 p.m. | #

I’ve classed a hit as top 50 album, top 75 single or number 1 on indie chart. I saw several of these prior to their hits and others when they played electronic music festivals. I’ve excluded notable artists that never quite had a hit. Plus I have missed some as I don’t keep a proper diary.

A Guy Called Gerald, Adam and the Ants, Altered Images, Aphex Twin, Aztec Camera
Bauhaus, Beastie Boys, Belle Stars, Big Audio Dynamite, Bjork, Bow Wow Wow
Cabaret Voltaire, Carter USM, The Chemical Brothers, Chicks on Speed, Chumbawamba, Comsat Angels, Conflict, Crass, The Cult
The Damned, The Danse Society, Death In Vegas, Devo, Discharge, Dizzee Rascal
FKA Twigs, Flock of Seagulls
Gang of Four, Goldfrapp
Hot Chip
Jah Wobble and the Invaders of the Heart
Killing Joke, Kraftwerk
M.I.A., Mogwai
New Model Army, New Order
Orbital
Pet Shop Boys, Pigbag, Pink Floyd, Pixies, The Police, The Pop Group, Primal Scream, The Prodigy, Psychic TV
Sex Gang Children, Simple Minds, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Soft Cell, Specials AKA, Stereo MCs, Stiff Little Fingers
Tenpole Tudor, Theatre of Hate, Thomas Dolby, Transglobal Underground, 23 Skidoo
Underworld

Martin | 19.06.22 - 6:23 p.m. | #

At present, just 2... although you could make the argument that it's 1.5!

Sparks and FFS (the Sparks / Franz Ferdinand super group)

James Scantlebury | 19.06.22 - 6:46 p.m. | #

Most of the blues bands I used to follow back in the day never had any hits, so that excludes them. But I have heard a few really big names -- Cream, Fleetwood Mac (when they were good!), Rick Wakeman, Pink Floyd (with Sid Barrett!), Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Robert Plant, Dire Straits, Warren Zevon, Leonard Cohen. And Chumbawamba, who were spectacularly good.

James Webber | 19.06.22 - 6:55 p.m. | #

Seen a fair few in my time. Still have tickets and programmes for some of them.

The Band, The Blockheads (post-Dury), Blondie, Blue Oyster Cult, Jack Bruce Band, Tracy Chapman, Circus, Eric Clapton, Leonard Cohen, Shirley Collins, Julian Cope, Coldplay (Paralympic Closing Ceremony), CS&N / CSN&Y, Donovan, Nick Drake, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Dr Feelgood, Bob Dylan

Eddie and the Hot Rods, ELP, Family, Focus, Brian Ferry, Fairport Convention, Fripp and Eno, Peter Gabriel, Garbage, Genesis, Emmylou Harris, Hogan’s Heroes (Albert Lee), Ian Hunter, Imagined Village, Joe Jackson, Elton John, Barb Jungr, Kenickie, King Crimson, Kursaal Flyers, Lew Lewis, Arthur Lee, Love

Mahavishnu Orchestra, Don McLean, Roger McGuinn, Paul McCartney, Manic Street Preachers, Glen Matlock, Mink Deville, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Mothers of Invention (my first gig), Mott the Hoople

The Nice (most seen band = 14 times), Oasis, John Otway, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Pink Floyd, The Pirates (Mick Green), Plant & Krauss, Procul Harum, The Prodigy, Rolling Stones, Roxy Music

The Selector, Spirit, Bruce Springstein, Steeleye Span, Steppenwolf, Stereolab, Suede, Talk Talk, Television, Thin Lizzy, Richard Thompson, Van der Graaf Generator, The Verve, Rick Wakeman, The Who, Brian Wilson, Yes

IanD | 19.06.22 - 7:35 p.m. | #

Ian D, you win the prize in my opinion, Nick Drake!!! One of a very few people to see him play live you lucky man. (Although I know his live gigs did have a reputation for being a bit awkward and ramshackle)

Johnny C | 19.06.22 - 8:04 p.m. | #

57 l I think.

Brian Wilson, Cheap Trick ,Clapton, Cream, Deep Purple, Def Leppard, Garbage, George Thorogood, Green Day, Iron Maiden, Jeff Beck, Joe Cocker, John Mellencamp, Kiss, Los Lobos, Motorhead, Paul Rodgers, Plant/Page, Police, Robert Cray, Robert Plant, Rod Stewart, Sex Pistols, Skunk Anansie, Sting, Suzie Quattro, Uriah Heep.

But I grew up in Australia, so I can add these Australian top 10 bands too, many of which I saw dozens of times:
1927, Australian Crawl, Baby Animals, Choirboys, Cold Chisel, Divynals, Dragon, Goanna, Hoodoo Gurus, Icehouse, Jimmy Barnes, John Farnham, Jon English, Men At Work, Mental As Anything, Mi-Sex, Midnight Oil, Models, Partyboys, Rose Tattoo, SkyHooks, Sunnyboys, Supernaut, Swannee, The Angels, The Go-Betweens, The Radiators, The Sports, Yothu Yindi, You Am I.

There are other Australian bands I know I have seen, but many of these I saw while playing in support acts, and memories may be hazy.

Simon | Homepage | 19.06.22 - 8:21 p.m. | #

My list

City Boy (at University)

err, that's it.

(they were a one-hit wonder, and I saw them the year before they made that hit ("5-7-0-5").

Timbo | 19.06.22 - 8:25 p.m. | #

Of the ones I can remember so that rules out nights at GAY, Ibiza visits and seeing many terrible x-factor type artists with my now ex-wife I’ve got 142. A lot of the impressive ones were 2012 closing ceremony.

Arcade fire, all saints, Azaliea banks, Annie lennoxx, Aluna George
Blossoms, backstreet boys, boyzone, Bombay bicycle club, Ben Howard, beardy eye, blink 182, bicep, basement jax
Cut copy, CSS, chvrches, clean bandit, Coldplay, Christine and the queens, Calvin Harris, chemical brothers, chase & status, crystal castles, catfish and bottlemen
Daphne and Celeste, django django, David guetta, dizzie rascal, David bowie, dodgy, dua lipa, disclosure, deadmau5
Ellie Goulding, editors, Elton john, Emilie sande, elbow, Ed sheeran, ELO, Eminem, everything everything, Eric prydz
Florence and the machine, foo fighters, fatboy slim, frank turner, flume, franz Ferdinand 52
Girls aloud, George Michael, Gogol bordello
HAIM, hot chip, hurts
James, jungle, jack savoretti, Jessie j, jay-z, jax jones, josh record, James bay
Kraftwerk, Katy B, Kate bush, kaiser cheifs, kasabian, kygo
Lily Allen, Lorde, let’s eat grandma, lcd soundsystem, Lana del rey, les rhythm digitale, London grammar, La roux,
Mylo, muse, madeon, madness, massive attack, mystery jets, moby, MNEK, MK, Mumford and sons, MØ,
Nero, NERD
Owl city, one direction
Pale waves, Paul McCartney, plan b, pet shop boys, placebo, Paul van dyk
Queen
Rod stewart, Rihanna, ray Davies, Rufus du sol
Sleeper, scissor sisters, stereophonics, spice girls, s club 7, Sam and mark, sundara karma, Swedish house mafia, sex pistols
The killers, Tom grennan, two door cinema club, the Saturdays, tinnie tempah, the national, taoi Cruz, the ting tings, take that, the who, tame impala, tiesto, the temper trap, Tom walker, the wombats, the presets, the xx, the war on drugs, the vaccines, the feeling, the gossip, the streets
Utah saints
Whigfield, warpaint
Years and years

David | 19.06.22 - 8:25 p.m. | #

I make it around 150. There's several in this list who haven't bothered the charts but are relatively big in their lane.

Aerosmith, Against The Current, Alice Chater, Alice Cooper, All Saints, Aly & AJ, Anne-Marie, Ariana Grande, Art Brut, Ash, Auf der Maur, Avril Lavigne
Babyshambles, Be Your Own Pet, Bjorn Again, Black Honey, Bloc Party, Blondie, Blood Red Shoes, Bon Jovi, Britney Spears, Broods, Bruce Springsteen
Camila Cabello, Carly Rae Jepsen, Charli XCX, Charlotte Hatherly, Chloe Howl, Clean Bandit, Coldplay
Darren Criss, Daya, Demi Lovato, Departure, Do Me Bad Things, Dua Lipa
Eagles Of Death Metal, Easyworld, Echosmith, Ella Eyre, Ella Henderson, Ellie Goulding, Emeli Sande, Evanescence
Feeder, Fickle Friends, Fleur East, Foo Fighters, Foxes, Franz Ferdinand
Gabrielle Aplin, Garbage, Giant Drag, Glee Cast, Goldfrapp
Hailee Steinfeld, Halsey, Honeyblood
Izzy Bizu
Jenny Lewis, Jonas Brothers, Johnny Foreigner
Kaiser Chiefs, Katy Perry, Kylie
Lissie, Little Boots, Little Man Tate, Little Mix, Lonely The Brave, Lorde, Los Campesinos!, Louisa, Louise, Lucy Rose
M83, Marina, Marmozets, Maximo Park, Metallica, Metric, MNEK, Motorhead, Ms Dynamite, Muna, Muncie Girls, Mura Masa, Muse
Niall Horan, Nina Nesbitt, Nine Black Alps
Oh Wonder, Operator Please!, The Ordinary Boys, Orla Gartland
Paramore, Phil Collins, Pins, Pixie Lott, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Pvris
Queens Of The Stone Age
Rae Morris, Rammstein, Razorlight, Rilo Kiley, Rina Sawayama, Robert Plant, Rolo Tomassi, Royal Blood
Selena Gomez, She & Him, Shura, Sigrid, Sky Larkin
Taylor Swift, Tenacious D, The Big Moon, The Darkness, The Donnas, The Distillers, The Dresden Dolls, The Duke Spirit, The Eagles, The Killers, The Kills, The Long Blondes, The Noisettes, The Offspring, The Pipettes, The Pretty Reckless, The Subways, The Ting Tings, The White Stripes, Tove Lo, Tulisa
VersaEmerge
Ward Thomas, We Are The In Crowd
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Years and Years, Yonaka, Yourcodenameis: Milo
Zara Larsson

Jamesthegill | 19.06.22 - 9:33 p.m. | #

I've kept a list of gigs I've been to and the number currently stands at 208. There's some, but not many, duplicates in there, and I usually catch the support as well so reckon it's about 350. But I've never recorded all the acts I've seen at festivals (too busy enjoying the festival to record anything), so that would put it up around 500.

Of these, a grand total 7 are on your list too.

Steve | 20.06.22 - 10:46 a.m. | #

Here's my list:

Depeche Mode, Metallica, Huey Lewis and the News, Hall & Oats, Journey, Motley Crue, Poison, Keith Urban, Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney, Mike & the Mechanics, Hillary Duff, The Police, Chuck Berry, The Romantics, Tears For Fears, The Fixx, Men At Work, Colin Hay, The Outfield, The Jacksons, Missing Persons, Eddie Money, Gin Blossoms, Spin Doctors, Counting Crows, Blink 182, Green Day, Golden Earring, Smithereens, LA Guns, Oingo Boingo, B*witched, Go-Go's, Guns N Roses, Rolling Stones, U2, Sting, George Michael, Sheena Easton, Aerosmith, Lionel Ritchie, Duran Duran, Miranda Lambert, Mest, SR-71, English Beat, Weird Al Yankovic, Joan Jett, Pet Shop Boys, Thomas Dolby, OMD, Anthrax, Slayer, Megadeath, Elvis Costello, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Skid Row.

Steven | 20.06.22 - 4:56 p.m. | #

A few I forgot...

David Bowie, Tom Waits, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Darkness, The Church, Big Pig, Flowers, The Dugites, Goldrush, Blackfeather, Arlo Guthrie, Sky, Rick Wakeman, The Tourists, Colin Hay, The Saints, Bo Diddley

There's a few in there I am embarrassed didn't immediately come to mind when I compiled my original list.

Simon | Homepage | 20.06.22 - 7:26 p.m. | #

James Taylor, Lenny Kravitz, Andra Day (x2), Coldplay, Elton John, John Williams (w/ the CSO), Hozier, Angie MacMahon (opener for previous), Sarah Kinsley, gatlin (opener for previous).

10! For a 17 year old I'm pretty chuffed with the total. I will be seeing Rage Against the Machine and Run The Jewels in July as well as Nine Inch Nails and other folks at Riot Fest (Chicagoan) in September.

Mia | 20.06.22 - 8:37 p.m. | #

I used to keep a comprehensive list of what gigs I went to, which in the late 80s would have been at least one a week. I noted date, venue, support bands, who I went with (with initialised names so now I've long forgotten some of the friends referred to). By Feb 1995 I’d seen 236 artists at 163 gigs at 76 venues; the vast majority of artists were nowhere near troubling the charts, but I’m pretty sure everyone below did better than Green on Red, who spent one week at 99 on the album chart.
Then I got lazy and stopped recording what gigs I went to. When preparing this list, I remembered a handful since 1995, but I’m sure I’ve missed loads off. Still, 68 ain’t bad, right? Thanks for the chance to relive my halcyon days!

A House, All About Eve, American Music Club
Billy Bragg, Bjork, Bob Dylan, Bolshoi
Chills, Cure
Darling Buds, Dave Brubeck Quartet, David Byrne, Desmond Dekker, Dionne Warwicke, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
Eddy Grant, Elvis Costello
Fatima Mansions, Fats Domino, Flying Pickets, Fontaines DC, Furniture
Gogol Bordello, Goodbye Mr MacKenzie, Green on Red
Half Man Half Biscuit, Hothouse Flowers, Hugh Masekela
Ian McCulloch, Ian McNabb, Idles
James, Jamie T, John Cooper Clarke
Kaiser Chiefs, Kitchens of Distinction
La's, Latin Quarter, Lightning Seeds, Lush
Manic Street Preachers, Martin Stephenson and the Daintees, Mega City Four, Motorhead
New Fast Automatic Daffodils, Nick Lowe
Offspring, Orb, Oyster Band
Peter Murphy, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Prince, Proclaimers
Ray Charles, REM
Santana, Suzanne Vega
Ted Hawkins, Terry Hall, Throwing Muses
UB40
Van Morrison, Voice of the Beehive
Waterboys, Wedding Present, Wonderstuff
Youssou N'Dour

Wayne | 23.06.22 - 10:10 p.m. | #











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