Gigs since 1993
24 gigs and festivals, newest first, back to Iron Maiden at the King's Hall, Belfast, on 24 May 1993: my first.
From ticket emails back to 2005, and memory before that, with dates checked against the listings. Some years have gaps.
The stories
- Guns N' Roses at Slane, 2017: the night we heard the whole show twice
- The Lost Weekend, 2000: Nine Inch Nails cancelled and Ash faced the crowd
- Big Day Out, Milton Keynes, 1999: Metallica, Manson and the bottles
The 2020s
IDLES
· Custom House Square, Belfast
Negative Creeps a Nirvana tribute from Newry, and a very good one
· The Empire, Belfast
IDLES
· The Telegraph Building, Belfast
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds The Wild God Tour
· 3Arena, Dublin
Tool Shed a Tool tribute
· Voodoo, Belfast
Pixies
· Custom House Square, Belfast
PJ Harvey
· Custom House Square, Belfast
The Smashing Pumpkins and Weezer
· 3Arena, Dublin
Tool
· 3Arena, Dublin
The 2010s
Guns N' Roses The story
· Slane Castle, County Meath
Tenacious D
· The O2, Dublin
Glasgowbury
Pearl Jam
· Odyssey Arena, Belfast
Rage Against the Machine
· The O2, Dublin
The 2000s
The Pogues
· King's Hall, Belfast
Dinosaur Jr.
· Spring and Airbrake, Belfast
The Presidents of the United States of America
· Spring and Airbrake, Belfast
Foo Fighters
· Marlay Park, Dublin
Leeds Festival Foo Fighters, Pixies and Queens of the Stone Age headlining
· Bramham Park, Leeds
Tool the Lateralus tour
· Manchester Apollo, Manchester
The Lost Weekend Nine Inch Nails cancelled, Ash headlined The story
· London Arena, London
The 1990s
Big Day Out Metallica, Marilyn Manson, Placebo and the bottles The story
· National Bowl, Milton Keynes
Phoenix Festival
· Long Marston Airfield, Stratford-upon-Avon
Iron Maiden my first gig, on Bruce Dickinson's last tour before he left
· King's Hall, Belfast
Not music
Jim Jefferies
· Waterfront Hall, Belfast
Garron Noone
· The Limelight, Belfast
Penn & Teller
· Eventim Apollo, London
Tommy Tiernan
· Belfast
Penn & Teller
· the Rio, Las Vegas