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mine was in 1998, certaily!
It was in Pordenone, Italy, I travelled for 400 Km to get there, no rooms in any hotels, no money, nothing to eat, an awful cold…but mr Andy Cairns got completely naked on stage…amazing!
I still got the pic on my bedroom wall…:p

I’m a bit biased too, but the gig last week was definitely one of the greatest gigs ever. After that it would be The Ulster Hall, Xmas 1993.

Belfast definetly.. for all the right reasons :D

Pecoranera wrote:

mine was in 1998, certaily!
It was in Pordenone, Italy, I travelled for 400 Km to get there, no rooms in any hotels, no money, nothing to eat, an awful cold…but mr Andy Cairns got completely naked on stage…amazing!
I still got the pic on my bedroom wall…:p

hey, i was there too, and obviously it’s my favourite gig. the setlist was very good (even if in milan few months before was a little better), the atmosphere was hot, the band was in a good mood, and to see a naked man in such a very good shape was very cool :)

pecora, se hai foto di quella sera, puoi mandarmele per email? non è che hai pure registrazioni, vero?
estragon76@katamail.com

I’d say the one in Dublin earlier this month was one of the best I’ve been to, (maybe just because it was so recent, who knwows), the time they played Witnness in Ireland was fucking great as well though. Andy was in great form that day.

If we are just talking T? gigs, the few bits I remember of Ocean on the Shameless tour were fantastic, just cos I was amazed how many Shameless songs they played. Unfortuantely (and don’t get me wrong, I’m not proud here, I’m annoyed with myself) I was little the worse for wear so I don’t remember as much as I would like. But the bits I do remember, rocked.

Aside from that, I guess Tunbridge Wells Forum was good cos it was so small and we got Fat Camp for the first time ever.

London this tour was too manic to actually _enjoy_, it was more a case of survival, but Oxford was cool (except for that stupid step).

But perhaps the moment that lives in my memory is.. hmm, 2000, 2001, not sure, but I’d seen T? two, maybe three times that tour. Was knackered. Went to Portsmouth, met up with Evil Elvis (2?!) and stood at the back waiting for them to come on, saying, I’m knackered, I’ll stand here with you for this one. And in a shock change to the set list (yes, there USED to be surprises!) they opened with Knives. Within two bars, I had put the drink down and dashed to the front. Some may not get it, but, opening with that song, when I was so knackered, well, it just spurred me… and I went for it. Bull by the horns.

The only other time that has ever happened is when I went to see Reef at the Forum (I believe). I like them, but am not a huge fan, but went cos a lot of mates were going. Was going to be content looking from a nice vantage point. 30 seconds in, I realised they had just grabbed me, and I was well up there.

It’s good when bands can do that.

Iris! I was at the same gig in Tilburg in ‘94. Cool! Did anyone go the the postponed gig in Gent, ‘95? They were actually gonna play in Deinze, but there seemed to be a few problems so the show was cancelled. You could use the same ticket to go to Gent… Love the shows they did in De Vooruit. I think my favourite is Doornroosje 2000. Definitely! Graham breakdancing, The A-Team sounds, Martin flying round through the venue. I remember somebody called him Martinair at that time…*

The recent Belfast gig was intense. Absolutely amazing! The best ever! If you weren’t there, then you’ll get to see it all when the DVD comes out!

After that it would have to be at The Mill in Preston in 1994. A small club gig, before Troublegum was released. Opal Mantra single had just been released, and the band were really starting to make an impact. A full house, and I stood about a metre away from Andrew James Cairns, as he cranked it out.
There was this laughable barrier, and it kept collapsing, due to the mental moshing - some laugh! Plus the fact that we got to hear Troublegum tracks that we’d never heard before.

Title: Re: your best T? gig ever?

Hard to pick just one. Me, I’d say all of them including the very first one ages ago when I saw them just by chance and had never heard a song before.
However, the show at the Ocean in London in 2001 was awesome. After that we just were unable to relax for weeks, too much adrenaline I suppose.
Yet I still think the best one was the last one I been to and that’s in Italy. I’ve seen Therapy? play a bit of everywhere in Europe but I’d never seen them play in my country before and I had not been to Italy for a long time so I was looking forward to it and was very excited. Didn’t matter if the venue was too big or too small, if it was sold out or if there were only 13 people, if the setlist could have been a bit different…everything was just perfect and we couldn’t have begged for more. They started Potato Junkie, I knew it was nearly over and felt kind of sad. Me mate and I had the best time of our lives, since we met up at the station in the morning, got our face and ears sunburnt, meant to open a bottle of wine we had brought and swore for hours after realizing we’d forgotten the corkscrew, wore santa’s hoods on the beach and were given funny looks. the gig itself was good fun and we lost our voice singing along. we came back home grinning from ear to ear, happy, content, we testified something great again, we took pity on everyone who has never seen (and never will)those four guys at work. All of that we still talk about after a whole month so it must have been something important that we’ll never forget

tatty seaside town wrote:

he accidental spit on my hand … i thought like “i will never ever wash this hand again” *g*

just before the gig I said to my friend I wanted to get one of the setlists and thought, “let’s just hope Michael won’t spit on any of them”…of course we were joking about this habit of his, then at the end of it my friend was given the setlist nearest to him and back in our car she said nonchalantly “Awww look, there’s a spitt…”. “Whaaaaat?!”. “Naaah, was only kidding…there’s just footprints…;)”

Anyone else see them at Ozzfest ‘98 at Milton Keynes Bowl?

Turning up as last minute replacements for Korn (who i hated anyway) was fine by me, although plenty of others were pissed off about it.Their set was amazing.Really energetic and, um…it’s the only time i’ve ever got to see them:(

Someone else must have been there

Brussels, Botanique, last month…

IceCreamRiverBody wrote:

Brussels, Botanique, last month…

yep, for me too !

hey you didn’t shout it at this tour ;-)…what happend, i thought it became a habbit

penn wrote:

the setlist was very good (even if in milan few months before was a little better

pecora, se hai foto di quella sera, puoi mandarmele per email? non è che hai pure registrazioni, vero?
estragon76@katamail.com

I was also in Milan…there was too much rain for me, at 6 pm I was already completely wet! :mad:

Cmq, ho delle foto, se hai pazienza le scanno (?!?) e poi te le mando, ok?

Derby Rockhouse, 18/07/90 (supporting The Beyond). awesome gig. andy playing trombone was funny. can’t have been more than 150 people in that place, and the sweat was dripping off the ceiling. amazing.

Planet X, Liverpool, sometime on the Pleasure Death tour. that was great, just because nobody was really expecting a band like them. they were supporting Anathema, and i’d say about 80% of the audience was there for them.

Krazy House, Liverpool, Nurse tour. heh, i was completely hammered at that gig, as was my girlfriend. towards the end, we were about to get thrown out by the lame bouncers. next thing i knew, Andy appeared, “he’s with us!” threw a laminate round my neck and escorted me to the dressing room. after about half a beer, we realised my girlfriend was still out there, so Fyfe lent me his laminate to go and grab her. fun!

:D