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I was talking to my friend when we were waiting for The Killers to come on a couple of weeks ago at the M.E.N. about the best and worst support acts we've seen. Who've you seen that have been really good or really bad?
For me, the best is either Editors, who I've seen quite a few times as a support act now and then the one that surprised me more than anything was Sound of Guns who were brilliant before Miles Kane at the Deaf Institute in Manchester. The worst has got to be a toss up between Eagles of Death Metal and Ratatat, who were both absolutely dismal.
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Post subject: Re: Best/worst support acts you've seen
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 6:58 pm
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I attended a week long rock concert at ally pally - London 1973. The climax of the gig was Friday night Black Sabbath which was jam packed with among others a large number of German/Japanese tourists. The support band for the night was Stackridge whose performance was surreal/outstanding. Their main song was "do the stanley" which appeared to be a pisstake of "the Lambeth walk". They took the audience so high they were still coming down when Ozzy started his stuff and it was hard work to hold the audience - bet Stackridge never supported 'em again
Post subject: Re: Best/worst support acts you've seen
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 8:51 pm
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Best I ever saw - Bad Manners' support at Manchester Uni in about 1990. They had the then unknown (on this side of the water) Bim Skala Bim who promptly blew them off stage. More recently I saw DC Fontana support The Lambrettas, and were better by a large degree.
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Post subject: Re: Best/worst support acts you've seen
Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 11:05 am
B0NES
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I went to see Shed 7 at Hull uni in 98 , I didn't know Puressence were supporting but they were were f**king amazing and loved them ever since. Worst was Carter usm at Manchester supporting Madness.
Post subject: Re: Best/worst support acts you've seen
Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 11:13 pm
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Best support bands The Subways supporting Razorlight The Cribs supporting Kaiser Chiefs and vice versa Kasabian supporting Oasis The Black Angels supporting BRMC Rodrigo y Gabriela supporting Muse Art Brut supporting Maximo Park (only reason I went to that gig was to see Art Brut) Mind has gone blank for bad support as I try and forget them, I will have to look back through ticket stubs to remind me.
Post subject: Re: Best/worst support acts you've seen
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 12:44 pm
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B0NES wrote:I went to see Shed 7 at Hull uni in 98 , I didn't know Puressence were supporting but they were were f**king amazing and loved them ever since. Worst was Carter usm at Manchester supporting Madness.
Saw Shed 7 at the NYNEX Arena (M.E.N) in 97, they where supporting Aerosmith on their Nine Lives Tour, on this particular occasion they actually blowed Aerosmith of the stage IMO
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