{"id":2105082,"date":"2025-10-21T06:27:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2105082"},"modified":"2025-10-21T06:27:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:27:03","slug":"the-five-best-gigs-ive-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-five-best-gigs-ive-ever-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"The five best gigs I\u2019ve ever seen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love live music. I never tire of going to concerts<\/a>. I must have seen thousands of bands and singers performing in everything from cramped pubs and clubs to sprawling festivals and enormous stadiums. There is something about being absorbed into a world of sound as it unfolds that never fails to quicken my blood.<\/p>\n

U2 and Oasis, Oakland Coliseum, 1997<\/h2>\n

You never forget your first time. For me it was early 1977, in the gymnasium of Mount Temple School in Dublin, when a gig by some of my classmates blew my teenage brain. The band was U2, and the rest is pop history<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How extraordinary is that? My first ever gig was the first ever gig by a bunch of schoolboys who went on to become one of the greatest bands the world has ever seen. I have followed U2 ever since, enjoying a front row seat for their development into an art rock behemoth.<\/p>\n

Early in my career as The Telegraph<\/em>\u2019s music critic, I was invited to San Francisco to see U2\u2019s PopMart Tour <\/em>at Oakland Coliseum. They were being supported by a young British band called Oasis<\/a>. Like almost everyone else in the UK, I was a huge Oasis fan. I loved the way they had brought passion and songcraft back into rock music. I had been at Knebworth<\/a> in 1996 with my brother, linking arms and singing \u201cYou and I, we\u2019re gonna live forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

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