Top five gigs of the year.

[Alexinblack]

1 The Stranglers Manchester Academy
2 Sham 69 the Ritz
3 The Specials Manchester Apollo
4 The Rough Kutz Stoke
5 From the Jam Cavern Club.

[martininblack6363]

1. Stranglers Toronto
2. Stranglers Montreal
3. Hugh Cornwell Buffalo
4. Hugh Cornwell Toronto
5. Big Country Waterloo

[Five Minutes]

1 The Who Manchester Arena
2 Black Sabbath Manchester Arena
3 Specials Manchester Apollo
4 Roger Waters Manchester Arena
5 Sham 69 Manchester Ritz

[ceebs]

1. The Stranglers - Edinburgh Picture House
2. The Damned - Edinburgh Picture House
3. Manic Street Preachers - Glasgow Barrowland
4. Inspiral Carpets - Edinburgh Liquid Room
5. Close run thing between Shed Seven at Glasgow Barrowland or The Wedding Present at Glasgow O2 ABC but i think Shed Seven just edge it.

[gizzard]

1-Buzzcocks - Bristol Academy
2/3-Stiff Little Fingers - Oxford Academy or New Model Army - Frome Cheese And Grain
4-The Damned - Gloucester Guildhall
5-The Stranglers - Oxford Academy

[ThruBeingCool]

Cockney Rejects - The Maze, Nottingham
The Damned - Leamington Spa
999 - The Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
Inspiral Carpets - The Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
Simple Minds - Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham

[shazzer]

TBC,Nottingham seems the centre of good gigs :-)

[gizzard]

TBC,Nottingham seems the centre of good gigs :-)

He gets lost outside the church spires of Nottingham.

[Hammer]

My Bloody Valentine- Birmingham O2
Peter Hook- Manchester Cathedral
PIL- Manchester Ritz
Killing Joke- London Forum
Stranglers- Roundhouse

[The Strangler]

1. The Beat at Bristol, Reading, Cardiff and Swansea would be 4, but i'll put them down as 1.
2. Too Rude, aftershow party in Newport, after The Specials (who were a major let down).
3. Any number of Johnny Trashed gigs
4. Several TheGuyThatGetsTheGirl gigs, in particular at Alfreds, Pontypridd.
5. The Stranglers in Manchester or New York, for different reasons.

[kincajou]

1. The Damned/Ruts DC - Northampton Roadmenders
2. The Rolling Stones - Hyde Park
3. Sigur Ros - Brixton Academy
4. The B52s - Indigo O2
5. The Stranglers - Oxford Academy

[Five Minutes]

Peter Hook- Manchester Cathedral
PIL- Manchester Ritz

Yes both excellent.