The Best Live Performer You've Seen?

**kompressaur** · #1 (**permalink**) 09-05-2008, 19:29

Mine has to be my childhood favs Fad Gadget (Frank Tovey) I saw him twice '85 and '86 and both shows were something else. A work of art. Here he was a few years earlier before he had perfected his live show. It's worth waiting to nearer the end to see Frank up to his 'anticts'

Any other artists do something a bit special live?

**DAN DAN** · #2 (**permalink**) 09-05-2008, 20:51

Muse
The Levellers
David Gray

**DAN DAN** · #3 (**permalink**) 09-05-2008, 20:55

**DAN DAN** · #4 (**permalink**) 09-05-2008, 21:06

My you tube quotes not working?
YouTube - The Levellers - Liberty song

YouTube - Levellers - One way - Live Glastonbury - Good Quality

YouTube - Dirty Davey Live - Levellers

**kompressaur** · #5 (**permalink**) 10-05-2008, 18:01

I saw the Levellers in concert a few times when i was younger Dan. I don't remember them being 'that great' live

I liked them mind

Dan youve missed a / from your 2nd youtube thingy. Dont even use them dan just copy and paste in the embed code to the right of the vid

**DAN DAN** · #6 (**permalink**) 10-05-2008, 18:07

Cheers Komp I thought they were brilliant, full of energy.

**Bigkegman** · #7 (**permalink**) 10-05-2008, 18:12

Dont know what my fav has been but Bon Jovi a few years back was good and Roxette where also good

Going to see Queen later in the year and looking forward to that.

old_saint · #8 (**permalink**) 10-05-2008, 19:08

Pink Floyd playing Dark Side of the Moon live at Wembley Pool

Tom Sawyer · #9 (**permalink**) 13-05-2008, 14:22

the first time i saw rush at the old glasgow apollo in 1979 i was sixteen and stood open jawed for the entire gig at how good they were, i last saw them in oct 2007 and stood in the front row at the secc still disbelieving how good they are.

**kompressaur** · #10 (**permalink**) 13-05-2008, 16:48

Dont know what my fav has been but Bon Jovi a few years back was good and Roxette where also good

Going to see Queen later in the year and looking forward to that.

ffs Kegamn thats an awfull collection. Roxette live!!

nah youve all got it wrong Tom Sawyer. I want bands/lead singers that really give a good show. I aint talking pyrotechnics here etc im looking for a lead singer that PERFORMS!!

Fad Gadget was known for his confrontational live performances, which included Tovey covering himself in tar and feathers, leaping into the audience, and playing instruments with his head. Tovey was particularly infamous for spreading his naked body in shaving cream

Tovey presented himself through a bewildering array of grotesque pantomime masks and guises. He was the Punchinello of nightmares on Incontinent, he was the tarred and feathered figure of fun on the cover of Gag. On stage Fad Gadget smothered himself in shaving foam and ripped out clumps of his pubic hair. His on-stage dementia reached proportions that were alarming even to himself. A planned UK tour in support of the "For Whom The Bells Toll" single had to be scrapped when he tore all the ligaments in his legs at a gig in Amsterdam and was forced to come home with both limbs in plaster

**kompressaur** · #11 (**permalink**) 13-05-2008, 16:51

Perhaps the reason why Fad Gadget never became a massive pop star is because there was nothing to grab hold of. Then as now, the personality cult of the pop star reigns supreme. Fans, it is assumed, need a good solid persona to latch onto. The freakshow of masks offered by Tovey couldn't be further removed. This might mean that he's not on the retro compilations, but he's up there with Electro demi-gods like Kraftwerk and Mr Numan

Frank Tovey RIP - We salute you!

**Winrew** · #12 (**permalink**) 13-05-2008, 23:16

The Scorpions , Newcastle ( early 80s )
Musically , probably not the best concert , but they started the show by pumping loads of dry ice out into the audience , we were on the balcony and it looked weird , it was like 700 pairs of hands clapping and the background was a white carpet.
Looked dead smart mind ...