[Music] Great front men and women doing their thing.

[BadFish]

My son has his first concert next week a d we have been discussing stave craft. So I don't limit him to my tastes I am wondering what your choice would be for brilliant performances/performers full of charisma and power.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Simple.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Or...

 

[GrossTurn]

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

or....



I am posting current bands who are playing live. Dire Straights 79 is somewhat unreachable

 

[Weststander]

Ed Sullivan’s best mate.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

These are stunning live

 

[hart's shirt]

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

My son has his first concert next week a d we have been discussing stave craft. So I don't limit him to my tastes I am wondering what your choice would be for brilliant performances/performers full of charisma and power.

Sadly it seems that some of our NSC chums require that you hook up with Dr Who and borrow his/her Tardis to enjoy their recommendations

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I am posting only bands I have seen in the last 5 years.

these are brill.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

 

[pocketseagull]

could pick any song from Stop Making Sense, David Byrne is incredible throughout.

 

[hart's shirt]

From a time when they were the biggest band in the world and before Alan Partridge references arrived, here's the most powerful version of SBS on the day of the Enniskillen bombing.

 

[Han Solo]

Funkadelic time.
Especially if the crowd is on drugs.

 

[Happy Exile]

The likes of Taylor Swift, Coldplay and U2 have incredible stagecraft and all three I’ve had fantastic, memorable, incredibly enjoyable experiences at without having to know or even like a lot of the songs. I’ll post this video though - I worked as a photographer and was in front of the crowd for this. During lockdown for some reason I kept coming back to it in my mind: it seemed formative and important to so many there, felt very special in the moment, 10s of thousands bellowing every word right from the start, and something we’d lost and it would be important to go back to - the power of music in one, brief, amazing moment

 

[hart's shirt]

 

[GingerBeerMan]

There are various version of this song on the internet. Each is different, the band are very fluid in how they jam on stage. This particular one the drummer looks like he's about to pass out before the lead finally puts him out his misery (ecstacy) and wraps up the song after FOURTEEN minutes.

 

[GT49er]

The Who at their peak, circa 1971, in a smallish venue, were awesome. Ian Anderson as a frontman was great too. Floyd, doing a gig without their equipment (broken down on the M6) and with what bits and pieces they could borrow (no sound desk at the back either - just an amp and a 4 by 4 each) were incredible too - Roger Waters really had some stage presence.

Solo artists that I saw who were exceptional at just keeping a huge audience mesmerised were Leonard Cohen and - yes, believe it or not - Tiny Tim.

 

[chickens]

A master at work….



…and always remembered this next performance for the heroic way the singer approached the guitar solo…