Best gigs you ever attended

Magazine was one of (probably the first of the 'new wave') the earliest gigs I went to, back in '78 at the Huddersfield Poly. Still stands out as being a fantastic performance by the band, probably touring their debut "Real Life" elpee at that time.
Surprised recently to find footage of the Pixies at Glastonbury from '89. Was there in the crowd watching almost from the same area as the camera filming their set..
Here we go:

best gig ive ever been at. bloody ell thats a hard one 2 call. being so many but rate angelic upstarts afew years ago up there. slf. the defects put on great shows. one thing i know is the worst gig blondie at the kings hall support by squeeze. god they were terrible.

MY best gig was Joy Division and Killing Joke at The Lyceum, but I didn't realise at the time how important it was....

Nirvana at Reading Festival 1991. They were on stage mid-afternoon on the first day, criminally low on the bill. (They would come back as headliners the following year. I think this was the last UK festival I went to, before I started working overseas full time, as I recall..).
There was a buzz about Nirvana already though. Sounds, the long-defunct UK music paper had championed them for a while, and "Nevermind" was already recorded on a major label, in the can and set for release not long after this gig.
Their set was a bit plagued by continual feedback and other sound problems, but couldn't spoil a performance of a band that were maybe at their peak, as yet un-bothered and not distracted by a level of fame that corroded and dissolved Kurt Cobain a few short years later. They were powered along by a young Dave Grohl absolutely hammering his drums, like a John Bonham on speed.
It's a performance of a band on the cusp at this stage, the last performance of unknown Nirvana playing their biggest concert thus far.
Amazing that a 3-piece band generated this much power.

Test.  Ah...it worked.  Failed a few times.  Never was a huge fan and no real reason.  The early stuff was right up my alley.  No denying this line-up sounds freaking powerful.  

Discharge on the Apocalypse tour in 1981.

Just at the height of their epoch with'Why'.

Conflict playing the east end of Glasgow in early 84.

The 'troops' came out but Conflict weren't having it

Yep, I was also at that one, great evening. I also had a good month in 1996, seeing the Pistols at Finsbury Park, Nick Caves' "Murder Ballads" tour at Brixton and the reformed Velvet Underground in Kentish Town all within about 3 weeks of each other.