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- Dec 13, 2017
- Location
- Belgium
I've been to quite some festivals in the early 2000s but not that many single artist gigs. Let's see what the most memorable were in non-particular order:
1. James Brown and Joe Cocker at Night of the Proms 2004 at the Sportspalace in Antwerp. Very happy I've seen both artists in concert and at the same night. Of course this was only a 150 minute show with various other artists so both of them had about 45 minutes as they were the main events. Other artists included Shaggy and John Miles.
2. Coldplay in 2005 at the same location as NotP. I had seem them before at Rock Werchter in 2003 but had to see them at a non-festival gig.
3. Pukkelpop 2001 as a whole because it was my first festival. Most memorable were definitely Royksopp, The Prodigy, Muse and Orbital.
4. Pukkelpop 2006. The last festival I attended. 3 headliners any festival can dream of: Radiohead on the 1st night, Massive Attack on the 2nd and to top it off Daft Punk to close it out on night 3! Music wise this was the best festival and a great end of an era for me.
5. Roskilde 2004. We were going there mainly for the experience and bought tickets before a single artist was announced. Then they announced David Bowie and I was extatic. A couple of days before he was supposed to appear at the festival he had to cancel and was replaced by Slipknot... Still saw some awesome concerts by Muse, Fatboy Slim, Morrissey and NERD just to name a few.
Other memorable concerts were DJ Tiësto, The Chemical Brothers, Placebo, Faithless, Mogwai, REM, Underworld, Infected Mushroom and of course Foo Fighters.
In 2009 Kraftwerk played at Pukkelpop and I was planning on buying a 1 day ticket but they were sold out in minutes, I didn't have a chance. I'd have loved the chance to see them back then.
Earlier this year I actually attended a concert for the first time since 2006. It was a gig from a local artist Tijs Vanneste.
1. James Brown and Joe Cocker at Night of the Proms 2004 at the Sportspalace in Antwerp. Very happy I've seen both artists in concert and at the same night. Of course this was only a 150 minute show with various other artists so both of them had about 45 minutes as they were the main events. Other artists included Shaggy and John Miles.
2. Coldplay in 2005 at the same location as NotP. I had seem them before at Rock Werchter in 2003 but had to see them at a non-festival gig.
3. Pukkelpop 2001 as a whole because it was my first festival. Most memorable were definitely Royksopp, The Prodigy, Muse and Orbital.
4. Pukkelpop 2006. The last festival I attended. 3 headliners any festival can dream of: Radiohead on the 1st night, Massive Attack on the 2nd and to top it off Daft Punk to close it out on night 3! Music wise this was the best festival and a great end of an era for me.
5. Roskilde 2004. We were going there mainly for the experience and bought tickets before a single artist was announced. Then they announced David Bowie and I was extatic. A couple of days before he was supposed to appear at the festival he had to cancel and was replaced by Slipknot... Still saw some awesome concerts by Muse, Fatboy Slim, Morrissey and NERD just to name a few.
Other memorable concerts were DJ Tiësto, The Chemical Brothers, Placebo, Faithless, Mogwai, REM, Underworld, Infected Mushroom and of course Foo Fighters.
In 2009 Kraftwerk played at Pukkelpop and I was planning on buying a 1 day ticket but they were sold out in minutes, I didn't have a chance. I'd have loved the chance to see them back then.
Earlier this year I actually attended a concert for the first time since 2006. It was a gig from a local artist Tijs Vanneste.
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