I would just like to have been born about 13 years earlier.
That way I would have been just the right age to appreciate grunge at its peak. I could have seen Layne Staley and Kurt Cobain alive, not too mention my favourite band EVER, Soundgarden before they split up.

I could also have gone to Leeds '95 without breaking the bank for a ticket and seen such delights as said favourite band, Pillbox, Pearl Jam, Mudhoney and Silverchair.

Plus I wouldn't be in half as much debt when I came out of uni.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:25, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

True.
Grunge was awesome, Uni grants were great. I lived in Norn Iron though so none of the big grunge bands ever really played there. But hey, if they were big grunge bands they, like, totally sold out, man, sucking corporate cock, etc.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:28, Reply)

I missed Nirvana in Dunloghaire (sp?) who were touring with a band who's name escapes me.
We got to the gig late just as Nirvana were finished. This was just before they were famous.

Edit - just realised this is Dublin and not in the north.

Edit 2 - Sonic Youth!
( girlinthehole, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:32, Reply)

I wasn't allowed to go to that gig :(

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:38, Reply)

My brother saw Nirvana supporting someone else
His review: 'meh'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:39, Reply)

Nirvana
never even made appeared on my radar...generic pap.

If i had to live in an era to capture the best gigs...i think i would have to try out the late 60's early 70's....Captain Beefheart in his prime, a yellin and a hollerin, those marathon Can gigs/improvs, Neu!, on shrooms, Kraftwerk when they were getting raved up with flutes and oscillators. Faust and their on-stage pinball tables hooked up to synth triggers etc.

Happy days

Although i am glas i had the late 80's and early 90's...free parties, Orbital, early Aphex gigs, Megadog all nighters at Brixton Academy. Aye, special times.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:58, Reply)

Same here
The early years of rave were our generation's 60s, I've always thought. A great time to be a teenager....

*goes all misty-eyed and takes an ill-advised E*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 12:27, Reply)

When I was at school there was an American kid who had seen them twice
Fucker.
( Peej, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 12:26, Reply)

my brother had tickets for the last UK gig before Cobain offed himself
we had a family holiday planned so he couldn't go
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:42, Reply)