Can you gig it? Our music journalists talk about their best gigs
There's nothing quite like the experience that comes with a live music show.
No record, MP3 or CD can compare to really being there – feeling the music thudding in your chest, the energy palpable.
You might have spent hours trying to desperately get tickets, forking out a fortune to buy them before making the pilgrimage to the venue to behold what you've been dying to see for days, weeks or months.
No TV performance or radio rendition can immerse you in the electric atmosphere – the excitement, the sing-alongs and the occasional mosh pit.
Where else would you tolerate the pushing and shoving of total strangers other than when you're standing before your favourite band? No one's a stranger at a gig – you're all suddenly friends, united by a common, and very real, love.
We're celebrating live music here at Weekend in the hope that it'll inspire you to go to a gig. Our Andy shares his fondest memories, and some of our other contributors do too.
Check out our entertainment website, Native Monster, for gig listings, and dust off your dancing shoes.
