Top Female Performer You've Seen Live

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  • JH6056JH6056 Posts: 2,427
    Annie Clark
    Annie Clark

    LOVE St. Vincent! Only saw her as a support act, would love to see her headlining.
  • Peaches
  • JH6056JH6056 Posts: 2,427
    Sinead O'Connor, as she was when I first saw her live: Her song "Troy" at PinkPop

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeIHZvZTJTg

  • bluegracebluegrace Posts: 2,357
    Ladies I want to see:
    Kate Bush
    Tori Amos
    Sinead O'Connor
    Joni Mitchell
    Kool Kat Club 1992, Moderna museet 1992, Globen 2012, Friends arena 2014
  • kwdaleykwdaley Posts: 499
    The Wilson sisters...

    http://youtu.be/4gpNqB4dnT4
    Ottawa 2011
    London 2013 "The Dundas Hookers on Crack" Show
  • Tori Amos- Amazing live
  • goldrushgoldrush Posts: 7,537
    JH6056 wrote: »
    KT Tunstall - nice to see her added! But I saw her about a year ago and I was not feeling her newer music. Still love that album with Suddenly I See on it though...
    Yeah I'm not that big a fan of her new stuff either. It's a bit too 'pop' for me I think. But seeing her alone onstage in a small club with just an acoustic guitar singing 'Throw Me A Rope' was absolutely stunning.
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  • JH6056JH6056 Posts: 2,427
    edited January 2015
    kwdaley wrote: »
    The Wilson sisters...

    http://youtu.be/4gpNqB4dnT4

    1. That is my absolute favorite Heart song.
    2. How did women's clothing then look so awesome then and still look awesome now, but the guys in the silky flowing shirts look silly to me now?
    3. Heart is one of the top 10 bands I would take a time machine back to if I could to see live.
    4. Curse you Kwdaley for posting that link - after the song ends there is an endless choice of awesome performances on Midnight Special - I will be up for a few more hours looking at them when I should be in bed since tomorrow is a work day! So far watched the Cars "Just What I Needed" (fave Cars song - and damn wasn't Benjamin Orr a hottie!), and Cheap Trick "Surrender" (when I saw them on the Dream Police tour and they did Surrender, that line when he sings "When I woke up, Mom and Dad were rolling on the couch... rolling numbers rock and rolling got my Kiss records out" they threw a huge armful of actual Kiss vinyl into the audience (when it was all vinyl!). I guess things were more reserved for t.v.?
    5. Oh Mmm Gee: Little Richard just introduced Golden Earring and "Radar Love" by saying "I LOVE golden earrings!!!" TOO FUNNY! And I'm pretty sure the singer and guitar player were high as f'in kites on that one, on something that makes you paranoid because they kept looking at each other as if they they were keeping the other from freaking out... aaaah, 70s rock!

    Ok, back to female singers... I've got more 70s t.v. to watch... :)
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  • first time i saw/heard susan was 20 years ago
    she was amazing then

    Just Won't Burn (Live at Farm Aid 1999)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_96KMJEhy0

    Susan Tedeschi - It Hurts So Bad (Live at Farm Aid 1999)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxXtn5r09ks

  • erebuserebus Posts: 566
    edited February 2019
    Saw Metric open for the Pumpkins last year, they were great
    have always loved Kim Deals part of the Pixies
    high as a kite was really good, cannot remember who they opened for, Sigur Ros?
    L7 at Lolla were o.k

    would have loved to seen the Sugarcubes, Cocteau Twins
    if I get the chance I would see Mavis Staples, Alabama Shakes, Macy Gray, Bjork

    and I forgot about the Fastbacks opening for PJ, also very good

    Post edited by erebus on
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  • Ani DiFranco will always be my favorite female performer.  I've never seen Fiona Apple, Sarah McLachlan or Annie Lennox but if I did I'm sure they'd be up there.
    The Yeah yeah yeahs and Karen O were great.
    Courtney Barnett was good but the venue I saw her in was wayyyy too big for her.  Smaller venue would have been amazing.
    Kim the drummer from Matt&Kim is always amazing when she plays.  She has FUN at shows.



  • mfc2006mfc2006 Posts: 37,447
    Brandi Carlile
    Erika Wennerstrom
    Alison Mosshart
    Bjork
    Norah Jones
    Jenny Lewis
    I LOVE MUSIC.
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  • Too many to list. Not sure if this topic is even notable in 2019.
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  • eddieceddiec Posts: 3,881
    I saw Joni Mitchell twice.
    Adele
    Lisa Hannigan

    Would love to see Hannah Reid from London Grammar.
  • derbydavederbydave Posts: 11,254
    edited February 2019
    Tina Turner - 7X
    Joan Jett - 3X
    Star Anna - 3X
    Natalie Merchant - 2X
    The Breeders - 2X
    Brandi Carlile - 2X
    The Weepies - 2X
    Suzanne Vega
    Brody Dalle
    The Sundays
    Patti LaBelle
    The Coathangers
    Joan Baez
    The Aces
    Lucy Dacus
    Aoife O'Donovan
    Beyonce
    Alicia Keys
    The Kills
    Cold Specks
    Courtney Love

    Beth Gibbons / Portishead is on my bucket list of acts I have to see!! 
    Post edited by derbydave on
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  • Air23Air23 Posts: 1,371
    Corin Tucker
  • ST66483ST66483 Posts: 769
    edited February 2019
    Bjork
    Alabama Shakes
    Sleater Kinney
    L7
    Portishead
    Cher
    Beyonce
    Ani Difranco
    Bonnie Raitt
    Dixie Chicks
    Various performers in different iterations of Prince’s bands over the years 
    Many others as well but these are a few of the standouts.
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  • ST66483 said:
    Bjork
    Alabama Shakes
    Sleater Kinney
    L7
    Portishead
    Cher
    Beyonce
    Ani Difranco
    Bonnie Raitt
    Dixie Chicks
    Various performers in different iterations of Prince’s bands over the years 
    Many others as well but these are a few of the standouts.
    I saw Beyonce perform and while she was very good she lip synched so it doesn't get held as high as the others I've seen but I really did enjoy her choreography.
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,462
    Marilyn Manson
  • I got an email today announcing Heart with Brandi C, Sheryl C, and Joan Jett.

    The ladies got together and put together an impressive evening!
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  • ST66483ST66483 Posts: 769
    Fair point on a Beyoncé, and Cher was the same more on ‘performance’ than a stunning vocal.
  • the only time i saw joni live was when she opened up for bob dylan. 2 decades ago
    i'm still in love with bonnie raitt and the dixie chicks and the first time i saw cheryl crow play she made a point of playing every instrument during her set. that gal is talented! and joan baez's last tour ever, last year, was brilliant in so many ways. 
  • seriously, folks, Juliette Lewis. go see her if you have the chance. 
    new album "Cigarettes" out Spring 2025!

    www.headstonesband.com




  • seriously, folks, Juliette Lewis. go see her if you have the chance. 
    The actress?
  • seriously, folks, Juliette Lewis. go see her if you have the chance. 
    The actress?
    yes. she's got 3 albums out. and they are actually good. I have seen her live twice, both times in a dingy hole in the wall bar. She is a rocker, through and through. 
    new album "Cigarettes" out Spring 2025!

    www.headstonesband.com




  • seriously, folks, Juliette Lewis. go see her if you have the chance. 
    The actress?
    yes. she's got 3 albums out. and they are actually good. I have seen her live twice, both times in a dingy hole in the wall bar. She is a rocker, through and through. 
    She was dating the RATM drummer so I can see her as being a rocker.
  • seriously, folks, Juliette Lewis. go see her if you have the chance. 
    The actress?
    yes. she's got 3 albums out. and they are actually good. I have seen her live twice, both times in a dingy hole in the wall bar. She is a rocker, through and through. 
    She was dating the RATM drummer so I can see her as being a rocker.
    And don't let her performance at Cornell's tribute sway you....that was terrible, and not at all indicative of her live talent. 
    new album "Cigarettes" out Spring 2025!

    www.headstonesband.com




  • seriously, folks, Juliette Lewis. go see her if you have the chance. 
    The actress?
    yes. she's got 3 albums out. and they are actually good. I have seen her live twice, both times in a dingy hole in the wall bar. She is a rocker, through and through. 
    She was dating the RATM drummer so I can see her as being a rocker.
    And don't let her performance at Cornell's tribute sway you....that was terrible, and not at all indicative of her live talent. 
    I didn't watch the Cornell tribute.  I was afraid that songs I liked would be ruined, lol.
  • nooramnooram Posts: 390
    Recently, Dorothy, in Minneapolis. Like Bishop Briggs, too

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  • Morcheeba (Skye Edward, vox)
    Howling Bells (Juanita Stein, vox/guitar)
    Tracy Chapman
    Duffy
    Since this post I've added Veruca Salt, Melody Gardot, Kacey Musgraves, Letters to Cleo, Lady Gaga, Jenny Lewis, & Metric to my repertoire.  All have been incredible.
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