I have decided it might be fun to try and compile a Comprehensive list of the bands ive actually seen live since i got into rock, this is to go along with my own memory,because i often forget who ive even seen, and just to see it written down in a long blog form. In the last 2 or 3 years i can probably cut it down a little because i actually have the tickets in a book for every band...but the festivals is where it gets hazy and i forget. I forget how many times ive seen certain bands too..But hey, i started making a list a few years ago (2001 i think), and deposited it into a notepad file..As far as i can see it includes Reading Festival 2001, Ozzfest 2002, and Download 2003 and everything in between.so heres that list:

hedpe x 2
papa roach x 2
staind
fear factory
queens of the stone age
boy hits car
system of a down x 3
marilyn manson
the cult
Eminem
Ill nino
machine head
american head charge x 2
in flames
one minute silence
slipknot
Autonomy
dillinger escape plan
pulse ultra
Black label society
Skindred
mad capsule markets
danko jones
cradle of filth
lost prophets
Slayer
kittie
Tool
Ozzy osbourne
Opeth
Arch enemy X 2
Withering surface
The Darkness
The Wildhearts
Alec empire
Eighties matchbox b-line disaster
Lightyear
36 crazyfists
Five pointe O
Killswitch Engage
Millionaire
Queens of the stone age
Dogs D'amour
Quireboys
Thunder
Alice Cooper
Tangaroa
Mistress x 3  
JOR
The Great Deciever
Napalm Death
Little Hell
Amen X 2
The Haunted
Stampin ground X 2
December
Satyricon
Khold
Johnny Truant
27
ISIS
Madder mortem
Opeth
Zimmers hole
Devin Townsend band
Strapping young Lad
Dragon Force
3 Stages of Pain
Palehorse X 2
Chimaira
Reef
Sepultura
Funeral For A Friend
Ministry
Deftones X 2
Iron Maiden
Revolution smile
Insane Clown Posse
Beecher
Cult Of Luna
Dillinger Escape plan
Desecration
Abgott
Amputated
Funeral for a friend
Iron Maiden
Capricorns
DJ speedranch
Aeroegramme
ISIS
Mistress
Defiled
Cadaver
Mayhem
Opeth
Viking Skull
Akercocke
Burst
Ikara Colt
The International Noise Conspiracy
Cradle of Filth
Sum41
Powder
Breed 77
Turbonegro
Soulfly
The Black Dahila Murder
Machine Head
Slipknot
Slayer
Metallica
Cathedral
Broadzilla
Orange Goblin
Tokyo Dragons
Winnebago Deal
Textures x 2
Alchemist X 2
Cult of Luna x 2
Watain
Dissection
Arcturus
Enslaved
Grimfist
Red Harvest
Neurosis

Wow, now this list is old. this list ENDED in begining of 2004 by the looks of things, and it seems to have started in 2001 when i went to reading.so ive got a full list there up to download 2004 and just after starting in 2001. i can base this on tickets ive found. ill start the next bit from 2005 onwards

[b]2005[/b]
This is Download 05:
Queen Adreena
Fozzy
Lordi
Megadeth
Paradise lost
Napalm death
Mad capsule markets
Open hand
Anthrax
Lamb of God
Chimaira
In Flames
Black Sabbath
3 Inches of Blood
As I Lay dying
Killswitch Engage
Nightwish
Slayer
80s matchbox bline disaster
Funeral for a Friend
MC5
Therapy?
Motorhead
System Of a Down

[u]After and before download in 2005 i saw:[/u]

Edguy
Paradise Lost
Children Of Bodom
Black Sabbath (At Aylsbury with 1000 others)
Danzig
Megadeth
Mindless Self indulgence
Static-x (in florida)
Diamond Head X 2
Witchfynde
Bronz
Jaguar
Preying Mantis
Mastodon
Nine Inch Nails X 2
Opeth (again)
Akercocke
The Haunted
Electric Eel shock
The Answer
Tokyo Dragons
The Sound Explosion
Dragonforce
High on Fire
Winnebago Deal
Paradise Lost
Octavia Seperarti
Leaves eyes
Vader
Lost Soul
The Prodigy
Enslaved
Dio
Isis
Iron Maiden (at hammersmith)



[b]2006[/b]
At download 06 (according to a timetable i had created) memory serves this is who i saw that year:

Amplifier
Gojira
Strapping Young Lad
Clutch
Cathedral
Tool
Down
Satyricon
Arch Enemy
Opeth
Killing Joke
Metallica (think i watched killing joke instead but caught the end)
Zico Chain
In Flames
Lacuna Coil
Lordi
Sick of It all
Guns and Roses

Ok, so 2006 also had seperate gigs:

Paradise Lost
Anathema X 2
HIM
Cave In
Pelican
Zico chain
Whitesnake
Isis X 2
High On fire
Broadcast
Final
Una Corda
Thrones
Circulus
Cathedral
Electric Wizard X 2
Nebula
The Sword
Helloween
Stratovarius
Down
Church of Misery
Moho
Unearthly Trance
Ramesees
Soilwork
Keep of Kalessin
Insomnium
Satryicon
Mogwai
Abominable Iron Sloth
Gentlemans Pistols
Jecano
Cryptopsy
Aborted
Grave
Enslaved
Zyklon
Dismember
Entombed
Grave
Unleashed
Orange Goblin
Anathema
Wolverine
Motorhead
Clutch

[u]
2006 also included Wacken and Bloodstock:[/u]

Wacken:
Arch Enemy
Atheist
Celtic Frost
Children of bodom
Danko Jones
Emperor
Fear Factory
Gamma ray
Korpiklaani
legion of the damned
Ministry
Morbid Angel
Mortal Sin
Motörhead
Primal Fear
Rose Tattoo
Soilwork
Whitesnake
Wintersun

bloodstock 06:

Atheist
Metal Church
Edguy
Ensiferum
Bal Sagoth
Turisas
Callenish circle
Stratovarius
Gorilla Monsoon.

[b]2007[/b]

wow, 2006 was a big year. i was at university though so i saw a lot of bands. theres probably more, theres gigs i went to and didnt get tickets for. 2007 was a big one too, but i skipped download and went to sweden rock. ill list the festivals first, then the seperate gigs.

Sweden Rock 2007:

Amon Amarth
Axel Rudi Pell
Black Oak Arkansas
Blind Guardian
Dark Tranquillity
Dimmu Borgir
Focus
Heaven & Hell
Iced Earth
Kreator
Krux
Meat Loaf
Motörhead
Pretty Maids
Quiet Riot
Quireboys
Scorpions med Uli Jon Roth
The Answer
The Australian Pink Floyd Show
Trouble
Tyr
U.D.O

Wacken 2007:

Benedictum,
Blind Guardian,
Destruction,
Dimension Zero,
Dimmu Borgir,
Enslaved,
Gutbucket,
Grave Digger,
In Flames,
Iced Earth,
J.B.O.,
Moonsorrow,
Municipal Waste,
Overkill,
Possessed,
Rose Tattoo,
Sabbat,
Sacred Reich,
Secrets of the Moon,
Sodom,
The Answer
Stratovarius,
Subway to Sally,
Suidakra,
Swallow the Sun,
Therion
Type O Negative

Bloodstock 2007:

Firewind
Testament
Korpiklaani
Nevermore
Dark Tranquillity
Lacuna coil
Benediction
finntroll
Dream Evil
Sabbat
Arch Enemy
In Flames

Hard rock Hell 2007:
Finntroll, My Dying Bride,  Turisas, Tesla, Diamond Head, Girlschool, ChthoniC, Sabbat, Grand Magus.

Seperate gigs:

To-mera
Celtic Frost
Kreator
Watain
Isis
Oxbow
Napalm Death
Trouble
Unsane
Fu Manchu
Truckfighters
Divine Heresy
Hacride
Lucero
Taint
Desecration
Warning
Imindain
The River
Jesu
Mono

[b]2008[/b]

so now we hit this year. Festival season hasnt begun, so this is easy to compile.

My Ruin
Dark Tranquillity
Municipal Waste
Primordial
Grand Magus
Mael mordha
Orange Goblin
Dillinger Escape plan
Between the buried and me
Boris
The Sword
Saviours
Down
Sahg
Trouble
Today is the Day
Jucifer
Impaled
Origin
Alanis Morissette
Morbid Angel
Black Sun
Guapo
Thrones
Justice Yeldham
Oxbow
The Heads
Orthodox
Asva
Earth
Red sparowes
Arnocorps
Gravetemple
Trigger The Bloodshed
Meshuggah
Stone Gods
Airbourne
Anathema
Haxan
Esoteric


And thats it. up to date, probably missing a few...but as comprehenisve as i can get it.


Wacken 2008:

Mustache
Nashville Pussy
Primordial
The Rotted
Children Of Bodom
Avantasia
Massacre
Van Canto
Corvus Corax
Cynic
Obituary
Exodus
Kreator
At The Gates
Lordi

Bloodstock 08:

Helloween
Akercocke
Praying Mantis
Communic
Swallow The Sun
Eluveitie
Nightwish
At the Gates
Overkill
Grand Magus
Alestorm
Crowning Glory
Heaven's Basement
Witchsorrow
Ted Maul
Serotonal
Adam Bomb

[b]2009[/b]

Wolves In the Throne Room
Taint
Napalm Death
Judas Priest
Testament
Megadeth
Dornenreich
Agalloch
Church Of Misery
Firebird
Unearthly Trance
Witchcraft
Graveyard
Faith No More
The Subways
The Answer
AC/DC

[b]Hellfest[/b]
Watertank
Squealer
Melechesh
Kylesa
Entombed
Wasp
Anthrax
Heaven & Hell
Saint Vitus
Motley Crue
Vader
Clutch
Amebix
Gojira
Enslaved
Killing Joke
Adagio
Volbeat
Wolves in the throne room
Destruction
Ufomammut
Orange Goblin
Queensryche
Mastodon
Electric Wizard
Manowar

[b]BOA 09[/b]

ARCH ENEMY
CARCASS
MILLION DOLLAR RELOAD
SAXON
KATATONIA
MUNICIPAL WASTE
ENTOMBED
CANDLEMASS
KREATOR
EUROPE
SATYRICON
ANATHEMA
TURISAS

[b]2010[/b]

Nazareth
Oliver Dawson Saxon
Tygers of Pan Tang
Mick Taylor Band
Praying Mantis
Saint Vitus
Orange Goblin
Imogen Heap
Obituary
Persphone
Cathedral
Church of Misery
Gates of Slumber
Lord Vicar
Mono
Rose Kemp
Eyehategod
Anathema
The Eighties Matchbox Bline Disaster x 2
Converge
Gaza
Kylesa
A Storm of Light
Winterfylleth
Wodensthrone
Sigh
Crippled Black Phoenix
UFO
Helloween
Jaguar
Stratovarius
Marseille
Airbourne
Saxon
Neurosis
Saint Vitus


[u]]Roadburn[/u]

Altar Of Plagues
Comus
Church of Misery
Eyehategod
Death Row
Darkspace
Enslaved
Goatsnake
Garcia Plays Kyuss
Jarboe
Jex Thoth
Witchcraft
Trypticon
Moss
Nachmystium
Pagan Altar
Sarke
Sons of Otis
The Machine
Samsara Blues Experiment
The Wounded Kings
YOB

[u]Download Sunday[/u]

3 Inches of Blood
FM
Switchfoot
Saxon
Cinderella
Napalm Death
The Damned Things
Dillinger Escape Plan
Porcupine Tree
Airbourne
Aerosmith

[u]High Voltage[/u]

Cathedral
Saxon
Heaven & Hell ‘A Tribute To Ronnie James Dio'
ZZ Top

2011:

Uriah Heep
Girlschool
Larry Miller
Fu manchu
Kyuss lives
Anathema X 2
Saxon
Rush
DRI
Goatsnake
Godflesh
Witchsorrow
Church Of Misery