Tom Dunne's Music & Me: From the Clash to Kate Bush - five gigs I'd love to have seen

I've seen no shortage of great gigs through the years, but there are also a few stand-outs I'd have given my right arm to have been at 

The Clash, Freddie Mercury of Queen, Mic Christopher, Kate Bush and David Bowie.

I’m not saying I wake up nights in a sweat about ‘great gigs that I have missed’, but it does rancour. There are so many I could quite easily have gone to, knew about and somehow conspired to miss. Time does not lessen the pain.

For instance, on the way to see Sonic Youth in the Top Hat in Dun Laoghaire on August 21, 1991 my friends and I stopped at the Purty Loft for a ‘swift pint'. All we would miss, we reckoned, was the support act. Two weeks after that show that support act released a single called 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'.