Notable Performances
Oasis played the venue on 4 September, 1994, and according to many local people, the band received a phone call saying that their album Definitely Maybe had reached number one in the UK album charts, shortly before the band cut their gig short and ran out of the venue to celebrate. Other sources claim the album did not reach number one until the day after. Noel Gallagher has commented on the venue:
The Limelight is now part of our heritage. There was a great buzz when the owner Eamonn McCann informed me we had hit the No 1 spot that night in '94. I'll always remember this place with affection. We had a party that night and the audience joined in. That was the start of our success story.
Other bands that have performed at the Limelight include:
- Arctic Monkeys
- Ash
- Biffy Clyro
- Blur
- Ian Brown
- Jeff Buckley
- The Dillinger Escape Plan
- Dinosaur Jr.
- Ronnie James Dio
- Dragonforce
- Dropkick Murphys
- Echo and the Bunnymen
- Fall Out Boy
- Fantômas
- Feeder
- Franz Ferdinand
- Guided by Voices
- David Gray
- Interpol
- Mick Jones
- Kaiser Chiefs
- The Libertines
- Shane MacGowan
- Manic Street Preachers
- Maxïmo Park
- Moby
- Mogwai
- Mudhoney
- Napalm Death
- Paolo Nutini
- Pavement
- Placebo
- Primal Scream
- Snow Patrol
- The Streets
- The Strokes
- Joe Strummer
- Tomohawk
- The Twilight Singers
- Paul Weller
- Melanie C
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