My first gig was Green Day in the Glasgow Barrowlands in 1997.
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First Band you saw live?
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Motorhead monsters of rock 1986.Worked my way to the front during bad news's set.
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Sensational Alex Harvey Band about 1971 in the salutation hotel in Perth
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The Wombles!
1977 ish!
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First gig? That'll be ELP at St David's Hall, Cardiff, around '73, on the Trilogy Tour. After that, in no particular order, Yes, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Jam, The Clash, The Stranglers, Souxie and The Banshees, Ian Dury, Motorhead, Girlsschool, Johnny Thunders...
The best year for gigs was I think '98, when I managed to get to 39 gigs. Had three in seven days a couple of weeks ago. I love live gigs, they're never boring, and most only cost between £6.50 and £20. Hardly a ripoff. One gig recently, Howling Bells, was £16, with three bands, each one I would go see again any time, especially The Joy Formidable, blindingly good three-piece.Posted 3 years ago # -
Deep Purple, Middlesbrough Town Hall in about 1977
Best ever was SLF in Sheffield - crowd was insane
Oh, and I went to see King Kurt at about the same time as someone up there ^. I agree, was a very "active" experience (no BJs though)
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Reckon I had better keep quiet here
So long ago, I can't remember the first one! From early 70's onwards certainly and it was nice to see Dr. Feelgood get a mention.
Blimey, just seen ELP mentioned above but it was the Tarkus tour.
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Clash of the titan's at nec sometime in 1990, on the bill were:
Suicidal tendencies
Testament
Megadeth
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Also Queen at Knebworth '86.
Ticket was part of my 18th birthday present from my Mum. She let me see the concert even though i was 17 for a few more weeks.
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That would have been Pogues at Barrowlands 86/87?,bit mental after old-firm game same day..happy days!
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30 years old and never seen a live act.
going to see the prodigy later this year if that counts.?
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rolling stones in the park a long time ago
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I am ashamed to say it was Hawkwind at the Liverpool Empire probably about 1979.
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The Real people somewhere in Edinburgh
In fact, anyone got that album on CD that i can get a copy of ?
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"The Alarm" hammersmith odeon(now apollo)1984
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Ozzy Ozbourne - Dundee Caird hall circa 79, 80. There was onlyu about 500 folk there not long after black sabbath split.
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I think it was Mercury Rev, touring Yerself Is Steam, 91 maybe? Great gig that, they still had a lunatic front man and had about 30 kids on stage dancing around dressed as bumblebees!
Could also have been Dinosaur Jr on the Green Mind tour, my early teens were a bit of a blur (and my late teens, and my twenties...........)
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Van Halen in 1978 at the Finsbury Park Rainbow
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Motorhead, Bingley Hall Stafford as the headline act of the Heavy Metal Mayhem Brain Damage Party circa 1978. Original line up of Lemmy, 'Fast' Eddie Clarke and Philthy 'Animal' Taylor
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Sky, probably in 1983, so I'd have been 8 or so. Then nothing until 1998 when I saw Tori Amos, then Sparklehorse, then one or two others.
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errr... just had to google it and apparently it was summer 1980.
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Motorhead were staying at the Trafalgar hotel in Blackburn on that tour. I was eating there with my mum and dad and Animal turned a table over before storming off. Rock and Roll.
First concert, Magnum, King Georges Hall, Blackburn, about '83
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The Inner Circle at the legendary Marquee in Wardour Street. Summer 1979.
The sound rig had it's own generator on an articulated lorry out in the street. It was LOUD!
Happy days!
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cough, Big Country, cough.
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Wishbone Ash Feb 12th 1972 Newcastle City Hall
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first single was you really got me by the Kinks, 1964 I think.
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The Buzzcocks - Leeds University Students Union 1997 or 78
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Best band seen live would be a bit tricky. Where to start - kyuss, quicksand, early tool, soundgarden (badmotorfinger era), fugazi, slayer, bad brains, bosstones, clutch, weezer, propagandhi, bad religion, helmet, not nirvana, rollins, shelter, leatherface, billy bragg, buffalo tom....this could go on all night.
goes off to plug in record player.
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Planet Gong - Floating Anarchy 1977 at Liverpool University. Quite how a mad hippy band fell in with punk like Crass and Alternative TV I've never quite figured but it was er, different.
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The Stranglers, Bristol Hippodrome, 1990
One of the last concerts they did with Hugh Cornwell still in the band. Couldn't hear properly for about 2 days.
Still the best live band I've ever seen.
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Wonderstuff - some venue in Exeter the name of which escapes me. 1989
that'd of been at the Lemon Grove at the university - i'd like to day i was there too, but i honestly can't remember, you see i was too young to drive, but not too young 'looking' to get served the 60p a pint beer - i think i saw them, but i also saw 'ride' 'birdland' and the pixies a bit later(they were in the main hall i think) - happy days!! i'm not sure thou but i might of seen sham69 before this at the cooperage in Plymouth - god you guy's have good memories!
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It is interesting that the great majority of 'first gigs' as well as 'fave albums' (in another post) seem to circle around the metal/rock/punk genres - hardly any other influences in there.
I wonder if the same 'music' gene compels us to fling ourselves around the middle of nowhere on push-bikes?
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It is interesting that the great majority of 'first gigs' as well as 'fave albums' (in another post) seem to circle around the metal/rock/punk genres - hardly any other influences in there.
I should think its more to do with the amount of 40-50 something mannies who appear to constitute the STW majority.
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Hawkwind - Leeds Uni - 72
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