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Blind Melon, in support of Lenny Kravitz Wembley areana, think I was 16 so it must have been '94. Using up a spare ticket that a mate had.
First of my own choosing, Therapy? Shepards Bush Empire with Joy rider and one other band in support (possibly Rub Ultra) probably '94 or so as well.
Most recent; Mono Effect Cambridge junction last month.
No gigs yet this month which is a bit crap!
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I was very young at the time. I'm not gay
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Oh, Jojo, mine is even more embarrasing than yours!
Leo Sayer...1978...Preston Guildhall!! 😳
queen, knebworth 1986
last conceert they ever playedVery envious - I'd give almost anything to have seen them live.
I saw them at Manchester Maine Road just after Live Aid with Status Quo and Belouis Some supporting. The crowd reaction when the played Radio Ga Ga (The hands in the air clapping bit) was one of my most wonderous memories from all my gigging recollections.
My mum nearly fainted whilst Status Quo were playing. She blamed the repetitious tunes! Hmmmm..
Subway Sect/Buzzcocks on the Love Bites tour (79 I think)
Swiftly followed by the Jam (coz my sister had the flu so I got her ticket...).
Good call on Crass BAnana. Saw them preach anarchy from a music hall stage myself at one point...
Moses beat me. I guess its only Moses that could...
Well apart from Climax Blues Band at the youth club about 30 times from 1967 onwards, my first proper gig was Jethro Tull in 1969. I went with the girl who is now Mrs BigJohn. Later that year we saw the Who with Keith Moon on drums, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Screaming Lord Sutch and Deep Purple.
She's deaf in one ear as a result of seeing Magazine in Leeds in the 70s. Loudedst gig I've ever been to.
it was the mighty King Kurt at leeds poly in about 1985, a couple of mates of mine were very much into the whole physo-billy thing to the extent of having quiffs and the whole works. The pre-music entertainment consisted of getting a couple of victims out of the audience, the female member of the pair gave a very reluctant blowjob to a chap on stage. Music was loud, fast and brilliant. We then had to explain away my mates black eye at school the following day (it was a bit rough).
In retrospect a top night out, Destination Zululand anyone?
Best one since then was a double header with Ride and the Charlatans at Blackpool empress ballroom around the time of Ride's Going Blank Again album, fantastic night
B. A. Nana thanks for the Crass photo,I saw 'em twice at Tunstall Town Hall. I think The Fatal Microbes were supporting.
Tis is a great thread;from Queen/Status Quo to Tricky. something for everybody.
What's the best band you've never seen (from your era) mine,Talking Heads.
Young Dave, I saw Crass at Hebden Bridge Trades Club May 1982 supported by DIRT and Annie Anxiety.
flatback - I too was at the Knebworth 'Queen' concert. It blew me away.
It was so packed that it wasn't worth drinking anything 'cos getting to the loo was impossible.
Do you remember a huge food and bottle fight?
Also it took 4 hours to get out of the carpark.
The 'Eagles' at New Bingley hall, Stafford, 1976. Saw them again exactly 20 years later at Wembley.
Faith No More April 1990 at the Birmingham Hummingbird.
Prong supported though so technically I saw them first. They scared me. 🙂
My first gig was Green Day in the Glasgow Barrowlands in 1997.
Motorhead monsters of rock 1986.Worked my way to the front during bad news's set.
Sensational Alex Harvey Band about 1971 in the salutation hotel in Perth
The Wombles!
1977 ish!
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.
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)
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.
Clash of the titan's at nec sometime in 1990, on the bill were:
Suicidal tendencies
Testament
Megadeth
Slayer
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. 😀
That would have been Pogues at Barrowlands 86/87?,bit mental after old-firm game same day..happy days!
30 years old and never seen a live act.
going to see the prodigy later this year if that counts.?
rolling stones in the park a long time ago
I am ashamed to say it was Hawkwind at the Liverpool Empire probably about 1979.
The Real people somewhere in Edinburgh
In fact, anyone got that album on CD that i can get a copy of ?
"The Alarm" hammersmith odeon(now apollo)1984
Ozzy Ozbourne - Dundee Caird hall circa 79, 80. There was onlyu about 500 folk there not long after black sabbath split.
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...........)
Van Halen in 1978 at the Finsbury Park Rainbow
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 8)
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.
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
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!
cough, Big Country, cough.
Wishbone Ash Feb 12th 1972 Newcastle City Hall
first single was you really got me by the Kinks, 1964 I think.
The Buzzcocks - Leeds University Students Union 1997 or 78
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.
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.