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I've already admitted to the Quo on another thread - what (and when) was yours?
Iron Maiden
The Buzzcocks
Grandmaster Melle Mel and the Furious Five
the crocketts
The Jam @ Crawley Leisure Centre in probably 1978. Support were Nine Below Zero.
Depeche mode... brother had a ticket but couldn't go, so I went instead.
I wasn't a fan, been one ever since.
Metallica! In the point back in 94 or 95 can't remember
The Cult @ Manchester Apollo - 1985. Awesome
I know they're touring again, but I don't want to go, as it would sully the memory of that gig
TV Personalities- Maidstone Art College
Roxy Music - Country Life Tour 1974 Colston Hall Bristol
Fun Lovin' Criminals
Stiff Little Fingers...Blackburn King Georges Hall....early 80's
<cough>Paul Young</cough>
The second one was The Smiths to make up for it!
The Stranglers @ Gold Diggers in Chippenham, 1981.
First concert I ever went to was Michael Jackson in 1990. Thankfully I didn't get invited backstage.
AC/DC '81 Hanley Victoria Hall.Set the tone for the next 20 yrs of gigging,then just thought,enough of this noisy stuff.
Toyah, some dingy pub basement in Leeds, just the 50 of us. Brilliant.
The Cult @ Manchester Apollo - 1985. Awesome
Was at that as well Binners ...we could have met so many times and yet you ended up with Hora
specials. 1981.
oh, and toyah in 1980...almost forgot about that, she was that good... 🙄
The Keef Hartley Band. Kingston Hotel. (Neither are here any longer...)1968.
Budgie Bolton Town Hall about 73ish
blur 1997. first time me and my future wife were in a room together, though it took us another 11 years to meet!
Shakin Stevens when I was about 10, 30 years ago!
Folks were on a night out in town and thought they'd surprise my sister and me by dropping us 'somewhere special' and picking us up later. IT WAS NOT MY CHOICE
Anthrax- Hanley Victoria Hall, me duck.
Crowded House, GMex, 1993. I was only 13, it will stay with me forever.
Wishbone Ash, Feb 12th 1972 Newcastle City Hall
Junkyard - we've probably met loads of times during the mental Hacienda/Warehouse party days, but things are a tad.... ahem... hazy from back then 😉
The Fall at Bangor Uni, circa 1990 (Extricate had just come out).
Mark E on fine form preaching from the pulpit. Seen them several times since and they were just as good. Don't listen to them much on record though.
Guns n Roses, Use Your Illusion tour, Milton Keynes 1991.
Bit of a mad trip for an 11 year old from Cumbria, but so worth it.
well, strictly speaking Status Quo, when my mum took me to see Queen at St. James Park when i was 10
The Cult
Sonic Temple Tour at the NEC, 1987. Still have the Programme.
My ears were ringing for 3 days afterwards. Happy days.
Uriah Heep - Hammersmith Odeon - 1973-ish
well, strictly speaking Status Quo, when my mum took me to see Queen
Bit of a contrast.
Can't remember the name but they were like the West Midlands version of ZZ Top.
The venue was the sort of place were your feet stick to the floor but there was booze, a good atmosphere and naked breasts so it was a pretty good night out tbh
Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction
Wolverhampton Poly
Many, many, many years ago......
White stripes at blackpool
Genesis - Desside Arena - 1982
philconsequence - Memberthe crocketts
Friends of friends. I once went surfing with Davey Crockett, nice young man he was too.
My first would have been this christian version of the levellers called [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_Burning ]Eden Burning[/url]. Followed up a couple of weeks later by the opposite of Christian folk rock: Pantera 8) . Still one of the best gigs I ever went to.
Oh BarnsleyMitch, be ye not ashamed: I saw Quo once too. But with my dad because he had 2 tickets and none of his workmates would go. 😆
The Prodigy in Brooklyn Heights Newport, followed by U2/Stereo MCs in Cardiff Arms Park, both in 93.
Stiff Little Fingers.
Technically though, The Donkeys as they were the support band - Never have I seen anyone so covered in flob. "You've been a great audience". Barf!
The Police in 1980 at Milton Keynes Bowl.
a christian version of the levellers
I don't even want to imagine what that sounded like
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Budgie - Impeccable Tour, St David's Day, 1977, Hanley Victoria Hall.
In't google brilliant? You can find out loads of stuff
[url= http://www.songkick.com/concerts/2796256-meat-loaf-at-manchester-apollo ]Meatloaf, The Bat Out Of Hell 10th Anniversary World Tour.. Manchester Apollo, Friday 27 March 1987[/url]
Fab night, seats right in the middle of the circle with a good view and excellent acoustics. Compare that to seeing him at g-mex a few years later which was quite probably the worst gig I've ever attended
Deacon Blue... at what was Manchester GMex
GF at the time fainted (presume due to heat, not proximity to Mr Ross....)
Ended up dragging her out - still amazes me how the crowd parted as I did so...
St Johns brought her round, gave her a seat and a cup of sweet tea and banished me back to the gig - with instructions to collect the GF on my way out 🙂
Public Enemy, touring Fear of a Black Planet.
2nd time I saw them (last year) was for the FoaBP 20th anniversary tour - I'm happy to say they've improved a lot.
My first actual proper gig with known bands rather than live acts in the pub was Donington '90. Thunder, Quireboys, Poison, Aerosmith, Whitesnake. Rawk!
That's if you discount, when I was very young, going to my local sports centre to see a live performance by the Animal Kwackers.
Bongo, Rory, Twang and Boots.
Ahem.
As you were.
Monsters of Rcck 81
AC/DC
Whitesnake
Blue Öyster Cult
Slade
Blackfoot
More
I can remember the AC/DC bell and Whitesnake (when they were english)but nothing else
I WILL NEVER stand in a muddy field with bottles of piss being thrown all over the place again
Plum
999 Dartington hall 78?
First gig, included sex (well ok a grope) and alcohol. Not bad for a 14 yr old.
I WILL NEVER stand in a muddy field with bottles of piss being thrown all over the place again
I remember, as a terrified teen, getting accosted at Donington by a wild looking neb with a heavy Glaswegian (I think) accent. Frightened me to bloody death.
"Hey! Hey ye! YE LADDIE!" [i]*mad pointing*[/i]
Erm. Hello yes?
"as YE, ye go' any [b]BEER[/b]?" [i]*more pointing, wild glassy stare*[/i]
Um. No. Sorry. Er, sir.
"Well. 'kin ere ye go then pal!" [i]*thrusts a two-gallon flagon of ale at me*[/i] "you have a 'kin gran' day now!"
Oh. Cool! Thank you very much!
Gotta love Doni.
First gig, included sex (well ok a grope) and alcohol. Not bad for a 14 yr old.
How old were you?
The Guana Batz at Granny's in Pompey (classy place on top of the tricorn)
Bet that's impressed you all.....
Wish it had been something like The Clash but alas I am too young.
Black Sabbath in about 76 IIRC - its all a bit vague in the mists of time. Might have been tangerine dream
Easy to get those two mixed up.
Rubber_Buccaneer - I supported them loads of times!
Motorhead 1981 at Bradford St Georges Hall.
My dad and uncle took me .No alchohol, no drugs and defintely no women.Come on i was only 11
Oh gosh, that means trying to remember the early 70's ... and my memory isn't what it was. 😳
Blind Melon in support of Lenny Kravitz Wembley arena. A friend was going with his girlfriend for her birthday and they had a spare ticket. Turned out to be bloody awesome and the start of a long lasting love of live music.
Cougar, sorry i was 15, does that make it better? Punk rock!!
cinnamon_girl - MemberOh gosh, that means trying to remember the early 70's ... and my memory isn't what it was.
Me two 🙂
barnsleymitch - Member
I supported them loads of times!
What band? I went to the Klub Foot (The Clarendon)in Hammersmith quite a bit and will probably have seen you play if you came that far south.
The Undertones, Bradford St George's Hall, 1980
A band called the Juvies, Bucaneer. Only gig I clearly remember in London was Gaz's Rockin Blues (Soho, I think).
Donington 95. Machine Head was my first moshpit, and I was on the barrier for Metallica, until halfway through Fade to Black when my ribs started to give out. Fortunately one of the guards at the front saw I was getting squished and pulled me out. \o/
Cud, Wakefield, about 1987ish?
Glastonbury was/is a more or less annual summer holiday for us, and I got taken from year dot, so probably some naff old 90's band on the NME stage was probably my first taste of it.
remember being blown away by QOTSA when I was about 11 at Glasto
Cougar, sorry i was 15, does that make it better? Punk rock!!
Black Sabbath:
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Stone Roses at Spike Island May 1990. When they (finally) came on stage I nearly died of excitement, the atmosphere was incredible. "The time is now" Mr Brown bellowed over and over, it certainly was.
(incidentally, trawling images to do that post, could there be any more uncool-looking bands than early Sabbath? Good heavens)
The clash 79ish, supported by the Slits.
Foo fighters, colour and the shape tour at shepherds bush empire.
Brian may and roger Taylor for the encore (with two drum kits on stage) it rocked.
Night of the guitars at royal court about 1985 , leslie west, randy california,robbie kreiger,justin hayward,alvin lee .....real guitar fest
Sky, my dad took me to see them at the Aberdeen Capitol while I was still in primary school. Then there was a looong gap and the next one was either Tori Amos in Glasgow or Sparklehorse in Bristol in 1998.
Average age of a STWer = 48?
Unless you count the school band's unsuccessful audition in the East Midlands heat of some Saturday morning TV kid's programme "battle of the bands" type thing, mine was U2 Joshua tree tour 1987 Cardiff arms park.
Stone Roses at Spike Island May 1990. When they (finally) came on stage I nearly died of excitement, the atmosphere was incredible. "The time is now" Mr Brown bellowed over and over, it certainly was.
I was there too, nearly missed the coach back to sheff, I remember gary clail on u sound system was shite, and the fireworks at the end were ace, the rest is a blur
Subway Sect (support for Buzzcocks on their '78 Love Bites tour) at the Aberdeen Capitol also. I was 14. With my elder sister and her Banchory punk rock mates.
Both bands were chuffin great.
Loads of folk bands as a kid but first I chose to go and see was the Brian May Band, on the back to the light tour. Pretty damn good as it happens... 1993, apparently, so I was 15- I remember chatting up some random older girl and she asked "Did you ever see queen live?" "Well, no, I was 8 when they played their last show" 
Second was the All-****ing-mighty in Edinburgh, got backstage passes for that one, even did a stage invasion
The Who.
Stockton-on-Tees ABC, 1968.
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Orbital at the Wolverhampton Civic 1998 IIRC