[Closed] First live band you ever saw...

ABC Deeside Leisure Centre 1982. Although if the truth be know I saw the Glitter Band Dixy Land, Colwyn Bay Pier 1975 😳

Alice Cooper, Welcome to my Nightmare tour, Wembley Arena, '86 I think.

There was blood! and guillotines! and straight-jackets! and guitars with flame throwers built in!

Def Leppard - Southampton Mayflower, 85 or 86. Actually Tesla who were the support act and very good

Frist gig was actually Thunder (I dont even like Thunder, my dad took me!)

First actually gig on my own accord: Nirvana

Slade in 82 in Liverpool or it might have been Quo in queensferry.

That was the start of a long period of jumping on the train to Liverpool on a friday to watch a band, followed by either walking all the way home or a begging phone call to my dad to come get me - ahh the joys of being 15.......

Doctor Feelgood
Cheltenham Town Hall 1972?

The Skids at Barberellas Birmingham followed soon after by The Dickies, Buzzcocks, Elvis Costello and Sham 69.
Sham 69 was at the Mayfair suite in Brum which burnt down a few weeks later.
Saw The Ruts, Stiff Little Fingers and Undertones all in the same week. Great times 🙂

Ah crap, mine was The Quo as well! Birmingham NEC, probably 93 ish. Then my second was Mike and the Mechanics at Nottingham. My mum took me to both (gets worse doesn't it)

Peters&Lee @ great yarmouth 75

Dire Straits 1977 London club 🙂

Saxon, around 1988.

Yep, they really were the inspiration for Spinal Tap!

Levellers - Bournemouth, 1995 I think

The Beat @ Friars in Aylesbury, even the support band (Equators?) got 3 encores - 1979 I think

Rubber_Buccaneer - Member
The Guana Batz at Granny's in Pompey (classy place on top of the tricorn)

Bet that's impressed you all.....

Impressed me! Cos I was there too!
Talking of classy- that's where I met my wife 😀

that's where I met my wife

Did you ask her "what the bloody hell are you doing here?"

Echo and the Bunnymen

[i]Did you ask her "what the bloody hell are you doing here?"[/i]

She was there to see my band: The Flatulent Brothers. Class, I tell ya.

no idea, some heavy thrash thing in a blur of memories from the Buckley Tivoli in the late 80's

I have seen the Guana Batz a few times, twice in Manchester, and once down in that London at the klub foot.

I was also at Spike Island for the Stone Roses, who I also saw in Amsterdam on a coach trip that left from outside the hacienda at 2am on a friday morning.

But my first was Madness at the Manchester apollo, sometime in the early 80's

Dio at Newport Centre in 87 or 88, supported by Warlock. Doro Pesch was the stuff of a teenaged metallers wet dreams.

First band seen was my brothers shoegazing outfit, the mighty Summer Bled 🙂

First paid gig was Mercury Rev on the Yerself is Steam tour, so probably 92?

Janes Addiction on their strays tour. it was awesome.

1986 at Birmingham Odeon - Beastie Boys and Run DMC, ably supported by DJ Davy D

monsters of rock donnington 1987

Bon Jovi Headlined
Dio
Metallica
Anthrax
Wasp
Cinderella
and
The Bailey Brothers

Neds Atomic Dustbin - Preston Guildhall 1990

Chuck Berry, Bradford Alhambra, 1993.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band,Trentham Gardens,1976...I wasn't a fan,but all the older and cooler kids at School like 'em.
Seen lots and lots of bands since..

Another >>ahem, Paul Young, ahem<< 😳

Although there was another band there I think - can't remember.

Newcastle University Fresher's Ball, 1981.

Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance tour, 1982 @ Manchester Apollo.
Remember being so excited 'cos i'd got a front-row ticket 🙂

Iron Maiden with Anthrax giving a much better support performance 1990-91 ish

Iron Maiden, Beast on the Road Tour, 1982, aged 15, £2.75 for the ticket.

Accept and Judas priest 1981 at hammy o. Fast as a shark udo. Solar angels rising through dry ice.

First Maiden gig for me was 1984 and the 'Powerslave' tour - i loved that band at the time, even now that album seems ambitious.

Saw Accept on the 'balls to the wall' tour at Manchester Appollo - 1982-3?

DezB - Member

Impressed me! Cos I was there too!
Talking of classy- that's where I met my wife

You shock me DezB,I thought you had standards and everything! (I'm talking musically not about your wife,she looked fine on the webcam) 🙂

Saw Maiden twice on the Powerslave tour and met them before the gig at Sheffield City Hall and got their autographs on my denim jacket AND my Kerrang centre spread which I still have now 🙂

I still have signed copies of Powerslave on picture disc album (remember them?) and a manufacturers white label version, also with signatures, wonder what they are worth now?

Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin ... Shite! Supporting band ... a woman singing black velvet ... shite.

Later on ... Metalica ... shite.

All shite ... apart from ABBA or Bee Gees.

I have loads of Maiden picture disks (unsigned) last time I looked they were worth about £40 each.

Running Free picture SLEEVE is worth good money as is Maiden Japan on certain labels I believe.

Anthrax, St George's Hall, Bradford. 1987 I think...

Hawkwind, Preston Guildhall 1980

Just remembered i have one Iron Maiden cut-out picture dsic - name of the track escapes me, the one where the pic is of Eddie morphing into the devil...

maiden on the powerslave tour in 1983 at newcastle city hall was my second gig; first was the michael schenker group, also at newcastle city hall, in 1982 (aged 14)...

These guys, Monsters of Rock, Donnington Park...1984
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Muddy - that's 'Sanctuary' isn't it?

X - I was there too 🙂

Ooh - Michael Schenker Group, two albums by them as well - 'assault attack' (?) and Built to Destroy.

'Samurai...' 8)

Think thats it M-F, memory a bit dodgy these days!

Erm, Magnum and FM, 1986

I always thought from all the macho posturing on here that this forum was populated with a younger demographic, but from this thread it seems like I'm one of the youngest on here. Or perhaps all the kids are out scoring drugs.

Simple Minds, Dundee Caird Hall, 1982

The preponderance of so many R-R-R-Rock first gigs on here is a trifle disconcerting......
Mine was much more cerebral rock - [url= http://www.songkick.com/concerts/8440686-be-bop-deluxe-at-free-trade-hall ]Be Bop Deluxe[/url],21st January 1977 ,Manchester Free Trade Hall.

Iron Maiden with Anthrax giving a much better support performance 1990-91 ish

I saw them also, Edinburgh, fantastic gig

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my first was this tour (seems that most of STW's first gig was the mighty Maiden)
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Dogbert, yes I saw them at Edinburgh as well. Maiden were good but Anthrax had the edge.

Genesis, Brighton 1978?. My brother took me.

Was also at the crowded house one at the g Mex mentioned somewhere above.

Soundgarden, Faith No More and Guns n Roses at Gateshead in '92 I think.

I was there too - front right of the stage at the very front, right below Slash - I remember it well, a sunny but cold day and quite windy - reminded me of the November Rain video with his hair blowing in the wind 🙂

The Skids at the Marquee in 79.

Buzzcocks '78 Bradford. Love Bites tour?

Either young'uns don't go to concerts or there are a lot of old folks on here.

The Jam & The Stranglers, Leeds Poly, April 1977

Stiff Little Fingers, Ulster Hall, 1984

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Actually, it might have been The Police at Queens Hall in Leeds a few months earlier in '81. My best friend's sister wanted us to go with her, I wasn't up for it being a Punk, but fancied her, so.

Buzzcocks at Leeds University - 1977 or 78.

Steeleye Span, Lacock Folk Festival, forty years ago last year. Next gig was Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Trilogy Tour, St David's Hall, Cardiff 1972. Steeleye played Chippenham Folk Festival last year for the 40th anniversary, and I met Maddy Prior afterwards and had my copies of [i]Below The Salt[/i] on original vinyl and CD signed. Great gig.

Sparklehorse in Bristol in 1998.

MrsBouy watched The Specials in 82, owe errr.

Roxy Music at the Glasgow Apollo probably around 1977-78.

Skunk Anansie - May 1995 - Clapham Common

Can't quite remember, either this lot,

or the delight that was,

Either way would have been at Rock City some time in the late 80s.

slainte 8) rob

"Boney M", 1979 8) Saturday Seaside Special, Castlerushen, Isle of Man.

Death Angel, the Beirkeller in Liverpool, 1988.

Public Image Limited Aberdeen Capitol 1986.

Rebelution and the green. hands down sickest show i have ever been to.

Showing my age here.....Rolling Stones, Manchester March 65. Jeez it were loud!

1990 (1991?) at the Manchester Academy; Sugarcubes/Bjork.

Black Sabbath at Bradford St.Georges Hall - early 75 ish

The Men They Couldn't Hang; Harlesden 1985 ish

Dinosaur Jr - Brixton Academy around 1994/1995 very loud, ear buzzingly loud 😀

Stiff Little fingers at Leicester DeMontfort hall 79 or 80 I believe

First 2 gigs in the same week .... Bad Company at the Birmingham Odeon followed by UFO somewhere in Stoke!

Barclay James Harvest in Berlin 🙂

Damned, Anti Nowhere League, Charge & Chron Gen about 82 in London, was hard going to school the next day...

Skunk Anansie - Glasgow Barrowlands 1996. The lead singer Skin burst out a side door as we were queuing before the gig and almost wiped me out in the process....never even got an apology. 🙄

Stereophonics were the first support band on and failed to liven the crowd up.