U2, October 1981, Salford.
Oasis, August 1994, Kentish Town Forum
A couple of weeks before Definitely Maybe came out, and same week I passed my driving test.
Faithless in Germany at an outdoor arena. Was nuts, brilliant. Still remember it like it was yesterday.
Hawkwind , Malvern winter gardens in 1977 .
Aside from following a couple of local bands around (that even the Peterborough locals on this thread might not remember - The Jilted Brides and The Black Sky), my first 'proper' gig was Transvision Vamp at Rock City.
The wonders of the internet tell me it was October 1988 - back in the bad old days of Rock City with warm cans of Red Stripe and dark corners full of punters in various states of fornication and intoxication.
Napalm death, morbid angel, carcass and bolt thrower, Middlesbrough town hall, late 80 s, 16 yo. Fantastic
The Who & Friends (AC/DC, Nils Lofgren, The Stranglers) @ Wembley Stadium August 1979
The Housemartins, at a free festival 1985 put on by the local council. I was 15 and loved it 🙂
Soundgarden, Faith No More and Guns N Roses at Gateshead, '92 I think. Stood around near the front for hours, back was killing me so I went and got a seat in the stands, I'd no sooner Sat down and they came on.
James Brown, I was 14 on holiday in southern Spain with a mate and his parents, 1986 I think, we had visited some water park and then decided to stay for the concert. This was during the Rocky 3 time, great show, guy knew how to put on a show, probably took an hour just for him to go through the band and them to do their solo's.
Peter Frampton, 1974. Things improved greatly when I escaped to uni.
1st: 1962/1963, the rainbow at finsbury park
@ Lester - I remember the Rainbow, was a regular there!
James Brown
@ stewartc - wow, very envious. Really wish that I'd seen him live, currently making do with Youtube vids.
My first three were:
Extreme,on the Pornograffiti tour
Great White, on the Hooked tour
Slayer, on the Seasons in the Abyss tour.
Edit: but there was also Guns N Roses at Wembley Stadium in there somewhere
Queen on their A Night At The Opera tour, Hammy odean. First time I'd witnessed big hair and head banging.
Suede 1994 Bristol.
Adam and the Ants at Deeside ice rink in 1983. 😀
Lester, that is a stunning line up, you win I reckon !
stevie wonder, aretha franklin, temptations, four tops, martha reeves and many more on the same bill
For accuracy it was probably Simon Groom and Goldie (the Labrador, not the gold toothed junglist dj slash record producer) at Ripley leisure centre when I was about 10 during the Saturday lunch roller skating.
After that is was My Bloody Valentine at Trent Poly in about 1988.
The first one I remember was Nanas Revenge and Synko at Ulverston Cons Club circa Y2k (I was sixteen I think).
Charlatans, Nelson Mandela Building, Sheffield. 9th March 1990.
The Smiths at Tower Ballroom Edgbaston 1984. Lost my shoes in the mosh, long mac and mocassins days.
Moby at University of East Anglia in 1999.
Jimi Hendrix at the Troutbeck Hotel Ilkley 1967.Chaos! Awsome! I believe the hotel is now a nursing home
Stiff Little Fingers - B'ham Odeon 1980
The Primatives, Bristol Ice Rink.
Then Pink Floyd at Wembley Stadium.
Last gig was Alt-J, Leeds Sports Direct Arena.
All brilliant and memorable.
Bush at the Barras sometime in the late 90's. Seemed a good idea at the time.
pwei I think in glamorous Redcar.
Monsters of Rock, Donington 1988.
72,000 capacity but somehow there were 108,000 let in (how do they know?).
Great event - found out next morning that 2 people were killed crowd surfing when Guns n Roses were on - they were the second band on that day so early. It was the days before mobile phones - the BBC had an emergency helpline broadcast on TV so thousands of parents, friends, families were trying to find out if it was their little Timmy. Completely oblivious to it til I got home at something like 6.30 the next morning....my mum gave me the biggest hug ever and I had no idea why.
Lester, that is a stunning line up, you win I reckon !stevie wonder, aretha franklin, temptations, four tops, martha reeves and many more on the same bill
Yeah, but how old would you have to be! 😆
Pink Floyd - Division Bell in Earls Court 2004
Still remember it like it was yesterday.
Then you weren't there, man
The Cure; Hammersmith. 1983 ish. Had to leave before the end to catch the last train back to rural Essex 🙁
Donington '90 was my first proper (ie, non-pub) gig.
Thunder,
Quireboys,
Poision,
Aerosmith,
Whitesnake.
Top do, bit of a baptism of fire though.
Thinking about it, my first ever live gig was the Animal Kwackers in a sports hall at the Hyndburn Sports Centre. I still have a signed LP somewhere...
The stranglers cambridge corn exchange 1979 can't remember a single thing about it.
The Police, Ghost in the Machine tour Queens Hall, Leeds. Not sure of year maybe 81 or early 82. Saw Crass in May 82 so defo before then.
Northwind - Member
I'm jealous of lots of stuff in this thread but this one in particular... Not that I would have gone, at the time, but it was the day I started listening to music. 5 minutes into Metallica, my folks are going "what is this rubbish" and I'm going "I have no idea but I'm going to find out..." Genuinely can't even think how much that changed my life. Completely, I reckon.
Introduced me to a lot of stuff. The line up was cracking. A lot of the stuff before the main show when the remains of Queen came on was great. Metallica, Def Leopard, Guns 'n Roses, and... Spinal Tap!! (missing from the video releases).
And then I got to see David Bowie also! and Mick Ronson reunion with Bowie, though sadly his last gig really before he died.
A bunch of garbage in there too, but generally amazing experience and think that was the last time I'd been to old Wembley.
1987 - Meat Loaf - Newcastle City Hall. It was tremendous, went on about 3 hours.
Status quo , Hammersmith 1981 before they went tits up and became a joke .
The Four Tops, Liverpool Empire 1971
Darts, remember them? Glasgow Apollo, circa 1979, just after Den Hegarty had left. 12 years old at the time. Allowed to tag along with my dads best mates' wife and her brother.
Brilliant gig and can remember a huge scrap breaking out when Horatio Hornblower, the saxophonist, (probably not his real name), threw his waistcoat into the madding throng of Weegie teddy boys.
Still love them and Duke of Earl pencilled in as a funeral song.
Focus - Leeds Uni 1974 I was still at school). The next two would also have been at Leeds
Wishbone Ash 1976
Rory Gallagher 1977?
Last band ? UFO last year - still as good as the first time I saw them (Exeter Uni 1981)
Hmm. I think it was probably Slade at the Top Rank in Doncaster when they were still skinheads. Date unsure. The first biggy was Pink Floyd, Sheffield City Hall, 1971 (I think). The first half was the yet unreleased Dark Side of the Moon. Second half was Ummagumma and Echoes era. Brilliant stuff.
Jimi Hendrix at the Troutbeck Hotel Ilkley 1967.Chaos! Awsome! I believe the hotel is now a nursing home
Is seriously envious.
Marillion at the Cornwall Coliseum, 'Clutching at Straws' tour, so must have been '87.
The gig was fantastic but the coach took bloody hours to get there & back from Exeter, i think we left about 2 in the afternoon & got home about 3.30am!
Slade - B'ham Odean. 😯
