Simple Minds - Wembley Arena - 1985. I was 17.
the mighty Hawkwind at the brangwyn Hall in swansea...I think it was 1972 I was 16 years old. I was the space ritual tour. It was utterly amazing and very loud ....and yes pedropete I also emerged a different person 🙂
Public Enemy, 1988, UEA, Norwich.
1979 , Edinburgh Rock Festival , The Undertones , Squeeze , Talking Heads , Van Morrison.... 😀
Judas Priest!!! 1980 supported by Iron Maiden - Brum Odeon - Bloody long time ago....must be getting old!
Local college band. First proper paid gig was Elvis Costello, going to see him in Paris in May 🙂
Misfits at the LAII in '99.
It was bloody ace too even if it was Michael Graves on vocals rather than Danzig. I was only 16.
Showaddywaddy. My parents took me when I was a nipper.
My first gig without parents was 808 State at the GMex, with N-Joi and the Sugarcubes supporting them. Bjork was screechingly awful but everything else was great.
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the moshpit in Biohazard was the first of the day and was quite an eye opener
we hunkered down behind a crash barrier with some cider and a 'teenth to avoid extreme & aerosmith
also did this one the following year
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I went with my parents and brother to see Sky at the Aberdeen Capitol. I think they were touring Sky Five Live so it looks like it would have been 1983 and I'd have been 7 or 8.
After that there was a long break until I saw Tori Amos at the Clyde Auditorium in 1998. There was a much shorter gap between that and my third gig, Sparklehorse at the Fleece and Firkin in Bristol the same summer.
Portishead live at Ashton Court in Brizzle at the Free Festival, back in the daze of '97 ish? I was at the front crushed against the barrier and I asked... "Why haven't I heard this band before and where are they from" 😳
The DJ who did the warm up was absolutely awesome, some great scratching and dropping a huge amount of awesome tunes.
I don't class hearing Kylie, Jason, Big Fun, Sonia, London Boys at a hitman n her roadshow soundcheck as a "live gig", but if I did that would've been 91-93'ish.
Now thinking about it, I'm not sure if Chicane live at Lakota was before Portishead, it really was a daze back then.
Monsters of Rock 1981
AC/DC
Whitesnake
Blue Öyster Cult
Slade
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I was 15 - asked to borrow £20 off my Mum to go with a mate from school
Terrifying to a young lad like myself bit brilliant except for the bottles of piss and the 'toilet' facilities
The Jam, Crawley Leisure Centre Feb 23rd 1981.
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My abiding memory is ending up on the track with a load of skins and punks running down the platform towards us.
Found this via google which seems to agree 🙂
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The list is long enough as it is but doesn't include a lot of Jam gigs including the infamous Jam and Purple Hearts gig at Crawley Leisure Centre in February 1981. Weller had a dreadful cold and about 8 of us got detached from the main group of Mods after the gig (because we had to go back to get my brother's Parka) and were left having to square up to about 60 punks and skins at the end of the platform at Three Bridges Station, the cavalry arrived in the form of the Brighton/Hove/Worthing lot just in the nick of time as we were about to be overwhelmed and get a good kick-in - Happy Days[/i]
Pink Floyd, Earls Court on the Division Bell tour 1994. Dad managed to get 2 tickets, but they weren't together. I was surrounded by aging old-timers who took a boat load of drugs then passed out.
Given what little Floyd I'd listened to (I was into Levellers / Wonderstuff etc. and only went as I'd been promised a trip to Tower Records) it was like listening to the biggest hi-fi in the world. The pyro was pretty cool, even from my seat half way back I could feel the heat from the flames.
I think it was guns and roses at wembley in about 1991
Public Image Ltd. Aberdeen Capitol 1986. 2nd gig was Public Image Ltd Edinburgh Playhouse 1987. I managed to get a live CD of this gig off EBay a few years ago.
Iron Maiden with Anthrax supporting.
Cascais Portugal 1989
very excited just got tickets to take the wife to see Tindersticks at Warwick Uni Arts centre in April 🙂
Monsters of Rock 1981AC/DC
Whitesnake
Blue Öyster Cult
Slade
Blackfoot
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Plumber - I was there too !!.
I was with a girlfriend and i'd left my motorbike on an estate close by. Went to get it afterwards and it wasn't there. Bloke came out of his house, told us that he had put it in his garage as it was raining and would I like a cup of tea ! 🙂
Sparks 1974 Hammersmith Odeon (Apollo now).
That started me off going to live gigs regularly a couple of times a week, best was the Rezillos last gig in London (before the comeback tours) in a very packed Marquee club about 1978/9, The Jam in Paris was a blast as well.
Next gig is Lush in May at Camden Roundhouse, surprised I'm still at it!!! 🙂
I think it was Genesis - 1978/9 ? at Aberdeen Capitol - others in my year had been doing gigs for ages before then but I wasn't allowed 🙁 I think the entire evening shift of Fine Fare took the evening off for that, we had a very understanding store manager..
My first big gig was David Bowie at Bingley Hall Stafford,June 25th 1978, same night as the Argentina Holland World Cup final. I was 17, the guy I went with knew someone at the venue and we managed to get upstairs onto a gantry which ran around the hall where the lighting was. It was the Heroes tour and totally brilliant.
Other memorable gigs were one of the very last Jam concerts also at Bingley in December 1982 and seeing the Smiths at N Staffs Poly students union (capacity about 400) in 1984 when they were relatively unknown.
First gig I went to: Dire Straits (and it was).
First gig I bought to tickets for: Megadeth/Alice in Chains, 1991ish, Poole. Epic.
