What was your first live gig?

OP – Wedding Present still going and still great fun live. Go and see them.

For me – Depeche Mode, ca 1985 I think. Memorable for two reasons – one being the first gig and second because the support were some oddballs whose lead singer was enclosed in some kind of shower cubicle contraption and was completely nuddy inside. So you couldn’t really see anything in detail apart from light and shade, and being the 80’s….. well there was quite a bit of dark. First time I’d ever seen a real life woman in the nude that was.

Queen at Wembley Stadium in 1986.

Fun Lovin Criminals, Rock City, Nottingham, late 90’s (I think).
Huey stopped the show whilst a joint was passed up & around the band.

Michael Jackson, Glasgow Green, 1992

Not a bad start

Late 80s, Saxon at the Cresset in Peterborough. Very rock n roll.

The Faces at Blackpool Winter Gardens. Gave my musical taste a kick. Great night.

1st: 1962/1963, the rainbow at finsbury park
stevie wonder, aretha franklin, temptations, four tops, martha reeves and many more on the same bill

2nd: dave dee dozy beaky mick and titch at the marquee club wardour st

3rd: cat stevens at the mayfair theatre
great days indeed

latest was Hozier last week at Brixton acadamy 52 year after my first 🙂

The Levellers @ Civic Hall Wolverhampton

I used to watch my old man’s bands most weekends when I was a kid..
First gig on my own was Anthrax in Bristol

Chuck Berry
Bradford Alhambra
Mid 90s

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