What was your first live gig?

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.