What was your first?

[Graf21]

34 minutes ago, slash's hat said:

The struggle was real, kids today don't know they're born.

It was only a joke. We had some knocking about but there was no real need to use them. Same with records I suppose... People play more on vinyl now than when I was a kid.

[JayBalls]

First single: Babybird - You're Gorgeous

First album: Guns N Roses Appetite for destruction on vinyl (bought for me as a present around 1990)

First tape: Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love (nicked off my brother I think)

First CD: Now that's what I call music 32 (I think)

First download: Probably some 90's punk, maybe Goldfinger.

First 'now' album: 32

First gig: 4ft Fingers & Spunge - Golfing on the moon tour, Cheltenham town hall 2001ish

First glastonbury: 2013

Age: 31

Edited May 18, 2017 by JayBalls

[BlackHole2006]

First Single: We're Going To Ibiza by The Vengaboys.

First album: Have You Fed The Fish? By Badly Drawn Boy

First Tape: Vengaboys Greatest Hits

First Now Album: Can't bloody remember

First gig: Guillemots Brixton Academy

First Glastonbury: 2008. Remember knackering my dad out because I wanted to see everything all at once. I like to think I take a more chilled out approach to it now. 

First act I saw at Glastonbury: Kate Gash. She was shit.

Age: 24

[**claire**]

First single: Kylie - I should be so lucky.

First album: Five Star.

First tape: Five Star

First CD: Prince Symbol I think

First download: no idea.

First Now album: probably quite an early one as I'm getting on a bit.

First gig: Michael Jackson Bad Tour in 1988, age 9.

First Glastonbury: 2010.  SUNSHINE!

Edited May 19, 2017 by **claire**
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[eastynh]

First single: Hyper Go Go - Never Let Go was the first 12" vinyl I think

First album: Michael Jackson - Bad

First tape: Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith and Devotion

First CD: Depeche Mode - I just Can't Get Enough

First download: An Italian House remix of Sylvester - You Make Me Feel

First Now album: Never owned one

First gig: Black Grape, Manchester Academy 1995

First Glastonbury: 2015

Age: 38

[Fishman]

1 hour ago, PretentiousThinkpiece said:

First act I saw at Glastonbury: Probably someone who played Friday on the Pyramid Stage in 1995

Ozric Tentacles? 

[snorton82]

First single: Bart Simpson - Do The Bartman

First album: Jive Bunny & The Mastermixes

First tape: not a clue

First CD: Nirvana - Nevermind

First download: not a clue

First 'now' album: Now 22

First gig: Pulp at Party in The Park in Leeds, actual gig was The Kooks in Manchester in 2007 as none of my friends ever went to gigs until late

First glastonbury: 2010, been to every one since

[the beadle]

7 hours ago, henry bear said:

First single: I can remember buying Killer Queen or Bohemian Rhapsody but it may have for a present.

First album: no idea

First tape: ditto, never really bought many but made loads of mix tapes

First CD: Beatles Past Masters Vol 2

First download: no idea.

First Now album: never owned one, pretty much hated mainstream 80's pop.

First gig: The Specials, Cardiff 1980

First Glastonbury: 1983. As I remember there were two stages, the Pyramid and the Hare Krishna tent. The Pyramid headliners were Melanie, UB40 and King Sunny Ade. We were easily pleased back then!

I was there,( it was my 2nd, I went in 82,) and King Sunny Ade was fucking awesome. Danced with some very pretty ladies, it was my birthday on the Saturday, they had it earlier then, Glastonbury I mean, not my birthday.

[balti-pie]

First single: Wham, freedom 

first album: David Bowie, Ziggy stardust

first tape: Bros, push 

first gig: late, actually. I was 20. It was Placebo in Perth, WA

First Glastonbury: 2005. Wanted to go since the mid 90's, none of my mates wanted to go. Wasn't of an age where going on your own was a thing. Got together with my (still) missus, she'd already been 3 times! 

First act there: undertones opening the pyramid stage I think, the other stage was cancelled for a few hours cos of the four inches of standing water everywhere! 

[the beadle]

Oh go on then

1st single Roy Orbison It's Over, dunno why, I wished I'd bought something a bit rockier but I was very young

1st album The Kinks Sunny Afternoon ( a Marble Arch compilation)

1st tape Neil Young and Crazy Horse Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, every copy I had of this on vinyl jumped in the same place

1st CD REM Orange

1st download Something illegal off WinMX I expect.

1st gig Yes at Blackburn 1971 I think, it was the time of The Yes Album, certainly the first BIG gig I attended except see next bit.

1st Festival Hyde Park 1970 Pink Floyd did Atom Heart Mother with a full choir and orchestra. I was 15 had hitched to London from Lancashire the day before, was totally fucked and missed a lot of it but did see the Floyd, just.

1st Glastonbury 1982, got there late Friday, my birthday, in the pissing rain. The girls (and dogs) wanted the van so we had to put the tent up and got soaked. Roy Harper was on the next day and was dull at great length, shame cos I was a fan, we'd gone to see Van the Man, my missus loved him, I was looking forward to Jackson Browne on Sunday evening but of course after Van the girls wanted to go home. Guess who won. My (ex) missus has never been to Glastonbury since, this year will be my 26th, I work there nowadays, makes for an easier, more varied festival, I wouldn't miss it for the world.

Age I'll be 63 the Sunday before

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[henry bear]

43 minutes ago, the beadle said:

I was there,( it was my 2nd, I went in 82,) and King Sunny Ade was fucking awesome. Danced with some very pretty ladies, it was my birthday on the Saturday, they had it earlier then, Glastonbury I mean, not my birthday.

In the 80's Michael Eavis used to choose rather idiosyncratic Pyramid headliners; Ade, Fela Kuti, Gil Scott-Heron, Dr John etc. 

[gooner1990]

First single: Bart Simpson - Do the Bartman

First album: Michael Jackson - Bad

First tape: Michael Jackson - Bad

First CD: Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms (my dad gave it to me)

First download: can't remember

First 'now' album: Now 8

First gig: Michael Jackson at the old Wembley in 1997

First glastonbury: 2004

Age: 35

[Gnomicide]

First single: i remember asking for Devil Gate Drive by Suzi Quatro but the first one I went out and bought myself was Rat Trap by Boomtown Rats.

First album: Think it was Queen - News of the World. 

First tape: Never bought tapes, they were shit but I got Slade's Kamikaze Syndrome off an auntie one Christmas. 

First CD: Whitesnake - 1987

First download: First legal one was a Zombie Met Girl album.

First Now album: Never bought one, think we have Now That's What I Call Christmas in the house.

First gig: Iron Maiden, Liverpool Royal Court - 1981

First Glastonbury: 2019

Age: Five Oh

[ian the worm]

9 hours ago, maelzoid said:

First single: Rat Rapping by Roland Rat from Father Christmas. First one I bought was Loverboy by Billy Ocean

First album: Dream Into Action by Howard Jones

First tape: Ghostbusters soundtrack (also along with my first 'walkman' which was not a Sony but a Saisho) and tragically also The Album by Roland Rat (I listened to this on Youtube recently - dire). First one I bought was probably Hits 2 

First CD: The Essential Jean Michel Jarre

First download: American Woman by Lenny Kravitz in 1999 from Napster. I remember being blown away by how good mp3 sounded considering it had taken only 30 minutes to download via dialup and was free.

First 'now' album: Now 5 on double vinyl (preceded by The Hits Album)

First gig: Simple Minds - NEC - 23/09/89

First Glastonbury: 1993

Age: That should be fairly easy to deduce from the above

Snap on Howard Jones.  Makes you same as me.... 45 ±1 ?

[SophieBee]

First single: Tracey Ullman - Sunglasses

First album: The Best of the Monkees (yeah I know, best of albums are weak, but I was five and didn't know any better)

First tape: Madonna - True Blue 

First CD: Can't be sure, but I was late getting to CDs and it wasn't until uni that I finally got a player for my room. Think it was probably either Portishead - Dummy or Pulp - Different Class, both were on near constant rotation

First download: not a clue!

First 'now' album: Now 7 (Nu Shooz! Camouflage! Sledgehammer!)

First gig: I want to say it was Madonna's Blond Ambition tour in 1990, but it was in fact Bros at Wembley Arena in 1989. Oh well.

First Glastonbury: Didn't make it to Glastonbury until 2013, though my first festival was Reading 1992

Age: 41

[kaytee...]

First single - 2 Unlimited - No limits. Now I was like 3 when this came out but its the first song I remember listening to on repeat much to the annoyance of everyone else.

First tape - Smurfs Go Pop. Still have this

First album - First one I bought with my own money was The Killers, Hot Fuss.

First Now album - Now 42

First gig - Steps 

First Glastonbury - 2014

Age: 25

[incident]

You've all got far better memories than me it seems.

First most of these questions: No idea whatsoever.

First 'now' album: Don't think I ever had one. But I'm not certain.

First gig: No idea - I went to a youth group that put on "under age" gigs and it would have been one of them. First by a major band would be U2, Zooropa Tour, Wembley 1993 which I'm quite proud of. Think I nagged my dad for ages to get him to take me.

First Festival: Witnness 2001. Would have been earlier if I wasn't useless. The amount of convincing that mates had to do to get me to sleep in a tent.. How things would change.

First Glastonbury: 2004. Would have been earlier if mates weren't useless. Tried desperately to organise them for 2002 and 2003 to no avail. So went in 2004 with different mates instead.

Age: 37 (and I had to double check that)

[sedra]

First single: Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves - Cher ( 1971)

First album: 10cc Sheet Music 1972

First tape: Everything But The Girl- Love not money ( I stuck by Vinyl til 1990! ) only ever bought a few tapes - made up my own mix tapes from radio and my records 

First CD: Woodface - Crowded House ( I think) 1991

First download: Black Swan - Athlete 

First 'now' album: Now the Christmas album! 

First gig: David Essex - 1975 Earls Court Arena 

First glastonbury: 1984 ( Sunday - snuck in through the hedge!)

Age: 56

  

 

[mandolin]

So, I'm really going to do this, am I?

1st single:  Boom bang a bang by Lulu

1st album (bought with my own money - had saved for weeks to buy it):  Dark Side of the Moon (got stolen on the bus on my way home 20 minutes after buying it)

1st tape:  Can't remember ever buying one.  Made loads.

1st CD:  No idea - though I know I bought Enya for my mum

1st download:  Dark side of the Moon

1st gig:  Christie Moore but he was completely hammered so it's never counted in my mind.  I'm going to go for AC/DC as the first "proper" gig.

1st Now album:  Whatever one kept my 4year old daughter happy on the very slow drive down to the south of France in a very old car in 1992.

1st (one day) festival:  Slane Castle 1986.  (Yeah, I saw Freddie)

1st (multi-day) festival:  Cambridge Folk Festival 2003

Age:  Whatever it was when I started this list, it feels much greater now!

 

 

 

[drksc8]

1st single:  Pink Floyd Another Brick in The Wall 45

1st album Had to be a Kiss album

1st tape:  Quiet Riot

1st CD:  Metallica Master of Puppets

1st download:  Napster , so who knows

1st gig: Ozzy and Metallica

1st Now album: none

• Damn those choices make me look bad . 1st Glastonbury this year Age 46

[BlackZeppelin]

Oh dear

First single - Soul Limbo by Booker T

(Second hand)

First Album - Just a Boy by  Leo Sayer  (still love it)

First Tape - Hendrix in the West

First Gig - Bruce Springsteen 1984 Melbourne Showgrounds

First Glasto 1994

Edited May 19, 2017 by BlackZeppelin

[Rubber Soldier]

First single: First one I bought was Me In Black by Will Smith, but I had a load of old hand me downs before that  

First album: Again, had a load of hand me down tapes, but first I bought was probably something by Green Day.

First tape: See above.

First CD: See above.

First download: Elvis Presley vs Junkie XL - Little Less Conversation (remix). The one from the Nike cage advert. Downloaded on Kazaa.

First 'now' album: Now 41. Double tape for my Walkman

First gig: Travis at the SECC in Glasgow, 2002. 

First glastonbury: 2016. A newbie!

Age: 29

Pretty brutal all round!

Edited May 19, 2017 by Rubber Soldier

[BlackZeppelin]

1 hour ago, mandolin said:

1st album (bought with my own money - had saved for weeks to buy it):  Dark Side of the Moon (got stolen on the bus on my way home 20 minutes after buying it)

Obviously a curse with this album - I've bought it at least 4 times, had it stolen/ permanently borrowed, lost and broken 

[JacquelineS]

First single: not sure but most likely The Beatles - Hey Jude

First album: Crosby, Stills and Nash - the album with Marrakesh Express 

First tape: not sure

First CD: possibly Bob Marley Legend. I remember my first time hearing a CD - it was Supertramp

First 'now' album: Have no idea what this is

First gig: Probably Chilliwack 

First glastonbury: First Glastonbury in about 31 days. 

Age: 63

[drksc8]

2 hours ago, BlackZeppelin said:

Obviously a curse with this album - I've bought it at least 4 times, had it stolen/ permanently borrowed, lost and broken 

with the black light posters too,