Johnnyseven Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 The Wonder Stuff - Brixton Academy - April 1994 - I was 16. Support from The Gigolo Aunts and Done Lying Down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deebeedoobee Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 First festival would have been Elephant Fayre 1983 . Now that was an education ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deebeedoobee Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 40 minutes ago, Hotchilidog said: I went to that show. So glad I actually got to see Bowie, and it was a killer set too. I bunked off school and went with the now Mr Deebeedoobee and one of my brothers . I can remember coming out and seeing a see of cars in the car park. Brother had forgotten here he had parked his yellow painted post office van. 😩 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjamest Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 Hawkwind at Chatham Central Hall in 1975. Lemmy had been sacked a few months earlier but i remember they were still selling his 'Lemmy a quid 'till Friday' T shirts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernintendo Chalmers Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 1 minute ago, Chesh said: As a first gig..... kudos 😎 It was an amazing day. A group of us, all 18/19 years old, got a bus from Devon. Ah, the Summer of 96. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duke88 Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 First gig on my own was Terrorvision at Brixton Academy in 1995, aged 14. No looking back since then! First festival Reading 96. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skelts Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 2 hours ago, The Red Telephone said: Inspiral Carpets - Aston Villa Leisure Centre 1991. My second was Nirvana at The Hummingbird! My first was also Inspiral Carpets in 1991, at the Oasis in Swindon. Noel Gallagher was the guitar tech and everyone cheered when he came on stage coz they thought he was Clint Boon, they had the same haircut 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Dickfingers Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 Arctic Monkeys Lancashire Cricket Ground. Supports included a Japanese Beatles tribute band (class), Supergrass, The Coral and Amy Winehouse. It was 40 quid I think. I’ve seen them at least once on every tour since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
priest17 Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 1 minute ago, Tommy Dickfingers said: Arctic Monkeys Lancashire Cricket Ground. Supports included a Japanese Beatles tribute band (class), Supergrass, The Coral and Amy Winehouse. It was 40 quid I think. I’ve seen them at least once on every tour since. I had a ticket to that and my rents booked a bloody family holiday over it so I couldn't go. I still haven't fully forgiven them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Dickfingers Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 1 minute ago, priest17 said: I had a ticket to that and my rents booked a bloody family holiday over it so I couldn't go. I still haven't fully forgiven them. Ah man. I was in school and Arctic Monkeys played Warrington Parr Hall, this lads Mam got tickets for me and him on her brew at work. Was all set to fuck off from school when she text my mate like “sorry Adam someone offered me £100 for them x” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
priest17 Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 4 minutes ago, Tommy Dickfingers said: Ah man. I was in school and Arctic Monkeys played Warrington Parr Hall, this lads Mam got tickets for me and him on her brew at work. Was all set to fuck off from school when she text my mate like “sorry Adam someone offered me £100 for them x” That's brutal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dotdash79 Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 Manic street preachers at king George’s Hall Blackburn with catatonia supporting. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue6field Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 Simple Minds, Glasgow Barrowlands 1986 they had hired the hall for 3 days to rehearse for an upcoming tour of the states but then decided to sell tickets and give money to charity, nearly 3 hrs of greatest hits, still to this day one of my favourite nights at the Barra’s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokesy10 Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 Hard-Fi, Wolverhampton Civic, 2006 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokesy10 Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 32 minutes ago, Tommy Dickfingers said: Arctic Monkeys Lancashire Cricket Ground. Supports included a Japanese Beatles tribute band (class), Supergrass, The Coral and Amy Winehouse. It was 40 quid I think. I’ve seen them at least once on every tour since. I was there too. I remember thinking they were playing Beatles on the loudspeaker as we came in, then realised it was the tribute band. The Parrots, they're called. We saw them at the train station the next day in white suits. They had a kind of mega star persona about them which was quite funny. Seen AM every tour since too. Was hoping they'd be at GF 50th but more likely for 21. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry49 Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 17th Feb 1980. Cheltenham Town Hall. Def Leppard with Witchfynde. Before they sold out and went looking the Yankee Dollar!😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smash Williams Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 Cast at the Brighton Centre 1995. supported by the longpigs. Sound was great for the Longpigs (by Brighton Centre standards), then died a death when Cast came on. Wasn't the greatest debut experience. Luckily The Prodigy played around a month later, thats when the love affair with live music started...after my hearing had returned of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernintendo Chalmers Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 12 minutes ago, Stokesy10 said: Hard-Fi, Wolverhampton Civic, 2006 🤣 Hard to beat that one 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybigballs Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 If there is a prize for worst answer I'd like like to claim my prize right now please. Five Star, Manchester Apollo, 1985, aged 14. I thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny Bucket Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 10 minutes ago, billybigballs said: If there is a prize for worst answer I'd like like to claim my prize right now please. Five Star, Manchester Apollo, 1985, aged 14. I thank you. I went to see Shakatak. Twice. Put that in your Five Star pipe and smoke it 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreadwing Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 (edited) System of a down with support from Dillinger escape plan, Nottingham arena 2002. 14 years old. Edited March 2, 2020 by dreadwing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Dickfingers Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 29 minutes ago, Stokesy10 said: I was there too. I remember thinking they were playing Beatles on the loudspeaker as we came in, then realised it was the tribute band. The Parrots, they're called. We saw them at the train station the next day in white suits. They had a kind of mega star persona about them which was quite funny. Seen AM every tour since too. Was hoping they'd be at GF 50th but more likely for 21. Be shocked if they don’t do Glastonbury 21. My first Glastonbury headliner was Arctic Monkeys in 2013. Unreal. One of my favourite gigs ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosajthing Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 We Are The Ocean at Electric Ballroom... I was 15. Bit of a wake up call when the wall of death happened. The lead singer broke his collarbone in the moshpit, went off for a bit and then came back and finished the gig, legendary. Haven't listened to them in years now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsonjack Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 Skids - Birmingham Odeon New Street - September 1980 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avalon_Fields Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 2 hours ago, Ayrshire Chris said: First gig was T. rex in the Greens playhouse Glasgow before it became the Apollo Then like you Uriah Heep ,Fairport Hawkwind and every heavy rock and prog band that played the greens/Apollo . First festival was the Grangemouth great western express festival in 72. Jeff beck, status quo , everly brothers, beggars opera Billy Connolly as a folk singer ! Ooooh T Rex, deadly jealous! It’s funny we were probably at several of the same gigs! If you don’t know of it already, there’s a great website on the Apollo, I’m contributed to some of the gigs: http://www.glasgowapollo.com/index.asp?s_id=1&m_id=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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