First Gig you ever attended!!
25 February 2007, 07:16 PM
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First Gig you ever attended!!
Following hotly on from first record ever bought - what about the first gig you ever attended.
For me - Be Bop Deluxe at Newcastle City Hall - I can still remember We are like ships in the night...
It got better as I moved out of short trousers
Most bizarre was Steve Hillage - after about fifteen minutes I could not breathe there was so much grass being smoked!
Wikipedia "blended complex studio production techniques with dreamscape anthems and hooky, progressive passages of new world lydian electric fusion"
Says it all really!
For me - Be Bop Deluxe at Newcastle City Hall - I can still remember We are like ships in the night...
It got better as I moved out of short trousers
Most bizarre was Steve Hillage - after about fifteen minutes I could not breathe there was so much grass being smoked!
Wikipedia "blended complex studio production techniques with dreamscape anthems and hooky, progressive passages of new world lydian electric fusion"
Says it all really!
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25 February 2007, 07:20 PM
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The Cure/ Siouxsie and the Banshees at Leeds Uni, 1979. Still EASILY the loudest gig I've ever attended; I couldn't hear for the best part of a day afterwards.
25 February 2007, 07:24 PM
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I have just looked up Be Bop Deluxe....apparently Bill Nelson only lives a couple of miles from where I live!
Loudest for me was easily Judas Priest at the Mayfair. They were supported by Iron Maiden who were so young they had short hair!!!
Great gig though...if a little deaf afterwards
R
Loudest for me was easily Judas Priest at the Mayfair. They were supported by Iron Maiden who were so young they had short hair!!!
Great gig though...if a little deaf afterwards
R
25 February 2007, 07:39 PM
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Live Aid. Got really into gigs thereafter with my record one year being 110 gigs 
It did get a bit obsessive to the point where I was touring with some artists. Had a brilliant summer one year travelling through Europe with the Hothouse Flowers. Long hair, unshaven, sleeping under the stars. Halcyon days. Especially the Irish leg, Irish girls love hippies 
It did get a bit obsessive to the point where I was touring with some artists. Had a brilliant summer one year travelling through Europe with the Hothouse Flowers. Long hair, unshaven, sleeping under the stars. Halcyon days. Especially the Irish leg, Irish girls love hippies
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25 February 2007, 07:51 PM
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Bon Jovi, Wembley Stadium about 12 years ago
Then again in Hyde Park about 3 years ago...
Then again in Hyde Park about 3 years ago...
25 February 2007, 08:44 PM
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Genesis , Invisible tour - 1987 , eek 20 years ago !!
Best year was 38 gigs , mostly Fish (solo after he left marillion) incl Edinburgh Playhouse on New Years eve
Yup, I loved my prog rock
Best year was 38 gigs , mostly Fish (solo after he left marillion) incl Edinburgh Playhouse on New Years eve
Yup, I loved my prog rock
25 February 2007, 09:09 PM
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i saw led zeppelin re union gigs back in 95-96 
i was only about 13 but i remember them very well! ramble on sticks in my mind! saw them twice! i was very lucky really! it will probably never happen again.
latley ive been going to lots of babyshambles gigs! shambles music is what i love! il be going to the festivals this year too!
i was only about 13 but i remember them very well! ramble on sticks in my mind! saw them twice! i was very lucky really! it will probably never happen again.latley ive been going to lots of babyshambles gigs! shambles music is what i love! il be going to the festivals this year too!
25 February 2007, 09:13 PM
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U2 - Elland Road, Leeds, 1987
Last gig was Whitesnake a few months ago at Sheffield
Best was Prince at Birmingham NIA
Last gig was Whitesnake a few months ago at Sheffield
Best was Prince at Birmingham NIA
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25 February 2007, 09:21 PM
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First with parent's gig- Michael Jackson BAD tour
My first gig- The Wonder Stuff
Best gig- Sonic Youth
Loudest gig- Orbital
Last Gig- towers of london
Worst Gig (letdown)- The Verve
My first gig- The Wonder Stuff
Best gig- Sonic Youth
Loudest gig- Orbital
Last Gig- towers of london
Worst Gig (letdown)- The Verve
25 February 2007, 09:24 PM
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They are playing in cambridge soon and not too sure if it`ll be worth going.
25 February 2007, 09:28 PM
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Yeah it was alright!
My mate organised that night so I only went due to him - but it was alot better than i thought it would be- he is a bit of a clown like you'd expect...
25 February 2007, 10:10 PM
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nope, never b4 as i do not know any place or site's 2 check up on all the good stuff on when they are all happerning ! 
O well...
O well...
- I was young
25 February 2007, 11:07 PM
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Saxon - Innocence is No Excuse tour 1985, Cardiff with two mates. Couldn't hear in word in geography the following day
The three of us are seeing them again in Cardiff on the 8th of March -no geography the next day though
The three of us are seeing them again in Cardiff on the 8th of March
-no geography the next day though
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