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General Category => Everything Else => Topic started by: Pol on February 12, 2014, 07:49:14 PM
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Ok a quick and simple question What was your first gig
Stiff Little Fingers at the Glasgow Apollo age 12
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Eurhythmics
BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE (in caps because they were the reason I went, really)
UB40
Turin, 1986, at the football stadium, aged 15 (my parents never took me to gigs, hence my possibly somewhat 'late' start)
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stiff little fingers capitol theatre Aberdeen 1981 go for it tour
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Oh hell... my parents took me to see Bucks Fizz when I was very young... :-\
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Quite a cool one: Feargal Sharkey in around '86 at the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham. Brilliant gig, especially as he played a couple of Undertones classics. 8)
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Neds Atomic Dustbin, Trent Polly, 1988. They were actually the support act for Jesus Jones, but most of the crowd were there for the Nedz
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Skids at Cleethorpes Winter Gardens possibly 1987 age 14
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My mum took me to see It Ain't 'Alf Hot Mum live when I was about 8 or 9 but I don't think that's a proper gig?
I'm not sure who it was. I saw The Macc Lads, Napalm Death, Skitzo (Psychobilly band) and NMA all around the age of 16 so it would be one of those.
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999 at the Music Machine in Camden in 1978, then saw Killing Joke at the end of a CND march in Trafalger Square in 1980, somewhere in between tried to get into Adam and the Ants but was sold out, in those days you just turned up and queued with your pound. Seems a very long time ago now.
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Think it was in -80 or -81 when I was 7-8 eight years old. We were at the countryside meeting our older generic. There was a long gone tradition to have a "barn dance" at local fields and everyone used to go there, meet people and listen to live music. Well, there was some rockabilly band playing and this kid went totally mad. Haha.
Later on Iron Maiden and Helloween were probably the first big show in the midst of eighties.
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Skeletal Family - Bingley arts Centre early 80's closely followed by the Alarm in Leeds
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U2, Westfalenhalle Dortmund, 5.6.1992 (age 16). Biiiig fan at that time ;)
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ähm.., Marillion 1986.....
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Rush, 1981, Wembley Arena.
Fantastic gig :)
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Oh, this is gonna age me, but my first gig was Ten Yeras After back in 1971 or so. I had seen them in the Woodstock film and they suddenly became huge in the states.
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I saw The Macc Lads,
When I was young Macclesfield was my second home. My mates girlfriend had a demo tape of a local band she knew... ;D
We went to see them play a gig in a field in Styal (the middle of nowhere). Great night until someone called the cops and the gig got closed down. The first appearance of the "Macc Crack" that night... :o
My first gig was CHARGED GBH, BLITZ, ABRASIVE WHEELS & THE DESTRUCTORS Manchester Apollo October 23rd (I think) 1981.
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Fields of the Nephillim, Wolves Civic in 88 I think
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The Jam,Liverpool '78.Closely followed by the Stranglers(many times) ;D
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ähm.., Marillion 1986.....
I bloody love Marillion, Sam37, do not be ashamed of that! Seen them many times...
Possibly the only band with a fanbase as devoted as NMA...
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Big Country, Brixton Academy 1989 aged 16. A genuinely life changing experience.
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Few local / mates bands at the cat house in Wordsley
But the first big gig was -
Iron Maiden - seventh son of a seventh son tour.
Birmingham NEC 1988.
Was 16 at the time - think it was a big deal for me folks to let me go on me own.
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When I compare your first gigs with mine, it seems your youths begun with bands that had true street credibility that kick ass no matter how old you are when you listen to them. Jam, Stiffs, Abrasive Wheels... You name it.
But who cares, there are tons of good music along with some extraordinary, fantastic and rare legends that only some bands could reach to (like the one that comes from Bradford). ;) But when you was a child and something was said to be "rock" it sounded something really hard, strange and exiting thing to find out.
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Master Ray-I was a huge fan of Fish era Marillion.
Saw them many times with him and the atmosphere was always really intense.
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New Order at The Hacienda in Manchester on the 13th August 1987. It may of been a good dance club?, but certainly not the best venue to watch a band
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New Order at The Hacienda in Manchester on the 13th August 1987. It may of been a good dance club?, but certainly not the best venue to watch a band
I was at that gig ;)
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Eela Craig at Kongresshaus Salzburg in 1978 (Austrian progrock band who actually had a hit with Chris de Burgh's A Spaceman Came Travelling in the same year), aged 16. Me and some friends actually sneaked in through the emergency exit and didn't pay a penny (well, Groschen it was at the time). Oh the folly of youth!
Then there were some Austrian singer-songwriters who nobody knows. First international gig probably Kraftwerk at Cirkus Krone in Munich in 1981.
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Golden Earring and Chicken Shack
A festival and I managed to get in in the afternoon, was back home before 10:00 (and my parents didn`t know I was there)
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Saw a few local punk and metal bands in high school, but first real gig was Tom Petty.
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Well Besides some early Motown Revues that I went to very early in my youth I would say 6 or 7 I don't remember the Acts the 1st gig I went to that would be known would be in 1974 in college in Arizona I caught the twin bill of Robin Trower as the headline Act and Peter Frampton as the opening and that was the time that Frampton Comes Alive was not out yet It did come out after that tour. I went to see Robin Trower since he had that Hendrix style and his Album Bridge of Sighs had been released and was the big hit.
The next concert was in April 1975 and that was Pink Floyd in Tuscon Az one of the greatest concerts I have ever seen I can still remember it after almost 40 yrs later and Yes I did have some chemicals in me ;) ;D and even thru my Acid Haze I remember the set list what the stage set up was like and the trip going to the gig from Tombstone Az to Tuscon Az where I was staying with a few college buddies. 8)
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Oh dear..... Showaddywaddy at Chatham Central Hall somewhere around '78 :-[
Then U2 on Joshua Tree Tour, Wembley stadium with Lou Reed supporting
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Shrapnel , The golden horde, Paranoid Visions
1985 Dublin
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Shrapnel , The golden horde, Paranoid Visions
1985 Dublin
Shrapnel... Were they a French punk band, am I right? Or do I mistake them with The Scraps? ???
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Shrapnel , The golden horde, Paranoid Visions
1985 Dublin
Shrapnel... Were they a French punk band, am I right? Or do I mistake them with The Scraps? ???
No, they were WELSH
and they were also very good ....
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Ok. Anhrefn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yr_Anhrefn) were also from Welsh. Damn good anarcho stuff with a sort of poppy sound. I'm not sure but I think they probably had some connections with The Ruts as well.