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QPR & Gig double headers 15:58 - Mar 28 with 2181 views

After the game tomorrow I’m seeing Pendulum at The 02 then after the Sheff Weds game it’s Underworld at Ally Pally.

Remember being at the end of season 4-0 drubbing at Norwich in 2017 (Josh Bowler’s only QPR appearance) and saving the day out by seeing the legend that is Big Daddy Kane that night at the Waterfront.

It’s a long old day and you need to pace yourself but can’t beat a good QPR/gig double header.

QPR & Gig double headers on 16:00 - Mar 28 with 2174 views

Maggsinho

Birmingham game tomorrow and then Jesus and Mary Chain at the Roundhouse in the evening for me this weekend.

QPR & Gig double headers on 16:04 - Mar 28 with 2147 views

ted_hendrix

Saw us beat Norwich at LR and then Bob Dylan In the evening at Wembley.

My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.

QPR & Gig double headers on 16:38 - Mar 28 with 2050 views

Landshark

I was once working with a band on a tour and while we were in Sheffield I saw a bunch of QPR supporters around. I didn't know QPR were playing that day until I saw them. I managed to sneak off for a couple of hours to see us beat Sheffield United and then made it back in time for the gig.

Not a deliberate double header but a happy coincidence.

QPR & Gig double headers on 16:59 - Mar 28 with 2001 views

FDC

Think I've posted this before, but after we beat Wednesday for promotion out of Div 2 I went to watch The Rapture at The Octagon. I swear to god, when they came on the stage they tuned up playing pigbag, and it confused the shìt out of everyone around me when a drunk bloke kept shouting "hoops"

QPR & Gig double headers on 19:19 - Mar 28 with 1849 views

100percent

I'm at the game followed by The International Ska Festival - doing the Jesus and Mary Chain on Saturday.
Polish Paul with me tomorrow - what could go worng??!!

QPR & Gig double headers on 19:30 - Mar 28 with 1838 views

PeterHucker

A few that spring to mind.....

That game when Man Utd knocked us out of the FA Cup & we all sung how Paul Ince is a wánker, I rushed back to London to see Tindersticks play a gig with an orchestra at the Bloomsbury Theatre. That gig was released as a live album, and in my opinion it's one of the greatest live albums of all time.

Another away game disappointment, the Coventry game when Eoin fücking Jess scored the only goal of his Coventry career & pretty much relegated us, I rushed back to London again because I had tickets for Natalie Merchant at Shepherds Bush Empire.

About 10 years ago, a pretty forgettable home win v Cardiff (we won with a late Ashley Richards own goal) then a load of us headed to the 100 Club for an evening of Thames Estuary garage mod-punk in the company of Graham Day & The Gaolers & the modtastic Len Price 3.

I don't live in London these days, so whenever I come down for a home game I always have a good look at what gigs are on.
Hoping to get to the home game on 20th April, and then go to see Omni at Moth Club afterwards.

34 years ago this month, there was another memorable QPR match that I did NOT attend because I already had tickets for a gig just down the road in Hammersmith.
I wrote about that strange course of events here.
https://trustthewizards.com/2021/03/11/31-years-ago-today-billy-braggs-unhelpful

QPR & Gig double headers on 11:11 - Mar 29 with 1619 views

Andybrat

Don’t shoot me but after the win today Mrs Andybrat and I are seeing Marti Pellow at the Hammersmith Odeon ( Apollo I know). To be clear this was part of her Christmas present but suspect I may enjoy as well. Would be appropriate if it rains today ( Wet Wet Wet),
My enjoyment is totally dependent on what happens this afternoon.

QPR & Gig double headers on 13:40 - Mar 29 with 1541 views

BathRanger

In about 1986 saw QPR lose at home to Liverpool (no surprises there) and that evening was in the second row at Hammersmith Odeon for Iron Maiden.

QPR & Gig double headers on 13:54 - Mar 29 with 1521 views

R_from_afar

QPR & Gig double headers on 11:11 - Mar 29 by Andybrat
Don’t shoot me but after the win today Mrs Andybrat and I are seeing Marti Pellow at the Hammersmith Odeon ( Apollo I know). To be clear this was part of her Christmas present but suspect I may enjoy as well. Would be appropriate if it rains today ( Wet Wet Wet), My enjoyment is totally dependent on what happens this afternoon.

One of the very few celebrities I have met. I bumped into him by accident years ago, when I was returning a video at Blockbuster Video in Ascot. Younger readers may need some help understanding this concept

I saw this person strolling round the store with a hint of rockstar swagger but initially couldn't work out who it was. No one was paying him any attention. I couldn't resist going up to him and asking if he indeed was Marti, he confirmed that he was, and I told him - in a non-sexual way, note - that he was looking well. He responded with a Fonz-style, double thumbs up, "Thanks, man".

His presence explained what the black Mercedes sports car outside the shop, with a plate beginning "WWW," was all about. I'd parked my pushbike next to it

"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."

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