| Your very first gig 08:34 - Dec 18 with 19203 views | Monahoop |
Keeping in tune with the recent spate of great music threads here, what was was your very first gig you went to. This does not include watching your fellow spotty teenage mates' band playing ' Wild Thing' and the like in a local Sally Ann hall or such venue.
Mine:- Slade at Brighton's old Goldstone ground in the summer of 1975. I was 14 at the time. They were so loud they nearly shook that place off its foundations. No wonder it began to fall down gradually afterwards. |  |
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| Your very first gig on 09:15 - Dec 18 with 12901 views | Pommyhoop |
Soul to Soul at Wembley Arena only because my Girlfriend at the time loved them and bought tickets. I've never really been a gig man, or even a record buying man tbh.  .
I'm a listener not a follower.
Last gig I went to was Oasis at Knebworth. We walked out way before the lads came on .But to be fair that was because my mate had left an 'Enery back at the Motel.
'What do you recon ,shall we go back?''
''F'ck Yeah.'' |  |
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| Your very first gig on 09:21 - Dec 18 with 12883 views | loftboy |
Wham the final Wembley stadium 1986 😞 |  |
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| Your very first gig on 09:22 - Dec 18 with 12880 views | Metallica_Hoop |
Black Crowes Albert hall 1995. |  |
| Beer and Beef has made us what we are - The Prince Regent |
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| Your very first gig on 09:23 - Dec 18 with 12874 views | wombat |
| Your very first gig on 09:22 - Dec 18 by Metallica_Hoop |
Black Crowes Albert hall 1995. |
the police wembley arena early 80s |  |
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| Your very first gig on 09:31 - Dec 18 with 12860 views | Discodroids |
I hope no ones going to say the sex pistols at the royal free trade hall in 1976.
mmmmm own up time..it was Luther vandross 1986.
me and my girlfriend at the time had so much hairspray on , our hair got tangled up together like those chinese finger puzells during luthers ' give me the reason'
I bought a pink t shirt with the words' forever for always for love on it' .it was the name of his l.p at the time.
It was magical. [Post edited 18 Dec 2015 9:34]
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| The Duke Of New York. A-Number One.
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| Your very first gig on 09:52 - Dec 18 with 12836 views | Konk |
| Your very first gig on 09:31 - Dec 18 by Discodroids |
I hope no ones going to say the sex pistols at the royal free trade hall in 1976.
mmmmm own up time..it was Luther vandross 1986.
me and my girlfriend at the time had so much hairspray on , our hair got tangled up together like those chinese finger puzells during luthers ' give me the reason'
I bought a pink t shirt with the words' forever for always for love on it' .it was the name of his l.p at the time.
It was magical. [Post edited 18 Dec 2015 9:34]
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There is not a Lancastrian Musician or Music journalist alive today, who didn't have their mind blown at the Free Trade Hall gig. Every single one of the fuc kers was there.
I'll see your Luther Vandross and raise you Simply Red at Wembley Arena. My Mate's Dad ran the social club at his work and used to organise trips to concerts (Simply Red at Wembley Arena isn't a "gig", is it?). I was about fourteen, got absolutely battered on about 2 cans of Stella on the way there and threw-up in the khazis. Bought a really shi t t-shirt which was about eight sizes too big for me, and never got worn. I blame the booze. Good times. It would have been Bruce Springsteen at Wembley, but we were on holiday in Yarmouth, so I had to let my ticket go and spent the week sulking in a caravan instead.
First gig that I went to under my own steam was Stone Roses at Ally Pally in 89. Great event, shi t gig. [Post edited 18 Dec 2015 9:54]
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| Your very first gig on 09:57 - Dec 18 with 12821 views | TheBlob |
The Graham Bond Organisation,Bromley Court Hotel 1964. |  |
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| Your very first gig on 09:59 - Dec 18 with 12812 views | BathRanger |
Queen, Wembley Arena, 8th Dec 1980. Ticket was only £4!
Always remember the date as it was the same day John Lennon died. |  | | |
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| Your very first gig on 10:03 - Dec 18 with 12801 views | BlackCrowe |
| Your very first gig on 09:22 - Dec 18 by Metallica_Hoop |
Black Crowes Albert hall 1995. |
sweet jesus - I wish mine was as credible.
Saxon (Wheels of Steel tour) at the Rainbow c.1980. |  |
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| Your very first gig on 10:06 - Dec 18 with 12795 views | Stanisgod |
Quo at Grays civic hall 1971 , just as Piledriver hit No.1. |  |
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| Your very first gig on 10:16 - Dec 18 with 12785 views | Brightonhoop |
Madness at Hammy Odeon 1981. 4 of us got cornered on the platform by about 25 local mods at Harrow on the way home, I have never been so glad to see a train full of 400 skinheads before or since. Them local mods got stomped. Heady days.  |  | | |
| Your very first gig on 10:17 - Dec 18 with 12784 views | HAYESBOY |
| Your very first gig on 09:23 - Dec 18 by wombat |
the police wembley arena early 80s |
Mine as well.
Synchronicity tour 83 30th December. |  |
| Smells like a trout farm in here |
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| Your very first gig on 10:19 - Dec 18 with 12776 views | Hayesender |
Madness at Finsbury park in 92.
Morrisey got bottled off, which was a shame as I quite like the Smiths |  |
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| Your very first gig on 10:22 - Dec 18 with 12770 views | RamseyR |
Blondie at Hammersmith Odeon 1979, so not bad. I would have been 14. [Post edited 18 Dec 2015 10:22]
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| Your very first gig on 10:22 - Dec 18 with 12769 views | Phildo |
| Your very first gig on 09:57 - Dec 18 by TheBlob |
The Graham Bond Organisation,Bromley Court Hotel 1964. |
The Bromley court has not changed much- if you called in there now you would think you had just stepped out of your tardis and expect a load of 60s blues exposion kids to pitch up. |  | | |
| Your very first gig on 10:30 - Dec 18 with 12756 views | TheBlob |
| Your very first gig on 10:22 - Dec 18 by Phildo |
The Bromley court has not changed much- if you called in there now you would think you had just stepped out of your tardis and expect a load of 60s blues exposion kids to pitch up. |
Strange venue,and yet it was one of the places where"it all started".
Saw Jimi Hendrix and Cream down there. | |
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| Your very first gig on 10:31 - Dec 18 with 12752 views | WrightUp5hit___ |
Hawkwind, under the Westway must have been sometime in the very early seventies.
Thought it was a right load of hippy bollux, with an awful lot of very out of it people laid out by the "medical" folks.
Author Michael Moorcock turned up to read some of his words over one of the numbers.
Thing was it was just another Saturday wandering up and down the 'bello.
First proper gig I recollect was Alice Cooper (with Roxy Music as a support) at the Empire Pool as it was in those days.
It was the summer of Schools out and the press baying for him to be banned from the country. Thought the band, music and theatrics were ace. Thought Roxy Music were a bunch of Art School pricks. |  | | |
| Your very first gig on 10:34 - Dec 18 with 12744 views | Metallica_Hoop |
| Your very first gig on 10:03 - Dec 18 by BlackCrowe |
sweet jesus - I wish mine was as credible.
Saxon (Wheels of Steel tour) at the Rainbow c.1980. |
The Saxon are great live. | |
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| Your very first gig on 10:35 - Dec 18 with 12743 views | RangersDave |
King, on their 'transit van tour' around 82 at cov university.
Bass was in your chest thumping and I loved it.
Helped Paul King get off the stage in his platform shoes after the gig. Lol |  |
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| Your very first gig on 10:38 - Dec 18 with 12738 views | londonscottish |
July 1980, the Stranglers at the Edinburgh Playhouse.
It would have been Siouxsie and the Banshees in 79 in Dunfermline but the venue shut a week before the gig. Growing up in the provinces could be sh.t at times. |  |
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| Your very first gig on 10:39 - Dec 18 with 12735 views | WilloW4 |
| Your very first gig on 10:22 - Dec 18 by RamseyR |
Blondie at Hammersmith Odeon 1979, so not bad. I would have been 14. [Post edited 18 Dec 2015 10:22]
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That was my first gig too RamseyR, and I was 14 as well, my brother was 17 . I remember a lot of teenage boys lusting at Debbie Harry .. She looked great. |  | | |
| Your very first gig on 10:57 - Dec 18 with 12708 views | Tonto |
Status Quo - end of the road tour (last gigs with the original line up) - Hammersmith Odeon - 1984 |  |
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| Your very first gig on 11:10 - Dec 18 with 12692 views | DWQPR |
The Clash at the Lyceum, 18th October 1981. Was easy to find the date as we actually played away to Orient with a Sunday, late morning kick off for some reason with the match ending 1-1. Think the ticket for The Clash cost a fiver and to date the bar they set for a live performance that night for me has yet to be exceeded. Managed to get right to the front. Three hour gig with them splitting their set in two to allow some rapper to perform in between spraying the back drop. Fantastic night as a 15 year old. |  |
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| Your very first gig on 11:22 - Dec 18 with 12683 views | Juzzie |
I suppose it would be my Dad's band (Skin Alley) at The Roundhouse when I was about 5.
I just about remember being there and seeing this huge cardboard mouse wheeled on stage.
I have no memory of it and was probably asleep!
My first proper gig was Ian Drury & The Blockheads at the Hammersmith Odeon when I was about 11/12 years old. |  | | |
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