| What was your 1st gig? 15:53 - Dec 7 with 2616 views | stickymockwell |
Im just about to take my daughter to the Brixton Academy to see her favourite band The Last Dinner Party. Thats a great venue for a 1st timer. Mine was Shakin Stevens at the Ipswich Regent. |  |
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| What was your 1st gig? on 18:08 - Dec 7 with 435 views | John_Warks_Willy |
Placebo in a tiny venue in 1996. Was standing next to Brian Molko while he watched the support, as an aside.
Debut album wouldn’t land for a few more months, but their single ‘Come Home’ was getting attention hence us kids heading along.
We witnessed a very special band before they exploded. |  |
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| What was your 1st gig? on 18:09 - Dec 7 with 432 views | mellowblue |
| What was your 1st gig? on 17:56 - Dec 7 by Churchman |
Thin Lizzy. Jailbreak tour.
Loud? The ears are still ringing. |
What a good band they were.
Gigs certainly must have broken some sort of hearing health rules then. I know those early 80's ones used to leave me half deaf next day for work. Always managed to get near the front. Soon ended up with tinnitus. |  | | |
| What was your 1st gig? on 18:10 - Dec 7 with 426 views | mellowblue |
| What was your 1st gig? on 17:41 - Dec 7 by Benters |
Haha we all do daft things 😂 |
I certainly did. Must have been promoting Blizzard of Oz ? Did he do much Sabbath stuff? | | | |
| What was your 1st gig? on 18:21 - Dec 7 with 409 views | WeWereZombies |
| What was your 1st gig? on 16:09 - Dec 7 by BotesdaleBlue |
I envy you for that Meadowlark. I love Lindisfarne and have seen them over 25 times now, but only saw them the first time in 1987. To have seen them in their raw, long-haired prime would have been a dream come true. |
I first saw Lindisfarne in either 1971 or 1972 at either Weeley or Bardney festival, you see compared to The Faces or Rory Gallagher they were a bit of a nondescript live band (and I did like them, 'Fog On The Tyne' was the first proper album I bought) but I went off them just before they took to the stage at The Baths Hall in 1973 because I went for a pre-gig drink in The Queens Head and the band were in there in a big circle around a table cold shouldering anyone who came over and asked for an autograph. Poor form I thought. Seen them a couple of times in the last five years just because they were at a festival I was at. Trotting out the hits with sidemen these days.
Says the poster whose first gig was Uriah Heap at the Pier Pavilion, Felixstowe... [Post edited 7 Dec 20:44]
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| What was your 1st gig? on 18:27 - Dec 7 with 390 views | Benters |
| What was your 1st gig? on 18:10 - Dec 7 by mellowblue |
I certainly did. Must have been promoting Blizzard of Oz ? Did he do much Sabbath stuff? |
Who Ozzy !? |  |
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| What was your 1st gig? on 18:42 - Dec 7 with 365 views | BlueBadger |
| What was your 1st gig? on 17:52 - Dec 7 by blueislander |
My 10th birthday |
This makes you nearly old enough to remember Facters' 350th birthday. |  |
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| What was your 1st gig? on 18:43 - Dec 7 with 360 views | benrhyddingblue |
Chron Gen, 1982, | | | |
| What was your 1st gig? on 18:50 - Dec 7 with 342 views | pistolpete |
The Wonder Stuff supported by Ned’s Atomic Dustbin at Brixton Academy |  | | |
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| What was your 1st gig? on 18:59 - Dec 7 with 328 views | Bluish |
Fields of the Nephilim, Ipswich Corn Exchange 1988. |  | | |
| What was your 1st gig? on 19:03 - Dec 7 with 316 views | Whos_blue |
Erasure
Cambridge Corn Exchange
1987 |  |
| Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness. |
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| What was your 1st gig? on 19:15 - Dec 7 with 295 views | dickie |
Aerosmith at Wembley stadium in 1999, supported by The Black Crowes, Lenny Kravitz, Stereophonics and Three Colours Red. Two weeks later I went to the Big Day. Out at Milton Keynes Bowl where Metallica were headlining supported by Marilyn Manson, Sepultura, QOTSA, Terrovision, Monster Magnet, Placebo, Pitchshifter and a couple of others. At 15 years old I imagined I'd always be seeing this many bands in a short space of time 😂 | | | |
| What was your 1st gig? on 19:16 - Dec 7 with 296 views | vapour_trail |
| What was your 1st gig? on 18:50 - Dec 7 by pistolpete |
The Wonder Stuff supported by Ned’s Atomic Dustbin at Brixton Academy |
I think I might have been at this.
Can’t actually recall what my first gig was, some little local indie band somewhere late 80s. |  |
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| What was your 1st gig? on 19:23 - Dec 7 with 272 views | PhilTWTD |
Donald Swann at Snape Maltings in the late 70s, probably. Otherwise, Billy Bragg or The Damned at the Gaumont in 1985. |  | | |
| What was your 1st gig? on 19:28 - Dec 7 with 257 views | Daninthecampo |
Prince Wembley stadium 93 and still one of my best gigs ever! | | | |
| What was your 1st gig? on 19:28 - Dec 7 with 257 views | GlasgowBlue |
| What was your 1st gig? on 16:04 - Dec 7 by BotesdaleBlue |
Slade in their "till deaf do us part" tour, at the Ipswich Gaumont in March 1982. It was so load that the sound of car engines in the vehicles passing by when I exited the concert seemed muted. |
Lock Up Your Daughters era. They were at their peak back then. |  |
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| What was your 1st gig? on 19:38 - Dec 7 with 240 views | blueislander |
| What was your 1st gig? on 18:42 - Dec 7 by BlueBadger |
This makes you nearly old enough to remember Facters' 350th birthday. |
Yep. Helluva bash. He was in his prime. | | | |
| What was your 1st gig? on 19:47 - Dec 7 with 222 views | Oldsmoker |
| What was your 1st gig? on 18:21 - Dec 7 by WeWereZombies |
I first saw Lindisfarne in either 1971 or 1972 at either Weeley or Bardney festival, you see compared to The Faces or Rory Gallagher they were a bit of a nondescript live band (and I did like them, 'Fog On The Tyne' was the first proper album I bought) but I went off them just before they took to the stage at The Baths Hall in 1973 because I went for a pre-gig drink in The Queens Head and the band were in there in a big circle around a table cold shouldering anyone who came over and asked for an autograph. Poor form I thought. Seen them a couple of times in the last five years just because they were at a festival I was at. Trotting out the hits with sidemen these days.
Says the poster whose first gig was Uriah Heap at the Pier Pavilion, Felixstowe... [Post edited 7 Dec 20:44]
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I grew up in Felixstowe so the Pier Pavilion was where the whole scene went when there was a band on.
Not a massive or a posse but a scene. TWTD.
I've no idea who was the first band I saw.
Saw Kinks, Uriah Heap, Eric Burdon and War, Groundhogs, Atomic Rooster, Edgar Broughton + lots more at the Pier.
There was also loadsa gigs at the Civic College - Genesis, Pretty Things, Caravan.
+ Led Zep at St Matthews baths.
I also went to Weeley.
Is it possible we were twins separated at birth? |  |
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| What was your 1st gig? on 19:47 - Dec 7 with 220 views | RIPbobby |
Skid Row London docklands 1991 backed up by LA Guns and the brilliant Love/Hate. Gig of the year for the uk apparently. |  | | |
| What was your 1st gig? on 19:50 - Dec 7 with 212 views | Meadowlark |
| What was your 1st gig? on 16:09 - Dec 7 by BotesdaleBlue |
I envy you for that Meadowlark. I love Lindisfarne and have seen them over 25 times now, but only saw them the first time in 1987. To have seen them in their raw, long-haired prime would have been a dream come true. |
It was a great gig. I listened to FOTT and NOOT endlessly as a teenager. I still think those early songs were great, especially Lady Eleanor and Clear White Light.
I remember thinking the band were having such fun on stage. I'm not sure that I ever saw them again!! |  | | |
| What was your 1st gig? on 19:56 - Dec 7 with 203 views | Meadowlark |
| What was your 1st gig? on 17:59 - Dec 7 by IndependentlyBlue |
The Bachelors - 1964, Blackpool Central Pier. Not so much a gig in the real sense, they were just part of the show my mum and dad took me to
Mott the Hoople - 1971, Lowestoft Technical College |
I was at that Mott the Hoople gig at LCFE! They had some great bands there. | | | |
| What was your 1st gig? on 20:00 - Dec 7 with 196 views | mellowblue |
| What was your 1st gig? on 18:27 - Dec 7 by Benters |
Who Ozzy !? |
yes, what was his set like. | | | |
| What was your 1st gig? on 20:01 - Dec 7 with 196 views | azuremerlangus |
John Denver - Gaumont 82/83.
For a while I was very embarrassed to say I’d seen him live, but having also seen Nik Kershaw I have bigger worries…. |  |
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| What was your 1st gig? on 20:16 - Dec 7 with 167 views | Pendejo |
Barron Knights, Ipswich Gaumont late 70s
Tops all your Stones, Aerosmith, Lizzy, Ozzy etc. |  |
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| What was your 1st gig? on 20:34 - Dec 7 with 144 views | mellowblue |
| What was your 1st gig? on 18:59 - Dec 7 by Bluish |
Fields of the Nephilim, Ipswich Corn Exchange 1988. |
The Fields of Nephiliim had a good image, all that dry ice and wild west high plains drifter type outfits. Like them. | | | |
| What was your 1st gig? on 20:36 - Dec 7 with 139 views | WinchBlue |
Kinks, Gaumont 1982. Still one of the most iconic bands. |  | | |
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