| What was your 1st gig? 15:53 - Dec 7 with 3244 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 20:39 - Dec 7 with 450 views | PhilTWTD |
| What was your 1st gig? on 20:34 - Dec 7 by mellowblue |
The Fields of Nephiliim had a good image, all that dry ice and wild west high plains drifter type outfits. Like them. |
And everyone in the audience throwing flour at each other. I was at the Corn Exchange gig. |  | | |
| What was your 1st gig? on 20:57 - Dec 7 with 419 views | WeWereZombies |
| What was your 1st gig? on 19:47 - Dec 7 by Oldsmoker |
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? |
Maybe distant cousins, I never saw The Kinks, Eric Burdon and War or Atomic Rooster at rhe Pier nut I did see Genesis, The Mick Abrahams Band, Glen Cornicj's Wild Turkey, Arthur Brown and Supertramp there. Saw The Groundhogs at The Manor but I was pissed up and abused them from the crowd to the extent that I was taken upstairs by a roadie and given a talking to !
And I was at the infamous gig at The Baths where The Edgar Broughton Band left the stage after ten minutes because of electrical shocks and never came back. Also was at Zep and remember Gong, Camel, Stackridge, Focus, Stray and quite a few others fondly/
The Genesis / Caravan / Band called O triple bill at the Civic College was pretty impressive but again I fecked up seeing Caravan due to my pursuit of a girl way out of my league and attached to the local Frank Zappa look alike. Also Argent / Man /Skid Row (Gary Moore band not the American one) was wonderful, as was Heads Hands and Feet / The Pretty Things / Doctor Feelgood.
But at the time it felt like hardly any bands came to Ipswich... |  |
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| What was your 1st gig? on 21:05 - Dec 7 with 400 views | Radlett_blue |
Kiki Dee, Oxford Polytechnic, 1976. |  |
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| What was your 1st gig? on 21:08 - Dec 7 with 390 views | Ftnfwest |
Altered images 1980 cambridge corn exchange |  | | |
| What was your 1st gig? on 21:13 - Dec 7 with 374 views | IndependentlyBlue |
| What was your 1st gig? on 19:56 - Dec 7 by Meadowlark |
I was at that Mott the Hoople gig at LCFE! They had some great bands there. |
May be getting mixed up here, long time ago, but were they supported by a local band, Eyes of Blonde? |  |
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| What was your 1st gig? on 21:14 - Dec 7 with 369 views | vilanovablue |
Magnum at Hammersmith |  | | |
| What was your 1st gig? on 21:25 - Dec 7 with 359 views | Meadowlark |
| What was your 1st gig? on 21:13 - Dec 7 by IndependentlyBlue |
May be getting mixed up here, long time ago, but were they supported by a local band, Eyes of Blonde? |
I can't remember that. To be honest I'm not certain I saw Mott the Hoople now, but I remember them being on..Also Fairport, Status Quo, Uriah Heep, Wishbone Ash. String Driven Thing, Barclay James Harvest, etc
There was a Lowestoft band around called Alverna Gunn, but we're they more of a pub band?
Long time ago..... |  | | |
| What was your 1st gig? on 21:26 - Dec 7 with 359 views | LancsBlue |
Hawkwind at Ipswich Gaumont 1975. I now live just outside Manchester and still doing around 30 gigs a year mostly at small venues. |  |
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| What was your 1st gig? on 21:29 - Dec 7 with 355 views | Radlett_blue |
| What was your 1st gig? on 21:26 - Dec 7 by LancsBlue |
Hawkwind at Ipswich Gaumont 1975. I now live just outside Manchester and still doing around 30 gigs a year mostly at small venues. |
A friend of mine saw Hawkwind around that time. He did know music & played guitar himself; he said it was the worst gig he'd attended - weird special effects with heavy rock played on top. | |
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| What was your 1st gig? on 21:31 - Dec 7 with 352 views | baxterbasics |
Phoenix Festival day 2, to see The Prodigy, 1996. |  |
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| What was your 1st gig? on 21:36 - Dec 7 with 343 views | FBI |
Saw loads of Rockabilly bands in the '80s that nobody will have heard of except possibly Cramps at UEA and Restless (from Sudbury and now UK rockabilly icons) but, the first one you've probably heard of and my 'breakout' gig after ceasing to be a 'billy is The Cult at the Gaumont 28/03/87 supported by Crazyhead. |  |
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| What was your 1st gig? on 21:39 - Dec 7 with 341 views | Plums |
| What was your 1st gig? on 19:47 - Dec 7 by RIPbobby |
Skid Row London docklands 1991 backed up by LA Guns and the brilliant Love/Hate. Gig of the year for the uk apparently. |
I saw that trio at the NEC on the same tour. They were all fantastic. It was extra special as we'd met Rob Affuso, the Skid Row drummer at an Iron Maiden fan thing a couple of days earlier. He was hanging out with Nicko. Great memories. |  |
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| What was your 1st gig? on 21:42 - Dec 7 with 333 views | Plums |
| What was your 1st gig? on 17:47 - Dec 7 by mediamatt |
Transvision Vamp at the Brixton Academy..
Oh Wendy… |
A mate of mine went out with her for a couple of weeks. He says she was as mad as a box of frogs. | |
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| What was your 1st gig? on 21:48 - Dec 7 with 330 views | djgooder |
Iron Maiden. Germany. |  | | |
| What was your 1st gig? on 21:56 - Dec 7 with 312 views | football |
| What was your 1st gig? on 18:50 - Dec 7 by pistolpete |
The Wonder Stuff supported by Ned’s Atomic Dustbin at Brixton Academy |
NEDs - awesome band |  | | |
| What was your 1st gig? on 22:36 - Dec 7 with 284 views | Churchman |
| What was your 1st gig? on 19:28 - Dec 7 by Daninthecampo |
Prince Wembley stadium 93 and still one of my best gigs ever! |
My Mackem buddy, who is not too well at the moment, saw Prince not that long before he passed away. He’s been to more gigs than you can shake a stick at and is not a big fan of Prince - and reckoned it’s the best he’s ever been to. According to him Prince was off the scale. |  | | |
| What was your 1st gig? on 22:49 - Dec 7 with 266 views | Father_Jack |
Blackbushe 1978. Dylan, Clapton etc. Load of old rubbish. |  |
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| What was your 1st gig? on 22:52 - Dec 7 with 261 views | Churchman |
| What was your 1st gig? on 18:09 - Dec 7 by mellowblue |
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. |
It was the age of banked up speakers floor to ceiling. Health and safety? Nobody thought about it and if they had wouldn’t have given a sht. I have to say Thin Lizzy were good but I was so unprepared for how loud it was. Still have the vinyl album.
The next gig I went to was Quo at Lewisham Odeon. My fave band, the Frantic Four. Red tab Levi jacket, jeans, t shirt I was ready! But not for the freight train heading my way. We had a few before going in. And a few more when we got in. The warm up act was called British Bulldogs. They could have been called satans hairy rear end because nobody, literally, nobody, bothered with them.
NME or Melody Maker described it as having your brain pulled out through one of your nostrils. They weren’t wrong. Shattering. Ringing ears, the full nine yards. What a night. | | | |
| What was your 1st gig? on 23:04 - Dec 7 with 243 views | mellowblue |
| What was your 1st gig? on 20:39 - Dec 7 by PhilTWTD |
And everyone in the audience throwing flour at each other. I was at the Corn Exchange gig. |
ha ha, you are right, I can't remember now where I saw them , but flour throwing was very appropriate. Quite a menacing sound and image they made. | | | |
| What was your 1st gig? on 23:23 - Dec 7 with 214 views | JimmyJazz |
Gala Club in Norwich? |  |
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| What was your 1st gig? on 00:54 - Dec 8 with 181 views | IPS_wich |
| What was your 1st gig? on 18:59 - Dec 7 by Bluish |
Fields of the Nephilim, Ipswich Corn Exchange 1988. |
I would have only been 14 then and would have never heard of them at that time - five years later The Neph were my favourite band but had just split up - shame because I only saw them live in their Nefilim iteration in around 96/97.
For me, Carter USM at Cambridge Corn Exchange May 92, just before my A Level exams was my first gig; swiftly followed by Pop Will Eat Itself at London Marquee in June 92 just after my exams (one of the five night mini-residency they did at the Marquee).
My main memory at the PWEI gig was this was probably about a year or two before barriers were put up at every venue and despite 3-4 security guards trying to stop people, the stream of stage divers was just nonstop. Pretty sure I crowd surfed a couple of time but I never made it to the stage. | | | |
| What was your 1st gig? on 06:05 - Dec 8 with 150 views | Benters |
| What was your 1st gig? on 20:00 - Dec 7 by mellowblue |
yes, what was his set like. |
Crikey I can’t remember what I did yesterday let alone 45 years ago! |  |
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| What was your 1st gig? on 06:16 - Dec 8 with 144 views | Benters |
Thinking back at around the same time some really decent bands were playing the Essex Uni,unfortunately I missed AC/DC as I was to young,but I did manage to see Ian Gillan,Motörhead and Girls school to name a couple. | |
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| What was your 1st gig? on 06:20 - Dec 8 with 140 views | RIPbobby |
| What was your 1st gig? on 21:08 - Dec 7 by Ftnfwest |
Altered images 1980 cambridge corn exchange |
Pretty good venue. In my days of going often went there. Rather partial to a bit of metal and thrash. |  | | |
| What was your 1st gig? on 07:33 - Dec 8 with 104 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
Ian Dury and the Blockheads, May 1978 at the Ipswich Gaumont.
I still have the ticket stub attached to New Boots and Panties 😁👍 |  |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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