First gigs?

[Chubbhead EFM]

Hiya, looking at the posts it seems to me that we haven't had one that revolves around music for at least....oohhh....a day! So to put this right I'm starting one myself with a few questions to make you feel nostalgic!

 

1.What was the first gig you went to?

2.What is the best gig you've ever been to?

3.What was the first record you evr bought?

 

I'll start you all off:

1.I went to see Van Morrison at the Olympia(?) in London as part of an Irish expo thing with my paddy mother. Other fantastic bands on the bill were B*witched,OTT(boy band),and the Saw Doctors! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/beerchug.gif" alt="" />

2.OASIS!!!! seen them twice,Finsbury park gig was best!

3.Live Forever-Oasis. Pretty good considering I was 9 at the time!

 

[SAINTS64MAD]

Seen a cover metallica band! they were very good! im goin to see alice cooper soon anyway! first album was METALLICA-metallica

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

1. The Dooleys in St.albans when i was 4, otherwise Airhead at the ULU in 1992

 

2. That's a hard one - Clint Boon at the garage 2000 because I was picked to sing on the stage and then appeared in the melody maker and it was the most amazing atmosphere, althought Whos the daddy now at king tuts in galsgow was pretty ace as well as was Jims Super Steroworld everywhere!

 

3. I hear talk by Bucks fizz in 1984 (with my own money), with my mums - I will survive 1978

 

I'm 28 by the way, so I started young on all these!

[mdetaylor]

1. Carter at the Hatfield Forum or possibly Blur at Mile End

 

2. Manics at Sheppard's Bush, Christmas 96(?) with Kylie signing Little Baby Nothing

 

3. Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles - Sewer Rap

[Webbo MFI]

1. 1st gig was too see Blancmange in Dunstable, 2nd The Truth at the civic in St. Albans

2. Bet gig - Depeche Mode 1986 in Brighton (or any DM concert really)

2. 1st record bought - Boomtown Rats - Like Clockwork (1978 I think)

[SteveP]

This is going in to the realms of bizarre confessions....

 

1. 1st gig was when my dad took me to see George Benson in Bournemouth as a child (I reckon I was about 11), 1st gig of my own freewill was Oasis at Knebworth in '96 on the Sunday and it was a great way to start..

 

2. Probably Radiohead in South Park, great day, great music, even when it rained it was perfect. The Knebworth performance is still up there, as is Super Furry Animals at Cambridge Corn Exchange and U2 in Birmingham, they may be a bit old but they're still one of the best live acts about...

 

3. This is difficult, I am a late developer in music, I think it was Waterboy's whole of the moon. Probably the first album I consceiously bought was Radiohead-The Bends, just trying to regain a bit of dignity there....

[ESG]

the jam @ hammersmith odeon

 

any New Order ...

@ Finsbury Park support ACR, Railway Children and Happy Mondays

Rotters, Doncaster...Hemel, Portsmouth, Birmingham the old Rum Runner, Bradford and on and on

 

elvis costello 'olivers army'

 

...The Truth ex-9 Below Zero frontman Dennis ?, saw 9 Below Zero at the Civic

 

other bands at the Civic anyone?

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

I take it ACR is A Certain ratio, top band, how they never got a mention in that hacienda film u'll never know!

[ESG]

Indeed, saw them again this year in North London, and are playing in Novemebr @ the orum, kentish town

 

believe they are in 24 hr party people, Wilsons rubbing fake-tan on them LOL

 

 

knife slits water

[SAINTS64MAD]

u lot av got to listen to metallica! they rock!

[SteveP]

I do, I've got Metallica - Metallica and S&M (it's an album, don't be getting no strange ideas!).

 

I wouldn't be surprised if anyone else does too. I like 'em but they aren't someone I'd listen every day, on the basis I've got about 350 albums I'd listen to 3 or 4 times a year..

 

I've found it also pays not just to like one type of music, because you're more likely to miss out on something good if you do, in fact, I can see another thread developing, 'albums I own that people wouldn't expect me to'.

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

I was going to see ACR when they played last but they clashed with another gig.

I haven't actually seen the film, what i meant was they wasn't on the soundtrack.

 

Are they headlining the forum or support?

 

I've got a couple of the albums, one in one of them grey factory boxes (cassette) and Good Together

[SAINTS64MAD]

good steve P its a good album aint it. iv got the video of the concert!

[Colin Zeal EFM]

1st gig I went to was Duran Duran in 1988. 2nd was Paul McCartney in 1990 and third was Inspiral Carpets in 1991 at Alexandra Palace.

 

Best gig ever would be Oasis at Knebworth (96) and best indoor gig would be Blur at Wembley Arena (95).

 

First single bought - The Birdie Song!!

[Laz]

My first gig was The Tubes at Hammersmith Odeon about 1977. The best probably ZZ-Top at Wembley (can't remember when).

[ESG]

EFM The Firm, The etc etc...

 

ACR headline Manchester

and support London

with Fila Brazilla, about the 17th i think...

 

not seen the CD track listing

see the film, out on vid now i believe,worth it, I thought it would be woeful but in fact (no pun) very funny, Coogan does Wilson excellently...

 

the Big E

[R Zimmerman]

1. Lightning Seeds at V 98.

2. Oasis at Finsbury Park, Saturday night.

3. Oasis - Definitely Maybe

[Chubbhead EFM]

Zimmerman you have good taste! I went to finsbury on the sunday and it was excellent.I went to see Oasis at wembley two years ago for the first time and I thought they couldn't surpass that night but they proved me wrong. DM was the first album I bought. That means I 've been an Oasis fan for 8 years! That's all of my teenage life so far!

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

i went to oasis at Knebworth and that was great, even though I was at the front in the first pit I still think you can't beat a band in a small or medium venue. I've seen loads of great bands and great names outside in a feild but they necer quite cut the mustard for me (including Oasis)

[Chubbhead EFM]

I know, I see where your coming from. As much as I enjoyed the gigs I really wished I had got tickets to see them at the Watford Colesseum(don't know how to spell it). 1. because I would have been able to actually see something and 2. because I've never seen a gig there before.