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1/5/1968 --- Savoy cinema, Cork city center
Dave-Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tish !
support act --- The Bee Gees

Status Quo, Glasgow Apollo, 1976. Aged 14 and it was the first time I ever had a pint in a pub. The Athol Arms, Renfrew Street.

Dunners wrote: ↑Fri Nov 29, 2019 1:08 pm I think it was The Pogues in or around 1988 at the old Town & Country Club in Kentish Town. Absolute carnage. Crowd surged the bars and ripped out the spirit bottles, which were then passed around for everyone to take a swig. There as blood, p*ss, vomit and medical emergencies. And that's before the band came on stage.

If that gig was near Christmas then you spilt your drink over me.

The Malvern Winter Gardens hosted some fine bands in the day. First one I saw think was Motorhead but may have been The Banshees supported by an early Cure.
Its all a bit of a haze tbh.

The Vibrators at the Marquee (then in Wardour St.). Circa 1978.

ComeOnYouOs wrote: ↑Fri Nov 29, 2019 12:38 pm The Beatles
Finsbury Park Astoria
1964

all I can remember is thousands of screaming girls made it impossible to hear the music

Best concert i ever went to was 10cc at Hammersmith Odeon June 1978...what a talented band they were

Saw 10cc about 4 years ago supporting Quo at the 02....they were better than Quo on the night

Constanza wrote: ↑Fri Nov 29, 2019 3:34 pm

Dunners wrote: ↑Fri Nov 29, 2019 1:08 pm I think it was The Pogues in or around 1988 at the old Town & Country Club in Kentish Town. Absolute carnage. Crowd surged the bars and ripped out the spirit bottles, which were then passed around for everyone to take a swig. There as blood, p*ss, vomit and medical emergencies. And that's before the band came on stage.

If that gig was near Christmas then you spilt your drink over me.

Yeah, I think it was. IIRC, the gig's lighting effects consisted of a sh*tty Christmas tree with some fairy lights. Perfect.

Would like to say something cool but unfortunately it was 5 star back in early 85 in mitigation I was 13 at the time.

I used to go to gigs with my old dad but my first gig was Red Hot Chilli Peppers/Butthole Surfers/Gay Bykers on Acid at ULU can’t remember the year though

The Damned - The Lyceum

c.November 1978 - Rezillos at the Lyceum. Had the Undertones as the support band as Teenage kicks had just hit the airwaves. They only had about 6 songs and so they played Teenage Kicks at least 4 times. Carnage!!

Orient Punxx wrote: ↑Fri Nov 29, 2019 4:27 pm The Damned - The Lyceum

Saw them for their one-year anniversary gig at the Marquee - I still have the limited edition freebie giveaway single "New Rose" that we all got as we went in.

First proper gig: David Bowie supported by Roxy Music - very early Seventies At The Rainbow, Finsbury Park. Had no idea that they would both be so legendary. Should have appreciated the event more at the time.

Stones at Hyde Park.

Saw the Love Affair at Tottenham Royal if that counts.?

The Police

Thor wrote: ↑Fri Nov 29, 2019 12:52 pm

Beradogs wrote: ↑Fri Nov 29, 2019 11:46 am Uk Fresh 86.
Grandmaster flash.
Afrika Bambaataa
Roxanne Shante
Mantronix
Lots of others. Was Mental.

Was that at Earl's court or somewhere like that? Was the Rock Steady Crew playing as well?

Wembley arena. Not sure re rock rock steady crew. Don’t remember seeing them but it was split over a day and night session. We went during day.

Madness at the dominion theatre Tottenham Court Road, 1982, the rise & fall tour.
I was 10, it was brilliant.

Rory Gallagher at The Stadium Dublin 28th December 1976.

Gene Vincent Walthamstow Granada (Top that)

My first two

Wembley Festival Of Music
1: Slade
2: Blackfoot Sue
3: Vigrass And Osborne
Empire Pool, Wembley, London, UK 28 Oct 1972


1: The Faces
2: Pink Fairies
3: New York Dolls
Empire Pool, Wembley, London, UK 29 Oct 1972
Wembley Festival Of Music

Dunners wrote: ↑Fri Nov 29, 2019 1:17 pm

HARVEY T DENTON wrote: ↑Fri Nov 29, 2019 1:14 pm Faith No More -Brixton Academy 1990.

I was there

Me too. One of my favourite bands evah

In all honesty it was Victims of Pleasure (who had Virginia Astley, later signed to Factory Records, on keys) T Walthamstow poly in 1979, with Doug H. First big gig was Tubeway Army about a month later.
I still take pleasure in the fact that I took my son to his first gig at the Astoria as a present for doing well in his GCSE’s back in 2004 - The Killers, supported by Death From Above 1979. No-one knew The Killers back then, so he’s gathered much kudos from that.

10 cc at Wembley arena about 1979

The first concert I ever went to was in 1975 at the Liverpool Empire to see Leo Sayer (you laugh but you really should listen to his first two albums Silverbird & Just a Boy - he went all MOR after that). Anyway......the support act was a Harrogate group called Wally and I loved them (I'm a sucker for an electric violin). Fortunately a couple of years later I picked up a second hand copy of their second album Valley Gardens on vinyl. They have finally turned up on Spotify.