...and what about first concerts ?
School nativity’s don’t count !
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...and what about first concerts ?
School nativity’s don’t count !
The Jam.
21st March 1982 Bingley Hall Birmingham.
At the TOP of their game.
Birthday present from my big brother.
I was 14
Ticket was £4 !!
The Mission at the NEC in 88. Not an auspicious start.... Soon afterwards, The House Of Love at Loughborough Uni, a thousand times better.
(Wish I had learnt that lesson about what size venues I prefer immediately)
Sport Aid, Sheffield, 1988
Eddy Grant, Squeeze, Proclaimers, Primitives, Heaven 17, Big Country
Welsh Metal Band 'Budgie' on 13th March 1982 (had to Google the exact date) At Winchester Recreation Centre (on the indoor 5 aside pitch!!) I was 13
Bachman Turner Overdrive Sept '75 at Glasgow Apollo.
Bryan Ferry 'These Foolish Things' tour - Birmingham Odeon, December 18th 1974.
Trapeze/Sundance - Bolton Albert Hall approx 1974
Ashton, Gardner and Dyke with Osibisa as support (who were the band I really went to see) at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, very early seventies, so I would have been about 15/16.
Mine was Dire Straits at the NEC in September 1991.
Duran Duran, on the Rio tour at Southampton Gaumont. Probably around 82-83.
Ian Gillan band 1977.
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Uriah Heep - early 70's (very loud!)
Showaddywaddy as a seven year old in 1976, Portsmouth Guidhall.
Foggy
Carter USM, I was in lower sixth at the time. As I recall they had some technical problems between the support act and the headliners taking to the stage. A rather nice girl called Claire helped me while away the wait in a dark part of the balcony. On second thoughts perhaps this should go in the most memorable concert thread.
J
AC/DC Hammersmith, November 1979. Highway to Hell....
The Who Christmas Concert Hammersmith Odeon 1975.
He was supported by the members of Roxy Music, so it was essentially a Roxy concert with Andy Mackay's wonderful sax' and oboe playing; I was a big fan at the time (still am). Everybody had dressed up, so the audience looked like they were going to a party at Gatsby's. I used to love The Odeon New Street for concerts, saw some great bands there - SAHB, Santana, Rory Gallagher and Eric Clapton stand out in my memory.
Went to see Bryan Ferry last year in Paris and although his voice has aged he's still got it.
Led Zeppelin Earls Court May 24th 1975
David Bowie. On my 18th b'day: May 13, 1976. The ticket was a gift from my parents.
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Ozzy Osbourne
10th October 1980
Taunton Odeon
My hearing has never been the same since.
Pete
U2, Wembley Stadium, summer 1987
Joshua Tree tour first time around.
I was a massive Jam fan (still am I suppose), so when my mum told me she'd got tickets for a concert in Birmingham - where The Jam were playing - I got very excited. Turns out they were for Bucks Fizz. Not a great introduction to live music.
Didn't speak to her for a week...
Lenny Kravitz - oh the shame
‘You’ve got to let love rule’
Toyah Wilcox at The Hexagon in Reading , I think this was 1981
Queen at the Apollo in Glasgow in 1974.
God I feel old now!!
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Can't tell whether George is pretending to drive a car or to ride a small pony in that pic.
My first concert was The Wombles.
1979, and Supertramp's Breakfast in America tour at Wembley Arena. Sadly I can't remember which of the four dates in Oct/Nov it was.
This was closely followed by Rainbow's "Down to Earth" concert at the same venue on 29 February 1980, memorable for a riot owing to an incredibly short set and Ritchie Blackmore's refusal to play an encore.
Happy days....
(from Glasgow Apollo band listings)
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SETLIST:
1 Procession
2 Now I'm Here
3 Ogre Battle
4 Father To Son
5 White Queen (as it began)
6 Flick Of The Wrist
7 In The Lap Of The Gods
8 Killer Queen
9 The March Of The Black Queen
10 Bring Back That Leroy Brown
11 Stone Cold Crazy
12 Son And Daughter
13 Keep Yourself Alive
14 In The Lap Of The Gods...revisited
15 Big Spender
16 Modern Times Rock And Roll
17 Jailhouse Rock
£1:25 !!!
Around 1967 as a schoolboy with my mates, Fairfield Halls Croydon.
Motown revue featuring Martha and the Vandellas, The Marvelettes, Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon etc.
Great time.
Wet Wet Wet, parents probably couldn't get a babysitter dragged me and my sister along.
Status Quo and The Equals (can't remember which were headlining / support) June 1969 Swindon.
Only memorable because it was held on two levels of a multi-storey car park in the town centre.
Followed that up with the Isle of Wight Festival in August that year. Rather more memorable. :)
1st - Ultravox's Vienna Tour at Hammersmith Odeon Dec 13th 1980
2nd - The Jam - Michael Sobel Sports Centre Dec 12th 1981 (best band ever).
Jean-Michel Jarre, Docklands, 1988. Seen him twice since, once in Paris la Defense in 1990 (still one of the largest audiences ever) and then again at Wembley Arena some years after.
I was there too. It was on a float on the Thames. Docklands was just a building site then. It was cold and raining, I had a row with a burger van man who for some reason kept ignoring me and I came home covered in mud. Happy memories!!
My first gig was Bowie - Serious Moonlight Tour - Wembley Arena 1983
G ‘n’ R at Wembley stadium (‘92) with a guest appearance by Brian May and supported by Faith No More. Not a bad start.
Pantera at the Royal Court in Liverpool, September 1994.
A neighbor who introduced me to 'proper' music took me, 13yrs old, riding pillion on his Suzuki GS-something or other and then we ended up in the Krazy House afterwards.
A perfect introduction to live music
The good ole Krazy House. Not been for years.
The Jam in Port Talbot in March 1982
Still have the ticket and button badges from my second concert which was in the same venue in the following November
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Rush, Newcastle City Hall, June 11th 1977. Their first UK tour. And forty years ago tonight, I was back at the same place for my second Rush gig. And unfortunately, about to spend the night, and the following night freezing to death on a bench at Newcastle railway station, because my Mum refused to drive 30 miles to pick me up with ice on the roads.