First live gigs

[iandg]

That would have been the Climax Blues Band in 1976 - local band with a current hit holding a charity concert at the Top of the World in Stafford

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRVSSwJYqh0

 

[midlife]

Roy Wood and Wizzard 1972, around the time of Ball Park Incident.

Shaun

 

[velovoice]

Wow, this sounds so middle-class and uncool but.....
INXS, The X Factor World Tour - The Coliseum, Portland Oregon, 29th March 1991. (I had to look up the date.)
I grew up where the nearest live music venue of any kind was 3+ hours' drive away so this was a Very Big Deal for a girl from my town to travel to. I was 22. Michael Hutchence prowled the stage and gangways like a panther. I had no idea a song could sound other than the recorded studio version. Utterly changed my life.

(I saw INXS again a few years later. Rubbish album, rubbish gig. I walked out halfway through. Not that this restores any street cred, of course. )

 

[EltonFrog]

Anti Nazi League / Rock against Racism rally 1979.
We marched from somewhere in London to Brockwell park.
Aswad, Stiff Little Fingers,Verdict. Probably others too.

Elvis Costello, if I recall correctly. I slept through part of his set for some reason.

I remember the walk, it was 7 miles and I did it barefoot, and then walked 5 miles home.
I'm not sure why it seemed like a good idea to leave home for a long day without shoes or money, but what do more experienced adults know anyway

Not my first gig, but I was there too, I only wanted to The Tom Robinson band. I have a feeling that Sham 69 were there too but I'm not certain.

EDIT: "...,festival at Victoria Park in Hackney organized by RAR and the Anti-Nazi League, to counteract the growing wave of racist attacks in the UK.[7][8][9][10] The concert featured The Clash,[9][11][12]Buzzcocks, Steel Pulse, X-Ray Spex, The Ruts, Sham 69, Generation X and the Tom Robinson Band. '

 

[Mark Grant]

Not my first gig, but I was there too, I only wanted to The Tom Robinson band. I have a feeling that Sham 69 were there too but I'm not certain.

EDIT: "...,festival at Victoria Park in Hackney organized by RAR and the Anti-Nazi League, to counteract the growing wave of racist attacks in the UK.[7][8][9][10] The concert featured The Clash,[9][11][12]Buzzcocks, Steel Pulse, X-Ray Spex, The Ruts, Sham 69, Generation X and the Tom Robinson Band. '

That was '78.

 

[Tim Hall]

That was '78.

All you kids that sit and whine. You should have been there in '79.

 

[Eribiste]

Led Zeppelin at The Belfry in 1971

 

[Brains]

All you kids that sit and whine. You should have been there in '79.

The ANL gig in Brockwell Park was in '79
http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/rock-against-racism-1979.html

 

[gaz71]

Deacon Blue at Hammersmith Odeon in the late 80s was my first.

 

[craigwend]

Discounting local bands ...
Hull Tower ballroom 1981

 

[Herbie]

Prone as I am to pointless musings, what was the first live gig you saw?

Mine was the Vipers Skiffle Group, Finsbury Park, 1957. ( Still got their first album, it was also MY first album!!)

Ian Dury and the Blockheads Edinburgh Playhouse 1979..

 

[Diggs]

Errrrr.......Adam and The Ants at the Dominion, Tottenham Court Road
It did get better.....I've seen a lot since

 

[Oldbloke]

First 'proper' gig at the Hammersmith Odeon was Steeleye Span October 1976
But we had Squeeze as the school end of term band same year

That was some band for that occasion, saw them a few times, superb