threebikesmcginty
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Delftse Post said:
I keep meaning to pick up the Bear Family re-issue of that - backed by The Nashville Teens IIRC
Best Gig you've never been to ?
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I keep meaning to pick up the Bear Family re-issue of that - backed by The Nashville Teens IIRC
Chromatic
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I saw Rick Wakeman at Bristol Colston Hall years ago, I would have been around 16 I reckon. Good it was.numbnuts said:
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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How about two gigs that I did go to but didn't actually see? 
Number 1: Benefit concert for Robert Wyatt at Drury Lane Theatre, London in 1974. Introduced by John Peel and featuring loads of my favourite performers. I went down to London on the train with a bunch of mates and we had all day to kill so we bought a load of vodka and sat around in a big park, having a laugh and gradually getting sloshed.
When we finally went to see the gig, I remember sitting down in my seat and hearing a big cheer as John Peel came out on stage to introduce the first act. Next thing I remember was being dragged through the streets of London back to Euston Station singing "I'm a Believer".
I was told that it was a fantastic night, I should have been there. Oh, I was - never mind! Ho ho...
Number two: Dexys Midnight Runners, Warwick University, 1980. It was before 'Geno' went to number one in the charts and none of us had heard of them. It was during the 'donkey jackets and brass phase' (none of that dungarees and fiddles malarkey!). I got bored of waiting for them to come on stage so I nipped up to the union bar and ended up spending the whole evening playing on a Space Invaders machine. I beat my hi-score but missed what my mates later told me was the best gig since, oh, the Robert Wyatt benefit in London!
Number 1: Benefit concert for Robert Wyatt at Drury Lane Theatre, London in 1974. Introduced by John Peel and featuring loads of my favourite performers. I went down to London on the train with a bunch of mates and we had all day to kill so we bought a load of vodka and sat around in a big park, having a laugh and gradually getting sloshed.
When we finally went to see the gig, I remember sitting down in my seat and hearing a big cheer as John Peel came out on stage to introduce the first act. Next thing I remember was being dragged through the streets of London back to Euston Station singing "I'm a Believer".
I was told that it was a fantastic night, I should have been there. Oh, I was - never mind! Ho ho...
Number two: Dexys Midnight Runners, Warwick University, 1980. It was before 'Geno' went to number one in the charts and none of us had heard of them. It was during the 'donkey jackets and brass phase' (none of that dungarees and fiddles malarkey!). I got bored of waiting for them to come on stage so I nipped up to the union bar and ended up spending the whole evening playing on a Space Invaders machine. I beat my hi-score but missed what my mates later told me was the best gig since, oh, the Robert Wyatt benefit in London!
Tough one, but two to mention would be Ozzy live at the Bristol Studio many moons ago, or Motorhead in the same venue on their Merry Bastard Xmas tour.
Right at the front for the duration, and got half killed when Ace of Spades kicked off.
But at the top of the list will always be The Ramones on their final tour, not cause it was the best show - let's face it they were nothing to look at and Ozzy takes that one for a totally mad stage performance, but cause it was the end of the greatest punk rock band ever and I never wanted the show to end.
Right at the front for the duration, and got half killed when Ace of Spades kicked off.
But at the top of the list will always be The Ramones on their final tour, not cause it was the best show - let's face it they were nothing to look at and Ozzy takes that one for a totally mad stage performance, but cause it was the end of the greatest punk rock band ever and I never wanted the show to end.
nosherduke996
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Queen, when they done It,s a kinda magic tour at Knebworth.
Also Genisus The way we walk tour at Knebworth.
Also Genisus The way we walk tour at Knebworth.
Wolf04 said:
I saw the Ramones live and they were the first proper gig I went to. Looking back, it was probably like going to an FA cup final as your first game and all other gigs struggled to look as good.
The one I regret missing is The Last Waltz as I would love to have seen that live.
Kirstie
Über Member
I was super gutted that I also missed the following combo in London in the 90s (Brixton Academy I believe), just because I didn't have the cash to go:
Front 242, Einstruzende Neubauten and Meat Beat Manifesto. All in one evening.
By all accounts it was an incredible gig
Front 242, Einstruzende Neubauten and Meat Beat Manifesto. All in one evening.
By all accounts it was an incredible gig
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
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The Stranglers supported by Human League [before HL went commercial] in Sheffield- September 1978.
No DVD- you just had to be there!
No DVD- you just had to be there!
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
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... one of the best was Dire Straits at Newcastle City Hall but my wife says she wasn't there so maybe I wasn't either.... which is wierd!
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
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- Northumberland
ColinJ said:
Did you see Tom Robinson Band at Warwick Students' Union in 1980- I drove overnight from Dundee after a project 'crit' and watched them from the gallery. Didn't particularly like them but was the first time I'd heard 2468 Motorway- they were good live.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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Er, I don't think so... I don't know whether that would be because I wasn't actually there, or because I was elsewhere in the building obsessed with a Space Invaders machine!Archie_tect said:
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLzUme1gN8c
this one. I saw them two nights running at the Alexandra Palace in 1974 - despite having to be carried off to hospital at the beginning of one, and returning by taxi with the event about an hour and a half in.
They played for four hours non-stop on both nights, one night country, the next night acid jazz. No chairs, just standing or lying on the floor. Dogs and children included. But definitely not the same as out of doors.
nigelnorris
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Gig I never saw - I actually went to see the Sex Pistols at the Lafayette in Wolverhampton in '78. That was the last tour where they didn't turn up for a load of dates. The Lafayette being one of them.
