j66
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ianrauk said:Husker Du - Camden 1987
I was at their first gig in the UK at Stow Hill in Newport - amazing how many people I've met since who were also there, and have become good friends. I remember the sweat dripping off the bassist's twirly moustache... Butthole Surfers played there too, their rider asked for 100 wooden pegs, bottles of food colouring and 3 dresses from a charity shop - much fun, but was surpassed a few years later by a show they did at the Newport Centre - fire, strobes, freaky stripper dancing & projections, the lot. Brilliant - no one since has come close. Not got round to seeing the Flaming Lips yet, mind. Favourable mentions for Television and James at Glastonbury, but the Nightingales stick in my mind for sheer volume, and the massive wad of cash handed to them afterwards.