First live gigs

[Joey Shabadoo]

lol

as the young folks say

 

[slowmotion]

The Beatles (supported by The Yardbirds), Hammersmith Odeon in about 1965. I was only eleven and was given a ticket by my best friend's teenage sisters. I didn't hear a single note of the Beatles due to the hysterical screams of the highly excited, almost entirely female audience. My friend's sisters managed to meet the band in their dressing room afterwards and came away with an empty Coke bottle that had actually touched the lips of Paul McCartney. It was treated like a holy relic.

 

[PeteXXX]

My first gig was with mummy and daddy to see Cilla and a few other 'artistes' of the era... circa 1964

First proper gig was Jethro Tull, then Edgar Broughton, Taste, Quintessence, Cream at subsequent gigs. mainly at the Marquee, Lyceum all- nighters and Hyde Park free concerts.

 

[MarkF]

Not sure, it would have either been Adam and the Antz or Gruppo (Beep Beep Love) Sportivo, saw both early 1979 in Bradford.

 

[Sara_H]

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!!)

Brother Beyond approx 1987.

 

[StuAff]

Mordred (US metal band), Marquee Club (then in Charing Cross Road), May 26 1991. Cracking show, eventually saw them for a second time in August 2014 (they'd disbanded for most of the intervening period), and they were just as good. Second show was pretty damn good too- Anthrax & Public Enemy co-headlining Brixton Academy.

 

[RoubaixCube]

Opeth @Camden Roundhouse in 2006. Though I used to play in a local band that played a few venues around london well before the opeth gig if that counts

 

[Seevio]

Blimey, somebody else has heard of Mordred.

Anyway my first gig was Magnum at the Colston Hall which must have been 86-ish.

 

[Cubist]

Stiff Little Fingers, Oxford Apollo 1978 ....they were supporting Tom Robinson Band, which I can't say I was over impressed with.

 

[Brandane]

The Stranglers; Osaka, Japan. October 1978. Whilst in merchant navy.

 

[vernon]

My first gig should have been Jimi Hendrix at the Imperial Hotel in Darlington in 1967 but my parents thought that I was too young at nine years old to be taken by my cousin to see him.

I had to wait until 1973 before I got to see a gig - Deep Purple supported by Nazareth in Newcastle City Hall.

 

[raleighnut]

Alex Harvey in 74 or 75, (can't remember which)

 

[Mark Grant]

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.

 

[sackville d]

Stiff Little Fingers, Bradford St George Hall, May `79 Support was by The Starjets.

 

[Paulus]

Slade, 1972 at the Rainbow Finsbury Park.