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Best Gigs You've Been To

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  • I have been to one and only one "Live show"/gig/concert in my entire life, £50 to Demelza house if any one on here can guess who I saw and I'll double it if you tell me where it was, and it wasn't the WHO at The Valley.
  • [cite]Posted By: T.C.E[/cite]I have been to one and only one "Live show"/gig/concert in my entire life, £50 to Demelza house if any one on here can guess who I saw and I'll double it if you tell me where it was, and it wasn't the WHO at The Valley.

    Gracie Fields, Rochdale Gaumont.
  • [cite]Posted By: T.C.E[/cite]I have been to one and only one "Live show"/gig/concert in my entire life, £50 to Demelza house if any one on here can guess who I saw and I'll double it if you tell me where it was, and it wasn't the WHO at The Valley.

    The Beatles
  • [cite]Posted By: Algarveaddick[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: T.C.E[/cite]I have been to one and only one "Live show"/gig/concert in my entire life, £50 to Demelza house if any one on here can guess who I saw and I'll double it if you tell me where it was, and it wasn't the WHO at The Valley.

    Gracie Fields, Rochdale Gaumont.

    Oi, bit of respect for your elders ;-)
    good but not right!
  • edited September 2008
    [cite]Posted By: Stig[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: T.C.E[/cite]I have been to one and only one "Live show"/gig/concert in my entire life, £50 to Demelza house if any one on here can guess who I saw and I'll double it if you tell me where it was, and it wasn't the WHO at The Valley.

    The Beatles

    Sorry, didnt get the Beatles at the time, like their music a lot more now.
  • [cite]Posted By: T.C.E[/cite]I have been to one and only one "Live show"/gig/concert in my entire life, £50 to Demelza house if any one on here can guess who I saw and I'll double it if you tell me where it was, and it wasn't the WHO at The Valley.

    Extreme Noise Terror w/ Napalm Death? The Dublin Castle, Camden Jan 1989?
  • [cite]Posted By: Oakster[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: T.C.E[/cite]I have been to one and only one "Live show"/gig/concert in my entire life, £50 to Demelza house if any one on here can guess who I saw and I'll double it if you tell me where it was, and it wasn't the WHO at The Valley.

    Extreme Noise Terror w/ Napalm Death? The Dublin Castle, Camden Jan 1989?

    What the %$^* my ears were bleeding just reading that. Lol
    Sorry wrong. :-(
  • edited September 2008
    Dumpys Rusty Nuts in the White Swan greenwich 1984 ish


    nope nothing 2 do with a guy with a urin complaint either
  • [cite]Posted By: Goonerhater[/cite]Dumpys Rusty Nuts in the White Swan greenwich 1984 ish


    nope nothing 2 do with a guy with a urin complaint either

    Lol, sorry wrong.
  • Go on the TCE, Oasis in Toronto and you were the character that attacked NG.
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  • I'd have gone for his brother, trappy little %£%&
    Sorry wrong, alot closer to home than that.
  • [cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]http://www.u2setlists.com/boy.shtml
    Excellent U2 source. Another of my urban myths dispelled :)
  • [cite]Posted By: Red_Pete[/cite]Lindisfarne at the Lewisham Odeon in about 1972. Supported by an up & coming young band called Genesis. Peter Gabriel was just magnificent that night. This was my first ever gig.
    Mine too!
    [cite]Posted By: Red_Pete[/cite]Genesis at Knebworth in 1978. Just totally awesome.
    I got a ticket to the 'secret' warm up gig for this. It was at the Marquee and they were billed as 'The Garden Wall'. I was standing at the back next to Fish from Marillion who was singing along word for word.

    OK enough name dropping.
  • edited September 2008
    [cite]Posted By: Goonerhater[/cite]Dumpys Rusty Nuts in the White Swan greenwich 1984 ish
    nope nothing 2 do with a guy with a urin complaint either

    The White Swan! What a venue, some really great bands on from time to time. Starting point for loads of local bands like Moon Tier, White Noize and Nuthin' Fancy (later to become Thunder).
  • I bought Fish a full English once. He was skint - Never did get the tickets he promised me - Git!
  • [cite]Posted By: BDL[/cite]I bought Fish a full English once. He was skint - Never did get the tickets he promised me - Git!
    What would you expect from someone with a name like Derek :)
  • Curve, Brixton Academy, March 1991 (day before Leaburn scored away at Blackburn)
    INXS, London Forum, 15th July 1993
  • The Curve gig was where you were wearing your limited edition Charlton shirt, the red black and white one done in an arty weird way, and singing 'Leaburn' instead of the songs.
  • edited September 2008
    Stevie Wonder Cannes 1984 - just happened to be drinking / touring cote d'azur at the time
    Hawkwind - Lewisham Odeon - anyone remember the closing down season?
    Sabbath + .... Reading Festival
    Siouxsie & the Banshees Albert Hall 1985 fantastic "Christine !!!!!!!!!!"
    Cranberrys - Limerick Savoy before they made it - you had to be there
    Not to mention being on stage at pubs / clubs around London in the mid 80s... biggest miss - could've supported Aswad at the Brixton Academy for a benefit after the riots '81 but the band bottled it ! probably a good thing as the set consisted Led Zep + Lynard Skynard covers !!! you couldn't make it up lol
  • 10,000 Maniacs at the Orange Club in Fulham I think it was their last UK performance, tiny club about 100 in attendance.

    The Cramps 3 nights running at the Palais in'83

    Simple Minds at Milton Keynes in the Mid 80's

    The Cult at Hammersmith Odeon on the Love Tour my ears were ringing for a week

    Lloyd Cole & The Commotions 20 year re-union Hammersmith 2004 - superb !
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  • Nobody seen Depeche Mode live? They're the muts nuts... Depeche Mode Pasadena Rose Bowl 1988 oh yes!
    Faithless V2001
  • [cite]Posted By: Bcaddick[/cite]Nobody seen Depeche Mode live? They're the muts nuts... Depeche Mode Pasadena Rose Bowl 1988 oh yes!
    Faithless V2001

    Yes, twice at the Hammersmith Odeon (Construction Time Again, two nights running) and Cliffs Pavillion, Southend (Broken Frame). Brilliant each time. Second Hammersmith gig is the only time in my life I've bought a ticket from a tout. I went the first night and just had to go back.
  • [quote][cite]Posted By: Bcaddick[/cite]Nobody seen Depeche Mode live? They're the muts nuts... Depeche Mode Pasadena Rose Bowl 1988 oh yes!
    Faithless V2001[/quote]

    I saw a gig on TV a while back I think of that show, I never liked them much at the time but they grew on me, and they are really popular in Germany.
  • So was that bast*rd hitler.
  • Back to TCE's question. Give us a clue mate, I am guessing it is either someone really cool right back when they started, or someone really ultra naff that you were dragged along to see by a relative? ie - The Stones on Eel Pie island, or Bucks Fizz at Wembley Arena..

    Am I getting warm?
  • Bruce Sprinsteen at Wembley
    Elton John at Hammersmith
    The Four Tops at Hammersmith
    Ian Dury at Hammersmith
    Eric Clapton at Albert Hall

    come to think of it that's probably more or less all the gigs I've ever been to....in fact my 15 y o son has been to more already than I have and I've actullay played in more gigs than I've watched.

    Note to sad git - must get out more!!
  • [cite]Posted By: Bcaddick[/cite]Nobody seen Depeche Mode live? They're the muts nuts... Depeche Mode Pasadena Rose Bowl 1988 oh yes!
    Faithless V2001

    my sister was watching them back in the early 80's i think before they made it big. i remember walking up to crook log once for training while she was going to a concert but i refused to walk with her as the get up she had on was ridiculous. i was embarrassed.
  • Nobody has mentioned Elton John at The Valley.

    The wife is more of a fan than me but he put on a decent show.
  • [quote][cite]Posted By: Bcaddick[/cite]Nobody seen Depeche Mode live? They're the muts nuts... Depeche Mode Pasadena Rose Bowl 1988 oh yes!
    Faithless V2001[/quote]

    Saw Depeche Mode supporting the Undertones at Hammersmith Odeon or Pallis sometime I don't remember. Something I had taken/eated/drunk didn't agree and I was sick on the tube. luckily it was just before our stop. Oh the shame of it now I remember

    Strangely people said I looked like the lead singer (it was a long time and about 5 stone ago)
  • The Nips and the Skids.

    Saw them live lots of times early on. Always good. The lead singer of the Nips was Shane McGowen. He was a piss head even then but a nice guy. Interviewed him once and he was pretty tolerant to a bunch of 15/16 year old spotty fanzine writers.
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