Guns n Roses at the Marquee in '87. I was still at school but went with my older brother who had got me into the band. It was also my very first gig. I waited a further three years before I managed to get to another gig which was another 'legendary' though much lower profile and only legendary with fans of the band. It was Faith no More live at Brixton in 1990 which went on to become the 'You Fat Bastards' live album and video.
The Kinks at the Rainbow '72 and '77, London Palladium '74 Bowie at Earls Court '73 Lou Reed, Rainbow '73 Led Zeppelin, Ally Pally '71?
Not sure that any of them felt legendary at the time or since, but I enjoyed them all except Zeppelin ( love the band, but not impressed, audience annoyed me - emperor's new clothes and all that)
They're all pretty legendary in my book & I am extremely jealous!! All before I was born but massive acts from music history
Yes - 78 John Martyn - Leeds Folk 79 Floyd- The Wall- Earl's Court Genesis - Lyceum Kilburn and the High roads - Dublin Castle 77 Roy Harper - LSE Zep- Knebworth
Beatles Christmas Show Hammersmith Odeon /1964, compered by??????Jimmy Saville. The season I think ran for a couple of weeks and tickets were easy to get and not all shows were sold out.
Bananarama - Golders Green 1983. Their first ever live gig
Keren Woodward is fitttt.
And she was then too. I knew them quite well. I went through different phases of fancying them all. Siobhan sister went out with someone I worked with (Gary Crowley) and she was very nice too!
BBC London's GC? Not that it matters but I thought he's gay.
U2 at The Lycium before they were famous about 1981/2. Brilliant
Oh the Good old days were the Best !
Was at that U2 gig. Was support The Skids? Also Led Zep Knebworth. The Who Lewisham Odeon supported by Dire Straits. Too many others I can't recall but many a happy night at The Bridge House Canning Town.
Did anyone on this board ever see The Beatles live?
I never went when they were at the Granada Woolwich, Roy Orbison was top of the bill, Love me Do had just come out, I should think it was 1963. I was gutted afterwards that I had missed them and not long after that the Granada became a bingo hall, from the Beatles to bingo
Another at Knebworth for Oasis...I left shortly after they came on as thought they were rubbish....I had actually gone to see Manic Street Preachers for some bizarre reason...
Meant to have been at the Manics gig at Warwick Uni in around 1990, but it was cancelled as Richie Manic carved '4 Real' into his arm with a razor blade...
(I'm not actually a Manics fan....)
Nsynch's first UK appearance at the 100 Club (industry do...)...Lance was the star...how he never made it and Justin Timberlake did is beyond me ;-)
Every time I see the Cure I think they're legendary...
Lynrd Sknrd- Think it was Finsbury Park 77 - one of their last gigs b4 the plane crash.Freebird still one of my all time favourites
Ha. Portsmouth, I think 74. Skynrd were supporting Golden Earring, one of my all time favourite bands. Unfortunately, and only after we all got there, it was announced Skynrd couldn't play. Fair to say a lot of people had come to see them rather than the Earring,and there was a lot of booing. It got worse. Not once but twice, once during the first band, the Twinkies or something, and then when the Earring got started we were evacuated because of "bomb threats'. FFS. But the Earring got through it and won the crowd over. Until we got outside, and it all kicked off.
libertines at the tap n tin chatham in 2003 is somewhat legendary. it was supposed to be a solo pete doherty gig, his first after leaving prison but the rest of the band turned up unannounced. they stopped playing once the ambulance turned up to take one of them to hospital
The Stax / Volt Revue at the Finsbury Park Astoria, 1967. Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Carla Thomas et all, compared by Emperor Rosko. Otis lost his life in an plane crash later the same year.
Most bizarre running order - Stuttgart Neckarstadion 1985: U2 (already with a string of early hits) playing second fiddle to Chris De Burgh, the headline act. CHRIS DE BURGH! (and this was before his monstrously awful Lady in Red)
In retrospect, I think this must have been the trigger point for Bono to expand his ego and up-his-own-arse-ness - a process that has seemingly continued unabated for the last 31 years.
Other acts that day: The Alarm (good), Joe Cocker (pissed), an energetic Italian lady called Gianna Nannini and REO Speedwagen (dire, but good comedy value).
Mid 90's, band spoken about in the music press as the next great thing, anyone in London who knew anything about music was going, sold out, touts in the street, Kentish Town was abuzz, gigg was great, band superb....
Was there too 1980 to be exact - And at The Scala a while later - I think they recorded one of them for a programme called 20th Century Box with Janet Street Porter and Robert elms
Pink Floyd hyde park free concert Stones Hyde Park Free concert Queen Hyde Park.Free concert ELP Melody maker Poll winners concert Oval with Focus etc. ELP: Lewisham Odeon. Pink Floyd Earls court. Free: sound check for 'Free Live', Croydon. Fairfield Hall. Who Lewisham Odeon. Rory Gallagher: with taste Lyceum, Black Prince, Lyceum Midnight court, with stone the crows. Festival Hall. Several times at the Marque Wardour street. Roxy Music: Greyhound Croydon Peter Frampton, Humphreys half moon, San Diego. Thunderclap Newman Goldsmiths art college. Amen Corner, Greenwich Town hall. Jack Bruce: New Victoria theatre London mid 70s. Dizzy Gillepsie Ronnie Scotts, circa early 80s.
Oasis' last ever show at Wembley Stadium a month before they broke up.
Rage Against The Machine did a free gig to 80,000 people in Finsbury Park in 2010 to celebrate being UK number 1 at Christmas. Their guitarist has described this as the most ultimate show they've ever played.
Also - Joy Division, U2 and Simple Minds at The Lyceum (separate gigs - I guess not necessarily legendary, but before they all got famous), likewise Depeche Mode at the Bridge House. The Damned (playing as School Bullies) at the Bridge House too.
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John Martyn - Leeds Folk 79
Floyd- The Wall- Earl's Court
Genesis - Lyceum
Kilburn and the High roads - Dublin Castle 77
Roy Harper - LSE
Zep- Knebworth
Rob's Nan: House!
Also Led Zep Knebworth.
The Who Lewisham Odeon supported by Dire Straits.
Too many others I can't recall but many a happy night at The Bridge House Canning Town.
I was gutted afterwards that I had missed them and not long after that the Granada became a bingo hall, from the Beatles to bingo
Meant to have been at the Manics gig at Warwick Uni in around 1990, but it was cancelled as Richie Manic carved '4 Real' into his arm with a razor blade...
(I'm not actually a Manics fan....)
Nsynch's first UK appearance at the 100 Club (industry do...)...Lance was the star...how he never made it and Justin Timberlake did is beyond me ;-)
Every time I see the Cure I think they're legendary...
They were much better then than their later years imo.
Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Carla Thomas et all, compared by Emperor Rosko.
Otis lost his life in an plane crash later the same year.
In retrospect, I think this must have been the trigger point for Bono to expand his ego and up-his-own-arse-ness - a process that has seemingly continued unabated for the last 31 years.
Other acts that day: The Alarm (good), Joe Cocker (pissed), an energetic Italian lady called Gianna Nannini and REO Speedwagen (dire, but good comedy value).
Mid 90's, band spoken about in the music press as the next great thing, anyone in London who knew anything about music was going, sold out, touts in the street, Kentish Town was abuzz, gigg was great, band superb....
Whatever happened to Echobelly.
Stones Hyde Park Free concert
Queen Hyde Park.Free concert
ELP Melody maker Poll winners concert Oval with Focus etc.
ELP: Lewisham Odeon.
Pink Floyd Earls court.
Free: sound check for 'Free Live', Croydon. Fairfield Hall.
Who Lewisham Odeon.
Rory Gallagher: with taste Lyceum, Black Prince, Lyceum Midnight court, with stone the crows.
Festival Hall. Several times at the Marque Wardour street.
Roxy Music: Greyhound Croydon
Peter Frampton, Humphreys half moon, San Diego.
Thunderclap Newman Goldsmiths art college.
Amen Corner, Greenwich Town hall.
Jack Bruce: New Victoria theatre London mid 70s.
Dizzy Gillepsie Ronnie Scotts, circa early 80s.
Rage Against The Machine did a free gig to 80,000 people in Finsbury Park in 2010 to celebrate being UK number 1 at Christmas. Their guitarist has described this as the most ultimate show they've ever played.
My dad saw Jimi Hendrix at The Black Prince, I guess 1966?