Conference marvin::uk_music

    Well, hippies, *my* first gig was (ahem, ahem) Quintessence at the
    Woodhall Community Centre, Welwyn Garden City, admission charge
    40p, in October of 1970. I followed this with a swift all-nighter
    at the Lyceum (Uriah Heep, would you believe), Elton John and Argent
    at Hemel Hempstead pavilion (70p) and then joined the Mott The Hoople
    unofficial 'go-anywhere-do-anything-just-gotta-see-that-band' brigade.
    
    Bob

    John Cooper Clarke - Leisureland, Galway (1978). Well this was one of
    the first gigs. Tom Waits in Dublin's Olympia a year later. The Jam and
    the Undertones about the same time.

    I saw JCC again last year actually - the poor man is STILL doing the
    same material ("You never see a nipple in the Daily Express", "Health
    Fanatic" etc). And in run-down pubs and clubs. Sad really.

    - Tim

    Nitro De-Luxe (Chicago House type) at the Electric Avenue nightclub in
    Doncaster April 1987.  `Let's Get Brutal' was in the top 20 at the
    time.  C**p.  I listened to the first song, then went off into the
    Forum (Different part of same nightclub that plays House music).
    
    Yawn.
    
    
    matty

    Hi there !!
    
    My first gig was ABBA in 1979!!!! In Rotterdam!
    After that I've been to several, not as much as I
    would like to, though.....
    Bands I've seen are: Level 42, Wet wet wet, Simple Minds,
    Curiosity killed the cat, Sade, Prince, Spandau Ballet (lots
    of times!!!), Bros (yeah!), and a few more that I can't think of
    right now!!! I'm going to see Simply red (21st March) and 
    Tears for fears (14th April), I'm really looking forward to these!!!
    
    Cheers!
    Have a nice weekend!
    Ilse.                                           
    
    

    First gig?
    
    Blackfoot , when they were still a great southern boogie band in
    1982 at the Reading Hexagon .
    After that , it was Marillion , then Marillion , then Marilli...
    
    
    PETE

The Associates - The Hacienda, Manchester 1986'ish. No recollections of the 
actual concert itself but I can remember somebody walking Billy Mackenzie's
whippets outside when we were queuing up to get in !

    Did they do "Nude Spoons Euphoria" ?

    
    Bad Company - around '73	Glasgow Apollo
    
    Was the first tour before the 1st album came out and even though
    it was the first time anybody had heard the material they went down
    a storm.
    
    		Ian.
    

	Iron Maiden on their first national tour when Paul Dianno was still
	singing, at Bracknell Sports Centre. All I remember was that it was
	just too bloody loud. Must be a good 10 years ago now...

	Ian.

    My first might have been to see Free just before their very final
    split, but I told my mate that I wasn't into heavy "hippy" music.
    Soon after, I went and bought all their albums. I still kick myself
    for not going!
    The first gig I went to was Vinegar Joe at Guildford Civic Hall.
    This band featured Robert Palmer and Elkie Brooks. The most striking
    feature for me (I was a rather virginal fifteen at the time) was
    Elkie Brook's tiny mini-skirt riding up over her hips, encouraged
    by her provocative dancing. She was somewhat different then, compared
    with her solo career.
    In those early days, I also saw bands such as Kokomo, Camel (they
    were always on at Surrey Uni.), Bad Company, Nazereth, AC/DC, Cozy
    Powell's Hammer, Back Street Crawler (post Kossoff's death) and
    various bands that have been forgotten by me and probably everyone
    else.
    
    Richard.

    Well I'm certainly not admitting my first in public (popular
    Chinn/Chapman band in the '70s [*not* Sweet]).
    
    However, I made up for it after that with Fleetwood Mac..

    Mud ?? Suzi Quatro ?? 

    An obscure local band called 'Uncertain Call' at INSA Lyons in 1987.
    ( A friend of mine took me there because his cousin was the drummer of
    the band. )

The first real gig I saw is probably the best. 

On the occasion of his birthday, around summer '81, Phil Lynott played the 
Astoria Ballroom in Bundoran, a small seaside town in Donegal. Scott Gorham 
was in the band along with a host of non-Lizzy others. 

Although it was announced that he was going to appear (I think Brush Sheils 
was scheduled), nobody in the area really believed it, so there was only 
about two hundred people there. They played for about two hours, going 
through all the Thin Lizzy classics, looking like they were really having a 
good time.

Afterwards Phil and the lads came down to the bar for a few pints and talked 
to anyone bold enough to approach them. 

Sad that Phil's not around any more. At least he seemed to enjoy himself while 
he was here.

--Patrick--

	I remember a Thin Lizzy gig at the Red Lion Leytonstone way back
	in 19mumble, where there were only about 30 people in the audience.

	My first gig....Pink Fairies, at the Marquee, 19mumble-.

	P1

    I remember an evening in 71/2 in Potters Bar where I had to tell
    a lost P. Lynott and cohorts how to find the place where they wer
    due to play that night.
    
    Bob

    Actually it was Smokie...

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>                          -< Not worth remembering ! >-
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> The Associates - The Hacienda, Manchester 1986'ish. No recollections of the 
> actual concert itself but I can remember somebody walking Billy Mackenzie's
> whippets outside when we were queuing up to get in !
    
    Hey, I was at this one too! I arrived lateish and without a ticket, so
    had to buy from a tout for �8, double the face price. But it wasn't the
    "proper" Associates, it was the band Billy Mackenzie put together after
    Alan Rankine left. I remember quite enjoying the gig, but where I was
    standing at least, the bass and drums were at a punishing level. The LP
    he put out at the time wasn't bad and it's incredibly long. I had a
    ticket to see the Associates properly in Edinburgh a year or so before
    that, but they split up and cancelled the gig on the night.
    
    To contribute to the basenote, the first gig I was ever at took place
    in 1975 at the Eden Court Theatre, Inverness. The stars were the Edgar
    Broughton band, obscure even then, but it was most unusual for
    Inverness to see live music at that time so the place was packed. I had
    a seat in a box at the side and remember looking along the lines of the
    stalls and noticing that everybody, but everybody, was wearing jeans.
    The band were crap.
    
    
    Rod

Sigue Sigue Sputnik in 1986 (i think) @Cov poly. Support was by Black Elvis,
which was quite good.
Had 3 body checks for weapons etc before being let in!
SSS came on v.late the 'music' was just white noise, Degville stirred the 
audience with racial slurs/jokes. The stage lights lit up the fountains of 
spit from the audience at the front. Bouncers threw someone off the stage 
& into the crowd from their shoulder height (ouch!).
It all ended when someone threw a glass (whiskey) bottle at Degville; this
hit him in the face causing him to storm off.
This was seen as a signal for the drummers to thow their sticks at the crowd
(they seemed to have a couple of box fulls).
Last I saw was their coach being attacked outside the union building!
It was quite a fun night out actually!!!

...art

Blue Oyster Cult with Japan as support at the Odeon in Edinburgh (or was it the
Playhouse ... so long ago!), then Wishbone Ash, then Rush, then I came to my
senses and went to The Stranglers and my life hasn't been the same since.

Stuartp

    
    
    
    1972 at the Glasgow Apollo.   Neil Young was in concert, but the
    show was stolen by an up and coming LA support band called...
    
    
    The Eagles.
    
    
    I'll never forget "Take it easy" with the acapello intro.
    
    
    Michael

    
    MAN - the Roundhouse 1976
    
    "Make some room for the young lads so they can see OK..."
    
    "Have a puff on this..."
    
    Things have never been the same since...really...

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>	My first gig....Pink Fairies, at the Marquee, 19mumble-.


    My first gig....Pink Faires, at Amersham College, 19mumble-.
    
    Colin

    re .23
    
    That wasn't the gig where John Cippolina (ex Quicksilver) played
    with Man, was it?
    
    Bob

    
    No, 
    
    Unfortunately i think he had kicked the bucket by then ...a BIG pity.
    
    However, the Roundhouse was the best venue in London in its day...
    
    For all you people that have only been to Wenbley and Hammersmith Odeon
    ( i was there for the first big Jam concert when all the seats got
     ripped out !)
    
    You missed out !
    
    ROUNDHOUSE, NASHVILLE, Red Cow ( up and coming bands- free entrance)
    and the Hammersmith Odeon (the Palais was OK as well)
    
    John
    
    

    Ah, The Roundhouse...
    
    One of my favourite gigs ever was Flamin' Groovies at The Roundhouse.
    Great venue.
    
    Ken
    

    Tom Robinson Band, The Clash, Steel Pulse, X-ray spex....Rock Against
    Racism at Victoria Park, Bethnal Green 1978. 
    
    Then it would have been The Jam at The Rainbow on their "Strange
    Town" tour in May 79. I remember that one coinciding with Thatcher 
    coming to power ( boo-hiss ) and Arsenal beating Man Utd in the F.A. 
    Cup Final ( Yeahhh!! ).
    
    Barry. 
                        

    
    Killing Joke, Edinburgh university 
    Thompson Twins, Edinburgh Nite-Club
    Altered Images/Strawberry Switchblade, Edinburgh Nite-club
    Scars/TV21/Boots for Dancing/Cuban Heels, Edinburgh Coasters
    
    All 1980-81.

    
    
    	Who	Rockpile (Edmunds/Lowe)
    	Where	Somewhere in Glasgow
    	When	197?
    
    	Doug

    My first gig was seeing a band called 'If' at a pub called the
    Torrington in North London about 19 years ago. I only remember this
    because I went to the venue's 20 anniversary last year to see
    Morrisey/Mullen. Dick Morrisey used to play in If.
    
    Funny old world.
    
    Mike
    
    ps. If were a jazz-rock group. What ever happened to jazz-rock?

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>                            -< Those were the days >-
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>    
>    Scars/TV21/Boots for Dancing/Cuban Heels, Edinburgh Coasters
     ^^^^^ ^^^^
    
    I could have been at these... I remember the Scars guitarist getting in
    a rage with amplifier trouble, does that ring a bell/strike a chord?
    
    
    Rod

    
     I remember Robert King (singer, I think) had a snake painted on his
    face that night. TV21 were on the same bill along with some lesser
    known bands, maybe 6 in all. In fact, New Apartment were there too..
    their singer wore John Lennon style shades and jumped around a lot.
    Most people went to see TV21 I think but the Scars outshone everyone
    else by a long way. What happened to them, anybody know?

    First gig was seeing The Rolling Stones at the "Empire Pool", Wembley
    (as it was called then) in September 1973, with two support bands.
    Kracker were the first band to be signed to the Stones own record
    label. It's so long ago now, I can hardly remember what sort of
    music they played or how good they were, but next on was Billy Preston
    and his "God Squad" who were really good. He had a single "Will
    it go round in circles" in the charts at the time and went down
    a treat with everybody. The Stones played over two and a half hours
    covering material from 1968 up to their newly released "Goats Head
    Soup" L.P. Album stickers were given out at concert, and I've kept
    a few of them to this day - I remember sticking one of these on
    the front of my rough book at school! The show finished with Jagger
    throwing buckets of water over the front rows of the audience.
    
    Afterwards we waited outside to see them all being driven away in
    their respective cars, and saw all the band less Mick Jagger being
    whisked away quickly keeping very low profiles although Charlie
    Watts did look up at us. 
    
    Ah, such a long time ago!
    
    Julian.

    MY FIRST WAS HERMANS HERMITS.VICTORIA THEATRE.LONDON. SOMETIME IN
    THE 60'S.(ME MUM ADORED PETER NOONE).I LIKED THEM SO MUCH I BOUGHT
    AN ALBUM WITH MY POCKET MONEY. PLAYED IT ONCE I THINK. CONVINCED
    MY DAD TO BUY ME A GUITAR.LEARNT TO PLAY(SORT OF).JOINED A SOCIAL
    CLUB BAND.COULDN'T SING.TOOK UP BASS.MOVED TO BRUM.JOINED A ROCK
    BAND(& DEC).MADE FRIENDS WITH THE P.A. GUYS(LARRY PHILLIPS FROM
    MONEY)AT OUR FIRST GIG(ROMEO & JULIETS).MOVED INTO A FLAT AT HIS
    HOUSE(8 TRACK RECORDING STUDIO IN BASEMENT).JOINED ANOTHER BAND(ANTHEM)
    MADE A DEMO.NEARLY GOT A RECORD DEAL(BAND SPLIT UP).OPENED A VENUE
    IN BRUM(POSERS).BOUGHT THE P.A. FROM LARRY(EXPENSIVE).TRAVELLED
    THE WORLD(WELL...WARRINGTON & LONDON).WORKED AS FREELANCE SOUND
    ENGINEER FOR BRIAR,TOBRUK,COHESION(LOTS OF BEER DRINKING).GOT BORED
    (BECAME A MANAGER IN DEC).GOT INTERESTED AGAIN(ONCE IT'S IN THE
    BLOOD!!!)JOINED A NEW BAND(LIFE LIES)GIGGING TONIGHT AT SELLY PARK
    TAVERN(SUPPORT SLOTS ONLY AT THE MOMENT.       THANKS MUM......