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Keeping in tune with the recent spate of great music threads here, what was was your very first gig you went to. This does not include watching your fellow spotty teenage mates' band playing ' Wild Thing' and the like in a local Sally Ann hall or such venue.
Mine:- Slade at Brighton's old Goldstone ground in the summer of 1975. I was 14 at the time. They were so loud they nearly shook that place off its foundations. No wonder it began to fall down gradually afterwards.
There aint half been some clever bastards.
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Your very first gig on 13:52 - Dec 18 with 2932 views
Your very first gig on 12:52 - Dec 18 by Discodroids
I just missed out on hendrix setting his guitar alight in 1967 as i was caught up in a Quaalude fuelled menage trois(supplied by spanish tony the stones dealer) with long john baldry and patti smith.
i did see johns children in hamburg in 1970 though , Lonnie donagan stood in for mark bolan that night.
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Wait. Are you like a million years old?
ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH MARTI THE REDEEMER WHO STRENGTHENS ME.
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Your very first gig on 14:00 - Dec 18 with 2926 views
SLF at the Hammy Pally in '79. Supported by the Starjets, who were just as good.
Skinheads seig-heiling throughout the gig, I remember Jake Burns introducing Johnny Was saying "this song was written by a black man and if you don't like black men then you know where the f-king door is". They wisely didn't play White Noise!
Skinheads started rucking during the encore (Tigerfeet!) and the band stormed off.
At least it was memorable!
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Your very first gig on 14:49 - Dec 18 with 2887 views
SLF at the Hammy Pally in '79. Supported by the Starjets, who were just as good.
Skinheads seig-heiling throughout the gig, I remember Jake Burns introducing Johnny Was saying "this song was written by a black man and if you don't like black men then you know where the f-king door is". They wisely didn't play White Noise!
Skinheads started rucking during the encore (Tigerfeet!) and the band stormed off.
At least it was memorable!
Jake still remembers that gig, their tour bus got smashed up after the show...SLF are back at the forum in March.
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Your very first gig on 14:53 - Dec 18 with 2884 views
Your very first gig on 13:52 - Dec 18 by Bluce_Ree
Wait. Are you like a million years old?
no bluce !! the last two posts were a piss take. As everyone seems to have gone to see the skids, the banshees, the slits, the buzzcocks, joy division,Tangerine dream , new york dolls, syd barret, dead kennedys etc etc as their first gig, and i saw luther vandross.
"...The monkey is never dead, Dealer. The monkey never dies. When you kick him off, he just hides in a corner, waiting his turn."
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Your very first gig on 15:59 - Dec 18 with 2848 views
The Hollies, it was about 1970 at The Bowl Of Brooklands in New Plymouth. I remember some old guy clapping and really enjoying the music. He is now Me.
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Your very first gig on 17:49 - Dec 18 with 2813 views
Your very first gig on 14:53 - Dec 18 by Discodroids
no bluce !! the last two posts were a piss take. As everyone seems to have gone to see the skids, the banshees, the slits, the buzzcocks, joy division,Tangerine dream , new york dolls, syd barret, dead kennedys etc etc as their first gig, and i saw luther vandross.
Your very first gig on 10:06 - Dec 18 by Stanisgod
Quo at Grays civic hall 1971 , just as Piledriver hit No.1.
Was that the show where it all ended with a punch up when some yobs got on stage and attacked the band? I remember that happening at Grays around that time.
For me, The Edgar Broughton Band at the Dagenham Roundhouse very early seventies.
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Your very first gig on 23:32 - Dec 18 with 2769 views
The Specials at Brunel University Uxbridge late 1979............same tour as below.....seen a lot of bands since, still one of the best gigs been too........
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Your very first gig on 07:49 - Dec 19 with 2695 views
Another for Big Country - Newcastle City Hall 89, gig had been rearranged from late 88 as Stuart had lost his voice. Fantastic live band, massively underrated.
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Your very first gig on 10:47 - Dec 19 with 2643 views
Joe Jackson, supported by The Specials, in 1979. Olympic Ballroom, Dublin. For a 14 year old, it was mind blowing. Loud, out of control "dancing" and various members of the specials climbing the stacks. Brilliant. This was closely followed by U2 in the TV club just after they were supposed to have disbanded!
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Your very first gig on 19:15 - Dec 19 with 2596 views
My first proper gig was the first of many trips to the 100 Club, when I saw Infa Riot
There was one earlier I don't like to count. We just happened to be playing a football match away in 1983 at Brunel Uni in Uxbridge, and we stayed on after the game hoping to pull when JoBoxers did a gig.
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