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What was the FIRST gig you saw?

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    #81
    The Jam, Malvern Winter Gardens Dec 10th 1980
    "why ride a vespa when you can push a lambretta?"

    As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood."

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      #82
      Originally posted by Archangel View Post
      I went to school with mick hucknall, bit of a twat tbh (him, not me, or maybe both of us). But I've seen him live a few times and he can do the business alright. First saw him in "the frantic elevators" doing a punk (ish) version of "holding back the years"!
      Girl I knew who went to Manchester Uni claimed that she was in a club one night & MH sent his minder over to let her know he wanted to sleep with her. She turned him down & he was not happy.

      I'm prepared to give old Mick the benefit of the doubt on that one as I've heard a variation of the same story from someone else so I suspect it's a bit of an urban myth.

      Anyhow, whatever. I've just realised that I saw Earth, Wind and Fire in Pistoia around 1984 so that was my first big gig.

      They were pretty groovy too
      Last edited by Big Blue Plymouth; 10 December 2016, 23:16.

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        #83
        Joy Division Bolton Institute of Higher Education 78 or 79...

        I was looking after the bar to be fair, gig was in the canteen (refrectory)...

        First 'big' gig was Rush I think, went deaf in one ear.

        Also had a ticket for Kate Bush Liverpool Tour of Life but my mum wouldn't let me go cos I had no guaranteed journey home. My biggest regret, not long after that I was kipping in Stevenson Square over night after gigs in Manchester, U2, SLF, REM, early eighties, never got bummed...

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          #84
          Isle of Wight 1969. Also went to see Rolling Stones Hyde Park but crowd so big couldn't get near and left early.
          bloggoth

          If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
          John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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            #85
            If you exclude being taken by my parents to see Cliff Richard (my sister was a big fan), the first one was Gary Moore, I think
            …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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              #86
              Real concert Status quo supported by Chas & Dave - end of the road tour 84.

              Great fun.

              A few pub ones before then.
              Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                #87
                taken by my parents to see Cliff Richard
                You poor chap!
                bloggoth

                If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
                John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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                  #88
                  Slade at Southampton Gaumont in 1974. I was 11, it was my birthday present and it was brilliant.

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                    #89
                    The Charlatans in Manchester must of been 1991 or 1992, the time of Afflecks Palace and 25inch bottoms on your Joe Bloggs Jeans.

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                      #90
                      Ozzy Osbourne at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1989

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