Johnny Crumplin Football
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REM backing up U2 (or was it the Simple Minds) yonks ago at Milton Keynes Bowl.
They were kack then and still are!
They were kack then and still are!
Scouting for Girls - £5 to get in, now they're charging £20
Do they count?
For me, Oasis probably the most famous.
The Verve as well maybe.
Not huge but I remember seeing Kasabian infront of about 50 people then a year later at a sold out Brixtain.
In the early 1980s, Jenkinsons Nightclub on the seafront, briefly devoted Sunday nights to live music featuring new or up-and-coming national bands.
As a result, I saw early gigs by U2, and UB40 (who soon became absolute bland shite, good only for curing insomnia), each playing to about 50 people.
Also saw New Order in Brighton on their first tour after the end of Joy Division (1981, I think), long before they went mega with 'Blue Monday'. I wasn't very impressed with them at the time, although they eventually went on to become one of my favourite bands of the 1980s
Peteinblack, was that New Order gig at the Basement? I was there but couldn't see them.