Moments in music where you were a fly-on-the-wall

[Super Steve Earle]

20th January 1972 at the Brighton Dome. First ever live performance by Pink Floyd of tracks from Dark Side of the Moon. Suffered a few technical problems, but hey, I was there.

 

[lawros left foot]

The Brighton Centre,1982. The Jam's last ever gig.

I was there.

 

[Is it PotG?]

The Brighton Centre,1982. The Jam's last ever gig.

I was there.

Indeed. Bunked off school to get the £5.00 tickets

 

[Weststander]

The Smiths gig at Brighton Poly in about 1984.

Have met many Smiths and Morrisey fans since, who wish they too had seen them on an early ish tour.

 

[Stato]

Sunday 26th February 1989 at the Escape Club, I was there for the Stone Roses first gig in Brighton. Unfortunately, they weren't.

The gig was cancelled and rearranged for the following Tuesday. Instead of the gig, we went on the pier and did all our money on the fruit machines. We weren't particularly bothered that we couldn't afford to go back on the Tuesday. We'd seen dozens of tinpot indie bands that never went anywhere. What made this lot any different?

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Sadly, being at Monsters of Rock in 1988 when two fans lost their lives when Guns N Roses played

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Not sure it's a moment as such but feel grateful for having seen Queen at Wembley. I know [MENTION=38]Beach Hut[/MENTION] was at Freddie's final gig as well.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Arthur Lee and Love playing at Mount Ephraim in Kent in the early noughties

Genesis, Brighton Dome, and some mad ******* has posted it on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khP1iULej-I

 

[Icy Gull]

Arthur Lee and Love playing at Mount Ephraim in Kent in the early noughties

Genesis, Brighton Dome, and some mad ******* has posted it on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khP1iULej-I

"Jealous"

Bob Marley at the Brighton Centre and Pink Floyd in Canterbury just after Syd was sacked playing Saucerful of Secrets are my moments.

Tim Curry as Frank 'n furter in the early Rocky Horror Show was fun too

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

The Clash at Brighton Top Rank when Pete Townshend joined them on stage

Gen X at the Nashville in Fulham, with Johnny Thunders on guitar, none of them on the bill but stage storming after The Only Ones had finished . . . bonkers

Iggy Pop at ATP in Iceland two years ago

Human league (version 1.0, the trio) at the Nashville in 77

Wire, ditto

Wishbone Ash, Dome, 74

Joe Walsh and the Eagles (separately, consecutively, not together) at Wembley suppoting the massive tit Elton Jogn in 1975

Mahavishnu Orchestra at Reading in 74. Ditto Robin Trower

Lynyrd Skynyrd, Dome, upstaging Golden Earring.

Leslie West playing at Deal (FFS) about ten years ago

Big Country in Vancouver in 83

Edward Ka-Spel in Vancouver in 86

Billy Bragg in Vancouver in 85

Attila in Faversham (yay!) in 2006

Icon of Coil and Assemblage 23 in London, early noughties

My first VNV gig a few years ago.

FFS who started this thread? Shoot him!

I think I have posted much of this on another thread. Apols as usual....

 

[theboybilly]

Black Sabbath's first big gig - Royal Albert Hall 1970 (I think) I was 15 and it was my first concert. Ralph McTell was the warm-up act

 

[timbha]

Bruce Springsteen at Brighton Centre in May 81 (also saw Boney M there but not the same gig)

 

[Is it PotG?]

Tom Jones [MENTION=20406]Vega[/MENTION]s MGM c.1999

Small venue, kept my 'knickers' on.

 

[Jesus Gul]

Nirvana at Salle Omnisports in Rennes in 1994. Part of the In Utero tour. They never made the UK leg.

 

[studio150]

David Gilmour joining Roger Waters for Comfortably Numb at the O2
The Jam last gig at the Brighton Centre
Name checked on a Hugh Cornwell Album and a Graham Parker Box Set
Pete Townshend joining the Clash on stage at the Top Rank

 

[Superphil]

Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert 2007

System of a Down - Wake up the Souls, London, 2015

Motorheads first ever show in Brighton, supporting Alice Cooper at the Centre.

Motorheads second, and last ever show in Brighton, at the Dome, with Saxon and Danko Jones in support.

 

[lawros left foot]

Not sure it's a moment as suto toch but feel grateful for having seen Queen at Wembley. I know [MENTION=38]Beach Hut[/MENTION] was at Freddie's final gig as well.

I saw Queen 86, at Wembley, and Pink Floyd the first Wall shows at Earls Court, 79-80?

 

[Superphil]

Bon Jovi's first ever UK gig supporting Kiss at the Centre.

Big Country's first UK show, as the Stuart Adamson Band, supporting Alice Cooper at the Centre.

Sepultura supporting Motörhead at Leas Cliff Hall in Folkestone.

 

[jakarta]

Hawkwind Spirit of the Age Tour 1977, their last classic lineup & mad Bob Calvert on vocals ripping up the Stars & Stripes with a samurai sword while singing Hassan I Sahba.

The whole gig came to a crashing halt as the Manchester Hells Angels took on the Security.

 

[jakarta]

Motorheads first ever show in Brighton, supporting Alice Cooper at the Centre.

Motorheads second, and last ever show in Brighton, at the Dome, with Saxon and Danko Jones in support.

Saw their first headlining tour - the one where the programme was full of hearing aid adverts... Have to say I only really liked the first 3-4 albums but as a power trio what a live band!