What concerts were a mistake! any regrets?

[Pretty pink fairy]

claire hall orrible place recall gc getting glassed one new year, turned up with horsham skins local heath lads got the hump switched the lights off and all hell broke loose gary featured on front page of the middy face a right mess,not a good night.

never went there myself, but a few from my way did and got attacked inside and chased down to the train station ,nearly had a set too with them at N/forest 80'S in the away pen when they were calling for us , don't know what the problem was with that lot ?

 

[Return of the Rev]

never went there myself, but a few from my way did and got attacked inside and chased down to the train station ,nearly had a set too with them at N/forest 80'S in the away pen when they were calling for us , don't know what the problem was with that lot ?

RAN COACHES FROM HH IN THE 70'S AND 80'S had a few lewes lads coming with us phil and vic the most regular also bh lads,hailsham, brighton and forest row along with haywards heath lads and we all got along,just the sat night element made claire hall a dump!

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

RAN COACHES FROM HH IN THE 70'S AND 80'S had a few lewes lads coming with us phil and vic the most regular also bh lads,hailsham, brighton and forest row along with haywards heath lads and we all got along,just the sat night element made claire hall a dump!

vic still goes now and again ,mainly with his son and younger brother

 

[Return of the Rev]

vic still goes now and again ,mainly with his son and younger brother

bump into him watching lewes a couple of times,not seen phil for a while though

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

bump into him watching lewes a couple of times,not seen phil for a while though

it's supprising who you bump into down the pan, down there a couple of seasons ago and see a Palace face who was on the "scene" clocked him straight away and the same with him

 

[Danny-Boy]

I was persuaded by a group of "friends" who'd hired a minibus to see Rainbow with Graham Bonnet at Bingley Hall in Stafford (for the uninitiated it's basically a corrugated iron shed with a concrete floor). Even worse, if that's possible, the support band was Samson, whose drummer wore a rapists mask - nice.

Please clarify!

was this a mask he got from a rapist?

Or a mask as used by a rapist; I didn't know they had designer masks?

Or a mask with a face of a rapist, in which case who?

 

[Return of the Rev]

billy bragg in london had a bust up with the growler,turned into a race back to brighton tube,train,taxi from brighton stationfollow that cabGot in first so not to be locked out! Too soft to lock her out big mistake.
Also erasure brighton centre managed to drown out the band with the argument

 

[Spun Cuppa]

billy bragg in london had a bust up with the growler,turned into a race back to brighton tube,train,taxi from brighton stationfollow that cabGot in first so not to be locked out! Too soft to lock her out big mistake.
Also erasure brighton centre managed to drown out the band with the argument

Can imagine their hard-core following tutting into the back of their hands

 

[drew]

was that the one supporting Blue Oyster Cult?

No, I am sure they were the headline act, probably on something like the Wheels of Steel tour.

 

[drew]

I was persuaded by a group of "friends" who'd hired a minibus to see Rainbow with Graham Bonnet at Bingley Hall in Stafford (for the uninitiated it's basically a corrugated iron shed with a concrete floor). Even worse, if that's possible, the support band was Samson, whose drummer wore a rapists mask - nice.

I saw Rainbow with Graham Bonnet at the Brighton centre. Big disappointment was they were only on for 65 mins and moody Blackmore wouldn't do an encore. Almost a rip-off except for the late great Cozy Powell.

 

[Spun Cuppa]

No, I am sure they were the headline act, probably on something like the Wheels of Steel tour.

Was that at The Centre? I saw them twice at The Dome late eighties, with a big lit eagle descending both times for 'The Eagle Has Landed'! Classic! Saw them last year I think it was in London and they were truly outstanding...

 

[Danny-Boy]

Saw a sixties tribute band at the Great British Beerfest a few years back who called themselves "The Animals and Friends". It turned out ONE of them had appeared with the Animals some time after the great Burton/Price/Chandler days.
They were diabolical, I cried into my pint. But on the other hand they were free.
The best tribute band i saw playing there one year was T-Rextasy, fantastic. The "Bolan" lead singer wore Marc's own clothes.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Saw a sixties tribute band at the Great British Beerfest a few years back who called themselves "The Animals and Friends". It turned out ONE of them had appeared with the Animals some time after the great Burton/Price/Chandler days.
They were diabolical, I cried into my pint. But on the other hand they were free.

I did worse at the Great British Beerfest at the Brighton Centre some years back. With drink taken, decided it would be a good idea to do a Basil Fawlty Goosestep March right in front of the German Oompah Band. Turns out they weren't a hastily cobbled together band of local musos doing it for beer money, they were from Bavaria

 

[Ernest]

Bronski Beat at the Top Rank, got MOLESTED all night long

 

[brighton terra]

I witnessed a terrible performance by the Stone Roses headlining at Reading and as a consequence missed seeing Underworld in the Dance Tent. Ian Brown didn't hit a single note.

 

[Danny-Boy]

I did worse at the Great British Beerfest at the Brighton Centre some years back. With drink taken, decided it would be a good idea to do a Basil Fawlty Goosestep March right in front of the German Oompah Band. Turns out they weren't a hastily cobbled together band of local musos doing it for beer money, they were from Bavaria

Were you thrown out then from the beerkeller? GBBF at Brighton, that's going back to the 1980's I think.

 

[The French Mistress]

I enjoyed that concert!!!

Granted I was half cut at the time

Should've stayed in and put the album on then, just the same !

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Were you thrown out then from the beerkeller? GBBF at Brighton, that's going back to the 1980's I think.

Nope, wasn't chucked out. Though if I'd realised I was horribly insulting the foreign guest musicians I would probably have chucked meself out

Mind you, I reckon they put something in the beer in those days. If memory serves, the following year there was a major Beerfest at Hove Town Hall and some poor bugger somehow managed to topple over the upstairs balcony and kill himself about five minutes after the thing opened. Anybody remember that one?

 

[Dave the OAP]

talking earlier of tribute bands....saw the Illegal Eagles at the Triangle in Burgess Hill and they were bloody incredible.

The lead guitarists were extremely accurate, and the harmonies were bang on!!!

 

[Danny-Boy]

Nope, wasn't chucked out. Though if I'd realised I was horribly insulting the foreign guest musicians I would probably have chucked meself out

Mind you, I reckon they put something in the beer in those days. If memory serves, the following year there was a major Beerfest at Hove Town Hall and some poor bugger somehow managed to topple over the upstairs balcony and kill himself about five minutes after the thing opened. Anybody remember that one?

No but some mates of mine might have been behind the bar that year. They started at GBBF in the mid-1980;s but retired after the first year it transferred from Olympia to Earls Court. I helped at every Olympia event, but like them felt Earls Court was just too much for volunteer staff, the numbers jumped from 40,000 over 5 days to over 70,000 I think. and it got very "Corporatey".