What was the first Gig that you went too

[Surf's Up]

Actually, tell a lie, the first "gig" I went to was in Burwash Village Hall a few weeks before I saw the Stones but I can't remember the band's name!

 

[NMH]

Ozzy Osbourne at the Dome on Halloween (!), 1980. Budgie were supposed to be the support act, but they pulled out for some reason, and a bunch of pissed up/off bikers started chucking stuff at the unfortunate replacement band. For a sheltered 14 year this was terrifying and thrilling at the same time.

I saw Budgie about 3 and a half years ago at The Concorde 2, some 35 years after seeing them at The Dome.
They were excellent - better than ever!

 

[NMH]

Actually, tell a lie, the first "gig" I went to was in Burwash Village Hall a few weeks before I saw the Stones but I can't remember the band's name!

That's too bad, as there were some great bands back then that are now spoken about in reverent tones!

Do you recall anything about them, a song title or onstage feature that might have stood out in your memory?

 

[bellsize seagull]

Oasis at the Brighton Centre December 1994
special !

 

[Storer 68]

first gig would have been Jon anderson (just been booted out of Yes) at the The Dome saround december 1980 - very hip, i think not

 

[Bognor Bystander]

Can't be certain (my memory is rubbish) but I saw Duran Duran circa 1981 at Chichester Festival Theatre with John Cooper Clarke as support and several other Pop acts were showing there around that time so I also saw Altered Images (Clare Grogan) and The Pretenders ... was it my first gig who knows ;o) Favourite Gigs include The Jam (and the Vapors) at Portsmouth Guildhall and ELO at Brighton with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and Stevie Wonder at Brighton on a revolving stage - amazing !

 

[Albumen]

Ever/Bobby Scarlet - Crawley Hawth 6/5/88, just after my 15th birthday. 23 years later I still love a local gig.

 

[Phat Baz 68]

UB40 Assembly Hall Tunbridge Wells 1979 I was 11yrs old. 50P ENTRY !!!
Madness, Brighton Center 1981 if I remember right. My mate spent the whole gig in the bar area playing space invaders ? WTF ?

 

[getz]

Johnny Dankworth Big Band at the 100 club London, aged 15. I had a table near the trumpet section. I was blown away in more ways than one.

 

[Shirty]

Europe - Brghton Centre in about '86. Would have been 14...

 

[Hornblower]

Darts in 1977 or '78, aged 10 or 11, in Eastbourne, probably the Congress Theatre, starring our very own [MENTION=242]Hornblower[/MENTION].

Many thanks for the mention WnW, I've been trawling through in the hope that someone would list us, how sad am I?

 

[rool]

Jasper Carrot or Gladys Knight and the Pips at the Brighton Centre.
Always getting those mixed up!

 

[Surf's Up]

That's too bad, as there were some great bands back then that are now spoken about in reverent tones!

Do you recall anything about them, a song title or onstage feature that might have stood out in your memory?

I think they were just local boys doing a few covers, I seem to remember a Swinging Blue Jeans similarity!!!

 

[aberllefenni]

Another one for Led Zeppelin at Knebworth, 11th August 1979 (2nd gig) a week after my 16th birthday. Went down with my maths teacher's sister and her boyfriend. I left Brighton when I was 14, so too young to see bands I was into then like the Clash or the Buzzcocks, big regret. Embarassingly, Chas and Dave opened at Knebworth, so technically they were my first ever band.

 

[Greyrun]

Lonnie Donegan Gt Yarmouth 1960 remember Lonnie singing My old mans a dustman.

 

[Fungus]

Gary Glitter at the Dome 1974( I feel little dirty now).

Hmm, I think my first gig was GG around that time - but at the Top Rank, I think not the Dome. Or possibly Kool and the Gang (before they went commercial), same time / same place.

To be strictly honest, my first gig might have been when my parents took me to see The Spinners at the Dome. And not the Detroit variety!

 

[Smith DID score]

ELO at Wembley Arena on the Time tour 1980, was the week John Lennon died so they played 'Jealous Guy' in his memory.

 

[Smith DID score]

Talking of Gigs generally, anyone on here go to the Rush concert at Wembley Arena on the day of the Cup Final?
I remember that it was officially sold out weeks before, but when I was walking past the Arena after the game there was a tannoy repeating that there were tickets available from the box office so there was no need to buy from the touts.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Talking of Gigs generally, anyone on here go to the Rush concert at Wembley Arena on the day of the Cup Final?
I remember that it was officially sold out weeks before, but when I was walking past the Arena after the game there was a tannoy repeating that there were tickets available from the box office so there was no need to buy from the touts.

No, but my first concert was Rush at Wembley 5 years later.

 

[happypig]

first gig was the Depressions at BHASVIC in 1977, aged 14.