Which unknown Support Act did you see who later went on to become famous

[Parchie]

U2 supporting orange juice at the lyceum for me

 

[Seagull58]

Susi Quatro (and Thin Lizzy but they were semi-famous) supporting Slade. 1971 ish
Lynyrd Skynyrd supporting Golden Earring.1974ish
Dire Straits supporting I can't remember who 1977

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

Estelle who was supporting Talib Kweli, both fairly underground though I admit

 

[AmexRuislip]

September 1997 Earls Court
Oasis being supported by the brilliant, The Verve.
Shame they're not together anymore, but Richard Ashcroft still amazing.

 

[Grassman]

Being connected to the small but wonderful Forum in Tunbridge Wells, I have seen bleeding thousands of bands over the years. We turned down Keane (before they became Keane) turned away The Kaiser Chiefs from a full bill, "sorry lads, we know you've come a long way, but there has been some sort of confusion", we also had Oasis support Whiteout and probably the biggest, Adele on an early Sunday evening supporting Jamie T (I think).

 

[Simgull]

Blur opened on the Rollercoaster show at the Brighton Centre in 1992. They were followed by Dinosaur Jr, My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus and Mary Chain. Although a joint your little doubt who ended up the biggest of the four. And yes we missed them because we went to the bar!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Rollercoaster_Tour_poster.jpg

 

[Seasider78]

Muse supported by Coldplay at Portsmouth pyramids about a tenner for a ticket. Coldplay had just released parachutes and muse showbiz so neither were particularly known at the time

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

I was at that Tom Petty/Nils Lofgren gig mentioned earlier. Also saw Blondie supporting Television about a year later. I've seen The Stranglers support Patti Smith ... twice

Not quite the same but I once went to a gig where more than half the audience left after the support act but for the life of me I can't remember either act. That's what old age does ...

I thought I had replied to your post earlier today but it seems to have disappeared

Went to a Nazareth concert in the seventies when they were famous down the dome.

When they came on loads of people buggered off

 

[Albion my Albion]

Starship and Survivour at Glastonbury. Approximately 1982. Survivour was the first act and they weren't using their Tiger eyes back then.

 

[Icy Gull]

Starship and Survivour at Glastonbury. Approximately 1982. Survivour was the first act and they weren't using their Tiger eyes back then.

Starship were originally Jefferson Airplane and were big in the sixties so were famous decades before 1982

I was a massive Grace Slick fan in the late sixties

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

Susi Quatro (and Thin Lizzy but they were semi-famous) supporting Slade. 1971 ish
Lynyrd Skynyrd supporting Golden Earring.1974ish
Dire Straits supporting I can't remember who 1977

Skynyrd & Golden Earing I remember.
Saw Skynyrd again just before the plane crash

 

[Stato]

Blur opened on the Rollercoaster show at the Brighton Centre in 1992. They were followed by Dinosaur Jr, My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus and Mary Chain. Although a joint your little doubt who ended up the biggest of the four. And yes we missed them because we went to the bar!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Rollercoaster_Tour_poster.jpg

Blur didn't open. I turned up late because I didn't care about seeing them and was gutted to hear Dinosaur Jr half way through playing Freakscene. I then watched Damon Albarn make an idiot of himself jumping all over the amps in an attempt to try to out rock and roll MBV and JMC. I thought that would be the last of them and that it was a shame as I had quite liked 'There's No Other Way.' I was quite surprised when they then found their direction and made it big.

 

[Seagull58]

I thought I had replied to your post earlier today but it seems to have disappeared

Went to a Nazareth concert in the seventies when they were famous down the dome.

When they came on loads of people buggered off

I went to the Nazareth gig.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Siouxsie And The Banshees at the new regent 77 (not a support band)

Were they not supported by XTC? Saw both there at roughly the same time . . . .

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Skynyrd & Golden Earing I remember.
Saw Skynyrd again just before the plane crash

I was there for the first gig. Like many I walked out during Golden Earache. What an embarrassing shower - and headlining!

 

[Blackadder]

Wow! I'll bet that first one was a good night?

Superb mate. It was also my first ever concert. We were right up by the speakers. Couldn't hear properly for a few days at school after that,

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I saw Theatre of Hate at Grand Parade Art College, think it was called The Basement, not sure how many times they played there but it must of been around 1982, they changed the bands name to Spear of Destiny in 83.
Can't remember anything about the support act, but one thing I do remember is seeing someone hanging about that stood out because of their clothing, myself and a friend wasn't sure if this someone was male or female.
This someone became very famous as it was Boy George.

He was shagging Kirk Brandon at the time . . . .

 

[BN9 BHA]

He was shagging Kirk Brandon at the time . . . .

Yes I did stumble across a story about that when I was looking up details about Theatre of Hate.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I saw Manfred Mann's earth band in the early 1970's at the Oxford Poly. Manfred Mann was well known but the Earth band was not as this was very early in their life. They were supporting Focus.

The earth band was very good. Focus were boring and formulaic, not helped by the fact that one of their speaker stacks blew up early on in the set.

Before many people on here were born, I surmise..

 

[studio150]

My wife's just dismissively informed me that the only support act she can remember was someone called Steve Hillage supporting Queen at their Hyde Park free festival in 1976, but as far as she was aware he didn't amount to much.I informed her that I saw Steve Hillage (as it turned out just 3 months later) headlining at The Dome on his "L" album tour.
I had only myself discovered who he was about a fortnight before when I saw him on the Old Grey Whistle Test wearing his bobble hat with christmas bauble pom pom. Apparently he was later quite active in the 90s Dance scene and was influential in establishing the first Dance tent at Glastonbury. Seems he's had quite a diverse career from his early days in Gong, he's also played with such disparate acts as Mike Oldfield, Sham 69, William Shatner and also produced Simple Minds and The Charlatans.

The forthcoming Steve Hillage Searching for the spark 1969 - 1991 includes 3 previously unreleased concert recordings one of which is the Dome from November 1977.