[Music] Your first ever (proper) gig?

[herecomesaregular]

Aye, I'm sure this has been done before on here but nothing came up in a search...

I've been ill, decided to compile a list on the old laptop of all the gigs I've been to in my life, kept many of the tickets (getting older now and going to fewer due to tinnitus, due to going to too many in small venues when younger......Wear ear plugs kids!).

At 15 I went up with a couple of school mates to see Eric Clapton at the Albert Hall. Quick google reminded me that, oh yeah now I remember, Phil Collins was on drums and Mark Knopfler popped in for Money For Nothing. I was really into Cream at that age.

I've been lucky since, seeing many bands in small venues before they blew up (Sigur ros, Midlake, The Libertines, Strokes, War on Drugs), Radiohead between The Bends & OK Computer, Elliott Smith and Amy Winehouse at the Concorde, and many legends and special gigs (Portishead at Glastonbury '95, Brian Wilson on his first SMiLE tour, Neil Young and Springsteen solo acoustic shows).

What was your first gig or the one that also set you on the road to many beautiful live moments? Live music has been a massive part of my life.

edit - I miss The Freebutt, Pressure Point and particularly the Hanbury Ballroom as venues in Brighton.

 

[Insel affe]

GuanaBatz & Krewmen @ Bolton Uni 1985 aged 15

 

[schmunk]

Weezer supported by Cast at the Leeds Irish Centre, 1995

Also my first pint of beer - Carling Black Label :


Not my video, but:

 

[DavePage]

Four Tops at the Dome 6th November 1971

 

[fly high]

Brighton Dome. Top of the bill was Humble Pie but by far the best was a young David Bowie on an acoustic guitar. I was 14. Saw him years later on his Ziggy Stardust tour.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Adam And The Ants I think, Brighton Centre. Late 81/early 82?

 

[Molango's visa]

Genesis at the Dome. Foxtrot tour. 70p

 

[Charles 'Charley' Charles]

Dire Straits at Woburn Abbey, in 1992 for the On Every Street tour. Possibly not the coolest first proper gig, but it certainly gave me the bug for live music, I loved it, and have done hundreds since.

 

[OzMike]

Status Quo 1976 when I was 16, was close to a speaker bank and couldn't hear much the next day.

 

[Nightfall]

Athens 1993. I was 16. Metallica with Cult as Support.

Setlist : https://www.metallica.com/tour/1993-06-27-athens-greece.html

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

Level 42 at the Brighton Centre c.1987/88.

 

[Mellotron]

Muse - supported by Hundred Reasons and Millionaire
London Docklands Arena
13th November 2001

I was 15. It was great.

 

[Driver8]

1979 I think. It was crap.

 

[Hotchilidog]

Motörhead Hammersmith 1982. Iron Fist tour. Tank the first band I clapped eyes on. Fantastic memories

 

[bhafc99]

Despite having done hundreds of gigs in my life, I’m a little hazy on the first one, as it would have been at university and more just part of ‘a night in the students union’ rather than a deliberate trip to a gig. That said, I’m 99% sure that first gig under those circumstances was The Pogues.

 

[North of Robertsbridge]

After local music festivals, my first major gig was probably Yes, supported by Sensational Alex Harvey Band at Stoke's Victoria Ground (football connection)

 

[carlzeiss]

The Jam , Brighton Center December 1979

 

[jackalbion]

Them Crooked Vultures at Brixton Academy (although I went with my mum), then the first one I went fully on my own, I saw Franz Ferdinand at the roundhouse in London.

 

[Chicken Run]

Steps at the Brighton Centre

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

The Lightning Seeds at Portsmouth Guildhall - 1996.