[Music] Your first ever (proper) gig?

[Craven Wine]

Dead Kennedys, Glasgow circa 1980/81.. certainly a contrast to the likes of Runrig who played locally now and then.

 

[Dropkick Turnip]

Queen at Hammersmith Odeon in 1975, when I was 6. I went with my parents who were still going to gigs in their seventies and only fairly recently stopped. They're far cooler than me!

 

[cleckseagull]

OMD at the Dome- 1985 I think- Junk Culture tour I think.

 

[raymondo]

John Martyn at Brighton Art College basement, very weird smoke around, 1970 ish. Followed by the Incredible String Band at the Dome.

 

[Soton Seagull]

Does being taken along to Shakin Stevens at the Brighton centre when I was 4 count?!

 

[cleckseagull]

OMD at the Dome1985 I think. Junk Culture tour. Very loud and may go some way to explaining the Tinitus I now have!

 

[FIVESTEPS]

Dusty at the Brighton Hippodrome 1964 also playing was the High Numbers.About the same time at the same venue I also saw the Black and White Minstrels.Just remembered saw Lonnie Donegan in Great Yarmouth in 1959 age 6.

 

[kojak]

Stranglers 70s

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I recently found out Slip inside This House, on Screamadelica, is a cover by The 13th Floor Elevators. I sought out the original, and then started listening to their back catalogue. A few months later and I now own their 3 albums on vinyl.

Apologies for being gushy (after a few drinks) but music is a brilliantly endless journey.

 

[Seagull58]

Slade, Thin Lizzy and an unknown Susi Quattro at the Brighton Centre. Dave Hill had a broken ankle from falling off his platform shoes and sat on a throne on stage.

 

[oldboyroy]

Erasure at the Brighton Centre around late 80s?

 

[Robinjakarta]

Queen at Hammersmith Odeon in 1975, when I was 6. I went with my parents who were still going to gigs in their seventies and only fairly recently stopped. They're far cooler than me!

Great post! Hammersmith Odeon, Finsbury Park Astoria and Tooting Granada got loads of package tours and other gigs in those days. I was a great Beach boys fan in the mid to late '60s and saw them at all three.

 

[herecomesaregular]

Looking back at my completed list I feel lucky to have been able to go to gigs when they were more a promo to get you to buy the album rather than nowadays when, because the artist doesn't get much for sale of their music, they charge a king's fortune for a concert ticket.

 

[PascalGroß Tips]

I recently found out Slip inside This House, on Screamadelica, is a cover by The 13th Floor Elevators. I sought out the original, and then started listening to their back catalogue. A few months later and I now own their 3 albums on vinyl.

Apologies for being gushy (after a few drinks) but music is a brilliantly endless journey.

I love discovering great music I missed years ago.

 

[Kit Napper]

Emerson, Lake & Palmer at the Dome in the early 70s. The gig was paused for about an hour because a polystyrene model (of a Tarkus) disintegrated and Keith Emerson’s piano had to be cleared of the remains.

 

[brighton terra]

Kid Creole & The Coconuts at Poole Arts Centre. We somehow managed to sneak in the stage door and watch some of the gig from back stage!

 

[C1 BHA]

Not a bad first gig……

 

[zefarelly]

Does being taken along to Shakin Stevens at the Brighton centre when I was 4 count?!

Along the same lines, Showaddywaddy when I was about 5.

I can't remember which came first, but Jon Otway, Style Council, Kinks? And James Brown, all with @Comrade Sam in my mid teens

 

[Arkwright]

Ian Dury and The Blockheads, New Boots and Panties Tour at Hammersmith Odeon, I was still at school so about 1977.

 

[Rambo]