maidstoneseagull
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[Music] Your first ever (proper) gig?
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I was lucky enough to be at Liverpool Uni, late 60s -early 70s - and the list of bands I saw at the Friday or Saturday night dances (for five bob to 10 bob a time (25 to 50p)) is awesome; in the later years as we got cooler, there was less dancing and more sitting on the floor to watch, listen and admire - and for bigger bands, like The Who (the warm up gig for the Live at Leeds album) there wasn't enough floor space to dance anyway! Just from memory (and I may have forgotten a few), try this for a list:
The Searchers (with support band Jethro Tull) - my first 'proper' gig, I think, Vinegar Joe, The Mojos, Julie Driscoll with Brian Auger, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, The Tremeloes, Fairport Convention. Blodwyn Pig, The Herd, Chris Farlowe and the Thunderbirds, Status Quo, Strife, Velevet Underground, The Who, Derek and the Domimoes, Steeleye Span, Solution, Silverhead, Black Widow, Daryl Way's Wolf, Geordie, Jethro Tull (again, when they were much bigger), Pink Floyd, The Byrds .........................
The Searchers (with support band Jethro Tull) - my first 'proper' gig, I think, Vinegar Joe, The Mojos, Julie Driscoll with Brian Auger, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, The Tremeloes, Fairport Convention. Blodwyn Pig, The Herd, Chris Farlowe and the Thunderbirds, Status Quo, Strife, Velevet Underground, The Who, Derek and the Domimoes, Steeleye Span, Solution, Silverhead, Black Widow, Daryl Way's Wolf, Geordie, Jethro Tull (again, when they were much bigger), Pink Floyd, The Byrds .........................
Silverhatch
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Always chuckle when this thread comes a calling… Glitter Band featuring Gary Glitter, Brighton Dome 1974
First one was shit. Madonna in Paris. She mimed and someone let off teargas. Not my idea, I was over there on a French exchange and the French kid's parents got the tickets.
Once I hit 18 I had a run of going to see baggy / indie bands at The Zap. Saw Ocean Colour Scene (very early version of), Flowered Up, Bridewell Taxis and Northside within months of each other. No idea now which was first, but Flowered Up was properly mental, full of lads who were faces at the Goldstone smashing round a huge, inflatable can of Red Stripe.
Once I hit 18 I had a run of going to see baggy / indie bands at The Zap. Saw Ocean Colour Scene (very early version of), Flowered Up, Bridewell Taxis and Northside within months of each other. No idea now which was first, but Flowered Up was properly mental, full of lads who were faces at the Goldstone smashing round a huge, inflatable can of Red Stripe.
I saw them in the same tour at Crawley Leisure Centre. Still have the T Shirt, although it no longer fits!
Muzzman
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Clapton, Royal Albert Hall ‘96
Good list.
In a weird kind of coincidence Mick Abrahams, who was in early Tull and later formed Blodwyn Pig had a son who was in my class at school. I presume an out of wedlock thing as they lived in a council flat near Dyke Road. His son and some others were going to see Terence Trent D'Arby at the Brighton Centre and asked me along but I had to decline because I'd spent my paper round money on fags and football. That would have been my answer instead of ****ing Madonna.
Rdodge30
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I saw Motörhead on the iron fist tour but I thought when I saw Tank they were supporting Gillan (roughly same time) … have I misremembered and Tank were supporting Motörhead?
With Lindisfarne and Rab Noakes! Yes, I was at that one too, as I believe was @Harry Wilson's tackle Mind you that was at the Top Rank, not the Dome
1972. It was the year I first started going to gigs. My first proper one was David Bowie a few months before that at Worthing Assembly Hall. Worthing used to have loads of good bands in the 70s.
POSKETT AT THE VALLEY
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1979/1980 The Specials supported by The Bodysnatchers at Worthing Assembly Rooms. Those were the days!
Seagull Stew
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Pixies at Kilburn National 1989. I remember being lifted off my feet in the crush when they played "Vamos".
I regularly bump into Lisa Scott-Lee over here in Dubai - kids in the same class at school etc. I’ll pass your regards on to her!Mexican Seagull
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Either very early Jethro Tull or more likely one of John Mayalls Blues Breakers at the Dome in the 60s
Man of Harveys
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UB40 at the Brighton Centre in 1983. Very loud. A big fight broke out in the standing bit to the extent that Ali Campbell shouted to stop the song and got the miscreants thrown out. The two Middle Eastern guys sitting next to me were so stoned from smoking huge spliffs throughout that they had absolutely no idea what was going on at any stage. All very impressive to a 13 year old and UB40 were still good then, before it all went a bit Rat In Mi Kitchen soon afterwards.
Kraftwerk at The Dome in 81 (Computer World tour)
Marty McFly
Seagulls Over Canada
Kooks, supported by The Automatic @ The Concorde 2. Hazy on the year - maybe 2006?
Superphil
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Saxon, Brighton Centre, 7 October 1981.
Riot were the support act.
Riot were the support act.
maltaseagull
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My first gig was Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames at the Dome circa 1966?