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the OsmondsDubversion said:apart from the Osmonds, Sky and Animal Krackers () i started when i was about 12, used to see all the metal bands that hit Poole
Dub, that's up there with my Wombles gig!!!
At what age did you regularly start going to gigs?
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Dub, that's up there with my Wombles gig!!!
1st gig was at the bull and gate - some band with 3 bassists all playing loud distorted noise, followed by nought then blurt headlining (who I thought were shit at the time) . . . think I was around 14, so 1998 . . .
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sam/phallocrat said:
rothko?
sam/phallocrat said:
ah, ted is an acquired taste
yeah I though they were mint the second time I saw him/them, about 2 or 3 years later, same venue . . .
ianw said:
rothko's website said:
sounds about right . . . my lasting memory of that gig was the bass they produced making my tummy feel funny - I think it was the loudest thing I'd heard to date
Onket
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Dubversion said:Animal Krackers (
Weren't they the Animal Kwackers? Or was that something different? Either way, I went to see them once, I must have been well young, even got the album/soundtrack thingy they were flogging.
Anyway, first real gig was RATM et al at Brixton Academy in 93, only local stuff before then.
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marty21 said:first gig aged 14, depeche mode. bath pavillion 1979
2nd one, also aged 14, the undertones
3rd was stiff little fingers at the same venue
4th i think was the pretenders
after that it becomes a bit of a blur
you might want to check your diary on the Depeche date , their first gig was not until 1980
I really started gigging in `77 , cannot remember the order but certainly saw Damned ,Clash , Souxsie , Boomtown Rats , 999 , Gen X , the Adverts , Slaughter and the Dogs ,Chelsea ets etc.
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my mum and took me to see the monkees when i was at primary school, which was pretty cool of them.
i saw depeche mode on the violator tour which would ahve been 90 or 91... so i;'d have been 12 or 13.
after that i went to gigs every couple of months. mostly local bands, cos i couldn't afford to go and see proper bands regularly. i guess i could honestly say i was 15/16 when i started seeing name bands regularly. particularly early ones i can remember are the offspring at the astoria... six fucking quid that cost! oasis at the island in ilford... fucking toilet. mind you they had pretty much every major britpop/rock band pass through their doors before they were big. feeder used to play there regularly...
i used to be well bitter about seeing bands. i was a music geek years before many of my contemporaries, and yet when everyone else started to get into music they could afford to go see bands where i couldn't. my pocket money didn't stretch to gig tickets! people who mocked me for being a hippy a year ago were fucking going to glastonbury and having mystic experiences! grr *shakes jester hat* but then again, from what i hear, most of those people are now settling into comfortable middle age (in their late 20s) and don't go to gigs anymore.
i saw depeche mode on the violator tour which would ahve been 90 or 91... so i;'d have been 12 or 13.
after that i went to gigs every couple of months. mostly local bands, cos i couldn't afford to go and see proper bands regularly. i guess i could honestly say i was 15/16 when i started seeing name bands regularly. particularly early ones i can remember are the offspring at the astoria... six fucking quid that cost! oasis at the island in ilford... fucking toilet. mind you they had pretty much every major britpop/rock band pass through their doors before they were big. feeder used to play there regularly...
i used to be well bitter about seeing bands. i was a music geek years before many of my contemporaries, and yet when everyone else started to get into music they could afford to go see bands where i couldn't. my pocket money didn't stretch to gig tickets! people who mocked me for being a hippy a year ago were fucking going to glastonbury and having mystic experiences! grr *shakes jester hat* but then again, from what i hear, most of those people are now settling into comfortable middle age (in their late 20s) and don't go to gigs anymore.
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ianw said:
My first gig was The Spinners and I was around 7 too!
Think it was at Warwick. I went with my parents. Can't remember much apart from them sitting on stools in aaron jumpers.
Saw quite a few small local bands in pubs, but first proper gig was The Cure when I was 16.
hammerntongues
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Griff said:
I saw them at Chelmsford Football Stadium with Slaughter , Drs Of Madness , Lew Lewis , Eddie and the Hotrods , ASWAD were booed and had bottles thrown at them until John Peel came on stage and told everyone not to be such arseholes .
I just found the following review , its the first time I have ever seen it , I didnt realise it was such a failure
http://www.southendpunk.com/html/cityro77.html
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mr steev said:My first gig was The Spinners and I was around 7 too!
Think it was at Warwick. I went with my parents. Can't remember much apart from them sitting on stools in aaron jumpers.
Saw quite a few small local bands in pubs, but first proper gig was The Cure when I was 16.
My only real memory was that the short one had warts on his fingers and the rest of the band took the piss out of him for it.
Phew! Rock'n'Roll!
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bluestreak said:
where was this? i saw them at wembley in 1997. please tell me you weren't at primary school in '97...!
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ianw said:where was this? i saw them at wembley in 1997. please tell me you weren't at primary school in '97...!
yeah, i was, and thats how come i saw depeche mode in 90, i was in the womb
nah, it was about 85 or 86 i think. it might have been at hammersmith, but truth be told it was probably a smaller venue, all seating it was so it was probably a theatre.
Something has struck me about this thread. I only read about two people being younger than me. I have to say I am very jealous of all you guys who've seen people like The Clash,Floyd etc.
I first started going to gigs when I was 13.My first being Manic Street Preachers in the early 90's before Richey bloke went missing....followed by Therapy? Skunk Anansie, Levellers..... the list goes on.
I have quite a funny story about my first gig actually. Me and my best friend 13 and dressed up in our best leather gear and bad make-up. After the gig we were waiting for my best friends dad to come pick us up (he was good like that), when this drunk woman comes up and starts accusing us of being "women of the night" I couldn't believe it!!!!
thankfully nothing like this has ever happened since!!
I first started going to gigs when I was 13.My first being Manic Street Preachers in the early 90's before Richey bloke went missing....followed by Therapy? Skunk Anansie, Levellers..... the list goes on.
I have quite a funny story about my first gig actually. Me and my best friend 13 and dressed up in our best leather gear and bad make-up. After the gig we were waiting for my best friends dad to come pick us up (he was good like that), when this drunk woman comes up and starts accusing us of being "women of the night" I couldn't believe it!!!!
thankfully nothing like this has ever happened since!!
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hammerntongues said:
wish i was young then
i think i first started around 15 with local stuff, mates bands, mates putting on nights. then i would start travelling places and festivals.
The first gig i ever went to was really young bout 5 or 6 but that was just because my dad played folk music and took me to the places he played at.
But i went to the first gig that i actually wanted to go to when i was 15 and know i go all the time and have being going to festivals for 5 years now
But i went to the first gig that i actually wanted to go to when i was 15 and know i go all the time and have being going to festivals for 5 years now
hammerntongues
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mtbskalover said:wish i was young then
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On the downside you would now be 47 like me
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Started going regularly at 18 after first seeing the Clash at Derby in 1977, though I'd seen a few gigs before that.
Onket said:
Bungo, Rory, Twang and Boots I think? How old were you then Dub? (I used to watch them when I went home for school dinners)
My first gig was The Wombles at York Theatre Royal. After that we used to see the bands in the WMC where my Grandad went for a drink, my Nana always told us this one band were the youngest band in York, it was like they never grew up.
When I was 11 I turned down a trip to see AC/DC with my Dad.
At 13 I started going to gigs in Leeds on the train with my mate, we used to get the milk train home. Probably about once a month or so, usually mod bands, The Truth and Big Sound Authority ring bells.
At 15 I went to Reading festival then 'followed' bands for about 3 or 4 years afterwards.
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16 I think. Fairly standard.
clandestino
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Right then. Mega bump.
Some great stories here from some great people - some very sorely missed.
Let's hear some more!
Some great stories here from some great people - some very sorely missed.
Let's hear some more!
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Adam And The Ants was my first gig. I was at primary school and only 11. Cornwall Coliseum, St Austell. Screaming girls, two drummers, it was ace.
Next was The Pretenders with the original lineup, think I was 12 by then and only a little bit in love with Chrissie Hynde. Then I saw The Jam on their last tour (Beat Surrender Tour) which is still one of the best gigs I've been to, as was the next, The Clash, Sandinista-era. That was my Dad's doing - he was into punk and I just went along with him. The Clash were pretty overwhelming for a little 'un like me at the time - I was under strict instructions not to tell my Mum about the slanging match/fight Joe Strummer had with someone gobbing at him.
All at The Coliseum, it being pretty much the only venue of any size in Cornwall at the time. I would've been going regularly from then on if there'd been any other venues but decent gigs were few and far between down this end of the country back then. I was lucky if I could get to three or four in a year. Over the next few years I saw some great bands at The Coliseum -The Smiths, New Order, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Cocteau Twins - but it wasn't until I moved to London when I was 19 that I could go regularly.
ETA: Just checked and I got The Jam and The Clash the wrong way round. Saw The Clash first. I got into The Jam via punk.
Next was The Pretenders with the original lineup, think I was 12 by then and only a little bit in love with Chrissie Hynde. Then I saw The Jam on their last tour (Beat Surrender Tour) which is still one of the best gigs I've been to, as was the next, The Clash, Sandinista-era. That was my Dad's doing - he was into punk and I just went along with him. The Clash were pretty overwhelming for a little 'un like me at the time - I was under strict instructions not to tell my Mum about the slanging match/fight Joe Strummer had with someone gobbing at him.
All at The Coliseum, it being pretty much the only venue of any size in Cornwall at the time. I would've been going regularly from then on if there'd been any other venues but decent gigs were few and far between down this end of the country back then. I was lucky if I could get to three or four in a year. Over the next few years I saw some great bands at The Coliseum -The Smiths, New Order, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Cocteau Twins - but it wasn't until I moved to London when I was 19 that I could go regularly.
ETA: Just checked and I got The Jam and The Clash the wrong way round. Saw The Clash first. I got into The Jam via punk.
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