first gigs

[reevesy]

saw paul weller at the nottingham arena last night....fantastic great show and a particular awesome drum solo form yer man whitey .
anyway it was my first proper gig for 5 or 6 years and on the way back me and the missus were talking about our first gigs and how old we were.
mine,adam and the ants (dirk wears white socks tour and before all the dandy highway man stuff) must have been 12 or 13 because i was in the first year at school....the missus........bob marley in paris when she was 9 years old!.
reckon i got severly thrashed in the credibilty stakes on that one!

[shahedz]

Bob Marley in paris! wow. no comparison mate

my firts gig was the Thrills, last year, i was a late starter!

[partyweb]

Motorhead's 10th Anniversary !!!

There was a mountain of Marshall speakers on stage, and at one point 10 guitarists on stage too

I was deaf with ringing in my ears for 3 days afterwards!

And a nekkid Sam Fox came busting out of a huge birthday cake.

[JohnG]

There was a whole thread of people's first gigs a while ago see here

[garycantwell]

Whitesnake at the SFX in Dublin - February '84... I was 11 :D

[reevesy]

Originally Posted by JohnG

There was a whole thread of people's first gigs a while ago see here

some good uns in there..someone mention the damned when they were 13..saw them shortly after my first gig, about the same age,the 'punks not dead tour' i remember everyone getting searched on the way out after wattie from the exploited shoved the mike in the crowd for some audience participation only to find some bare wires left when it pulled it back

Ahem ... Bon Jovi headlining at Cardiff Arms Park in Summer 1995 was my first gig. Never seen so much amplification amassed in one place before or since! Also saw Van Halen, Thunder and some God-awful LA Rock band called Crown Of Thorns (whose sole lyric seemed to be, 'Are You Ready?') at the same gig.

Since then, I've only seen Texas about four years back (supported by Semisonic), and this year, the outstanding Tori Amos! It was at the Hammersmith Odeon - or Carling Apollo as they now insist on calling it - and she was amazing! An all-acoustic set, and not a note out of place. That girl can really play and sing live ...

[mutamist]

Donnington 1990 when I was 16 - Thunder, Poison, Aerosmith and Whitesnake were amazing, Quireboys weren't. Seeing Steve Vai and Jimmy Page was an absolute treat too - was hoping for Vai but never expected Page.

Last gig I saw was Joss Stone this year which was ok, just that it was her first tour and we saw the last leg - she was pretty croaky then and has little in the way of crowd interaction beyond the cutesy giggle which gets boring after a while.

Also saw Racine earlier this year - Wendy James' new band - fantastic, and meeting her afterwards was a real treat too - such a nice woman, and every bit beautiful as the schoolboy crush I had 17 years ago!

Next gig is Bon Jovi in June - been my favourite band for 20 years, can't wait - they are always so great live.

[dc007]

Originally Posted by reevesy

some good uns in there..someone mention the damned when they were 13..saw them shortly after my first gig, about the same age,the 'punks not dead tour' i remember everyone getting searched on the way out after wattie from the exploited shoved the mike in the crowd for some audience participation only to find some bare wires left when it pulled it back

Haven't checked, but that was probably me - Damned at The Rainbow, 1978 and I was 13...

The promoters left the seats in... big mistake, they all got torn up and thrown on the stage...

My Dad came to pick me up and wandered into the back of the hall late on to witness a scene of almost complete anarchy... Amazingly, he still let me go to see the Angelic Upstarts/UK Subs gig just a few weeks later...

[reevesy]

think the damned still tour... a friend of a friend was really good mates with rat scabies....wish i knew that at the time,i was just talking about a uk subs gig at the cambridge corn exchange i went to,half way through the set the power died.think it was something to do with the fact thet the place was a listed building and had some sort of cut off device which kicked in if the noise level got too much.
saw quite a few of the punk bands still knocking about in the early 80's.
think my favorite live band at that time must have been peter and the test tube babies...absolute quality entertainment,though king kurt were a close second.

[alexs2]

First ever?.....The Stranglers before they became famous,and quite honestly before they learned to play....they arrived at our Student union bar,got totally trashed,and made a loud noise for an hour before needing to refuel...made some of the bands I saw at the Hope and Anchor look like seasoned session men.....

[reevesy]

got to see them 6 years ago...new singer and slightly more polished than their student union days

Originally Posted by mutamist

Next gig is Bon Jovi in June - been my favourite band for 20 years, can't wait - they are always so great live.

Agree. Bon Jovi are outstanding live performers - well worth the ticket value. Ditto, Texas. Can play, sing and give you your money's worth.

[Bristol Pete]

Rainbow at the Bristol hippodrome on the 'Bent out of shape' tour, I think. Was a long time ago and I think I was ten or eleven - so maybe 1983. Joe Lynn Turner was on vocals.

Pete.

[MarkE19]

Originally Posted by mutamist

Donnington 1990 when I was 16 - Thunder, Poison, Aerosmith and Whitesnake were amazing, Quireboys weren't. Seeing Steve Vai and Jimmy Page was an absolute treat too - was hoping for Vai but never expected Page.

I was there. I though the Quireboys were excellent and IMO Whitesnakes set was the letdown of the day.
I can't remember who was on stage at the time, but I remember the PA being drowned out as Concorde flew overhead

Originally Posted by mutamist

Next gig is Bon Jovi in June - been my favourite band for 20 years, can't wait - they are always so great live.

Yeh they are great live - shame about the latest album though

Oh and back to the origional topic - my first gig was Madness at the Hamersmith Odeon in either 79 or 80. I was about 10 years old and the ticket cost me £1 and that was cheap even then.

Mark.