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Loads and loads but highlights would include –
Suicide
The Specials
The Clash
Joy Division
The Buzzcocks
The Jam
Tom Petty
Bruce Springsteen
David Bowie
Elvis Costello
Steve Earle
Echo and the BunnymenBands I wish I’d seen –
The Ramones
The Smiths
Stone Roses
Elvis
NirvanaThe Buzzcocks
The Jam
Tom Petty
Bruce Springsteen
David Bowie
Elvis Costello
Steve Earle
Echo and the BunnymenOh, I saw the Buzzcocks (in 1993) … and Steve Earle, too (excellent). I told you my memory wasn’t so good …
Steve
Stone Roses at leicester Uni before they made it big – loudest concert I’ve ever been to. Been to the Cropredy festival arranged by Fairport Convention a couple of times which is great, went when Jethro Tull headlined the Friday night before racing back the following morning with a groom and best man for the wedding. Saw The Wedding Present in Wolverhampton where they played for about an hour and people were being carted back from the front after collapsing. Mind you there was a very funny hempish smell about the venue. The Stranglers at De Montford Hall were brilliant as were the Alarm. Deacon blue were good at De Mont but rubbish at the NEC. The Monkees (minus Mike Nesmith) were good at Nottingham as were Jethro Tull. Simply Red were OK at the NEC, not as good as Level 42. 10000 Maniacs were not bad, I think they were on with Natalie Merchant can’t remember where. Least attended was at Leicester Uni for Frazer Chorus (I think thats what they were called) where the crowd was about a dozen !
Been to others but I’ve bored you enough.
Least attended was at Leicester Uni for Frazer Chorus (I think thats what they were called) where the crowd was about a dozen !
Lordy, there’s a name from the annals. Frazier Chorus was a vehicle for singer-songwriter Tim Freeman, brother of Martin – by all accounts Martin’s “Tim” character in The Office is based on his bro. All I know is that to this day neither logic nor science has been able to establish why classic, gossamer FC songs such as Dream Kitchen and Typical! were never huge hits. Another great lost band.
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
saw Jethro Tull at a club called Mothers in Birmingham when they first started out; also saw The Nice there when Keith Emerson used to attack his keyboard with a knife [wouldn’t be allowed these days, health and safety etc]. On a John Peel tribute programme on the radio they played a Wedding Present track which I loved but didn’t catch the name of it. Bought the ‘best of’ but it’s not on it. They’re playing Nottingham soon I think. Would love to go to Cropredy, sound like a real finger in the ear folky person but I’m not, just go through phases of playing lots of folk, and most bands are very funny and professional. Levellers were brilliant at Leicester [not de Montfort but the other place some sort of sports centre in the centre of town] and I came away quite passively stoned. Can someone explain why tall people always come and stand in front of us little folk at concerts?
Been to hundreds, possibly thousands. My favourites have been:
Super Furry Animals, Leeds University, October 2002
Pulp, Glastonbury, June 1995
The Smiths, Cardiff University, September 1986
Portishead, Bridlington, some time in 1998 I think
Quigley, Les Rockomotives Festival, Vendome, France, October 1997
Divine Comedy, Phoenix Festival, July 1994
Blur, T In The Park Festival, Hamilton, Scotland, July 1994
Boards of Canada, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Camber Sands Pontins, April 2001.
Ah, happy days…
Looking at it, I’m going through a bit of a bad patch at the moment…
Thanks graysons.
The dates don’t seem right though. More likely my memory.
A warning there to anyone offered magic mushroom pizza at a gig!
Thanks graysons.
The dates don’t seem right though. More likely my memory.
A quick check of British Hit Singles confirms the “Set” album as having charted in March 1982. Had you reckoned on even further back than that?
25 years ago. What a sobering detail.
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Not been one for going to see bands live over the years, but:
The Jam
Specials
Madness
The Kane Gang
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
Aztec Camera
Hipsway
Love & Money
Oasis
Tam White
Charlatans
Roxy Music
Black GrapeGoing to see the brilliant (but can’t sing) Ian Brown in a few weeks time.
PS. Just remembered that I also saw The Style Council when Paul Weller was at the height of his muso-wank period (circa 85 or 86)
Stavros…………..Calton Studios, you say? Hard to fault your description.
graysons – just read the wikipedia entry and it all seems clearer now.
Looks like I was a year out on the gig, and a bit previous on when the slimmed-down band appeared. Right about the dust-bin lids though!
Steve… ELASTICA IN PARIS!!? So jealous.
Bands i’ve seen:
Elastica (My first ever gig, and my favourite band EVER)
PJ Harvey
Tegan and Sara
The Distillers
Belle and Sebastian x2
Le Tigre
The Gossip
My Ruin (Oh dear oh deary me)
Basement Jaxx
Sleater-Kinney
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Grates
stellastarr*
The Killers
The Libertines
Ash
The Streets
Courtney Love (In Japan!)
Ben Harper
The White Stripes
Morrissey
The Hot Puppiesthere’s more but my mind is blank!
Most Embarassing i’ve seen purely by accident KYM MARSH, BELINDA CARLISE and SONIA, at a gay club.
Bands i wish i’d got to see : Pulp.
Bands i have to see before death : Rilo Kiley, Sheryl Crow, Garbage, PJ Harvey again.
THE STREETS?!?!??!!??!
Mate. It’s like I don’t know you any more.
Honestly, between this and Derren Brown, it’s like the world doesn’t love me any more today.
I’ve not seen many bands live and none for years ..
Clash
Discharge
The Damned
… there are a couple more but I can’t remember them.I’ve been to the last eight Leeds Festivals, so I’ve seen most of the big bands who’ve played them. The ones that standout in my (poor) memory are: Primal Scream (Exterminator era), Beck, Manic Street Preachers, Gary Numan (did industrial NIN-style versions of his old hits), Alec Empire, Pulp, The Strokes, Marilyn Manson (probably the most fun I’ve ever had), The White Stripes (love their version of Jack The Ripper) and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs (in the Radio 1 tent.
Others I’ve seen:
Sonic Youth playing Daydream Nation (great)
Bob Dylan (sounded like he had throat cancer)
Oasis (surly, uncommunicative, autopilot)
The Wedding Present (great; and they played Kennedy too!)
The Ukrainians (did Ukrainian versions of Anarchy In The UK and Venus In Furs)
Public Enemy (great until Flavor Flav was given too much mic-time)
Manhattan Love Suicides (my current favourite band)
Patrick Wolf (excellent)Much prefer the intimacy of pubs and clubs for live music of all genres, so arena events have been fairly few. Memorable ones in no particular order include:
Deep Purple (Sheffield ’74 which became a bootleg LP)
Rod Stewart and The Faces
Bob Marley
Blondie
The Ramones (Joey was pi$$ed)
Todd Rundgren
Bruce Springsteen (Roundhay Park, Leeds, mid 80s)
Judas Priest (sh1te but worth it to experience the brain-shattering decibels)
John Martyn
Robin Trower
Rory Gallagher
Fairport Convention ’70s and ’90s
Steeleye Span
Dr Feelgood
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee…though give me second house at Ronnie Scott’s anyday…these days
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