Blog2026 ≫ Interesting new source of gig history

I was searching for Under Neath What vinyl on ebay and I found old posters from Southampton Joiners. They played there at least twice. But so did many others of course, and someone has got hold of the promoter Mint Burston's archive of posters and things 1 and is selling them off at very high prices. I guess most of the good ones have gone but there might be something of interest here. I have not even found one I was at yet. I was not at this one, I wasn't in Southampton in 2000.

Poster for Coldplay at the Joiners, 2000

Wow never look up people you used to know. Mint died in 2007, but he actually left the Joiners in 1997, so not long after I stopped going there.

BBC local news story about Mint dying in 2007

He used to let me in for free (eventually) because of my $OLD OUT fanzine I did.

Damn it's warming up, this messes with my plan to claim it is too dangerously icy to commute in to London tomorrow.

Sunny intervals and a moderate breeze, 1 - 5℃.

  1. Someone else having his archive should have given me a clue as to how this story ends...

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