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Under Neath What 7 10Astoria 11 May 1990 I was in the queue for this gig and bought a fanzine off someone. Did I know Metallica were doing a secret gig just a few doors down at the Marquee club? Why on earth did I stay at the Astoria? Bah...Rate Under Neath What
Love / Hate 8.5 10The Marquee 31 Oct 1990 Plus my first time (of many) of seeing Atom Seed, and a couple of other bands. Happy new year!Rate Love / Hate
Megadeth Poole Arts Centre 24 Mar 1991 First time I saw them. Just caught up with a friend who was there too (and who I'd not seen for over ten years, he says Alice In Chains opened, followed by The Almighty at the Poole Arts Center gig '91 (if I remember correctly)
Rate Megadeth
Radiohead The Joiners 18 Feb 1993
Rate Radiohead
Molly Half Head The Wedgewood Rooms 03 Mar 1993 I remember going clearly, but don't think this can have been the first of my trips to the Wedgewood Rooms, can it?
Rate Molly Half Head
The Wildhearts Portsmouth Pyramids 22 Mar 1994 plus Baby Chaos
Rate The Wildhearts
Monsters of Rock Castle Donington 04 Jun 1994 Aerosmith, who I hardly even remember. Not a great lineup, though the biggest one ever. I enjoyed Wildhearts and Terrorvision.
Rate Monsters of Rock
Reading Festival Reading Festival 28 Aug 1994 Just went for the day, and we picked the worst day by far looks like, RHCP disappointed. I remember They Might Be Giants and Echbelly and Ginger Wildhearts playing with a broken arm.
Rate Reading Festival
Glastonbury Glastonbury 24 Jun 1995 The year Pulp replaced The Stone Roses as headliners, along with Oasis and The Cure. Great weather.
Rate Glastonbury
Menswear 8 10Camden Underworld 01 Nov 1995 A radio one show, was billed as Longpigs and Fluffy and Menswear were surprise headliners. The glory days of britpop! They got in big trouble for swearing live on the radio. Think I have the day right, let me know if you know better...Rate Menswear
Oasis Earls Court 04 Nov 1995 Did they have the Bootleg Beatles again? Or am I misremembering the Southampton gig?
Rate Oasis
Essential Festival Stanmer Park 26 May 1996 Super Furry Animals, Kula Shaker, Menswear, Echobelly, Marion, Chumbawamba, Bis and more... missed David Devant, but I did trek there with 16 people in my bus.
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Phoenix Festival Santa Pod Raceway 18 Jul 1996 I clearly remember David Devant and Holy Barbarians, David Bowie, Sex Pistols and Foo Fighters too I think, must have seen a lot more though...
Rate Phoenix Festival
Symposium Electric Ballroom 04 Jun 1997 Where I met Clare, bless! Hope I got that year right... Also, oddly Sylvester McCoy was there at the after show.
Rate Symposium
The Montrose Avenue Kings College 26 Mar 1998 One of Menswear was in the band, this was the height of girly indie, there were tiaras, fairy wings, and even rollerskates in the crowd
Rate The Montrose Avenue
Gene Forum 25 Mar 1999 A work freebie, we nearly didn't get in because I couldn't prove I was who I was claiming to be (I wasn't). A charity contribution sorted it out...
Rate Gene
The Beta Band 8 10Astoria 25 Jan 2000 NME Brats show, lovely write up: [quote]Flash forward a few years to the Beta Band in January 2000, at an NME Brats show. I don't really remember much, other than that I was with a big group of my gigging mates in the upstairs bit, we were all trolleyed oRate The Beta Band
The Bluetones Mean Fiddler 29 Apr 2000 Think I was at this anyway, lunchtime gig for Japanese TV, did a few of these...
Rate The Bluetones
The Cuban Boys The Garage 08 Aug 2000 Don't recall if they did their "Hamster Dance" single, I do remember an ace cover of "Self Esteem", though I could possiblybe mixing it up with an earlier Helen Love gig... Plus The Fighting Cocks.
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Scalarama 2 6 10The Scala 07 Oct 2000 MJ Hibbett, Jacques, Spearmint, Baxendale and lots of other bandsRate Scalarama 2
Spearmint Dingwalls 12 Oct 2000 I didn't like it it seems, shame, I thought I liked Spearmint!
Rate Spearmint
Camdemonium Dingwalls 19 Oct 2000 AKA Camden Crawl... All around Camden, not sure who I saw this year, not much.
Rate Camdemonium
Channelfly Xmas Party Barfly 12 Dec 2000 Before I worked there, I think there were bands. THIS is why I left the Wonderstuff early, doh... There was a ruckus and the police sent us all home.
Rate Channelfly Xmas Party
New Order Finsbury Park 02 Jun 2001 Pissed down with rain. Crystal, Transmission, Regret, Ceremony, 60 Miles An Hour, Atmosphere, Brutal, Close Range, She's Lost Control, Bizarre Love Triangle, True Faith, Temptation, Love Will Tear Us Apart, (Encore) Digital (with John Simm), Blue Mond
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Bearsuit Bull and Gate 10 May 2003 Some sort of twee indie bear themed evening. Last minute addition to the bill were The Futureheads for some reason.
Rate Bearsuit
Bruce Forsyth 10 10Theatre Royal Haymarket 26 Oct 2003 Charity comedy thing, cool as, lots of names present, including Ian McKellen. Search the blog, I must have written this one up...Rate Bruce Forsyth
Travis Alexandra Palace 20 Dec 2003 plus Kings Of Leon who were OK, Travis a bit boring. VERY annoyed by the Carling-ness of it all and so we left early to get a proper drink.
Rate Travis
The Tears 9 10Heaven 16 Dec 2004 plus The Subways. First official gig for Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler's new band, though they went and did a couple of sneaky warmups before this in Oxford and somewhere else. Not that great really.Rate The Tears
The Tears 5 10Astoria 16 Feb 2005 Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler, weren't they in a band together before? One of the NME gigs, support included The Magic Numbers I think but we stayed in the pub and missed them all.Rate The Tears
David Devant and his Spirit Wife HQ Club 18 Nov 2006 Think the year is wrong on this one...
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