Gigography of Paul Clarke
Just one day out of life!My first proper concert. With support from Hue & Cry^Now I am reading that Level 42 were the support for this whole tour, so did I imagine hearing Hue & Cry? Did I mix up the songs, and I have always thought I saw Hue + Cry when really it was Level 42?] + [The Bhundu Boys, but not the rumoured Wet Wet Wet^Just seen (in 2023)a Top Of The Pops from 13th August 1987 presented by Simon Bates + Peter Powell were they mentioned Wet Wet Wet supporting Madonna this week. They do specifically mention Leeds, which was the first date. So did they support at Leeds only? Great episode of Top Of The Pops anyway with Def Leppard and Motley Crue and Jesus And Mary Chain.]. My first concert, went with Lee, a friend from [school, + some friends of his dad. Sounds a bit weird now. Got the t-shirt, programme, every bit of junk going... do I still have the t-shirt? Was an unofficial t-shirt from outside the ground, + I cut the sleeves off at some point[^I do still have t…
Tue Aug 18 1987
This week in my gigography
- Thu Dec 13 2001
Ash @ Brixton Academy Went to an aftershow for this at Mass, also in Brixton, there was free absinthe and things, it got a bit messy.…
- Sat Dec 13 2003
Suede @ London Astoria Last gig ever! They announced they were splitting up before this gig came around. Played some great sets, the gig seemingly got chopped short, we left to the ghostly strains of "We'll Meet Again"... I hope we do[^we did, Suede reformed, and we saw them again.].Set list:+ The Next Life+ She+ Killing of a Flashboy+ Heroine+ My Dark Star+ Indian Strings+ The Living Dead+ To the Birds+ By the Sea+ Astrogirl+ Picnic by the Motorway+ The 2 of Us+ Still Life+ The Drowners+ We Are the Pigs+ Can't Get Enough+ Metal Mickey+ Animal Nitrate+ Everything Will Flow+ She's in Fashion+ Attitude+ So Young+ Beautiful Ones+ Saturday Night+ Obsessions+ New Generation+ Trash…
- Sat Dec 14 1996
Manic Street Preachers @ Brixton Academy With support from Super Furry Animals and Stereophonics, who I don't remember at all...…
- Fri Dec 15 2000
Fortuna Pop Christmas Party @ Bull and Gate MJ Hibbett must have been here…
- Fri Dec 15 2006
The Dirty Pretty Things @ Leas Cliff Hall Carl Barat of The Libertines, and his new band, they're very good... Plus Hot Club de Paris and Mando Diao. Hey, we went to this one!…
- Mon Dec 16 1996
The Manic Street Preachers @ Kentish Town Forum Twice in one week? A friend at the time liked them...
- Sun Dec 16 2001
The Hives @ London Astoria Not 100% on the date, but we saw this band here around this time... Were you with me? When was it?
- Thu Dec 16 2004
The Tears @ Heaven 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.…
- Tue Dec 17 1996
My Life Story @ Koko Feet First's tenth birthday party, billed only as "special guest band". We convinced ourselves that this was going to be the secret Seahorses show (John Squire's new band). It was not. Ah well I'd quite often go to Feet First in these days any…
- Mon Dec 17 2001
David Devant and his Spirit Wife @ Mean Fiddler plus Inner City Unit
- Mon Dec 17 2001
Gorillaz @ Fabric I was definitely at this gig^Removed old gorillaz-unofficial.com/gigography/fabric_1.htm link here.], but I was definitely at that [David Devant gig too, perhaps one of the dates is wrong, or maybe the times worked out... The Gorillaz show was a late night thing at young people's disco nightclub Fabric, in Farringdon I think.Gorillaz played behind a screen, think this was their first live foray.…
- Wed Dec 18 1991
Atom Seed @ Camden Underworld Not at all confident about this one, though I know I saw Atom Seed a lot more than I have a record for here. I found this flyer in my scrapbook of old tickets, and know I saw Atom Seed for the first time New Years Eve 1990, so if I attended this one it can't be 1990. Man alive this is worse flakier research than some of my tree straw grasping.With support from Poisoned Electrick Head, whether I was there or not.…
- Wed Dec 18 1996
Placebo @ Mean Fiddler Hmm I originally had "I went in late on a whim, missed the support, who might have been Deus" here but if you look, Placebo and Deus played this same venue in 1997, and I even have the ticket for that one. Was it rescheduled maybe? Was I even at something this night? This gigography is full of holes!I know I went to see Placebo on the day of my grandmother's funeral, Dad's mum. I went after, not instead, I'm not a monster. That was at Brixton Academy I thought, maybe that was the one in 1997 then? But why does the 1997 ticket say that?setlist.fm has it they played Brixton in May 1997 and there's a full bootleg of the gig here[^Removed old youtube.com/watch?v=ns8bm_5fEc4 link here.].…
- Tue Dec 18 2001
The Darkness @ Barfly
- Sat Dec 18 2010
Uncle Bob's Wedding Reception @ The Garage Uncle Bob's, the reunion! Back upstairs at the Garage! We will go to this, combine it with a middle aged xmas shopping expedition...…
- Fri Dec 18 2015
Bob Slayer's HoHo Theatre Amazing lineup of comedy! Stewart Lee, Harry Hill, Henning Wehn, Let Luce, Spencer Jones and hosted by Bob Slayer.I wrote it up here at the time._The HoHo theatre takes place in an abandoned building that we have blagged for the month of December. It goes three floors down and is a warren of rooms that spreads all over the place. It’s incredible to think that this subterranean maze is one of many that must exist all over London..._…
- Fri Dec 18 2015
Holiday Extras web team christmas dinner again @ Tiger Inn It always seems to be here, not many places will fit is all in.
- Thu Dec 19 1991
Neds Atomic Dustbin @ Portsmouth Guildhall I saw them once more on this tour, in Reading uni / poly I think, can't find the date though... Hmm found the ticket now and it's in March, so probably not even the same tour.…
- Sat Dec 19 1992
Extreme @ Bournemouth International Centre I remember us being a foot taller than anyone else in the crowd somehow...…
- Fri Dec 19 1997
The Prodigy @ Brixton Academy Went with Clare and met her brothers for the first time.
- Fri Dec 20 1996
David Devant and his Spirit Wife @ New Cross Venue Before I lived in New Cross, didn't really know where it was. We thought we could get a tube there (it was not running) and walked back to Waterloo after...…
- Mon Dec 20 1999
Delirious? @ Shepherds Bush Empire Ha, AWFUL christian rock. I was accompanying a friend who was reviewing or something.
- Sat Dec 20 2003
Travis @ Alexandra Palace 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. I was meant to be reviewing this the PR was not happy with my "I hate Carling" comments.…
- Sat Dec 20 2025
David Devant and his Spirit Wife @ Kings Cross Water Rats Was searching for tickets for The Coal Porters in September and I spotted this, so going to this one too. Booked about eight months in advance, but still. Support from the Tuppeny Bunters.
My first gig was Madonna in 1987, from then until 1990 it was mostly rock, either around Portsmouth or on trips up to London.
Then in 1991 things got more indie, and in britpop times things really kicked off.
I did my fanzine $OLD OUT from 1995 to '96.
In 1996 I moved to London (first Waterloo, then Putney in 1998, Ealing in 1999, New Cross in 2000, and Stoke Newington in 2003) and in 2005 I moved back out again, to Folkestone (so that's where the list slows down again).
Click on a year to see the gigs from that year.
LOTS missing, it's surprising how many gigs I remember I can find no mention of online.
Lots of Under Neath What, Atom Seed and David Devant (favourite bands of various times) to hopefully be unearthed probably lost to the mists of time now.
And what of the epic Supergrass at South Parade Pier?
It's documented nowhere
Of course that gig is on Song Kick now, the internet has overtaken me.
This could turn into an valuable archive This did not turn into an archive of value to anyone...
See links on individual pages to my Folkestone gig history.
Bands I have seen the most (based on the bragging tagging I have done so far). More still to go, especially comedy, so comedians are likely to overtake the bands...