Getting there with my gigography now, the list of all the gigs I was at, from 1987 up to about now.
It's a natural step from my Best gigs of all time post.
Well that's the theory, but there's A LOT missing.
I have added details from the big bag of old gig tickets that I gathered while I was in London, and a box of old concert tickets and things from Mum + Dad's loft.
Also got lots of gaps regarding bands seen at festivals, they'll prob'ly stay missing, it's so hard to remember. There's a lot missing where I've lost tickets or never had them, most of the guestlist actions during my NME + Popex years + that.
Yeah I know very geeky, let's let that go though, I'm having fun remembering this stuff.
At least I've not started scanning the tickets in yet Of course I have scanned in the tickets now[^But I've lost the bag of tickets before I scanned them all in!]...
1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Plus my first time (of many) of seeing Atom Seed. Happy new year! Pretty sure we slept at Waterloo station after this gig + got a train back in the morning. I think one of the other bands on the bill were New England, no-one of note afaik[^Just found a message on an AC/DC forum saying "Following week’s edition runs a small ad + a gig guide listing for the Marquee’s New Year’s Eve Party with Love/Hate headlining and a bill of Atom Seed, The Red Dogs, Dangerous, + LBH opening the event". LBH are Little Big Horn, the band the person who wrote the comment was interested in. Still not heard of any of the other bands apart from Atom Seed + Love/Hate. So no New England, unless the lineup changed later.].…
We went to see the support band Senseless Things. Got in free by selling t-shirts and I had a free "Is It Too Late?" Jamie Hewlett t-shirt for a long time after... wonder if I still do?…
plus a local band whose tape I bought, can't remember their name but they had a song called Bergerac about police brutality. this site says "plus abs". at Winchester All Saints Community School…
Was on a Nixdorf training course in Hounslow, turned up too late for support band Wolfsbane, + anyway we had no tickets, so got given some by someone outside, I am sure it was Tommy Vance. Apparently we saw Jonathon King there too.Pixies played this venue the following night, in the classic tradition of me being at the venue one day out from a really good gig.…
Some time about now, was on for two days again so this time (I also went the previous year) we got accomodation in student halls... I had a big pad somewhere of skect ecthes from a load of the artists, so where is it now? I had a Simon Bisley on my wall in a little frame, where's that? The only one I can still find is my Carlos Ezquerra Judge Dredd that I think he sent me in the post.I originally had it that I was here in 1990 and 1991, so on finding the Carlos Ezquerra sketch which is dated it reminds it must have been 1989 and 1990.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Comic_Art_ConventionUPDATE: found it:…
Snuck in, + got thrown out again before the gig started. Tried to blag that we were writing it up for the student newspaper. Failed. Went home, having not seen the gig. Really wanted to see Wolfsbane who were supporting.Seems this was the first night of the tour. Saw them later at Hammersmith Odeon.…
Album playback only, we had to get (free) tickets from a record shop I think. I went with Nick from Nixdorf, prob'ly we were staying in Bracknell at the time.…
Not actually a gig but I found this flyer / invite for a beach party that we went to!…
First time they visited WITHOUT Nirvana in tow, just my luck...…
With Chunk + We Are Going To Eat You. 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...…
No idea of the date of this but possibly this year. Mark Lamarr supported, maybe the fiirst thing I went to at this venue.