Getting there with my gigography now, all the gigs I remember going to, from 1987 up to about now.
It's an obvious step from my Best gigs of all time post.
Well that's the theory, so 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 + things from Mum + Dad's loft.
Also got lots of gaps regarding festival lineups, they'll probably stay missing, it's so hard to remember. There's a stack missing where I've lost tickets or never had them, most of the guestlist actions during my NME + Popex years + that.
Yeah I know it's a bit nerdy, 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 the tickets now[^So I've lost the bag of tickets before I scanned them all in!]...
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Good local band. Plus The Priscillas and Ephemera.…
Thorngate Theatre, Bury Road, Gosport. One of these was a friend's band, but I can't remember which band and I can't remember which friend. Prob'ly Chris Mills.…
Ray Davies was his own support act, busking Kinks numbers solo...…
Very poor this time round, the crowd were not with them at all and it made the atmosphere bad.I think these might have been the support, + it seems they were local. This flyer was saved with the ticket in my photo album.…
Kirsty MacColl and Tom Robinson. Honestly, I went to some better gigs than this.
plus Annie Hates Cordial + Savage Henry. Local!Firework Party were reckoned as ones to watch, to make it nationally, but not sure how far they got. One of them was in my class in infant school. I really liked Annie Hates Cordial too. Don't remember the other band.…
I drove my van into London for this gig, I almost never did this... ST played their encore first, + part of the gig from the top of a step ladder.Support from My Sister's Machine, according to an ad in Kerrang, don't remember them though.…
Yes the Television programme with Ulrika Johnson + all the gladiators in it. Drove up to Birmingham, think there were six or eight of us from Fareham. Think we were the only people there not accompanied by children or parents...I originally had this down as the 23rd, ticket clearly says 26th, fixed now…
A custom car rally, intended to be a cruise from various points in the country ending up at Trevelgue park in Newquay. I think we just made our own way there. Also went to this in 1991 or 1992 I think, so I have a sticker and a ticket for 1993 here. Not exclusively VWs, more other custom cars so a small VW contingent.I have a t-shirt still somewhere from the 1991 or 1992 event.…
Rik Mayall + Adrian Edmondson, the first of the Bottom tours. Hung around after hoping to get autographs, but no joy.…
Festival in Guildhall Square, compered by Mark Lamarr. Firework Party, The Rubber Bishops (Bill Bailey + maybe Kevin Eldon?), Midway Still, Alan Parker, Atilla The Stockbroker, Eat, Back To The Planet, Mega City Four, Trevor & Simon + more.Steve Coogan attended one of the nights of this, I didn't see him though. Possibly I only went on the Sunday?How did I have this down as 1990 originally?…
Power broke down during their set. They're not really acoustic unplugged types, + they stormed off. I really liked them, like the album, liked to dance to them, I was a member of "The Drug Squad" fan club, so they weren't good live. Still entry to Chaos (club night) after which I'd go to anyway.…
Some rubbish spoken word thing. He is frightening so we laughed at his jokes anyway. I didn't appreciate Black Flag until a decade or more after this, I might have been more in awe if I'd.…
Not a gig but a VW show, did I go in the VW Beetle or did I have the VW Camper by this stage? Don't think there were live bands at this one. A two day event over Sunday + Monday (bank holiday).…
plus Enuff-Z-Nuff. Andy + I went to this one, think it was without guitarist CC Deville at this point though.…
Secret thank you thing as "Jammy Little Devils" to make up for cancelling a gig at Portsmouth Guildhall…
No alcohol please! Not that I was drinking then. A gig at the youth club connected to my old school.…
plus The Firework Party + Hooch. LOCAL! Someone from Firework Party was in my class at Primary School.…
I remember going clearly, so don't think this can have been the first of my trips to the Wedgewood Rooms, can it?…