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, + 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 and that.
Yeah I know it's a bit nerdy, let's let that go though, I'm having fun remembering these things.
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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plus Placebo. Not sure I actually went to this, I remember feeling really ill at the previous day's gig, think I was out for a few days with something like flu or glandula fever...…
Plus Cardiacs and Boasti. Prob'ly not my first Portsmouth Venue Campaign gig I volunteered at, I think that was 1994? Chumbawamba must have done this one twice.…
I won tickets from Radio One, I think Sparklehorse supported + Mark Linkous played the gig in a wheelchair, unless my brane is playing tricks.Just found a ticket that says Strangelove supported too.…
Strangelove, Powder, Pusherman + Elcka. I hope I can find some better tickets than this!
Did they have the Bootleg Beatles again? Or am I misremembering the Southampton gig?…
A radio one show, was billed as Longpigs + Fluffy + 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...Hmm prob'ly don't have the date right as these scanned tour dates^Removed old twitter.com/Britpopmemories/status/1316636357855457280 link here.] have it that [Menswear were playing Brighton on that day. They could have come up here after that I suppose as they likely all lived up in North London at the time.Got a reference here^Removed old livebootlegconcert.blogspot.com/2020/04/menswear-live-underworld-london-england.html link here.] that says it was this date, + that they played:1. 125 West 3rd Street2. I'll Manage Somehow3. Satellite4. Little Miss Pinpoint Eyes5. [Sleeping In6. Daydreamer7. Around You Again8. (banter)9. StardustSo there is a bootleg of it out there. That "banter" must have been the swearing that got them in trouble. I can remembe…
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I was in the venue to see the band eating their tea, lucky me, Johnny Dean ate oddly.I have it that I attended Kula Shaker this same day, this one has the date on the poster though so I must have the Kula Shaker date wrong.…
Some ill advised comments about swastikas saw the band fall right down before the signed goodies I got this day became worth anything... here's to a revival!I possibly have this date wrong, I have a poster that says I went to Menswear at Portsmouth Pyramids on the 26th October... They also played this venue on the 30th November 1996 + 13th June 1996.I saw them before this at University of Surrey, so can't find a record of this one yet.…
Straw Donkey tour? Think I have a poster somewhere.UPDATE: Yeah I do! More than one! + they're signed!…
Just found a ticket for this so I hear it was at the Pyramids not The Joiners like olivergray.com/giglist.html^Removed old olivergray.com link here.][^Seems the url changed since I first posted this] says... I also saw [Echobelly at The Joiners in 1994. Aha just found a flyer + a pass for this gig...…
The Fist Of Fun show, Stewart Lee, Richard Herring, + Peter Baynham. I have always been a big fan, glad to have seen some of the actual live shows instead of just the solo shows. Think this was a freebie as I was working at the uni at the time and doing some fanzine stuff too. Not sure if I'd started Sold Out yet so I was doing online listings.This flyer has a Marion gig on it that I'm sure never happened.…
A University of Portsmouth student union clubnight. Don't think many actual uni students ever went to these. I was working at the uni at the time. I remember Smaller playing but not so sure about My Life Story.…
Friends of Oasis, you have to say that. Digsy of Smaller is the Digsy from "Digsy's Dinner" on the first Oasis album.…
Plus Wannadies + 60ft Dolls I think, I have found the POSTER now + remembered it is all signed too. 60ft Dolls were my big favourite of the day, this is a great three band sort-of-britpop lineup.…
I loved Thurman + I went to their album launch party, which I assume was a gig too, at Madame JoJos. Up in that London, think I must have gone up on my own.…
See that, SIX in a row, Mansun, Perfume, Thurman, Fluffy, Gouge, Longpigs. At the time I thought what a GREAT time this is for music.…
All girl rock, loved them at the time, they basically played gigs in their pantsThis ticket is signed on the back, did I get more stuff? I should scan it in again. I had one of their singles, it has a picture of a sex toy on the cover.…
Think I worked at this one, a Portsmouth Venue Campaign job, without Shane McGowan though.…
Lovely poster from this event, though I've now seen the release date of this single touted as something else, the same day as the Blur vs Oasis battle. Maybe this is a re-release? I do have the single "Get Odd" too.…
Britpop, I thought they were the greatest at the time but it's not all aged so well.…
I went ironically I think... just found the ticket block bb row f seat 44! No Robbie at this one, + they played a cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit with real instruments...…
Hmm seems I have had this gig mislabelled for quite a while. I found the poster + flyer below which I got from this gig + must have put together at the time. I framed this one, and recently got it back from Mum and Dad's loft. Why did I frame this one and not many of the others that I have? I must do more scanning... I really liked Heavy Stereo so don't clearly remember them playing this day, so did they definitely show? Maybe they canned it at the last minute to record Top Of The Pops or something? I'm guessing here. I remember Mansun, + I remember the local support Thermal who played a lot at these britpop gigs.Mansun's third ever gig, when they were still called Manson, and when they were still good.See that flyer, I went to most of those gigs, definitely Thurman, Gouge, Fluffy, and Longpigs.…
Plus the Bluetones, great gig, some sort of warm up for something I suppose. Maybe a European festival? For ages this gig did not appear in anyone else's gigoraphies, but I have a ticket see, I did not make it up!.jpeg)We had been to see these two bands touring together when they came to the Joiners earlier in the year too.…
Dodgy, Salad, SMASH (advertised but seems they split up just before this so who were the replacement?), and Powder, the lower ranks of Britpop but just my cup of tea!Again, not the Walpole Park in Ealing!.jpeg)…
Their first gig. Joe Strummer and Alex Blur were there too..jpeg)Looks like Longpigs played the Joiners on the same night.…
Suede, Public Enemy, Bodycount Bootsy Collins, George Clinton Warren G? The Verve, Bob Dylan, Faith No More, The Wedding Present, Terrorvision, The Fall...Very hot, queueing for water I think, or was that 1996?I can't claim to be a big fan of Warren G but his song always reminds me of happy times in Southampton. It was after the Frog and Frigate had closed, everyone used to go to some provincial nightclub in Southampton for some reason. Hearing Warren G was the sign that there's going to be a three song indie section coming up, most likely featuring Nirvana, so get towards the dance floor...…
VW festival, think this is the one with Collapsed Lung, Reef, and The Prodigy, with Keith Flint rolling across the crowd in a big hamster ball...Not a picture from this weekend but it's the car we went in isn't it?No I must have had the van by then.…
Colin "Gem" Archer who went on to join Oasis. I loved Heavy Stereo, nice bit of glam rock. Plus Embassy and Thermal, I think Thermal were local heroes...…
The year Pulp replaced The Stone Roses as headliners, along with Oasis and The Cure. Great weather. Peak of the britpop years.I have literally got the t-shirt for this one and will be wearing it if we get tickets for Glastonbury 2020.…
Plus Honeycrack who I think had some Wildhearts connection.I liked these a lot and think I got my copies of their first one sided promo single signed at this gig.…
Carter USM, PWEI, Teenage Fanclub, Dodgy, The Charlatans, Gene, Lighting Seeds, Skunk Anansie, Reef. Think I was at this...…
Spin off of The Wonder Stuff, all of them except the singer Miles Hunt. I think the singer of this band was previously the singer of another band.…
With support from Catatonia. I do not remember this one, but I have the ticket stub in my big bag of tickets. I went to nearly everything around this time.…
Britpop, happy days.Scanned in ticket on http://sleeper.weheartmusic.com/ says it was the 7th though, not the 6th, so I guess I have this wrong! I will move it.…
Think the lighting rig fell into the crowd at this gig, oops...
Plus The Bluetones, a great gig, at a great time, right in the time of Britpop, one of those where we knew up front we were seeing bands that were too big for the pub circuit.This is probably with hindsight the biggest best bill I saw at the Joiners, having just missed the absolute classics the previous year when Oasis, Radiohead, Manic Street Preachers etc played.…