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.
Probably 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!]...
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My favourite band of the time, one of my few visits to Kent "before". …
Sat Dec 21 1996
Plus Bikini Beach Band. Before I lived in New Cross, didn't really know where it was. We thought we could get a tube there (it was not going at this time) + walked back to Waterloo after... …
Fri Dec 20 1996
I went in late on a whim, missed the support, who might have been Deus. I thought I had the date right and now here's Melody Maker gig guide proof. Placebo and Deus played this same venue in 1997, + 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 attended 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 + there's a full bootleg of the gig here[^Removed old youtube.com/watch?v=ns8bm_5fEc4 link here.]. …
Wed Dec 18 1996
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 anyway. They have another tenth birthday event advertised the week before in the Melody Maker, with Carter USM. + Orlando are also in Camden that night too which ties in with me going to three things on the same night, as I remember this but don't remember it being called a tenth anniversary celebration. Now what was the first one? …
Tue Dec 17 1996
TWO times in one week? A friend at the time liked them... I didn't remember the support acts, Tiger + the Stereophonics. This new discovery boosts Tiger further up my list of most seen bands. Also found in an old Melody Maker gig guide. …
Mon Dec 16 1996
With support from Super Furry Animals + Stereophonics, who I don't remember at all... Damn they had Kenickie instead at other dates! Suede were also in town tonight. Also found in an old Melody Maker gig guide. …
Sat Dec 14 1996
One of my earlier gigs in London + part of "three gigs in one night". Now what on earth were the other two gigs? The second one was Orlando I think, but not sure I even actually went in, I just went there after my first gig because I said I would, saw it was already underway and did not go in. What could the first gig have been + where? Feet First was a regular indie night at Camden Palace. There's a good chance this gig is now listed as being at Koko, the name for Camden Palace since 2004. I had this down as the 12th of the 10th for ages, it was the 10th of the 12th though, found an old Melody Maker gig guide now. …
Tue Dec 10 1996
With Victoria. That is a band, not a date. I know I put my head in the door at this gig, can I count it? I attended three different things this day, on a Tuesday! I know Carter USM was the last one, so I was at something before this too. I see from the listings there are other bands I know + would see in London, so it's very unlikely to be The Cure at Wembley... Camden Dublin Castle had John Moore + Badge, don't know them. Camden Falcon had Vitro and Nugget, same. Camden Jazz Cafe had Ruby Turner, so I've never been there. Camden Laurel Tree had Couch + Inter. The Roundhouse had the Bluetones, so no. The LA2 had Jocasta, Cecil, and The Bigger The God, and I did see them + would go but can't quite imagine I was at the LA2 + left early, it feels like it would have been Camden. Downstairs at the Garage were Smaller, that is more likely, but I do not remember it. Rounding off the rest of the unlikely London shows from this Meloday Maker are Sue + Pollen + Jackwoods at Islin…
Tue Dec 10 1996
Club Maker, Melody Maker gig of the night! I *must* have been at this one. Support from Slingbacks + Posh, Posh look like they played with MJ Hibbett earlier this week too in Leicester. …
Fri Dec 06 1996
A trip back from London for the night to see Devant. Plus Posh. Got my video signed this night, an actual VHS tape. I prob'ly bought it at this gig. Wonder if I still have it... …
Wed Nov 20 1996
I bootlegged this gig, the audio's complete with a trip to the toilet part way through... If only anyone still had minidisc[^Actually reading this back in 2022, I just found a minidisc player and a box of discs in the loft. I only got rid of my "big" stereo that had minidisc on it last year or the year before + assumed that was it all gone. But my first recording minidisc personal stereo is up there. No idea if it still works.] we could listen to this again! This Melody Maker says they were at Colchester Arts Centre this night, have I messed up another one?? I have claimed the minidisc story at another Camden Falcon one, so let's see I will dig out the minidisc, see if I wrote a date on it. …
Sat Nov 16 1996
Soho Live, a Radio One thing. Plus 3 Colours Red and Imperial Teen. …
Thu Nov 14 1996
Soho Live, plus Divine Comedy, and "special guests" as headliner it says here... Cannot remember who that was. Hmm this seems to indicate it was Gene[^Removed old theoldnet.com/get?decode=true&noscripts=true&year=1996&url=http://www.nme.com/board/angst/messages/1747.html link here.]. Also this one seems to indicate I gave someone a ticket[^Removed old theoldnet.com/get?decode=true&noscripts=true&year=1996&url=http://www.nme.com/board/angst/messages/1858.html link here.] , NGP was me (Nice Guy Pauly). Found in this old Melody Maker gig guide. Melody Maker straight up has it that Gene were the headliner. I did tell Neil Hannon at one of these shows that I didn't like his cover of There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, was it this one, his own gig? …
Wed Nov 13 1996
Soho Live with Mansun and Fun Lovin' Criminals. I met Noel Gallagher at this show. …
Tue Nov 12 1996
Some Radio One event called Soho Live with John Parrish, Babybird and Geneva. …
Mon Nov 11 1996
When it was Barfly or before it was Barfly? Is this the one I recorded? Or another one? Dweeb played at the Monarch on the same night but I think Barfly was at the Falcon still here. Found in a Melody Maker gig guide. …
Wed Nov 06 1996
At Blow Up, the Wag Club, Wardour Street. I'm sure this wasn't the first time I saw Devant in London, were there not probably Uncle Bobs before this or others. It's not the only band I saw at this venue either I remember John Simm's band Magic Alex at some point. This venue is now an O'Neills pub.…
Fri Oct 25 1996
Fri Oct 18 1996
Fri Sep 27 1996
Not just this venue, all around Camden, I saw Collapsed Lung and Moby here though... I might also have seen Jack. I think I tried to get into Tiger but the venue was too full. Others were Urusei Yatsura, Prolapse, China Drum, Broadcast, Linoleum, Sneaker Pimps and The Aloof. Participating venues were WKD, Monarch, Dingwalls, dublin Casle, Underworld, Electric Ballroom and Camden Falcon. Found more details in this Melody Maker gig guide. …
Thu Sep 19 1996
Plus Beatnik Filmstars. I have a hazy memory of seeing The Wedding Present here about now and seeing (and possibly talking to) John Peel. But it is a very hazy memory. Found in an old Melody Maker gig guide. I see Magic Alex played this night at Camden Dublin Castle, and I definitely saw them in London but it was later than this and probably at The Wag club, and after I had met my wife to be. There are other missing gigs around this time, I remember going to The Red Eye in Islington somewhere, to The Orange out in Kensington, and to Rock Garden in Covent Garden, all to see small bands. A couple of these were pay to play venues I think and I went along with friends probably from uk-indie or possbly NME message board. I hope it'll come back to me at some point. …
Sat Sep 14 1996
Was it Sigur Ros supporting at this one? Just around the time I moved to London, was this really my first gig of that era? Melody Maker gig of the night. Gig of the night the following night was the Top Of The Pops concert at Wembley Arena featuring Bjork, Ocean Colour Scene, Cast, Terrorvision, Kula Shaker, and Sleeper. Don't remember even hearing about that. …
Thu Sep 12 1996
My first gig with nme.com[^Removed old nme.com link here.], I started work there that weekend. I left part way through the worst ever Stone Roses performance (OK, the only time I saw them). I helped out on some of the webchats, including Moby and Terrorvision and I remember and American band I wasn't familiar with. And there would have been others. We were working in an nme portacabin type thing. Think I met up with some friends and stayed at one of their houses the first night, then got a train back on Saturday night, but came back again on the Sunday.…
Fri Aug 23 1996
Local. My birthday but went along on my own, think I had met someone from the band previously. Plus Cloudburst.…
Sat Jul 27 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... Remember there was a HUGE queue in the heat to get in, we missed a lot of the Thursday but were there to catch David Bowie. Found in an old Melody Maker gig guide. …
Thu Jul 18 1996
plus Linoleum. Had to walk back from Southampton after being stopped with no lights on my bike, then head to Phoenix Festival the next day.…
Wed Jul 17 1996
Last Portsmouth Venue Campaign show that I helped at before I moved to London. Someone in the band complained that I was in their dressing room getting stuff signed when they were trying to powder their nose... What does an "access all areas" pass mean if you can't do this? Terrorvision also played here in 1994. …
Fri Jul 12 1996
Wife was at this one, I was not in London yet. Rescheduled from the 4th of July for some reason. I loved the 60ft Dolls and would have seen them around this point, saw them a few times. They featured on the cover of one of my fanzines.…
Wed Jul 10 1996
with Feeder and Stout. I remember Cecil, I do not remember that I saw Feeder here.…
Wed Jun 26 1996
~Was this the gig where they were still called Manson, and had at least one extra band member~ nope^that was the Heavy Stereo one... Also now found in this Melody Maker gig guide. Looks like they played Tunbridge Wells Forum the next day. …
Mon Jun 17 1996
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 surely originally had this date wrong[^I have nearly every date in this gigography wrong.], I have a poster that says I was at Menswear at Portsmouth Pyramids on the 26th October... They also played this venue on the 30th November 1996 and 13th June 1996. I expect this one is meant to be some date in 1996. If I can find the vinyl I got signed at the gig it might give more of a clue - if it wasn't released until 1996 that will do it. To the loft! I saw them before this at University of Surrey, not in the big room either, but can't find a record of this one yet. Will get back to the gig guides! At least some evidence from this Melody Maker gig guide. With The Daisies and Subcircus, £3 to get in! …
Thu Jun 13 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. Wife was there somewhere but we did not meet.. Think I did meet my flatmate to be Nic here though. There was a rumour there was a topless girl down the front at Menswear Also from this Melody Maker gig guide. …
Sun May 26 1996
I left after the support The Frank And Walters to go to a local gig, I was "getting in" with people and trying to be a face on the scene to help with my fanzine...…
Mon May 20 1996
Plus 60ft Dolls who brilliantly smashed the place up. Bis were meant to play too. There was another band. Kenickie were also part of this tour, but I don't think it was them. I see Symposium played with them on the London date, and Jocasta at the Manchester one. …
Thu May 16 1996
With support from Octopus. I have no ticket for this one but found a signed poster. …
Tue May 14 1996
Mon May 13 1996
Part of the ace monthly cabaret night? Or was that another time I saw her there. …
Sat May 11 1996
Coast, Bawl, Puressence and The Gyres. The best the Melody Maker could muster :-( …
Tue May 07 1996
A Portsmouth Venue Campaign joint, so I must have been working / volunteering at it.…
Thu May 02 1996
Plus Taste Of Joy according to this Melody Maker gig guide. …
Wed May 01 1996
Oops, why was I here, when the Super Furries were down the road? I was working it, but still could have planned that better...…
Tue Apr 30 1996
plus Jolt (Mark Keds of the Senseless Things) and Yellow Car, as reviewed in my fanzine SOLD OUT!…
Thu Apr 18 1996
Tue Apr 16 1996
plus Definition of Sound. Gig reviewed in my fanzine, but not by me, though I was there.…
Sat Mar 30 1996
Thu Mar 21 1996
Plus Sugarcane apparently. Did not think I saw Sultans Of Ping this many times, much as I loved them. I might have counted this as part of my "twenty gigs in twenty days" challenge I did with three weeks of work, but I can't remember exactly when it started or ended.…
Tue Mar 19 1996
With the Smoking Popes. I saw them in Manchester around this time too, maybe at the Night and Day? I went up to stay with Richy at university[^Yep fixed that one up now, found it via the closeness to a Pulp gig.]. Think this is part of my "twenty gigs in twenty days" challenge I did with three weeks off work, but I can't remember exactly when it started or ended... if that is the case why is this one so far apart from the others? Setlist.fm says I have the date correct and it was the 17th March. So maybe not part of that at all.…
Sun Mar 17 1996
plus Cibo Matto excellent Japanese girl band, got some signed singles from them at this gig. Boss Hog is Jon Spencer (Blues Explosion, not the snooker player) and his wife's band.…
Thu Mar 14 1996
Not my normal sort of event, but went along with Kez. She did a cover of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on the piano I think (Tori Amos, not Kez).…
Wed Mar 13 1996
Tue Mar 12 1996
Found this old flyer on ebay, and I expect I'll match it up with a gig guide at some point. …
Sun Mar 10 1996
Bit dancy for me. Must have been a freebie for me. Plus Ruby.…
Sat Mar 09 1996
Sun Mar 03 1996
I remember I went to this on the same day as Underworld at the Pyramids Centre. I was working at the university at the time and they let me into the student union events for free.…
Thu Feb 29 1996
Another two gigs in one day, I also saw The Wurzels at the poly...…
Thu Feb 29 1996
Slightly rubbish goth. They had their fans but I don't remember the music. I remember not really liking them, but most of all I remember one of their goth fans having a silver topped cane and banging it on the floor with applause. Echobelly were also in Southampton this night, at the Guildhall. …
Mon Feb 26 1996
Sunday night freebie at the university of Surrey. I knew one of The Bigger The God from the uk-indie mailing list. …
Sun Feb 25 1996
With the Smoking Popes. Confirmed date now with the help of the Melody Maker gig guide. It was the 22nd after all, not the 24th that I thought. But it looks like it was at the Roadhouse, not the Night And Day... So that leaves me free to be at something else on the 24th. Originally I said: _Guessing the date of this one, but it's an educated guess. Hear me out..._ _I know I saw them in Manchester at this time, sure it is. The Night and Day. I went up to stay with Richy at university, and I know we also tried to get into Pulp at the Manchester Arena. We had no tickets, but thought we'd have a look. That was on the 23rd February 1996, so this gig must have been the day before or day after that._ _So, I'm slightly less confident in the date than I am with most of my wonky gig logging, but this must be very close._ _Setlist.fm say they were at London Astoria on the 21st Feb (supporting Silverchair), and the Splash Club (Kings Cross Water Rats, also London) on the 23rd, then Glasgow on the…
Thu Feb 22 1996
I liked one Godfathers song[^Birth, School, Work, Death.], and was in London as part of two or three weeks off work driving round in my vw camper[^I wasn't really driving round the whole two weeks as I went up to Manchester at some point, surely I went up on the train? I don't actually remember, maybe that was in the camper. London was definitely in the camper, I parked it up in Clapham or somewhere like that and slept in it by the side of the road.]. Also I had in my head that the support band "Changing Man" was going to be Paul Weller doing a secret gig. It was not. The posters called this "The St Valentines Day Massacre". I did a full circuit of the circle line as an opportunity for a sit down amid a day of comic shopping. I did 21 gigs in 21 days around this period, so where are the others? Most of them were rubbish I'm sure but I remember seeing Tripping Daisy at least twice, in Southampton and Manchester[^Went to stay with Richy in at university.], plus MN8[^One hit wonders MN8 w…
Wed Feb 14 1996
Pixies frontman solo show, plus The Wannadies. I met him and got some posters signed. …
Thu Feb 08 1996
Mon Feb 05 1996
Sun Feb 04 1996
So who was it actually played the Pyramids this night? I know I was at the Mike Flowers Pops one, I remember holding the door open to a radio reporter so they could report from the gig using the payphone in the lobby, as their satellite phone wasn't working. I see Mike Flowers Pops supported Gary Glitter later this year.…
Fri Feb 02 1996
Another free show I think at the University. There were a little run of these and I went to a few, driving up with some friends from Portsmouth.…
Sun Jan 28 1996
Can't remember what, but I know I was at something at the Wedge this night, while Placebo were at the Joiners. Maybe it was a cabaret[^Since worked out it was not cabaret], I sort of get the feeling it was Bush?.…
Wed Jan 24 1996
The Bluetones, Cardigans, Heavy Stereo and Fluffy. I would later come to lots of these shows, but this year I still did not live in London and only came to the touring show with some friends. Amazing that I have not been here for five years sincethis, can this be right? …
Mon Jan 22 1996
Wed Jan 17 1996
I went to a little run of these gigs at the university, I think they might even have been free, though someone had to sign us in. They played Portsmouth just before this[^Removed old lightfromadeadstar.org/Gigography/Index.htm#1996 link here.] and Top Of The Pops a few days after.…
Sun Jan 14 1996