Manchester Night And Day Cafe 26 Oldham Street, Manchester
With the Smoking Popes. 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 less confident in the date than I am with most of my wonky gig logging, but this must be close.
Setlist.fm say they were at London Astoria on the 21st Feb, and the Splash Club on the 23rd, then Glasgow on the 25th, and Birmingham on the 26th. Makes more sense for this to be the 24th than between two London dates. I think I was in Guildford on the 25th and Southampton on the 26th, so can't be after that..
Did I know the singer of Tripping Daisy is also the main guy from Polyphonic Spree? I've seen them too!
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.
I was at this one, more from this year in my gig history for 1996. I have seen Tripping Daisy probably twice; Manchester Night And Day Cafe (1996), + Southampton Joiners ('96), though I still have some bragging tagging to do so this may go up. Part of all the gigs I went to from '87 to 2025. It's an obvious step from my Best gigs of all time blog post. Yeah I know it's a bit geeky, let's let that go though, I'm enjoying reminiscing about these things.
Sat Feb 24 1996
⬅️ The Godfathers :: The Bigger The God ➡️