Getting there with my gigography now, all the gigs I was at, from '87 up to about now.
A natural progression 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, + a box of old concert tickets + stuff from Mum and Dad's loft.
Also got lots of gaps regarding bands seen at festivals, they'll probably 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 and 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 the tickets now...
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Went to both nights, so not the extra afternoon show they did. Shambolic, but…
Went to both nights, so not the extra afternoon show they did. Shambolic, but…
This actually might not have been the LEGENDARY album launch do, found a pass with a date on it so guessing it was earlier this…
And Dust Junkys XFM sort of night I think, + we went to an aftershow over the road…
Rescheduled from 6/6/97 I think. Huge drunken night, I possibly broke my elbow, I will scan the picture in of…
This band were so good, too good for this world I…
I went to Victoria Park for something or other at this time was it…
xfm week of gigs, with Silver Sun, Warm Jets, and someone else. Can't be positive I went to this, so probably. Was a freebie from xfm, pick up tickets from the old doc martens shop in covent garden. Found it from this old recording of the first day of…
Paid 5x over the odds for a ticket, but we had to get in. Got in the aftershow too, there was just us + Jarvis Cocker there. Ooh did I drop another name? Was definitely very excited about this gig. I had the album and great reports from Hibbett who had been to see them in Glasgow. We (Nic P and I) went along without tickets but high spirits + a pocket full of cash, so we were fine. Think it was originally about a fiver so we paid someone thirty quid or so. We were in, was a polite + sedate affair apart from us. Met our friend Jody in there who upgraded us to after show party tickets. Not many people in the after show / party bit apart from Jody, us, Dickon from Orlando + Jarvis Cocker out of / off of the Pulp. Definitely one of my best gigs ever, a band I loved at just the right…
Geneva, Tiger, Symposium, and Three Colours Red: I did a few dates of this tour while I attended nme.com. I did some sort of tech support, can't even really remember what right now. I think I was just there to help the journo and photographer upload their copy and images to the website. I have some sound desk recordings of these shows somewhere…
I know I saw The Beta Band at the Water Rats with Gaz, + remember that it was their first show. This is the only one that fits that. From http://betaband.co.uk/gigography/ They were supporting Kings Of Infinite Space and Tam. I thought we saw them with Grandaddy…
plus Rage Against The Machine, Skunk Anansie, Thunder + Three Colours Red + L7. Got freebies from the NME and drank all the money I saved. Kind of lost it about five songs in and ended up in Covent…
Don't remember many bands, very bad weather, I think this was the one we went with no tent and just flip flops…
Guessing this one must actually be the album launch do with the free cocktails + so on, do I have a pass or a ticket for this somewhere? I scanned one in at some point. David Devant + his Spirit Wife are AMAZING, + this album launch party was a special time. I thought this gig was the 15th but this pass says…
Where I met Clare, bless! Hope I got that year right... Also, oddly Sylvester McCoy was there at the after…
A benefit gig for a journalist Leo Finlay, with Ash and possibly Tiger and Formula 1. Matt Lucas was there. Possibly Travis also…
A strangely middle class event for me to be going to when I'd not moved to…
Presented by Mark and Lard. Ooh, it's on youtube. I originally had the wrong date for this. I have a ticket for a gig on the 27th, would the brats gig have been on the same night as the awards..? No I think…
NME brat bus tour. I worked on this tour, travelling around with the bands to help with uploading reviews + stuff, maybe some sound clips of the gigs too? I did have tapes of it at some point. I'm not 100% convinced that I went to this London date, I was definitely at the Manchester and Leeds nights though. Bands are lower down in the importance list than my attendance or not of this one. Geneva, Tiger, Symposium, + Three Colours…
Pavement, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Broadcast, and Mogwai. I must have been working this NME Brats gig mustn't…
NME Brats show? Plus Octopus, Mundy and Stereophonics again apparently. Must have been a week of gigs around this…
Leeds Metropolitan University. NME brat bus tour. I worked on this tour, travelling around with the bands to help with uploading reviews + stuff, maybe some sound clips of the gigs too? I did have tapes of it at some point. I'm not 100% convinced that I went to this London date, I was definitely at the Manchester + Leeds nights though. Bands are lower down in the importance list than my attendance or not of this one. Geneva, Tiger, Symposium, + Three Colours…
Manchester University (now an academy venue). NME brat bus tour. I worked on this tour, travelling around with the bands to help with uploading reviews + stuff, maybe some sound clips of the gigs too? I did have tapes of it at some point. I'm not 100% convinced that I went to this London date, I was definitely at the Manchester and Leeds nights though. Bands are lower down in the importance list than my attendance or not of this one. Geneva, Tiger, Symposium, and Three Colours…