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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Fairly bland sets of Tony Ferrino and possibly Alan Partridge, so warm up came from newcomer Simon Pegg. Whatever happened to him?…
Mon Oct 05 1998
_Tonight's venue is crammed with indie's brightest + best, all happily expectant_according to the review in the Independent, that's me in particular to which they were referring...Part of a rescheduled UK tour. I'm sure I saw The Beta Band before this at the Water Rats with Gaz, + that it was their first show, so that is the year before.…
Wed Sep 30 1998
plus Chicks, at Camden Falcon. Probably a Barfly thing, but when it was at the Falcon... anyone remember such days?…
Thu Jul 23 1998
plus Idlewild, Scott 4, + Unbelievable Truth - unbelievably SHIT more like^I always used to say this but I've no idea really.]. [Thom Yorke's brother's band. Part of NME Brats week.…
Tue Jul 21 1998
Can only remember Blur + Robbie Williams really. First one I went to with Clare (though she was also there in 1995 and 1997)…
Wed Jun 24 1998
Players Theatre, Charing Cross.My first time of seeing Jack? Think we got these tickets "on return", ie the gig was sold out but the venue called me back when some where returned. Or I kept calling the venue... Had met "the band" before this at Midweeker^Wednesday night indie club at The Borderline, Manette Street.], an indie clubnight at [The Borderline in Soho with Clare. Two suspicious fellows were chatting up my wife to be + her friend + I felt obliged to intervene. They turned out to be the singer + guitarist of Jack, one of my favourite bands of the time + all ideas of chivalry went out the window.…
Mon Jun 08 1998
Free wristbands from XFM, I remember going to the office to collect it... Or do I remember going to the office to collect that tent that I won with some festival tickets? Or do I remember both? There was a lot of this sort of thing.…
Sun Jun 07 1998
I think my favourites the 60ft Dolls supported, and then promptly split up :-(…
Mon Jun 01 1998
MJ Hibbett, The Bigger The God, Szeki Kurva (AKA The Fighting Cocks + more, a bit of a DIY effort from the uk-indie mailing list. At Oxford Point, now gone.…
Sun May 24 1998
Plus Grandaddy - MTV 5 Night stand maybe?…
Wed May 20 1998
MTelevision Five Night Stand. Could be the 18th or the 28th, my ticket is ripped there...…
Fri May 08 1998
Fri Apr 10 1998
Matt Everitt of Menswear was in the band, this was the height of girly indie, there were tiaras, fairy wings, + even rollerskates in the crowd.…
Thu Mar 26 1998
I am sure I saw Grandaddy more than this, think I saw them at the Water Rats too, but I can't back it up.…
Tue Mar 03 1998
Tue Feb 17 1998
Some sort of all nighter, we didn't stay the pace. Was this the first gig with Kevin Shields?
Sat Feb 14 1998
Is this their first UK gig? I think this is the last time the keyboardist took her top off on stage.
Thu Feb 12 1998
They did a Levi ad I think, we went for the support Hooverdam. Not sure why I've put this as Highbury Garage I think the gig was in Hoxton, but can find no reference online...…
Tue Feb 10 1998
I went to the aftershow party only this time, think this was the awards where Eddie Izzard compared, think my friend Ade met Kylie Minogue here. I have very shady memories of it myself though.…
Tue Jan 27 1998
Stereophonics, Asian Dub Foundation, Warm Jets, + theaudience (Sophie Ellis Bextor)…
Sun Jan 25 1998
NME Brats, plus Ultrasound, The Hybrids and Unbelievable Truth^Unbelievably Shit more like. I always used to say this just to wind a friend up, I've no idea what this band were actually like, though I think I did go and see them once.]. There's a good chance I attended this, I had staff passes for the whole week. There was a Pavement and [artist][Super Furry An[^Seems some content got cropped here.]…
Fri Jan 23 1998
Spiritualized, Crystal Method, Jonathan Fire Eater, Dawn Of The Replicants. Not my sort of lineup at all, + I don't remember the gig. I do remember waiting in Spiritualized's hotel for their main man to come out and be interviewed for NME. I was doing some sort of web support, think I'd a laptop + it would be uploaded to nme.com right away. I supose we went on to the gig after this, though quite late.…
Wed Jan 21 1998
I was at a lot more than this this year I'm sure. These are prime "get in free" years in [London](/wiki/#london), we were out several nights of the week.