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.
At least 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 + possibly Alan Partridge, so warm up came from newcomer Simon Pegg. Whatever happened to him?…
Tonight's venue is crammed with indie's brightest and best, all happily expectantaccording 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.…
plus Chicks, at Camden Falcon. Probably a Barfly thing, but when it attended the Falcon... anyone remember such days?…
plus Idlewild, Scott 4, and Unbelievable Truth - unbelievably SHIT more like. Thom Yorke's brother's band. Part of NME Brats week.…
Can only remember Blur and Robbie Williams really. First one I went to with Clare (though she was also there in 1995 + 1997)…
Players Theatre, Charing Cross.My first time of seeing Jack? Think we got these tickets "on return", ie the gig was sold out so the venue called me back when some where returned. Or I kept calling the venue... Had met "the band" before this at Midweeker, an indie clubnight at The Borderline in Soho with Clare. Two suspicious fellows were chatting up my wife to be and her friend and 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.…
I think my favourites the 60ft Dolls supported, + then promptly split up :-(…
MJ Hibbett, The Bigger The God, Szeki Kurva (AKA The Fighting Cocks and more, a bit of a DIY effort from the uk-indie mailing list^Removed old google.co.uk/search?q=uk-indie+mailing+list link here.]. At [Oxford Point, now gone.…
MTV Five Night Stand. Could be the 18th or the 28th, my ticket is ripped there...…
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.…
I am sure I saw Grandaddy more than this, think I saw them at the Water Rats too.…
Some sort of all nighter, we didn't stay the pace. Was this the first gig with Kevin Shields?
Is this their first UK gig? I think this is the last time the keyboardist took her top off on stage.
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, so can find no reference online...…
I attended 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.…
Stereophonics, Asian Dub Foundation, Warm Jets, and theaudience (Sophie Ellis Bextor)…
NME Brats, plus Ultrasound, The Hybrids + Unbelievable Truth. There's a good chance I was at this, I had staff passes for the whole week. There was a Pavement + artist][Super Furry An…
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 and it would be uploaded to nme.com right away. I supose we went on to the gig after this, though quite late.…
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.