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!]...
1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Ha, AWFUL christian rock. I was accompanying a friend who was reviewing or something.
Mon Dec 20 1999
Fri Dec 10 1999
Sat Nov 13 1999
Wed Nov 03 1999
Camden Crawl type thing, can't remember where we went or who we saw right now.…
Thu Oct 21 1999
Free gig, recorded for XFM. Beset by tech problems, I think Bernard kicked the barrier down in frustration.…
Thu Oct 07 1999
Seems the venue of this one is wrong. I don't remember this Arab Strap gig, so don't remember where it was, and have found no record of it now. I can look in my big stack of NMEs, though sure I'd stopped buying it by this point. I was in London, so probably there. I get a vague feeling it was ULU.…
Thu Sep 23 1999
Wed Sep 22 1999
Blur headlined, not a very strong lineup I don't think. I was working mostly, and managed to lose my first mobile phone that work lent me.Can't remember what bands I saw, surely I would have seen the Dandy Warhols? But look at the lineup poster, would I not have sought out Snuff and Suicidal Tendencies? Don't remember doing so. Maybe I was working too hard. Coldplay bottom of the bill on the second stage too.…
Fri Aug 27 1999
Reading warmup, got very drunk on vodka red bulls, fell in a bush,and you can see me on the South Bank Show Special that was filmed there. Off to Reading the next day.Definitely one of my favourite ever gigs.I heard about tickets somehow + Clare (who was a student at the time + lived in New Cross went and got the tickets. Was a lot easier than a warm-up gig like this might have been these days!I was working at nme.com at the time and was heading off to Reading the next day. Not sure if I lost my laptop or phone at the gig or if I lost them at the festival over the next few days. One or the other thoug, was a chaotic time.We had a few drinks before the gig...…
Thu Aug 26 1999
I remember Mel C + James Brown, so noone who was any good.Did not pay to get in, I think I was back working with NME again. Maybe the time we slept in the portacabin thing backstage.…
Sat Aug 21 1999
Ed Byrne + Rob NewmanClose to my birthday, and we were here for a friends birthday actually. Coincidentally I spent this very same day of the year in a different Walpole Park, in Gosport. This one was Ealing though, where I lived at the time.…
Thu Jul 29 1999
A play, a birthday treat, long running, had Art Malik in it and it was Frank Skinner's first night.…
Mon Jul 26 1999
I only remember REM I hope i wrote more on popex at the time that I have found later...Was this the one where Stewart Lee's gig was a bit ruined by a heckler laughing sarcastically^Something similar happened at another Glastonbury I went to, did it happen at all of them?]? I think I watched more [comedy than music at this one.Thought I saw Tommy Lee's Methods of Mayhem at the same Glastonbury where I saw Keanu Reeve's Dogstar, am I mistaken?…
Wed Jun 23 1999
MTV Five Night Stand... wish I could find more details of these online, I know the support acts were good too.…
Thu May 13 1999
MTV Five Night Stand... wish I could find more details of these online, I know the support acts were good too.setlist.fm says Ocean Colour Scene played this night + Paul Weller joined them, was it the same gig?It says here^Removed old setlist.fm/festival/1999/mtv-5-night-stand-1999-2bd76ce2.html link here.] it was Ocean Colour Scene, [Gene, + Witness. So did I see Pavement somewhere else this night?…
Wed May 12 1999
MTelevision Five Night Stand, would have been a few other bands on the bill... broadcast on MTelevision from May 17 to May 23, 1999.This says^Removed old setlist.fm/festival/1999/mtv-5-night-stand-1999-2bd76ce2.html link here.] it was also [Ultrasound and Dark Star playing.…
Sun May 09 1999
Belle + Sebastian etc, the forerunner to All Tomorrow's Parties.I remember Divine Comedy also playing, but Flaming Lips, Snow Patrol, Mogwai, Camera Obscura + more played and Pulp DJ'd..Got very, very drunk.…
Fri Apr 23 1999
A work freebie from NME, we nearly didn't get in because I couldn't prove I was who I was claiming to be (I wasn't). I basically put a bribe in the charity collection bucket + they let it go.…
Thu Mar 25 1999