Getting there with my gig history now, the list of every gig I remember going to, from 1987 up to about now.
It's a natural step from my Best Gigs Ever post.
Well that's the theory, but there's A LOT missing.
I have chucked in details from the big bag of old gig tickets that I gathered while I was in London, + a box of old concert tickets + things from Mum and Dad's loft.
Also got lots of gaps regarding festival lineups, they'll probably stay missing, it's so hard to remember. There's a stack missing where I've lost tickets or never had them, most of the guestlist actions during my NME and Popex years and that.
Yeah I know it's a bit geeky, let's let that go though, I'm enjoying remembering these things.
At least I've not started scanning the tickets in yet Of course I have scanned the tickets now[^But I've lost the bag of tickets before I scanned them all in!]...
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Before I worked there, I think there were bands. THIS is why I left the Wonderstuff early, doh... There was a ruckus + the police sent us all home.…
Or was it just Shane McGowan? + was it Brixton or the Astoria?. Support from I Am Kloot anyway I wrote about it on popex. Ah, I was not there anyway.…
"Punktronic excursions in a white noise wonderland", it says here...
Plus Snow Patrol, back when I liked Snow Patrol, but before you like Snow Patrol. Awesome!…
First time I saw them + I loved them...
Think the year was originally wrong on this one... this link from gigguide.uk.com has it as 2000, sounds about right to me. The Darkness were also playing this night at the Monarch / Barfly, so I was at this.…
AKA Hooverdam. Cosmic Rough Riders headlined, a Poptones night.…
Or some band connected with them. They were dressed as KISS I think, did they do KISS covers too? Was this the band that Chris Dale from Atom Seed was also in? Two gigs in one night, very drunk by the time I got to this one...…
AKA Camden Crawl... All around Camden, not sure who I saw this year, not a lot.…
I didn't like it it seems, shame, I thought I liked Spearmint!…
At Uncle Bob's Wedding Reception, two gigs in one day (Scalarama was an all day type thing) I remember the new line up of The 'Cocks + the cheerleaders...…
MJ Hibbett, Jacques, Spearmint, Baxendale + lots of other bands…
And Elevator Suite, so we were there to see Cousteau.I think Emma was doing press for Cousteau.…
Some special Radio One thing, got a nice freebie from friends I was about to start working with at Channelfly. Green Day picked some kids out of the audience and made them play a song.…
and Alfie, Barfly sessions daytime thing recorded for Television. Can't remember if I stayed for Idlewild in the evening.…
Placebo, Queens of the Stone Age, Slipknot, Gorky's, Foo Fighters, Ween, Primal Scream, Daphne + Celeste, JJ72, SFA, + You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, At The Drive In...I was on a freebie from Uncle Bob's, did I not watch the headliners at all? I don't remember many of the bands off the poster, no Oasis, Pulp, Rage Against The Machine ect ect. Was I just way too cool? Is this one of the years we booked a hotel too?…
Tickets say "Keep Calm", it was a warmup for Reading in a few days time.Howard Marks + Chris Morris were there amongst others.I think a friend Dan who was working at Ticketmaster tipped us off to this.…
They did a 10 kebab challenge on stage and Daphne + Celeste were there. + so was I!…
Don't recall if they did their "Hamster Dance" single, I do remember an ace cover of "Self Esteem", though I could possiblybe mixing it up with an earlier Helen Love gig... Plus The Fighting Cocks.…
Featuring Gene's Matt the Hat…
Another "Barfly Sessions" Television thing, free + in the afternoon I think. Pretty poor.…
Another Barfly Sessions, evening or just later afternoon this one.…
A birthday night out, just after she was Mercury nominated…
Somewhere, can't remember where this gig was but I mentioned it on popex...…
Excellent, good to see his Blur bandmates turning out to cheer him on the audience too, Damon was pogoing away like a goodun.…
Loved BLOODHOUND GANG, David Bowie, Pet Shop Boys, + Travis...…
Broadcast LIVE on the internets apparently, when this was not the common thing it is now.
These boys can play!Went to see David Devant And His Spirit Wife a lot and it was always awesome.…
Free gig for XFM, who gave me FIFTY tickets to give away...…
+ Mica Bomb + Reverend Pike. Rosita were two of Kenickie + Mica Bomb were connected to the singer of the Sultans of Ping I'm sure...…
Think I attended this anyway, lunchtime gig for Japanese Television, did a few of these...…
Anthony Reynolds + Matthew Scott, Jack basically, I preferred the whole band, so still good.…
Plus ...Trail Of Dead, awesome. There was another Trail of Dead show just days before this, not sure it's the Highbury Garage show I'm thinking of buy maybe.…
Club Maker night. Thom Yorke performed with Drugstore, + Michael Stipe was in the crowd. Support from The Bigger The God and Groupie and double gin for a pound.…
Got in free because of the support, think it was Ben + Jason. Not much cop anyway.
One of The Bigger The God was a friend from the uk-indie mailing list. Says here I was going to the gig so it's going on the list. I did go and see them several times. Support from Interseed, Hester Thrale and Angel Delay apparently. I liked the Bull And Gate a lot.…
NME Brats show, think they were quite past their prime by this point...Plus Fridge, Zan Lyons and Contempo apparently^Removed old nme.com/news/music/brats-1387207 link here.]. Nope, me either. I alwys remember [the NME Brats shows as having a better lineup than this, but maybe it was only the ones I didn't go to?…
NME Brats show, with Gorkys Zygotic Mynci + Sigur Ros apparently. Lovely write up:Flash forward a few years to the Beta Band in January 2000, at an NME Brats show. I don't really remember much, other than that I was with a big group of my gigging mates in the upstairs bit, we were all trolleyed oah chopped some of it off, I think that was from Stu originally.…