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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XFM Xmas party, watched support act The Darkness then went mad on free cocktails, don't remember the headliners.…
Free thing through work, a gig for competition winners originally billed as being Paul Weller, actually turned out more interestingly as these guys + also Space…
Big proper gig, with label mate support from Sweatmaster and Sludgefeast.
The Von Bondies, The Modey Lemon, + The Beatings at the Barfly. No ticket evidence for this so I seem to have enjoyed it here.…
Best of In The City, with the Raveonettes (who we saw) and Saint Rose and more
Played a couple of Smiths songs, average apart from that.…
Were you at this gig? Did you see an inflatable lady crowdsurfing? That was mine, I won it in a raffle in the Good Mixer just before the gig.…
Setlist: "Bareback", "Black Shuck", "Best of me", "Love is only a feeling", "Get your hands off", "Givin' up", "Stuck in a rut", "I believe in a thing called love", "Love on the rocks with no ice"This was the one where I now have the t-shirt that Justin was wearing that day. He threw it into the crowd, someone took it home^Was it me? Was it Ralph?], then took it to another gig[^Ah http://www.clarkeology.com/2003/09/13/stalking-the-darkness/ says it was a DJ thing at the Barfly], got it signed, + then gave it to me. I think in exchange for the first [Darkness single I had given him.…
Another fan club job I think. Not in the fan club, but someone got me in.
I was on a big fat freebie and very much enjoyed The Datsuns doing a set in the backstage bar.…
SOLD OUT in advance, we only just squeezed in, deso single out this week.…
Fan club gig, played the new album, then a hits set, then a "wheel of fortune" set including best songs "My Dark Star" + "The Living Dead"...
Have I misdated this one? I was definitely at David Bowie this day...…
Plus Suede + Divine Comedy. It booted it down with rain, so we had a great time.…
Um, I remember Faithless and then Coldplay, big lasers across the crowd. But very little else. Rolf Harris was there this year.…
Yes of the Beach Boys, one to tick off the list. He was a bit unsteady on his feet but he had great support in recreating the perfect sound.…
Quite a line up so not quite a festival. I remember we had free tickets and it absolutely booted it down with rain. Support from Air, Echo + The Bunnymen, Super Furry Animals, + Cooper Temple Clause at least.…
I saw them at the Barfly. I don't have a ticket stub or anything for this one but I wrote about it on popex and I seem to have liked it.…
I dragged Neil + Camilla, of The Face + Popbitch along. IT WAS ME THAT MADE THE DARKNESS POPLIAR!…
Featuring pandau Ballet, Belinda Carlisle, ABC, Howard Jones, Toyah + China Crisiss. So no Adam Ant unfortunately.…
From the brief time when I preferred them over The Darkness...…
I enjoyed this, I wrote about it on Popex at the time, and I compared them to Nirvana.…
I went for the support band Love / Hate as I used to love them in about 1990. Also Area 54.Must have got the date of this one wrong originally as I attended Belle + Sebastian on the 3rd April. This was a very busy week of gigs.…
Think this is they did a cover of London Calling and Another Girl, Another Planet.…
supported by The Libertines. Two gigs in one night, think I saw either The Darkness or Neds Atomic Dustbin this day too...…
Back at Uncle Bob's apparently..…
NME tour with Lostprophets, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and The Coral. Was Searching forward to AWK. Very disappointed.…
plus Clinic, The Faint and British Sea Power. NME Brats?…
With Starsailor + Ryan Adams + I think Remy Zero. A Warchild benefit night, I quite literally have the t-shirt for this one mate.…
I think I really liked that one song The Middle, + I bought the album. I did not really think about them for another twenty years or so, then we started listening to Radio X, + they play this song constantly.