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WASP Portsmouth Guildhall 21 May 1989 Not sure what day, the ticket is very faded... Zed Yago supported, this site says REM played there only two days before, I did pick the gigs to go to...

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Iron Maiden 6.5 10Hammersmith Odeon 18 Oct 1990 Was on a training course in Hounslow, turned up too late for support band Wolfsbane, and anyway we had no tickets, but got given some by someone outside, I am sure it was Tommy Vance. Apparently we saw Jonathon King there too.

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Megadeth Poole Arts Centre 24 Mar 1991 First time I saw them. Just caught up with a friend who was there too (and who I'd not seen for over ten years, he says

Alice In Chains opened, followed by The Almighty at the Poole Arts Center gig '91 (if I remember correctly)

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Transvision Vamp Portsmouth Guildhall 20 Jun 1991 Second time seeing them here, Sinead O'Connor was there too.

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Wolfsbane 9 10The Marquee 06 Oct 1991 Found the ticket now! I went to the gig on my own, then got the last train up to Rugby, where I was staying for college. Can't find details anywhere online. Much stage diving, one of my favourite gig.s

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Black Grape The Wedgewood Rooms 18 Jul 1995 Their first gig. Joe Strummer and Alex Blur were there too.

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Sleeper Portsmouth Pyramids 11 Oct 1995 plus Longpigs and 60ft Dolls I think, I have a POSTER somewhere that I will check...

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Kula Shaker Reading Alleycat 26 Oct 1995 Some ill advised comments about swastikas saw the band fall right down before the signed goodies I got this day became worth anything... here's to a revival!

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Lighthouse Family Portsmouth Pyramids 30 Apr 1996 Oops, why was I here, when the Super Furries were down the road? I was working it, but still could have planned that better...

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Essential Festival Stanmer Park 26 May 1996 Super Furry Animals, Kula Shaker, Menswear, Echobelly, Marion, Chumbawamba, Bis and more... missed David Devant, but I did trek there with 16 people in my bus.

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Mansun The Joiners 17 Jun 1996 Was this the gig where they were still called Manson, and had at least one extra band member?

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Reading Reading Festival 23 Aug 1996 My first gig with nme.com, I started work there that weekend. I left part way through the worst ever Stone Roses performance (OK, the only time I saw them).

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Camden Crawl II Electric Ballroom 19 Sep 1996 Not just this venue, all around Camden, I saw Collapsed Lung and Moby here though...

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Tiger Mean Fiddler 13 Nov 1996 Soho Live, plus Divine Comedy, and "special guests" as headliner it says here...

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David Devant and his Spirit Wife New Cross Venue 20 Dec 1996 Before I lived in New Cross, didn't really know where it was. We thought we could get a tube there (it was not running) and walked back to Waterloo after...

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The Fall Mean Fiddler 26 Feb 1997 A benefit gig for a journalist Leo Finlay, with Ash and possibly Tiger and Formula 1. Matt Lucas was there. Possibly Travis also played...

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Symposium Electric Ballroom 04 Jun 1997 Where I met Clare, bless! Hope I got that year right... Also, oddly Sylvester McCoy was there at the after show.

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Belle and Sebastian 9 10Union Chapel 31 Jul 1997 Paid 5x over the odds for a ticket, but we had to get in. Got in the aftershow too, there was just us and Jarvis Cocker there. Ooh did I drop another name?

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Travis Astoria 23 Jan 1998 NME Brats, plus Ultrasound, The Hybrids and Unbelievable Truth. There's a good chance I was at this, I had staff passes for the whole week. There was a Pavement and [artist]Super Furry An

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The Montrose Avenue Kings College 26 Mar 1998 One of Menswear was in the band, this was the height of girly indie, there were tiaras, fairy wings, and even rollerskates in the crowd

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Ash Shepherds Bush Empire 08 May 1998 MTV Five Night Stand. Could be the 18th or the 28th, my ticket is ripped there...

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Blur 10 10Goldsmiths College 26 Aug 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.

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Camdemonium Dingwalls 21 Oct 1999 Camden Crawl type thing, can't remember where we went or who we saw right now.

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Six By Seven 7.5 10Astoria 19 Apr 2000 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.

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David Devant 21 Jul 2000 Somewhere, can't remember where this gig was but I mentioned it on popex...

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Coldplay 8 10Barfly 01 Aug 2000 Coldplay Barfly session was today, I was there... cosy.

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Bloodhound Gang 8 10Astoria 16 Aug 2000 They did a 10 kebab challenge on stage and Daphne and Celeste were there. And so was I!

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Pulp 9.4 10The Garage 22 Aug 2000 Tickets say "Keep Calm", it was a warmup for Reading. Howard Marks and Chris Morris were there amongst others.

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Fighting Cocks Dublin Castle 11 Dec 2000 "Punktronic excursions in a white noise wonderland", it says here...

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The Pogues Brixton Academy 11 Dec 2000 Or was it just Shane McGowan? And was it Brixton or the Astoria?. Support from I Am Kloot anyway I wrote about it on popex. Ah, I was not there anyway.

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