I First Saw It

Madonna 6 10Wembley Stadium 20 Jul 1987 Plus Hue & Cry and The Bhundu Boys, but not the rumoured Wet Wet Wet. My first concert, went with a friend from school and some friends of his dad. Sounds a bit weird now. Got the t-shirt, programme, every bit of junk going...

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Anthrax 8 10Hammersmith Odeon 13 Mar 1989 plus Living Colour. My first proper gig, went up on a coach trip. See the patches on my denim jacket m/

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Tad Portsmouth Polytechnic 13 Jun 1990 First time they visited WITHOUT Nirvana in tow, just my luck...

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Love / Hate 8.5 10The Marquee 31 Oct 1990 Plus my first time (of many) of seeing Atom Seed, and a couple of other bands. Happy new year!

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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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Molly Half Head The Wedgewood Rooms 03 Mar 1993 I remember going clearly, but don't think this can have been the first of my trips to the Wedgewood Rooms, can it?

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Bottom Portsmouth Guildhall 25 May 1993 Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, the first of the Bottom tours...

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Suicidal Tendencies Brixton Academy 23 Jul 1993 I drove my van into London for this gig, I almost never did this... ST played their encore first, and part of the gig from the top of a step ladder.

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Chumbawamba Portsmouth Pyramids 17 May 1994 First of the Portsmouth Venue Campaign freebies helping out on the door. Plus Gunshot, Attilla the Stockbroker, nad Spot the Poet.

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Glastonbury Glastonbury 23 Jun 1994 My first Glastonbury festival, went in my van, hard to fault the lineup on the NME stage... Blur, Pulp, Oasis, Beastie Boys, Bjork, Manics, etc.

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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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Echobelly 8 10The Joiners 19 Oct 1995 Possibly this was 1994, I thought they were one of the first bands I saw at the Joiners, but I've got the details from Oliver Gray's gig list.

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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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The Boo Radleys The National Club 12 Sep 1996 Was it Sigur Ros supporting at this one? Just around the time I moved to London, was this really my first gig of that era?

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Primal Scream Brixton Academy 14 Feb 1998 Some sort of all nighter, we didn't stay the pace. Was this the first gig with Kevin Shields?

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Art Wyndhams Theatre 26 Jul 1999 A play, a birthday treat, long running, had Art Malik in it and it was Frank Skinner's first night.

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Reading Festival 1999 Reading Festival 27 Aug 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.

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Cooper Temple Clause Water Rats Theatre 29 Nov 2000 First time I saw them and I loved them...

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The Darkness 9 10Water Rats Theatre 07 Jul 2001 First time I saw them, at Uncle Bob's Wedding Reception.

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The Tears 9 10Heaven 16 Dec 2004 plus The Subways. First official gig for Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler's new band, though they went and did a couple of sneaky warmups before this in Oxford and somewhere else. Not that great really.

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