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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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Dogs D'Amour Portsmouth Guildhall 08 Oct 1989 plus Under Neath What... went to London to see UNW a few days later, probably the Marquee...
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The Primitives 8 10Portsmouth Guildhall 20 Nov 1989 Plus the Pale Saints, I later went on to work with their lead singer at nme.comRate The Primitives
Big Top Frenzy 6 10Portsmouth Guildhall 02 Aug 1990 Festival in Guildhall Square, Firework Party, The Rubber Bishops (Bill Bailey + Kevin Eldon, Midway Still, Alan Parker, Atilla The Stockbroker, Eat, Back To The Planet, Mega City Four, Trevor & Simon +Rate Big Top Frenzy
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.Rate Iron Maiden
Atom Seed The Pit 12 Jan 1991 My favourite band of the time playing at the club I used to go to every week anyway, not bad... The Pit is now part of a bingo hall.
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Revolting Cocks 9 10Astoria 24 Jan 1991 plus Godflesh and Bomb Everything (AKA) Bomb Disneyland. Got a video of this gig, you can see me stagediving on it.Rate Revolting Cocks
Monsters of Rock Castle Donington 05 Aug 1991 AC/DC, Metallica, Motley Crue, Queensryche, and the Black Crowes. A pretty special line up at the top of the bill, shame it was the shortest Donington bill ever. Got a coach up from Portsmouth. m/
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Guns n' Roses 9 10Wembley Stadium 31 Aug 1991 Izzy Stradlin's last ever show. Support Nine Inch Nails and Skid Row - Sebastian Bach swore too much and got them barred for life.Rate Guns n' Roses
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.sRate Wolfsbane
Skid Row 7 10Docklands Arena 22 Nov 1991 plus LA Guns and Love / Hate. The latter announced a "secret" gig they were doing the next day in London, I should have gone they were one of my fave bands of the day.Rate Skid Row
Nirvana Birmingham Academy 27 Nov 1991 plus Captain America and Shonen Knife. I got the t-shirt and everything, wish I still had it. Birmingham Hummingbird is now part of the Academy.
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Henry Rollins South Parade Pier 06 May 1993 Some rubbish spoken word thing. He is frightening so we laughed at his jokes anyway.
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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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Elastica The Wedgewood Rooms 14 Feb 1994 with 60ft Dolls. I spun my car in the snow on the way home.
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Oasis The Wedgewood Rooms 02 May 1994
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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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Carnival Stanmer Park 28 May 1994 Inspiral Carpets, Pop Will Eat Itself, The Boo Radleys, Chumbawamba, Elastica, Terrorvision and more
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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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Salad 7 10The Wedgewood Rooms 06 Jul 1994 plus CatatoniaRate Salad
Reading Festival Reading Festival 28 Aug 1994 Just went for the day, and we picked the worst day by far looks like, RHCP disappointed. I remember They Might Be Giants and Echbelly and Ginger Wildhearts playing with a broken arm.
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Terrorvision Portsmouth Pyramids 01 May 1995 with Mutha's Day Out and Valve. Sure the last Portsmouth Venue Campaign show that I did was Terrorvision, but these dates still don't line up...
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Salad The Joiners 18 May 1995 plus Flinch
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Essential Music Festival Stanmer Park 27 May 1995 Carter USM, PWEI, Teenage Fanclub, Dodgy, The Charlatans, Gene, Lighting Seeds, Skunk Anansie, Reef. Think I was at this...
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Stereolab The Wedgewood Rooms 30 May 1995
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Glastonbury Glastonbury 24 Jun 1995 The year Pulp replaced The Stone Roses as headliners, along with Oasis and The Cure. Great weather.
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Beetle Bash Avon Park Raceway 07 Jul 1995 VW festival, think this is the one with Collapsed Lung, Reef, and The Prodigy, with Keith Flint rolling across the crowd in a big hamster ball...
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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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Fluffy 7 10The Joiners 27 Sep 1995 All girl rock, loved them at the time, they basically played gigs in their pantsRate Fluffy
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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