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Hmm, having no joy tracking down the full 100 of Time Out's best london gigs chart they did last issue, but prompted by a thread on PopExcellent I've had a think about my top five gigs... I'm sure I'll think of more later and strike these out...
1. Blur @ Goldsmith's College, New Cross, That London, Reading warmup 1999 (I think) - BLIND drunk, fell in a bush in front of my new boss, and you can see me getting dragged out of the photo pit by security on the South Bank Show Special that was filmed there.
2. The Revolting Cocks @ London Astoria, January 1991 - they had strippers on stage, you can see me stage diving on the bootleg video of the gig.
3. Wolfsbane @ The Marquee, October 1990 maybe? Can't remember too much about it, but I know I always put this gig on my list, even though I went there on my own. More stagediving.
4. Belle & Sebastian, Union Chapel, July 1997 - Partly just because Idleberry popped up again here and I know she's a monster fan. We paid way over the odds from a tout to get in, but just had to see them. Got into the after show in the back bar, there was no-one there but a few of my friends and Jarvis Cocker, it was ace. No stagediving.
5. Suede, Camden Electric Ballroom, July 2002 - Fan club gig, first we had to yawn and drink through the new album, but then they played a hits set (which they'd been not doing for a while), then a set where they had a "wheel of fortune" on stage with all the songs they NEVER play, so we got some of their best stuff including "My Dark Star" and "The Living Dead"...
Hmm, I have no local gigs here, from my many years in Portsmouth and Southampton, mostly because I can't remember much about them, what a shame... Also none from gigs by my fave bands that I've seen, like Pixies, AC/DC, Motley Crue, and KISS. Also I have no Darkness gigs here, even though I've seen them 40 times or more. maybe just because I'm slightly down on them right now. It's time to threaten to go through all the old ticket stubs again and put all these old gigs in my online calendar!
Hello, is anyone still listening?
UPDATE: See my full discography...
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we're all still listening init.
top gigs for me would be all the people you're not too fond of...oh well!
mOOMINTRUDE :: 8 Jun :: 2005 :: Comment / reply
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I remember you having a go at me for repeating stuff and here you are doing exactly that. Tut, tut.
You fell IN a bus? That's gotta hurt!
Johnski :: 8 Jun :: 2005 :: Comment / reply
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OMG, Wolfsbane... they were FAB!!
aetheria :: 8 Jun :: 2005 :: Comment / reply
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sort out your ticket stubbs, hours of fun in that one and Im curious to see yours, coz I have done some of mine...
You can see it here...Aeth's gigography
and why has this thing not asked me for my name like it did last time.. is this some evil witchery i see before me??
aetheria :: 8 Jun :: 2005 :: Comment / reply
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I don't know, some cookie wonkiness maybe... did it just remember your name? It ought to do that but it never seems to... you can register here I think, so you can edit etc like on www.popex.com
Off to check out your gigography then! I am a bit worried that in my mind I was at loads of great and impressive gigs and if I actually write them all down it will look a bit sad...
