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- Fri 17th Jan 1997
- ULU (Malet Street, London) The Wedding Present [comment]
- Sun 19th Jan 1997
- London Astoria (London) The Lightning Seeds
NME Brats show? Plus Octopus, Mundy and Stereophonics again apparently. Must have been a week of gigs around this time.
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- London Astoria (London) The Lightning Seeds
- Fri 24th Jan 1997
- Brixton Academy (Brixton, London) Kula Shaker [comment]
- Tue 4th Feb 1997
- Hammersmith Odeon (Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith, London) Billy Connolly [comment]
- Wed 26th Feb 1997
- Tue 4th Mar 1997
- Shepherds Bush Empire (Shepherds Bush Green, London W12 8TT) Reef [comment]
- Wed 4th Jun 1997
- Electric Ballrom (Camden, London) Symposium
Where I met Clare, bless! Hope I got that year right...
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- Electric Ballrom (Camden, London) Symposium
- Sat 5th Jul 1997
- Finsbury Park (London) KISS
plus Rage Against The Machine, Skunk Anansie, Thunder and Three Colours Red and L7. Got freebies from the NME and drank all the money I saved. Kind of lost it about five songs in and ended up in Covent Garden.
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- Finsbury Park (London) KISS
- Wed 9th Jul 1997
- The 100 Club (100 Oxford Street, London) Scarfo
Must have been someone more exciting supporting, was it maybe Hooverdam?
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- The 100 Club (100 Oxford Street, London) Scarfo
- Thu 31st Jul 1997
- Union Chapel (Compton Avenue, London)
Belle and Sebastian 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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- Union Chapel (Compton Avenue, London)
- Tue 30th Sep 1997
- The Wedgewood Rooms (147b Albert Rd, Southsea, Hampshire) David Devant And His Spirit Wife
This band were so good, too good for this world I think
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- The Wedgewood Rooms (147b Albert Rd, Southsea, Hampshire) David Devant And His Spirit Wife
- Fri 10th Oct 1997
- London Astoria - Strangelove
Rescheduled from 6/6/97 I think. Huge drunken night, I possibly broke my elbow, I will scan the picture in of it...
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- London Astoria - Strangelove
- Tue 21st Oct 1997
- The Garage (20 Highbury Corner, Islington London) Smashmouth
And Dust Junkys
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- The Garage (20 Highbury Corner, Islington London) Smashmouth
- Thu 6th Nov 1997
- Fri 7th Nov 1997
- The Garage - Scarfo
Must have been someone more interesting supporting...
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- The Garage - Scarfo
- Tue 25th Nov 1997
- Dingwalls (Camden Lock, London) David Devant And His Spirit Wife
This might have been the LEGENDARY album launch do, filled to the gills with free cocktails before the show. Enormous!
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- Dingwalls (Camden Lock, London) David Devant And His Spirit Wife
- Fri 19th Dec 1997
- Sat 27th Dec 1997
- Manchester Town Hall (Manchester) Belle & Sebastian [comment]
- Sun 28th Dec 1997
- Manchester Town Hall - Belle and Sebastian
Went to both nights, but not the extra afternoon show they did. Shambolic, but fun
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My gigography
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Getting there with my gigography now, a list of every gig I've been to, from 1987 up to last year. It's a natural progression from my Best Gigs Ever post. Well that's the theory, but there's A LOT missing. I have chucked in details from the big bag of old gig tickets that I've had since I've been in London, but there's not much from before that - got to get a box of old concert tickets and things from Mum and Dad's loft. Also got a bundle of gaps regarding bands seen at festivals, they'll probably stay missing, it's so hard to remember, and there's a stack missing where I've lost tickets or never had them, most of the guestlist actions during my NME and Popex years and that. SO, if you were at a gig, and so was I, and you can remember anything about it please post details up here to remind me... Yeah I know it's a bit nerdy, let's let that slide though, I'm having fun remembering these things. At least I've not started scanning the tickets in yet. That's coming later...
My first gig was in 1987, from then until 1990 it was mostly rock, either around Portsmouth or on trips up to London. Then in 1991 things got more indie, and in 1994 things really seemed to kick off. In 1996 I moved to London (first Waterloo, then Putney in 1998, Ealing in 1999, New Cross in 2000, and Stoke Newington in 2003) and in 2005 I moved back out again, to Folkestone (so that's where the list slows down again). Click on one of those years to see the gigs from that year, though you're more likely to have arrived at those pages than this by googling for gigography...
LOTS missing, it's surprising how many gigs I remember I can find no mention of online. Lots of Under Neath What, Atom Seed and David Devant (favourite bands of various times) to hopefully be unearthed, and what of the classic Supergrass at South Parade Pier? It's documented nowhere. This could turn into an valuable archive...
See links on individual pages to my Folkestone gig history.
