Getting there with my gigography now, all the gigs I remember going to, from '87 up to about now.
An obvious 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 gathered while I was in London, + a box of old concert tickets + things from Mum and Dad's loft.
Also got a bundle of gaps regarding festival lineups, they'll probably stay missing, it's so hard to remember. There's a stack missing where I've lost tickets or never had them, most of the guestlist ACTION during my NME and Popex years + that.
Yeah I know it's very nerdy, let's let that go though, I'm enjoying remembering this stuff.
At least I've not started scanning the tickets in yet Of course I have scanned in the tickets now...
1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
MJ Hibbett must have been…
did I really see them on the 3rd Feb…
Before I worked there, I think there were bands. THIS is why I left the Wonderstuff early, doh... There was a ruckus and the police sent us all…
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…
"Punktronic excursions in a white noise wonderland", it says…
Plus Snow Patrol, back when I liked Snow Patrol, but before you like Snow Patrol.…
First time I saw them and I loved…
Yeah no Madonna at Brixton for…
+ Black Moses. I got locked in the toilet at this…
Think the year was originally wrong on this one... this link from gigguide.uk.com has it as 2000, sounds about right to me. The Darkness were also…
He played Pixies…
AKA Hooverdam. Cosmic Rough Riders headlined, a Poptones…
Or some band connected with them. They were dressed as KISS I think, did they do KISS covers too? Was this the band that Chris Dale from Atom Seed…
AKA Camden Crawl... All around Camden, not sure who I saw this year, not…
I didn't like it it seems, shame, I thought I liked…
At Uncle Bob's Wedding Reception, two gigs in one day (Scalarama was an all day type thing) I remember the new line up of The 'Cocks and the…
MJ Hibbett, Jacques, Spearmint, Baxendale and lots of other…
Some special Radio One thing, got a nice freebie from friends I was about to start working with at Channelfly. Green Day picked some kids out of the…
Friends of…
and Alfie, Barfly sessions daytime thing recorded for TV. Can't remember if I stayed for Idlewild in the…
DJing only, not perfoming, at Uncle…
Placebo, Queens of the Stone Age, Slipknot, Gorky's, Foo Fighters, Ween, Primal Scream, Daphne and Celeste, JJ72, SFA, And You Will Know Us By The…
Tickets say "Keep Calm", it was a warmup for Reading. Howard Marks and Chris Morris were there amongst…
Awesome…
They did a 10 kebab challenge on stage and Daphne and Celeste were there. And so was…
Don't recall if they did their "Hamster Dance" single, I do remember an ace cover of "Self Esteem", though I could possiblybe mixing it up with an…
Featuring Gene's Mat the…
Another "Barfly Sessions" TV thing, free and in the afternoon I think. Pretty…
Another Barfly Sessions, evening or just later afternoon this…
Free instore gig, two free gigs in one day,…
Coldplay Barfly session was today, I was there...…
A birthday night out, just after she was Mercury…
Excellent, good to see his Blur bandmates turning out to cheer him on the audience too, Damon was pogoing away like a…
Free instore gig and poetry…
Loved BLOODHOUND GANG, David Bowie, Pet Shop Boys, and…
DJ'ing at Uncle Bob's Wedding…
broadcast LIVE on the internets…
think I was at this, I wrote about it on…
Seems I fell down an escalator after this…
Free gig for XFM, who gave me FIFTY tickets to give…
+ Mica Bomb + Reverend Pike. Rosita were two of Kenickie and Mica Bomb were connected to the singer of the Sultans of Ping I'm…
Not a gig, a weird press conference…
Think I was at this anyway, lunchtime gig for Japanese TV, did a few of…
Anthony Reynolds and Matthew Scott, Jack basically, I preferred the whole band, but still…
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…
All girl…
Club Maker night. Thom Yorke performed with Drugstore, and Michael Stipe was in the crowd. Support from The Bigger The God and Groupie and double gin…
Got in free because of the support, think it was Ben and Jason. Not much copy…
NME Brats show, think they'd lost it by this point... Plus Fridge, Zan Lyons and Contempo apparently. Nope, me…
NME Brats show, with Gorkys Zygotic Mynci and Sigur Ros apparently. Lovely write up: Flash forward a few years to the Beta Band in January 2000,…