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- Fri 10th Jan 2003
- Brixton Academy (Brixton, London) The Music 11.50 [comment]
- Mon 3rd Feb 2003
- Royal Festival Hall (Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London)
Love with Arthur Lee plus My Morning Jacket, but I don't think we saw them.
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- Royal Festival Hall (Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London)
- Wed 5th Feb 2003
- Wembley Arena (Engineers Way, Wembley, London) Snooker
Jimmy White beat Peter Ebdon
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- Wembley Arena (Engineers Way, Wembley, London) Snooker
- Thu 27th Feb 2003
- Brixton Academy - Def Leppard
support from The Darkness and Ricky Warwick.
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- Brixton Academy - Def Leppard
- Tue 25th Mar 2003
- 93 Feet East (150 Brick Lane, London) The Darkness
BANG Magazine launch party, free booze!
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- 93 Feet East (150 Brick Lane, London) The Darkness
- Sat 5th Apr 2003
- London Astoria (London) The Darkness
Was this the Carling "Homecoming" type event?
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- London Astoria (London) The Darkness
- Fri 18th Apr 2003
- Earls Court (Earls Court, London)
Paul McCartney Mothers day present for Mum and Clare's mum, we went with them and Dad and Emma. Jim missed out as he has been to more gigs with us...
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- Earls Court (Earls Court, London)
- Sat 19th Apr 2003
- Royal Festival Hall - Stephen Malkmus
and Graham Coxon and Super Furry Animals and more
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- Royal Festival Hall - Stephen Malkmus
- Wed 30th Apr 2003
- London Astoria - Athlete
ZZZzzzz
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- London Astoria - Athlete
- Sat 3rd May 2003
- Crown & 2 Chairmen (Dean Street, Soho, London) Ricky Gervais
Excellent little pub warm up for his Animals shows / DVD... Sharks and Nazis!
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- Crown & 2 Chairmen (Dean Street, Soho, London) Ricky Gervais
- Sat 10th May 2003
- Bull and Gate (389 Kentish Town Road, London) Bearsuit
Just contemplating whether to go out and drink beer some sort of BEAR themed evening with chum MJ Hibbett at the Bull and Gate or stay in with Clare and watch some films she's got in, Ocean's Eleven and Meet The Parents. Also currently
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- Bull and Gate (389 Kentish Town Road, London) Bearsuit
- Mon 12th May 2003
- London Astoria -
Blur Last of a five night residency. Would you adam and eve it PHIL DANIELS showed up!
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- Wed 14th May 2003
- The Garage (20 Highbury Corner, Islington London) King Adora
Missed Blend last night, got to the Garage too late, but Saint Rose were the middle band on, and were quite MOR, but much better than King Adora... a poor mans Manics, when the Manics were a poor mans Guns'n'Roses...
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- The Garage (20 Highbury Corner, Islington London) King Adora
- Thu 22nd May 2003
- Tue 24th Jun 2003
- Brixton Academy - REM
Glastonbury warmup
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- Brixton Academy - REM
- Wed 25th Jun 2003
- Electric Ballrom (Camden, London) Kelly Osborne
plus Har Mar Superstar.
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- Electric Ballrom (Camden, London) Kelly Osborne
- Thu 26th Jun 2003
- Glastonbury (Worthy Farm, Somerset) Glastonbury 2003
Suede, REM, Radiohead, and The Darkness opening the main stage on the Friday morning...
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- Glastonbury (Worthy Farm, Somerset) Glastonbury 2003
- Mon 7th Jul 2003
- HMV (Oxford Street, London) The Darkness
Ace in-store gig, then a free barbecue on the roof too.
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- HMV (Oxford Street, London) The Darkness
- Wed 9th Jul 2003
- The Cross (17 - 31 The Arches, York Way, London) Darkness album launch
With free bar and rock karaoke! Just found invites and a promotional sick bag, was I that bad?
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- The Cross (17 - 31 The Arches, York Way, London) Darkness album launch
- Sat 6th Sep 2003
- Finsbury Park (London) Limp Bizkit
plus Cooper Temple Clause and more
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- Finsbury Park (London) Limp Bizkit
- Tue 14th Oct 2003
- Forum (Kentish Town, London) Duran Duran [comment]
- Tue 21st Oct 2003
- Hammersmith Odeon (Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith, London) AC/DC
Special gig, we had to queue all day for tickets. Support from Hundred Reasons.
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- Hammersmith Odeon (Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith, London) AC/DC
- Wed 22nd Oct 2003
- Hammersmith Odeon - The Darkness
The Darkness on the turn I would say, possibly the last good gig...
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- Hammersmith Odeon - The Darkness
- Sun 26th Oct 2003
- Theatre Royal Haymarket Bruce Forsyth
Charity comedy thing, cool as, lots of names present, including Ian McKellen. Search the blog, I must have written this one up...
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- Theatre Royal Haymarket Bruce Forsyth
- Mon 24th Nov 2003
- Islington Academy (London)
stellastarr* plus The Ordinary Boys and The 22s. Looks like everyone was there to see the Ordinary Boys, but I thought they were a bit ordinary... stellastarr were OK, not quite as convincing as on record though.
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- Islington Academy (London)
- Wed 3rd Dec 2003
- Mon 8th Dec 2003
- Mean Fiddler (157 Charing Cross Road, London) Turbonegro [comment]
- Tue 9th Dec 2003
- Tokyo Dragons
plus Renegade Playboys, midweek rock night at On The Rocks, Kingsland Road
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- Tokyo Dragons
- Fri 12th Dec 2003
- Barfly (The Monarch, 49 Chalk Farm Road, London) Electric Soft Parade [comment]
- Sat 13th Dec 2003
- Sat 20th Dec 2003
- Alexandra Palace Travis
plus Kings Of Leon who were OK, Travis a bit boring. VERY annoyed by the Carling-ness of it all and so we left early to get a proper drink.
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- Alexandra Palace Travis
- Mon 22nd Dec 2003
- Neighbourhood (12 Acklam Road, Ladbroke Grove, London) Damon Albarn
Democrazy, bit worthy really, and not that thrilling, but nice to be somehwere trendy for a change...
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- Neighbourhood (12 Acklam Road, Ladbroke Grove, London) Damon Albarn
A work in progress... Here's where I add new things.
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.
