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Soundgarden 10 Shepherds Bush Empire 12 Mar 1994 Superunknown warm up show at Shepherds Bush... pretty huge venue for a warm up show now I come to think of it...

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Blur 10 Goldsmiths College 26 Aug 1999 Reading warmup, got very drunk on vodka red bulls, fell in a bush,and you can see me on the South Bank Show Special that was filmed there. Off to Reading the next day.

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Pulp 9.4 The Garage 22 Aug 2000 Tickets say "Keep Calm", it was a warmup for Reading. Howard Marks and Chris Morris were there amongst others.

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The Tears 9 Heaven 16 Dec 2004 plus The Subways. First official gig for Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler's new band, though they went and did a couple of sneaky warmups before this in Oxford and somewhere else. Not that great really.

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The Darkness 9 Brixton Academy 23 Nov 2004 Warmup for the arena tour.

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REM 9 Brixton Academy 24 Jun 2003 Glastonbury warmup

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Richard Herring 8.67 Lanterns 21 May 2005

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The Beta Band 8 Astoria 25 Jan 2000 NME Brats show, lovely write up: [quote]Flash forward a few years to the Beta Band in January 2000, at an NME Brats show. I don't really remember much, other than that I was with a big group of my gigging mates in the upstairs bit, we were all trolleyed o

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Foo Fighters 7.67 Astoria 24 Aug 2005 Reading warmup at the Astoria... aargh, who will video LOST for us?

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Travis Astoria 04 Feb 2002 With Starsailor and Ryan Adams and I think Remy Zero. A Warchild benefit night, I quite literally have the t-shirt for this one mate.

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Def Leppard Brixton Academy 27 Feb 2003 support from The Darkness and Ricky Warwick.

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Here and Now Wembley Arena 25 Apr 2002 Spandau Ballet, Belinda Carlisle, ABC, Howard, Toyah and China Crisis. Don't laugh!

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Andrew WK Astoria 10 Feb 2002 NME tour with Lostprophets, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and The Coral. Was looking forward to AWK. Very disappointed.

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Ricky Gervais Crown & 2 Chairmen 03 May 2003 Excellent little pub warm up for his Animals shows / DVD... Sharks and Nazis!

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The Dandy Warhols Electric Ballroom 01 Jun 1998 I think my favourites the 60ft Dolls supported, and then promptly split up :-(

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Steve Coogan The Lyceum Theatre 05 Oct 1998 Fairly bland sets of Tony Ferrino and possibly Alan Partridge, but warm up came from Simon Pegg.

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The Dandy Warhols The Garage 12 Feb 1998 I think this is the last time the keyboardist took her top off on stage.

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Sean Meo The Wedgewood Rooms 13 May 1994 Caberet possibly, with Martin Coyote and Paul B Edwards

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NME Brats Tour Astoria 25 Jan 1998 Stereophonics, Asian Dub Foundation, Warm Jets, and theaudience (Sophie Ellis Bextor)

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The Rub Camden Underworld 23 Mar 2001 Reni out of the Stone Roses and his band... was looking forward to this a lot, but it was absolutely shocking.