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Events:
Madonna 6 10Wembley Stadium 20 Jul 1987 Plus Hue & Cry and The Bhundu Boys, but not the rumoured Wet Wet Wet. My first concert, went with a friend from school and some friends of his dad. Sounds a bit weird now. Got the t-shirt, programme, every bit of junk going...Rate Madonna
The Primitives 8 10Portsmouth Guildhall 20 Nov 1989 Plus the Pale Saints, I later went on to work with their lead singer at nme.comRate The Primitives
Tad Portsmouth Polytechnic 13 Jun 1990 First time they visited WITHOUT Nirvana in tow, just my luck...
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Megadeth Poole Arts Centre 24 Mar 1991 First time I saw them. Just caught up with a friend who was there too (and who I'd not seen for over ten years, he says Alice In Chains opened, followed by The Almighty at the Poole Arts Center gig '91 (if I remember correctly)
Rate Megadeth
Megadeth Poole Arts Centre 06 Oct 1992 Again, with Pantera this time.
Rate Megadeth
Elastica The Wedgewood Rooms 14 Feb 1994 with 60ft Dolls. I spun my car in the snow on the way home.
Rate Elastica
Toyah The Wedgewood Rooms 22 Mar 1994 Caberet, hosted by Lee Hurst, with TV Smith, Dave Spikey, Pooka, Crisis Twins and almost certainly the Raymond and Mr Timpkins revue. Not sure this date is right, thought they were all on Fridays...
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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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Ed Tudor-Pole The Wedgewood Rooms 27 May 1994 Caberet, with Nan Vernon, Wasp Factory, Kevin Eldon, George Egg, Rahmond and Mr Timpkins Revue, The Really Band and compere Lee Hurst
Rate Ed Tudor-Pole
Reading Festival Reading Festival 28 Aug 1994 Just went for the day, and we picked the worst day by far looks like, RHCP disappointed. I remember They Might Be Giants and Echbelly and Ginger Wildhearts playing with a broken arm.
Rate Reading Festival
Terrorvision Portsmouth Pyramids 01 May 1995 with Mutha's Day Out and Valve. Sure the last Portsmouth Venue Campaign show that I did was Terrorvision, but these dates still don't line up...
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Glastonbury Glastonbury 24 Jun 1995 The year Pulp replaced The Stone Roses as headliners, along with Oasis and The Cure. Great weather.
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Beetle Bash Avon Park Raceway 07 Jul 1995 VW festival, think this is the one with Collapsed Lung, Reef, and The Prodigy, with Keith Flint rolling across the crowd in a big hamster ball...
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Bush The Wedgewood Rooms 21 Nov 1995 plus Placebo. Not sure I actually went to this, I remember feeling really ill at the previous day's gig, think I was out for a few days with something like flu or glandula fever...
Rate Bush
The Divine Comedy The Joiners 20 May 1996 I left after the support The Frank And Walters to go to a local gig, I was "getting in" with people and trying to be a face on the scene to help with my fanzine...
Rate The Divine Comedy
Essential Festival Stanmer Park 26 May 1996 Super Furry Animals, Kula Shaker, Menswear, Echobelly, Marion, Chumbawamba, Bis and more... missed David Devant, but I did trek there with 16 people in my bus.
Rate Essential Festival
Strangelove University of Portsmouth 28 May 1996 with Whipping Boy and Sun (aka Silver Sun)
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Cecil The Joiners 26 Jun 1996 with Feeder and Stout
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Tiger The Joiners 17 Jul 1996 plus Linoleum. Had to walk back from Southampton after being stopped with no lights on my bike, then head to Phoenix Festival the next day.
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Reading Reading Festival 23 Aug 1996 My first gig with nme.com, I started work there that weekend. I left part way through the worst ever Stone Roses performance (OK, the only time I saw them).
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PJ Harvey Mean Fiddler 11 Nov 1996 Some Radio One event called Soho Live with John Parrish, Baby Bird and Geneva.
Rate PJ Harvey
Super Furry Animals 5 10Mean Fiddler 12 Nov 1996 Soho Live with Mansun and Fun Lovin' Criminals. I met Noel Gallagher at this show.Rate Super Furry Animals
David Devant and his Spirit Wife Camden Falcon 16 Nov 1996 I bootlegged this gig, the audio's complete with a trip to the toilet part way through...
Rate David Devant and his Spirit Wife
Manic Street Preachers Brixton Academy 14 Dec 1996 with support from Super Furry Animals and Stereophonics, who I don't remember at all...
Rate Manic Street Preachers
The Fall Mean Fiddler 26 Feb 1997 A benefit gig for a journalist Leo Finlay, with Ash and possibly Tiger and Formula 1. Matt Lucas was there. Possibly Travis also played...
Rate The Fall
David Devant And His Spirit Wife Dingwalls 25 Nov 1997 This might have been the LEGENDARY album launch do, filled to the gills with free cocktails before the show. Enormous!
Rate David Devant And His Spirit Wife
Primal Scream Brixton Academy 14 Feb 1998 Some sort of all nighter, we didn't stay the pace. Was this the first gig with Kevin Shields?
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The Beta Band Electric Ballroom 30 Sep 1998 Tonight's venue is crammed with indie's brightest and best, all happily expectant
according to the review in the Independent, that's me in particular to which they were referring...
Rate The Beta Band
The Beta Band 8 10Astoria 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 oRate The Beta Band
Drugstore 8 10ULU 14 Mar 2000 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 for a pound.Rate Drugstore
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