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OK. I see where you guys are coming from about the Stripes but you gotta admit he's a blinding guitar player. Crap drummer though but redeems herself by having a lovely chest.

I can concur with you on that susyp. Si Mangia is already a favourite with me.

Blimey...what happened to that other stag thread? Ooops! Found it, sorry. I'll get me coat.

Fabulous, I know that place Giggirl. It's in Brockley but then I guess it is in the borough of Lewisham. Nothing wrong with moshing at 40. I'm 49 and still don't give a f**k. It's also often used for video shoots. I think Oasis did one there last year or the year before. Talking of whom...'95 at Earls Court, shitty venue but got completely arsed on the backstage hospitality, met Robbie Williams that night too who was hanging with the band before they fell out with him, who came over and bummed a cigarette off me and we got to talking...blah blah blah!

Yeah, I was rather looking forward to seeing Kasabian when they supported the Rolling Stones last year in Nice but the poor bastards didn't stand a chance.

Sean, you're a Bowie freak. Marvellous! My mate who I played in a band with years ago used to own the Dan Armstrong guitar with a sliding pick-up that Bowie recorded Rebel Rebel on (great riff). It was originally Mick Ronson's but he sold it/gave it to Mark Pritchard who played on some recordings for the Ziggy Stardust album and also played on Ronson's Slaughter On Tenth Avenue Tour back in '74 as second guitarist and he also played in a band with may mate's brother who now owns it. Heavy bastard it was too. Trivia, don't you just love it.:)) Anyway, more gigs - Another great one was The Super Furry Animals with Grandaddy in support at the Shepherds Bush Empire. about six or seven years ago. Both bands were brilliant and the Furries played in quadrophonic. Top night.(tu)

Nice one Brendan. Top post. But you don't have feel like an 80-year-old. Anyone with half a brain, who is brought up properly and taught decent manners and to respect other people would feel the same.

Brilliant! Love the stuff you've put in there Downsouth (oh and welcome to the EDF and good luck with WDF). When I was a teenager I used do gigs in the hall/youth club behind St Stephens Church, although I think the hall has been knocked down now.

I hate stag dos. I can't think of anything I'd rather not do. Why is it that so many British men when they all get together to go out on the piss turn into a bunch neanderthal arseholes whose boorish drunken antics give us a bad name the world over. I speak as a man who likes nothing better than going out for a drinkypoo with my mates and when I've been abroad and seen this sort of loutish behaviour it makes me feel ashamed of being British. I'm all for a jolly up but behave yourselves and remember your manners and have respect for other people.

It's all a load of estate agent bollocks then. I've lived in and around Dulwich all my life and I think I would have known about that.

South Dulwich!!! Pah! If it's not Dulwich it's Sydenham, especially with the train station not 100 yards away from St Stephen's Church.

Yeah! The second half of the 80s and most of the 90s were awful for Bowie. Tin Machine...urgh! I also lost interest after the Let's Dance album but obviously love all his 70s stuff. Also saw him on that god awful Glass Spider Tour in '87, talk about over the top. Other top gigs though were Arthur Lee & Love at the Royal Festival Hall a few years ago when he did the whole of the Forever Changes album with a full orchestra and the MC5 at the same venue where I got to meet some of band at the backstage party afterwards.

That's a fantastic website Ian J. I've really enjoyed browsing through that. My dad's house in Upper Norwood was bombed during the Second World War. Very interesting and informative. Thanks.

Blimey that's some list you've got there giggirl. Do you work in the business or what? One more from me too. David Bowie 1983 Serious Moonlight Tour. I think it was at Olympia but not sure, bloody long time ago. Right up the front. Top night, great setlist.

That's a tough question Mockney and even tougher to answer. I'd call it a draw. It's all bad.(td)

Bloody hell Annasfield that's dead cool. Another one, or two actually, coz I went two nights in a row was Jeff Beck at the Fairfield Hall in 2002 when the White Stripes came on to do half a dozen Yardbirds numbers with him. Absolutely awesome!

Val, Ian Dury was the lead singer/songwriter in Kilburn & the High Roads.

I remember seeing some great "pub rock" gigs back in the day and some of them were quite local too. For instance on the other side of Peckham Rye there used to be a pub called the Newlands Tavern. I don't know if it's still there, in fact I think it's long gone but I remember seeing people like Kilburn & The Roads, Doctor Feelgood, The Heavy Metal Kids and Upp there. The great Jeff Beck played in there one night too. And I saw Wreckless Eric do a blinding set in the Thurlow Park Arms around 1980.

Agree with you on the Aswad horn section Lozzyloz. Saw them loads of times back in the late 70s early 80s including that gig at the Venue in Victoria and I saw Thin Lizzy on that Live And Dangerous tour too and they were awesome.

It has! On Forest Hill Road, opened a month or so ago. Si Mangia Da Lorenzo and I thoroughly recommend it too.

You can count me in too. Oh! God my head hurts today.:'(

I saw U2 at the Marquee Club when they first started out. This would be late '79 early 1980 and they were brilliant. Can't stand them now though. Bono thinks he's the Pope of Rock or something similar. Pompous arsehole.

It could be true but one thing I do know is that they played the Half Moon in Herne Hill coz my mate was there and there was literally four men and a dog...er that would be Bonio of course, or The Pope as he likes to be known to the general public these days. On a personal level I saw them at the Marquee Club when they first started out around late '79 or early 1980 and they were brilliant. Can't bloody stand them now though.

Bob Marley at Crystal Palace concert bowl 1980. Tripping off my skull, took me to a higher place. The Who at both the Charlton gigs '74 and '76. The Rolling Stones at Earls Court and Knebworth '76 and last year in Nice. Agree with you Sean on the '90 gig, poor sound and Ron and Keith were out of it. Sex Pistols at Finsbury Park '96. The Clash at Victoria Park in '78. Primal Scream at Cambridge Corn Exchange early '94. I could go on forever here but I'm off down the pub. See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya!:)-D

Asset Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > One of my best gigs ever was The Tubes at the > Odeon in Edinburgh circa 1980 - what a show. Saw them on the same tour at Hammersmith Odeon, F**king brilliant.