First ever gig?

[MrBen]

Inspired by Keef...and SURELY this thread must have been done before...but I can't find it and have a guilty secret to get off my chest (don't laugh).

Bucks Fizz - Edinburgh Playhouse, August 1983

[Jah Lush]

Errr... oh dear. I think mine was Stackridge at Goldsmith's College in '73.

[MrBen]

I should add I was 7 years old...still even so....

[Brendan]

Like a proper gig or does your mates band playing in the local pub count?

[Keef]

Ozzy Osbourne, somewhere in Manchester, 90 or 91.

[georgia]

The Cure, 1980-something, can't remember exactly. At the NEC. Got v. drunk

[kpc]

Blue Oyster Cult, Manchester Free Trade Hall. 21 November 1975. I have no defence.

[Bellenden Belle]

Bros - Wembley Arena - aged 13.

I threw a teddy bear on stage.

Bless.

[katie1997]

I think my first gig was being dragged along (!) by boyfriend at the time to see some cringe-worthy obscure, gothic band in the late 80s/early 90s. So bad I have erased it from memory :))

BEST one was the Black Eyed Peas playing outdoors in southern India to a really lovely crowd. FAB (tu)

[SeanMacGabhann]

Depeche mode. Cork. 1982

last gig was depeche

mode royal albert hall 2010. But I have only seen them 4 times ever so that's a coincidence

but they rock now. Didn't in 1982 mind, but on the other hand very very very few people played cork back then so I felt I should go.

[????]

It was either Generation X or The Stiff tour - Costello, Dury, Nick Lowe...I just can't remember

['bout now]

Motorhead. Friars in Aylesbury. Hearing has never been the same. (1980 I think)

[ratty]

Pogues 1984. I was 13!

[Chener Books]

First I paid for: Taste, Yes, Cream. Royal Albert Hall. 1968.

Best early one: Moby Grape. Roundhouse. 1969.

Most disappointing early one: Love. Waltham. 1970. [but the audience boom mike was above my head so I'm on the Love "False Start" LP].

John K

[TillieTrotter]

The Dolly Mixtures - The Marquee - about 1980

[KidKruger]

The Pumphouse Gang, The Crown, Ryde. 1982.

[Narnia]

I think my first was probably Horslips, a long time ago. Anyone ever hear of them?

[bob]

Roundhouse chalk farm 1969 lots of bands and John Peel as DJ.

Bob S

[Jah Lush]

Narnia Wrote:

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> I think my first was probably Horslips, a long

> time ago. Anyone ever hear of them?

Yeah... I saw them support Thin Lizzy on the Live And Dangerous tour back in '75 or '76.

[expat]

Lonard Cohen over 30 years ago.

[Sue]

Stones, Tooting (?Balham?) Odeon, front row, must have been around 1964 I think :-$

ETA: Very jealous of yours, Chener Books :))

[ryedalema]

Oh dear - Aha! I think I was about 12.

[Annasfield]

V96 - The Longpigs, Cast, Supergrass and Pulp. Those are the ones I remember anyway.

[RosieH]

Public Enemy - Manchester Apollo

Goddamn I was cool in my younger days

[PeckhamRose]

Osmonds, I think, though it may have been David Essex.

And RosieH you're still cool. And I never was and hope never to be!