Great Gigs

[Brendan]

That would actually probably work pretty well Mockney.:))

Asset: unfortunately not. Although I am of the opinion that I dress fucking cool! An opinion that is inexplicably not shared by my friends. In fact Mrs B recently likened my attire to that of a geography teacher.

?What?s wrong with geography teachers?? I said, ?If you had listened to yours more you wouldn?t have misdirected me at that last traffic-light and we wouldn?t be stuck in this traffic-jam.?

The swelling in my left ear is starting to go down.

But I digress?

I?ll shut up now shall I.

[Annasfield]

"Saw the Stones there in '76 " - Thought you were younger than that Jah Lush ::o

[Brendan]

You know I really feel like I can?t contribute to this thread when you have lucky buggers like Jah being all ?the Stones? this and ?the Clash? that.

[Keef]

Yeah but he did go and see Oasis!

[Jah Lush]

Aha ha ha! Cheers Annasfield and Brendan. It's just my age you know and the times I've lived through. I may be getting older but I refuse to grow up. I'm still 17 in my head. Now did I ever tell you about the time I went to see Toots & The Maytals at the Venue in Victoria or Dr John at Dingwalls?>:D

[Jah Lush]

Yeah but that was a freebie Keef. I'll admit I liked them when they came out but they only had one good album in 'em.

[Brendan]

*Sits cross legged on the floor next to the fireplace. Staring up in wide eyed wonder as Jah recounts tales of Legends? performances from the comfort of his armchair.*

I quite like Oasis actually. So there. *Sticks tongue out*

[Jah Lush]

LOL I haven't quite turned into Tommy Saxondale.:))

[Brendan]

Is that your Mustang I keep seeing parked on Lordship Lane?

[Jah Lush]

The bright yellow one? No, actually I don't drive. Never have. Would have been dead years ago if I had or somebody else would have. I prefer drinking and you can't do the two.

Ronnie Lane at Dingwalls, late '79 or early 1980. The poor man was hanging on to a post for support to stand up because of his MS but sang beautifully and with great feeling. Unfortunately the band backing him that night (including Johnny Kidd and the Pirates guitarist Mick Green and Ian Stewart (Stones)) had only rehearsed five numbers but the crowd loved him so much we got him to play the whole set again. Lovely man, great songwriter, much missed.

[Annasfield]

Jah, I was born in 1980. Its only when you go on about the gigs you've been to that you show your age. :))

[mockney piers]

I was well into buggles in 1980.

Mind you, I was also well into those choose your own adventure books :-$

[Annasfield]

Buggles?

[mockney piers]

[Jah Lush]

Thanks Annasfield, that makes me feel a whole lot better.:)) It's not how old you are. It's how you feel inside.

Oh! Mockney, no no no, not the bloody 80s? Urgh! Dread decade.(6)

[Annasfield]

Oh right - thanks :))

I've grown up with music.My folks would always have the radio on or would be listening to one album or another. So much of the stuff I like these days is based on my childhood memories etc. i.e Squeeze, Queen, Van Morrison... The list is long. I know so much stuff from the eighties, but unless they were huge (e.g Queen etc) then I'd know the song, but wouldn't have a clue who performed it.

[Annasfield]

Just re read my comment Jah Lush - I didn't mean you were "old". Like you, I still think I'm 17 and it scares me to think that you had to have been born in 1990 to be that age now :(

I just assume everyone is the same age as me and then when people talk about things that happened before I was born, it all seems a bit strange. ;-)

[Asset]

Wasn't Buggles Thomas Dolby?

[Jah Lush]

Annasfield, I didn't take it to mean you thought I was old. I took it as a compliment that you thought I only sounded old when I talk about all those gigs that I went to before you were born. You sound like a top girl to me.

Bah! Queen, couldn't stand them. Although when I sang in a band we used to cover Now I'm Here. I actually walked out of one of their gigs. It was a free concert in Hyde Park. '75/'76 I think (there I go again). I was tripping off my tits and could only take about six or seven of their numbers before my friends and I had had enough of their pomp and bombast and made our way back to Dulwich for much needed liquid refreshment.

[Jah Lush]

Asset Wrote:

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> Wasn't Buggles Thomas Dolby?

No, it was Trevor Horn and Geoff somebody or other. Way before Thomas Dolby.

[Asset]

Oh okay - got my geeks mixed up!

[clare]

Haven't read all of this thread but The Fall at the Town and Country Club in 1980 something were just brilliant.

They did great chips too!

[Annasfield]

:-$ Ah, thanks Jah Lush

[giggirl]

John Mayer - tonight - Albert Hall - fabulous!

[SeanMacGabhann]

Anyone go to the David Sylvian gigs at the RFH this week? - I couldn't get tickets :(