Your First Gig.

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:17 pm

Discounting my Auntie Thelma and Uncle Neville taking me to watch Ken Dodd and his Diddeymen (that came from Knotty Ash) at the Palace Theatre in Manny in about 1974, my first proper gig was Stiff Little Fingers at the Manchester Apollo on the (I've just rifled through my scrapbook to find the ticket stub) 12th May 1981, Row BB, Seat 2.

Yours?

Soldier_Of_The_White_Army · Post by **Soldier_Of_The_White_Army** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:27 pm

When I was 13 years old. Almost coughed up a lung

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:27 pm

Terrorvision at the Academy when I was 16 (1999).

Brilliant.

Worthy4England · Post by **Worthy4England** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:31 pm

Think I've already mentioned mine, but - Motorhead "Bomber Tour" at the Manchester Apollo. Think it was about 1980...

bobby5 · Post by **bobby5** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:44 pm

Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Manchester Apollo 1979

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:56 pm

Green DAy MEN 2005, followed by The Bravery at Academy 2 the same month.
A bad start I know

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:37 pm

Different era granted, but it was either Johnny Kid and the Pirates or The Merseybeats......... No, it wasn't, it was the Jack Parnell Orchestra at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, or was it Stan Kenton at Bolton's Winter Gardens.....or it might have been the Ray Ellington Quartet at Bolton Palais? Gee, it's all so long ago now and I've seen a lot of live acts.

Talk of the North at Eccles used to get tons of big name stars at one time. One of the best ever for me, funnily enough, was a little known Scottish group, The Jimmy Crawford Four. Will all sound like I'm off another planet to you lot.

enfieldwhite · Post by **enfieldwhite** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:52 pm

Ozzy - Diary of a Madman tour 1983

Leeds Queen's Hall

Driven over the pennines in the snow with my girlfriend and my best mate in the back of my best mate's dad's Jag. Class.

Worthy4England · Post by **Worthy4England** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:52 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:Different era granted, but it was either Johnny Kid and the Pirates or The Merseybeats......... No, it wasn't, it was the Jack Parnell Orchestra at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, or was it Stan Kenton at Bolton's Winter Gardens.....or it might have been the Ray Ellington Quartet at Bolton Palais? Gee, it's all so long ago now and I've seen a lot of live acts.

Talk of the North at Eccles used to get tons of big name stars at one time. One of the best ever for me, funnily enough, was a little known Scottish group, The Jimmy Crawford Four. Will all sound like I'm off another planet to you lot.

I have heard of some of them....

Dujon · Post by **Dujon** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:10 pm

I cannot recall ever going to a live performance. There are exceptions of course: Liberace (I was dragged screaming and kicking by my now wife and her sister - as chauffeur and security - and slept through most of it), the odd folk group who populated coffee shops in those days, the RAAF (they are like the RAF but stutter) brass band who I have to admit are pretty good and, naturally, many many buskers (most of whom are dreadful). Oh yes, I bumped into Tommy Emmanuel in my local shopping centre one day (he was earning his dosh the hard way then) and was captivated; not that I've ever bought any of his recordings.

So, philistine or what? No, not really. I can listen to music through my speakers at home and cannot see the sense in paying to do the same at some over-priced, over-crowded and overly noisy venue. Mind you, I wouldn't mind attending an SSO performance at the Sydney Opera House - but that's too far and far too bothersome to attend and, anyway, I doubt that I could cough up the price of a couple of tickets.

hisroyalgingerness · Post by **hisroyalgingerness** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:14 pm

as a young lad i was taken to macca at the NEC and shit myself at the pyrotechnics to live and let die. can still remember it well. then got taken a tour of MOR rock with phil collins and genesis gigs aplenty, including knebworth

had shitty music taste as a teenager so we won't go there and then i'd reckon travis at blackpool empress ballroom was the next phase

superjohnmcginlay · Post by **superjohnmcginlay** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:28 am

Ugly Kid Joe @ Bradford Queens Hall - early nineties sometime.

CrazyHorse · Post by **CrazyHorse** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:24 am

For some reason the google ad on this page is offering me Boyzone tickets.

I'm not really a big gig goer; I'd rather go down the pub but I've been to a few over the years. First one was Depeche Mode in about 1990, and I'm not even a fan of theirs.

fatshaft · Post by **fatshaft** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:40 am

UFO, can't remember the tour, and it was about 1980 or so.

Worthy4England · Post by **Worthy4England** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:45 am

fatshaft wrote:UFO, can't remember the tour, and it was about 1980 or so.

No Place to Run....I was at the Manchester Apollo gig for that

Dr Hotdog · Post by **Dr Hotdog** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:54 am

Level 42 @ Apollo Theatre 1991, cheers Mum and Dad.

Ben Folds Five @ MDH May 1999 - first without parents. woo hoo.

CAPSLOCK · Post by **CAPSLOCK** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:45 am

Th'Alarm and Big Country

Bout the same time, mid 80s

Don't like gigs

Harry Genshaw · Post by **Harry Genshaw** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:28 pm

Discounting one at Westhoughton Leisure Centre in the early 1980s (Pressure Drop - where are you now?) I think it was

Simple Minds at Roundhey Park. Not a big gig fan really.

jmjhb · Post by **jmjhb** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:16 pm

The Music at King George's Hall - October 2004 iirc

keveh · Post by **keveh** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:20 pm

I think my first gig was Goldfiinger at Night and Day (I think).

The first I remember which sticks out in my mind though is Blink 182 at Leeds Festival. It was the first major crowd I'd been in, went down near the front and nearly died. It was awesome. I think that was 2000, although it feels a lot longer ago than that!

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