Bands of Yesteryear...
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dmclite wrote:The Cult 1986
Curve 1991
The Cure 1989
Sonic youth 1991
Suede 1993
Jesus and marychain 1990
ACDC 1991
Primal scream 1994
PJ Harvey 1993
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 1993
My Bloody valentine 1991
Swans 1991
Beastie Boys 1992
Happy Mondays 1990
and so on....
Lucky guy, getting to see My Bloody Valentine - nobody's surpassed them, to this day.0 -
Back in the day, I liked, The Pale Saints, My Bloody, Lush, Telescopes, Cocteau's, Pixies, Smiths, Ride, Ultra Vivid S - saw some of them, but not all. Makes the brit pop era look like sh*te.0
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mmitchell88 wrote:Surf-Matt wrote:What about Mansun, Cast, Jurassic 5 and numerous others?!
No-one has mentioned Ocean Colour Scene yet. Will someone please do so soon, so that I may pour contempt on that sorry useless bunch. Where are they know? I bet they've become accountants and upholsterers....Surf-Matt wrote:My dad taught Phil Lynott (of Thin Lizzy) to play guitar
Whoa!Surf-Matt wrote:- Thin Lizzy then toured as his band's (Arrival) support band in the early 70s. Before Phil realised my mum was married to my dad, he asked her out. He still plays bass in a local band - all funk type stuff. Not a normal dad of 58 years old!
This is too good! Who is your Dad? The guitarist or the bass player of Arrival?Surf-Matt wrote:My list of shame is poor as it my list of good bands I've seen - I tend to listen to a lot of music but not actually go to gigs.
My list of shame is pretty much all the sub-pub rock bands that ended up playing Mbro town Hall in the early 90s. But I'd highlight Tigertailz whose biggest hit, as you all know, was Love Bomb Baby.
He was the bass player:
http://www.alexgitlin.com/npp/arrival.htm
He also played in a band called Toad who did some pretty good stuff around 1971ish.
Most of his bass career was doing session work though. If the bassist of Free hadn't returned (after leaving) at the 11th hour, he would have also played for them.
If bass guitars are your thing (they aren't mine!) he has a lovely little collection. I alwasy hated Ocean Colour Scene...0 -
No one's mentioned The Wedding Present yet. My favourite band of all time. Seeing them at the Finsbury Park Powerhaus during the Watusi tour in 96(ish) remains my best gig (lost hearing in one ear for days afterwards).
And how about the Longpigs - too few albums but legends none the less.
I saw them at the Kentish Town Forum around the same time. No shame in that though, the gig was brilliant,Robmanic1 wrote:Fun Lovin Criminals - 2000-ish0 -
I am totally and utterly ashamed to say I've seen the following:
Spandau Ballet (early kilt wearing version)
Wham (why didn't we realise George was gay?)
X Factor live
I hang my head in shame and embarrassment :oops:
Although I have excuses for each
Spandau - my dad got free tickets
Wham - bought tickets to take a girl who liked them
X F - 8yr old daughter wanted to see Leona0 -
Nuggs wrote:No one's mentioned The Wedding Present yet. My favourite band of all time. Seeing them at the Finsbury Park Powerhaus during the Watusi tour in 96(ish) remains my best gig (lost hearing in one ear for days afterwards).
Very remiss of me.
I've seen them about 3 times 1986 - 1987 and 1996 (at Reading festival)
first time i sw them they only knew about 5 songs.
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just remembered
- mighty mighty
- mighty lemon drops
saw them both at Kennington Park in 1988 - I was standing next to Paul Weller.
mighty mighty were famous for playing a pre gig game of football with their fans at their gigs..and this was no exception.0 -
speaking of the Who, does anyone have any idea when Pete Townshend's book is coming out?'dont forget lads, one evertonian is worth twenty kopites'0
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Surf-Matt wrote:He was the bass player:
http://www.alexgitlin.com/npp/arrival.htm
He also played in a band called Toad who did some pretty good stuff around 1971ish.
Most of his bass career was doing session work though. If the bassist of Free hadn't returned (after leaving) at the 11th hour, he would have also played for them.
If bass guitars are your thing (they aren't mine!) he has a lovely little collection. I alwasy hated Ocean Colour Scene...
What a great story. Anecdote #3 - after Uni I tried to crack the session scene myself playing bass. I studied for a while with Joe Hubbard just after he started his bass school (this must have been cSept 1993). Ran out of money. Went back to uni for a PhD. Never picked up a bass again.
I'm glad you mentioned Ocean Colour Scene...I just looked and they still exist. They have a website. THEY HAVE A FAN FORUM! I am going to join.......Making a cup of coffee is like making love to a beautiful woman. It's got to be hot. You've got to take your time. You've got to stir... gently and firmly. You've got to grind your beans until they squeak.
And then you put in the milk.0 -
bands I've seen who got big ? off the top of my head
Blondie supporting Television
Joy Division supporting the Buzzcocks
U2 supporting somebody
more recently The View supporting Primal Scream, though I left before the tw@t gillespie came on0 -
'early career' bands I saw included...
Madness - 1981 at Bracknell sports centre
Tears for Fears, supporting the Thomson Twins (back when they were still a 7-piece) - 1982 at Reading Uni
Simple Minds - 1982, at Top Rank, Reading
King Kurt - 1983 at the Caribbean Club, Reading. Very messy.....
Most of the other bands I saw around that time were already pretty well known, including Killing Joke, Cabaret Voltaire, Cocteau Twins, Japan, Bauhaus and probably loads more I can't remember...0 -
wiffachip wrote:bands I've seen who got big ? off the top of my head
Blondie supporting Television
Joy Division supporting the Buzzcocks
U2 supporting somebody
more recently The View supporting Primal Scream, though I left before the tw@t gillespie came on
nice, Dont get to make calls like that everydayfly like a mouse, run like a cushion be the small bookcase!0 -
softlad wrote:King Kurt - 1983 at the Caribbean Club, Reading. Very messy.....
Good grief! I think I was at that one. If there was a dead rabbit being thrown around it was my mate Neil who was responsible.
I was at The Bangles first UK gig (and The Long Ryders, Rain Parade, Green on Red - none of those broke into the mainstream 'lo) The Bangles were a really great band who were ruined by their record company.
During my rock n'roll years I had fleeting aquaintance with a few people who later 'made it'. Primal Scream, James Taylor of the JTQ, Eddie Pillar - founder of Acid Jazz Records, Alan McGee - founder of Creation Records.0 -
Ah, memories, eh, like the shadows of my mind.......
(never seen the Shadows).
I don't think I've ever seen a bad gig, as such. I suppose I just drank more at the sh*te ones...
I did once get free tickets to the Brighton Festival for the "Indie" and "Dance" days. Indie was good because I knew all the bands - Carter USM were unstoppable, and I liked the Levellers ( :oops: )
The dance day was the biggest load of toss I'd ever seen, primarily, I think, because I was sober and not full of speed/pot/ecstasy/mushrooms etc.Head Hands Heart Lungs Legs0 -
fast as fupp wrote:speaking of the Who, does anyone have any idea when Pete Townshend's book is coming out?
Yes, I wondered that also !0 -
The Skids (Big Country later).
Walking home @ 0300 shouting "ALBERT TATLOCK" du du du du du du du du
RIP SA.Powered by Haribo.0 -
Gavin Gilbert wrote:softlad wrote:King Kurt - 1983 at the Caribbean Club, Reading. Very messy.....
Good grief! I think I was at that one. If there was a dead rabbit being thrown around it was my mate Neil who was responsible.
How's that for a co-incidence..? don't remember a rabbit, but plenty of baked beans and flour bombs flying around. As I recall, my mate Jon spent most of the gig stage diving....
Were you local to Reading back then..?0 -
FCE2007 wrote:The Skids (Big Country later).
Walking home @ 0300 shouting "ALBERT TATLOCK" du du du du du du du du
RIP SA.
saw the Skids at Reading Uni back in 79 or 80. The Student Union there was a great venue - also saw loads of others there like Secret Affair, The Smiths, Martha & the Muffins, Prefab Sprout, and - wait for it - Sigue Sigue Sputnik - anyone remember them...???
Saw the Stranglers at Swindon Sports Centre back in about 83 I think...0 -
First concert was The Smiths in '84.
After that things don't go so well....
Deacon Blue.
Extreme.
Take That.
Also saw S.M.A.S.H but only because they were playing a club that I worked in.
Oh yeah, and I saw Carter the Unstoppable at Newcastle Uni. Cracking night that was!!
Haven't been to a gig in years so I'm really looking forward to seeing Ade Edmundson with his band 'The Bad Shepherds' in Wrexham on Thursday night.
As far as Sigue Sigue Sputnik are concerned.....I'm of the opinion that "Love Missile F1-11" is a classic. No, honestly, I am!!!He who dies with the most toys wins!0 -
Bands I've seen...
...or rather the ones I can remember I've seen...
The Damned
Skids
Elvis Costello
John Cooper Clarke
Siouxsie & the Banshees
Cure
Buzzcocks
Magazine
Wah!
Spizz
The Dickies
Punishment of Luxury
Anti-Pasti
Exploited
Anti-Nowhere League
UK-Decay
Depeche Mode
AC/DC
Aerosmith
Black Crowes
Failth No More
Prong
Stereophonics
All About EveCycling weakly0 -
softlad wrote:Gavin Gilbert wrote:softlad wrote:King Kurt - 1983 at the Caribbean Club, Reading. Very messy.....
Good grief! I think I was at that one. If there was a dead rabbit being thrown around it was my mate Neil who was responsible.
How's that for a co-incidence..? don't remember a rabbit, but plenty of baked beans and flour bombs flying around. As I recall, my mate Jon spent most of the gig stage diving....
Were you local to Reading back then..?
I saw King Kurt at least half a dozen times (and the Meteors, Guana Batz,etc),. They played Aylesbury Civic and my mate was on stage with the "wheel of misfortune" Spread eagled to a giant rotating wheel they used a stirrup pump to pump lager into him, then span the wheel. Then filled him full of cider and span him again... with predictable(projectile) results. It was claimed to be a scientific attempt to mix snakebite inside the human body... great days...0 -
mmitchell88 wrote:Surf-Matt wrote:He was the bass player:
http://www.alexgitlin.com/npp/arrival.htm
He also played in a band called Toad who did some pretty good stuff around 1971ish.
Most of his bass career was doing session work though. If the bassist of Free hadn't returned (after leaving) at the 11th hour, he would have also played for them.
If bass guitars are your thing (they aren't mine!) he has a lovely little collection. I alwasy hated Ocean Colour Scene...
What a great story. Anecdote #3 - after Uni I tried to crack the session scene myself playing bass. I studied for a while with Joe Hubbard just after he started his bass school (this must have been cSept 1993). Ran out of money. Went back to uni for a PhD. Never picked up a bass again.
I'm glad you mentioned Ocean Colour Scene...I just looked and they still exist. They have a website. THEY HAVE A FAN FORUM! I am going to join.......
A fan forum? Arggghhhh!
Dad started aged 15, got relatively good, was a bit of a rebel at (grammar) school, got narked with a Nazi bully of a teacher that cut his head open by chucking a wooden board rubber at him, told the teacher never to do it again, the teacher did so he knocked him out and broke his nose with a decent right cross. He got expelled and was touring Europe with a band called Toad aged 19. Only when I came along (he was 23) did he decide to get a "normal" job. Lots of his muso mates died from drug overdoses including Phil Lynott (he also knew Bob Marley well too)...0 -
A lifetime ago when I was in my first year at university we had a band come to our hall of residence christmas bash. They played in our hall dining room, no stage or anything. They were a right odd bunch, especially the bloke who sang who looked odd and was SO up himself. I stood a couple of feet away from the bloke playing this odd looking red guitar. I decided they were pretty good, but probably they'd be one of the tens of student bands that came and went at that time.
A few weeks later they released "Seven Seas of Rhye" It was Queen just before they started to become a household name."The only absolute statement is that everything is relative" - anon0 -
softlad wrote:Were you local to Reading back then..?
A Basingstoke Boy
It's nothing to be proud of. Bands never came to place in the early 80's so we needed to travel to Reading or Southampton for live music. 0 -
I dunno - I remember seeing 'Bjorn Again' (abba tribute) at the Anvil in the mid 90s, so it can't be that bad..
Portsmouth Poly used to be pretty good for bands as I recall...0 -
So many.... and not just the bands, but the forerunners, for instance a practicay unknown Stewart Copeland as a drummer with Curved Air, long before the Police became a band.
Also saw bands like the Clash, Iron Maiden and Van Halen on their first tours.<b><i>He that buys land buys many stones.
He that buys flesh buys many bones.
He that buys eggs buys many shells,
But he that buys good beer buys nothing else.</b></i>
(Unattributed Trad.)0
