Bands of Yesteryear...

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  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    pugwashcp wrote:
    Oh yeah, and I saw Carter the Unstoppable at Newcastle Uni. Cracking night that was!!

    I saw Jamie Wednesday twice in 1985 or 1986, the band that were to mutate into Carter.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    My claim to fame is having breakfast with sarah Cracknell of ST Etienne after the Primal scream/George Clinton all nighter at Brixton Academy...and I had hair then and cool stripy trousers.
  • mmitchell88
    mmitchell88 Posts: 340
    dmclite wrote:
    My claim to fame is having breakfast with sarah Cracknell of ST Etienne after the Primal scream/George Clinton all nighter at Brixton Academy...and I had hair then and cool stripy trousers.

    Having breaaakfaaaaaaast! Nice one!!! :wink:
    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.
  • -spider-
    -spider- Posts: 2,548
    Best claim I've got is seeing Genesis..............

    ......................as a support act to Lindisfarne.

    I think me and my mate were the only people who were there to see Peter Gabriel strut his stuff.
    -Spider-
  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    softlad wrote:
    and - wait for it - Sigue Sigue Sputnik - anyone remember them...???

    Indeed I do, at their height they got mentioned in the local papers a lot back home, on account of one band member being from Walsall.

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • -spider-
    -spider- Posts: 2,548
    How about

    Cado Belle (Glasgow - 1976)
    Be Bop Deluxe (Aberdeen - 1977)
    Alan Stivell (with Dan ar Bras)
    Contraband (Glasgow - 1980)
    Doctors of Madness (RGIT, Aberdeen - about 1978)
    Rory Gallacher

    Many more as well.
    -Spider-
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    -spider- wrote:
    How about

    Cado Belle (Glasgow - 1976)
    Be Bop Deluxe (Aberdeen - 1977)
    Alan Stivell (with Dan ar Bras)
    Contraband (Glasgow - 1980)
    Doctors of Madness (RGIT, Aberdeen - about 1978)
    Rory Gallacher

    Many more as well.

    all of that before my time - i like Bill Nelson though.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    Got me a copy of "And the ass saw the angel" signed by Nick cave at a Glasgow gig in 1993, met him and had a nice chat.

    Also my cousin got off with one of the House Martins in 1986 ish when they played in Kilmarnock.

    Tenuous now, :D
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    dmclite,
    Was it the Housemartin that was done for assault with an axe?!

    And the ass saw the angel is a great book - there's a fantastic line about being sharp and glinting in the sun I wish I could remember. Gave my copy away :cry:
    Head Hands Heart Lungs Legs
  • captain_oakley
    captain_oakley Posts: 222
    U2 @ Marquee (Wardour St) - 1978
    Sham 69 @ Chalk Farm Roundhouse - 1977 (what a night that was.....!)
    Genesis @ Knebworth - 1978
    Led Zeppelin @ Knebworth - 1981 (spent the night on Stevenage BR stn platform!!)
    Tubeway Army @ Hammersmith Odeon - 1979 (even had a black thumbnail)
    Yes @ Wembley Empire Pool - 1978 (ahhhhhh Rick Wakeman's Keyboards)

    The waves of nostalgia.......

    And finally get to see Fleetwood Mac this November after 30 years of trying!!


    'Gentleman, you cannot fight in here, it's the War Room......'
  • Rev\'d Gatlin
    Rev\'d Gatlin Posts: 190
    Frank Zappa
    Warren Zevon
    ZZ Top
    Zodiac Mindwarp
    Zu Zu Sharks

    That's it for the Zzzzzzzzzz's.

    I will also be at the Fleetwood Mac gig before hot footing up to Manchester for the World Track Cycling. As long as they don't start with that nonsense about never breaking a chain they should be ok. They're on the the wife's must see list. And we all like a happy house.
    If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
  • tebbit
    tebbit Posts: 604
    As an eighties child,

    The Happy Mondays supporting New Order at the Hacienda
    Stone Roses at Legends in Warrington 1989
    The Charlatans again at Legends 1989

    And some others, the singer out of Garbage when she was with Goodbye Mr McKenzie, playing at a local tech college in 1990

    Happy days, ish

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