Was anyone at Spike Island?
Discussion
Yes. Got a bus package from Sheffield. Got to the middle of the stage in between the rear speaker stack in the field over about 2hrs in the afternoon.
Support acts were s
te. Sound was ste until the Stone Roses, got a bit better as night came but you could not hear sound when wind came through, even gentle.
Hot day. Impossible to get from in the crowd to the food area.
Gig finished. Couldn't find our bus amongst the hundreds of GMPTE Orange Double Deckers. Got a bus to Manchester. Slept in Piccadilly station. Bought 12 cans of coke as we got off the bus for £1 a can (when in the shops they were about 25p). Necked the lot in about 10 minutes, hadn't drunk since the motorway services at 11am. Hadn't eaten all day. Was sunburnt. My mate Danny who'd been E'd was in a terrible state. I fortunately was a lower level chemical experimentalist and my trip wore off gradually.
Got the first morning Sheffield train home and walked through my houses door at 8:17 a.m. to my Dads fist in my nose "Where the funk have you been..." (I was 15!).
The film Spike Island, albeit hard not to be retro sort of feels right as the time was. By 16 I was getting trains to Mancs every time I could and the Madchester vibe was pretty much how the film played it.
Wasn't the worst sound quality I every heard outdoors or indoors. That would go to the Jesus and Mary Chain at the Leadmill in 1991ish. Couldn't even hear feedback it was so bad. I eventually passed out poised out against a speaker stack. I couldn't hear in my left ear for 3 days later.
I go to Spike Island and the museum there with my kids a few days a year. I still can't believe 30,000 (+gatecrashers) got in that small space.
Edit to add: I had a clear out via EBay of all my old concert tickets a few years ago and I got £115 for the SI one, £100 more than I paid for the gig, but the ticket that netted me the most (nearly £250 profit on a £4.50 ticket) was Pulp at Sheffield Leadmill, supported by some crap Manchester band (they really were crap at that gig) by the name of Oasis.
Off to see Pulp in three weeks
Support acts were s
te. Sound was ste until the Stone Roses, got a bit better as night came but you could not hear sound when wind came through, even gentle.Hot day. Impossible to get from in the crowd to the food area.
Gig finished. Couldn't find our bus amongst the hundreds of GMPTE Orange Double Deckers. Got a bus to Manchester. Slept in Piccadilly station. Bought 12 cans of coke as we got off the bus for £1 a can (when in the shops they were about 25p). Necked the lot in about 10 minutes, hadn't drunk since the motorway services at 11am. Hadn't eaten all day. Was sunburnt. My mate Danny who'd been E'd was in a terrible state. I fortunately was a lower level chemical experimentalist and my trip wore off gradually.
Got the first morning Sheffield train home and walked through my houses door at 8:17 a.m. to my Dads fist in my nose "Where the funk have you been..." (I was 15!).
The film Spike Island, albeit hard not to be retro sort of feels right as the time was. By 16 I was getting trains to Mancs every time I could and the Madchester vibe was pretty much how the film played it.
Wasn't the worst sound quality I every heard outdoors or indoors. That would go to the Jesus and Mary Chain at the Leadmill in 1991ish. Couldn't even hear feedback it was so bad. I eventually passed out poised out against a speaker stack. I couldn't hear in my left ear for 3 days later.
I go to Spike Island and the museum there with my kids a few days a year. I still can't believe 30,000 (+gatecrashers) got in that small space.
Edit to add: I had a clear out via EBay of all my old concert tickets a few years ago and I got £115 for the SI one, £100 more than I paid for the gig, but the ticket that netted me the most (nearly £250 profit on a £4.50 ticket) was Pulp at Sheffield Leadmill, supported by some crap Manchester band (they really were crap at that gig) by the name of Oasis.
Off to see Pulp in three weeks
Edited by Allegro_Snapon on Monday 1st May 19:03
I was there again yesterday!!!!!!!
In Zenas cafe by the canal they have a photo montage which I've seen many a time but not really paid much attention to but I photo'd it yesterday.
I was surprised how far forward we must have been. I knew we were midway between the big Marshall stack and the stage and slightly to one side, but I thought the crowd would only have gone back to around the Marshall stack.
I've added a red cross as to where me, Danny, StockinTops and Mule were at during the day/night. And I'm pretty damn sure it didn't finish at 10:30 as the ticket says. I'm sure it was 4 am we got back to Mancs an hour away on a GMPTE Bus with a couple hours queueing. I'm sure it was near 11:30 it finished. But don't quote me. 'Mule' may have given me some presents during the day.
In Zenas cafe by the canal they have a photo montage which I've seen many a time but not really paid much attention to but I photo'd it yesterday.
I was surprised how far forward we must have been. I knew we were midway between the big Marshall stack and the stage and slightly to one side, but I thought the crowd would only have gone back to around the Marshall stack.
I've added a red cross as to where me, Danny, StockinTops and Mule were at during the day/night. And I'm pretty damn sure it didn't finish at 10:30 as the ticket says. I'm sure it was 4 am we got back to Mancs an hour away on a GMPTE Bus with a couple hours queueing. I'm sure it was near 11:30 it finished. But don't quote me. 'Mule' may have given me some presents during the day.
Cripes thinking about it, if sound was crap for us it must have been awful for anyone behind the Marshall stack which faced stagewards. No wonder it got the reputation for being so bad.
I did see the Roses on their Second Coming tour in the Apollo in Mancs and whilst more musically proficient and audible (the drummer and Mani were really good live, Ian Browns voice was still crap) but Spike Island was still far better.
Thinking about it had the same with New Order, around the Technique album time., Saw them live outdoors. Crap sound, great gig. Seen them many times since indoor and at Glazo in 2005 and never cut the mustard as a live band since to me. (Mind you seeing as 'Substance Abuse' is my favourite album of theirs I'm stuck 40 years in the past).
I did see the Roses on their Second Coming tour in the Apollo in Mancs and whilst more musically proficient and audible (the drummer and Mani were really good live, Ian Browns voice was still crap) but Spike Island was still far better.
Thinking about it had the same with New Order, around the Technique album time., Saw them live outdoors. Crap sound, great gig. Seen them many times since indoor and at Glazo in 2005 and never cut the mustard as a live band since to me. (Mind you seeing as 'Substance Abuse' is my favourite album of theirs I'm stuck 40 years in the past).
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