First gig you ever went to?

[king arthur]

Magnum at the Cornwall Coliseum, can't remember the exact year though. I'm sure it was just after "Days of no trust" so around 1988.

[feef]

The SugarCubes (Bjork before she went solo) at the Glasgow Barras. I can’t remember the year.

[Wacky Racer]

Gary Glitter Bournemouth 1972 Brilliant.

Rock Band:-.

Deep Purple Mk 3 Belle Vue Manchester 1974

[200Plus Club]

LP670 said:

Stereophonics at the Sheffield Arena, was in either 2000 or 2001.

I was at that, feeder were support if I recall. I was very, very drunk..

[Elderly]

The ‘Graham Bond Organisation’ in '63 or '64 at Klooks Kleek.

[Nik da Greek]

Persuaded my brother to take me to see Hawkwind at Worthing Assembly Halls in 1983... think it would have been the Earth Ritual? I have vague memories of Nik Turner schlepping up and down the stage on rollerskates, dressed in a silver lame jumpsuit, wearing a foot-long orange prong instead of hair and tootling away on his sax. Rather annoyingly, actually.

My sister wasn't allowed to go cos the old man was a tosser and she was a girl. When we got back she'd gone all sufragette and written "Hawkwind" in blood on the bathroom mirror. Her own blood, I think...


She loves being reminded of that

[PurpleTurtle]

Depeche Mode, 22 November 1990, first of three nights at Birmingham NEC on the World Violation tour.

Bloody brilliant they were, I remain a fan to this day.

[fttm]

Deep Purple , Bristol Colston Hall 72/3 .

[cuprabob]

Iron Maiden, 11th Sept 1984, Glasgow Apollo

[Yetski]

Judas Priest, Point of Entry tour, Hull City Hall, November 6th 1981, think I've still got tinitus

[RATATTAK]

Yetski said:

Judas Priest, Point of Entry tour, Hull City Hall, November 6th 1981, think I've still got tinitus

Pardon ?

[ehonda]

Voice of the Beehive, Town and Country Club London, June '88.

[IanUAE]

Iron Maiden: Seventh Tour of a Seventh Tour, Sheffield 4th December 1988.

[Ali Chappussy]

ELP at Wembley in early 70's. 3 encores that ended around an hour

[thetapeworm]

Iron Maiden, Preston Guild Hall, October 1990, support from Wolfsbane.

I was right at the front and there was just a small gap between the crowd and stage, the last time I saw them I would have needed about 20 minutes to walk to the stage.

I still have the jumper I bought from the merch people.

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I then waited 3 years until Jean-Michel Jarre at Manchester Maine Rd and then spent 11 years without going to any live concerts, I missed so much

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[Shaw Tarse]

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/thin-lizzy/1981/man...
I was nearly 14 years old, went with a few mates all about the same age.

[generationx]

Pink Floyd Delicate Sound of Thunder tour, Docklands Arena, 1989. Not a bad start...

[JuniorD]

Extreme, 1991. I was 14 and enjoyed it immensely.

[ElectricSoup]

Anthrax, Hammersmith Odeon, 1987 (maybe '88?). I was 17/18, I don't think my hearing has been right ever since. Drove there from the sticks in a Mk1 Escort 1100 with 4 passengers. Couldn't hear the engine cranking when I started it up after the gig, my ears were ringing so badly.

[Martin350]

Status Quo at Wembley Arena, must have been '88 or '89.

It was the loudest thing I'd ever heard up until then, but I have since seen Motorhead at the Brixton Academy, now that was LOUD!