Back In The Day Gigs
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I'm a bit younger, so was into Punk stuff, and this gig with A Flux of Pink Indians, The Subhumans and Rudimentary Peni was just up the road at the Red Lion in Leytonstone a few days after my 15th birthday in 1981.
What a mad gig! I remember being 'on stage' screaming down the mic to one of the songs and falling into the drum kit along with a few others.
It made a full page review in Sounds.
Probably my favourite gig ever!

Still go to Red Lion a lot, just a bit calmer these days
P5BNij said:
bad company said:
Great line up - I take it it's 1966?It was a favourite gathering place for the Mods on their Vespas and Lambrettas in the sixties (along with Eddie Grimsteads scooter emporium on the Barking Road.)
witteringon said:
P5BNij said:
bad company said:
Great line up - I take it it's 1966?It was a favourite gathering place for the Mods on their Vespas and Lambrettas in the sixties (along with Eddie Grimsteads scooter emporium on the Barking Road.)


vixen1700 said:

I'm a bit younger, so was into Punk stuff, and this gig with A Flux of Pink Indians, The Subhumans and Rudimentary Peni was just up the road at the Red Lion in Leytonstone a few days after my 15th birthday in 1981.
What a mad gig! I remember being 'on stage' screaming down the mic to one of the songs and falling into the drum kit along with a few others.
It made a full page review in Sounds.
Probably my favourite gig ever!

Still go to Red Lion a lot, just a bit calmer these days
Back in the day i lived in Leicestershire so De Montfort hall was THE place for us
Iron Maiden
Waysted
Blackfoot
Meatloaf
Then moved to Hertfordshire and either London or Milton keynes for the Woughton Centre
Wolfsbane
Kings X
Tyger Tailz
The Almighty
The Bowl
Bon Jovi
Staus Quo
Gary Glitter - it was a long time ago
Guns' Roses
Not forgetting what is now the Download Festival
In my town at the time was The Plinston Hall
Fields of the Nephilim
Victoms of The Pestilence
Wratchild
The list is so long it's silly
Iron Maiden
Waysted
Blackfoot
Meatloaf
Then moved to Hertfordshire and either London or Milton keynes for the Woughton Centre
Wolfsbane
Kings X
Tyger Tailz
The Almighty
The Bowl
Bon Jovi
Staus Quo
Gary Glitter - it was a long time ago
Guns' Roses
Not forgetting what is now the Download Festival
In my town at the time was The Plinston Hall
Fields of the Nephilim
Victoms of The Pestilence
Wratchild
The list is so long it's silly
A not very large room upstairs at the Manor House pub in the Seven Sisters Road used to house a music venue. I went there regularly to see John Mayall during the Peter Green era, and later Mick Taylor.

I saw Cream there, and if you got there early enough you could get right down the front. No stage as such, just a few wooden daises pushed together and a row of chairs to stop people spilling over onto the platform. Two things I remember from that gig were standing so close to Ginger Baker that I could have leaned forward and touched the kit, and Clapton bringing a Danelectro longhorn guitar on stage that he didn’t do anything with until the last minute, when he put it on the floor and jumped on it.

I saw Cream there, and if you got there early enough you could get right down the front. No stage as such, just a few wooden daises pushed together and a row of chairs to stop people spilling over onto the platform. Two things I remember from that gig were standing so close to Ginger Baker that I could have leaned forward and touched the kit, and Clapton bringing a Danelectro longhorn guitar on stage that he didn’t do anything with until the last minute, when he put it on the floor and jumped on it.
Whats on Second said:
clapton smashing a guitar ?
just reading the chris welch book on cream, very interesting dynamics between the 3 musicians.
Yes. We couldn’t believe it either. The ugly bloody thing was just leaning up against something for the entire set. Not plugged in. As they went off he knocked it onto the floor and jumped on it.just reading the chris welch book on cream, very interesting dynamics between the 3 musicians.
Now, if Ginger had kicked all the drum kit over, that would have been another thing.
Being a Doncaster lad, The Jug was a pretty good venue to see up & coming bands for the cost of a few pints (…even at 1989 prices). I remember seeing The Blue Aeroplanes, this lot mesmerised me, I think there were 4 guitarists in the band at the time & they were amazing to see live. I also saw CUD (still going !) & The Family Cat (terrible name, great tunes) in that month.
It was a shame when the place closed, I guess being in the middle of Sheffield & Leeds a gig in Donny in between didn’t make much sense.
It was a shame when the place closed, I guess being in the middle of Sheffield & Leeds a gig in Donny in between didn’t make much sense.

andySC said:
Being a Doncaster lad, The Jug was a pretty good venue to see up & coming bands for the cost of a few pints (…even at 1989 prices). I remember seeing The Blue Aeroplanes, this lot mesmerised me, I think there were 4 guitarists in the band at the time & they were amazing to see live. I also saw CUD (still going !) & The Family Cat (terrible name, great tunes) in that month.
It was a shame when the place closed, I guess being in the middle of Sheffield & Leeds a gig in Donny in between didn’t make much sense.
Very reminiscent of The Duchess flyers, same format, and mainly the same bands. I can only presume it was the same bloke booking them, John Keenan…It was a shame when the place closed, I guess being in the middle of Sheffield & Leeds a gig in Donny in between didn’t make much sense.

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