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Jocknroll
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What was the first gig you ever went to?
After from a punk band called Red Letter Day who played at Sherwood School in Bonnyrigg when I was about 11 and another gig that I'd be too embarrassed to admit to going to (I won the tickets but that's no excuse), my first proper gig was Aztec Camera at the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh in December 1983.
They were supported by Hurrah and a band called Tempa (Roddy wore one of their t-shirts). And it was on a school night. Not many people were impressed at school the next day because most of them were arguing the merits of Wham over Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet. Tasteless swines.
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mccann
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| my first gig was the style council at the Glasgow apollo in 1983- great gig |
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NearlySane
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| Boomtown Rats Apollo Tonic for Troops tour |
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East of Edina
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Madness at the Edinburgh Odean Christmas 1981?
JocknRoll, you may want to check the dates with Mrs JocknRoll - she may mutter something about ABC at The Playhouse....just ignore her. |
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Jocknroll
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| East of Edina wrote: | Madness at the Edinburgh Odean Christmas 1981?
JocknRoll, you may want to check the dates with Mrs JocknRoll - she may mutter something about ABC at The Playhouse....just ignore her. |
I'm saying nothing because she'll expose us both. ABC? I can "top" that and not in a good way!!
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Official answer is Smiths, Edinburgh 1984. Unofficial answer is known only to me and The Cat and I've sworn him to secrecy. With good reason  |
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East of Edina
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Smiths 84 at the Playhouse? I saw them at the Playhouse - think it might have been the 84 - Again, Mrs JocknRoll would be able to confirm.
So are we basically saying that we've all got an acceptable and unacceptable answer to this question?
It's already been hinted that my unacceptable answer is ABC 1981ish.
Come on JocknRollers...share your unacceptable answer - you'll feel cleansed  |
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the vinyl villain
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| First gig was a triple-bill of The Police, The Cramps and Bobby Henry at the Glasgow Apollo in May 1979. Tickets cost £2 and all seats were unreserved which caused chaos on the night. |
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Statsbunker
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| East of Edina wrote: |
It's already been hinted that my unacceptable answer is ABC 1981ish.
Come on JocknRollers...share your unacceptable answer - you'll feel cleansed |
ABC = Certain Kitsch value. Liked by Paul Morley at the time. Since revisited by Simon Reynolds favourably
Cat and I= Totally embarassing gigs.
There's unacceptable and unacceptable y'know.
Smiths at the Playhouse was September '85. They were much better that night than in '84. The Cat did the whole 7 date tour. You must have seen the photos of him and Moz. |
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Mrs Cat
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| East of Edina wrote: | Madness at the Edinburgh Odean Christmas 1981?
JocknRoll, you may want to check the dates with Mrs JocknRoll - she may mutter something about ABC at The Playhouse....just ignore her. |
I can confirm that the first gig was Madness at the Odeon. They did a special under -18 show around the time that Baggy Trousers came out if memory serves so that would probably have been more like Christmas '80. I'm pretty sure I was still at Primary School, as we got changed into our Fred Perry shirts and braces and dad met us to take us up to Clerk Street. I do remember a shoe ending up on the stage and Suggs saying a rude word and forgetting that he was doing an under-18 show...........
ABC was a couple of years later. We did inherit those tickets though and didn't pay for them. I thought it was great but I remember the sax player going off midway through because he was feeling ill. He then came bounding back with his sax at the very end. I did feel sorry for him until I read in Smash Hits that the same thing had happened at another gig. Even at an early age I smelled a rat..........
Oh and as for The Cat's embarrassing first gig..... he's right to hold his head in shame............Some people had better start being very nice to me. That's all I will say.  |
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Jocknroll
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I wouldn't slag anyone for going to see ABC. As least they were fashionable around that time.
I have no excuses whatsoever for the first proper gig I went to. Even though I won the tickets in a competition (I didn't have to enter it, I knew what the prize was), I didn't have to go. Maybe I won because no-one else entered - that's a distinct possibility!!
The band I went to see weren't cool by any stretch of the imagination. The most memorable aspect of the gig was the support act which was a guy called Captain JJ Waller who, as I recall, pranced about on stage in Rod Stewart-type leopard skin leggings. Think he was supposed to be a comic turn but he wasn't funny.
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| Mrs Cat wrote: | | East of Edina wrote: | Madness at the Edinburgh Odean Christmas 1981?
JocknRoll, you may want to check the dates with Mrs JocknRoll - she may mutter something about ABC at The Playhouse....just ignore her. |
I can confirm that the first gig was Madness at the Odeon. They did a special under -18 show around the time that Baggy Trousers came out if memory serves so that would probably have been more like Christmas '80. I'm pretty sure I was still at Primary School, as we got changed into our Fred Perry shirts and braces and dad met us to take us up to Clerk Street. I do remember a shoe ending up on the stage and Suggs saying a rude word and forgetting that he was doing an under-18 show...........
ABC was a couple of years later. We did inherit those tickets though and didn't pay for them. I thought it was great but I remember the sax player going off midway through because he was feeling ill. He then came bounding back with his sax at the very end. I did feel sorry for him until I read in Smash Hits that the same thing had happened at another gig. Even at an early age I smelled a rat..........
Oh and as for The Cat's embarrassing first gig..... he's right to hold his head in shame............Some people had better start being very nice to me. That's all I will say. |
Excellent - I'm cooler than I thought.
1-2-3-4 we are chipmunks we are go !!
Mrs Cat - the dates are messing with my head. If you were still at the wee school ( which I think you were), then I must have been in Primary 5 !! I was still at the wee school when we went to see ABC, so that must have been about right.
I have a similar acceptable/unacceptable dilema regarding my first single bought.
Acceptable answer is "Something Else" by The Pistols. My mum made me scratch the b side with a darning needle so I couldn't hear the poetic delights of Friggin In The Riggin - although with enough 2p's on top of the needle, you you just about make out the words before the single ground to a halt under the weight of all that copper. |
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Mrs Cat
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East of Edina - I'm positive that I was still at the wee school when I went to see Madness because by the time I got to big school all that skanking was passe and Depeche Mode were the flavour du jour......
Re first single, if I remember rightly we used to have a group purchase scheme in place. Everybody put 25p in per week and we took turns between the four of us to select the single for purchase. One of the first I remember picking was Oliver's Army by Elvis Costello.........so when was that? |
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East of Edina
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Agree about when we went to see Madness - just cant get over the fact that I would have been in primary 5 ( 9 years old?).
I can remember the musical saving scheme - was that round about the same time that the oldest swinger in town had an "unofficial source"? |
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ella megalast
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| Rather embarrassingly my first gig was Phil Collins and his Hot Tub Club at the Apollo in 1985. I went on the back of liking some early Genesis. (that's my excuse!) I missed the last train back to Ayr and had to get a bus to Kilmarnock then call for a lift....oh happy days! |
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