The Great Jock n Roll Single

k3nnyc · 16 Reasons Joined: 17 Nov 2006 Posts: 16

Stiff Little Fingers at the Apollo in Glasgow, 1981. I remember the stage being really high but people were still trying to gob to great heights!

mishmash · Eleven To Fly Joined: 22 Nov 2006 Posts: 11

fit like.

first gig was corries, with my mum, at royal albert hall in stirling in 1972

first real gig was hawkwind, choose your masques tour, october 1982, aberdeen capitol. a man in a big coat gave me a big roll-up, and it's been non stop since then.

mishmash

MikeB · Eleven To Fly Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Posts: 11

Funny thing the old acceptable/unacceptable dilemna.
So two answers then.
Real first (but possibly unacceptable) Showaddywaddy at Dundee's Caird Hall with my mum! In retrospect no shame though. Great stage craft, there was a motor-bike and mock fight between the band as I recall.
The rock 'n' roll also led to later devlish forays into psychobilly (Meteors at Tay Hotel, Dundee anyone?) and those lovable zombies The Cramps - somehwere in Edinburgh pretty late because it was a bingo hall early doors and we had to wait for all the old weirdos with dyed hair and dark glasses to leave (or was that go in!?)
Acceptable answer is Stiff Little Fingers on the Go For It tour (May '81) again at the Caird Hall. I remember because it was a birthday pressie.
Probably they are my most seen as well, but on deeper thought step forward The Alarm. Gulp.
For a while they seemed to be support to everybody. I saw them before U2 (twice), The Waterboys, SLF (x2), at a dodgy fest in the Highlands somehere which could have involved Mike Scott, and headlining in their own right (x2). Sorry I thought of that now. Embarassed

MikeB · Eleven To Fly Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Posts: 11

Aye SLF at the Apollo. The final gig of their "farewell tour"?
We were in the balcony, so the high stage wasn't a problem, but the alarming rising and falling of the structure was, and the bouncers hauling us unceremoniously off chairs also caused bruising.
Don't know who started chanting "Uncle Jake, Uncle Jake, Uncle Jake", but unashamed to admit A- I joined in, and B - At the end of that gig I cried like a wee bairn.
Sad

starksfergie · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:12 pm Post subject:

naturally, being in South Texas raised by a Mancounian mother of Fifer extraction, I was drawn to things British, generally. But being a somewhat strict, if not a bit naive, mother, she wouldnae let me go to a show until I was 17. So, 1987 was my first gig and it was close to downtown San Antonio, adjacent to the City Zoo in a venue called Sunken Gardens Theatre... Guns N Roses were the opening act, I don't think anyone knew who they were just quite yet... they didn't do much for me, though I seemed to think they would get bigger, I wasn't going to be along for the ride... The Cult were the reason I was there... I even bought a black concert shirt and had a few people mentioning at school the next day that they were surprised that I'd be caught in a black concert shirt... ahhh, high school... as I was mostly a drinker, the very same show was my first experience with marijuana, more of a hotboxing than having a joint, mind you... I still prefer the drink... the show was good, not great, but it was the first in a very long, long, long line of shows in my life... still at it almost 20 years later, probably done for 2006 (though there is a My Morning Jacket show coming up around New Year that my partner and I might decide to cathc, we'll see)

Cheers, Craig.
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joyce63 · Bobby Patrick Big Six Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 6

Mine was Gary Numan at the Glasgow Apollo in 1979, just after Cars came out. He was huge at the time and I loved him (I was 15). I remember queuing up to get the tickets when they went on sale.

Support was OMD who had just released Electricity. I was in the circle but I forgot my glasses. I had only recently started wearing them but was way too vain to wear them all the time. I spent the whole gig squinting and never made that mistake again Sad

He was OK, all fancy light shows and so on. I went to see The Boomtown Rats about a month later - Gazza was better than them!

auchinairnboy · One Dove Joined: 06 Mar 2008 Posts: 1

Sadly my first gig was Emerson, Lake & Palmer at the Greens Playhouse in 1971. John Peel once referred to them as 'a waste of electricity'.