| First bands I saw were the local punk bands, The Notsensibles, The Stiffs, The Pathetix. A mixture of some of these bands ended up being the band Chumbawuma. Would be sometime late 1970s? Was always tall and looked older so used to manage to sneak in with older mates in the local pubs/clubs I would probably be about 13 or 14.
First big gig in a proper venue would be Motorhead in 1979/1980? Then loads of dreadful heavy metal bands like Saxon, Tygers of Pan Tang etc etc. Got friends with a lad at school whos dad was in partnership with Phil Mcyntyre who promoted just about every band you could think of. Used to get on the guest list to see just about whoever we wanted. Typically went to see loads of rubbish HM bands and didnt bother going to see the bands I should have. The Jam were a band a could have seen 10 times but never bothered, What a fool! Still got loads of old tickets going back over the years.
Best gigs for me were always the Johnny Thunders & the heartbreakers ones in the early 1980s. And the ones where he toured with Hanoi Rocks, you never new what was going to happen next.
Worst gigs were loads of HM type bands like Spider, Magnum, scorpions, etc etc. Not to mention bands like The Alarm and Big Country.
The lad I mentioned dad also ran a printing firm that did All the concert posters and he used to give me one or 2 of each. I probably had about 200 brand new full size posters for just about every band that toured Europe in the Early 80s. What did I do with em? Gave em away about 10 years ago! Stupid! I kept only one and that was 'The Young Ones' comedy tour from about 1982.  |