chas
Legendary Knight
I think I'd have to place Hawkwind as 'the band I've seen most often' pretty comfortably.
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Doc Strange
Legendary Knight
I first saw them in 79 and then throughout the 80s, often at festivals - Nik Turners tootings pre-sunrise at Stonehenge being a particular memory!
Only a couple of times since - Dreadzone are number 1 if we're looking post-95.
Basically still music to get off your tits and dance around to
DS
Only a couple of times since - Dreadzone are number 1 if we're looking post-95.
Basically still music to get off your tits and dance around to
DS
Doc Strange
Legendary Knight
Be careful Nick.
I reckon chas & Doc are recruiting for their hippy commune
Nah, when Nik Turner was kicked out of Hawkwind again, he formed 'Nik Turner & The Acid Punks' - that's what we were, Acid Punks
We wore STRAIGHT jeans!
DS
Nah, when Nik Turner was kicked out of Hawkwind again, he formed 'Nik Turner & The Acid Punks' - that's what we were, Acid Punks
We wore STRAIGHT jeans!
DS
Old Nick
Legendary Knight
It was only while they played the Maidstone Art College - our payment was free entry to the gig
My mate was the head of the student union and got us into the gigs, Hawkwind were playing and short of road crew so we got invited to help out
Old Nick
Legendary Knight
Funny you say that Chas, met up with a load of the lads last week and we were saying how we really had it good in the 80s/90s for going out, doing all sorts of weird shit, and listening to live bands - there would be a band playing 5 nights of the week and often 2 or 3 venues in the town on the same nightI nearly went to Maidstone college but got a place at Canterbury so went there instead, you had a near miss
When I have a drink and a catchup with Tiff the conversation often turns to the pub bands we used to see and just how much live music was part of our weekend pattern. The circuit does seem to be sustained by blokes broadly our age these days but then I'm not gatecrashing Uni gigs etc at 'this time in my life' so I'm an unreliable witness maybe.
Those days are gone now and I’m not not crashing the art colleges anymore either
Holy Shit
Legendary Knight
And there was the Edgar Broughton band,who were different,or Stan Arnold ,filthy folk singer with songs like “why can’t you see I love you when it’s sticking out a mile”.Sasafrass from wales but probably one of my all time favourites Jake Thackeray,who still makes me laugh a lot.
chas
Legendary Knight
fatttbadteeth
Sword of Fenrir
If nothing else this Christmas, I have managed to spend some time in the music room reading and listening to some music.
Will be interested to see how this is received here. It’s a band my eldest insisted I went to see the last time I was at a festival.
Maybe a bit too jazz for many, but I really like them. Although it’s probably put in the EDM box, I think there’s a bit more to them than that. All live, all amazing musicians.
Will be interested to see how this is received here. It’s a band my eldest insisted I went to see the last time I was at a festival.
Maybe a bit too jazz for many, but I really like them. Although it’s probably put in the EDM box, I think there’s a bit more to them than that. All live, all amazing musicians.
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Old Nick
Legendary Knight
Doc Strange
Legendary Knight
Defo Jazzy - and a bit prog rather than EDM to me.
Nice enough, but prob better at 4am than 4pm
DS
fatttbadteeth
Sword of Fenrir
Depends what time you start Doc!Defo Jazzy - and a bit prog rather than EDM to me.
Nice enough, but prob better at 4am than 4pm
DS
fatttbadteeth
Sword of Fenrir
Haha!
Maybe a separate thread, but gigs you’ve been to that you’re supposed to enjoy, but we’re shite!
I’ve got 2.
My Bloody Valentine, early 90’s. Darlings of the indie music press. It was shite!! Also the loudest gig I’ve been to. So at least there was that.
Bowie, late 80’s. Truly awful. One of only 2 gigs that I’ve ever left before the end.
Doc Strange
Legendary Knight
Well I've seen 'Awkwind loads of times and have plenty of their albums, but even I have to admit, they could be 'inconsistent', either them or the sound systems they were using.
My worst gig - the Stranglers when they had just released La Folie. Wankers insisted on playing the whole thing and hardly anything that anyone had come there to hear!
DS
My worst gig - the Stranglers when they had just released La Folie. Wankers insisted on playing the whole thing and hardly anything that anyone had come there to hear!
DS
MartytheMartian
Legendary Knight
Worst gig I ever went to was Steve Earle and the Del McCoury band at the Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow. There was nothing wrong with the guys on stage but the Clyde Auditorium a.k.a The Armadillo was a hole of a place. My ticket (bought well ahead of the gig) placed me way up at the back where I could see only the tops of the band's heads and where the sound sucked badly. Beer at the bar cost a fortune, a seated venue was all wrong for the kind of music and I bumped into some folks I knew at the bar who turned up 'on spec' on the night and got tickets right in front of the stage. Steve Earle himself apologised that it was the only place they could book at short notice and that he would never book it again as it was the worst venue he had ever played. Saw him numerous times at the Barrowlands and every gig was brilliant.
One gig I missed as I couldn't get out of work the night it was on but which a mate reported on as being utterly awful on the part of the artist involved was Chuck Berry playing at the Magnum in Irvine in the early nineties. Apparently Chuck was so bad that he was being booed by the audience and he gave it 'don't you know who I am' and stomped off. I never got to see him live as the next time he was due to perform in Scotland I had my ticket but he cancelled. Everyone I know who saw him live in his later years said that he was absolutely piss poor and was thoroughly unpleasant as a person to boot.
One gig I missed as I couldn't get out of work the night it was on but which a mate reported on as being utterly awful on the part of the artist involved was Chuck Berry playing at the Magnum in Irvine in the early nineties. Apparently Chuck was so bad that he was being booed by the audience and he gave it 'don't you know who I am' and stomped off. I never got to see him live as the next time he was due to perform in Scotland I had my ticket but he cancelled. Everyone I know who saw him live in his later years said that he was absolutely piss poor and was thoroughly unpleasant as a person to boot.
Holy Shit
Legendary Knight
Probably one of the best gigs I can still remember was Ian Dury (and the blockheads),new boots and panties tour around 75 also Dr Feelgood and the most deafening ,Rory Gallagher,a genius with the stringed instruments.
Pink floyd dark side of the moon then wish you were here at the hippodrome Bristol with echos as an encore .
Happy new year muckers.
Pink floyd dark side of the moon then wish you were here at the hippodrome Bristol with echos as an encore .
Happy new year muckers.
MartytheMartian
Legendary Knight
The loudest gig I was ever at was the Mighty Mighty Bosstones in Glasgow. The bass was physically thumping the chests of the audience. The guys really gave it their all and put on a blinder of a show. Incredible as those guys performed something over three hundred shows that year on tour.