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Singing Blade said:Swans for sheer volume (but really every time I've seen them they've been incredible)
IanM said:First gig was Motorhead at the Victoria Hall in Hanley on 24th October 1980. I was 12, and it was stunning. As you can imagine, I'd never experienced anything like that before. The local paper did an article on my experience HERE.
The best gig (and there have been many good ones) was again at the Victoria Hall, and the band was Big Country, probably around 88 or 89. Everybody was really into it and were singing and bouncing around all night. I managed to catch Stuart Adamson's guitar pick (RIP Stuart). We went to The Albion for a pint, went back to the venue and the band came out and chatted to us and signed stuff. Just a wonderful evening.
Ian
pjgh said:Back when I was 13, I was massively into a really new sound which came out of Birmingham. For some reason, one of the older lads I knocked about with set up a record label. No, really. Earache Records, of Cleckheaton.
He got such monumentally awesome bands like Napalm Death, Carcass, Saw Throat and so on onto his label. As a kid, barely able to sprout a pubic 'tache, I was in there in the early days of Amebix, Saw Throat and so on ...
These gigs happened in small, impromptu venues and it really was a family back then. I've followed some of those guys through the years and consider Scorn one of my favourite bands, still.
Shortly after, I became a MASSIVE The Sisters of Mercy fan. Again, unable to go to any of the stadiums around the world that they frequented, TSOM played in Leeds at tiny pre-tour venues under various guises: Speed Kings, Near Meth Experience, and so on. I saw them at The Fenton and it blew my mind! The noise off the drum machine was astounding!
So, not really first gigs, more like happenings ...
Loudest gig? Motorhead ... until I saw Alien Sex Fiend. They were LOUD! Deaf for week! I did spend most of the gig with my head in a bass bin
A couple of years back, I was on the guest list for The Sisters of Mercy 30th Anniversary. XXX as it was called. It was a bad karaoke act, but still absolutely awesome!
From probably my first "gig" at a venue, it's been The Sisters of Mercy. All that Earache stuff was in front rooms, back rooms of pubs and not really "gigs" as you'd call them.
FrankieG said:Jimi Hendrix Experience, Rotterdam, 10 November 1967. The venue was a very large hangar/exhibition hall, and being Holland there wasn't any shortage of smoking paraphernalia... absolutely blew me away
Photo taken that night.
matt3993 said:FrankieG said:Jimi Hendrix Experience, Rotterdam, 10 November 1967. The venue was a very large hangar/exhibition hall, and being Holland there wasn't any shortage of smoking paraphernalia... absolutely blew me away
Photo taken that night.
O MY GOD. I'm so jealous. Don't think I'd have been allowed in. Being a toddler at the time.
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