Historic gigs - were you there?

[vin_petrol]

I know that a few people on my friends list were at 'significant' gigs in my history. Some of you I've only known for a year or two, and perhaps I don't know this. I kinda like the idea that we (perhaps) were both at some great gig in the past, without knowing each other at that time. So, please indulge me:
[Poll #468813]

Comments

[wendles]

In my capacity as the first person (besides your good self) to fill in this poll, I hereby admit that I lead a boring life and very rarely go to gigs.

[vin_petrol]

Hmmm. I shall try to invite you to the next suitable one I go to then!

[wendles]

Ah, such hair.

And what, pray, might be deemed "suitable"?

[vin_petrol]

Ah, that really just means the next one I can be pretty sure I'm going to, with space in my car.
<checks phone, source of all knowledge and wisdom>
Hmmm, Killing Miranda and Screaming Banshee Aircrew in Leeds on May 1st looks likely. What do you think?

[wendles]

I think I'll be in Amsterdam on Fleur's hen weekend doing ... other things. Good idea but bad timing!

[vin_petrol]

OK - we'll sort something out at some point.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Aha... I'm the first person to get three of these -- do I win an award?

I suspect minusbat will get more but I may be wrong.

[vin_petrol]

do I win an award?

Of course... You can have some air from my lungs next time I see you :-)

I suspect minusbat will get more but I may be wrong.

I think he'll get the same as you: both SoM plus the NMA. I'm pretty sure he wasn't at the Dio gig!

[steer.livejournal.com]

Wasn't he at Covenant/Ultraviolence? he's been to various Dissolution gigs? But actually maybe it was only for Dream Disciples -- sad old trad type that he is.

I'll live without the air from your lungs -- but it's lovely of you to offer.

ISTR that there were TWO 10th anniversary leeds gigs for the sisters. I may be wrong and can't remember if I was at one or both.

[vin_petrol]

ISTR that there were TWO 10th anniversary leeds gigs for the sisters.

Entirely correct: Uni and Poly (as it was then) on consecutive nights. Apparently, the Poly gig was the better of the two, and I wasn't at that one :-(

[steer.livejournal.com]

I really have no idea which one I was at. Actually, now I recall it was only one of them though.

[minusbat.livejournal.com]

Actuallt I have no idea if I was at COvenant thingy. I saw them
a number of times in a numer of coutries. One may well have been
Sheffiled actually. What was so notable or significant about
that gig ? Was it before or after they got Heinrick in ?

[vin_petrol]

What was so notable or significant about that gig ?

*laughs* it was the first live "bleepy shit" gig I ever went to :-) I kinda "came out" on Rock Bus Mailing List that I listened to this sort of music. I don't think it was particularly significant to everyone else.

[minusbat.livejournal.com]

Now I dont think of Covenant as 'bleepy' at all - they are a
normal band to me, woith Synths (but then so do Depeche Mode
or any nunmber of other 80's bands). What makes Covenant count
as 'bleep' where VNV Nation or Apoptygma don't then ?

[vin_petrol]

What makes Covenant count as 'bleep' where VNV Nation or Apoptygma don't then ?

Nothing! VNV Nation and Apop are bleepy shit too! :-)

[minusbat.livejournal.com]

When I think "bleep" I think of the top sloor slimelight stuff - lyricless
repettitive, mainly bassline techno. Apop, VNV, Covenant to me are just
ordinary goth synth bands.

[vin_petrol]

Ah, y'see this is very much related to context then. Back in 2001, when I admitted to liking "bleepy shit" it would have been in the presence of people like "Whitesnake" Phil, to whom the phrase summed this sort of synth pop up perfectly :-)

Before I went to this gig, the majority of bands I saw live used human drummers. Since then that's been the minority.

[godgirl.livejournal.com]

i dont think you were - you were living in london by then and i recall no excursion of yours to see covenant/ultraviolence.

i keep tabs, you know. ;op

*looks around*

erm.. what am i doing here?

[ex-wendles389.livejournal.com]

[x] I may have been at the NMA one but I've been to a lot of NMA gigs so I can't remember for sure ;) I was definitely at a SOM gig in Leeds in 1996, and I went to the 1988 Reading festival.

[vin_petrol]

[x] I may have been at the NMA one but I've been to a lot of NMA gigs so I can't remember for sure ;)

Ah, but this was the super-special 20th anniversary, where they "supported themselves" and slowly built up the band bringing out a new member every couple of songs. IIRC it was also the first time in years that Vagabonds had been played with the original electric violin player.

[ex-wendles389.livejournal.com]

I think I can say that one's a 'no' then, but I highly suspect eeymsmo and others were at that one. I think that one was within a year (or maybe two at most) of the time they played The Bristol Uni Gig Where The Sound Desk Caught Fire.

[minusbat.livejournal.com]

Ummm, they did that ever night on that tour actually.

[vin_petrol]

Well, I shall bow to your superior knowledge of NMA :-)

[vin_petrol]

So, are you going to help the fading memories of myself and blue_condition and remind us of the Drayhouse gigs mentioned lower down in these comments?

[cyberspice.livejournal.com]

For the sad old rockers out there I wonder how many were at Knebworth Park for Deep Purple's come back?

[vin_petrol]

Not me - I didn't see them till the following year, at the NEC. They were pretty awesome though!

[cyberspice.livejournal.com]

I saw them there too :-)

[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

A few others you didn't list -

Pixies, secret Scarborough gig, summer 1990.
Pixies/Throwing Muses, anywhere on their 1988 tour.
Polly Jean Harvey, Leeds Duchess of York, about a week after her first album came out.
Bongwater/AC Temple/Dogbowl, Leeds Duchess of York

*ANYTHING* promoted by Drayhouse Promotions!!!!!!!

[vin_petrol]

No, they're *your* significant gigs! Do your own poll! :-)

*ANYTHING* promoted by Drayhouse Promotions!!!!!!!

Actually, that's a good point. They were significant. What were they though?

* Hawkwind at The Barbican (which is I think the only one I went to).
* Creaming Jesus?
* Daisy Chainsaw ("we love pete's money ... all pete's money").
* Surreal gig in Bradford with dog/fire alarm/etc - who was that?

And, of course, the legendary gig that never happened:

* Nirvana ("I'm holding out for Mudhoney").

[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

There's also the gig that never, ever happened - Skinny Puppy at the Bonding Warehouse - invented to see how long it was before HWWDNM started telling people he'd been there ;)

[minusbat.livejournal.com]

...and also so we would have an excuse to avoid his brithday
party. you wrote a great review on Jorvick at the time too as
I recall!

have just been re-porined at this thread by Vince... do I
really want to dredge up the history of D.H.P here or not ?

[vin_petrol]

do I really want to dredge up the history of D.H.P here or not ?

You must! Your adoring public demands it!

[wibblefish.livejournal.com]

not at any of those, but wish I had been!

[vin_petrol]

What, even Dio at Newcastle City Hall???? :-)

(which is really only included here as it's an ancient, private joke between myself, cyberspice, road_runner and various other Metalheads who were at York Uni in 1987)

[wibblefish.livejournal.com]

until '93 I lived near watford, think the first gig I went to in yorkshire may have been icon of coil in Bradford a couple of years back

[vin_petrol]

icon of coil in Bradford a couple of years back

Ah yes, at Bradford Rios. I was there too! :-)

[blondelass.livejournal.com]

On the subject of gigs....

I would just like to say that my first ever gig was at the Piece Hall, Halifax in 1986 (age 14) to see Ghost Dance, Salvation, The Wedding Present, Pop Will Eat Itself and a couple of others who I can't remember.

[vin_petrol]

Goth! :-)

[gothadh.livejournal.com]

As I didn't move to England until 2002 I would have been struggling!

[vin_petrol]

Fish, New Year's Eve, Edinburgh, 1990something?

[gothadh.livejournal.com]

Nope. Def never seen Fish!

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

The first gig I ever went to was Gary Numan in 1979/80 at the Apoolo in Manchester. It was so exciting - especially as I was so little. 11 in real years and 0 in Jackie Stallone years, my Dad got me a ticket for my birthday and asked a couple of the lads from where he worked to take me. It was top! I didn't go to another gig until I went to see him again in 1984 and it wasn't as good. Marc Almond has been stunning when I've seen him live but the best gig I ever went to was The Cramps at Leeds Uni in 1990 or 91...so much fantastic noise.

[vin_petrol]

Gary Numan in 1979/80

Wow! I bet that was astonishing!