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Post by titchjuicy on Nov 20, 2019 13:25:05 GMT
This was at the end of that first national tour in 2005. Saw them at Jabez Clegg in Manchester with 400 people, Club Nirvana in Wigan, Soul Tree in Cambridge and then this. They were all mental, but this was incredible. They'd only released that Five Minutes with EP and just released the first official single (in fact all their best moments came before they released the first album). I got offered £200 for my ticket outside for this.
Was anyone else from here at this?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2019 14:40:36 GMT
I was at the Astoria gig. I bought tickets originally to see them at Dublin Castle, venue was upgraded to Islington Academy (I think, may have been the garage) and then upgraded again to the Astoria. We also got offered something like a 100 quid for our pair from a tout outside but glad I didn't sell. Milburn supported, they were poo
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Post by Belligerent Hype Man on Nov 20, 2019 15:18:14 GMT
I seen them play the New Bands Tent at Leeds Festival in 2005. I think the first EP had been out a couple of months so it was pre-debut single. The tent was packed for about 2 hours before they played. It was incredible, everyone knew every word to every song. Never seen a moshpit like it either. They played the main stage 12 months later which I was also at but was nowhere near as good.
As for memorable gigs The National @ The Spring & Airbreak was special. Funnily enough I discovered The National at Leeds in 2005 as well, I'd got down early to see Echo & The Bunnymen and they were on before, they blew me away. At the time Matt Beringer was only second to Liam in terms of great frontmen, I'd never seen such a raw performance, the end of 'Mr November' still sends a shiver up my spine. The Spring & Airbreak gig must have been to promote 'Boxer' so we're talking 2007. They were amazing that night, one of my best mates openly wept, he got some slagging for it but looking back I can't blame him.
One of my greatest ever gigs though is one I can't remember. Action Bronson @ Camden Barfly.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2019 16:44:28 GMT
Bronson at the barfly is the stuff of legend.
If only we could have got shit horse over here
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Post by srk on Nov 20, 2019 16:46:46 GMT
First time I saw them was oddly memorable too, in that oasis did a late swing around North America at the tail end of the DBTT tour in early 2006, and for some reason added another date in Toronto at the end (they had played Toronto at the start in 2005, Noel even said something to the effect of "twice in the same tour? aren't you lucky.) And for whatever reason, they added arctic monkeys as the support for that show and that show only. Seeing them play most of the first album in a 40 minute set in front of a 2/3 full hockey arena was something else. Still probably the best support slot I've ever seen.
That weekend was also memorable for me being down in New York City beforehand for St. Patrick's day to catch the first Pogues shows with Shane back in the band in the US in something like 15 years. The Paddy's day show was great, but the *next night* was one of the craziest nights I've ever spent. The gig itself was massive obvs, but then the post-show included pints at some new York boxers pub, to another pub near my buddy's place in the village to another pub after that where I commandeered the jukebox for 45 minutes playing supersonic and cigarettes and alcohol on repeat, followed by one of my buddies getting a gun pulled on him by (what we later discovered was) a low-level mobster to getting back to the apartment we were staying at (across the street from the Dakota, oddly) at 7am and realizing I had a flight booked to Toronto (for the above-mentioned oasis concert) at 930. Rushed down to penn station and realized no train could get me to Newark in time, so I ran over to one of the hotels looking for a cab, and somehow ended up in a hotel limo (I was still probably 3/4 drunk at that point), making it with minutes to spare. (Or at least enough time to grab a donut to soak up some of the alcohol.
Odd postscript: I still have the poster from the pogues show up in my garage, which I bought on the 2nd night, and neither I nor any of my friends has any recollection of me carrying it around all night.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2019 16:54:18 GMT
Powerful SRK, I like it. Us Brits never get to have cool gun stories.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2019 17:05:18 GMT
Dustins Bar Mitzvah @ the Lexington definitely deserves a mention due to the passport theft, Sevenleafs dog drinking Guinness, the squashed midget, Sam getting cut open by a midget, the blood over Kevin's dapper clothes & my cracked ribs.
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Post by srk on Nov 20, 2019 17:27:51 GMT
Powerful SRK, I like it. Us Brits never get to have cool gun stories. Nor us Canadians, usually. |
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Post by Columbia_rocks_man on Nov 20, 2019 19:28:05 GMT
I saw the Arctic Monkeys play a pub in Edinburgh in May 2005. This was before they had even signed to Domino. There was no backstage, the band had to fight their way through the crowd to get to the instruments that had been left out for them. Proper chaos. I’m pretty certain I was there with Ross Forgan.
The better show was when they played a slightly bigger venue in October the same year. It was three days before ...Dancefloor went to No 1 and it was like fucking Beatlemania.
I’ll always have a soft spot for them because of that first album and the excitement of being the right age to properly enjoy it. But I couldn’t care less about them now. Would I pay £70 to go to some barn of a venue to hear Turner do that awful croon he’s developed? Nah.
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Post by titchjuicy on Nov 20, 2019 22:13:33 GMT
I saw the Arctic Monkeys play a pub in Edinburgh in May 2005. This was before they had even signed to Domino. There was no backstage, the band had to fight their way through the crowd to get to the instruments that had been left out for them. Proper chaos. I’m pretty certain I was there with Ross Forgan. The better show was when they played a slightly bigger venue in October the same year. It was three days before ...Dancefloor went to No 1 and it was like fucking Beatlemania. I’ll always have a soft spot for them because of that first album and the excitement of being the right age to properly enjoy it. But I couldn’t care less about them now. Would I pay £70 to go to some barn of a venue to hear Turner do that awful croon he’s developed? Nah. That October must've been the same tour as I mentioned. Those gigs were insane. The Jabez Clegg didn't have a stage as such, so the only thing seperating the band from crowd were mike stands. And at the Soul Tree, they'd never put on that kind of gig, and had no idea how to control it. They had three bouncers in the crowd about a third of the way back facing away from the stage trying to keep things under some kind of control and failing miserably. It was hilarious to watch. |
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Post by titchjuicy on Nov 20, 2019 22:14:18 GMT
Dustins Bar Mitzvah @ the Lexington definitely deserves a mention due to the passport theft, Sevenleafs dog drinking Guinness, the squashed midget, Sam getting cut open by a midget, the blood over Kevin's dapper clothes & my cracked ribs. 😂 |
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Post by forever on Nov 20, 2019 23:03:45 GMT
I saw the Arctic Monkeys play a pub in Edinburgh in May 2005. This was before they had even signed to Domino. There was no backstage, the band had to fight their way through the crowd to get to the instruments that had been left out for them. Proper chaos. I’m pretty certain I was there with Ross Forgan. That's right. I turned down the chance to go as I didn't rate A Certain Romance, which was the only song I'd heard at the time. The Wynd had played their debut gig in the same venue about ten days beforehand, albeit it wasn't a sellout and it was a half arsed acoustic performance as we didn't have a regular drummer by that point. Simpler times. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2019 5:34:31 GMT
Prefer the wynd with their ties to Russia, makes them appear more dangerous
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Post by Columbia_rocks_man on Nov 21, 2019 21:46:42 GMT
The Wynd have ties to
1) The arms trade
2) Russia
3) Anamadferit
Things The Wynd don’t have ties to
1) A drummer
2) New material
3) Self-respect
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2019 7:21:57 GMT
The first couple of times I saw Black Lips deserve a mention. The first time at the 100 Club the support band was performing whilst this guy was completely passed out against the drum set. They finished their set, Black Lips came on, Cole kicked the bloke on the floor really hard & he got up, got behind the drums & started to play  Cole also got his cock out and took a piss in the air during the set. The next time was the infamous Heaven gig. The venue is a famous gay club and had only started having live music there, the crowd went mental and the bouncers didn't understand how these things worked. It turned into pure violence, kids getting beat up bad then the crowd turning in the bouncers. Full scale fight while the band played. Found out after the bouncers gave the band a beating after the gig, even punching one of their girlfriends in the face. Awful stuff, yet tbh it was one of the most exciting gigs I've ever seen. Not to go off topic on Titch's wonderful thread, but how about UNMEMORABLE gigs. So I recently submitted my gig list to statto (AKA Krburg) to give me detailed analysis of my gig going history & whilst looking through it there are bands & gigs that I have no recollection of actually seeing. Especially at Festivals. JP had to confirm that I had seen some of the stuff on there. I get that the 287 times I saw BRMC might start to blur into one, but there's stuff that I have no recollection of being at, The Morning After Girls at FOPP being one which really bothers me. I know this is just another case of Old Man Mahoney where the dementia is starting to set in, but I don't wish this on any of you guys. Not sure Rod could cope if his memories of seeing Mark Morriss solo shows started to vanish. |
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Post by jp on Nov 24, 2019 7:37:45 GMT
Gutted I never got to see Black Lips in their raucous days. The two times I've seen them have been so tame.
Andrew WK at Visions Festival a few years back was pretty memorable in terms of carnage.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2019 7:39:58 GMT
we sure did party hard that night LOL!
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Post by krburg on Nov 26, 2019 13:36:22 GMT
The first couple of times I saw Black Lips deserve a mention. The first time at the 100 Club the support band was performing whilst this guy was completely passed out against the drum set. They finished their set, Black Lips came on, Cole kicked the bloke on the floor really hard & he got up, got behind the drums & started to play Cole also got his cock out and took a piss in the air during the set. The next time was the infamous Heaven gig. The venue is a famous gay club and had only started having live music there, the crowd went mental and the bouncers didn't understand how these things worked. It turned into pure violence, kids getting beat up bad then the crowd turning in the bouncers. Full scale fight while the band played. Found out after the bouncers gave the band a beating after the gig, even punching one of their girlfriends in the face. Awful stuff, yet tbh it was one of the most exciting gigs I've ever seen. Not to go off topic on Titch's wonderful thread, but how about UNMEMORABLE gigs. So I recently submitted my gig list to statto (AKA Krburg) to give me detailed analysis of my gig going history & whilst looking through it there are bands & gigs that I have no recollection of actually seeing. Especially at Festivals. JP had to confirm that I had seen some of the stuff on there. I get that the 287 times I saw BRMC might start to blur into one, but there's stuff that I have no recollection of being at, The Morning After Girls at FOPP being one which really bothers me. I know this is just another case of Old Man Mahoney where the dementia is starting to set in, but I don't wish this on any of you guys. Not sure Rod could cope if his memories of seeing Mark Morriss solo shows started to vanish. Do you remember seeing the Levellers, though? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2019 13:39:53 GMT
ROCK
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Post by krburg on Nov 26, 2019 14:05:47 GMT
I suppose in terms of memorable, rather than specifically 'my favourite' gigs, a couple would be Libertines / Doherty related. One being the last proper full band set the Libs played before they properly split the first time, at the Café De Paris. They were playing to support some kind of designers exhibition or something. It was a free gig for ticket winners. This was back when the Libs had a proper fan club and they jus chose people from the membership. I remember being in Blackpool for a mates birthday and getting a call from one of the Kirsty’s who used to run the Libs forum and Fan Club, telling me they'd got me a spot. The gig was weird, it's only a small place, but was obviously rammo. Alan McGee was there and Tim Burgess and oddly Tjinder Singh from Cornershop. This was months before the second album came out and where Doherty's exploits were still being played out in just the pages of the NME, before the tabloids had really jumped on him. Carl, Gary, John & McGee were all standing side of stage before the gig looking pensive as Doherty was yet to show, then with probably a couple of minutes to spare, he came bashing through the crowd with a skinhead looking gaunter than I had ever seen him. He really did look fucking ill that night. Anyway, they played a short, probably 10 song set, smashed through all the 'hits' and it was fucking great. After that is when it all kicked off, they did play one more time when Doherty showed up at Carl's club night and they shared the stage for a few songs, but that was the last time they properly played until they reunited years later. Some pictures from the gig here: version2.andrewkendall.com/pages/photogallery/53/Absolute state of Doherty. 😂 I was also at the infamous Astoria riot when Pete failed to show for a Babyshambles gig. It was billed as a late one anyway, there were about 4 or 5 bands on the bill. Towers of TCOTU played and they went down like a sack of shit, I've never seen so many cans of shit lager thrown at a band before, I remember the singer attempting to climb the drapes on the side of stage at one point and falling off to a chorus of cheers. As the night went on an on and there was no sign of Pete, the crowd were getting drunker and rumours started to spread that he'd turned up in a cab off his nut and then fucked off. Anyway, after a while it just properly kicked off, my mates had pissed off earlier to Frog nightclub next door, but I had stayed. I remember standing right at the back on the raised level behing the sound desk, just chatting with the sound man as we both watched hundreds of idiotic, drunken kids smash the place up. Kudos to the Towers of TCOTU chaps, they got on the stage and helped to get most of Babyshambles gear off for them and were throwing a few punches around. Probably my favourite memory of that night was when we were leaving and this complete twat of a kid had himself a mic stand we he kept shouting and telling everyone as loads of people were streaming out, until we walked through a door and there was a huge burley bouncer waiting who just stood there silently staring at this idiot until the kid handed it to him without a word exchanged 😂 |
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Cole also got his cock out and took a piss in the air during the set. The next time was the infamous Heaven gig. The venue is a famous gay club and had only started having live music there, the crowd went mental and the bouncers didn't understand how these things worked. It turned into pure violence, kids getting beat up bad then the crowd turning in the bouncers. Full scale fight while the band played. Found out after the bouncers gave the band a beating after the gig, even punching one of their girlfriends in the face. Awful stuff, yet tbh it was one of the most exciting gigs I've ever seen. 
