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Post by jp on Mar 21, 2023 7:49:03 GMT
The latest in my series of new thread ideas to provide Tucker with the most popular music forum on the internet!
This time it is a spin on the popular Rate Your Last Gig thread but looking back to your FIRST one instead.
Mine was Embrace supported by The Cooper Temple Clause back in Oct 2001. I received tickets for my birthday and took a couple of mates along. I think prior to that point I didn't even realise bands played Norwich and it was only through chatting to my gig going cousin one day he pointed out that Norwich has a thriving scene. The rest is history!
The Cooper Temple Clause instantly blew me away as my first live music experience and they quickly became one of my favourite bands of the early 00s. The bird mate I'd taken along passed out during their set though so we lost our position right down the front. Fucking bitch. Suffice to say she didn't come to anymore gigs with me.
By the time Embrace came on she was ok and we managed to get a spot near the front right by the speaker. Young naive JP wondered why there was a space in such a good location. I soon realised during the next three days when I couldn't hear a thing such was the power of the McNamara volume.
Embrace were good though. It was the tour for the If You've Never Been album which I was a big fan of at the time but they obviously brought out all the hits too. It's weird looking back to think it was only 3 years after The Good Will Out came out. That album felt ancient at the time.
I'm going a huge 9/10 for my rating. A great support who I ended up loving and one of my favourite bands as my first ever headliner. It started an obsession with love music that is still going strong 22 years later.
PS I bet at least one person rates their most recent gig in this thread. My guess is rocks man!
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Post by eddiemurphy on Mar 21, 2023 11:59:58 GMT
don mclean - tun wells assembly hall 1997 - 7 outta 10. dad dragged me along. played some of his hits and everyone went home happy.  |
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Post by mahoney on Mar 21, 2023 14:20:00 GMT
Hi JP, I'm here to talk about my very first gig & I will go into the type of detail that it deserves! My very first gig was supposed to be CAST on the tour for Beetroot. Unfortunately the record flopped & I think they were dropped by the label so they split up. I was very upset about this. However, a few days later an E-mail from Ocean Colour Scene popped up on my Hotmail account linked to my MSN messenger saying that they were doing a competition for a very special evening at Brixton Academy. Naturally I replied quickly. I won! So did Balldog who also entered, I'd imagine everyone who replied got a pair of tickets tbh. This was all I knew, until the day of the gig they announced to get down early as Paul Weller would be doing an acoustic set! I masturbated furiously with excitement. We had 4 tickets & only one other friend interested. We used to use the forums on a site called sundayleague.com which was a kinda football manager simulator where your team would play each day, but the gameplay was very cartoonish and humour filled rather than a simulation. We caused havoc on the forums when we figured out that you could post pictures, sticking erect cocks in random threads, those were the days! Also used to break into peoples emails as everyone's secret question was so easy in those days then transfer all their best players into our squads  Anyway, we posted saying we had a spare and some bird on there said she'd come, we was 18 at the time, she was I think about 30, so felt ancient. She met us in Brixton and she got the beers in straight away which was a result as none of us had fuck all money back then. She was carrying a few extra pounds, mostly on her arse, but I think all 3 of us wanted to fuck her even if we didn't admit it at the time. ANYWAY, the gig was filmed for Japanese TV & began with the world air guitar championships. A bunch of twats on stage playing air guitar. not a great start! Next up, Alabama 3 did a short set, they did the Sopranos song so that was fine! Shea Seger (anyone remember her?) did a few songs, was sort of like Shery Crow without the hits. GENE played! Don't remember much about this, I think they must have split up soon after. Just remember thinking that the singer sounded like Morrissey. Faithless did a half hour set and did all their monster hits, a great time was had. Then my life changed forever, WELLER did a short acoustic set, I think with his little bumchum Cradock helping out. The Jam were everything to be back then, pretty sure he did That's Entertainment. Then OCS played for about 50 mins, it was pure joy. Finished by doing Small Faces Son of a Baker with Paul Weller. Rocking! I think the gig ended pretty late. We ended up jumping on a train to Bromley which isn't really that close to me and was chatting to some old lads (they was probably younger than I am now) who told us stories about seeing OCS over the years, man I thought they was cool! The gigs they mentioned to my ears sounded like these legendary moments in musical history, when actually they had only happened 3 or 4 years before. Ended up stranded in Bromley so rang my dad on a payphone who came and picked us up, he wasn't happy. A few months later the bird invited us around hers for a BBQ, it was in Leytonstone. We got pissed before we even got there, had an argument with one of her mates (he was a cunt), then my mate threw up all over her bathroom so we did a runner & none of us ever got a chance to fondle her big flabby arse & we never spoke to her again. 10/10 |
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Post by Columbia_rocks_man on Mar 21, 2023 18:06:40 GMT
I saw the Rolling Stones in 1998. I win this thread.
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Post by mahoney on Mar 21, 2023 18:13:20 GMT
Those Bridges to Babylon songs must have been unforgettable!
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Post by jp on Mar 21, 2023 18:15:30 GMT
I'd genuinely rather see Embrace.
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Post by srk on Mar 21, 2023 21:07:27 GMT
Chubby Checker at Ontario Place in Toronto in 1986 or possibly 1987.
I was more excited to walk past the baseball stadium while a blue jays game was playing and heard the PA announcer say the name of my favourite player. (“Now batting, #29 the right fielder, Jesse Barfield!”
Chubby played ‘the twist’. I remember nothing else. I was 6 and not there by choice. But it remains my first concert:
4/10, like we did last summer.
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Post by Fuzzy Dunlop on Mar 22, 2023 0:06:24 GMT
Ocean Colour Scene, Hereford Leisure Centre, 2nd April 1999 (according to the internet). Can't really remember too much but a bunch of us from school went since it was pretty rare to get a reasonably big name band play anywhere near us and they were still pretty popular, our sixth form room had a big Moseley Shoals poster up in it at one end (and a Green Day Dookie one at the other, naturally). My main memory of the gig itself seems to be Cradock getting really upset with someone in the crowd for some reason and taking to the microphone during songs to sing along briefly then call them a fucking wanker  Pretty sure they played the main songs we were there to hear so a solid 7/10. |
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Post by Benoît Assou-Ekotto on Mar 22, 2023 10:44:29 GMT
Oasis, supported by The Verve, at Earls Court in 1997. Some thoughts below.
- I spent 3-4 hours re-dialling the the ticket line over and over to get tickets.
- I was 13.
- I wore a white and green check Sonetti shirt.
- I went with my mate and my Dad.
- I remember queueing up to get in so we must have got there quite early. Lots of lads pissing up everything. I also remember walking into Earls Court and a girl doing a cartwheel in the big open space at the back which had yet to be filled.
- My wife was also there. We met about 12 years later.
- Richard Ashcroft had double denim on. He walked on stage, kneeled on the floor, shouting 'COME ON' over and over. Big.
- Even at that point I knew The Verve were better live. They made a big old fucking racket. It was the bollox.
- I cannot really remember anything about Oasis apart from my mate (Martin) standing in front of a massive speaker stack in an empty space which, like JP, probably wasn't a good idea the next day. Also, Noel had a sparkly guitar for Magic Pie.
Rating - 10/10. Even if Oasis were a bit flat at that point it still my two fave bands playing back to back and stands out as a huge moment of my youth.
I think the next gig was V98 where my Dad spent the day pushing in the beer queue all day which in hindsight was quite ballsy. Verve headlined, post McCabe leaving, and were pretty fucking shit.
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Anyway, we posted saying we had a spare and some bird on there said she'd come, we was 18 at the time, she was I think about 30, so felt ancient. She met us in Brixton and she got the beers in straight away which was a result as none of us had fuck all money back then. She was carrying a few extra pounds, mostly on her arse, but I think all 3 of us wanted to fuck her even if we didn't admit it at the time. 
