May 10th 1994 – Granby Halls, Leicester Gigs came thick and fast in May 1994 and a big big shock before this gig even took place. Deacon Blue announced on 27th April 1994 that they were going to split up at the end of this tour!! Shhhiiitte!! The band were flying high at the time,... Continue Reading →
May 2nd 1994 – Derby Assembly Rooms Was this really my next gig after The Wonder Stuff!!! Yep, this was a strange one! Doesn't really fit into my categories very well, I've chosen "pop", but this isn't high on any of my thought processes as a type of music (I nearly left it as "uncategorized").... Continue Reading →
April 27th 1994 – Leicester University It's very doubtful we saw the support this night, I feel sure we stayed in the Marquis of Wellington a bit longer than we meant to (but, hey, I have a long record of missing support bands!) Terrorvision were a funny old band. They had been around since 1987... Continue Reading →
April 8th 1994 – Kettering Arena Supported by: Gigolo Aunts I'd already seen The Wonder Stuff at Walsall Football Club and this would be the continuation of my seeing the Stuffies in strange venues. I mean, for a start, Kettering Arena! I was a little bit snobby about seeing them play at Walsall FC (it... Continue Reading →
November 21st 1993 – Leicester University I had no interest in the support band on this day. This gig had been a long time coming. I'm fairly sure I went on my own to this one, as I don't recall anyone else being interested in the singer of "Show Me Heaven" from the Tom Cruise... Continue Reading →
September 19th 1993 – Milton Keynes Bowl Supported by: Billy Idol, Manic Street Preachers, Little Angels Another trip to Milton Keynes, ok, so it's just a big field with a high bank around the edge making the bowl shape, but it was a great place to watch a concert and I think we actually broke... Continue Reading →
August 21st 1993 - Wembley Stadium Supported by: Stereo MCs, Big Audio Dynamite II, Björk U2 played two nights at Wembley and I was a bit gutted to find Utah Saints were support the previous night and tonight we had Stereo MCs and Bjork. I hadn't enjoyed the "Zooropa" album either , which was a... Continue Reading →
March 21st 1993 – De Montfort University Arena Supported by: Sunscreem I'm sure this happened a lot, but the advertising poster clearly spells "De Monfort" wrongly as "De Montford".........only bugged us lot in Leicester everytime it happened 😉 No way would I have listen to much of Sunscreem.......not my bag at all! But this single... Continue Reading →
October 22nd 1992 – Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham Supported by The Screaming Jets The Screaming Jets I don't really remember these very well, but they were a fun Aussie rock band, from Newcastle, Australia. Interestingly, we visited Newcastle in 2002 on a road trip of Australia. Some friends had said don't stop at Newcastle, it... Continue Reading →
July 14th 1992 – Ipswich Town Football Club Supported by: Squeeze, Little Angels, Extreme This was a really exciting gig....no, not because "that song" had been number 1 for 16 weeks for Bryan Adams the year before, but because I was actually there as much to see Little Angels and Extreme as I was to... Continue Reading →
February 6th 1992 – Sheffield Poly Now come on, tickets were generally around £7 to £10 for small gigs around this time and you had to be a big name to command a tenner, unless you had moved on to the arenas where it was £12 to £20!!! So a £2 concert was a bargain,... Continue Reading →
December 14th 1991 – De Montfort Hall Always good to catch up with a band who you saw in a smaller town venue and then they move up the the big city gig! It was 1984 when I last saw New Model Army and I'm really quite surprised it was a 7 year gap between... Continue Reading →
December 10th 1991 – Leicester Poly My first full blown The Damned gig. No more Naz Nomad and the Nightmares, this WAS The Damned this time. Dave Vanian and Rat Scabies remained, Captain Sensible was back and Paul Gray on Bass......Whenever you wonder if a band can carry on with a change of line up,... Continue Reading →
November 23rd 1991 – Leicester University I've no recollection of the support act. This concert was a follow on from being introduced to Steve Earle a few years earlier. Nils Lofgren had always had a great reputation as a guitarist and singer, but I don't think I ever knew he toured on his own, I... Continue Reading →
November 5th 1991 – De Montfort Hall Supported by: Senseless Things I won't name many people during these blog posts, but this gig could only have been inspired by my very good friend, Dean. Now music was getting interesting again. I guess one of the many reason I was seeing the same bands year on... Continue Reading →
October 23rd 1991 - Birmingham NEC This gig was a bit of a birthday treat to me. If a trip to the NEC could ever be considered a "treat". Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark had now gone through a bit of a change, with FIVE of the main protagonists leaving the band. They had spent... Continue Reading →
October 3rd 1991 – Leicester Poly My second time seeing the Furs, although the first time back in 1989 was in their secret guise of "Book of Days". The Furs were now well established as a pop rock band and lead singer, Tim Butler, has a very distinctive gravelly voice, which had generally made them... Continue Reading →
August 24th 1991 - Milton Keynes Bowl Supported by: OMD, Stranglers I think you still had to get your tickets from box offices in 1991? So I would have got this from De Montfort Hall box office in town centre. On paper this was a great line up for me, OMD a great favourite band... Continue Reading →
June 22nd 1991 – Walsall Football Club Supported by: This is on the list of concerts where, for whatever reason, I appear to have lost all memorabelia for it.....so this is an example of the ticket for the day, but not my original one, I know not where that has gone 🙁 I will see... Continue Reading →
May 30th 1991 - Leicester De Montfort Hall Supported by: Buffalo Tom This was an interesting gig, not one I would have normally have chosen to attend at the time. I hadn't really got into "indie" music yet, so this would be the beginning for me. The whole gig happened quite by chance really. I... Continue Reading →
March 21st 1991 - Leicester Poly The Raw Tour. If it was a funny time at the last Alarm gig, it was even stranger for this one. Sometimes music is a funny old game and when you are growing up with a band and changing yourself and seeing them grow up and change too, you... Continue Reading →
February 23rd 1991 – Leicester Poly Well, this was a controversial one. If anyone if worried about certain words in the dictionary, I will warn you now, that a choice word is used in relation to a cover version of a Patti Smith song. Birdland pretty much swept in and then swept out of the... Continue Reading →
February 14th 1991 – Leicester University Supported by Walk on Fire (may have seen, but no recollection) We saw No Sweat support Thunder in 1990, so we were happy to go and support the guys as they attempted to breakthrough. They were produced by Joe Elliott of Def Leppard, which you would have thought would... Continue Reading →
September 7th 1990 – De Montfort Hall Supported by No Sweat This concert started with a fantastic support band, No Sweat. Another great Irish band that had come over in the late 80s early 90s. They were being hyped heavily as Joe Elliott (Def Leppard) was producing them. The also had a fantastic single out... Continue Reading →
October 2nd 1990 – De Montfort Hall Supported by Wolfsbane This concert support band was the superb, Wolfsbane, led by the charismatic Blaze Bayley (who incidentally would go on to become lead sing of Iron Maiden for a while in the mid 90s) I guess Blaze knew he was supporting the god of rock with... Continue Reading →
September 17th 1990 – Town and Country Club, London Supported by Energy Orchard This was a great venue. A road trip down to London in the days before congestion charges and when you were able to find parking spaces close by the place you were visiting.....strange days! Energy Orchard These boys were from Belfast and... Continue Reading →
March 20th 1990 – Birmingham NEC NO SUPPORT ACT - Not something you see on many tickets. Only certain artists can do this, most are contracted to have some form of support, but this is David Bowie, icon and god of music.....do what the Duck you like son!!! For any number of reasons, I'd yet... Continue Reading →
February 13th 1990 – Leicester University Supported by Slide (but I missed them) I thought this might have been the "Taking on the World" Tour, but I haven't found anything yet to verify that, so it's just a tour for now. Gun weren't around for long, but came out with a brilliant album "Taking on... Continue Reading →
February 1st 1990 - Leicester De Montfort Hall You've probably gathered, I quite like The Alarm. This was a strange time for me though. Really looking forward to the songs and the first gig of the 90s. I wasn't happy at work, I wasn't massively happy out of it either....and then to compound matters, The... Continue Reading →
December 14th 1989 – Birmingham NEC A couple of months before the concert, we had seen The Who at the NEC, so to follow it up at the same venue with another icon of music was tremendous. This was another worrying gig watching an old star performing to us "young" 24/25 year olds. By the... Continue Reading →
