Our second visit to Beautiful Days festival. Having really enjoyed 2024, decided to come back again. Fast becoming our alternative to Glastonbury as it's so nice, a great size for viewing and yoga available too!!
Fresh off the back of a fantastic performance at Beautiful Days festival, I was excited to see Pet Needs were visiting Southampton on a small tour, so I'm here with excitement to see them in a proper small venue. It should suit their style very well.
A bit of a wet and cold night in Boscombe, to be expected in December! It's been a while since SFA toured, in fact they split up/stopped working for five years, so there haven't been many chances anyway.
A little bit different tonight in many ways. Firstly this wasn't The Wonder Stuff, it was Miles and Erica, but playing their stuff and the Stuffies stuff.
Secondly, this wasn't your usual venue. Never did I think (with due respect) the Miles Hunt would play Ferndown!! But now in folk lore....I was there!
Born and bred Leicester's finest had returned home to play a gig after pretty much breaking the world with their music, but bands don't play Victoria Park, they just don't...
Supported by: King Adora, My Vitriol
The difficult third album!
The initial success of their first album, "Attack of the Grey Lantern" (No.1 in 1997), their top ten second album "Six" wasn't to be matched by "Little Kix".
Support: Lowdown (didn't watch)
Coldplay were on their way this year....They had actually played Leicester twice before this year at De Montfort University in January and then The Princess Charlotte in March.
May 11th 2000 – Princess Charlotte It's gigs like this that remind me that writing all my gigs up was a daft idea and only came about because of this crazy Covid-19 lockdown! But I've started, so I should at least try to finish! It has also shown how much fantastic material floats about in... Continue Reading →
May 9th 2000 – Shepherds Bush Empire, London Supported by: Soulwax and Muse Try getting a ticket to see this lot for 13 quid these days (ok, I paid a tad more than that as we will come onto later!). You will hear me talk about Top Ten concerts, of which, I think there are... Continue Reading →
February 27th 2000 – Rock City, Nottingham Supported by: Cyclefly Can't find this ticket, but this was my introduction to Bush live. I'd not seen them live yet, but loved the three albums to date, Sixteen Stone (1994), Razorblade Suitcase (1996), The Science of Things (1999) This was another trip to Nottingham, where all the... Continue Reading →
November 2nd 1999 – Rock City, Nottingham A trip to Rock City is always fun. No way would I have instigated this one, Super Furry Animals has my friend Scott written all over it!! I'd heard the single earlier that year "Northern Lites", which was a hit and it had been ok, but Scott had... Continue Reading →
November 13th 2019 – Richfield Avenue, Reading The Reading Festival is one of those iconic music festivals that I always felt I should go to at least once. This would be my first taste of the festival and by no means would it be the end of my Reading journey, just the very beginning. I... Continue Reading →
May 9th 1999 – De Montfort University Supported by: The Flaming Lips What on earth was I going to this gig for? I can't think of a reason for seeing either band unless someone else had said, you must come along to this gig......I hadn't heard or bought anything by either band. I think looking... Continue Reading →
October 15th 1998 – Leicester Poly Arena Supported by: Gay Dad Mansun were a rock band, from Chester. Paul Draper (vocalist/rhythm guitarist), Stove King (Bass), Dominic Chad (lead guitarist/backing vocalist), and drummer Andie Rathbone. Their first album was a great success, "Attack of the Grey Lantern" getting to No.1 in 1997, so we had been... Continue Reading →
November 14th 1996 – De Montfort Hall "Stoosh" was their second album, but Skank Anansie sprang to fame a year earlier with the strong single "Weak" which was brilliant (from "Paranoid and Sunburnt"), so this was another gig to look forward to, so we could see the difference between radio music and live music. Here's... Continue Reading →
August 10th 1996 – Knebworth Park, Hertfordshire Having seen Oasis at Stoke Trentham Gardens, 3rd October 1995, things moved really fast for them. If anything, the last tour venues were too small and perhaps the record label under estimated how quickly the band would grow, so we suddenly jump from Oasis in a small venues... Continue Reading →
October 3rd 1995 – Trentham Gardens, Stoke on Trent Don't be fooled by the ticket, this concert got cancelled and rescheduled to 3rd October. Sometimes, you get concerts where you can say "I was there". Well, I didn't get tickets we were after for the gig we were after (Granby Halls, Leicester on November 17th... 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
