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!!
July 10th 1999 – Milton Keynes Bowl Supported by: Lots of great bands! Creed, Sepultura, Ministry, Ben Harper, Placebo, Marilyn Manson, Mercyful Fate, Queens of the Stone Age, Symposium, Pitchshifter, Monster Magnet, Terrorvision........oh, and Metallica! So this was about the biggest rock line up outside of Monster of Rock, in fact certainly the heaviest line... Continue Reading →
February 27th 1999 – Rock City, Nottingham Rock City. "Midlands Home of Rock". Based on the gigs I'm writing up at present and the tickets I found, this appears to be one of my first visits to Rock City.....I'm missing tickets for most of 1997 and 1998 and I feel sure I would have done... 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 →
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 →
September 7th 1989 – De Montfort Hall Funny old band, Black Sabbath.....you were never quite sure what the line up would be. Suffice it to say, for this tour, Ozzy Osbourne had been gone a while. Sort of didn't matter, as this will always be Tony Iommi's band. So the line up for this tour... Continue Reading →
August 20th 1988 - Donington Park "don't fuckin' kill each other " Axl Rose addresses the audience during the Guns N' Roses set..... The saddest day in my music gig going and a quote from Axl which was borne from his frustrations as the huge crowd surge at the front, he didn't know what was... Continue Reading →
August 16th 1986 - Donington Park Monsters of Rock.......the home of Metal, the church of Rock.....it's difficult to sum up what the feeling was looking back to a 21 year olds first ever full blown heavy rock concert! To this point in my musical adventure, I'd touched on what would be classed as true rock... Continue Reading →
