NME Carling Awards – Tour – 2001
Mansun – Little Kix Tour – 2000
November 3rd 2000 – De Montfort Uni, Leicester Arena
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".
Coldplay – Parachutes Tour – 2000
October 4th 2000 – Leicester DSU Arena
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.
Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs Tour – 1999
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 →
Mansun – Six Tour – 1998
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 →
Terrorvision – Regular Urban Survivors Tour – 1996
March 24th 1996 – Leicester Arena (De Montfort Uni) You would think we would have had enough of the Bradford boys by now? Not likely. This had become the ultimate sweat buckets and dance gig of the 90s for us! I don't recall the support band, I suspect as it was a Sunday, we decided... Continue Reading →
Jesus Jones Tour – 1993
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 →
The Psychedelic Furs – World Outside Tour – 1991
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 →
The Alarm – Raw Tour – 1991
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 →
Birdland Tour – 1991
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 →
Book of Days Tour – 1989
November 12th 1989 – Leicester Poly This was another exciting day, having been a Psychedelic Furs fan for a few years now, they had announced a surprise gig under their cover name of "Book of Days". I don't think this happens anymore, but a few times in my teens, bands did this, Naz Nomad and... Continue Reading →
Cactus World News – 1986
April 19th 1986 - Leicester Poly Cactus World News were an Irish band who had come to my attention through U2. Bono was producing them and i had got a free cassette tape, I think with Melody Maker featuring Worlds Apart and The Bridge. The band sounded a bit like The Waterboys with a slightly... Continue Reading →
The Waterboys Tour – 1985
October 11th 1985 - Leicester Polytechnic The first Waterboys album I bought was A Pagan Place in 1984 on a recommendation. "The Big Music" and "The Thrill is Gone" were the two feature tracks, but the stand out track for me was "Rags". It was such a mix of sounds, rock, pop, orchestra and piano.... Continue Reading →