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Reading one of Chris C's recent playlists:

http://www.metamatic.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=7;t=000004;p=18

I was reminded of New Musik's excellent World of Water single.

These were the first touring band I saw live and it was, what, 1979? A few local pub bands and stuff before that (as I still enjoy immensely), but I think this would count as my first proper gig.
They were good, too!

What about you...?

The first band I saw live was Ratsia. This was 1981 in Kinnula, Finland. Ratsia started as a punk band but later changed to a something like Joy Division.

That gig was my first "night out". After that there's been a few..

OMD on the Dazzle Ships tour at Poole Arts Centre in Dorset, supported by the Cocteau Twins. Good show all round, if I recall.

I went straight for the best!

Peter Gabriel, Secret World Tour
Monday May 24th, 1993, Sheffield Arena

I can even tell you what I was wearing (but I won't)!! I was 15 and had been into Peter's music for just a few months. That concert was not only spectacular, but it opened me up to a whole new world of music and creativity. Amazing.

Not bad for a first gig. And it was only £20, which by today's standards is just pennies!!

It all started for me with Ultravox
Monday 29th November 1982 at the Birmingham
Odeon Centre Circle,ticket cost £4.00
I was 19

BTW Alex I was at that Peter Gabriel gig in Sheffield.

By today's standards, yes, but at the time quite expensive. The average stadium show in '93 was only around that price mark, so for an arena show it was 'pricey'...




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John Peel Roadshow, Teesside Polytechnic, around 1984/5.

Bands were "The Flower Drum People", Basczax (spelling?), and Patrick.

TFDP were excellent, Basczax were good, and Patrick were tremendous, but way too loud for such a small venue. There was also a local comic on, but he got pissed off and left when we ignored him in favour of fighting our way to the bar to get ratted on lager in plastic glasses.

Straight for the best for me too!

Ultravox - Set Movements Tour
May 25th 1984, Bristol Hippodrome

Ahhh. yes...

Saw Peter Gabriel on the So Tour, the night Kate Bush guested (Earl's Court, I think). Amazing Show. Saw him recently too on the Growing Up tour, but somehow I missed Secret World. Still can't quite understand how that happened.

Not very electronic but the hollies at the wembley conference centre 1990. My mum and dad took me. Really enjoyed it as i remember.

Cool!

...I just hope you weren't the guy in front of us, whose white Genesis t-shirt got covered in my mate's malteesers when we did the mexican wave...