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Has to be Joy Division supporting Buzzcocks Lpool Uni 78
Closely followed by Graham Parker supporting Thin Lizzy Lpool Stadium 75
China Crisis supporting Simple Minds Milan 85
Technically John Foxx supporting Ladytron Lpool Korova 2006
Dire Straits supporting Climax Blues Lancaster Uni 78
Never saw Ultravox as support but when I saw John and the Vox! at Eric's in 78 the support band were the Ded Byrds (sic) featuring a certain Holly Johnson on vocals who was destined to go into Clive Dunne /Don Estelle and Windsor Davis territory with various novelty number ones .

Many many years ago I went to see The Pretenders who were basically crap but they had UB40 supporting before they were famous and they were outstanding.

I guess also JF when he was supporting the Human League.

Peter

JF supporting the League That's like Olivier doing "Eastenders"
Still I suppose he's got a mortgage to pay !
(Hope it's not with Northern Rock or Northern Wrok Rock even )

Blind Boys of Alabama supporting Peter Gabriel on his UP tour was the best I've seen.

Midge Ure played support in the '90s for someone, cant remember who now. It just seems odd that it was after he was famous but i suppose its like John with The League, its just one of the strange things that happens.

I actually saw Midge as a support act.

Easy - has to be The Rubicks.

Otherwise, I'd go way back in time to the time I saw a band called Culture Club supporting A Flock of Seagulls in Oxford somewhere. I had simply never seen anyone like Boy George before.

Good topic - I'll have to ponder this...

Howard Jones Supporting China Crisis(with Mick McNeil and Charley Burchill in the audieance)
Again John Foxx Supporting HL(Glasgow Barrowlands)
TIk and Tok supporting Numan
Rico Supporting Numan
Spacehog Supporting Kula Shaker
Numan Supporting OMD

The Rubicks did an impressive set in Milan back in April

Pan Sonic used to do a lot of support slots for Suicide - that was one hell of a double-bill!

Think though I'd have to go for Pulp supporting Oasis at the Sheffield Arena. They stood in for The Verve at the last minute because The Verve's guitarist had broke his arm.

Jarvis announced that they had a new song and it was called 'Common People'.

We never stayed to watch Oasis - no point after that!

As we walked down towards the exit when Oasis came on, Jarvis was at the front eating a bag of chips and offered us some! Class!