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TheBear
TheBear
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Re: Best Gig(s) you've been to......
Mar 24, 2004, 15:51
Far out! :O)

On the sleeve notes to 21 singles they say they ended everything some time around 1999. A bit too late lads... shoulda released three singles and one classic album and put a big fat full-stop on the end of pop music once and for all.
Lawrence
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Re: Best Gig(s) you've been to......
Mar 24, 2004, 15:54
So you lived in my town of Rochester NY? I know the Dead did play the old Silver Stadium alot in the 80s... I never actually saw them, but I know at the same time of the '88 show I went to see a local band who were frends of mine and they said during the show "We're glad you missed the Grateful Dead just to see us."
Squid Tempest
Squid Tempest
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Re: Best Gig(s) you've been to......
Mar 24, 2004, 16:05
I'd like to have seen Mickey Dread - I love Dread at the Controls, a fine album.

Prince Far I and the Arabs were absolutely stunning btw, deffo one of the best gigs I've ever seen. His voice - so gravelly! And they had an enourmous big bass drum thing which one of the band had attached to his waist (like a marching band drummer) - it made such a glorious BOOOOM noise, I'll never forget it!
Lawrence
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Re: Simple Minds
Mar 24, 2004, 16:05
Ludus -- did the singer wear her raw meat suit? And was it their usual slutty fake-jazz stuff?
Squid Tempest
Squid Tempest
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Re: Best Gig(s) you've been to......
Mar 24, 2004, 16:09
oooh JAMC - I'm enjoying this thread! Saw em back in the Psychocandy days Hammersmith Palais. Fab.

The Palais reminds me of some other great gigs there -

Talking Heads with Psychedelic Furs!!!
Birthday Part with the Fall and Sonic Youth (I think - were they really all the same night or is my goldfish brain at it again?!)!!!
Lawrence
9547 posts

Re: Best Gig(s) you've been to......
Mar 24, 2004, 16:09
Nazi skinheads really suck! It's lame they destroyed nearly EVERY concent in England back then... I know they almost destroyed the whole hardcore and metal scene in my town back in the 90s. They're pretty-much non-existant now luckily...
Monganaut
Monganaut
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Re: Best Gig(s) you've been to......
Mar 24, 2004, 16:15
Sonic Youth supporting Nick Cave, Birmingham Powerhouse in April/May 85' ?
They were touring the Bad Moon Rising record, half way through the set, Thurstons amp catches fire, someone in the crowd shouts "put it out", Thurston replys in a whisper, "nooo, let it burn", and goes on to play a song or two before the roadies/stagehands get the willies and run onstage and put it out. Got to meet em' after the gig too when they came 'front house' and watched ole' Nick strut his stuff plugging 'From Her to Eternity'. Was only about 30 people there and this mad German girl was trying to climb on stage all the bloody set, mauling Cave's feet...great night, except for the whiney German.

Ramones circa 87', Birmingham Hummingbird. Life affirming racket from Us's top pop punksters. Played a roaring set to which i spun on the floor on the blacony in a Jerry Lewis style whilst being totally off my tits on mushrooms yay!!

3x Circle supporting AMT Oct/Nov 02'?
Totally blew AMT away with a tour to support the 'Prospekt' album. Mad 'Rob Halford' looking singer roaring over a demented organ in a most Judas Priest fashion whilst syncopated drum patterns and droned out bass and guitars complete the maelstrom....yummy.

Boris...just cos' it was so fuckin' LOUD. Played most of FLOOD, and the sweetheart of a guitarist remembered to bring my CD's all the way from Japan...what a star!

The Heads supporting AMT, again,another mad 'psyche out' from Bristols finest, only time I've seen em' play live and they were transmutoing base matals with their performance...loved it to death.

Coil - Supporting Foetus sometime 2000 (think it was the RFH). First gigs they'd played as Coil in 18 years, got to hear 'Blood From The Air' live and was severely tripped out by the 'strobe assault' during the climax of the set 'Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil. Best because i NEVER thought Coil would tour again...it was the dogs danglies to be sure!
Seen em' several times since this, and whilst they are always entertaining, they've yet to approach the ferocity of this set.

Three Johns touring to support Atom Drum Bop, Aston triangle, sometime in 85/86'... got apsolutely rip roaring pissed, got dragged up on stage for heckling and sang 'Teenage Nightingales To Wax' whilst they played it, wow, rock 'n' roll !

I'm sure there's loads more, but these few are the ones i recall most fondly.
Lawrence
9547 posts

Re: Best Gig(s) you've been to......
Mar 24, 2004, 16:16
I saw the Stranglers in my town about 1987 or so... Rumor had it that during their previous gig in NYC they shoved a celery stalk up the ass of a heckler.
TheBear
TheBear
981 posts

Re: Best Gig(s) you've been to......
Mar 24, 2004, 16:19
Aaaah! The Fall-uh! Superb.. many times in Sheffield and once at the Town Hall-uh, Birmingham... Ooh and when they did "I Am Curious, Orange" at Shaftsbury(?) Theatre with Michael Clarke dancing... that was good... Brix was playing guitar before she ran off with that Nigel Kennedy wanker... she was pretty... *sigh*
Monganaut
Monganaut
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Re: Futurama
Mar 24, 2004, 16:20
I've got a bootleg of the Bauhaus performance at the 1980 Futurama, tape sounds fuckin' awful, but they played a lush set.
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