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Daminxa
Daminxa
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Re: probably old hat but...what was your first concert (honesty, please!)?
Nov 11, 2006, 12:22
Yes cos concerts wi' yer mum don't really count, cos I don't like to talk about the time I kept my mum company at a bleedin' Pavarotti concert - dear oh dear...
sttomas
sttomas
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Re: probably old hat but...what was your first concert (honesty, please!)?
Nov 11, 2006, 12:25
Gary Numan at St Davids Hall, Cardiff 1987, I was 16 at the time
oxford stu
oxford stu
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Re: probably old hat but...what was your first concert (honesty, please!)?
Nov 11, 2006, 12:39
thank you so much, it's been like an albatross round me neck for a long time, but now you've said that i feel liberated once more.

Lizzy it is then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Leonard
Leonard
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Re: probably old hat but...what was your first concert (honesty, please!)?
Nov 11, 2006, 13:30
ah right, if concerts your parents dragged you to don't count then it would be Motorhead around the time of the 'Golden Years' EP for mine then, think it was The friars in Aylesbury, not sure.
keith a
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Re: probably old hat but...what was your first concert (honesty, please!)?
Nov 11, 2006, 13:57
School trip, organised by our RE teacher, who took kids to loads of gigs. It would have been Roxy Music, but the trip was cancelled - lack of interest from the pupils iirc. Mott The Hoople was later cancelled for similar reasons.

So as I was desperate to go to a gig, I booked tickets for the first one available. Don't think I'd even heard anything by Uriah Heep!!

By that xmas, this teacher had also taken me to see Sparks, The Faces and Quo. Fast forward 4-5 yrs and he took us to see The Buzzcocks and Elvis Costello (and in the meantime, he took me to see T.Rex twice), though he didn't actually go and see any of these bands himself. He'd go to the cinema instead, and in the case of Costello, which he fancied seeing but could only get enough tickets for the 3-4 of us who asked to go, he sat in his car, beneath a street light and marked his pupils homework.

Beyond the call of duty and all that. A hero!
Brother Johnno
Brother Johnno
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Re: probably old hat but...what was your first concert (honesty, please!)?
Nov 11, 2006, 14:14
mine was two days earlier, june 19th at the Hammersmith odeon.
BJx
Brother Johnno
Brother Johnno
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Re: probably old hat but...what was your first concert (honesty, please!)?
Nov 11, 2006, 14:17
...mind you, I may have seen a band in the basement of the Roxborough Pub in Harrow prior to that! Probably someone like 'Matt Vinyl & The Emulsions.
Moon Cat
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Re: probably old hat but...what was your first concert (honesty, please!)?
Nov 11, 2006, 15:34
First ever concert was the Holst's Planets suite at the Albert Hall as part of the proms. I was about 4-5

First ever rock concert was Rick Wakeman doing Journey To The Centre Of The Earth with an orchestra at the Crystal Palace Bowl with Gryphon, Procul Harum and I think Leo Sayer (!) supporting. I was about 7 or 8.
Lawrence
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Re: probably old hat but...what was your first concert (honesty, please!)?
Nov 11, 2006, 15:41
Adam Ant after the Ants broke up.
handofdave
handofdave
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Re: probably old hat but...what was your first concert (honesty, please!)?
Nov 11, 2006, 15:59
Cat Stevens, age 13 (Buddha and the Chocolate Box tour)
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