belboid
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The Duchess of York! I was at that too
Famous Bands Playing To Tiny Audiences
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Orang Utan
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I practically lived there between the ages of 16-17. Mostly punk/hardcore gigs.
belboid
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did you see Fugazi? Must have been about the same timeI practically lived there between the ages of 16-17. Mostly punk/hardcore gigs.
Orang Utan
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Aye. Also saw them at the Irish Centre and the Poly. My mate got overcome emotionally at the Irish Centre gig and got on stage to kiss Ian McKaye. McKaye stopped the music and said we should all kiss each other not the band. A few hundred Yorkshire folk looked at their feet and the band played on.
Orang Utan
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Alice Donut was one of the most memorable gigs there
Orang Utan
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And Jesus Lizard! They were a beast of a band live.
belboid
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Didn't see them until years later. I wore David Yow's footprint on my forehead for the next two days.
I think I discovered The Ex at the Duchess
weepiper
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Nirvana playing to 30 people at The Southern Bar in Edinburgh in 1991
My brother had been there earlier and had left because everyone thought it was just a rumour that they were coming there after the proper gig they'd played elsewhere in Edinburgh the same night.
My brother had been there earlier and had left because everyone thought it was just a rumour that they were coming there after the proper gig they'd played elsewhere in Edinburgh the same night.
Boris Sprinkler
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I saw madness play under the monicker the danger men. At the electric ballroom in Camden about 2005/6. Before the days of camera phones.
jontz01
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I saw Ian Brown and JJZ2 (later to become Muse) in a tiny pub in Stoke on separate occasions...
Also Gomez in a tiny little tent at glasto (does that count
?) being one of my favourite intimate gigs ever. I think it was the year that Stevie Wonder headlined and all my mates thought I was mad for leaving pyramid
Also Gomez in a tiny little tent at glasto (does that count
?) being one of my favourite intimate gigs ever. I think it was the year that Stevie Wonder headlined and all my mates thought I was mad for leaving pyramid
Orang Utan
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Ooh just remembered seeing Aphex Twin & Mixmaster Morris playing ambient DJ sets in a tiny tent at Tribal Gathering in Warminster in 93. Must have been only a dozenish folk lying on mats in there. I don’t think I appreciated it at the time.
‘Arena’ LOL
‘Arena’ LOL
Voley
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I saw The Charlatans in the Boston Arms in Tufnell Park. Their first London gig of their own. They'd supported The Stone Roses in London once before but that was it, I think. There was a bit of a buzz about them already so it was sold out but it was just the upstairs room of a pub. I asked Tim Burgess if he remembers it on Twitter recently and he does, although he can't remember headlining Reading Festival.
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I saw The Charlatans in the Boston Arms in Tufnell Park. Their first London gig of their own. They'd supported The Stone Roses in London once before but that was it, I think. There was a bit of a buzz about them already so it was sold out but it was just the upstairs room of a pub. I asked Tim Burgess if he remembers it on Twitter recently and he does, although he can't remember headlining Reading Festival.
The Charlatans had to cancel the gig they’d scheduled at the Hop Pole in Aylesbury because Guy Chadwick’s House of Love were playing at the Civic, and they were never going to win that battle for the town’s pop fans. 1989, maybe.
tommers
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LOL. Was just coming on to say the same.
Seeing them in May at some nightclub in Kingston.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I think I saw them in Bristol supporting Tad (must have been the same time) I thought it was after nevermind but before teen spirit but maybe it wasn't . . maybe it was around the time of Sliver and I am getting the two confused.
Drummer gave Kurt a demo tape after the gig, he was totally fucked.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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That's a blast from the past. I remember liking their cover of 'my boyfriends back'.
Always been a bit hit and miss musically for me . . . . but would always try to see them live. It was a real good show. I was never heavily into seeing live bands and didn't bother very often even though I lived in London.
Just to put that in context, I was a guitar player in a london band in the 90s and I rarely even turned up to my own gigs.
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they did UK tours in the autumn of three consecutive years IIRC - 89, 90 and 91, then Reading 92
mwgdrwg
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I saw Take That's first ever gig....in a car park on Anglesey as part of the Atlantic 252 Roadshow. It was some radio station that was very popular here at the time...252 on Long Wave. It was 1991, a year or so before their first hit.
The only memories I have is that Gary Barlow had a massive bleached blonde spikey hairdo, and Robbie Williams had an LA Raiders cap as did I...we had a mutual 'doffing of the cap moment' I was into NWA at the time....only went to the roadshow because nothing ever happened where I grew up and this was something to do.
Wish I'd seen Nirvana in a pub or something
The only memories I have is that Gary Barlow had a massive bleached blonde spikey hairdo, and Robbie Williams had an LA Raiders cap as did I...we had a mutual 'doffing of the cap moment' I was into NWA at the time....only went to the roadshow because nothing ever happened where I grew up and this was something to do.
Wish I'd seen Nirvana in a pub or something
Voley
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I'd only heard Sliver the first time I saw them, didn't know much about them but thought I'd see what they were like. Reading, middle of the afternoon, Kurt did his back in diving into the drums. They were my favourite band by the Autumn of that year. Still think The Astoria gig that year is one of my all-time favs.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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It was that they specifically supported Tad and was the first time I had heard about them coming to play. My friend was very fond of bleach but I thought it sounded like heavy metal. Sliver turned my head (and I bought it). I remember my friend buying Nevermind, and playing 'smells' I wasn't convinced, but it grew on me.
For some reason I thought the Tad thing was around this time, just before they exploded, but I guess that would have been a little way off because, like you say, they played Redding on stage below silverfish but Tad would not have been anywhere on the bill.
Voley
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They were a bit higher up than Silverfish (who were brill that day, too) but not much. That days lineup was incredible really. Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr, Babes In Toyland, all these bands influenced by The Stooges then Iggy playing a blinder at the end of it.
Orang Utan
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I only liked Bleach really. They went soft like many of those grunge bands. The other bands went too metal.
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I once had Timo Maas play just to me, I was doing the lights, he'd been booked to play a stage an hour before it opened for reasons that remain unclear. he finished his set with Your Love by Frankie Knuckles and we both jumped down and had a little dance while laughing at the situation. it was nice.
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I once DJ'd right before Brandon Block at a university gig. I set the dancefloor up nicely for him with plenty of people dancing away ready for him to do his thing. Then he comes on giving it the big 'I am', and plays 'Oh La La' by the Wiseguys and everybody fucked off to the other dancefloor.
Speaking of which, what happened to slap a superstar DJ? You used to be able to slap Brandon Block (and others) right here. We should bring it back. editor
Speaking of which, what happened to slap a superstar DJ? You used to be able to slap Brandon Block (and others) right here. We should bring it back. editor
Slap a Superstar DJ and give those rubbish, overpaid DJ club celebrities like Fatboy Slim, Judge Jules and Oakenfold a well earned decking!
slap a superstar DJ - slap overpaid club celebrities like Westwood, Fatboy Slim, Judge Jules and the rest of them a well earned slap
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ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Oh, maybe they were on just after sliverfish then? I didn't go. I just remember Chris P (bass) saying they watched them from the side as they went off/on.
spitfire
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He made some absolute tunes.
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I was on the guest list for that gig, courtesy of my brother, but Carcass - who I was a bit obsessed with at the time - were playing that night so I paid actual money to see them and Cathedral at the Marquee instead. My brother went on his own. It was a little bit disappointing, although I tried to delude myself that it wasn't because I'd turned seeing Carcass into something bigger than it actually was. I actually liked Carcass when they were a wall of noise, but by this time Bill Steer was doing lengthy guitar solos and they'd gone more obviously metal than crusty grindcore. Cathedral were pretty boring.
I used to be quite proud of that anecdote. Then it turned more into 'oh, what a fool I was!' Now it's just an anecdote.
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