The first gig you ever played (1 Viewer)

[outoftheblue]

Do you remember it? I was trying to think of mine just now. It's pretty blurry. I'm about to play my first gig in like more than a year this Saturday with a sort of Beat Happening-ish* band and it's all very shambolic, which is the kind of thing I love when I go to see a band but kind of scary when it's you on a bill with other 'proper' bands, and I realised I'd almost forgotten what it's like being on stage.

*maybe

 

[HMD]

Mine was in scotts in Dun Laoghaire in the summer of 1990 supporting a band called Ruins.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Emmaus Centre in Balheary a school concert in 1998 I think. The band was called The Haberdasheries and we did a Dylan cover and a U2 song and some other covers.

 

[Lord Damian]

first "gig" would have been around '87 at the school talent show, played a few Neil Young covers...first proper gig would have been about 2 months after that where the same band played a school dance...got paid and everything.

20 years ago?!?!?!?!



no.

no, that can't be right.

 

[outoftheblue]

Emmaus Centre in Balheary a school concert in 1998 I think. The band was called The Haberdasheries and we did a Dylan cover and a U2 song and some other covers.

I would love to hear you sing a U2 song! What did you do? That's the best band name I've heard all day.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I wasn't really the singer but I sang part of One and sang All Along the Watch Tower.

 

[niallmc]

Ivy Rooms 1984, opening band on the bill, Paranoid Visions were up next. I picked a spot at the back of the room and stared at it the whole set.

 

[Lili Marlene]

I played recorder at the arklow musical festival around 1992.

came second in the competition.

 

[cpr]

first gig was with brian cullen's love bullets in voodoo headlining to a tattoo convention. I must have vomited about 7 times before we went on stage and so was dizzy by the time we got up. we played our thirty minute set in 17mins cos we were so nervous. Played in Voodoo for the first time since then last Friday and couldn't believe how small the stage was. At the time it felt like wembley arena..horrible horrible first gig.

 

[therealjohnny]

My first was when I was in school , we played The No Name club - a club for kids where you could have fun without alcohol (lies), training for Alcoholics Anonymous in later life or something

We were brutal. I borrowed an amp and during one song I turned a knob I shouldn't have so the next 20 minutes was just a bbbgggrrrhhhxzzzznzngtgg noise from me. Dreadful stuff.


About 15 years later I joined a punk band in Dublin and I cant remember where we played our first gig. Slatterys maybe.

 

[xsteox]

this

our only gig as a trio. was so fuckin nervous at the start,made loads of mistakes, but totally enjoyed it.|..|

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

mine was the westmeath "search for a star" final when i was 15. i cant remember what we used call ourselves at the time but we performed cream's "sunshine of your love" and "hotel California" by the eagles. it was a passable first performance. heres me, i reckon this was during hotel california judging by the F#

we played a gig in the school the following week at a gig to raise money for the christian brothers in zambia and it was a complete fiasco.

 

[therealjohnny]

jaysis- we were planning on doing two Ramones songs but dropped them...because they were too difficult

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Eh....The Gratton inn on capel st. August 1992

 

[Space]

Mine's was the St Eunan's school concert in 95, I played the breeders cannonball bass line in the wrong key. Think we also played supersonic by oasis and some green day song.

 

[beattre]

Borrowed a mate's Metalzone® pedal for my first gig but didn't know how it worked, come to think of it I didn't know how the guitar worked either. Feedback city.

 

[Unicron]

Played in Voodoo one Sunday night. About 60 of our friends and family showed up, nutso. I was told afterwards that I had "stage presence," which surprised me because I'm not normally very outgoing or chatty or anything.

 

[pissypants]

Early 80's, some unfortunate GAA club or other somewhere, a very much pre-pubecent me plays tin whistle with a tin whistle group. I was thought to be some sort of child sight-reading genius: but at this stage neither my parents nor my music teacher had realised that I only knew what song it was from the colour of the page it was printed on. A few weeks later some pro-IRA flyers come home with us from the tin-whistle classes and we: my brother, sister and me, never attend another lesson.

 

[CinnamonBoy]

Supporting The Blew in the Magic Carpet around '97.

Pints were £1 if you were playing. One of the best nights of my life.

 

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

im hoping le galaxie and betamax format will gimme my big break this december in crawdaddi.
that'd be hawt.