Were you at any of these gigs? (1 Viewer)

[nlgbbbblth]

If not, maybe you know someone who was.

Genesis, National Stadium, September 1972

The Jam, Top Hat, October 1978

XTC, McGonagles, October 1978

Status Quo / Judas Priest / Undertones / Rockpile - Dalymount Park, July 1979

The Genesis show was the first one in which Peter Gabriel wore a mask. A fox. Freaky!

 

[ann post]

ne pas de born

 

[simp]

Sonic Youth / Nirvana - Top Hat 1991?

 

[magnetize]

Sonic Youth / Nirvana - Top Hat 1991?

aye

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

aye

I'll bring that count up to 2.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Status Quo / Judas Priest / Undertones / Rockpile - Dalymount Park, July 1979

Odd/amazing line up.

 

[shidheat]

3...

 

[Pilchard]

+1

 

[nlgbbbblth]

waiting for someone to say

'If everyone who says they saw Sonic Youth / Nirvana in 1991 was actually there, then the crowd would have filled the RDS'.

the correct response to that most annoying quip is

'If you disbelieve everyone who says they saw Sonic Youth / Nirvana in 1991 then there would have been NOBODY at it'.

Which was not the case.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Dave Fanning is always saying that about gigs he was at

 

[HMD]

when Green Day were popular people would say that about their gig in the atic

 

[Pilchard]

when Green Day were popular people would say that about their gig in the atic

niall mcgurk is the man with the attendance sheet for that one

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

What about the Nirvana show in the Point in the 90s when everyone knew who they were and they had more and better songs?

I was at that shit.

 

[Jerry Twig]

I was at the Top Hat gig in 91 also. Saw the Jesus and Mary Chain there too.

 

[hugh]

What about the Nirvana show in the Point in the 90s when everyone knew who they were and they had more and better songs?

That was so boring I can't even remember if I was at it or not. Missed the Top Hat gig. I was away at the time. So there's a minus one for ye. Still annoyed about that.

I did see Metallica in the Top Hat though. With Danzig supporting ...... it was okay.

 

[HMD]

the top hat was great for the gigs. Saw Faith no more and prong there, that was a great gig.

 

[aoboa]

when Green Day were popular people would say that about their gig in the atic

niall mcgurk is the man with the attendance sheet for that one

I was there and I'd say the attendance was about 30 people support band included.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from France and from London.
But I was there.

I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the Internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Tokyo and Berlin.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered eighties.

But I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge, but I was there.
I was there.
But I was there.

I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1974 at the first Suicide practices in a loft in New York City.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Daft Punk to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.

I used to work in the record store.
I had everything before anyone.
I was there in the Paradise Garage DJ booth with Larry Levan.
I was there in Jamaica during the great sound clashes.
I woke up naked on the beach in Ibiza in 1988.

But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.

I'm losing my edge.

I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody. Every great song by the Beach Boys. All the underground hits. All the Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import. I heard that you have a white label of every seminal Detroit techno hit - 1985, '86, '87. I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.

I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your computer out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought turntables.
I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables and bought guitars.

I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.

But have you seen my records? This Heat, Pere Ubu, Outsiders, Nation of Ulysses, Mars, The Trojans, The Black Dice, Todd Terry, the Germs, Section 25, Althea and Donna, Sexual Harrassment, a-ha, Pere Ubu, Dorothy Ashby, PIL, the Fania All-Stars, the Bar-Kays, the Human League, the Normal, Lou Reed, Scott Walker, Monks, Niagra,

Joy Division, Lower 48, the Association, Sun Ra,
Scientists, Royal Trux, 10cc,

Eric B. and Rakim, Index, Basic Channel, Soulsonic Force ("just hit me"!), Juan Atkins, David Axelrod, Electric Prunes, Gil! Scott! Heron!, the Slits, Faust, Mantronix, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, the Swans, the Soft Cell, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.

You don't know what you really want. (x15)

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

That was so boring I can't even remember if I was at it or not. Missed the Top Hat gig. I was away at the time. So there's a minus one for ye. Still annoyed about that.

I did see Metallica in the Top Hat though. With Danzig supporting ...... it was okay.

Metallica with Anthrax in the SFX was pretty good

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

And they're actually really, really nice.

My favourite bit in that