September 16, 200916 yr Shane Fenton and the Fen tones, Clayton Ballroom, entrance fee one shilling and sixpenceI raise you a The Shadows at The Empire!Year? Well, would rather not say even if I could remember accurately. With a dozen hormonal teenage Bedlington girls, and I just hope none of same are reading this! Entrance: Can't recall; probably a couple of bob.
September 16, 200916 yr Hmmm... more people claim to have been there than the capacity of the place...A much more impressive list would go as follows: Sleeper - Newcastle University The Fall - Some grotty folk club in LeedsThe Boo Radleys - Also Newcastle University Blur - Mayfair, Arena and some festivalsCarter the Unstoppable Sex Machine - maybe Trillians...Tenpole Tudor - Trillians again... eekThe Super Furry Animals - A number of times, usually Newcastle University The Kaiser Chiefs - a load of places in Leeds before they became the Kaiser ChiefsBelle and Sebastian - Numerous venuesFuture of the Left - downstairs at the Head of Steam... still have tinitusSteve Harley (minus Cockney Rebel) - Possibly the same venue as the fall Stephen Malkmus - Manchester somewhere Jonathan Richman - in a cathderal The Apples in Stereo - Possibly the best gig ever, somewhere in town (where one apple was dressed as Evil Kineval)Shed Seven - the Riverside, punched Rick WitterThe Shins - Same place in Manchester as Malkmus, but a different nightMorrissey (and every Smiths tribute band going) - All over the country Numerous Brit and Swedish Pop bands, whose name I have since forgotten, in venues that no longer existSadly, the list never included Menswear... suppose I could just tell everyone I saw them at the Mayfair though?Mmmmmmmm MrsVic how could you forget that awesome night at Manchester watching the 'D'!!!!!!!
September 17, 200916 yr Mmmmmmmm MrsVic how could you forget that awesome night at Manchester watching the 'D'!!!!!!!A copius ammount of brandy with vodka chasers is why. Never again. Did we have a good time?
September 17, 200916 yr A copius ammount of brandy with vodka chasers is why. Never again. Did we have a good time?Yeah, apart from the peeps we were with.JB was rocking!
September 17, 200916 yr Here's some of the ones i recall:AC/DCGreen Day (twice i believe)Foo FightersBon Jovi (against my will)ReefBlurOasis (four times)Ocean Colour SceneAmy WinehouseRolling Stones (twickenham 2006)The Who Bob Dylan (once at slane castle, second time at arena)Paul WellerBlack KeysBootleg BeatlesMorriseyPaul MccartneyKasabianCharlatansGraham CoxonProclaimersU2The LibertinesKings of LeonBabyshamblesBedouin SoundclashFutureheadsMaximo ParkIan BrownRyan AdamsSigur RosDirty Pretty ThingsStereophonicsRichard Ashcroft
September 24, 200916 yr The list is too long to type but I am going to see 'The Bad Shepherds' in two weeks time at The Sage......Can't wait!
September 29, 200916 yr I have to say that the '3 Gees' were awsome on Friday night at the Market Tavern......It was like the good old days back at the Balance!
October 27, 200916 yr Just been to see Green Day in Sheffield - best gig I've ever been to. They were amazing
January 27, 201115 yr Me and the girly have been right getting into our folk music recently, attended the Green Man Festival in the Brecon Beacons, Wales in August and had an excellent relaxed time for a muddy festival. Small intimate and everyone so friendly.Went to the Sage last weekend and seen The Smoke Fairies. They were good but the two supporting acts were better in my opinion.Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell - http://www.jonnyandlucy.com/ Both graduates of the Newcastle University Folk Degree course, Lucy plays fiddle and Jonny guitar. Both sing. Lucy has the most beautiful voice I've encountered for a long time, while Jonny's sensitive playing establishes the spare, delicate, dignified, soothing, agreeably old-fashioned character of the arrangements. Jonny also writes imaginative and tender songs that would stand out in their own right, but here are considerably enhanced by quite lovely performances (perhaps the best are 'Benjamin Brown' and 'Lullaby' – the latter being a love song to a partner who is too drunk to leave a party). Another highlight is 'Hares On The Mountain'; I've heard many versions of this rather beautiful traditional standard, but none this brilliant. Stars are born.Sensational and interacted with the crowd nicely.Will be attending the Sage over the next couple of months for a few other events. Worth checking out for anyone who likes something a bit different.
January 27, 201115 yr I dont mind a bit of folk music, usually traditional Northumbrian, but I don't think I will be rushing out to get a baggy Arran sweater just yet, mind you, the Guiness aint bad
October 7, 201411 yr Here is another buried thread worth the time taken to read.Spoaching again through the archives
October 20, 201411 yr Went to Memphis to see elvis went to his house he wasn't there!! He was in the garden dead & buried,travelled all the way there for that At least it kept my ex wife happy which was very hard to do....
October 20, 201411 yr Never mind the bands, what about the long lost Forum members; where are they now? Pete, Hamburger Pimp, Cympil, and my old sparring partner Monsta.
December 5, 201411 yr Never mind the bands, what about the long lost Forum members; where are they now? Pete, Hamburger Pimp, Cympil, and my old sparring partner Monsta. Yeah, where is Pete?
December 5, 201411 yr It's always a mystery when they disappear. It could be for any number of reasons: they've croaked and not left instructions to their next of kin to inform us, they've been lifted by the Peelers and are now in the pokey, they're on the run, they've moved-on having outgrown the childishness sometime on display here. Or, perhaps the guys with their fingers on the kill-trigger switch here have 'terminated' them.
December 5, 201411 yr It's always a mystery when they disappear. It could be for any number of reasons: they've croaked and not left instructions to their next of kin to inform us, they've been lifted by the Peelers and are now in the pokey, they're on the run, they've moved-on having outgrown the childishness sometime on display here. Or, perhaps the guys with their fingers on the kill-trigger switch here have 'terminated' them.Definitley not croaked it Symptons, at least i think I've not. Pellers not this week. Time is the answer not much of it these days.
December 7, 201411 yr Hooray, Pete is back! Now the wait is on for Hamburger Pimp, Cympil, and Monsta.
December 8, 201411 yr Anyway, great subject, so here's my list (far from complete) to inspire those yet to contribute; venues varied, but mostly in Manchester James - tons of times, the original guitarist is a friendParis Angels (who? Yes, yes, I know....)Flowered Up - oh well,. can't win them allThe BolshoiThe Waterboys - best live act everU2REMThe RamonesBilly BraggBand of Holy Joy - beg steal or borrow to see these guys, they are uniqueThe ChameleonsAlternative TVPIL - for three songs as support to James at Alton Towers, plug pulled when crowd wouldn't atop chucking bottles of p*** as LydonViolent Femmes - who should have supported James (see above) but were disallowed on the grounds they were not suitable for a family event. But Johnny Rotten was....The CultMotley Crue (yes, really.......)Cheap Trick (the reason I sat through Motley Crue.....)Bob DylanTom Petty and the HeartbreakersJackson BrowneBradford (??)Cactus World NewsThe BolshoiThe AlarmBig CountryLone Justice - can I have Maria McKee on a plate, please?Stiff Little FIngersSimple MIndsLloyd Cole and the CommotionsSpear of DestinyBlue Aeroplanes (mesmeric, truly...)World PartyThe TriffidsThe Stone Roses (awful; truly, genuinely awful) And so on; harking back to Mrs Vic's comment about the NIrvana gig at the Mayfair, I must have been the only person in the north west who didn't attend the Sex Pistols legendary appearance at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester in '76. If you believe everyone who says they did, that wonderful venue has a capacity of three and a half million.
December 8, 201411 yr Band of Joy with Robert Plant great listening.Would not mind seeing The Scene Shifters, I think that is his latest lot.Great list mercuryg .We saw the Ramones at the City Hall ear burstingly loud.
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