i was standing next to Gary Numan.

supported by My Chemical Romance...

I win.

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I had to review it.

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I left after about 5 songs. How's THAT for dedication.

really really horrible
a rasta came on near the end and jumped up and down with a mic, saying something
i still think about it reguarly

Simply Red. I've probably seen them 30 times or so.

I used to work for McFly too... likewise.

God. :(

on that tour they did in the 90s that had about 80 shows.

it was ace!

I was only supposed to meet up with some mates for a drink before hand. Ended up getting pissed and some tosser offered me a ticket for a stupidly low price.

Tell anyone else and I'll have to cut you.

We rocked up at a local pub and asked if we could play, the barman said yes.

Needless to say the barman regretted it, after about 10 minutes when we emptied the whole pub.

gig was New Kids on the Block at birmingham NEC...i went with my mum and i couldnt understand why there wasnt many other boys there. my mum could.

keane and sandi thom. both free, both times guilt-tripped into going with a friend. incidentally, i am no longer friends with this person.

(also s club 7 for my 11th birthday, but i'm not going to lie, that was awesome)

supported by youthmovies in november 2004

moreso because the audience consisted of 40 year old women and 12 year old girls...

Queen Tribute band, Fort Regent, Jersey.

*end thread*

To be honest they were much better than Cleopatra, who were supporting.

The gig was disturbing though as

a) We seemed to be the oldest people there who weren't parents.

b) The place was full of girls (and I literally mean girls) in miniskirts.

I mean I'm no kind of prude or whatever but I just don't get why anyone would let their 10 or 12 year old dress up in revealing clothes. It's not something anyone wants to see really. I mean obviously some people do but that just makes it worse...

1st gig - Air Supply (age 8)
3rd gig - Debbie Gibson (age 12)
2006 gig - Caribou (age 30) was completely smashed and was talking with Dan after the gig for 5 minutes making an ass of myself. this one is most embarrasing.

yep

Cod-carribbean "ello dare mon" throughout, punctuating some great music.

1st gig: Paul Young, Brighton Centre when i was about 9.

Lots of dodgy hair metal and cheesy rock gigs during my mid-teens.

Status Quo christmas gig when i was 15. Loved it at the time though.

Since then i've (hopefully) gotten a little more discerning about music, but seeing Feeder about 3 years ago was a low point. I only went because my Mum wanted to go.

leads me to think about my first three gigs:

gig 1 - cable @ lemon tree.
gig 2 - oasis @ AECC
gig 3 - radiohead @ AECC.

Cable was by far the best. Oasis embarrasing? At the time no, i was like 13.

( :( )
And some horrific festival where Busted, Mcfly, Blue and Natasha Bedingfield played.

last year, friends get together, must confess I did have the album, supported by Towers of London - boy, were they shit. The highlight was the roadie who looked like Gollum, must have been somebody's junkie uncle or something....

On boyfriend duty, you understand. The first time was reasonably okay but that second time was just terrifying. Literally the youngest crowd I have ever encountered, with an abundance of little girls in pink miniskirts alternately chasing and swinging each other around. Fresh faced boys asking us to buy them beer. A (thankfully) short set due to the fact that, one can only guess, the majority of the audience had parents in waiting outside.

I was almost certainly the third oldest in the entire place, and I was 22. Even my boyfriend and his mate found the playground atmosphere a little on the side of unnerving, despite them both being hardened emo gig attendees used to being surrounded by people literally half their age.

-Boyzone
-Westlife
-Audioslave, but i had a BRILL time
-Kasabian...pretty much the same.

There are so many more that i can't remember just now.

..at the World Bowl in Glasgow, was hilarious!

Supported by Cheap Motel and Pull Tiger Tail, it was quite fun... but I was very pissed.

Ordinary Boys
Dead 60s

In the same night.

Oh and I saw The Cranberries, supported by Dodgy, when I was 10.

at a nightclub in York.

Oh, and the Scissor Sisters, but they were actually really enjoyable.

The Rasmus

this thread was done a few weeks back

Haven.

but it was about 10 yrs ago and I was about 13.

Going to see Girls Aloud in May too, but this is with the GF.

Embarrassing for the band ... I saw Blood Brothers supported by the Winnebago Deal, about 20 people there (pre Burn Piano ... tour) and everyone just heckled Winnebago Deal until they just gave up and left, what a shit band!

right about a yr or 2 ago.. funeral for a friend :/ my mate loved 'em and excitedly surprised me when he bought me a ticket to go see them with him too.. oh. yay.

i'd LOVE to see fine young cannibals

Embarassing to admit, but I thoroughly enjoyed it! There's still something to be said for the days when 'gigs' were just a load of nine and ten year olds stood awkwardly with their parents! I have to say, I don't think my Dad had the best night of his life...

Hard-Fi gets it for me. I got given a free ticket, so i thought that going would at least be better than kicks in and around my genitals.

That would have been a better option.

I had to leave when that cock singer started asking us 'are you feeling the love?', and so i hit the bar. Obviously, it wasn't just me who was having issues - the bar was 5 deep. Unbelievable bullshit!

Hard-Fi, Kasabian all for the love of my woman. Thankfully not on the same bill though.. Or is that worse because I've wasted three nights of my life ?

I was 20, a student and I thought it was fucking great. And wearing a Shellac t-shirt. I pulled with that t-shirt that night.

i loved it too. (this was the casually dressed tour)

proves everyone loves hard-fi really!

The Levellers

I was nine and with my Mum. I’m pretty sure that counts as child abuse.

Babyshambles, Joe Lean and Operator Please...all on the same bill. It was horrifying. It was the Gonzo 5th birthday show at the Barfly, initially meant to be We Are Scientists, Foals and Operator Please. W.A.S and Foals dropped out last minute. My girlfriend insisted we still go just in case the 'special suprise headliner' wasn't Babyshambles. Pffft.

I also went to what I think was billed as 'The Metal Hammer Emo Tour'. Although I stand by that decision, it was quite good. Well Dopamine were shite, Beloved were fucking incredible, then Dead Poetic were pretty good. After that the place emptied and The Hurt Process were left playing to about 12 folk....that fat one still gave it some to be fair though. I enjoyed it.

http://www.last.fm/event/80119

Do I win? Do I?