Uriah Heap A mate had a spare ticket he gave it me free, still feel robbed. Utterly mind numbing experience.
Rolling Stones at the old Wembley. Only went so I could say I’d seen them to my future grandchildren as I always moaned at my old man for not seeing Zeppelin. Embarrassing shite.
Not a concert, but turned up to a really good pub I know a few years back, and Steve Brookstein was performing.... What utter double dog shit pile of complete wank !!
I have been "lucky" enough to see electric six twice, once was awesome and fucking funny, but the second time was complete and utter garbage and they just stood around, no real show to it, was very disappointing and I'd probably have rather seen the above Brookstein set again rather than that. But the first time in Germany, they were funny as fuck and a really good show.
The final time I saw Prince in 2014. I’d seen him live maybe 10 or 12 times and he was always incredible, the best being the Hop Farm Festival in 2011. When he toured in 2014, it was all very last minute and at the time I had very little spare cash so I spent the last of my money getting tickets to see him at the Birmingham NEC. This is a copy and paste of the review I left on Ticketmaster "Prince at the Birmingham LG (the old NEC) on the 15th. Prince was awesome, as always (seen him 10 - 12 times since the 80s), but crowd was lame and scruffy and everyone looked as if they'd lived off processed meat and cheap fags. Venue had about as much atmosphere as a carpet showroom and the sound was terrible. Miles from the stage. No big screens, so could see almost nothing. Very overpriced already, but then an extra £8 for parking??? And the woman behind me screeched the lyrics to every song, out of tune, in a thick brummie accent. I'll never think of "Perpull Riyn" in the same way ever again." During the gig he actually apologised from the stage for the ticket prices and said he'd pushed as hard as he could for the organisers to bring the price down but he also didn't want to end up getting into a contract dispute with them and having to write Slave on his face again. Then to add insult to injury, the week after the Birmingham gig, he did his usual thing of randomly adding smaller venues to the tour at very cheap prices. So, two weeks later he played the Roundhouse in Camden, for something like £20 a ticket, but, because I was skint and I had spunked all my money on the Birmingham gig and a hire car to get there and back, I couldn't afford to go The reviews afterwards almost universally said that the Roundhouse was the best live performance they'd ever witnessed and it was like an audience with God. Two years later he announced an acoustic "Piano and a Microphone" tour. I had tickets but then after the Paris theatre terrorist atrocity, the lily livered insurers pulled cover and so the UK leg got cancelled. There was talk of rescheduling it for later in the year but then a few months later, he was dead.
The Sex Pistols at the Brixton Academy. Superb gig, but the tinnitus in my left-ear is a permanent reminder of it.
Mine is The Smiths when I saw them in Swansea Top Rank 1984. Loved that band but maybe it was an off night, compounded by lots of teenyboppers screaming at Morrissey (weird huh, but it was in Swansea). What a guitarist Johnny Marr was (and remains).
Fuck off! I ride a Panigale, 748r, street triple rs. No way am I old. Edit. And I’ve never owned a BMW bike.
Marylin Manson at the then motorpoint arena in Nottingham. No atmosphere whatsoever with a sparse crowd and too big a venue for him to fill.
Never got to see The Smiths... went to see Mozza in Manchester took my Daughter, he was dire. I heard it said he good or bad depending on the night, I expected a stupendous show with it being his home city but nope very disappointing. Saw Marr and he is awesome. They'll never play on the same stage.....ever.
Ex wife made me (honest) Go and see Michael Bolton at the NEC, he spent more time off the stage than on it with his mate Kenny G playing the sax in his absence...I genuinely thought he’d got the runs!!
A mate of mine saw the Pistols in Wolverhampton said they were toss, well he is a prog rock lover so hardly surprising I guess lol.
