― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 June 2004 02:28 (twenty years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 11 June 2004 02:29 (twenty years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 11 June 2004 02:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 11 June 2004 04:32 (twenty years ago) link
fuck washing a hat.
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 June 2004 05:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Friday, 11 June 2004 07:06 (twenty years ago) link
― clive (Clive), Friday, 11 June 2004 08:34 (twenty years ago) link
― flowersdie (flowersdie), Friday, 11 June 2004 08:49 (twenty years ago) link
― stirmonster, Friday, 11 June 2004 09:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 11 June 2004 09:32 (twenty years ago) link
― lovebug starski, Friday, 11 June 2004 09:40 (twenty years ago) link
― gspm (gspm), Friday, 11 June 2004 10:31 (twenty years ago) link
I was there, Spring 1981, when an unknown Soft Cell played Rock City to a sea of blank faces, the week that Memorabilia came out.
I was there, Nottingham Garage, Summer 1986, when Graeme Park started playing Chicago house imports to the indie kids.
I was there, The Cock Live, Summer 2003, when The Scissor Sisters played rock music to the electro kids.
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 11 June 2004 10:57 (twenty years ago) link
― mentalist (mentalist), Friday, 11 June 2004 11:22 (twenty years ago) link
― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Friday, 11 June 2004 11:40 (twenty years ago) link
What?! I would have KILLED to see those three bands!!! Marillon...sheesh...
― Ian Beverly (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 11 June 2004 12:20 (twenty years ago) link
my sister was going out with the drummer of marillion at the time so i remember thinking i was pretty cool being on the guest list. needless to say, marillion were awful and no doubt what was going on upstairs would have been life changing!
d'oh!
― stirmonster, Friday, 11 June 2004 12:32 (twenty years ago) link
Er, oh yeah - I saw them play to about 20 people in Cardiff last year. A location that makes it a bit difficult to add much to this thread (especially as it's mainly populated by Americans)
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 11 June 2004 12:39 (twenty years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 11 June 2004 12:48 (twenty years ago) link
I asked Kim from The Muffs to marry me after a CBGB's gig.
I snuck backstage at a Cheap Trick Concert.
Joey ramone moved out of my way so I could put my amp down at the continental.
I hung with Pop Will Eat Itself after they played the stone pony in '94
― cw28 (cw28), Friday, 11 June 2004 12:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:04 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:07 (twenty years ago) link
My band opened for Pony.My band opened for Versus.My band opened for Silkworm.My band went nowhere.
― earlnash, Friday, 11 June 2004 13:11 (twenty years ago) link
We started up in Fulham and somehow (I have absolutely no recollection of how) ended up at The Captain's gaff somewhere in Brighton.
I suspect that the reason we got invited to join in was because Lemmy fancied my gf.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:30 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:41 (twenty years ago) link
Rob, the problem here is that if you removed the words 'before a solo gig in 1992,' this would describe every conversation with Paul Weller ever.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:49 (twenty years ago) link
I was there, when Michael Stipe called me in 1995, having wrote the letter later referred to in "E-Bow the Letter."
I was there at the Von Bondies first show, when they were called the Babykillers, at a house, in Ypsilanti.
I was there, backstage when Momus opened for Belle & Sebastian in Chicago in 1998, I swear Isobel was flirting with me.
I waaaaassss theeere......
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:50 (twenty years ago) link
I saw them six months earlier at Mercury Lounge, opening for VHS or Beta?, playing disco nu metal to the Chelsea boys.
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:03 (twenty years ago) link
― frankE (frankE), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:04 (twenty years ago) link
at Pavement's first-ever show at the Court Tavern, New Brunswick, NJ. I bought a copy of "Slay Tracks" at said show for $2.00.
at a Butthole Surfers show, also at the Court, at the height of their underground popularity (1986 or so)
at what I believe was Neutral Milk Hotel's first show with their classic lineup at Brownies, NYC.
at a Go Team/Yo La Tengo double bill at Maxwell's
at the Pixies' first NYC show at CBGB, with some friends of mine from NJ who opened the show
friends with a girl in college who put up Faith No More, the Meat Puppets and Tex & The Horseheads at her apartment
― mike a, Friday, 11 June 2004 14:08 (twenty years ago) link
I know. It *is* incredible.
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:09 (twenty years ago) link
Please don't, they're horrible.
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:10 (twenty years ago) link
― mike a, Friday, 11 June 2004 14:10 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:11 (twenty years ago) link
I ran into George Clinton on the street during my lunchbreak once. He was lost and looking for his hotel, as he had spent the night elsewhere after a gig the night before. I brought him up to the mailroom of my then job to use the phone. The bike messengers who recognized him were trippin'. This is a highly cherished memory.
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:12 (twenty years ago) link
― mike a, Friday, 11 June 2004 14:12 (twenty years ago) link
Four on One might be my favorite Matador record.
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:19 (twenty years ago) link
I chatted with Mike Watt for 45 mins before a fIREHOSE gig in Edinburgh.
I've fleetingly met Paul McCartney, James Iha, Dave Navarro, Brian Eno, Syd Griffin, Genesis P Orridge, Boy George.
I've shared a chinese takeaway with Lionel Ritchie.
I've mixed the sound for some ads with Brian May.
I was at Sugar's first London gig.
And Dark Star's.
I saw NIN not long after Alex In NYC in a little club in Glasgow.
I went drinking with Lynnrd Skynnrd (sp?) and Sweep The Leg Johnny.
I made an album at the Who's old studio with Simon from the Cocteau Twins.
― mzui, Friday, 11 June 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago) link
― boldbury (boldbury), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:35 (twenty years ago) link
Context please.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago) link
m.
― msp, Friday, 11 June 2004 15:52 (twenty years ago) link