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  1. GroveRanger

    GroveRanger Well-Known Member

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    Actually seen them twice!
     
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    Chaka Khan?
     
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  3. GroveRanger

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    She appeared at a Soul & Dance weekender in Minehead. Not really my cup of tea but she had a powerful set of lungs on her and got the whole crowd singing along.
     
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    Bauhaus
     
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  5. GroveRanger

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    They split up not long after I first started getting into their music but they re-formed and I had the pleasure of seeing them, not ashamed to say there was a small tear shed at that gig, it was very emotional.
     
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    Soft Cell?
     
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    Me and a sell out crowd singing along at Brixton Academy, it was a massive karaoke session!
     
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  9. GroveRanger

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    BOOM!
    Nirvana were headlining the Reading Rock Festival at the peak of their fame but I could not be ars*d and stayed by the camp fire having a laugh. Je ne regret nish.

    Rolling Stones - saw them at Wembley thinking they'd all be dead soon, that was 30 years ago
    Chuck Berry - for the same reason as the Stones but he only turned his toes up this year
    Showaddywaddy - at a TT biker festival on the Isle of Man
    Status Quo - Reading Festival
    Kool & The Gang - Hammersmith Odeon but rather disappointingly without usual frontman JT Taylor

    Well done Steels, back to you.
     
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  10. Steelmonkey

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    I was at Reading that year, so saw Kurt et al play! I'd also seen them a few months earlier in Belfast Kings Hall.

    Here's a list of oldies.....

    The Who
    Rolling Stones
    Neil Young
    Bob Dylan
    Tom Jones
    Bruce Springsteen
    Tony Bennet
    Donovan
    Iggy Pop
    Lou Reed
     
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    Donovan
     
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    Neil Young?
     
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  13. Steelmonkey

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    Supported Happy Mondays at Wembley Arena sometime around 1989/90

    Complete with Crazy Horse about 3 years ago in Glasgow!
     
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    Iggy then
     
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    Tony Bennett
     
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    Stones?...
     
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  17. Steelmonkey

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    He was on at T in the Park - can't remember what year!!

    Glastonbury 99
     
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  18. Steelmonkey

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    Glasgow SECC about 2001 I think...like someone said earlier, thought that would be my one & only chance, but they are still rocking!
     
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    The Who...
     
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    Was lucky enough to see them twice before Entwistle passed (I'm too young to have seen Keith smash up his drums though!!)
     
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