Good news for Hull but really.....Rod Stewart, the loudest noise from the KC will be the sound of all the artificial hip & knee joints as the crowd of pensioners try to rock
If he's still kicking the balls out off the stage he'll score more goals than City have in the last 3 seasons. That should lift the crowd.
A big regret was not going to Eel Pie Island when I was in London 1963-66.Most of the bands listed above played there including The Downliners Sect, The Yardbirds,The Tridents (featuring Jeff Beck) etc.
Never made that venue myself - must have been some experience seeing all those future superstars in their very early days. Think Graham Bond made it there a few times. He was another one of the "hatcheries"/incubators along with Alexis Korner & John Mayall.
Great memories...just found this...****, I wish I'd had a car in those days. Went out with a bird from Twickenham and another from Walton-on-Thames a few years later - bad timing.
Like you didn't have a car and based in Hornsey. What was great was the Campden Festival at Parliament Fields in the evening listening to bands for free Though Procul Harum buggered off after starting Whiter shade of Pale as they said there were bad viibes!!! Hammersmith Odeon for some decent groups? Saw Rainbow (Ritche Blackmore) at Finsbury Park Astoria which is a grade 11* listed building and now a Pentecostal Church !!!!!!
Great era wasn't it ? I left Hull for Leeds in mid-'65, left there for Canada in the summer of '72. I got involved with the entertainments committee @ Leeds University Students Union for that period and saw so many brilliant artists I can't believe I was so lucky looking back. I'm in the middle of compiling a list of all the bands/artists who played at the Union gigs over that period. I got a head start when The Who had a reprise of their original "Who Live at Leeds" gig ( I was at the original in 1970) in 2006. The University put out a 20-page glossy program detailing all the bands that had played at the Student Union venue between October '69 and May 2006. Close to 800 of 'em !. What was missing were the main years I was there from mid '65 to mid '69. Four years ago, on one of my trips back to see a few City games, I went back to Leeds and managed to get into the archives at Leeds University's library where they had a stash of the weekly Student News(paper) which advertised the dance/gigs with the performers playing. I got all the missing years except '66, so I'm hoping to complete the list on my next trip. If my memory serves me well, that was a brilliant year for many of the bands mentioned in this thread. All these bands loved the Leeds gigs - it was great publicity for them, and the various heads of the Ents Committees were well respected, the audience much appreciative. When complete I'll try to create an OT thread for this forum - there are plenty of music aficionados on this site who may well appreciate, no I'm sure do appreciate, that era & the immense impact it had on British music.
Indeed. The US scene inspired most, if not all, of the future blues/rock stars from the UK, who added their own "flavour" to it. They don't hide it.
I went to a New Year's Eve ball at Willerby Manor about twenty years ago and Marty Wilde was the live act, everyone was rat arsed and there was a bread roll fight, the poor bloke looked like he'd rather be anywhere else.
Would you expect anything else based on the probable average age of the audience ? I'm guessing it will be 50+
Agreed ^^^^ this. I had hoped to get a ticket to see the one off FACES charity gig in London earlier this month. Oh well. Sadly only 3 of them left alive now. Ronnie Lane died back in 1997 and Ian McLagan died last year. Great band back in the day. I also liked The Small Faces. Steve Marriott (who was also in Humble Pie with Peter Frampton) had a great rock voice. Sadly SM died back in april 1991 in a garage fire. Not a band to grow old in some cases, sadly enough.
Tickets selling fast, could not get two together on the pitch, the best I could get isin the north stand.
