On a lighter topic ( to try and escape from the all encompassing football and politics ) what was your first music gig?
I don't think this has been done before, apologies if it has. But a major landmark in one's rites of passage in early life that should remain with them throughout the rest of their days is when you feel the thump of the bass drum enter and thump through you like a gun shot round through your entire being. It's nothing like you ever heard on a record. At last, the entrance onto the stage of your heroes, and the whole ensemble that entails with that and leaves you mesmerised forever.
I would at this point like to say that my experience was a rather cheesy one. But in hindsight it wasn't. I was only thirteen in January 1980. The group I went to see was Madness at the Hammersmith Odeon, and the hit they had at the time was 'Embarrassment.' It was a 'matinee' concert and only cost a pound to get in.
This group of musical people that I had only seen on TOTP's were in front of me banging out their hits was to me mesmerising. ' Night boat to Cairo,' The Prince, Baggy Trousers etc .
I met Mrs Nines a month later and told her of this adult experience I had undertaken ... and she said she went to see Pink Floyd's the Wall at Earls Court. It was the one where the stands collapsed or something.
Topped at such a landmark early age.
My next gig though, was The Jam. Mrs Nines was The Tourists. I win.
I don't think this has been done before, apologies if it has. But a major landmark in one's rites of passage in early life that should remain with them throughout the rest of their days is when you feel the thump of the bass drum enter and thump through you like a gun shot round through your entire being. It's nothing like you ever heard on a record. At last, the entrance onto the stage of your heroes, and the whole ensemble that entails with that and leaves you mesmerised forever.
I would at this point like to say that my experience was a rather cheesy one. But in hindsight it wasn't. I was only thirteen in January 1980. The group I went to see was Madness at the Hammersmith Odeon, and the hit they had at the time was 'Embarrassment.' It was a 'matinee' concert and only cost a pound to get in.
This group of musical people that I had only seen on TOTP's were in front of me banging out their hits was to me mesmerising. ' Night boat to Cairo,' The Prince, Baggy Trousers etc .
I met Mrs Nines a month later and told her of this adult experience I had undertaken ... and she said she went to see Pink Floyd's the Wall at Earls Court. It was the one where the stands collapsed or something.
Topped at such a landmark early age.
My next gig though, was The Jam. Mrs Nines was The Tourists. I win.
