Oh Tony..... How many gigs did i do in the 80's?? Holy crap!
MANY best gigs - all for different reasons.
Birthday Party and Virgin Prunes at Brixton Ace approx 1982 - Nick Cave was trying to crack London and doing a bloody good job.. this gig was just mind blowing! I was 15.. It cost 3 quid to get in and i still have the ticket - just unreal!
Invite only gig at the TEMPLE by Psychic TV.... approx 1985 - lit by candles in a disused temple in London.. we all felt so very exclusive being invite only - very small crowd, pigeons crapping on our heads.. fantastic gig.
Hawkwind Fairfield Halls Croydon - LOL!!! I think they booked the wrong band! We were dropping acid - selling acid, smoking and selling hash - everyone was! all the security were over 60 - this is where the blue rinse brigade go watch easy listening - we had spliffs coming from all angles and we all loved each other that night. Air was THICK with hash smoke - hawkwind were bloody great and were chucking joints into the audience - great stuff!!!
Pogues - Finsbury Park - most VIOLENT gig ive ever been to.. i still can handle myself down the front.. but this was a blood bath and Shane McGowan was best instigator!
WORST GIGS..
Any by Jesus and Mary Chain - we used to go just to throw stuff at them - never a gig went over 5 mins!!
james Taylor - fairfield halls - we bunked in and it was soooo ZZZZZZZZZZ
Bob Dylan - Glastonbury - also Lou Reed - yeh im so friggin famous im so far up my arse! Biggest snooze fest ever!!
One last best gig..
Iggy Pop - Trewargy festival - headlined on last night... most people had gone home on this very small and not successful festival - only about 50 of us left ( bloody die hards) Iggy played and ended up off the stage and in the crowd.. very personal gig.. youll never get to see Iggy this close up ever again - sheer fluke but well worth it... could have been 1969 all over again!
And i wish i had seen...
The VERY last STONHENGE festival - i was doing exams at the time for art college and skipped it to go the following year - it never happened as the pigs ( cough police) smashed the crap out of everyone and destroyed all the buses - real shame.. after that Stonehenge was fenced off and you now pay to get in- was the end of free British heritage.. celtic roots now had a $$ value.. an experience that ill never get to come close to... i eventually got thrown out of art college.. so yep - i should have gone regardless
