Your 1st Ever Live Band!!!!

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:14 pm

Mine will have been at Dock Rock July 1986 when I was 14!!!! :sweeeet:

I went to see Madness on the Friday but I know that The Wailers and Doctor & The Medics were on before them and some other bands but I'm not sure in what order!!!!

So from what I can remember it's either The Wailers or Dr.& The Medics for me!!!! :sweeeet:

PS....after that it was Bad Manners at Rio's in Park Road 1989....(the Labour Rooms)!!!!

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:23 pm

Mine might well have been the Hafta Darks. :shock:

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

queen 1973 newcastle city hall

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:54 pm

chip fireball wrote:

ffs your first live band is always gonna be a support band. :evil:

Well I've got a band on this Saturday....(as if you hadn't heard :roll:

)....and there isn't a support band on!!!! :sweeeet:

JimmyGiro · **Joined:** Sat Dec 23, 2006 7:02 pm **Posts:** 381

Stiff little Fingers (At the Whiskey 1980-81)

Best Concert. Rolling Stones Was never a Stones fan, only went because i wanted to see Guns n Roses and the missus made me stay to see them. Blown away.

Others well worth a mention.

Aerosmith, Van Halen, Pyscodelic Furs.

Nothing (Hardly) better than a good Concert with a good drink with a nice girl on your arm.

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6471

My first concert was Extreme at Whitley Bay ice rink around 1991-2 ish, I think the support band were called Hardline or something like that, I can't remember too much about them though

Spender · **Posted:** Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:46 am

Family at Stockton ABC in about 1971/72. Support band was America who were a late stand in.

alybaba · **Posted:** Fri Jul 20, 2007 4:36 am

MutleyRules wrote:

chip fireball wrote:

ffs your first live band is always gonna be a support band. :evil:

Well I've got a band on this Saturday....(as if you hadn't heard :roll:

)....and there isn't a support band on!!!! :sweeeet:

Id have a support band put on somewhere looking at the picture of the girls :roll :grin:

alybaba · **Posted:** Fri Jul 20, 2007 4:45 am

Probably white spirit great poolie band where are they all now?Also can anybody remember circus as i often visited rovers quoit when they played there, seen Geordie there also just before our now famous lead singer went to ac/dc.

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

chip fireball wrote:

ffs your first live band is always gonna be a support band. :evil:

mine, fortunately, was the dickies, who were ace, and who were supporting the jam who were shite ( 1978 i think, newcastle city hall )

they were the support band chip mott the hoople were the star act :laugh:

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:10 am

Ride at Middlesbrough Town Hall, Decemberish 1991.

I would have seen the support too (The Verve) if the bloody number 10 bus had turned up. Instead I had to get the 227 which used to go through Stockton etc and missed them.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22613

Queen - Newcastle City Hall 1977.

not a dwarf in sight.

ChunkyMonkey · **Joined:** Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:59 pm **Posts:** 569

Soup Dragons and Boro town hall with the Sultans of Ping FC as support. rolf

Salty · **Posted:** Fri Jul 20, 2007 1:06 pm

poolieinnottingham wrote:

Ride at Middlesbrough Town Hall, Decemberish 1991.

I would have seen the support too (The Verve) if the bloody number 10 bus had turned up. Instead I had to get the 227 which used to go through Stockton etc and missed them.

you mean Verve [as was]?! :wink:

I was at that gig too

Lou Reeds 1st for me, he was supporting U2 @ Belfast

lestakev · **Posted:** Fri Jul 20, 2007 1:54 pm

Uriah Heep 1977 me thinks at Newcastle City Hall Inocent Victim Tour can't remember the who bcked them.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:41 pm

ElvisCsGlasses(TM) wrote:

PS Mutley, we played directly before DR And The Medics at Dock Rock, as did Dugoutpaddys brothers band! Thus making a fellow Bunkerite one of the first Live Acts you ever saw!

Well I must have seen you lot then cos I was there straight after school!!!! :sweeeet:

BritishWestHpool · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:35 pm **Posts:** 1243

Would have been Dock Rock in 86 then, aged 16.
Who knows, maybe it was phil on stage that I saw first?
Either that or Hartlepool Sixth Form College band Yes Yes Give me Your Jam Jars the same year.
Since then I've been to loads and loads of gigs, the last being Brian Jonestown Massacre at the Carling Academy 2.

Moriarty · **Posted:** Fri Jul 20, 2007 5:01 pm

roger the cat :roll:

Hawklord · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:27 pm **Posts:** 3115

Pooliekev wrote:

Family at Stockton ABC in about 1971/72. Support band was America who were a late stand in.

Family were the first proper band I remember going to see - a couple of years before you saw them Kev - upstairs in some pub (the Red Lion I think) in Leytonstone, East London. Don't remember a support - probably wasn't one as it was a small venue. Saw many unknown / un named bands before that and played in a few myself. Family were great and I saw them many times after that. Roger Chapman's stage antics got me well & truly hooked on to live music, an addiction that I still have to this day and hopefully forever more.

Poolsrme · **Posted:** Fri Jul 20, 2007 9:50 pm

1968, Spooky Tooth on a Friday night and Pools were playing at Shrewsbury............ Could'nt relax until I found out that it was a 0 - 0 draw. :shock:

Support band was The Bonzo's. :laugh:

God Bless Vivian Stanshall......if ever I don't feel normal (quite often) I relapse into a Bonzo type take on the world clappp

King Crimson · **Posted:** Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:10 pm

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Hawklord · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:27 pm **Posts:** 3115

Poolsrme wrote:

1968, Spooky Tooth on a Friday night and Pools were playing at Shrewsbury............ Could'nt relax until I found out that it was a 0 - 0 draw. :shock:

Support band was The Bonzo's. :laugh:

God Bless Vivian Stanshall......if ever I don't feel normal (quite often) I relapse into a Bonzo type take on the world clappp

Have seen both bands in my time. I like your Bonzo take on the world attitude, Hawkladyship & I often revert to a Rawlinsons End lifestyle - without the massive mansion alas.

number_one · **Joined:** Mon Jul 16, 2007 5:24 pm **Posts:** 91

The Shamen at Nunsmore Park (spell?) Newcastle for me.

bluemonkey · **Joined:** Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:54 pm **Posts:** 1101

The support act was Chicken shack the venue was Bristol the yea must be 78 or 79 and the main act was Wishbone Ash and by God they were good.

Basil Fawlty · **Posted:** Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:39 pm

Paul Young and the Q Tips :uhoh:

Redcar Coatham Bowl. Fook knows when.

Spender · **Posted:** Sun Jul 22, 2007 3:12 am

Hawklord wrote:

Pooliekev wrote:

Family at Stockton ABC in about 1971/72. Support band was America who were a late stand in.

Family were the first proper band I remember going to see - a couple of years before you saw them Kev - upstairs in some pub (the Red Lion I think) in Leytonstone, East London. Don't remember a support - probably wasn't one as it was a small venue. Saw many unknown / un named bands before that and played in a few myself. Family were great and I saw them many times after that. Roger Chapman's stage antics got me well & truly hooked on to live music, an addiction that I still have to this day and hopefully forever more.

I saw Streetwalkers in Hyde Park a couple of years later as well on the same bill as Kevin Ayers. I dunno what Roger Chapman did after that. He just seemed to fade.

Bostonpoolie · **Posted:** Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:53 am

Firs "proper" gis wasThe Verve supporting Oasis for me

Hawklord · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:27 pm **Posts:** 3115

Pooliekev wrote:

Hawklord wrote:

Pooliekev wrote:

Family at Stockton ABC in about 1971/72. Support band was America who were a late stand in.

Family were the first proper band I remember going to see - a couple of years before you saw them Kev - upstairs in some pub (the Red Lion I think) in Leytonstone, East London. Don't remember a support - probably wasn't one as it was a small venue. Saw many unknown / un named bands before that and played in a few myself. Family were great and I saw them many times after that. Roger Chapman's stage antics got me well & truly hooked on to live music, an addiction that I still have to this day and hopefully forever more.

I saw Streetwalkers in Hyde Park a couple of years later as well on the same bill as Kevin Ayers. I dunno what Roger Chapman did after that. He just seemed to fade.

I've seen Streetwalkers as well (and Kevin Ayers come to that) - didn't think they were a patch on Family though - I've got 2 of their albums here - one on red vinyl. Following Streetwalkers, Chapman has continually toured with his own band, they are very big in Germany & the continent and do blues standards / classics. A friend of mine (who's the singer in the band I'm with) was his sound engineer & did a lot of touring with him. Chapman was like a rake when I used to see him - he's put on a lot of weight since them - German pies must be good.

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