Can You Remember Your First Concert?
Posted by: George J on 24 August 2014
I remember mine, and thought it was forty years ago. It was almost 41 years ago, when I was only eleven!
Here is a scan of the flier. Note the prices. How times have changed. At those prices an LP cost more than going to a concert. A Cd today is a fraction of the cost of a concert ticket!
I am delighted that I have been to a concert with the great Marisa Robles!
ATB from George
My first concert was Engelbert Humperdinck in the Odeon Glasgow 67/68 to which I was dragged by my aunt. Roy Orbison 68/69 was next, one of those tours with 8 or 9 acts and everybody played 3 or 4 songs.
My first real concert was Deep Purple at Green's Playhouse Glasgow early 71 which was the most mindblowing experience in my life to that point. That was Friday and I saw the Stones on the following Monday. At the end of that concert the audience was chanting "we want Purple" which put their performances into perspective.
The first gig | went to with parents were the Spinners, don't remember much. My first gig when I was big enough to do it on my own was Scooty and the skyhooks at the Thurso county show dance,lol
My first big 'un was Rush in Glasgow for the Role the Bones tour.
Mine was 70/71 can't remember exactly, Birmingham Town Hall . Free..and I think Mott the Hoople were 'support' Although this was my first gig they came thick and fast afterwards so am not completely sure I remember it all exactly as it happened. I kept all the tickets for years but mislaid them in a house move.
AC/DC; Back In Black - 5th of November 1980 - Newcastle City Hall. I was 12 and I went home buzzing and half deafened! I didn't realise at the time it was Brian Johnson 'homecoming' or even that he is a local lad until a few weeks later when he rolled-up to a school friend's home on a Harley (he's a family friend) ...My school friend's folks instantly became deities!
in checking dates i see they had played the Mayfair a few weeks before but that venue was strictly over 18 (but, I went to see The Pogues there in '85 at 16...now long gone but fondly remembered venue)
Conortsun,
The Mayfair date you mention was in January 1980. This was a re-scheduled date from the Highway to Hell tour, after a fire cancelled the original. It was the penultimate gig of the late Bon Scott, the last being another re-scheduled gig at Southampton Gaumont 2 days later.
I was at the Mayfair gig, it was a great night.
The Mayfair was a smashing venue. I saw a lot of bands there once I could get in - mainly during the 'baggie' era. I've realised in typing I was 11 in November and I'd have been 10 in January... I still don't know what my folks were doing letting me go into Toon on the newly opened Metro!
The Jimi Hendrix Experience, their first UK date, Marquee Club, London, nineteen sixty-something.
Difficult to forget, that one.
My first "concert" was the 1970 Isle of Wight festival, where Jimi played his last UK gig. Although I had seen a band called Earth at quite a few local village halls previously... just a few months before a gig in Workington where, without ceremony, the band announced that they were changing their name to Black Sabbath.
I agree, events like that are very difficult to forget!
A Flock of Seagulls Liverpool Empire around 1982 I think that's my credibility gone compared to some of you here...
J
Groundhogs, Liverpool Stadium (an old boxing/wrestling/rock venue long since gone) on their Who Will Save The World tour in 1972.
Either the Jam or Thin Lizzy (saw them both in the same year - 82 I think) Royal Court Liverpool
Genesis at the London Colosseum (now the home of ENO) in 1972. It was probably the "Foxtrot" tour because Peter Gabriel was waltzing about with a faux fox head on.
Why is this in th Padded Cell?
Is is entirely about music and not about anything else.
If music is luunatic then I am outa here ...
Deaf Richard, Please put it back in the Music Room.
ATB from George
Not sure why it's in the PC either... Anyway, moved to the Music Room.
George, I'm thinking you didn't mean to use the word "deaf"....
Not sure why it's in the PC either... Anyway, moved to the Music Room.
George, I'm thinking you didn't mean to use the word "deaf"....
Eh?
Not sure why it's in the PC either... Anyway, moved to the Music Room.
George, I'm thinking you didn't mean to use the word "deaf"....
Dear Richard,
I made the same touch type mistake with Simon in Suffork, a few weeks ago and I hope you understand that it was a complete typo-error!
But thanks for returning the thread where it belongs.
And thanks to the person who reported the issue as I cannot report my own posts.
ATB fromn George
The Buzzcocks supported by Joy Division De Montfort Hall Leicester 1979. I had never heard of Joy Division so didn't bother getting their autographs when we sat near them in the cafe before the gig! I wish I had as sale of autographs could have financed system upgrade 
Jethro Tull July 4th, 1971 (Aqualung tour), New Orleans, Louisiana
Opening act - Yes
UFO 1980 supported by Girl at Birmingham Odeon, saw UFO last year and still rockin'!
The Who Quadrophenia tour, Newcastle Odeon, 7th November 1973. Amazing - after 2 bad nights including Pete smashing the mixing desk when the effects tapes did not work properly, the band pulled out all the stops.
Great thread and some great first gigs. Mine was Queen, Brighton Centre, December 79. I was 13. Blew my mind and changed my life. My dad took me. Don't know why he took me rather than my elder sister but thank goodness he did.
The Hendrix gig is the best one on this thread for me; and sorry Jonathan but the Flock of Seagulls probably the worst! Though good of you to come clean!
I suspect gigs are not quite the same rite of passage for teenagers these days.
UFO 1980 supported by Girl at Birmingham Odeon, saw UFO last year and still rockin'!
UFO? Same here, but in 1978 at Wolverhampton Civic Hall, the day after guitarist Michael Schenker left the band. They were still great though!
10cc, Sheffield City Hall, around 1976 ('How Dare You' tour).
Deep Purple, Roundhouse, Chalk Farm (London), early 1971.Set list was the 'In Rock' album, plus some older material (if memory serves, "Wring That Neck" was the vehicle for the main solos). I was about 15 ft from the stage, right of centre, from where I took a great photo of Ritchie blackmore playing a Gibson (pre-Strat days), using a folding rollfilm camera with Kodak Royal-X Pan film (1250 ASA) that I push processed by a couple of stops and printed in my school darkroom as my introduction to photo processing - wonderful grainy black and white atmoshpheric shot. Whilst that sadly has got lost over the years, my memory of the event certainly hasn't... and I only need to put the music on, turn up the volume, close my eyes, and I'm 16 again! What a wonderful thing music is!
Peter Gabriel at Hamersmith Odeon, 1978 I think, probably the tour for the 3rd album.
Peter Gabriel 1980 3rd Album Tour on Sunday 21 September 1980 in Geneva in a place called "Stade du Bout-du-Monde" "End of the World". 
; don't ask my why....
Simple Minds were the opening Act
Summer 1971 at Place des Nations in Montreal. We had tickets to ELP, and no idea of the opening act... Humble Pie.
I don't need no doctor
My prescription's killing me
Nope.