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  • JerseyRaindog0

    Damn, I used to go to so many concerts when I was at college; here's just a few;

    Cure: Wembley Arena (disintegration tour
    Sonic Youth: Liverpool Royal Court (Goo tour), supported by Teenage Fanclub (luv that band), also the Youth 'Dirty' tour in the early nineties.
    Various London gigs
    Mudhoney
    Lemonheads
    Hair & Skin Trading Company
    Moose
    Galaxie 500
    Nirvana
    Babes in Toyland
    Marillion (Yeah - I know, wierdly I once sat for the drummer and got a free tkt to their first non Fish gig)
    Fish
    PJ Harvey
    Ride (about a dozen times - I used to do tee-shirts for them and my friend Claude is mentioned in the credits on their first album
    SLowdive
    Dinosaur Jr
    Blur
    Spiritualized (soooo many times0
    Boo Radleys (supported by an obnoxious band called Oasis) I think that was a free gig in Preston
    Charlatans (guest list)
    Pixies at Crystal Palace bowl (guest list because Ride were support)
    Lush
    Jane's Addiction (Ritual tour)
    Jesus and Mary Chain
    Primal Scream
    Mercury Rev
    Spectrum
    Verve (first London gig - they were special but everything Richard Ashcroft has done since has been dogshit
    Canned Heat* I'll come back to this one
    Badly Drawn Boy
    Roni Size

    then a very long barren spell - Jersey doesn't really do gigs (except for the newly formed Jersey Live festival which I didn't make)

    Then the 2 best concerts;
    Tom Waits in Paris 2000 - a small intimate venue of about 2,000 capacity. Seated but you could move freely down the aisles so I got as close to the great man as I'm ever gonna get.
    Tom Waits in London Nov 2004 (took my wife who I met after we discovered a mutual appreciation of Tom Waits).

    And that's it. Getting old, married and having kids has kind of put of stop to the 'ligging'.

    Anyway that Canned Heat one is a story. My first job at a very small agency in Blackpool was to do a poster for Canned Heat in a Blackpool pub. I knew some of their songs and used lyrics in the poster design. As the client was the brewery I had free access to the gig. Being a pub, there was a pretty small audience. But after the gig I ended up sharing a bottle of JD with band. These were real hardcore 60's hippies. I have never had a bigger hangover.

    Anyway, I've bored you all with my tales of my youth. Go, and enjoy yourselves.

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