First Gig...?

My first gig was at Fencehouses Working Mens Club when I was 16.
I had joined a band and The Bass player who was a club member had arranged for us to rehearse in one of their rooms once a week. In return we had to do a free gig.
none of us had been in a band before and we really didn’t have a clue what we were doing. That and the fact we were playing heavy rock in a workingmen’s club in the 60s probably contributed to us getting paid off after the first set.
the first and only gig for that band.
A few months later I had joined an established band playing 3 or 4 nights a week, every week and not getting paid off! However that did nothing for my schoolwork and my A level results were abysmal. Don’t regret it though!
 
Lenny HB said:
I used to do the sound mixing for a band that played a few times a year at the Red Lion Fulham.
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One of my favourite bands played at the Golden Lion in Fulham high street, they were called Supercharge, with Albi Donnelly, does anyone remember them? Complete madness on stage but all great players. I found this promo video of them on YouTube. Still makes me laugh :giggle:

 
Lenny HB said:
Use to go and see bands every week, could have been The Kinks in 1965/66, around the same time saw The Who, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, The Byrds.
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The same, but it was easy and free!

Mid - Late 60's.

Our youth club had a very large stage, set in a church crypt, so make as much noise as you like, for as long as you like.

It won a reputation as a first class rehearsal hall.

Although not real gigs, when a band reached the point of rehearsing their complete show you wouldn't know the difference. The Who, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, all rehersed there.
 
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Showaddywaddy. Bradford St George’s Hall. Still got their LP from my teenage years. Saw them 20 years later at the Frontier in Batley. :giggle::giggle:
 
Lucky enough to go to Party In The Park at Hyde Park 1999 VIP courtesy of my wife’s work.
Huge amount of top Bands on and sat next to Andrea Corr (Corrs) whilst watching other artists perform.

As I said earlier, we we’re all blessed, growing up listening and sometimes watching some top performers, unlike (for me anyway) this absolute s-ite these kids listen to today.

We still sit with friends, do you remember that song, that artist, that band, that one hit wonder, they were brilliant. Good memories.

For me, got to be The Jam, Down In The Tube Station At Midnight.
 
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Saw Gino at retrofestival he was great.

But back to first gigs it was lynrd skynard at De Montford Hall in Leicester in about 1976. One of several bands I've seen just before their demise!
 
Can't remember the order, but saw Argent at Woodford Community Centre, Mud at Sale Rugby Club and Vinegar Joe (Elkie Brooks and Robert Palmer) at Fielden Park College, all in early 70s
 
Devon Sue said:
Can't remember the order, but saw Argent at Woodford Community Centre, Mud at Sale Rugby Club and Vinegar Joe (Elkie Brooks and Robert Palmer) at Fielden Park College, all in early 70s
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Heard Elkie at canazario house (Wimbledon) doing a outdoor gig (I was too tight to pay used to take a picnic & sit outside the walled garden) in the mid naughties she was brilliant, thanks for that reminder
 
ChrisL said:
One of my favourite bands played at the Golden Lion in Fulham high street, they were called Supercharge, with Albi Donnelly, does anyone remember them? Complete madness on stage but all great players. I found this promo video of them on YouTube. Still makes me laugh :giggle:

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Fabulous entertainers, saw them loads of times at the Liverpool Empire, I remember one number they did was an instrumental with some talking bits were Albie described the song, the title of which had everyone in hysterics.


......Wally........
 
If you mean the first proper gig as opposed to the local welfare hall dance then it was Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Johnny Kid & The Pirates and the Caravelles at the Sheffield City Hall, 1963 I think.

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Meatloaf, NEC around 1990 I was a late starter
 
The local "theatre" in the next village used to have a lot of the bigger groups in the early parts of their careers playing there. Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders were regulars. Others I saw there were Sounds Incorporated, Herman's Hermits (Peter Noone was absolutely kaylied),
Little Richard, Tommy Bruce (remember him?), Screaming Lord Sutch, Merseybeats, Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers plus many others I can't remember the names of. Oh and Ken Dodd ;) .
 
My wife saw The Nolan’s about 1975 and Led Zeppelin in 1976….Cardiff I think.
 
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The local "theatre" in the next village used to have a lot of the bigger groups in the early parts of their careers playing there. Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders were regulars. Others I saw there were Sounds Incorporated, Herman's Hermits (Peter Noone was absolutely kaylied),
Little Richard, Tommy Bruce (remember him?), Screaming Lord Sutch, Merseybeats, Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers plus many others I can't remember the names of. Oh and Ken Dodd ;) .
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Thanks for reminding me of Screaming Lord Such. He had vanished from my memory. Saw his band at Warwick University when he did a Jack the Ripper set complete with a sacrificial altar and a scantily clad female and a bucket of theatrical blood. Terrific show.
 
Themselves said:
Thanks for reminding me of Screaming Lord Such. He had vanished from my memory. Saw his band at Warwick University when he did a Jack the Ripper set complete with a sacrificial altar and a scantily clad female and a bucket of theatrical blood. Terrific show.
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I'm glad I voted for his party then they sound more attractive than most politicians!

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