The first live act of any sort that I saw was Peter Hammill, supporting Marillion at Cardiff
Top Rank on their 1983 tour. Unfortunately I didn't have enough education to appreciate
PH as a significant artist, which I now regret. Years later a colleague gave me some
Van der Graff tapes to listen to, and I wished I'd paid more attention to Mr Hamill at the
time.
A few years later I saw Talk Talk on one of their last live tours.
I did see The Spice Girls just as they were getting big. My wife's from the south of France
so we were down visiting her family when we decided to go to Cannes for the day, during
the film festival. Walking into town, there was a cheap looking stage set up on the promenade,
with what I first took to be a Spice Girls imitation-type group, until I realised it was the actual
Spice Girls. So I saw them without trying, and without paying.
I'm trying to remember a support act who eventually became "big" but I don't think I saw
any worth mentioning, or if I did, I've forgotten.
Al
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On Friday, 20 August 2021, 16:09:57 BST, Toby Blake <tobyblake@...> wrote:
I saw Radiohead supporting Kingmaker in the (now sadly long-gone) Venue
in Edinburgh.
There was also a juggler on a unicycle who kept dropping stuff and falling
off the bike.? He was great.? I can't remember if he appeared before or
after Radiohead.? Follow that Yorke!
Oh, and Idlewild supported the Fall in the (also sadly long-gone) Cas
Rock.? At least I think they did, I was a bit drunk.
Toby
On 20 Aug 2021, at 15:46, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall@...> wrote:
Here¡¯s two good ones for a Friday afternoon.
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Which 3 bands did you see when you were young or before they were famous that you can hardly believe you saw. I suppose you could include the fall.
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Here¡¯s my ¡°starter for ten¡±:
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??? ? Destroy All Monsters in 1980
??? ? Soft Cell in 1980
??? ? Captain Beefheart in 1982
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Which 3 bands can you believe you didn¡¯t go and see when they played in your area. The Fall can of course be included.
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??? ? Kraftwerk 1981 (I forgot!)
??? ? Ramones 1980
??? ? Slits 1980
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Go on then punks, make my day.
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Adam
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