[Closed] The "I was there" gig video thread

you weren't there maaan.
I've seen some things maaaan.
terrible things maaan.

I was in the audience:

Yes yes I know, 1974 was a long time ago!

I'm somewhere waaaay back in here...

They seem to have pulled all the clips from the Carter USM reform DVD down from youtube, but there's a nice closup of me covered in blood in the middle of Rent

I was in the audience:

Great CG----I had completely forgotten about Rick Wakeman and that "Journey" album. Wow, that brings back some great memories---takes more and more effort to bring the memories back it seems 😆

Reading fest 1991. They came on at about 3pm on Saturday. Everything after that was an anticlimax. The random mohawk dancer climbed on stage and threw shapes to his hearts content.

Same tour, different venue - I caught them at Wembley Arena...

Epic band that are always better live than recorded IMO.

Daphne and Celeste (who?) getting bottled offstage at Reading 2000, I was trying to find footage of Kevin Rowland dressed in full suspenders etc. at Reading the previous year, but it doesn't seem to be online.

I might try and dig out some video of Editors circa 2000 or so...might have it on tape somewhere.

Oooh! Good thread!

Het Teasel, I saw them on their Farewell to Kings tour, amazing. Can't remember what year that was, but I saw them in Southampton at the Gaumont and +many for Rush being a superb live band.

I was here too...

Hah, that was a Reading classic bokonon. Not so much the bottling, as the reaction- Daphne and Celeste baiting the crowd beforehand then charging into the fire like the light brigade. 50 Cent couldn't face down the Reading bottling, those girls were hard as nails.

And still better than Oasis.

Could have been a couple of years earlier, the 90s are all a bit of a blur.

Wonderstuffs "last" gig and Cash at Glastonbury. Same year and I eas on crutches at both following a knee op.

Sex Pistols at Knickers in Keighley on that tour when they wuz banned from everywhere.

i took these 😀

great gig man 😀 will be seeing them at n.e.c in may 😀

EDIT why won't it do the video thing 😕

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Rage Against the Machine just as they were going huge.

I was here, one of these stage divers is me. The video was shown on Top of the Pops and my mates Mum recognised me and rang my Mum to tell on me!

Great CG----I had completely forgotten about Rick Wakeman and that "Journey" album. Wow, that brings back some great memories---takes more and more effort to bring the memories back it seems

The Royal Festival Hall had certainly never seen anything like that before! David Hemmings was the narrator. I think everyone in the audience felt that they were watching something pretty special. 8)

Loads of fantastic memories but some get recalled easier than others! 🙂

Van Halen 1984 Donnington Park.. I Was There...

Cities in the park 1991. I've been looking for this footage for years and it's just popped up on a youtube search thanks to this thread.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ_2XaAgPXw

I'm in this clip - OMG I look young!!!!!!

Posted the first one before. From 30 sec, the bloke with the big flat top and glasses in front of the lead singer - me:

I also worked this one:

I saw some good bands at their peak when I were a lad 😀

I'm normally quite rude about comeback tours, but this was quite close to being a religious experience for me.

😀

I was at this gig - Nirvana at the Astoria in '89 (Lamefest), as covered in Q's Ten Best Gigs of All Time piece:

I was also at SOAS when Nirvana played there, before the Astoria gig I think - possibly their first-ever in the UK? - and that one really was something special. Better than the Astoria gig, better venue, more intense, more sweat, actually truly awesome.

More Lamefest:

unklehomered - Member

I'm normally quite rude about comeback tours, but this was quite close to being a religious experience for me.

Amen to that. Depends who's making the comeback. This one was a bit of a spiritual experience for me last year...

The place went mental when they launched into I wanna be Adored

unklehomered - I was lucky enough to be at one of the Pixies last gigs just before they split up. At Manchester Apollo. They were ****ing awesome!!!!

I won’t bother with a link, a video will never come close to the experience.

And it was only last year.

19/05/2012

And just 2,500 or so of us there.

Black Sabbath at the O2 Academy, Birmingham.

And I got right to the front.

Amazing. Simply stunning.

No fancy set, just 4 guys on a stage.

Flashy, I'll take your "Thunder" OP, and give you the first band I ever saw live at the first proper gig I ever went to.

This one was quite an experience too...

The place went mental when they launched into I wanna be Adored

I remember when that came out, a mate of mine asked "what the hell is a 'dored' anyway?"

Killing Joke original line-up, '08 Gathering:

Franz Ferdinand at T in the Park at the peak of their fame. Probably the biggest crowd of the weekend, in the sunshine, 30000 or so pissed Scots bouncing up and down non stop for 3 1/2 minuets. Close up of me at 1:35 as well 😀

I was there (but not there) at Stonehenge in 1984 for Hawkwind.

I also went to see Flux Of Pink Indians who had an Icelandic support act, KUKL with a rather odd female vocalist. I can't find any live footage so have this instead....

The Pogues, Kentish Town, 88

I like the Screaming Blue Messiahs poster in the background.

(how do you do the embed thing then?)

Kiss at a tiny venue was a great night

Oh yeah, I was at this too.

I was in the audience at the very first live gig of this in 1974. No vid of them playing, only the live recording.

Tangerine Dream York Minster:

If you can listen for more than ten minutes let me know.

Cinammon Girl you give me gig envy. Thanks for the posting the link.

Mind you I was only 5 at the time.

Id have been there for all three nights if I'd been able to find the ticket money

some people may find this controversial but when I am king all venues will employ snipers purely to shoot the people who ruin concerts by getting out their phone to record 2 minutes of crappy footage purely so they can upload it to youtube as soon as they get home... Now i'm old, i let the kids at the front jump around but my view is basically 100s of mobile phone screens. i liked concerts more when there were no mobile phones and everyone was enjoying the band not worrying about getting some grainy footage with bad audio to get some bloody youtube likes...

If the concert is that good you notice people using a device to record footage it really isn't very good at all.

Cinammon Girl you give me gig envy. Thanks for the posting the link.

Mind you I was only 5 at the time.

Lol. I just think I was extremely lucky to have been around when some amazing music appeared. Had missed the Beatles and the Stones so enjoyed Black Sabbath, Deep Purple stuff followed by the 'West Coast' sound ie Allman Brothers. Then 'Prog Rock' appeared in all its pretentious glory. 😆 Not forgetting 'Pub Rock' and the inimitable Dr Feelgood.

My teens and twenties are full of happy memories of exciting times. 😀

Have to agree with BristolPablo. Far too many people do this so it becomes an irritant.

Wonderstuffs "last" gig

Was that the Pheonix Festival? Was there too. 🙂

Regina Spektor V festival didn't see her at this one but in Stafford on stage by herself making amazing music with a guitar and a drum stick

also Moby on a later special...

Nirvana - London Astoria 1991. Just before it all went mental for them.

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I was at the very first Knebworth Festival in 1974 featuring Tim Buckley, Van Morrison, Allman Brothers, Doobie Brothers, Sensational Alex Harvey Band etc etc.

8)

I win the "Crumbly" attendance record, then... 😀

Ah but Mr Woppit you were playing gigs! Us mere mortals just watched. 😀

Take a look at my contribution to the thread video.

Jack de Johnette I ain't...

Moi, absolutely smashed, crowd surfing at Funeral a couple of weeks back

Also I wasn't there, but Rage fans might be interested in this early footage, 21 years ago, surfaced the other day.

Magic Band, Shepherd's Bush Empire, 2003 I was right at the front, right in the middle...

Drumbo did a pretty good job doing Beefheart's vocals - got a hug from him at the end!

I bought the DVD they filmed, which is pretty rare now.

The security guards were taking the whole ticket and not giving back stubs then selling them on behind the gates, huge scam, so loads of people got to see this last gig.

i was 18 and still cant remember how we found the venue, back in the glory days before satnav, all we had was the tiny map on the ticket.

epic gig, never seen them since as it will destroy the memory of them at their height.

feeling far to young here!!

no video but Levellers in Sherwood Forest about 02 I reckon..