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Post by Billyb on Feb 21, 2008 2:19:36 GMT
Graham- that Citizen Fish gig was at The Palace Hotel not The Royal Hotel- 15th July 1993- not many of us turned up but it was still a blinding gig...
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Post by Billyb on Feb 24, 2008 14:18:59 GMT
...and then they played in Southend again- at Focus- with Affray and The Bus Station Loonies- 12th February 2000...
And I thought that that was a good gig as well...
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Post by graham on Feb 27, 2008 23:03:22 GMT
I got very very drunk at the Feb 2000 gig as i smuggled in a bottle of scotch. Tried to cycle home but kept falling off, tried to walk my bike home but kept falling over it, so in the end I somehow had the sense to chain it to a lamp post and stumbled the rest of the way home. The next morning I went in search of the bike and found it, along with various CD's I'd bought at the gig strewn all over the pavement...
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Post by graham on Feb 27, 2008 23:09:15 GMT
I don't remember anyone else being on the bill with Back Street Crawler, when I saw them, certainly the posters advertised it as a Crawlers gig. However we didn't get to the Kursaal until the band were on stage, so we would have missed what was going on before. I definately never got a free single! It was actually Boxer, Crawler and Moon apparently. Here's the EP I was thinking of, I'm not sure if I ever even played it. Fab artwork or what??? I think you also got a free sticker at the gig...  |
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Post by graham on May 21, 2008 20:27:27 GMT
Not actually pre-punk, but I went to see Fairport Convention at the Cliffs pavilion in 1979, supposedly it was their 'farewell final tour', even though I don't think they've ever stopped gigging...
Anyway, I bought a 'Farewell Fairport Convention' badge at the gig, the small text was on a blue background, and you couldn't read it unless you were up close. I wore it for a few weeks afterwards, including when I went to vote for the very fist time, the year that Thatcher got in on a landslide election... When I got to the polling station there were these smug little Tory boys outside canvasing the voters, one of them gave me this really smug smile and a thumbs up and said "one of ours I see!" I was utterly baffled as as far as I was concerned my haterd for the Tory party was oozing from every pore of my being, it wasn't til later I realised they'd clocked my blue 'Fairport' badge and assumed it was a 'vote conservative' badge... I was mortified for the rest of the day, and made sure I was wearing an 'I didn't Vote Tory' badge for some time after that. Blimey to think there was actually a time when there seemd to be a difference between the political parties, and it felt like it actually mattered....
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Post by simone on May 16, 2009 18:11:31 GMT
I remember chains of gigs at the Kursaal - my brother had a poster on his wall for the James Gang supported by 10CC - I saw 10CC supported by Joan Armatrading followed by Joan Armatrading supported by  . I know I saw Hawkwind more than once, but alcohol obscures the details - fairly certain Silver Machine was the encore... I still have a backstage pass after 'roadying' for Black Sabbath - did the same for an Irish band called Fruup a couple of weeks later and was surprised by how little equipment they had compared to Sabbath - the road manager told me he was really worried because the second van with all the rest of the gear was late and had me checking out the back to see if it had arrived about every ten minutes. Took me ages to twig... I remember seeing Camel doing Snow Goose. It was really bizarre - a room full of hippies sitting on the floor up to their necks in dry ice. And two people running along the seafront with a huge plastic crocodile stolen from a Sensational Alex Harvey gig - Steve Sebastian maybe? The only thing I didn't like about the Kursaal was that if you'd seriously over indulged, the sprung dancefloor could make you really seasick. |
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Post by graham on May 19, 2009 22:00:26 GMT
did the same for an Irish band called Fruup a couple of weeks later and was surprised by how little equipment they had compared to Sabbath - Strangely enough I was playing the 'Prince of Heavens Eyes' album by Fruupp in the kitchen whilst cooking dinner last summer after having downloaded off some p2p site. It was the first time I'd heard it in some 30 odd years, yet my next door neighbour (Jan who used to be in Watch With Mother who are mentioned on another thread) commented over the fence, "oo, is that Fruupp you are playing?" How weird is that... |
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