Notable gigs you've been to

[CropleyWasGod]

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Springsteen at the Playhouse in 1981, I was in the 5th row
It was the too promote “The River” album. Can still remember them starting with, The Ties that Bind

I also was at the Usher Hall to see Kate Bush, in one of our rare gigs

I was at that Springsteen gig...2nd row, right in front of Van Zandt.

I remember him starting with Badlands, though. IIRC, there were 2 gigs as the first one sold out very quickly.

So probably not the same one 😁

[Billy Whizz]

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I was at that Springsteen gig...2nd row, right in front of Van Zandt.

I remember him starting with Badlands, though. IIRC, there were 2 gigs as the first one sold out very quickly.

So probably not the same one 😁

Crops, he started with the Ties that bind, honestly

[CropleyWasGod]

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Crops, he started with the Ties that bind, honestly

BruceBase has the answer

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You were right about Ties That Bind at your one. The other one started with Prove It All Night, which I don't remember. In my head, all I hear is the drum intro to Badlands, which wasn't played until halfway through both gigs. See age?

Further looking at it, he played Fire the night I was there, which he didn't the other night. So, in conclusion, I was at the same one as you, and you were right

Hope I didn't block your view!

[Smartie]

There were actually quite a few bands I saw at the first T in the Park (my first ever festival, I was only 16) that ended up feeling significant.

Oasis in the tent was one. Definitely Maybe hadn't yet been released and myself and my mates were probably more into rap and hip hop at that time but that got knocked in a very different direction after seeing Oasis live for the first time. We'd heard a few of their singles before so they weren't exactly unknown but they certainly weren't the size of band they went on to become. My brother eventually became pretty good mates with Noel Gallagher and he'd said to him that I was in the tent at T in the Park for that gig. Gallagher says that there is a bit of the "Seville calculator" about their King Tuts gig and the tent at T in the Park ie if everybody who claimed to have been there was actually there then there would have been about 10m people at each gig.

Another one in that same tent was actually the Manic Street Preachers. They were playing as a 3 piece, possibly for the first time, as Richey Edwards had recently gone into rehab. He would return to the band later that year but disappeared the following year, never to be found and the band went on as a 3. Again, they were a band I didn't know much about until then, but got into them more after seeing them there.

I was also at Cream in Liverpool for the Millennium, memories of which are understandably hazy, but I seem to recall Orbital being on at the bells and Chime following straight on from the bells being pretty cool. Pretty sure the last song of the night was "Hymn of the big wheel", it was light and we were all quite pleased that the world hadn't ended. It also felt quite cool that on Hogmanay everybody in the world seemed to be heading into Edinburgh and we were getting the train out to go to Liverpool, somewhere I've only ever been back to once since then.

[Billy Whizz]

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BruceBase has the answer

http://brucebase.wikidot.com/1981

You were right about Ties That Bind at your one. The other one started with Prove It All Night, which I don't remember. In my head, all I hear is the drum intro to Badlands, which wasn't played until halfway through both gigs. See age?

Further looking at it, he played Fire the night I was there, which he didn't the other night. So, in conclusion, I was at the same one as you, and you were right

Hope I didn't block your view!

Ha ha, I can’t remember him playing 2 gigs
You didn’t block my view, but i’d rather have heard Bruce than you😀

[Carheenlea]

Idles in Sneaky Petes. About 80 of an audience, but a performance that you knew you’d never see them again in such an environment. Saw them the next year in Glasgow at G2, then a year later in Dublin at Vicar Street then the Barrowlands a couple of years back. The best and most incendiary show of the lot was the date at Sneaky Petes.

We used to go to a lot of Verve gigs, and at the Cathouse in Glasgow about the mid 90’s the support was Oasis. We’d heard of them by then but none of us were really that keen on them, but you could see they were destined for big things. Never believed they would go on to be quite as big mind you.

As a Fall fan I used to go travel to many gigs every year, mostly all the Scottish dates and north of England. After having to abandon plans to stay overnight for a Friday night gig in Wakefield in 2018, a fellow Hibs fan and I drove down and back up straight afterwards in order to attend the cup tie against Celtic at Hampden the following day. Mark E Smith performed in a wheelchair and was in a sorry looking state which shocked the audience, but he was in good form. On the Monday night, I drove down to Newcastle for the next gig and then a couple of weeks later a few of us were at QMU for the next one, and for what was The Fall’s last ever show, so I was glad to have been at the final three, and thankfully, given the unpredictability of Smith, they were all absolute stormers despite performing from a wheelchair. Mark E Smith died the following year.