First & Last

[Turnipsock]

Sarha Cox has a thing, First & Last, its your first gig and your last.

It would be fun to try it out here.

First Gig: Hustler/Queen

Last Gig: Sparks

[Psmith]

The Beatles (yes,start small) Not that I could hear any music.Capitol Cinema Cardiff.19hundred and frozen to death.
Cold Chisel.Deni,NSW.At some car rally.2010.

[Red Baron]

First: Free, Newcastle City Hall. 1971

Last: John Grant, Sage. Last week.

[Maximus]

Now there are three impressive first gigs!

First: Pentangle, Newcastle City Hall. 1971

Last: A Brief History Of King Tubby With Dennis Bovell And Friends, Jazz Cafe London. Last Wednesday

A Brief History Of King Tubby With Dennis Bovell And Friends

[Phillip Phlopp]

First gig: I really can't remember, it being 50 years ago. It might have been Thin Lizzy. The venue would have been a Maidstone Art College Friday night rock bash in the early 70s where many of the bands starting out would later become famous in the years that followed.

Last gig: Rolling Stones at the original Wembley Stadium. Late 90s? We had seat high up at the back of the stand and the roof overhang cut the view of the stage. Sheryl Crow was the support act and she was brill.

[Phillip Phlopp]

The Beatles (yes,start small) Not that I could hear any music.Capitol Cinema Cardiff.19hundred and frozen to death.
Cold Chisel.Deni,NSW.At some car rally.2010.

Ah, I thought I remembered you from an earlier message board. Was it the R2 board?
We lived in Cardiff from 1974 to 2000, first in Splott then Fairwater and finally Radyr. I remember a hot summer's night laying in bed and in between the noise from the pub that was opposite our terraced house in Splott I could hear 10cc playing 'I'm not in love' a couple of miles away in Cardiff Castle.

[Lisa]

First - The Pet Shop Boys in 1991 in Belfast with my two flatmates from uni when we were visiting one of them during the summer

Last - Neil Finn (& family) a couple of weeks ago

[SuzySu]

First - Michael Jackson, Roundhay Park, Leeds, 1988.
Last - Alison Moyet, The Sage, Newcastle, 2017.

Although last year i did go to a Lets Rock Festival, but that's a number of Artists not just one

[Psmith]

The Beatles (yes,start small) Not that I could hear any music.Capitol Cinema Cardiff.19hundred and frozen to death.
Cold Chisel.Deni,NSW.At some car rally.2010.

Ah, I thought I remembered you from an earlier message board. Was it the R2 board?
We lived in Cardiff from 1974 to 2000, first in Splott then Fairwater and finally Radyr. I remember a hot summer's night laying in bed and in between the noise from the pub that was opposite our terraced house in Splott I could hear 10cc playing 'I'm not in love' a couple of miles away in Cardiff Castle.

I was on all the BBC boards and did pop into R2,yes.Good times for message boards before FB took over.
From Splott to Radyr,you went in the right direction
I worked in Splott until I left the UK in 2006.
I don't remember 10cc but I saw Status Quo/Hawkwind at the Castle.

[Turnipsock]

I would love to have seen Free. Thin Lizzy played the albert hall at Stirling, its right across from my dentist. I sit in the waiting room and wonder why I didn't go.

[Claude Balls]

First (I think) was Suzanne Vega at the Edinburgh Playhouse, touring her first album.
Either that or Jackson Browne ("Lives in the Balance") at the same venue or Nils Lofgren (touring "Flip") at the Usher Hall.

Last was Neil & Liam Finn (& the rest of the family) last month at the Queens Hall, Edinburgh.

I have been to gigs in cities other than Edinburgh though - next up is the Ryan Adams in Glasgow in April.

[Maximus]

First (I think) was Suzanne Vega at the Edinburgh Playhouse, touring her first album.
Either that or Jackson Browne ("Lives in the Balance") at the same venue or Nils Lofgren (touring "Flip") at the Usher Hall.

Last was Neil & Liam Finn (& the rest of the family) last month at the Queens Hall, Edinburgh.

I have been to gigs in cities other than Edinburgh though - next up is the Ryan Adams in Glasgow in April.

Nils is always great live - Gassy and me were (independently) big fans of the 'Cry Tough' album/tour a few years earlier.

[Undie]

First: Erasure at what was called the Docklands Academy at the time, I believe it is now called the Excel

Last: Tame Impala @ Citadel Festival Gunnerbury London last summer

[Maximus]

I have been to gigs in cities other than Edinburgh though - next up is the Ryan Adams in Glasgow in April.

#HimToo?

Ryan Adams: multiple women accuse singer of emotional abuse, report says. Seven women allege musician ‘dangled career opportunities’ while sexually pursuing female artists, New York Times reports

[Undie]

I have been to gigs in cities other than Edinburgh though - next up is the Ryan Adams in Glasgow in April.

#HimToo?

Ryan Adams: multiple women accuse singer of emotional abuse, report says. Seven women allege musician ‘dangled career opportunities’ while sexually pursuing female artists, New York Times reports

It bothers me more that his is very dull

[Claude Balls]

By the looks of it, I may not be going to see him then.

[Maximus]

By the looks of it, I may not be going to see him then.

Every cloud has a silver lining...

[Claude Balls]

Confirmed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47416500