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When was your first concert?

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  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 2,608 Mod ✭✭✭✭horgan_p


    1990 - Bon Jovi in the Point.
    First metal gig was one of the local gigs in Nancy Spains in Cork , around the same time - either Nux Vomica or Judgement


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,074 ✭✭✭LoughNeagh2017


    I didn't go to first concert until I was 19, Evanescence in Manchester, I didn't know what to expect with concerts, I was surprised at how loud it was, I don't understand why they need to be so loud in a small indoor venue.


  • Registered Users Posts: 46 War ensemble


    First gig was Faith No More supported by Prong in the Top Hat. Around '89 I think. FNM arrived 2 hours late as they were filming top of the pops !


  • Registered Users Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Salmon Leap


    Thin Lizzy Slane 1981


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,157 ✭✭✭TheShow


    Sunstroke 1994 in Dalymount Park. RHCP, Ice Cube, Soundgarden were due to headline but had to cancel. Various others that I cant recall, as i was very, very drunk at the time....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,157 ✭✭✭TheShow


    greenspurs wrote: »
    Michael Jackson - Cork 88 .


    :D:D:D

    must have been a touching experience!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,580 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    Foo Fighters SFX November 18th 1995


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    My first gig was the garda band when I was in primary school :)
    My first metal gig was a few years later: Slayer + Nuclear Assault in the Top Hat Dun Laoghaire Sep 12 1988
    The following month got to see Metallica + Danzig in the same venue


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 348 ✭✭peter4918


    Iron Maiden on September 23rd 1990 in the Point depot. Support was by Wolfsbane with Blaze Bailey as lead singer who then went on the join Maiden. Loved it from start to finish.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,824 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    wally1990 wrote: »
    Ozzfest 2002 with my father in Ireland (fair play dad for bringing me)

    I was only 11 but remember it very well weirdly enough

    Ozzy cancelled and I was super annoyed and didnt stay for Tool who headlined(I didn't even know them)

    I do remember loving SOAD though :)

    The line was

    Main stage

    Ozzy Osbourne (cancelled)
    Tool
    System of a Down
    Slayer
    Therapy?
    The Lost Prophets
    Drowning Pool
    Cyclefly
    Black Label Society

    2nd stage

    Kittie
    American Head Charge
    Ill Niño
    Mushroomhead
    Skindive
    Hell Is for Heroes
    Superskin
    Pulse Ultra
    Flaw
    Otep
    AntiProduct

    Me mother wouldn't let me go to that one.
    "Apparently" the leaving certificate is more important than some gig. Hon!

    My first gig was The Divine Comedy in Galway.
    Left after they did the Fr Ted theme tune.
    Hehe!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,820 ✭✭✭grames_bond


    Mine was supposed to be Limp Bizkit in punchestown but that got cancelled after Fred f*cked up his back.


    Ended up being Papa Roach with the murderdolls and hell is for heroes in the point


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,677 ✭✭✭Zwillinge


    Green Day in The Point on their Warning Tour - 2000/2001?

    My older brother took me along with him - he was 18/19, so I must have been 12/13.
    He had a fight with my Mam about me skipping school after lunch so we could get into town early to queue for the pit, as there wasn't a chance I was missing out on the pit at my first concert.
    We got the bus in and I remember "The Walk" to The Point (my brother is 6foot with long legs so I remember it being a struggle to keep up)

    Green Day weren't the HUGE stars they became, so my brother was pointing to "Tickets still on sale" signs saying, "Poor Billie, one day he'll sell out huge arenas." We got into the barriers and he was chatting to all the security lads and sneaking me by to get as close to the first people in as possible.

    The ticket guy ripped my ticket on the wrong end and the stub. I still have half my ticket in a photo album book :D

    We got The Pit :D I had a fantastic time and wanted to go to as many gigs as possible then.

    Pretty sure, I just condensed my Junior Cert English Essay in this post :o

    I had the fun experience of bringing my big brother to see Radiohead last year in the 3Arena and his GF was delighted to get The Luas, as it seems she hated "The Walk" which completely brought me back to that night.

    And now this evening, its Spice Girls in Croker with the girls :p:o

    Edit: Yeah, that was a stream of consciousness - haha! Nice memories though, thanks OP


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,967 ✭✭✭Pyr0


    Staind at the Point Theatre in 2002, it was a great gig!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 781 ✭✭✭davyboy1975


    Acdc in the point for razors edge tour. Kings x as support were great too


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,882 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    If you told me 10-13 years ago id see so many gigs in person i would not believe u anyway

    first gig- Oxegen 2007 Day 1 (not many metal or rock bands on the day, Snow Patrol was the main reason i was there. Saw a good bit of Muses set before the bus home)

    First metal/Rock gig was Metallica supported by Tenacious D in Marley Park on 20th Aug 2008. Dream come true at the time. Saw them a year later in the same venue, then not again til 2017 in Glasgow. Seeing them in Slane in 2 weeks time


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  • Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭mikeweed


    Ph3n0m wrote: »
    God it was one of two gigs - which ever one was the earliest


    Megadeth - Point (think it was '90)
    Masscare, Immolation and Devestation - McGonagles ( cant remember when this was)

    Megedath were supported by the Almighty and Alice In Chains.
    I was there and also at Massacre, Morgoth and Immolation. That was a savage concert. McGongales had some great gigs, Morbid Angel and Unleashed, Carcass. Smoe nights.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,383 ✭✭✭S.M.B.


    Mine was supposed to be Limp Bizkit in punchestown but that got cancelled after Fred f*cked up his back.
    Forgot all about this although don't think I was planning on going. Crazy to think LB were on the verge of headlining Punchestown


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭blastman


    Sabbath (with Ian Gillan singing) Dalymount 1983

    This was my second gig (and my brother's first).

    First gig was AC/DC in RDS Simmonscourt, 1982


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Fear Factory, Ambassador Theater, 2001.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 15,130 Mod ✭✭✭✭Furious-Red


    Stereophonics in the Point in 05.

    My first gig was nearly RHCP in Pheonix Park in 04? But my mam wouldnt let my sister get me a ticket because it was during my Junior Cert ha


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,873 ✭✭✭RayCon


    Thin Lizzy, RDS , 9th April 1983. I was 11 .... went with my two older brothers. :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,317 ✭✭✭Dublin Spur


    Aerosmith - Pump Tour - Aug 1990
    Blew My 15 year old Mind


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,317 ✭✭✭Dublin Spur


    buser2x wrote: »
    aerosmith & golden earring in 1978

    awesome :)

    whereabouts?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,476 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    Metallica at RDS in 03. Was like 14, and I remember 2 things from that day.

    1. Getting crushed so much during Battery
    2. The Darkness being absolutely brilliant.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    Pumpkins in the Point. Someone was killed at it so it lasted about 6 songs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,955 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    Wille Nelson and Elvis in the Houston Astrodome back in 1974.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,304 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Type O Negative in the SFX. I'm guessing 98/99/00.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭funnyname


    U2 - PUC - Summer 1987

    Anthrax - Top Hat - Summer 1989


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Er... Nickleback in the Point in 2002.

    I was pretty young :o


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Er... Nickleback in the Point in 2002.

    I was pretty young :o
    That's no excuse!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,930 ✭✭✭ActingDanClark


    The greedy bastards in the stardust, December 1978


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,500 ✭✭✭RosieJoe


    funnyname wrote: »

    Anthrax - Top Hat - Summer 1989

    That was my first gig, and they walked off after 20 minutes because people were spitting on them :mad:


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    RosieJoe wrote: »
    That was my first gig, and they walked off after 20 minutes because people were spitting on them :mad:
    I was in the Gaeltacht for that and was gutted that I was going to miss that gig.
    The spitting shouldn't have happened but I was glad that I missed the band walking off (which they were right to do!)


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    RosieJoe wrote: »
    That was my first gig, and they walked off after 20 minutes because people were spitting on them :mad:

    What?! really? that's incredible


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    That's no excuse!

    It was actually a good gig!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,500 ✭✭✭RosieJoe


    What?! really? that's incredible

    They had said it a few times that they'd walk if it continued. Despite the warning, some people still kept at it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,831 ✭✭✭RobMc59


    Mott the hoople with Queen as support band-Liverpool stadium 1973.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,803 ✭✭✭Sirsok


    Metallica RDS 04, all my mates were going but my dad wouldnt let me go with them so i had to go with him, he didnt want to go see slipknot so misses then but hey i was 14 my dad bought me a ticket ill forwver be gratefull.

    Stuff like that stixks with you forever, im glad i went with my dad that day as olposed to my mates


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    The Strawbs Portsmouth Guild Hall 1973 - only reason I can remember it is that they had just had their Part of the Union number 2 hit.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,994 ✭✭✭c.p.w.g.w


    Metallica in the RDS in 2004 I think


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    What?! really? that's incredible
    They had recently released their album State of Euphoria which because of the funkiness of it was negatively received by many.
    Some knobs felt the need to gob on the bad to express their disliking of it.

    However, it's actually a great album that still sounds good today!


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    They had recently released their album State of Euphoria which because of the funkiness of it was negatively received by many.
    Some knobs felt the need to gob on the bad to express their disliking of it.

    However, it's actually a great album that still sounds good today!

    Yeah figured it would be to do with SOE alright, still though, pretty hard up and Among the Living, a masterpiece, only came out about 18 months before.

    No wonder they walked, I'd have been pissed if I was at that gig and had it ruined...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 874 ✭✭✭devildriver


    It was actually a good gig!

    Yeah, I have to agree although it's not cool to admit it. It was a great gig, last one of the tour if I remember correctly. I got free tickets so went along for the laugh with fairly low expectations.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Yeah, I have to agree although it's not cool to admit it. It was a great gig, last one of the tour if I remember correctly. I got free tickets so went along for the laugh with fairly low expectations.

    How You Remind Me electric and acoustic :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    don mclean siamsa cois laoi 1984. brilliant


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,054 ✭✭✭D.Q


    Sirsok wrote: »
    Metallica RDS 04, all my mates were going but my dad wouldnt let me go with them so i had to go with him, he didnt want to go see slipknot so misses then but hey i was 14 my dad bought me a ticket ill forwver be gratefull.

    Stuff like that stixks with you forever, im glad i went with my dad that day as olposed to my mates

    my mate has the exact same story. Are you Dave?


  • Registered Users Posts: 207 ✭✭venusdoom


    Boyzone in Bundoran. My babysitter took me, I think I was around 8 years old. Have no memories of the band but only the merchandise stand. Getting a glowband was priority over the music in those days 😊


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭Flaccus


    The Undertones in 1980 in the Savoy Limerick, followed shortly after by Thin Lizzy in Dromkeen


  • Registered Users Posts: 726 ✭✭✭psychozeb


    First live band I saw was The Waterboys in The Majestic Ballroom in Mallow on the Fishermans Blues tour,great gig. A few years after to my next gig Iron Maiden in The Point 1990.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,280 ✭✭✭Mike Litoris


    D.R.I McGonagles 19th April 1990. :D


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