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When was your first concert?

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  • #92
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,785 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    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!


  • #93
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    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...


  • #94
    devildriver
    Registered Users Posts: 874 ✭✭✭devildriver


    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    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.


  • #95
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    devildriver wrote: »
    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


  • #96
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    don mclean siamsa cois laoi 1984. brilliant


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  • #97
    D.Q
    Registered Users 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?


  • #98
    venusdoom
    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 😊


  • #99
    Flaccus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭Flaccus


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


  • #100
    psychozeb
    Registered Users Posts: 722 ✭✭✭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.


  • #101
    Mike Litoris
    Registered Users Posts: 5,994 ✭✭✭Mike Litoris


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


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  • #102
    griffin100
    Registered Users Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭griffin100


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

    I was at that gig and remember Scott Ian getting serious pissed if. It seemed to be a thing for some people. At Iron Maiden in The Point in 1990 the same thing happened. It was raining spit from the crowd onto the stage. Bruce stopped the gig and said if one more gob landed on the band they’d walk off. It stopped after that.

    My first gig was Xentrix and Sabbat in McGonagles in 1989.


  • #103
    funnyname
    Registered Users Posts: 1,744 ✭✭✭funnyname


    griffin100 wrote: »
    I was at that gig and remember Scott Ian getting serious pissed if. It seemed to be a thing for some people. At Iron Maiden in The Point in 1990 the same thing happened. It was raining spit from the crowd onto the stage. Bruce stopped the gig and said if one more gob landed on the band they’d walk off. It stopped after that.

    My first gig was Xentrix and Sabbat in McGonagles in 1989.

    The support band were gobbed on all during their set I remember so that's probably why carried on during Anthrax's set.


  • #104
    rushfan
    Registered Users Posts: 970 ✭✭✭rushfan


    Queen at the RDS Simmonscourt in Nov '79, awesome light show. Great memories.


  • #105
    Mike Litoris
    Registered Users Posts: 5,994 ✭✭✭Mike Litoris


    rushfan wrote: »
    Queen at the RDS Simmonscourt in Nov '79, awesome light show. Great memories.


    Man, I'm so jealous! They were electric on the Live Killers tour.


  • #106
    viewer
    Registered Users Posts: 38 ✭viewer


    Mamas Boys Fairways Dundalk - '87 I think.


  • #107
    LoughNeagh2017
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,074 ✭✭✭LoughNeagh2017


    The Undertones played some strange venues in 70s/80s, I remember reading that they played at a GAA hall in Ardboe which is a townland in Tyrone, another strange one I recently read was Metallica playing in Antrim town in 1988, they must have played there because it is the nearest town to the airport.


  • #108
    RosieJoe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭RosieJoe


    Came across this earlier, Classic Dublin Gigs page https://www.facebook.com/272423591202/posts/10157226900251203/


  • #109
    Jenna James
    Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Jenna James


    Either Cranberries or U2, mind blurry..


  • #110
    thebourke
    Registered Users Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭thebourke


    bon jovi dublin rds 1988 supported by lita ford!great show..went to see them recently in the rds!guy has some energy..


  • #111
    thebourke
    Registered Users Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭thebourke


    the_syco wrote: »
    Type O Negative in the SFX. I'm guessing 98/99/00.


    it was june 1996 ..i was at the gig..


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  • #112
    Thrashssacre
    Registered Users Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭Thrashssacre


    Iced earth, warbringer and elm street in the button factory in 2014, Feel like I’m probably one of the youngins here lol


  • #113
    thesultan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,667 ✭✭✭thesultan


    Oasis Cork 96.


  • #114
    Roanmore
    Registered Users Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Roanmore


    Status Quo - Cork City Hall 1984 - End of the road tour.
    Went with my older brother and 2 of his friends. They had the first Van Halen album on in the car which blew me away but was nothing compared to Quo later
    Was deaf in school the next day.

    As an aside, was reading the program after and there was a quote from Tommy Cooper in it. He died live on TV the same night.


  • #115
    fmpisces
    Registered Users Posts: 888 ✭✭✭fmpisces


    The first and only "concert" I've ever been to was The Corrs, back in '95 I think it was.


  • #116
    Abril Microscopic Cloud
    Posts: 0 ✭ Abril Microscopic Cloud


    Sunstroke 94 for me though that was more a festival ? Next gig I was at was Stone Temple Pilots in the SFX a few months later which was to be the scene of many a good night for years to come. I have a feeling I saw them at their best that night was only 14 though, never liked anything else they did outside of core and purple.


  • #117
    Mental Mickey
    Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    Abril Microscopic Cloud wrote: »
    Sunstroke 94 for me though that was more a festival ? Next gig I was at was Stone Temple Pilots in the SFX a few months later which was to be the scene of many a good night for years to come. I have a feeling I saw them at their best that night was only 14 though, never liked anything else they did outside of core and purple.

    Great gig. Sunstroke I mean


  • #118
    Abril Microscopic Cloud
    Posts: 0 ✭ Abril Microscopic Cloud


    Mental Mickey wrote: »
    Great gig. Sunstroke I mean

    Ah what a time to be young Mickey. My little fun house playing as we got there, terrorvision later, then Ice Cube with his "party over here, **** you over there". My ears still hurt from Helmet who were the loudest that day and the bass from Wilma's Rainbow still stuck in my head now.


  • #119
    Wailin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,407 ✭✭✭Wailin


    Metallica '92 at the point depot, some experience for a first proper gig.


  • #120
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Abril Microscopic Cloud wrote: »
    Sunstroke 94 for me though that was more a festival ? Next gig I was at was Stone Temple Pilots in the SFX a few months later which was to be the scene of many a good night for years to come. I have a feeling I saw them at their best that night was only 14 though, never liked anything else they did outside of core and purple.

    To say I'm jealous here would be a understatement.


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  • #121
    McDave
    Registered Users Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭McDave


    AC/DC, Olympic Ballroom, August 1979


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