Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

lostinrates

OK, well I'm going to admit to being throroughly uncool and not missing gigging at all. I always found crown distracted from music, and I never even felt overwhelmed when I was in the cool places backstage with people I really admired.

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

OK, well I'm going to admit to being throroughly uncool and not missing gigging at all. I always found crown distracted from music, and I never even felt overwhelmed when I was in the cool places backstage with people I really admired.

In my very limited experience, backstage is rarely cool. Personally I've never felt overwhelmed. Perhaps that is because I have been lucky enough to be with people who have prepared me well for the experience.

I do enjoy gigging though, & I don't like the big gaps which appear between gigs. I like looking forward to it!

The past couple of years has been very quite on the gig front. The credit crunch has lead to a lot of bands/companies focussing on festivals rather than doing tours.

PasturesNew

To be honest, growing up, I wasn't even aware of gigs. There weren't any venues in/near my fenland town. Maybe it's a thing more for city people. I'd have not been allowed to go anyway. When I was 19 I had to be in a 10:30pm and 10:45 on Fri/Sat.

carolt

I loooove gigs. Can't wait for our festival v soon - we've not had our anniversary away weekend yet, as DS's party and birthday took priority, and as the festival we wanted to go to was on a different weekend anyway.

V v excited. For me, live music is a thrill like no other (well, OK, I can think of 1 thing that matches up ) - I love feeling it go through you... My first gig was Culture Club, aged 13. How uncool is that? We went because my best friend had a crush on Boy George.

Great night, all the same.

So many, many great gigs. I worked on the bar at Hammersmith Odeon (as it was then) for a time; as soon as the acts went on, the bar closed and we got to watch all the gigs for free. It's a seated venue, but as staff, I could stand wherever I wanted, so got great views of loads of bands. Passed up the opportunity to work backstage at a Bob Dylan gig there, because I was too tired!!! Always really regretted that.

Mmmm, summer and great music. Can't wait!

sss555s

carolt wrote: »

V v excited. For me, live music is a thrill like no other (well, OK, I can think of 1 thing that matches up )

I've no idea how you've managed to taste my cooking! :eek:

Exocet

Ah memories of music. I was at the first Glastonbury rocking to the Mersey beat of Freddie and the Dreamers. Unfortunately I was a bit tiddly on cider by the time Cilla Black came on which was a downer, buit I managed to recover enough to see Tommy Cooper on the Magic Stage - did I like it? Not a lot. I jest of course.

By the time next year came round of course it had all changed. Eavis wanted to be 'trendy' so he... and I.. grew our hair till it was nearly collar length, and pretended to groove to that dweeb with the spangly face who sang about wizards and cats. I remember being offered LSD and replying "it's OK I've got my cheque book" - I was a laugh in those days.

The summer of free love it was called. Oh the girls! None for me though. Which was bit of a downer as we used to say. I remember seeing my first pair of hot pants and being amazed. I simply had to have a pair.

Of course these days it's all Corporate stuff - Virgin Media and Coke. Back then we were anarchists, sucking it to the man and sticking two fingers up to society. I always made it back for work on Monday though, there's a sensible limit to rebellion and I am glad that I stayed the right side of it.

Rock on!

harryhound

I think it must have been 1963; because there was pianist in the line up of 6 performers.

It was called Richmond but it was actually Twickenham Rugby Club and eventually the event out grew its home (and escaped the 707's landing at Heathrow) by decamping to Reading.

There in the glow of the setting sun it was the turn of top of the bill Acker Bilk to mount the main stage. Oh dear where had the audience gone?

There was another stage in a marquee referred to as "The R&B tent" and in there it was one hell of a crush as an almost unknown group called "The Rolling Stones" took to the stage.

Davesnave

I think my penchant for a certain very loud band is already well documented. Yes, I have tinnitus, but it was worth every decibel.
Frankly, once one has experienced that band in their prime everything else is a bit of a let down, but I remember Led Zep, Yes, Cream, Jethro Tull and The Nice (later to evolve into the very silly ELP) being good fun. While in London 1968 -69, I also followed a band called Family, who were a bit different from the usual thrashers.

Perhaps there was something in the West London air when I was a kid, because I instantly identified with the Who, despite being well over 100 miles from there by the time I was a teenager. It was only much later that I discovered, reading Moon's biography, that the lovely girl with big eyes I'd sat next to through Years 3/4 was his sister, and that the 'big boy,' who was always slamming doors in her house, was none other than the legendary wild man of rock himself......:cool:

harryhound

Originally Posted by vivatifosi
Speaking of Glasto and stuff, anyone gone to Hard Rock Calling in Hyde Park this weekend? I went to Jamiroquai's warm up gig to 700 people in some grotty old club made from railway arches on Thursday night, but my god he was good. It was a real, old school concert, hot, sweaty, standing. Wonderful. Wanted to hear how it transmitted to the big stage.

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Sounds like "Heaven":rotfl:

lostinrates

I've been reminded what ''nice people'' my friends are. One tried to get a mortgage on the some land we wanted so we could buy it later...they failed, but how amazing to try And another wants to give us a cooker (its got a gas hob though, so I' need to keep one of those gas cannisters about...not sure how that would work...I'm guessing its not safe to keep it in the house, so might be a no go.) Yet another turned up today with MORE cardboard boxes.

Now I just need a fence post fairy (we've found lots of holes in the perimeter fencing) and I can relax a little...I can hammer in rails easily, but getting posts in is a different matter. The other fencing quotes are coming in thick and fast, and the big chicken house broke a bit today, so while I'll patch a repair tonight I think new expenditure there will be necessary pretty son, especially once its suffered the weakening impact of being dismantled.