All the gigs of my Life: Gig 12 – My Life Story, Thursday, May 1, 1997, Astoria
Election Day 1997. A new dawn for Britain was approaching. And I celebrated the best way I knew how: by going to a gig.
Rae Morris at Heaven, Wednesday, 28th of March, 2018
This brilliant night of joyful, idiosyncratic pop was the 150th gig of my life – but it felt less like a full stop, and more like a new beginning.
All the gigs of my life: Gig 11 – Mansun, Friday, April 25, 1997, Kilburn National
My first ever Mansun gig. If I were pressed to name one gig and one gig only as the greatest of my life, it would be this one.
All the gigs of my life: Gig 10 – Manic Street Preachers, Saturday, April 12, 1997, Royal Albert Hall
“So here I sit in the middle of The Day. The reason I’m still here and not swirling aimlessly around Perth again.”
All the gigs of my life: Gig 9 – Suede, Saturday, April 05, 1997, Kentish Town Forum
What an introduction to the world of Suede live: a fan club only, B-sides only gig.
Paul Draper at the Manchester Ritz and Electric Brixton, 1st and 8th March 2018
In a few weeks’ time on this blog, I will reach gig no.11 of All The Gigs Of My Life, a truly astonishing night that completely turned my little music-obsessed world around: my first ever Mansun gig in April 1997. But for now, I have my 149th and […]
All the gigs of my life: Gig 8 – My Life Story / Orlando, Friday, February 14, 1997, ULU
My first gig as a Proper Londoner, living and working in the city I’d dreamed of for years, was to see the flamboyantly orchestral My Life Story. But it was the support band I really wanted to see that might, a band I thought, for a few glorious […]
All the gigs of my life: Gig 7 – Manic Street Preachers, Monday, December 16, 1996, Kentish Town Forum
The triumphant, emotional finale to my trilogy of Manics gigs in London in December 1996.
All the gigs of my life: Gig 6 – Manic Street Preachers, Sunday, December 15, 1996, Shepherd’s Bush Empire
My second ever Manics gig, in which I discovered the true nature of Home, and that Moshpits And Me Don’t Mix.
All the gigs of my life: Gig 5 – Manic Street Preachers, Saturday, December 14, 1996, Brixton Academy
21 years old, in a new country, and here was my favourite band in the world, three nights in a row. Three nights which decided the course of the next 21 years of my life.
SCRUFFY STORMS 