General Chat

Concerts were mentioned on the Welsh thread, so l thought l'd start a thread...it may have been done before so apologies in advance:))

l was trying to remember my first concert and thought it could have been:

The Beach Boys (twice) or Jack Jones, both in Brighton,
then remembered :

The Walker Bros,
Bucks Fizz,
and then onto:

Cliff (dear old Cliff), seen him a few times and met him :-)
Gloria Estefan, met her and her family too :-)
Simon and Garfunkel at Wembley on their last concert together....wow that was something else.
Simon with his new band at Brighton.....with all the drums, that was probably my favourite concert.
Cold Play in Birmingham...fantastic.
Cast of Fame at Brighton....daughters 13th b/day pressie:)
M People at Brighton.
Shirley Bassey Brighton
Johnny Mathias..Brighton
Russel Watson with a young New Zealander female singer Katie something l think....Brighton...also seen her in Bristol Cathedral
Roy Castle...Brighton
Stomp...London

Vics first concert was Lonni Donegan in 1968/69...Worthing

oh my word this is really getting the memory buds working, l'm sure there are more.

jude :-)

Lúnasa. (Sidmouth Folk Festival.)

The Teetotallers.

um

ive seen status quo 2 times
donny osmond 2 times (i got to meet him lol)
shawwaddywaddy
10cc
the drifters 2 times (got to meet them as well)
gene qitney
attomic ktten
mcfly
cant think who else lol

Dingle Spike.

The Chieftains.

The Dubliners (when they were still living!)

Clancy Brothers.

De Dannan.

Wolf Tones.

James Galway.

Stomping Dave.

Dolores Keane.

The Black Family.

Kevin Crawford & friends.

Big Tom.

The Royal Showband. (1960s).

Christy Moore.

Sharon Shannon.

Clannad.

Brian Kennedy.

Sinead O'Connor.

Altan.

The first concert I went to, which is really showing my age, was Bobby Vee, with him were Dusty Springfield and The Searchers. I was about 16 at the time. Cannot remember where we went to.

Others since then:

Gene Pitney
Shane Fenton (before he was Alvin Stardust)
Dire Straits
Beach Boys at Wembley
Eric Clapton and Elton John at Wembley
Michael Jackson
Meat Loaf
Dave Dee, Dozy, Mick and Titch (at a dance hall in Whetstone, North London, before they were famous)
Chris Jagger (Mick's brother) at the Conservative Hall in North Finchley

Can't remember any others at the moment.

Oh brill....Blimey Dermot......loads:) alot of those l've never heard of!!!

Tinkers........l forgot Status Quo......twice, the 2nd time was in Cardiff last year Brilliant, Kim Wilde amd Wizzard were there too...also brilliant:)

Me thinks l'm of the simular age:))
Dunno about Dermot though...lol

jude

PS....Valerie we posted together.... Some real good old names there. Would love to have seen Bobby Vee and Dusty:)

You've got my memory buds going too, Jude. Here are some I can remember:

The Animals at The Marquee Club
Manfred Mann at The Marquee Club
The Who at The Marquee Club
Shirley McClean at The Palladium
Neil Sedaka at Brighton Dome
James Last at Brighton Centre :-S
John Denver at Brighton Centre
Chris Rea at Brighton Centre
Bill Wyman's Rythm Kings in a tent in a field somewhere near Chichester (Georgie Fame did a stint on his own and Gary Brooker sang 'Whiter Shade of Pale' to his own piano accompaniment and a tenor saxophonist, which was fantastic)
Leonard Cohen at Brighton Centre

I think this list also gives my age away

:-D

Just remembered - Elton John at Sussex County Cricket Club last summer

Yes it does Wend,especially about the tent in a field,PMSL. :-D :-D

Chuck Berry
Tom Jones
Glen Campbell
Four Tops
Abba Tribute
T Rex Tribute
Queen Tribute
Everley Bros
Cilla Black
Franki Vali and the 4 seasons
Gene Pitney - twice
Roy Woods Army

Loads of those mixed concerts when the groups from the 60's shared the billing

Forgot to add David Essex - 3 times

I been to see

Showaddywaddy,
Shakin Stevens
Wet Wet Wet
Donny Osmond
Emmylou Harris, Trisha Yearwood and Marti Stewart these where together in concert

Tom Paxton in Edinburgh

Cliff Richard at Wembley

James Taylor in London somewhere :-D :-D
Von
PS Jude I love Simon and Carfunkel.

Jack Jones twice
Helen Reddy
Rod McCuen
Ella Fitzgerald
Chris Barber with Monty Sunshine
Shirley Bassy
Katie Melhua

Ohhh yesss

Abba tribute
and
Queen tribute.
The Abba one was at Horsham outside, brilliant atmosphere:))


l think this is giveing everyones age away:)))

jude :-)

these days we tend to go to musicals rather than concerts. Yes certainly gives my age away doesn't it?

the following all in Cardiff

Neil Sedaka
Glenn Campbell
Kenny Rogers
Lulu
Elton John
Mel Torme
Tom Jones - many many times
Shirley Bassey
Don McClean
Russian Army
Russian Navy
The Fureys
Pendyrus Male Choir - with my husband in it
Joe Longthorne
Gareth Gates - in Les Miserables

In no particular order here goes,

The Cure
The Smiths (three times)
Echo and the Bunnymen
China Crisis
The Cult
Pop Will Eat Itself
Everything But The Girl
Zieuge Ziegue Sputnick
Madness
The Specials
The Beat (twice)
UB40
Tom Jones (Twice)
Clem Curtis
Showaddywaddy (my sister wanted to go!!!)
Kagagoogoo (I think its spelt that way and my friend wanted to go!!!!)
ABC
Spandau Ballet
Alexander O'Neil
Joules Holland and his Blues Band

Abba, Queen, Pink Floyd and Bee Gees tribute bands(all very good)

We went to a Princes Trust concert at the Albert Hall and saw, Phill Collins, The Quo, Jamie Cullum, Alison Moyet, Roger Taylor, Brian May, Eric Clapton,Tom Jones, Joules Holland, Mark King (from level 42) and Paloma Faith.

On my wish list of artist I have always wanted to see and havnt yet:

David Bowie
The Rolling Stones

Teresa



:-D :-D

Here are the people I've seen

David Essex - lots of times
The Osmonds
Donny Osmond
Showwaddy waddy
Cliff
Once in a lifetime with David Essex, David Cassidy, The Osmonds,
Leo Sayer, Les McKewen from Bay City Rollers

Solid Silver 60's show saw last week, Peter Noone from Hermans Hermits, Vanity Fair, Chris Montez, Brian Hyland, Brian Poole from the Tremoloes.

Bootleg Beatles

Met Adam Faith when he opened a local shop.

Jude I haven't seen many ,but
ERASURE had to be the best.
Kylie(just before she pulled out of her tour with Breast Cancer
and many moons ago Deep Purple.

Bing Crosby :-D He was fab.

LOL...some names l've never heard of and of course loads l have:)))

Jane....dohh it does'nt matter if you have'nt seen any, but this is quite interesting:))

And l forgot Tina Turner at the O2....60th birthday pressie:)....absolutely fantastic:)

jude :-)

Flipping eck, nearly forgot The Welsh version of Elvis...he won a contest a few years ago, fantastic:)...that was in Monmouth:)