Musical concerts
These are gigs I’ve vaguely been to:
God
(in their early UK incarnation), the backroom of pub Hackney, 198?
Sisters of Mercy
(as Sisters of Mersey- according to Musketeer nr.2 in the Academy Boscombe), Berlin Metropole and Bournemouth, 1984? 1981?
ATV
Chats Palace, Homerton-, 198?
Eve Libertine, Robin Rimbaud
Dalston venue, 2010+
Various
bands seen from a half-drunken perspective, Half Moon, Herne Hill, and the Windmill, Brixton Hill, the 1980s and early 90s.
Durutti Column
ICA, London 1995
Various
Joiners Arms, Southampton-? 1985/86?
Various
Half Moon, Putney, 1990s
Various
Incl Richard Jobson and Frank Chickens etc at the Armoury Show, The Academy, Boscombe, 198?
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Henry Rollins
The Forum, Kentish Town.
Rai band from Marseilles
The French Embassy, Kensington.
Tricky
The Fridge, Brixton
Minty
The disused Roundhouse, Camden Town, early 80’s.
Archie Shepp
The Town and Country, Kentish Town, the ’80s and then Barbican, North London, 2013
After buying Mama Rose from Red Records in King’s Cross of course I had to go and see Archie Shepp playing in town. This magical experience ended up sitting at a table with a jazzer couple in the eves.
Various
Windmill, Brixton
I guess me and Boots went to a variety of gigs there in the late ’80s and the early ’90s, but god knows what.
Miles Davis, Diamanda Galás, New Order, PJ Harvey
Southbank Centre,
The one advantage of hanging around the Southbank Centre at lunchtime was occasionally picking up tickets and giving things a try. Miles Davis was some famous jazz bloke I didn’t know so I thought I better get a Returned ticket.
Diamanda Galás was central to my girlfriend Brigitte at that time so we went along in the evening.
New Order cut a suitably different impression at the Festival Hall. It was great in the middle of the miner’s strike with a miner coming on in a helmet. It was a brilliant gig compared to the terrible one in Bournemouth with James (who were great) and The Wake (who were not as good as they had been at the Midnight Express) and New Order (who were terrible).
In recent days Boots has taken me to see PJ Harvey, John Cooper Clarke, and Burt Bacharach. Years ago when I first took Boots to PJ Harvey the good news was there was a returned front row ticket. But it was the only one. She went to see her. I went to the bar.
Inner City Unit
Dingwalls, Camden, 80s
I guess I went along with my Hawkwind-obsessive mate in the early ’80s and then went back in the late ’80s doing a book stall around the back. The one advantage of doing a Camden book stall at the back.
Various
The roof of Tate Modern (plus fires).
Henry Rollins
The Mean Fiddler, Harlesden, 1988
Psychic TV
Hackney Empire, various squats including one now near Digital Roundabout, London, 1987
Dolly Mixture
Clarendon, Hammersmith, early ’80s
After interviewing them for Toaster by the seaside this involved taking a coach up to London, seeing the gig and then going to the stage door.
Billy Bragg
Ritzy Cinema, Brixton
During the miners’ strike. It involved buying a ticket from a pub under Lambeth Town Hall.
Roy Harper and Jimmy Page
Rock Garden, Covent Garden
I really wish I went to the gig at a bandstand in a park in Brixton. But going to the event in the Rock Garden was pretty good. The downstairs gig hapenned after the Beanfield Massacre.
Self Abuse, Subhumans etc.
Sex Cinema, Winton 1980’s
Various
Electric Ballroom, Camden Town,
Loads of gigs in the ’80s including Hüsker Dü (who was terrible apart from when they played “Pink turns to blue”) and a weird all-dayer that Psychic TV did with a dancer from the Michael Clark dance troupe and an audience which also seemed to consist of Sunday Sport readers.
Bad Brains
The Astoria, Charring X, London, 1989
This was the definitive Hardcore gig.
Hawkwind
Teddington TV studio? Early 80’s
Living in a bathroom next to the biggest Hawkwind fan in the world inevitably meant seeing the band in weird places. I would have seen them at Westbury but they would have probably been electrocuted in the lousy weather after the Battle of the Beanfield. Teddington was a gig in JG Ballard world.
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Various
Cricketers, Oval, London, 1984 or ’85
This was kind of our local pub to go to. In a street of squats facing the cricket ground. I can’t remember any of the bands I saw there. Ian Dury lived locally.
Boredoms
Park near Shinjuku Tokyo, late 1990s
My Mate told me about this gig so I got the train across Tokyo and checked this out.
Babes in Toyland
Subterania, London, 1990
Archaos band
circus tent, Clapham Common, end of 1990’s.
Misty in Roots
Treeworgy, Cornwall, 1989
Norwich Art Centre, Norwich, 2013
After producing the greatest reggae album of all times Live At The Counter Eurovision inevitably everything after always was going to be downhill. Bizarrely I had greater memories of listening to the Counter Eurovision by the seaside and blasting the record out of a bottom floor flat in Herne Hill rather than the festival.
Various
Diorama, Great Portland Street, London, 1989
Can’t rememberer what gig I saw here, but amazing venue.
Invaders of the Heart/Jah Wobble
London, 1992
I think he was supporting the Shamen but because everyone seemed to be so out of it, no one bothered to record it.