Suspect (Memory) Device. Forty Years on. As the deadline for this post approached the old memory would not oblige. I can remember bits. Travelling to Smokey’s Nightclub in Arbroath to catch the Associates. Alan Rankine’s father […]
Warning to all The Alarm fans so they can stop reading this now – I didn’t enjoy their part of this gig at all. But weird as it sounds, no matter how disappointing (to me) the […]
First, let me be straight – this isn’t about the first time I ever saw a live band. I think my first live gig was a graduation dance when I was 14. I don’t remember the […]
I remember more about the circumstances around the Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark/Thompson Twins Tour for Future Days concert I attended in 1985 than the performances themselves, even though I was there as a die-hard OMD […]
Strictly speaking, this wasn’t actually the first gig I attended, but it was the first major one I can remember going to without my parents and using my own money to pay for the ticket. In […]
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