To ask you who the first band you saw in concert were?

[DannyOD]

My one can pinpoint my age almost exactly...... it’s A-ha at the Royal Albert Hall.

Steve Hackett (ex Genesis guitarist) Edinburgh 1979, followed by Peter Gabriel later the same year. I was 16 and a big prog rock fan.

Jimi Hendrix? Bloody Hell.
I have no idea what is my answer to the question. Likely to be 10,000 Maniacs fronted by Oingo Boingo, in about 1987. But could be wrong. (Am obviously not British born). Probably around same time I went to a Rolling Stones gig (terrible acoustics & beautiful tattoos of the motorbikers are my main memories... I ran into my brothers unexpectedlly).

Ok - so this is embarrassing.

It was Transvision Vamp at the Victoria Hall.

👋to all the other Depeche Mode-rs.

My first was Depeche Mode on their Black Celebration tour which I think was 1986. I remember it well, especially the first booming notes making me shiver.

T Rex at Newcastle City Hall in 1972. l was 13.

Mud. St George's Hall Bradford. I was about 12.

Abba in 1979 at Wembley aged 11.

Bobby Brown at Wembley Arena in '88. Supported by The Cookie Crew.

llangennith Jimi Hendrix

Hendix? How humdrum. I'm not at all envious - dear me, no.

Michael Jackson at Wembley

Sting - at the Royal Albert Hall. This was just after The Police when he was touring with some brilliant jazz musicians.

Weirdly, I had a Saturday job in the same area and he came into the shop and bought a packet of extra strong mints! I resisted the urge to tell him that I would see him later.

It was either Erasure or Bros at Whitley Bay Ice Rink in the late 80's.

Runrig at the Hammersmith Odeon, as it was known in November 1991. Seen them countless times since, including their Farewell concert in Stirling in August.

Spice Girls at Wembley. I was around 9ish. My mum let me have the day off school and we got a coach there and back!

Madness, Llanelli Glenn Ballroom 1980.

One Step Beyonnnnnnnnnd!

A small american punk band called Trashlight Vision, at the Doghouse in Dundee. I was 17.

The Police at The Milton Keynes Bowl July 1980.

Support acts

The Squeeze
UN40
Tom Robinson

The Stone Roses, Lancaster

Scorpions 1981 ish , they were so loud I thought my ears were bleeding !!!!

Fish, former lead singer with Marillion, Nottingham Royal Concert Hall, 1990.

REM 1995 in Huddersfield

Boyzone when I was about 12 I think. I remember my friends dad driving us to London and waiting in the carpark while we went in.

Bon Jovi at the Ibrox in 1995

I haven't missed a UK tour since and some tours I've been to more than one venue

Rammstein in Newcastle, 2012. Managed to get a couple of tickets to their stadium tour next year