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

542 replies

DannyOD · 09/11/2018 19:29

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

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BrettAndersonscheekbones · 09/11/2018 19:41

Culture Club 1984 Wembley Arena

Athena51 · 09/11/2018 19:41

Duran Duran I was 13 or 14.

MilesHuntsWig · 09/11/2018 19:41

The Dubliners somewhere in Limerick when I was about 7.

AvonCallingBarksdale · 09/11/2018 19:42

Eurythmics in about 1983/4

Arthur2shedsJackson · 09/11/2018 19:42

The Beatles. At the Cavern, if that counts as a concert.
I was bunking off school at lunchtime.

VickieCherry · 09/11/2018 19:42

Garbage at the Cambridge Corn Exchange. I was 15 I think.

BrettAndersonscheekbones · 09/11/2018 19:43

@billydilly so envious!

missmouse101 · 09/11/2018 19:43

The kids from Fame! About 1983 or 1984.

MarianneAgain · 09/11/2018 19:43

@user1471453601

and I thought I was going to out myself as being well old, but compared to you I'm just a slip of a girl....
Meatloaf, Edinburgh, approx1982

Jellybeanduck · 09/11/2018 19:43

First concert I went to was Michael Jackson at Wembley Stadium when I was 11, but the first band I saw was Foo Fighters at Wembley arena when I was 16.

Dowser · 09/11/2018 19:44

Think it was Elmer gantry velvet opera

Who? You might say

FuckKnuckle · 09/11/2018 19:44

Saxon (brilliant)

Supported by Limelight (crap)

ThanosSavedMe · 09/11/2018 19:44

I can beat you all. Bucks Fizz

Spaceman101 · 09/11/2018 19:44

Bon Jovi at Wembley. We got there super early so we could be in the front row

Lweji · 09/11/2018 19:45

Manic Street Preachers mid/late 90s Wembley Arena.

catsandogs · 09/11/2018 19:45

T'Pau 🤣🙈

First gig was Paul Young though 😍

Lekky12 · 09/11/2018 19:45

PJ & Duncan, York Barbican 1996. Psyche!

TheSmallAssassin · 09/11/2018 19:45

Furniture/The Mighty Lemondrops, BBC Radio 1 In Concert at Golders Green in 1986. My dad got the son of one of his friends to take me because I wasn't allowed to go on my own Blush

GoneWishing · 09/11/2018 19:46

Take That in 1993... I was a huge fan for a couple of months, I think, and never listened them after the concert.

Babyroobs · 09/11/2018 19:46

Duran Duran at Leicester de Montfort Hall, just before they became really big !! Must have been around 1984 ?

NotACleverName · 09/11/2018 19:46

Rammstein. Manchester Apollo, 2002. Nowt quite like a spurting prosthetic cock to liven up your first gig.

LanceStatersGold · 09/11/2018 19:48

A1 (no regrets Grin)

billydilly · 09/11/2018 19:48

brettandersonscheekbones (ace name!) It was extraordinary, I'll never forget it; I must have looked bizarre in my school uniform!

mummymermaid · 09/11/2018 19:49

New Kids On The Block when I was 12 years old. I remember hysterical crying and I think I cried hysterically all night when I got home BlushGrin

Susiesue61 · 09/11/2018 19:49

Take That inManchester 1995 😊 DH who was my boyfriend then biught me them for graduating!!

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