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.

I'm SO jealous of some of these - some of them are REALLY cool.

Several a lot less so!

My first gig was Paul Young, so snap catsandogs I touched his knee! Very proud of this!

Pink Floyd, 1994, Earls Court. There was an issue with some seats collapsing at the back of the stadium so they never really got started and we had to go back a week later for the rescheduled date.

Prefab Sprout.

CMOT I saw Dogs d’Amour and Tyler drunkenly signed my copy of Errol Flynn for me. Loved them at the time. < heads off to dig out the old records>

Simply Red, 1990

Supertramp. Leeds town hall 1994.

U2

Shit... not 1994... 1974!!!

@Cocolepew - That was mine too. 3rd July 1985. I was 15 and really late getting back home to south london on the tube, parents not too happy.

Nik Kershaw 1984

Hall & Oates in Camden.

Ash at the Glasgow Barrowlsnds in 1996. The day before one of my standard grade exams. I think it was accounting (I got a 1 😁).

Local Band called “Mums Garage” (for where they practiced) in Community Centre when I was 15.

First proper gig was “7 Bands on the Up” (sponsored by 7Up!) where I saw Hot House Flowers, An Emotional Fish, Something Happens And Cactus World News - I was 17 I think, maybe 16. That was in the SFX in Dublin.

My parents never let me go to Pairc ui Caoumh for greats like Michael Jackson etc, or to Feile in Semple Stadium. But I’ve been to a few good ones since. Bruce Springsteen, Meatloaf, Bryan Adams, An Emotional Fish (again!), M People, and Def Leopard coming in a few weeks.

Someone upthread mentioned an 'unknown' band. I'll give you another one : Les Barnes & His Band - commonly known as 'Lay Barnay' in Pinner

911 in Blackpool. Do I win the wooden spoon?

In my defence I've also seen Muse, Arctic Monkeys, Catfish and the Greenday and Embrace since.

Pixies at Manchester Apollo, about 1990

The Jam

Catfish and the Bottlemen and Greenday that should read.

One Direction at Wembley 2014. Thinking about it, I'd seen a lot of solo artists prior to them but they must have been the first band! This makes me feel like a baby.

Iron Maiden at the Nottingham Ice Arena.

I'd seen them (and many other bands) a few months earlier at Download but this was my first proper gig (at least for a signed band).

Showaddywaddy in the 70s, my parents took us. The first band I took myself to see was Del Amitri in '89 or '90 at the Student's Union of my poly. I didn't live centrally enough to take myself to anything pre-poly.

So jealous of @Rockbird. Blondie were my favourite band from I was about 8, but I didn't get to see them until I was in my late twenties.

The Police and Jools Holland and his Millionaires as support at Wembley about 1981

Depeche mode 1985 ish at Hammersmith my mates dad took us on the tube :) and waited outside

Duran Duran, Edinburgh Playhouse 1986 - brilliant!

Lou Reed in Manchester free trade hall 1974