What was your first gig?

[Frankblackwife]

I say mine was frank black and the catholics, it was in fact Robbie Williams haha

INXS in Manchester. And then Dina Carroll - no idea what happened to her.

@PauliesWalnuts INXS, I’m so jealous. The only band I wish I’d been able to see.
Mine was Alice Cooper

I think it was The Pixies

Erasure at The Excel. Opened up a whole new world 👏

If I remember rightly, she was losing her hearing.

Mine was The Wildhearts.

Space at Southampton Guildhall. Brilliant!

A-Ha
It was in Harrogate and I was around 15
Pal came on stage on a skateboard and Morten was breathtakingly beautiful

The Smiths

Feeder at Brixton Academy, I was 14.

if you’re counting Radio One Roadshows then Jason Donovan

If not - Crowded House in the SECC in Glasgow

ABBA at Wembley Arena.

Jason Donovan in Brighton Centre in 1990.

I saw him (a few times) on his recent Doin Fine 25 tour. I've got tickets for 3 dates for his Doin Fine Encore 26. I'll probably get more.

Kate Bush, Sunderland Empire 1979

East 17, aged 13 🤣

Wishbone Ash.
I was about 14 and went on my own....... terrific.😁👍

I bloody love crowded house
, been berated for iit before

Think it was Ash at Waldorf Astoria around 1996

Blur in Wembley Arena age 13. School tried to give me a detention for missing art and IT despite my parents giving permission so my parents argued 😂😂😂 years on, it was totally right to skip school that one time.

A-ha, Wembley arena. 2005ish I think.

@Frankblackwife me too!

Lost Prophets, unfortunately.

A classical music (thanks, Dad) evening outdoors in Australia, everyone on picnic blankets. I was a young kid and the best bit was watching a small disturbance travel through the audience like a wave… before a possum/other furry mammal made its way out and climbed up a tree nearby. I then fell asleep.
The first gig I personally bought a ticket for was by Korn. Where I grew up there were no gigs, I missed out on so many of the 90s-2000s singers and bands!

Oof 😬

I can't remember if this was the first, but it was the first big one. Pulp when they'd just brought out Different Class..I was 14, nearly 15 I think.

Joan Armatrading, early 80s