Due to local community work, I've been asked and in fact now I AM standing as a candidate in local election May 3rd 2007!!!!! heee heeee heee!!!
I seem to get along with non-depressive random strangers.Pretty unlikely really to add hip hop types and pretty much hit and miss as to ever getting around to adding any spamming indie bands. But you never know.
tripping up to London, used to go to lotsagigs, but that was a loooong time ago. In almost a kind of order (relying on brain cells, not yet complete!) 1st gig- last... Black Sabbath (hammersmith odeon 1979 (?))* Siouxsie & the Banshees (H. odeon+ southend westcliff pavilion)* jOHN cOOPER CLARK (SUPPORT FOR SIOUXSIE)* The Boomtown Rats* Ramones (lyceum + brixton academy+ others)* The Clash (brixton academy)* Johnny Thunders with and without the heartbreakers (lots of dingy pubs in London, always late)* The Birthday Party (lyceum)* Motley Crue (hammersmith odeon)* Cramps (hammersmith palais '84 ? plus later)* Hanoi Rocks (rayleigh pink toothbrush! and marquee club)* Alien Sex fiend (ditto)* The Bangles (marquee '83?) * Rubella Ballet (brixton ace '82) Virgin Prunes (brixton Ace)* London Cowboys (southend westcliff hotel '83)* The Damned (various)* Iggy Pop (ditto 10+ times)* Jesus and Mary Chain (hammersmith palais)* Dr and the Medics ( supporting the damned)* The Godfathers ( as above)* gay Bikers on acid(who knows!)* Hawkwind (reading festival)* X-Mal Deutschland (brixton Ace)* hanoi rocks (marquee '82)* THE OUTFIELD (a little unknown band in fulham place greyhound '83) Blood and Roses (brixton ace '83)* Crass (a squatted cinema in islington- bottle of cider, please!)* TV Smith (fulham palace greyhound '83)* Nick Cave (Birmingham '84)* Echo & the Bunnymen ('85/'85?)* The Vibrators ( marquee club + other times too numerous)* The Bad Girls(marquee) * The Mission (festivals, astoria,finsbury park '83-'93)* March Violets (fest. '85) Zodiac mindwarp and the love attraction (festivals)* The Cult (festivals and finsbury park) * The fields of nephelim* (astoria and festivals) Wall of voodoo*(MARQUEE '85)* the babysitters*(MARQUEE '85)* the cherry Bombz (MARQUEE '85)*Lords of the New Church (inc Marquee, southend tech and mine for dinner)*Red Hot chilli Peppers (harlesden mean fiddler 1987)* Rolling Stones* (wembley '87) Cher (wembley '87)* The Buzzcocks (brixton academy)* wilko * Laibach (astoria '92)* The Pogues* (astoria) Daisy Chainsaw* Alice in chains* eddie and the Hot rods* ian dury and the blockheads*(town and country club) Velvet Underground (1993 wembley)* Mott the Hoople* The Who* NINE BELOW ZERO* Jerry lee Lewis* Wreckless Eric* Jayne County (Intrepid Fox london...lots!)* Manic street preachers (kilburn 1992/3)* John Otway * Black Crowes (brixton academy)* Rocket from the Crypt* Alice cooper(astoria)* Anti-nowhere league (astoria)* Guns and Roses (wembly '93)* Alternative TV (100 club)* Patti Smith* Au Pairs* inspiral carpets* Sex Pistols (finsbury park '97)* stiff little fingers* Jacobites (camden underground)* The Rezillos * Blind Melon (camden underground)* Kim Fowley (harlsden mean fiddler,on stage with, that's another story!!!)* The dwarves (camden lock)* New York Dolls and Towers of London '06 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ would have liked to see nina hagen slits richard hell television T REX roky erickson hellacopters the Adverts hole nirvana
weird and wonderful ones please.
500 channels and nothing on.
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