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Re: band you saw before they were famous ?

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:09 pm
by middle_aged_dutchman
Golden Earring in 1965, shortly before their debut single 'Please Go' reached the Dutch charts.

Re: band you saw before they were famous ?

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:18 pm
by Don Roobles
Morcheeba doing the uni rounds fresher shows

Prodigy doing the rave circuit...long ass time ago!!

Roni Size when he was just a pirate radio station dj

Goldie many moons ago

and last but not least Daft Punk on a red boat/club in paris when i was on tour. One of the best live electronic performances i have ever seen

Don Roobles


Re: band you saw before they were famous ?

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:53 pm
by bigboris
oasis, kaiser chiefs, snow patrol, kasabian all at the junction in cambridge

Re: band you saw before they were famous ?

Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:15 am
by lickalot
Are you sure these gigs were at the Town Hall and not 100 yards down Regent St at McIllroys Ballroom ?

PS Re: band you saw before they were famous ?

Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:19 pm
by muswell
"Jimi Hendrix jamming with Cream Regent St Poly
Black Sabbath at a gig I arranged at the Empire Rooms (now Spearmint Rhino) Tottenham Court Road
Led Zeppellin Bath Festival
Adam and some Ants with a group called Bazooka Joe Camden Town Hall
Sex Pistols, Siouxsie and the Banshees at 100 Club
Police at the Marquee wardour street
Dire Straits Nelsons club
101'er's later to call themselves the Clash
Bad Manners in a Finsbury Park Pub
Librtines in a pub near the angel"

Also Kilburn and the High Roads-later Ian Drury and the Blockheads at Tally Ho Kentish Town
And Roxie Music at the Kings Head Islington
Wings at City University unannounced gig before they had a record out