The early nineties was a great time for gigs, groups seemed to tour regularly and on top of album promoting tours there always seemed to be a benefit gig to go to. They quite often threw up some great line-ups. One such example occurred on November the 29th at Brixton Academy, a benefit for the […]
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1988 The gigs Part 4
Most of my news about the ‘indie-scene’ came from listening to the radio and reading the music press. The other important source was still Smiths Indeed pen pals. On one of the many cassettes we used to swop through the post was an album titled ‘Somebody Up There Likes Me’ by a Bristol band, The […]
1988 – The gigs Part 3
The second half of the year continued in much the same way as the first. For the third time that year, I visited the Town & Country Club to see Voice of the Beehive. This one was a bit different as it was being filmed for a TV broadcast. It was part of a Thames […]
1988 – The gigs Part 1
When 1988 arrived, I was still selling chocolates in Selfridges & still avidly reading the music press. The first gig I spotted that caught my attention, was unsurprisingly, That Petrol Emotion. The gig was a benefit for the Nicaraguan Solidarity Campaign at the Town & Country Club. I’d be the first to admit that my […]
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