Category: Venues

1997 Glastonbury Venues

Glastonbury 1997 – the start of a 20 year love affair…

October 24, 2020
Ian
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1997 was a memorable year. Princess Diana died. I turned 30. I went to Glastonbury Festival…

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Gig Tickets part 4 – the 2010s

October 18, 2020
Ian
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Another decade and another eclectic mix of artists! This was the decade in which I witnessed…

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Bin bags, fags and potato wine – Knebworth 1985

October 16, 2020
Ian
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Deep Purple were without doubt the first proper ‘heavy rock’ band I got into after my…

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Old tapes reveal hidden treasures…

October 14, 2020
Ian
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No, I’m not referring to the dodgy old video tapes I errr ‘came into possession of’…

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Vintage Merch Part 1 – smelly old T-shirts

October 4, 2020
Ian
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You’ve probably come to realise by now that I’m a bit of a hoarder? I prefer…

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Scrapbook finds

September 13, 2020
Ian

As a kid growing up in the late 70’s / early 80s I was very much…

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Gig Tickets part 3 – the 2000s

September 6, 2020
Ian
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If the 90’s saw my musical tastes become a little more eclectic then the ‘noughties’ was…

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Gig Tickets part 2 – the 1990s

August 30, 2020
Ian
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This was my ‘decade of diversity’ – the era when the heavy metal shackles came off…

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Triumph and Tragedy at Donington 1988

August 22, 2020
Ian
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It was 32 years ago this week that I went to my fourth and final Monsters…

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Gig tickets part 1 – the 1980s

August 16, 2020
Ian
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At some point I’ll probably share my recollections of some of the gigs I went to…

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Get with the programme

August 16, 2020
Ian
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When I first started going to gigs as a teenager in the early ’80s I always…

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Donington before Download – 1984

July 11, 2020
Ian
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Monsters of Rock Festival, Castle Donington – 18th August 1984 The summer of 1984 is remembered…

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End of the road for Quo….? Never!

July 9, 2020
Ian
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In 1984 Status Quo announced that they were going to split up after 22 years together.…

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Guns N’ Roses or Trad Jazz?

July 4, 2020
Ian
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Everyone has a list of gigs they wished they’d been to but didn’t go for a…

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The night Ozzy caused a Rock City Riot

July 4, 2020
Ian
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18th July 1988 – Rock City, Nottingham This is one gig I did go to but…

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First Ever Gig

July 3, 2020
Ian
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The first gig I went to was Saxon at the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham on…

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Gig tickets – 1983 to whenever?

July 2, 2020
Ian

I went to my first gig in January 1983 – the mighty Saxon at what was…

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My Glastonbury Wall

June 29, 2020
Ian
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One of the main reasons for going into the attic in the first place was to…