Bands I've Seen...

[rhythmaning]

The other day on Facebook, nicnac challenged me to name some of the bands I had seen in my youth. Which got me thinking - what bands have I seen? I started to make a list, trawling the web and looking at books to remind myself.

Most of these I am absolutely certain I have seen, though there are a few I think I've seen and a couple that I think I must have seen. Some of them I have no recollection of seeing, but they were on the same bill and I know I saw the bands before and after, so I must have seen them. It is always possible I may be imagining one or two...

There are 220 of them - my brother may remember others; if challenged, I could probably put a month and year to most of them, and some are very specific. Most of them I saw in the 1970s or 1980s. I barely go to rock gigs now.

I haven't included any jazz bands in this list - only pop or rock bands. And they are not really in any order. I suppose I could alphabeticise them...

Emerson Lake and Palmer
Focus
Argent
Roxy Music
Leo Sayer
Curved Air
Wolf
Hawkwind
Pink Fairies
Motorhead
Blast Furnace
The Dictators
Edgar Broughton Band
Principal Edwards
Hatfield and the North
Little Bob Story
The Stranglers
The Adverts
The Damned
The Jam
The Police
Patti Smith
Thin Lizzy
Gloria Mundi
Ultravox
Simple Minds
Magazine
Joe Jackson
Echo and the Bunnymen
U2
The Only Ones
Spizz
The Mighty Wah!
The Yachts
Pere Ubu
The Human League
The Clash
The Slits
Polly Styrene
Rich Kids
Siouxsie
Elvis Costello
Wayne County
Richard Hell
Television
Blondie
Boomtown Rats
Devo
Status Quo
Pink Floyd
The Tubes
Wreckless Eric
Ian Dury & the Blockheads
Dave Edmunds' Rockpile
Nick Lowe's Rockpile
Dire Straits
The League of Gentlemen
The Buzzcocks
Durrutti Column
Orange Juice
Generation X
Steel Pulse
Alberto y los Trio Paranoias
Black Uhuru
Alternative TV
Aztec Camera
The Long Riders
Prefab Sprout
Stereolab
Bad Manners
Sham 69
The Beat
Chuck Berry
Big Country
The Skids
The Blue Nile
Billy Bragg
Joe Jackson
Budgie
Lone Star
Bill Nelson
A Certain Ratio
John Cooper Clarke
This Mortal Coil
Edwin Collins
New Order
Caravan
The Kinks
Dr Feelgood
Wilko Johnson
The Count Bishops
Subway Sect
The Monochrome Set
Scritti Politti
Squeeze
Van der Graaf Generator
Peter Hamill
The The
Going
Here & Now
Steve Hillage
Queen
Altered Images
Incredible String Band
String Driven Thing
Lene Lovich
Jona Lewie
Big Audio Dynamite
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
Madness
Zeke Manyika
Nico
OMD
101ers
Wire
The Pop Group
The Mysterons
The Raincoats
The Ruts
Secret Affair
Faergal Sharkey
The Stray Cats
Johnny Thunders
The Tourists
Transglobal Underground
The Voidoids
The Waterboys
XTC
Frank Zappa
Peter Gabriel
Eddie and the Hot Rods
The Motors
Graham Parker and the Rumour
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Golden Earring
Frank Miller
Uriah Heep
No Dice
Penetration
Radio Stars
Lindisfarne
Tom Robinson Band
John Otway
Foreigner
Heart
Patrick Fitzgerald
Johnny Kydd and the Pirates
Link Wray
Chelsea
Lew Lewis
Camel
Gentle Giant
Kevin Ayers
National Health
Man
The Flying Pickets
Aswad
Hazel O'Connor
Neil Innes
Gryphon
The Enid
Nine Below Zero
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
Judy Tzuke
Joan Armatrading
The Saints
Greenslade
Dodgy
Electrafixion
Holgar Czukay
Neu
Polly Harvey
Portishead
Tricky
Eddi Reader
Fine Young Cannibals
Goodbye Mr Mackenzie
The Groundhogs
John Martyn
Mike Scott
Richard Thompson
Ash
Whipping Boy
The Saints
Comsat Angels
Tori Amos
999
Martha and the Muffins
The Alarm
Belle Stars
The Ramones
The Flaming Groovies
Ducks Deluxe
Spiders from Mars (not Bowie)
The Runaways
Fumble
Boxer
Scaffold
UFO
Gorillas
Screamin' Lord Sutch
Barclay James Harvest
Suzie Quattro
Mr Big
Pilot
Steve Gibbons Band
Deaf School
The Vibrators
Tanz der Youth
The Prefects
The Lurkers
Darts
The Members
UK Subs
Steve Miller
Raincoats
Tenpole Tudor
Q Tips
The Pretenders
Al Stewart

Comments

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

Wowsers, you definitely win bragging rights. As always, I am most jealous about Queen. The closest I got was watching them on TV during Live Aid, and I probably didn't appreciate their genius at the time.

Was The Damned during Dave Vanian's sexy era? Had *such* a crush on him.