Birmingham NEC March 1989

I wonder whether anyone has a spare ticket stub for the gig and or the tour programme

I will pay for both items

I went to this gig. No idea what ever happened to my ticket stub. The gig is famous for the fact the bar was closed at the NEC, it was Easter Sunday which may have explained there being no bar open.Or the NEC simply being miserable bastards. We saw We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It , hanging around pre gig.Touched By The Hand Of God was a highlight of the night if i recall

I too was at this and the SECC the previous night. The bar was closed, I remember a mate asking 'Two pints of lager please', barman ' we've only got Orange Juice ' , mate 'Orange Juice, that's like having Junior Disprin at a Hawkwind gig' - Quality

Boing Boing wrote: I too was at this and the SECC the previous night. The bar was closed, I remember a mate asking 'Two pints of lager please', barman ' we've only got Orange Juice ' , mate 'Orange Juice, that's like having Junior Disprin at a Hawkwind gig' - Quality

I was at SECC night before as well, 'Touched'made its live debut the bar was open and some mad English cu*t lost his shoe at 'Mr Disco'...

Gazman wrote:

Boing Boing wrote: 'Touched'made its live debut

Oh no it didn't.

Or didnae, as you might say.

El Jarvo wrote:

Gazman wrote:

Boing Boing wrote: 'Touched'made its live debut

Oh no it didn't.

Or didnae, as you might say.

Yer right Al,

it was Barrowlands 87 for 'Touched'

I do get mixed up in my old age...

Wasn't Touched live debut Woolwich Coronet April 87? Barrowlands gig was in June that year, no?

I received the bootleg tape of the Woolwich April 87 gig later that month. Seem to recall my first impression of the song from that bootleg was that bassline was a straight rip off of Blondie, Heart Of Glass! And a mate also pointed out to me in a nightclub in Leeds at some point in the late 80s while Let The Music Play by Shannon was on that NO had also ripped off the keyboard melody from that tune for Touched By The Hand Of God.It was so obvious yet i'd never made the connection

Gazman wrote: it was Barrowlands 87 for 'Touched'

I do get mixed up in my old age...

Keep trying! 😄

First UK gig was Brixton Academy, though it never made the Academy DVD.

Had been played in the Far East(?) before that though - it's bound to be on the song browser here.

El Jarvo wrote:

Gazman wrote: it was Barrowlands 87 for 'Touched'

I do get mixed up in my old age...

Keep trying! 😄

First UK gig was Brixton Academy, though it never made the Academy DVD.

Yers indeed right,Al. It was indeed the Brixton 87 gig, not the Woolwich gig as i'd thought.My bad.First airing though was Tokyo 28/01/87?

The NEC was my first gig, I remember travelling down from manchester in the afternoon, having been in the moston hotel from early doors,

The lights for the whole show were great and the mondays were ok from memory

I remember the Mondays were out of their faces. Some bloke got onto the stage during the Mandays set and Bez shoved them back into the crowd without missing a step of his mad dance routine. Not a great gig.

isaac wrote: I remember the Mondays were out of their faces. Some bloke got onto the stage during the Mandays set and Bez shoved them back into the crowd without missing a step of his mad dance routine. Not a great gig.

Wasn't Bez missing? He was in jail (I think?) at the time? Or on a police curfew or something?

Ive found my ticket, not as good as I remembered, I remember Bez crazy danacing or I might I have got confused

Still looking for the programme

yes wrote: Ive found my ticket, not as good as I remembered, I remember Bez crazy danacing or I might I have got confused

They had a different bloke 'dancing' with them that night.

thanks for that, we were sat at the side of the stage mid way down and they were huddled together centre stage but I had as few by this stage