Strange places you have slept after NO gigs

Just been reading some of the gig reviews from '86 and '87 on the World In Motion site which bought back some memories.

As seemed customary with the Order coming on so late in those days sleeping out at train stations etc after gigs seemed to be quite a frequent affair.

So far I have racked up Paddington station (twice), once in a Guards Cafe and once under cardboard boxes, Didcot Parkway (on the way back from Paddington), inside Cologne train station after the Dusseldorf gig, Manchester Piccadilly on a bench, Manchester Bus Station after Gmex'88, in a service station car park just outside Glasgow after the SECC gig in '89. The last time was in the film tent after Reading Festival '93.

Now that I've hit my mid 30's I've found that a bed & breakfast or a nice hotel is more in touch with my tastes.

You can also include any dodgy women you may have got lucky with after gigs.;)

Another station - Reading '89. After moshing through the House of Love, Sugarcubes and New Order, me and two mates were allowed by the OB to sleep on the floor of the new (at the time) Reading Station to await the next train to Brum at 6.30 in the morning. Still at least we got back in time to see the Villa on the Saturday afternoon, I think they won for once too!

Margate seafront 84 takes some beating - the Winter Gardens is built on the cliff there, and there's some nice cosy holes beneath the venue.

Can't say I miss the train stations and all that though - hotels are definitely the answer !

I'm much too young (pun intended) to have experienced any of this. The closest I've come is hooking up with a few dodgy women after a night of listening to Reading 98, Paradiso & Polytechnic of Central London (from Taboo #7), and the BBC live recordings. Doesn't quite have the same appeal does it?

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I wonder whether that old Guards Cafe at Paddington is still there. It was closed to the public but we met 2 lads from Blackpool who were down in London looking for work and they showed us where it was. (I was living in Warwickshire at the time in case anyone was wondering why on earth I slept out at Paddington when I live in London!)

LIV's place after THE MOVE CONCERT,MANCHESTER with MAJOR,DON,HANK,SHUGZV,BALDRICK,ANNIE and PAUL.Very surreal as i slept in a plantpot.:DFantastic time but i always made sure i had a proper place to sleep or transport back. Must admit that the cliffs would have been TREMENDOUS FUN as i have slept at BLACKPOOL in a rough place but not very scenic.

Originally posted by Monkeys in a Bubble The closest I've come is hooking up with a few dodgy women...:\pimp3:

That's one dodgy woman at a time.

Inside of a can of peas

On the back seat of a Chrysler "Dynasty" after the Six Flags over Georgia gig in Atlanta...

At the Airport in the food court on a hard seat at the Vancouver concert. Also I was wet from the rain

I'm sure you've all heard this one before....

The first ever time i saw NO was in Barry Nobles Roxy in Steel City, as it was a nightclub NO didn't come stage until about 12.30am (i'd got the train from Leeds to Sheff - about 30 miles apart, and the last one back left at 11.00pm !!!)I ended up kipping in the passportphoto booth on the platform until 5.00am when the coach turned up and took me back to leeds

You listening Benny :D

Well, the one time in Oakland it was at my friends' brothers house in San Jose, they seemed to think I wanted to rob them blind when all I wanted was to crash on the living room floor. Damn yuppie scum.

Originally posted by ShugZV©
> Originally posted by Rocket Mick> LIV's place after THE MOVE CONCERT,MANCHESTER with MAJOR,DON,HANK,SHUGZV,BALDRICK,ANNIE and PAUL.Very surreal as i slept in a plantpot.:DFantastic time but i always made sure i had a proper place to sleep or transport back.> Must admit that the cliffs would have been TREMENDOUS FUN as i have slept at BLACKPOOL in a rough place but not very scenic.

You were lucky..you won the toss of a coin and I had tae sleep in the kitchen sink.....and the tap was running:D

So we had a LITTLE DRIP?:D

Liv's floor?? what luxury. The Hotel I stayed in after Brixton that was furnished about the same time as Lou Beale's or Reg Cox's places in Albert Square has to go down as the worst. Even worse than sleeping in the back of a car, which was what we did after Reading '93. Quite comfortable as it goes. Took along a blow up air bed, sleeping bags and folded down the back seats of my Mark 2 Astra. Washing facilities would have been a bonus but so would they at that Hotel.

Originally posted by OnlyOneKenObe©
Liv's floor?? what luxury. The Hotel I stayed in after Brixton that was furnished about the same time as Lou Beale's or Reg Cox's places in Albert Square has to go down as the worst. Even worse than sleeping in the back of a car, which was what we did after Reading '93. Quite comfortable as it goes. Took along a blow up air bed, sleeping bags and folded down the back seats of my Mark 2 Astra. Washing facilities would have been a bonus but so would they at that Hotel.

You not mistaking the hotel for SHUGZV'S HOVEL.:D

I slept in a car park on my 18th birthday after reading 98, and i've slept WITH shug and muffy at Liv's house!!

malvern train station...rather foolishly we lit a fire to keep warm...and got moved on by the cops..

liverpool train station....had a real struggle to get tickets for the royal court gig......it ended up a shite gig...and the worlds coldest night..

wandered round manchester after a hacienda gig...too scared to sleep...

On the night sleeper back from Liverpool after Warrington Spectrum Arena. It was a Liverpool derby that day, Everton won (that shows how long ago it was) and there were drunken Everton fans making a racket all the way back. And it was so cold there were were icicles on the side of the train