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Greatest Gigs

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Some of the most memorable gigs aren't the ones with superstars but something happens or there is an intimacy to the gig.

I can think of 2 fairly recent.

In 2017 ( I think ) a little known Scottish sax player called John Burgess played at Southport Jazz Festival. I had come across him in an obscure jazz magazine and had 4 CDs by him. In the interval I sought him out and bought him a beer and then bored him by relating how much I loved his playing ( a lot like Ben Webster) . He thought I was taking the piss and had been put up to it by his band. Only when I could prove an intimate knowledge of his music did he accept my appreciation. Then he was like my best mate and gave me a recording that he had never released with the pianist Liam Noble.

In 2019 I saw Gordon Giltrap the guitarist in a tiny club in Barnoldswick. The place was so small I was literally sat 5 feet in front of him and he kept asking me if there was anything I wanted him to play.
 
jazzy said:
Some of the most memorable gigs aren't the ones with superstars but something happens or there is an intimacy to the gig.

I can think of 2 fairly recent.

In 2017 ( I think ) a little known Scottish sax player called John Burgess played at Southport Jazz Festival. I had come across him in an obscure jazz magazine and had 4 CDs by him. In the interval I sought him out and bought him a beer and then bored him by relating how much I loved his playing ( a lot like Ben Webster) . He thought I was taking the piss and had been put up to it by his band. Only when I could prove an intimate knowledge of his music did he accept my appreciation. Then he was like my best mate and gave me a recording that he had never released with the pianist Liam Noble.

In 2019 I saw Gordon Giltrap the guitarist in a tiny club in Barnoldswick. The place was so small I was literally sat 5 feet in front of him and he kept asking me if there was anything I wanted him to play.
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Those intimate gigs are brilliant, reminded me of seeing Mike Scott of the Waterboys at the Epstein He was touring just with Steve Wickham on fiddle, flogging his autobiography. He just sat chatting to the audience, played his hits on an acoustic. Sat chatting to people in the bar at the end. A really good night out.
 
Went to Lancaster Uni to see The Specials in 1980 but couldn't get in. Part of the Two Tone tour with Madness...et al. Ended up fighting outside with a load of 'Lashers' (Blackpool boys) who, in the main, we're all stoked. Mayhem but happy days when you're young and irresponsible. Not proud of it but just part of growing up in those days. Was really p*ssed not to see The Specials whose 'Ghost Town' IMO was and still is one of the greatest social commentary songs of it's time and genre and very representative of that night.
 

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Prodigy at the blackpool ballrooms with the chems ( could of still been going under the name dust brothers)
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Wow! It's like 'I was there before you'.

An old mate of mine - also a Blue - saw so many groups before they crashed through the glass ceiling into mainstream music eg. THE...Police, Damned, Jam, Cure, Smiths and later Oasis and who knows who else? He was a music junkie..and I bit of a loner if truth be told...and would travel anywhere just to listen to new and potentially upcoming bands.
 

Me when I nailed don’t look back in anger after we ended season 14/15 in roscoes. I was hammered and everyone joined in

Needless to say in turkey a few weeks later I wasn’t as pissed and thought I could return to my place in rebiething oasis. I was booed off by a family from Wigan and left it at that.
 

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