lol we have a winner!

Thats a fucking LOAD of gigs!!!!!!

Nice one!!!

Atom wrote:I wouldn't mind an earlier death if id got to see those bands, Phil you wanker.

Yeah, but you get to do the same thing I did with all the new bands out there in England/Ireland nowadays. No chance of that in Chicago for me - all I get is November's Doom and Usurper.

Usurper are cool but it is really cool seeing all the UK thrash bands at the moment, are you planning on coming back to the UK ever?

I used to come back once or twice a year, but now we have a 3-year-old daughter the plane ride's not as much fun.
Hopefully some time this year.

Cool man, hopefully you will get to check out some of the bands!

phodg wrote:Guns N Roses - Manchester Apollo (first UK tour - the place was less than half full)

Skid Row - Manchester Apollo (first tour)

Donington 84 - AC/DC, Van Halen, Ozzy, Gary Moore, Y&T, Accept, Motley Crue
Donington 85 - ZZ Top, Marillion, Bon Jovi, Metallica, Ratt, Magnum
Donington 87 - Bon Jovi, Dio, Metallica, Anthrax, WASP, Cinderella
Donington 88 - Iron Maiden, Kiss, Dave Lee Roth, Guns N Roses, Megadeth, Helloween

Fookin' hell!

Errr,

Metallica and Danzig at NEC on Justice tour 88 (half full) and then on pretty much every tour since.
Nuclear Assault and Acid Reign Preston Guildhall Survive tour
Nuclear Assault and Dark Angel Manchester Ritz Handle w Care tour
(spent some time talking to Lee and Bill from Napalm Death)
Napalm Death, Morbid Angel, Bolt-thrower, Carcass - Grindcrusher tour at Manchester International 2
Kreator and Raven at Manchester International
Onslaught at Manchester International
Acid Reign numerous times
Xentrix numerous times including at Blackpool Tache when they were still called Sweet Vengeance (I think??)
Manowar at Manchester International 2
Faith No More at Manchester International 2
Anthrax and Living Colour at Apollo
KDE at the Tache (thats the Kent Dorfman Experience - Lytham St Annes' finest ever thrash band)

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Yeah, I saw Xentrix a couple of times as Sweet Vengeance in Preston and Leyland.

I was also at that Faith No More gig at the International II. The main thing I remember from that gig (for some stupid reason) was Mike Bordin spitting up on to the ceiling multiple times during the gig (as you remember, it was very low over the stage) and catching it in his mouth when it dripped back down again while still playing drums. One of the weirdest things I've ever seen.
Saw a lot of that ceiling get kicked down when Exodus played there by people crowd surfing.

Another I forgot - Primus on their first European tour (for "Suck On This") at Manchester University in probably late '88 or early '89.

HERETICHERETICHERETICHERETICHERETICHERETICHERETICHERETICHERETICHERETICHERETICHERETIC.

Those gigs look really good, i went to a few good ones in the early nineties. I wont mention them here, cause this thread is for the 80s.

I like this thread. Some of these gigs sound facemeltingly good.

Metal Iain wrote:Pah!

I met a guy the other week at the pub who has seen Kiss 25 times. TWENTY FIVE!

Now that is worthy of ordination the very highest echelons of human existence.



The main '80s gigs I wish I had had the chance to be at were the US Festival (Metal day) and that gig in Moscow with Skid Row unt Ozzy.

I would sooner pull my fingernails out with pliers than see KISS 25 times. They were wank at donnington and their music is utter toss!!!! Gene did invent corpsepaint though!! Well actually it was Arthur Brown, but that would be wasted here (but i bet its going to get a few google searches now hahahahaha).

Immortalicide wrote:Gene did invent corpsepaint though!! Well actually it was Arthur Brown

Not wasted on me! Arthur Brown is a crazy crazy man!!!!

terrorizer wrote:A thread for the older thrashers, so who did you see back in the 80s? I didn't make as many as I'd have wanted but saw some classic tours;

Metallica Birmingham 86 (with Cliff), Donington 87 and Birmingham 88.

Anthrax Birmingham, Bristol & Donington 87

Testament Birmingham & Bristol 87

Slayer Nottingham 87 (right down the front)

Xmas On Earth Festival Leeds 87 (Megadeth, Kreator, Nuclear Assault, Cro Mags, Virus... can't think of the rest of the bill) This was my one and only attempt at bootlegging a show, the result was dreadful.

Onslaught Burton upon Trent 86

Napalm Death, Heresy & Doom Coventry 88

Iron Maiden 87

Donington 87 & 88

& some I can't remember...

Unfortunately I was majorly skint whilst at University so didn't see any bands after 88.

Well all of these (apart from the napalm heresy gig) as we went together!!. In addition

ONSLAUGHT bristol colston hall, bristol granary twice, birmingham hummingbird, nottingham rock city and walsall junction 10.

ANNIHILATOR nottingham rock city

SEPULTURA / CEREBRAL FIX marquee

DARK ANGEL / NUCLEAR ASSAULT nottingham trent poly

ANTHRAX / TESTAMENT nottingham rock city

ATROPHY / DEMOLITION HAMMER / TANKARD / SACRED REICH / CANCER / XENTRIX / BENEDICTION (WITH BARNEY) / OBITUARY / BOLT THROWER / all at edwards in birmingham (not all at the same time!!!!)

FORBIDDEN / DEATH ANGEL / PRIMUS / JANES ADDICTION nottingham rock city

SABBAT derby rockhouse ( a very early gig too)

SABBAT / XENTRIX derby assembly rooms

KREATOR / NAPALM DEATH / BENEDICTION birmingham foundry

MEGADETH / ANTHRAX / CRIMSON GLORY / FLOTSAM AND JETSAM / METAL CHURCH hammersmith odeon

CELTIC FROST derby assembly rooms ( their last gig before they broke up)

THE BEYOND loads of times. They were a very good thrash band in thier early days, far better than their later recorded work.

DUMPYS RUSTY NUTS awesome awesome live band!!!!!

There must be shed loads more, although a lot i can remeber were from the early 90s so havent listed em here.