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« on: 06 Apr 2005, 06:14 »

Less Than Jake on the Losing Streak tour
Coldplay supporting Terris
Hundred Reasons before they released epTwo
Manic Street Preachers at the Millenium Stadium, new year's day 2000
Radiohead at South Park, Oxford, 2001

(come on, it had to be done)
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« Reply #1 on: 06 Apr 2005, 06:46 »

Pah, but you never saw the Manics when they played with Richey, did you? DID YOU?

I jest. My mate used to go see muse all the time before they released Showbiz, and Coldplay used to play a lot of gigs with them, Chris Martin used to share his lockets with them...
And the only 'I was there first' was when I saw Parva playing with Miss Black America. Parva then split up, reformed and became The Kaiser Chiefs. They were shit.
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« Reply #2 on: 06 Apr 2005, 07:05 »

Thats quite funny...one of our soccer teams here is called the Kaizer Chiefs

Wonder if there is any connection
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« Reply #3 on: 06 Apr 2005, 07:22 »

Yes
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« Reply #4 on: 06 Apr 2005, 07:43 »

-Reel Big Fish, opening for a local Ska band, in '95, before their first album was released.
-Blink before the 182
-No Doubt, opening for Blink before the 182, when they were still being touted as a Ska Band, and most were still in High School.
-311 opening for Oingo Boingo in 94 (yeah, they sucked even way back then).
-Slapstick on a few occasions (members went on to form The Lawrence Arms, Tuesday, and some obscure, unknown band called The Alkaline Trio). Theres also a picture of me in the liner notes of thier last album ^^
-Incubus at some industry showcase show in '98 before they released thier first big album and went quadruple quadraple platinum
-The Get Up Kids when they were still Emo
-Stereolab - sidestage @lollapolooza '94
-<Enter just about every SoCal punk and/or Ska band from the mid-late 90's that went on to achieve a modicum of success and/or fame>
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« Reply #5 on: 06 Apr 2005, 08:05 »

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Pah, but you never saw the Manics when they played with Richey, did you? DID YOU?


Well, I was 9 when he went missing, so, well.
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« Reply #6 on: 06 Apr 2005, 08:42 »

Hey, I was only joking! I was 11, so yeah, I didn't go to my first gig til I was 16, and my mum gave me the lecture.
Not the 'don't take any drugs' one, I think she knew I'd be safe from that.
The 'Now, if the band asks you to come backstage, you are to say 'no' - got that?' talk.
I promptly went and got off with the guitairist and drank his beer.
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« Reply #7 on: 06 Apr 2005, 08:44 »

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Hey, I was only joking!


I know, it's cool.
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« Reply #8 on: 06 Apr 2005, 08:51 »

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Radiohead at South Park, Oxford, 2001


Radiohead on the OK Computer tour...mid-1997.
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« Reply #9 on: 06 Apr 2005, 08:54 »

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Hundred Reasons before they released epTwo


Same. Well, I'm not sure it was before epTwo but it was definitely before they were all over the tv. They were supporting Rival Schools United By Fate (later shortened to Rival Schools, either that or they got the name on the flyer wrong) back when people only went to see them because of Walter Schreifels. Neither of them were very good, but apparently I missed the acoustic Gorilla Biscuits covers he did after I left for the last bus.
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« Reply #10 on: 06 Apr 2005, 08:54 »

^You win!
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« Reply #11 on: 06 Apr 2005, 09:06 »

Billy Talent @ Halifax, Nova Scotia... New Years Eve.


... Stfu.
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« Reply #12 on: 06 Apr 2005, 12:02 »

This really isn't something to be proud of but Limp Bizket opening for Primus in fall of '97
and coincidentally, Incubus opening for Primus in fall of '99

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« Reply #13 on: 06 Apr 2005, 14:04 »

Sappho @ Lesvos, 586 BC
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« Reply #14 on: 06 Apr 2005, 15:03 »

I was there in 1974 at the first Suicide pratices in a loft in New York City.
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« Reply #15 on: 06 Apr 2005, 15:41 »

Oh, wait...I have got one...

Willy Mason.
I know he's relatively new anyway, but last October, he played first on the bill for 22-20s. I called the record company to blag it, but they were pretty dismissive, assuming I was doing the 'get in to see the main band using the support as an excuse' thing, but after much ranting, got my ticket and an interview. He turned up two hours later than he was supposed to (the doors had already opened), soundchecked for half a song with a badly tuned guitar which the other band tuned for him in his absence, gave me a beer, played, then did the interview..he was one of the loveliest people ever, also played an acoustic set out on Brighton Beach for all the people who'd missed his set...

A few months later, he's being namedropped by everyone from the guardian to NME to every psuedo scenester, and his gigs have all sold out...
So I can feel smug about that, until I realise that this means I may not be able to go and see him.

Damn.
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« Reply #16 on: 06 Apr 2005, 15:55 »

My Chemical Romance before they hit the front of Kerrang! (First uk tour)

and, uh In Flames at Hammersmith (the Hammered at Xmas gig).

Nothing else really has much cred, most of the unknown bands I've seen will never get big.
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« Reply #17 on: 06 Apr 2005, 16:15 »

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I was there in 1974 at the first Suicide pratices in a loft in New York City.


Indie Cred x 2 for the LCD Soundsystem reference.
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« Reply #18 on: 06 Apr 2005, 17:04 »

Oddly enough, over 1995-1996 I saw
a) Hum and Mercury Rev
b) Poster Children twice (once opening for Sponge, once by themselves)

along with
c) Clutch opening for Marilyn Manson
d) Radiohead opening for REM
e) No Doubt in Deep Ellum for a buck
f) Eve's Plum opening for My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult

and, back in '93, I saw Blind Melon play the Convention Center in Columbus, MS.
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« Reply #19 on: 06 Apr 2005, 17:27 »

Man, only seeing with famous bands AFTER they've formed and started making music is so lame . . . 1988, I was in Year 3 at the Junction Primary School in Newcastle, New South Wales, and the class clown was Ben Gillies, future drummer for silverchair.







. . . Can't help thinking it'd be a much better anectode if I was actually a fan of their music.
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« Reply #20 on: 06 Apr 2005, 18:08 »

Billy Talent back when the singer threw freak-outs during 75% of their songs.

They're boring now.
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« Reply #21 on: 06 Apr 2005, 19:09 »

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Oh, wait...I have got one...

Willy Mason..


ooh, i like him.  oxygen is a quality tune.

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Nothing else really has much cred, most of the unknown bands I've seen will never get big.


yeah.  no one i know cares that i've seen british sea power play in a bar.  but i did see franz ferdinand last summer at a really small place here in the states before anyone knew them over here.
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« Reply #22 on: 06 Apr 2005, 19:10 »

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yeah.  no one i know cares that i've seen british sea power play in a bar.  but i did see franz ferdinand last summer at a really small place here in the states before anyone knew them over here.


OMG YOU SAW BRITISH SEA POWER IN A BAR!?

*bows*
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« Reply #23 on: 06 Apr 2005, 19:17 »

i don't know if this will mean anything to any of you, but when i was going through my 'scremo' phase i saw boysnightout in their HOMETOWN (oh no, not Toronto.. but Orillia Ont. ), that was maybe a year and a half to two years ago.
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« Reply #24 on: 06 Apr 2005, 20:10 »

Indie cred is like rap/street cred, except for nonviolent llamas :-p  Either way it makes my brain hurt.
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« Reply #25 on: 07 Apr 2005, 03:53 »

I see British Sea Power in many bars, but they're normally drinking in them :(
Ditto Eighties Matchbox.
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« Reply #26 on: 07 Apr 2005, 04:03 »

yeah well, i saw ugly kid joe in like, 1992 or something when they toured Australia.

UGLY KID JOE
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« Reply #27 on: 07 Apr 2005, 04:36 »

My sole entry - Energy Orchard at Imperial College, 1988

Every other band I've seen has either been totally obscure or well over the hill (UB40 any one? No, thought not...)
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« Reply #28 on: 07 Apr 2005, 07:21 »

My Mum was all set to see Jimi Hendrix in London, but then she had an argument with her boyfriend - boyfriend had the tickets and took someone else, then after the concert he and Mum made up.  Then Hendrix died.  Crap.

I think she got to see Janis Joplin, though.
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« Reply #29 on: 07 Apr 2005, 07:43 »

My mum saw pink floyd play at her student union.
She also had Keith Moon's drumsticks from a gig, later had a clearout, and thought 'why would I want Keith Moon's drumsticks' and threw them out.
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« Reply #30 on: 07 Apr 2005, 08:30 »

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This really isn't something to be proud of but Limp Bizket opening for Primus in fall of '97
and coincidentally, Incubus opening for Primus in fall of '99

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Oh god, you're a bastard for reminding me about this. I saw bizkit open for Korn in 96 or 97. Fred Durst said the word Faggot a lot. They were handing out promo tapes to hype the release of 3 dollar Bill, Yall.

I actually bought, andthouroughly enjoyed, that album.

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« Reply #31 on: 07 Apr 2005, 08:48 »

Oh yeah, I have a mate who was at the gig where Oasis got signed by Alan McGee...
But, in true hipster fashion, he wasn't watching the band, he was getting lashed in the bar. He does this a lot - I bump into him at gigs, and he's stood as far away from the band as humanely possible, with his arms crossed, ranting about how shit they are.
I like him and all, but quite frankly, he can be an embarassment.
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« Reply #32 on: 07 Apr 2005, 09:22 »

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-Slapstick on a few occasions (members went on to form The Lawrence Arms, Tuesday, and some obscure, unknown band called The Alkaline Trio). Theres also a picture of me in the liner notes of thier last album ^^


Rob the drummer has a new band called Colossal with one of the on and off trumpet players from slapstik and neil from the lawrence arms.  They are amazing.  They are heading out on tour with Alkaline Trio (they are far better than the trio)

Anywho,  desaparedicos on their first tour before their album came out, this is also before bright eyes got way huge too.  

Umm, you don't know who they are now... but will see their faces everywhere in about a month.  The Forecast played in my backyard 2 years before they signed to Victory Records.
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« Reply #33 on: 07 Apr 2005, 10:05 »

I'm pretty jealous of the desaparecidos thing. I've never seen them.

I'm still waiting for someone to say they've seen Commander Venus or Park Ave though..
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« Reply #34 on: 07 Apr 2005, 11:15 »

I saw the Decemberists last night.  Not that cred-tastic, but an amazing show.

Okkeril River opened.  If they gets big, I'll have something to brag about.
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« Reply #35 on: 07 Apr 2005, 13:35 »

65daysofstatic, back when they were rocking the stop.stumble.repeat EP, in a pub. Oh, you're not jealous yet, but just wait. They'll be huge I tell thee. And then I'll be laughing.
Atmosphere promoting the Lucy Ford EPs. I mena, they're on Epitaph now. And they have a music video. On their way, blatantly.
As for actually popular bands, no. I'm far too indie for that.
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« Reply #36 on: 07 Apr 2005, 15:34 »

I don't know about the whole indie cred thing, but seeing British Sea Power when they supported The Flaming Lips in 2003 miiiight count for something. And when BSP got known a little better in the later part of 2003, i saw The Killers as their support.
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« Reply #37 on: 07 Apr 2005, 17:43 »

Hehe...I dj-ed at the Killers Brighton show last year, just as they were starting to make it big. Brandon Flowers even danced to Bright Eyes, which made me happy. No-one else did, mind.
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« Reply #38 on: 07 Apr 2005, 17:49 »

Fine, be that way.  I will participate in phallic comparison since I was totally forced to[/i]. (/sarcasm)

Saw/Talked To/Briefly Hung Out With Phantom Planet when they were unsigned and living in Cali with my friend Aaron Ruffcorn. (Who consequently lives in Ohio now, wtf?)

saw Beta Band open for Radiohead, and then Radiohead played "True Love Waits" for the second time evar.

My phallic size should at least be average for that. ;)
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« Reply #39 on: 11 Apr 2005, 08:09 »

I go to a lot of Deathamphetamine shows.  That doesn't mean anything to you yet, but I bet when Metal Blade gets a wind of them, you'll be impressed.  They even invited me to live at their house.  Once I also met Ryan Terror of Tommy and the Terrors at a Murphy's Law show.  None of you give a shit about this, I am certain.
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« Reply #40 on: 11 Apr 2005, 09:13 »

2001, Snowpatrol opening for Embrace at St George's Market, Belfast.
Snowpatrol are slightly less threatening than a pink bunny wearing a t-shirt that says "WUV MEH" on it in thick bubble writing. They are Satan's butt nuggets.
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« Reply #41 on: 11 Apr 2005, 09:34 »

Neutral Milk Hotel with The Olivia Tremor Control and The Gwens in March of '98.

More recently, Cory Branan and Ben Nichols of Lucero in a jam session with me in the lobby of my dorm.
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« Reply #42 on: 11 Apr 2005, 09:41 »

well.... my dad saw Queen before Freedy Mercury joined....wait...might have been before brian may joined....

oh i cant remember!
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« Reply #43 on: 11 Apr 2005, 13:00 »

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I was there in 1974 at the first Suicide pratices in a loft in New York City.


Indie Cred x 2 for the LCD Soundsystem reference.


I got a good smile out of that. :)
So how long has LCD Soundsystem been a multiplier for indie cred?  I saw them at one of the half-filled tents and Coachella last year and that was my first introduction to them.

I was at the Incubus / Primus show that has already been mentioned.  I used to bartend at the local outdoor venue, so for 3 years I saw many-a-band for free and even had the time to chat with some before the gates opened.

I distinctly remember Jack Osbourne cruising around on an electric razor scooter before the 1999 Ozzfest and even trying to get free beer from me.  This was before the whole MTV generation got a hold of their privacy.
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« Reply #44 on: 11 Apr 2005, 14:13 »

I saw LCD a couple of years ago at trash club, they weren't very good. Saw them in  Brighton a couple of months back, and they were fantastic...
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« Reply #45 on: 12 Apr 2005, 02:59 »

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I go to a lot of Deathamphetamine shows.  That doesn't mean anything to you yet, but I bet when Metal Blade gets a wind of them, you'll be impressed.  They even invited me to live at their house.  Once I also met Ryan Terror of Tommy and the Terrors at a Murphy's Law show.  None of you give a shit about this, I am certain.


I do! Although I didn't really like Deathamphetamine the one time I saw them... not really my style.
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« Reply #46 on: 12 Apr 2005, 21:57 »

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I go to a lot of Deathamphetamine shows.  That doesn't mean anything to you yet, but I bet when Metal Blade gets a wind of them, you'll be impressed.  They even invited me to live at their house.  Once I also met Ryan Terror of Tommy and the Terrors at a Murphy's Law show.  None of you give a shit about this, I am certain.


I do! Although I didn't really like Deathamphetamine the one time I saw them... not really my style.

Yeah, you never really were one for death/grind.
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« Reply #47 on: 13 Apr 2005, 08:54 »

This Deathamphetamine track I got from that site is pretty good! Very catchy guitars. Not too keen on the vocals (a problem I have with a lot of death and grind), but you can't have everything. I imagine they kill it live too.
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« Reply #48 on: 13 Apr 2005, 14:15 »

I saw The Presidents of the United States of America when they were still together, back in '96.

That's all I've got.
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« Reply #49 on: 13 Apr 2005, 14:25 »

Subhumans
Pegboy
The Buzzcocks
The Specials
all reunion shows but still all kinds of awesome,
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