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Memories & take aways from gigs

REdge's picture

I'm having another enjoyable year of concert going. I have a box that keep under the bed which contains tickets for nearly all the gigs I have been to since I was a young lad keen for the live vibe... so that's the early 90's for me and it is pretty full.

Last night I was going through the box and memories of good & not so good gigs were coming bac to me. I decided that I needed to do something with the tickets... so I'm going to frame them in a montage (sounds v artistic). Not told Mrs REdge yet!

While going through the box I found other memories from the gigs: a scribbled set list, a free badge from a Blur gig (a train from Mod Life tour), a back stage pass. This splurge of memories made me look out various posters & other stuff I got from concert going.

But this made me think... what do the Massive do with thier old tickets? Also, what memorable or interesting items have the Massive brought home from a gig?

My personal favs are: Blur badge, limited edition Richard Hawley print from a Roundhouse gig & British Sea Power tea mug.

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I think the only tickets I still have are...

Both Zeppelin Knebworths
Some of the Floyd Wall shows (no idea where the missing ones went)
The John Otway 2000th gig

That's it I reckon. They're in a box of assorted 'stuff' in the loft

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stimpy | 14 July 2009 - 9:27pm

I'm obviously a little older

I'm obviously a little older than you (on the grounds that I've got tickets from about 1984 onwards). My mate once suggested the brilliantly simple idea of displaying your tickets in high quality photo albums which I've still not got around to. I love getting gig memorabilia - remember our formative gigs were without instant memories via tossers sticking cameras/mobile phones into the air and getting resultant images on youtube and forums the next day. We had to work for our souvenirs.
I have so many set lists which I think are the definitive souvenir of a gig, especially if you get it signed at the end of the gig. I'm not too old, or proud, at 41!
I remember getting (stealing) the Glasvegas set list at the tiny Liverpool Korova Bar before they went big time, before the band had came on stage. Rab was very perplexed! My most bizarre gig going episode occurred when myself and a drunken friend stole a 6ft letter F made out of polysterene from the backdrop of a Regular Fries (remember them?) gig in the original Lomax in Liverpool. I also vaguely remember climbing on a speaker stack at an Orb gig at Liverpool Uni with aspirations of stealing their sheep (?) mascot which apparently was their utlimate lucky charm. Luckily I got nowhere near it as Dr Alex Paterson and Jimmy Cauty would most probably have murdered me.
Oh yeah, Clint Boon was non too pleased when I nicked his fairy lights (well unscrewed one) that draped his organ (fnar or giggidy) when I witnessed an Ispiral Carpets gig. I've many more memories/souvenirs. Great post, you've made an auld duffer everything I despise! Nostalgic.

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biggaboy | 14 July 2009 - 9:39pm

Being a tea drinker

I always buy a mug when I´ve enjoyed a gig and it´s available. I have The Beatles (well, not from a gig to be honest, but bought in Liverpool when I went there for my 30:th birthday), Bruce Springsteen, Per Gessle (from two tours) and Iron Maiden. I also have The Simpsons. Haven´t seen them live either.

If Neil Young, Nick Cave and Seasick Steve had sold mugs I would have bought theirs as well. I also keep the ticket if it´s not kept by the guards.

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Ola Claesson | 14 July 2009 - 9:47pm

I'd always wanted to do this as well...

then one day - it must have been a lazy day in the FPO, as it was allowed through easily! - I bought a frame from Ikea and did this...which is now on the big wall as you go the stairs.

Mind you, there is a gap in the middle, where gravity has taken its toll, and which I haven't quite worked out how to solve yet. Mrs P actually likes it and thinks it is a feature, but she might be humouring me.

Wish they still did PROPER tickets though...

PS: This is the ONLY place I can think that sharing this sort of thing would get a positve reception!!!

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Oscar Patterson | 14 July 2009 - 10:27pm

nice one,

I sorted mine out it to years thinking they'd go with the pictures form the time but sticking in a frame might be the direct solution.

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Chris G | 15 July 2009 - 12:38am

Great minds

I've done that too.
Apart from the outrage of being charged the extras for modern, print your own tickets, there is nothing worth keeping at the end.

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Carl Parker | 14 July 2009 - 10:33pm

I Once....

brought home crabs from Cropredy Festival.....does that count?

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torrential1 | 14 July 2009 - 11:45pm

Oh how I wish I'd kept them all

But it's all or nothing, and I did't keep'em all so it's nothing. Except, I did frame a Brian Wilson 'SMiLE' tour ticket from the RFH along with a backstage pass that I was given (this never happens, and I am a BW / BB nut).

Got a set list or two, and if you try you can still smell the gig from the gaffer tape. Really. But mostly it's just memories, mild tinnitus and a steady loss of the upper frequencies.

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Bigsby | 14 July 2009 - 11:54pm

Oh and REdge

that's a British TEA power mug surely ! :)

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Chris G | 15 July 2009 - 12:40am

It is indeed...

a British Tea Power mug. They also have their own ale.

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REdge | 15 July 2009 - 1:32pm

Unpacking

some boxes recently and a ticket for one of Nina Simone's Ronnie Scotts gigs from '85 turned up. It was tucked inside a Keith Richards biography along with a Wilco ticket, BB King's autograph and a signed setlist from a Sonny Curtis show at the Weavers (RIP) in Stoke Newington.
However, I still haven't found the denim jacket signed by Rory Gallagher and various members of Lindisfarne.

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McLongWhiteCloud | 15 July 2009 - 12:41am

20 or so

of my best tickets were framed for me as a surprise present, it hangs next to me as I type this and is a rather lovely reminder of great times. I'm gonna get another one done [and then another and another ...]
I 'liberated' a pair of glasses belonging to Mick Karn, this was in the early eighties after managing to blag our way into an after show party in London town. We were tipped off as to the location by Blancmange who were the support and to whom I am eternally grateful.
[in a moment of weakness I rather foolishly sent them back to him and now only have photo's of me wearing them to remind me - d'oh!]

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ChaosandMorphine | 15 July 2009 - 10:12am

I have tickets and that, but gig booty-wise

I also have the Blur train badge
PLUS:
Primal Scream Kill All Hippies mug (which is at my mum's and she still uses it when I go home)
TWO empty Kylie/ Evian water bottles (Kylie written instead of Evian - one day a mad person will swap a house for these. I'M CERTAIN OF IT)

*stops before getting carried away*

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lovelyian | 15 July 2009 - 11:40am

Nick Cave

Sold a tea towel, REM sold a tea tray, I suspect they're trying to help me start a rock 'n' roll kitchen. If only the FPO would let me...

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itf | 15 July 2009 - 12:21pm
stimpy | 15 July 2009 - 1:01pm

Are the Wildest Dreams hitmakers still around?

They could sell you a Saga aga

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Molesworth | 15 July 2009 - 2:13pm

in a similar vein

Can you get a Neds Atomic Dustbin dustbin?

And did the South London 'Black Coffee In Bed' hitmakers ever sell a teasmaid at their gigs, i wonder?

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ivan | 15 July 2009 - 4:54pm

I don't recall the Custard Pie hitmakers...

...ever offering a souvenir Led Zeppelin lead Zeppelin. Might be a bit too big and heavy to carry home from the gig.

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stimpy | 15 July 2009 - 6:08pm

Ten Years

Being 25 years old, I've not got as many as the picture above, or as many as those who have commented, but I've got a good 10 years of tickets under my belt all saved in my 'gig memories' tin.

What a great idea to display them all!!

Proudest moment is when I got ONE ticket to see Blur in 1999 for their ten year anniversary back-to-back single playing gig at Wembley Arena. I had just turned 16 and went completely on my own (much to dismay of my parents) and came back with ticket/wristband, poster and fitting 'End Of A Century' Blur mug.

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rhubarb69 | 15 July 2009 - 1:29pm

I've got a They Might Be Giants plectrum

handed to me by their touring bassist back in... ooooh... 1992?

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Hannah | 15 July 2009 - 1:50pm

Mine are in notebooks

A few years after I started going to gigs (1974, since you ask), I decided to write a little review of each concert in a notebook and stick the ticket next to it. Some of the reviews are very brief: "Ralph was very good but unfortunately, I kept nodding off. Anyway, what I saw of the concert was very good indeed." That sums up my first time of seeing Ralph McTell at the Dome in Brighton, 1977. And that's one of the more interesting entries - some of my other accounts make this one seem positively long winded.
Unfortunately, the Sellotape I used to stick the tickets in the books has come through many of them, but there's many a memory contained within the pages of those books.

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wayfarer | 15 July 2009 - 7:05pm

Back of a drawer

in a glassine envelope. The ones I treasure most are the tickets from 1970s gigs at the Glasgow Apollo (including Uriah Heep, Thin Lizzy, ver Quo, etc).

Oh, and one from the time I saw Lol Coxhill at Scarborough, 1976. It was the last holiday that I went on with parents and sister - I sneaked off for an underage beer on the pretext of the gig......and never was the same again - discovered free jazz, Canterbury and Prog, all in one solo performance.

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Fitter Stoke | 15 July 2009 - 10:12pm
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