With the Doobies as support. Mrs Cues is a big Foreigner fan from her time in the US (I think they were always bigger in the US than here) and I accommpanied her with no knowledge of the support.

Imagine my surprise when the premier peddlars of American boogie rock of the 70's came on to minimal applause and desultory attention to go through their back catalogue. As a prelude to "Foreigner" (I shall go no further as Mrs Cues reads this....)

I was flabberghasted.

Also believe John Martyn supported Yes in the 70's on a US tour? So wrong on so many levels.

In 2004 I saw Yes at the New Theatre Oxford. The first support act was Roger de Courcy and Nookie Bear. The second was Jim Davidson.

In that support selection.

Leicester's finest blew them off the stage.

EDIT - Sorry, this is a response to Brookster's post...

when taking my seat for a Supertramp gig, to discover that the previously anonymous "plus guests" turned out to be Joan Armatrading.

Vince Hill was once on Coverntry City's books. And Gil Scott Herons dad played for Celtic.

just thought i'd say..

Once saw Tricky & PJ Harvey on the same bill. I think that they had equal billing, but they were an odd combination. Fantastic night, if a little intense...

Supporting the Who at Wembley Arena.

I remember looking around at a half empty disinterested hall thinking "Strummer shouldn't be doing *this*" with an imaginary, dramatic sweep of my arms.

In spite of this rampant inertia and indifference, Strummer still deliver a performance of such passion desire and belief that he blew the Who off the stage that night. Material from Streetcore interspersed with Clash classics and finished the set off with an incideniary performance of London's Burning.

All this seemed to up the ante for The Who - they turned in a blistering 2 hour set. Great night.

I may have mentioned this before, but my most incongruous double act was Radiohead supporting The Sultans of Ping FC. I enjoyed Cork's finest far more than the Oxford whiners, because obviously Creep was nowhere near as good as Where's Me Jumper.

not only had her husband Michael Penn as support but in her band too as well as a stand up comedian who rushed on and off stage between songs. This was the Shepherds Bush Empire about 11 years ago.

.....opened for Frank Zappa in his early days. 90% of the audience didn't listen and the rest hurled abuse at him for his entire set.

supporting The Ramones and then being supported by Dire Straits.

The Jam supporting The Stranglers

The Village People supporting Gary Glitter

The Foo Fighters supporting The Prodigy

Would love to have seen the gig where Roxy Music supported David Bowie

At the Capitol in Aberdeen in 1984. Was just before she returned to CD/Mad Max driven superstardom. Think the BEF had just brought out "Lets Stay Together". So she was just on the cusp of changing her old footstompin R & B stage act for session band smoothness. She was excellent, but the support comedian had a "what am I doing here, why is no-one eating chicken in a basket?" aura about him.

...I hope that gives me a bye-ball to throw in a couple more Quintessence oddities from 1972: one is Roxy Music supporting Quintessence at a northern university (Durham, from memory), the other of Shakin' Stevens & The Sunsets supporting them at Lancaster University. Both seem a bit weird, but then nothing was quite so pigeonholed in the early 70s was it?

Might this be the time and place to mention that Quintessence's 'Rebirth: Live At Glastonbury 2010' is out circa Jan/Feb next year...?

Oh, go on, its Christmas - indulge me! :-)

...I believe that is (an edit of) the very same performance that was used on the Bumpers LP, recorded at St Pancras Town Hall with most of The Who in the audience. The BFI have the full track on film, plus 'Sea Of Immortality' from the same show, but two short extracts - which I edited together and put up on youtube with a pal adept at such jiggery-pokery - appeared in a 1970 BBC doc called New Horizons. 36 mins of audio from the show, licensed from Universal/Island (plus 40 mins of additional live goodies from 1971) can be found on the 'Cosmic Energy: Live At St Pancras' CD.

Right, commercial over... :-)

...were support to Mott The Hoople on their '73 tour. Quite right too. Mind you how did an EMI act end up as support to a CBS turn? Happy days....

supporting REM back in -95 is the only support act I remember. And yes, they were really going to headline soon. But I really dislike support acts. The fact that only one made an impression tell me something...

Reaper hitmakers supported by Japan. Japan didn't go down too well.

didn't please me or the rest of his Genesis fans when he was supported by Random Hold.

supporting Peter Skellern

Golders Green Hippodrome, 1973 or early 1974

September 24 2000, Farnham Maltings.

Supported by....Trashcan Sinatras

supporting The Damned at a venue in Oxford February 1978.

...supported Vanilla Fudge...for the first bit of the US tour. Then someone had another idea....

London Lyceum, circa 1980/81 around the time 'I Will Follow' was gaining momentum. A very strange audience that night.

...weird.