Entertainment For Lively Minds
To paraphrase Pete Shelley...
Posted by John Medd on 7 September 2009 - 8:30pm.
Ever fallen asleep (at a gig you shouldn't have fallen asleep at?) Location: Bradford, Time: 2007, Artist: Richard Hawley. In my defence (with sincere apologies to the Bard of Sheffield), the warm theatre had very comfortable seats (loads of leg room), oh, and I'd been drinking Oyster Stout since lunchtime. So when the band take to the stage and the quiffed one announces 'Let's ballad', I'm gone (solid gone). It's not something I'm proud of, but I did wake up for Coles Corner.
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Lambchop
My ex girlfriend got 3 songs in and was out for the rest of the gig.It was in a very comfortable all seater venue,
Yes , at the Glasgow Apollo
with the guy from the Buggles on lead vocals. Only went because my mate had a spare ticket.
You wouldn't think it possible to sleep with that racket in the background, but believe me it was! The bits I heard before I drifted off were unspeakably awful.
I've never slept at a gig, but I have thrown up at one...
I went to see The Mission at Brixton Academy in 1990 or thereabouts and was struck down with a bizarre illness almost as soon as they started playing. I spent the entire gig locked in a toilet cubicle heaving my guts out. I'm not sure quite what this says about Wayne Hussey's mob, but I'm certain that it says something...
Not at a gig
but in the cinema. Remember dropping off during Cyrano de Bergerac - the one with Depardieu in his full conk-some glory - sometime in the early 1990s.
To be fair, I probably had a point!
Dodgy LA soft metal band Love/Hate...
... King Tuts Wah Wah Hut around 1990. During an anniversary of the opening of that venue the bloke who runs it said in an interview that it was the one gig where he got worried that the whole place would be smashed up. I was asleep (well, out cold is perhaps more correct).
Their "big hit" was called Black Out In The Red Room funnily enough.
Slept during Tangerine Dream, Birmingham Odeon, 1979
Threw up during King Crimson, Hammersmith Palais, 1982