Wake - I was there!

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I was there. I was 17 at the time and at 6th form, just outside Southampton. I organised a coach and got about 30 people to sign up to go. I remember one of my "dead certs" for going turned me down as he was off to see the Stranglers that night in Brighton I think. We got up there quite early, and the driver asked what time we wanted pickng up for the return, and I said something like 11:30, turned out to be about a 2 hour wait!!!

I don't remember going into a pub or anything, so we must have gone straight in. Reading other peoples stories has brought back some of the details like the streamers coming down and so on. I stood with my mate about two thirds back from the stage in the middle, but some of the party I took went to the front and I can name two of the people the OP wondered about in the first post as the slow montion part of Wake goes across the screen. There's one bloke called Hamish, who had a haircut like a hedgehog at the time - about 5" long and straight out in all directions that I can clearly spot and the bloke next to him was called Foad (as in "Eff off and die" foad for some reason), Michael I think his proper name was (lost contact with them both shortly after leaving 6th form to go up to London)

Once the set had finished, and it was obvious that it was an hour long for a video, we just stood there, even as the lights went on, as we knew we had ages to wait anyway so we were all in there for the final encore about 15 minutes after they'd originally gone off stage and it was funny seeing people flooding back in to see it.

After that, we just hung around outside (in the light as mentioned above) and I went to the backstage door. Some time later, Andrew and a few others came out and dived into a car. I shoved a scrap of paper and a pen through the window and the paper came back a minute or two later with several signitures on it. I had to ask for my pen back - I was a struggling student then, couldn't afford another one!!! That scrap of paper lasted about 20 years, but went missing one house move and is either still in an unpacked box or gone forever.

Not the best of gigs, but a Top Nite Out all the same.
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Best.Thread.Ever.

cheers Vince 8) :von:
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Luckily, I was staying at an English family in Harrow as part of an exchange programm at the time and I persuaded their son to go to the RHA with me :D

I was 17 back then and it was my second Sisters gig after Detmold '84. Detmold was by far the better gig but the atmosphere in RHA was great...
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I was shagging a wee nurse in Partick and listening to Go West, sorry :(
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James Blast wrote:I was shagging a wee nurse in Partick and listening to Go West, sorry :(
Sorry! You should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself. Go fcuking West!!! You obviously had to go to some henious lengths to get a shag in your youth, James. I'd hate to think what it takes for you to get one these days. I'd bet you'd even put up with a whole night of 'Killing Moon'. :lol:
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oh much worse, but that really is another story involving a Manc bitch with large knorks :lol:
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moses wrote:
James Blast wrote:I was shagging a wee nurse in Partick and listening to Go West, sorry :(
Sorry! You should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself. Go fcuking West!!! You obviously had to go to some henious lengths to get a shag in your youth, James. I'd hate to think what it takes for you to get one these days. I'd bet you'd even put up with a whole night of 'Killing Moon'. :lol:
I'll give him the benefit of doubt and assume it was Go West by the Cult rather than the crap pop band, still in my mid teens I would have listened to Black Lace to get my leg over ;D
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And five years later, here's the guitarist from that awesome concert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk--BElGFp8
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Fcuk me it's Geddy Lee

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jparton wrote:Ah, I too was a tad too young to venture to the old smoke to see them at the RAH (just coming up to 15), although a mate and his brother went - very jealous at the time.

I don't know if this memory is made up as well, but I seem to recall Ian Astbury being on TVAM (or whatever it was called then) talking about the rise of "alternative music" (She Sells Sanctuary being a 1985 summer "hit" and all that) and name checking that the Sisters had played the RAH the night before - showing the growing size of the movement...

As a swift addendum to this thread I just came across this quote on the press release for the Cult/Love omnibus edition from one I.Astbury:
“I wasn’t into the New Romantics like Spandau, I’d been into Japan, but I didn’t like what was coming after punk. So I’d started looking back in time for influences and just found all these acts the punks had slagged off. The Led Zep obsession became pretty much full time. The m*****n and the Sisters of Mercy were playing the Royal Albert Hall and they had Hell’s Angels doing security and the night before That Guitarist and I went to see Killing Joke and we met Jimmy Page there. He was pretty f**ked up and incoherent but we were blown away meeting him. We were just ‘You’re Jimmy Page, you’re Jimmy Page’.�

Ah the ravages of time
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