Posted: 03 Apr 2010, 20:47
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.
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.
