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As we're all sat around waiting for the rest of the 2017 tour dates with nothing better to do than choose our Mish tour venues, I have a question...

What were the first and last times you saw TSOM?

(On stage only btw, answers involving Asda at Owlcotes, Pudsey will be disregarded)

Me:

First - Oct 1982 Riley Smith Hall, Leeds University
Last - Nov 2016 Olympia, Liverpool

First Forum London 98

Last Black Canvas, Leeds 2003

My only regret that I never saw them at The Albert Hall in 1985

Always London Astoria 2001

First: Brighton Top Rank 1984
Last: Budapest A38 Ship 2011

Suppose my 'always', which I'm taking to be favourite, would be:

Mar 1985 - Refectory, Leeds University

Kashmir, Dry Ice, Back-lighting, just rock'n'roll turned up to eleven with a knowing wink, and that was before they even started their set lol

First time: Philadelphia 1997, for the execrably named "Dark Harvest" festival. Traveled up from Texas.

Last time was in Dallas back in 2006.

First: Leeds 2001(20th anniversary gig)
Last: Sheffield 2016

First: San Francisco, April 1991
Last: Caught the whole November 2016 tour

Oh, and "always" would have to be Norwich 2016. Because I needed that.

First - York Racecourse, 1984
Last - Near Meth, Leeds, 2016

Wembley 1990. Don't remember it at all. There was lots of entertainment.
Most recently Sheffield 2016.

First early 80's probably 83, did not know who they were, mate had spare ticket to see them.
Last November last Mrs comes home and hands me a ticket on the night.

First time was in San Francisco in 1991, same gigs as Chaotican.
Last was at the Brudenell in November.

First: Reading Festival 1991
Last: Glasgow ABC 2014

Cologne 1985, Cologne 2016...

First: 22.11.1990 Heidelberg, Rhein-Neckar-Halle
Last: 20.05.2014 Munich, Tonhalle

first: wembley arena 24/11/90
last: sheffield uni 26/11/16
hadn't realised that one was almost the anniversaryof the other.

hard to choose a favourite from all of them, although wembley arena was the only time i burst into tears with the sheer emotion of it all.

First: Kraków 2006
Last: Kraków 2014
Always: Kraków 2006
Forever: never again, unless they come to my town.

First : 24th March 1985, London Lyceum
Last : 18th October 2015, London Roundhouse

I seem to remember being told I would grow out of it.

Ooops forgot the 'Always'. Hmmm probably Leeds 30th anniversary gigs or the Belfast concert a couple of years ago which was great and I got to sleep in my own bed afterwards!

Torn on my "Always" choice really.
The 84 Top Rank one, as it was my cherry popper, will forever live on for me, but the following year, at the same venue, with it being Gary's last stand, gets an honourable mention

First 16/May/1991, Gent [Sportpaleis]

Last 22/Feb/2011, Brussels [Ancienne Belgique]

The Always was somewhere in between, but I have no idea where.

I think the best I've ever seen them was probably the two night stand at the Maritime Hall in San Francisco back in 1998. It was awe-inspiring.

First Wembley '90
Last Leeds '16

Always? The next one...

27 June 1992, Birmingham NEC
27 November 2016, Leeds

more-sedatives-pls wrote:First 16/May/1991, Gent [Sportpaleis]

Me too. It will forever be my favourite gig
Most recently Roundhouse in 2015

sultan2075 wrote:I think the best I've ever seen them was probably the two night stand at the Maritime Hall in San Francisco back in 1998. It was awe-inspiring.

Interesting. The first night at Maritime was actually the poorest sound I've experienced. The second night was transcendent, however. Seriously, I remember the heat of the lights and this other-worldly, out of body feel. All of this made sense in retrospect as I proceeded to experience the worst flu of my life for a week afterwards. I think all on the Dominion mailing list blamed that bottle of vodka/juice that we passed around. Did you take a swig?