Dag 1390: Party fears two

A very Happy Birthday to all our readers
So, as this years party season draws to a close (ending with the Drunken Two Fat Ladies Birthday Bash sponsored by cloudhands - bringing you quality reviews of obscure films and singularly failing to report on the unifying theory of everything, whatever the weather), I have found myself revisiting the concert list I had been compiling and last reported on here.

I joined last.fm a bit ago but have only just discovered that you can add events to it along with reviews and photos. I had been wanting to set up a website to do exactly this for some time, so now I don't need to bother.

My results to date can be seen here.

So, I have been adding the gigs I have attended and uploading any photos I took onto flickr so they can be displayed on the page for that event. While I was doing this I was able to correct a few errors in my original listing and more importantly add details of quite a few gigs that I previously hadn't been able to pin down.

The most recent one was the Associates gig at the Hacienda in Manchester. I went to this one with Simon Walsh. We had both been huge Associates fans for ages and this was teh first chance we actually got to see them (and unfortunately also our last). I have been trying to find out when this gig was for years without luck until earlier this week I managed to find this site.

After clicking on most of the links on the site I finally found a very well hidden gigs page and that meant I now had found details of 63 of the gigs I have been to.

The ones I am still to find out details of are:
Gordon Giltrap, Sheffield City Hall - this was probably in 1976, it was my first ever gig (I think)
Magna Carta, Hampswaite Village Hall - this was when I was in Cloud 9 and I went with the other members
Everything But the Girl, Harrogate International Centre
10CC, Harrogate International Centre
Clannad, Harrogate International Centre
Donavan, Somewhere in Manchester - not much of hope tracking this one down
Penetration and John Cooper-Clarke, Leeds Polytechnic
Here and Now, Leeds Polytechnic
ABC, Leeds Warehouse
Buzzcocks, Sheffield City Hall
999, Leeds Fan Club
The Revillos (or Rezillos), Leeds Fan Club
God Squad, Harrogate Cairn Hotel - used to have a tape of this, but it was lost some time ago
God Squad, Harrogate Royal Baths
Neural Circus, Annabellas nightclub, Harrogate - I think it was called Anabellas, it was above the station, they borrowed my Korg MS-10 for this one
Neural Circus, Adelphi Hotel, Harrogate

So that is all the ones I can remember, but it is quite possible there are others that I don't even remember going to.

So that would make a grand total of 79 gigs, and The Cure next year will make it an even 80. This, of course, doesn't include all the gigs I have played and, so far, I only know the date of one of those.

STOP PRESS: Just after posting this I got an email from someone who runs a really comprehensive Human League website and this has led me to find the date I saw them at the Top Rank nightclub in Sheffield in 1980. I have updated the above numbers to take this into account.