MTftSB: firsts

First single you bought (or, if you like, that someone bought you);
First album you bought (as above);
First gig/concert you attended.

Me?
Oasis - Whatever;
Oasis - Definitely Maybe;
The Bluetones (w/ Geneva, The Supernaturals) - Southampton Guildhall.

Keeping it Britpop.

First single - Oasis Whatever
First album - A Salt with a Deadly Pepa
(Only had a cassette player prior to 1995 so no singles until then)

First proper big gig was Blur GMex 1995, but if we mean gig in a pub venue I’d attended ones by my stepdad’s band when I was aged about 7 or 8?

Green Door - Shakin Stevens
Now 4 - Various Artists
Acid Reign - De Montford Uni - Leicester 1990

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D12 - My Band
Franz Ferdinand s/t
The Darkness in Liverpool

Oh yeah: mates’ / parents’ bands don’t count unless you happen to be Dave Grohl’s brother or something

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Which is really just a set-up to post this again

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First single you bought (or, if you like, that someone bought you): Daft Punk - Around the World
First album you bought (as above): Artful Dodger - Its all about the stragglers
First gig/concert you attended: Dirty Pretty Things - Southampton Student Union '06

Single - Vindaloo by fat les
Album - Life thru a lens by Robbie Williams
Gig - Weezer @ Brixton Academy

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First single bought for me: Antmusic by Adam and the Ants
First album bought for me: a compilation of Disney songs
First single I bought myself: Turtle Power by Partners In Kryme
First album I bought myself: Nevermind by Nirvana
First gig I went to: Garbage and the Rentals at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, 1996

Kylie - I Should be so Lucky 7"
Ash - 1977 (not counting Now! compilations etc)
Gomez at Portsmouth Guildhall

Not sure in single, think it was New Kids on the block on vinyl. First CD single was Lightning Seeds Lucky You
First album…bought on my request…Jesus Jones- Doubt, by me Frank and Walters-trains, boats and planes

Gig…Therapy? At Southampton Guildhall… Maybe 1992 or 93

Me?

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iPad quoting going awfully wrong :slight_smile:

Just remembered my First bought for me album might have been Brother Beyond. Then I got cool (er)

My Prerogative - Britney Spears in 2004 (was more into albums)
Aquarium - Aqua in 1997 (first one I remember anyway. on cassette)
Busted w/ special guests The Lovebites and McFly @ a field in Broadstairs in 2004. I wrote fanmail for Busted (including a love letter to Charlie and some of my own song lyrics, CRINGE*∞) because I thought that I would somehow be able to pass them to them on the stage, or maybe that I’d be able to crowdsurf onto the stage and give it to them then

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@saps kid must have seen some killer early Foos sets, it’s true.

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Did the Foos even do early gigs?

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Single - Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes
Album - Nik Kershaw - The Riddle
Gig - Bon Jovi, SECC, 1988

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Single: Too Much by Spice Girls (1997)
Album: Spice by Spice Girls on tape (1996)
Gig: Turin Brakes, supported by I Am Kloot at Rock City in Nottingham (2003)

Single: Probably an ABBA single. Maybe Voulez Vous (kinda annoyed I’m a bit vague on this)
Album: Jive Bunny: The Album (that was a gift, I have early memory of buying Abba: Live on tape and Abba Greatest Hits 2 on 12")
Gig: Van Morrison at Womad '93.

Stuff that I can remember buying for myself…

First single: Notorious - Duran Duran
First album: Pump Up The Jam - Technotronic
First gig: Anthrax @ Wembley Arena

Those formative years were a rollercoaster :+1:

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