No I bought them from Vibes in Bury when they came out

Album: Robbie Williams - I’ve Been Expecting You (I was disappointed Angels wasn’t on it…)

Single Either Backstreet Boys ‘I Want It That Way’ or Ricky Martin ‘Livin Da Vida Loca’

Concert: Give It A Name '05 (with MCR, The Ataris, Underoath and The Bled)

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Single: Killing Me Softly (Cassette)
Album: Definitely Maybe (Cassette)
Gig: MSP @ The Apollo in 2000s some time

Single - ice-t - that’s how I’m livin (1993)
Album (bought for me) - proclaimers - sunshine on leith (1989)
Album (bought myself) - Jesus jones - doubt (^5 @Slicky )
Gig - blur, Mile End (1995)

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First single: Yazz - The Only Way Is Up
First Album: Kylie or Jason, probably
First Single bought by myself: Oasis - Live Forever
First Album bought by myself: Primal Scream - Screamadelica
First Gig: Blur (1994)

First single was Miss Jackson by Outkast
First album was the Wheatus one with Teenage Dirtbag on
First gig was Iggy Pop & Green Day at Cardiff Castle (03 I think)

It was 02, I’m old.

Ah I definitely had the Teenage Dirtbag single, thankfully not the album. Top first gig though Ruffers!

Fiest single : Offspring - Original Prankster
First album - Blink 182 - Enema of the State
First gig - Blood Brothers, Leeds Cockpit 2007

First album chosen: Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair (1985 - ‘free’ tape from Britannia Music Club, chosen when my folks couldn’t decide on anything that month)

First album bought: Bros - Push (1988 - on tape, with holiday money at Ingoldmells Butlins, followed very shortly after by Yazz and the Plastic Population - Wanted, and MJ - Bad, on tape, with pocket money from Woolies in Boston)

First album received: London Boys - The Twelve Commandments Of Dance (1989)

First 7" singles bought: Adamski (featuring Seal) - Killer and England New Order - World In Motion, then Betty Boo - Doin’ The Do (1990, from a small independent place in Spilsby)

First 12" single bought: Sunscreen - Pressure US (1993, from Boston Woolies)

First gigs/concerts: Some cajun band playing at a theatre in a nearby town (a bit Levellers-y), with my mate, which we were allowed to tag along to because his older sister was going, circa 1994. Then Oasis at Maine Road in 1996, on a package coach tour thing. Then, later that year, Beck at Manchester Academy (as sung about by Gomez in Whippin Piccadilly) excitedly driving across from Lincolnshire on a school night, trying to locate the venue without an address or a map (“how big can Manchester be”!) then being dangerously tired on the drive back home. Good times.

*Sunscreem

First CD single: Wendy James - The Nameless One (1994, a two disc digipack affair, bought a year after release, second hand, in readiness for the swish JVC minisystem I was getting for Christmas - which had a CD player! My first! Genuine massive excitement!)

First single - Natalie Imbruglia, Torn
First album - Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavoured Water (my parents had bought Spice by the Spice Girls at the request of my brothers and I previously, but that was a joint effort)
First gig - Feeder in Newport

Solid choice.

Absolutely cracking song.

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Single: don’t remember what I bought myself, but bought for me would have been East 17’s Stay Another Day

Album: maybe Dance Tip '95; amazing tracklist:

Gig: Power in the Park 1998? Maybe Backstreet Boys at Wembley, that was 1998 as well.

The first six songs on disc two :100:

what’s wrong with don’t stop WIGGLE WIGGLE???

And this!

DON’T YOU WANT MY LOVIN’???

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There’s no 99 emoji

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^this but it was xmas 1998 and on CD

first single i think was Closing Time by Semisonic

first gig i’m not sure, maybe the coral in southampton or test icicles in southampton

pretty sure there must have been something i went to before then though

the band i was in played at the joiners when i was 15, so that’s a ‘proper’ venue but doesn’t really count