#201

Feel like Capdown played every other show.

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#202

There was one in reading that I used to go with some girls that I fancied where I didn’t know any of the songs as I wasn’t listening to any of this terrible skate metal pop punk stuff, but at the end they always played about 20 minutes of amazing pop songs like Britney

Was well good :+1:

#203

Honestly think I’ve heard about 3 songs in this thread.
Awful stuff.
(I was down at the old school hip hop and funk night a lot of the time wearing a backpack for some reason)

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#204

I mean if you will grow up (10 miles from) a beating metropolis like Reading…

#205

who’s that crashing in to me with their enthusiastic dancing

oh it’s @Gnometorious I should’ve known, let’s have a very very loud and enthusiastic conversation for a couple of minutes

WOOOOOOOOO

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#206

:grinning:

Where you in reading when someone got shot outside ‘the matrix’? Might have been before your time.
That was pretty wild

#207

I think it was just as I moved there -I never went inside the Matrix, did you?

(I went in Brannigans once on a forced work Christmas party trip. We had gone to a crappy chain restaurant along the canal, and pretty much every vegetarian thing on the menu was out that evening, so I ended up having some chips while everyone else had a full meal, then we had to go to Brannigans. The organiser was one of those terrifying compulsory fun types, so I had to go in there for a bit before leaving.)

#208

Brannigans!!! :grinning: that was a shit place! Definitely ended up there a few times.
I used to go everywhere really, no quality control at all
I think I went to the matrix once to see the chemical brothers but this is a very hazy memory that I might have made up or got confused with something else.
:+1:

#209

Like it doesn’t sound right as I think they would have been quite a big deal at the time I’m thinking of and I think they would have been at larger venues? Dunno!

#210

Wouldn’t they have been at the student union or the sports hall by the festival ground more likely?

#211

Yeah exactly - they almost definitely would have been at reading rivermead but that is very much not what I remember.
Saw loads of good stuff there! Great days!

#212

Ha! Some evidence of a sort -


“
The Matrix has drawn some of the dance world’s biggest acts in its two years, including Fat Boy Slim, the Chemical Brothers, Goldie and Radio 1’s Dreem Team.”

Apologies for the digression!

#213

Even though I know the Rivermead is a proper venue and all, my mental image of the inside is always of a school disco setup put on an indoor basketball court. (Even though I know they have better equipment, sound etc, it never quite loses that school talent show in the hall vibe)

#214

:blush: Woo!!

#215

to this day I can’t read the word “Cathouse” without reflexively cringing

#216

Brannigans, Rivermead… what nostalgia!

#217

you got away with drinking at a bar at 13 and 14?

wow i was seriously uncool

then again, i was a child

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#218

14 yeah. (I just put 98-99 to make sure people didn’t get to enjoy themselves with any New Rock or Electroclash or whatever)

I grew up in a scummy area where they didn’t care as long as you can see over the bar, they’d serve you. Don’t think I got ided until I went to university.

Also many people including me had lax to irresponsible parents.

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#219

I found they started getting stricter when 14s and over gigs came in. Went to loads of gigs underage when it was supposed to be over 18s and nobody seemed bothered by gangs of GCSE students getting alco pops at club nights etc. By the time I was in my early/mid 20s gave up drinking at gigs as I was constantly ID’d and couldn’t be bothered taking my passport everywhere.

#220

Didnt realise Brannigans was a chain. Explains a lot.