Saturday morning dawned on a very, very damp and muddy Glastonbury. Spirits were a lot higher - largely down to England's win against Colombia the previous evening - but I was also a lot more relaxed as I'd been stressing about the weather and Delphine not enjoying her first festival. She'd laid my concerns to … Continue reading GIG 372: Glastonbury ’98 Day 2: Underworld / Tricky / Robbie Williams / Mansun / Stereophonics / Tori Amos / Hothouse Flowers / Catherine Wheel / Sharon Shannon – Glastonbury Festival, 27th June 1998
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GIG 371: Glastonbury ’98 Day 1: The Jesus & Mary Chain / The Lightning Seeds / Fluke / Rialto / Laika / The Young Offenders / My Life Story / Soundtrack Of Our Lives – Glastonbury Festival, 26th June 1998
Ah, Glastonbury. Have I ever been to a sunny and dry Glastonbury? I don't think I have. The 1997 event was a mudbath - but 1998 wanted to double down and become even more of a swamp. One of our group, Craig, and his girlfriend vanished between Friday morning and Saturday morning - and we … Continue reading GIG 371: Glastonbury ’98 Day 1: The Jesus & Mary Chain / The Lightning Seeds / Fluke / Rialto / Laika / The Young Offenders / My Life Story / Soundtrack Of Our Lives – Glastonbury Festival, 26th June 1998
GIG 370: Garbage / The Crystal Method – Brixton Academy – 4th June 1998
Garbage had just released their second album, "Version 2.0", just three weeks earlier and were on the road to support it. This Brixton gig was the first night of their UK leg, supported by a new US electronic act The Crystal Method who had released their debut album, "Vegas", the previous summer. I'd not seen … Continue reading GIG 370: Garbage / The Crystal Method – Brixton Academy – 4th June 1998
GIG 369: Placebo / Gomez / Idlewild – Shepherds Bush Empire – 27th May 1998
Delphine and I found ourselves back down in Shepherds Bush for another of the MTV five night residency shows. This time we were here to see Placebo. I'd seen Placebo live twice before, but both times had been at festivals (Glastonbury and V97) so I was looking forward to seeing them headlining their own gig. … Continue reading GIG 369: Placebo / Gomez / Idlewild – Shepherds Bush Empire – 27th May 1998
GIG 368: Smashing Pumpkins – Shepherds Bush Empire – 23rd May 1998
An Evening With The Smashing Pumpkins - filmed for MTV who had hired the Shepherds Bush Empire out for five nights with different bands playing on each evening. It was an odd gig, as we had camera's floatin around overhead (which atleast one or two energetic crowdsurfers tried to grab to pull down into the … Continue reading GIG 368: Smashing Pumpkins – Shepherds Bush Empire – 23rd May 1998
GIG 367: Puressence / Agnes – Dingwalls – 14th May 1998
I hadn't seen Puressence for a couple of years but they were one of my favourite bands (live and recorded) from 1996, and their debut self-titled album was one of the most amazing (and underrated) albums of the 90's. Now they were back with their follow-up, called "Only Forever", and were back on the road … Continue reading GIG 367: Puressence / Agnes – Dingwalls – 14th May 1998
GIG 366: Therapy? / Group Dogg Drill / Jetstream – Electric Ballroom – 7th May 1998
This was a cracking gig. Therapy? were one of the best live bands I saw in 1998 and their set at Camden's Electric Ballroom was on fire. I'd seen them twice before (Monsters of Rock '95 - GIG 227 - and the memorable Brixton Academy gig in December 1995 that kept on getting encore after … Continue reading GIG 366: Therapy? / Group Dogg Drill / Jetstream – Electric Ballroom – 7th May 1998
Angus’ Most Played Top 100 Bands January 2024
Ever since 2010 I’ve kept track of the music I listen to each month. It’s fascinating to see how some bands stay with me over the years whilst others have their moment on my stereo before vanishing from my mind… well, until years later when I check out to see what I was listening to … Continue reading Angus’ Most Played Top 100 Bands January 2024
GIG 365: Massive Attack – Brixton Academy – 24th April 1998
Massive Attack had just released their third studio album, "Mezzanine", at the start of the week and were playing Bixton Academy as part of a UK tour in support of the album. So Delphine and I headed south of the river to check them out. I'd been a fan of Massive Attack for a few … Continue reading GIG 365: Massive Attack – Brixton Academy – 24th April 1998
GIG 364: New Model Army – Astoria, 21st April 1998
My eighth New Model Army gig and another mega-set with the band playing 29 tracks! I'm not sure if they had a support band but if there was one I don't know who they were and certainly didn't see them. I suspect due to the length of their set though that the show was pretty … Continue reading GIG 364: New Model Army – Astoria, 21st April 1998
Voices From The Pulpit 