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 List
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
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
GIG 363: Sparrowman – Duke of Lancaster, 14th March 1998
I think this was a local Barnet (North London) gig as there was a pub called Duke of Lancaster in East Barnet. That said I honestly don't know where this was apart from being at a pub called "The Duke of Lancaster". Barnet makes sense on a number of levels though as the band and … Continue reading GIG 363: Sparrowman – Duke of Lancaster, 14th March 1998
GIG 362: Miranda Sex Garden / The Tide – The Monarch, 24th February 1998
I'd been a fan of Miranda Sex Garden since hearing a remix of their "Gush Forth My Tears" single back in 1991 but had never seen them live. By 1998 they had released five albums/EPs , with the last being "Fairytales of Slavery" in 1994. Surprisingly I'd never seen a gig at The Monarch before, … Continue reading GIG 362: Miranda Sex Garden / The Tide – The Monarch, 24th February 1998
GIG 361: The Sisters of Mercy / Scoda Blush – The Forum, 13th February 1998
The Sisters of Mercy were back in London as part of their "Event Horizon" tour. Two Forum dates (of which this was the second) were their only UK gigs on the tour - and indeed for the whole of 1998. Support was provided by German band Scoda Blush, who had just released their Andrew Eldritch … Continue reading GIG 361: The Sisters of Mercy / Scoda Blush – The Forum, 13th February 1998
GIG 360: Inkubus Sukkubus / Screaming Dead / Mantra – The Underworld, 19th December 1997
My final gig of 1997. I'd managed 45 days of live music over the year and seen some fantastic bands along the way. It was Friday night, a week before Christmas, and I was out for one last hurrah before 1998 beckoned. Tonight was the turn, once again, of Inkubus Sukkubus supported by reformed 80's … Continue reading GIG 360: Inkubus Sukkubus / Screaming Dead / Mantra – The Underworld, 19th December 1997
GIG 359: Moonspell / Lacuna Coil – The Underworld – 15th December 1997
When I had seen Moonspell the previous year (supporting Type O Negative at The Astoria - GIG 314) they had blown me away and were a band that I definetly had on my radar to see again. So when they announced a gig at Camden's Underworld I grabbed myself a ticket and headed down after … Continue reading GIG 359: Moonspell / Lacuna Coil – The Underworld – 15th December 1997
Voices From The Pulpit 