Rock and Roll StoriesMy personal Spinal Tap moment came when we got locked into the Festival Hall in London by accident. We ended up wandering the maze of backstage corridors carrying a three foot high piece of cheese looking for the one door that would lead us to salvation.
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chthonic, Thu 29 Jun 2006, 13:47)
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HawkwindSaw Hawkwind several times in the 80s before this event, but always at free festivals, where we were always surrounded by the freakiest and most colourful of the UK's spacecases.
When they played Edinburgh on the Elric inspired "Chronicle of the Black Sword" tour, my mates and I decided to REALLY dress the part, heavy on the sword and sorcery theme, big on backcombed spikey hair, and gold and silver hair and body spray EVERYWHERE.
Turned up at the gig to find that urban HW gigs are a little different. Instead of the usual fantastical hippy wierdness in the audience, we found two nervous looking kids in traditional white lab-coats, and about 2000 leather jacket wearing knuckle-dragging motorhead fans. We'd already dropped the acid, so there was no turning back.
A bit intimidated by the crowd of headbangers, we found the last great unoccupied space in the venue: the seats right in front of the right-hand speaker stack.
Deaf for days after. 'kin brilliant!
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