Originally posted by ageorge
The Old Grey Whistle Test ran a session with SLF for half an hour and U2 for half an hour – I don’t suppose you could ask one of your TV colleagues to find it for us !!!!!!!!!!!

If it ain’t in the BBC Scotland library then I can’t get at it unfortunately. The London archives get so many requests they’ve just stopped entertaining them. There was something in the staff paper about the archives being opened up to the public fairly soon though. I’ll see what happens.

Those hail stones must have been the size of cannon balls ? 😮

Originally posted by ageorge
I watched U2 supporting Stiff Little Fingers at Nightmoves in Glasgow in 1981 at the grand age of 13 ( I think ) then I got a ticket to see U2 on the War tour and sold my ticket in the queue for £11 !! , regretted it ever since.

1984 was my first time at the Barrowland during the Unforgettable Fire Tour aged 14. (I was tall from an early age so I mangaged to sneak past the under 18 police ok.)

I ‘d love to see U2 again at that point in their career musically. They were still something else live and still making every show something unique. I’ve got a bootleg tape of the 84 show I attended and can’t believe just how alive that night was and how much they’ve changed since then.

I saw them again in 1987, 1992, and 1993. 1987 was the last time I saw them just play a gig on a bare stage without big lighting and stage gimmicks. That was possibly the best U2 gig I’ve ever been to. I’ve kind of lost interest in them as a live act since they became stadium rockers but I still listen to the music. 😎

Originally posted by ageorge
, numerous Ozzy stubs – I should be ashamed but I was a stupid young naive schoolboy at the time .:( 🙁

Nothing wrong with a bit of Ozzy ! He’s playing the SECC in October I think ? Might take a mosey down there.

I used to like the Manics until I met them at T- In The Park a few years back. I was working onstage and the singer wottsisname ? decided to take a dislike to one of my colleagues for no obvious reason.

He marched up mid “A Design For Life” still playing the guitar and head butted him in the chest, James Dean Bradfield being a small person, he couldn’t aim any higher. Turned out he has a history of disliking people being near him onstage, even though in this case they were paid to be there for a good reason.

He went right down in my estimations after that. The spotty little herbert !

The closest I got to meeting New Order was doing a TV show with Peter Hook’s project band “Monaco”. Unlike the Manics, they were a “Joy” to work with and Peter Hook wins my all time diamond geezer award. Outstanding bloke !!!
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I love those roadway/taxiway shots. Must be a good photo spot by the looks of it.