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You probably only saw about 20 minutes of The Smiths!Quote:
Originally Posted by MOZZER2
Newport Centre was a surprisingly decent venue. The Cure played an excellent gig there when they did a smaller venue tour. REM was a great gig.
The Great Hall is fine if you enjoy the mosh pit. Further back the lower ceiling near the bars makes it feel a bit claustrophobic.
Why not ? Colston, Colston, Colston. Does that answer your question ? heh hehQuote:
Originally Posted by Malckent
I think the quality of sound in St David's Hall is dependent on the type of music played. Heavy metal bands don't really work there, neither do bands who up the decibel level. I've seen bands like 10cc, The Moody Blues, The Zombies etc who don't blow your eardrums out and providing the mixing desk does its job, the sound reproduction can be very good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
your right mind you think it was more like 30 minutes . Some very prominent city fans were on stage demanding the band get back on stage taking over the mic after the incident when morrissey was hauled into the crowd and ended up in the royal gwent !! I won't mention any names they know who they are :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bloop
still got photos from that gig and would be worth a few quid now i would guess in fact was asked to use in a book but I declined
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-...n-came-6265210
Don't think so. When I went there in the late 1960's/early 1970's I seem to recall the club was in Soho within walking distance of where I was staying. The big act at the time was Chris Farlow and the Thunderbirds who had been playing there for years. I think they made their name there. I didn't much care for the place; far too trendy and surprisingly small for my liking.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Lots of great rock bands played there though but very smallQuote:
Originally Posted by Vindec
Globe in cardiff is not a bad venue but too small
The Roundhouse even though it has been revamped into more like an arts centre still manages to become a proper rock venue with the right band and crowd in.
Seen the RHCP there maybe 15 yrs ago didn’t do it for me, I would have loved to seen The Doors there back in the day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Majorblue
To me a decent venue is all about the acoustics. Small venues are not great as many, but not all, bands play at a volume better suited to larger venues. On the other hand large venues with high ceilings are not great either as the sound bounces around. The distortion can be horrendous. You only get a happy medium by chance and I can't think of any currently in Cardiff. Oddly the Newport Centre was decent. The Top Rank was awful but a place, also long gone, was the dance club in the basement of the old Capitol Cinema. I doubt if anyone on here even knew it existed. It's a great pity that no purpose built places are built with acoustics in mind. Most exist in converted buildings where the acoustics rarely work.
I missed the gig myself as I'd gone to uni a couple of weeks before. I probably went to the only uni that they didn't play that year and never got to see them.Quote:
Originally Posted by MOZZER2
Would love to see those photos sometime.
Seen the Smiths at County Hall on the south bank open air 1984 - Misty in Roots stole the show.
Does anyone remember the Stowaway, on Stow Hill in Newport? At one point in the late seventies/early eighties, it seemed like there was a 'name' band playing there every Wednesday. Clash, Jam, Buzzcocks, Generation X, Souixsie, Adam and the Ants, Only Ones, Rezillos, Undertones, Costello, Nick Lowe, the list goes on....
is that the one with the plastic model of a dragon in it ?Quote:
Originally Posted by tforturton