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Many moons ago I used to play in a band' The Chevrons', well known on the South Wales circuit but never made the big time. Around at the same time was Dave Edmunds.
Also Tommy Scott and the Senators were on the circuit and Tommy later changed his name to Tom Jones.
Some years later working in Crawley my boss had a son Robert Smith who brought his band to play at the office Christmas bash....the band was The Cure ( I worked for a pharmaceutical company so you can see maybe where the name came from).
I saw the Manic Street Preachers on the Radio 1 Roadshow in Barry Island - I don't know if they were famous or not then. It was about 1988.
Saw the Paramounts who later became Procul Harem (at the old Capitol) who accompanied the Beatles. Saw Hawkwind in the old Top Rank who were rubbish and Led Zepelin at the same venue in their infancy.
I am on a 70's group,but the annoying thing is that a guy called Buster keeps posting The SWEET VIDEOS,someone said there must be to Block Buster,poor joke sorry
I saw Depeche Mode play in Cardiff, circa mid-1981. They played in a room called the Function Sweet, which was above the popular Nero's nightclub in Greyfriars. I would estimate that there were probably no more than 150 people crammed into that venue.
Wishbone Ash..remember seeing the name loads..but never heard them.
Tom Jones, not a group obviously but he Performed in those days as Tommy Scott and the Senators before he became famous
The Sect Maniacs which became Amen Corner played regularly in the Kennard Rooms in Richmond Road.
I can remember an album called "Classic Ash" being released. Someone had written "Classic Ash by Wishbone Ash" on their school bag and I remember thinking the phrasing was clumsy.
U2 at college. It was 50p. Attendance - couple of hundred at a max. I still have the ticket somewhere.
I asked my housemates of the time if they wanted to come and their response was "U who?".
Southern Death Cult never played the Function Suite. You're thinking of Getting the Fear, which was the rest of Southern Death Cult with a vocalist called Bee. It was after Ian Astbury had left them and formed Death Cult, who then became the Cult.
I was there too. Getting the Fear never became remotely famous. They were rubbish.
You're right.
It's weird because Getting The Fear have popped into my head from time to time over the years.
Maybe we should start a thread for sets of bands you've seen that share members.
I'll start with. Southern Death Cult, Getting the Fear and the Cult. I never saw Death Cult. Did they even play any shows? All I remember is the EP.