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What is the biggest music act you have seen in the smallest venue
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By *ack688Man
over a year ago
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Nanci Griffiths in a tiny venue in Manchester before she became popular in the uk.
Quite a few bands including The Darkness and Nick Cave at a couple of recordings of Later that I got to attend at the BBC studios |
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over a year ago
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"Bon Jovi at the Brighton Centre. It was their first gig in the uk as support to Kiss. Probably only support band I've seen where you got the feeling they would be huge."
I was at that gig and Bon Jovi were certainly the best that night  |
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Trapeze at Snoopy's Nightclub in Cannock, don't look for it; it's not there anymore.
Glenn Hughes - Deep Purple
Mel Galley - Whitesnake
Dave Holland - Judas Priest
Geoff Downes - Yes, Asia, Buggles etc. |
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"Fun lovin criminals at a uni venue at the height of their reign  "
Saw them in a local pub at around the same time, just 200 capacity, fantastic gig.
Also seen The Killers in a 7000 person venue, which felt pretty intimate for a massive stadium band
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Magnum at the rig rock city nottm , he was not allowed to build his platform to sing from as he is a short arse ,couldnt see sod all, sony banned all live performance of their music in a contractual dispute, he sang em anyway.Bruce Dickinson at the same venue ,l asked him to sign album to Francis Rossi, he told me to fuck off. |
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"Magnum at the rig rock city nottm , he was not allowed to build his platform to sing from as he is a short arse ,couldnt see sod all, sony banned all live performance of their music in a contractual dispute, he sang em anyway.Bruce Dickinson at the same venue ,l asked him to sign album to Francis Rossi, he told me to fuck off."
Another one I forgot about, Magnum in a pub in Wolverhampton, a charity gig just before (or maybe after) 'On a Storyteller's Night' was released.
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
"Do the likes of Rock City, DeMontfort Hall and various Odeon size theatres really count as 'small' venues?"
Rock city is max 2000, the small disco downstairs where faith no more played first time is around 400 |
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"If l remember the downstairs bar at rock city, the rig, didnt have a bar ,had to go upstairs , the 'stage' was 6 inch high."
That's a proper small venue. I've seen some brilliant bands in there (interviewed a few in the changing rooms down there too). |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Example - rock city, before he hit the big time & did stadiums. His star fell after a couple of years but he still has a place in my heart
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Elliot is still alive and well living Australia raising his family touring and making music. Living his best life. |
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"Do the likes of Rock City, DeMontfort Hall and various Odeon size theatres really count as 'small' venues?course they do "
I'd say not, to be honest. They were just standard venues when bands used to do 'proper' tours. |
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The Prodigy at a local leisure centre, 1993.
Dermot Kennedy at The Brook 2019 (500 capacity) he now sells out the O2 in London and various large venues in Ireland/America, Glastonbury twice
Tom Grennan at Southampton Guildhall/Victorious he's sold out the o2 and performed at Glasto |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"If l remember the downstairs bar at rock city, the rig, didnt have a bar ,had to go upstairs , the 'stage' was 6 inch high.
That's a proper small venue. I've seen some brilliant bands in there (interviewed a few in the changing rooms down there too)."
After a motorhead gig in rock city we met Lemmy downstairs chillin after the gig. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Please feel free to take your pick as to which you consider is the "biggest" of these...
Robert Plant in a marquee in Cambridge to about 20 or so of us.
Green Day in a snooker club in Huddersfield.
Nirvana in a pub in Leeds. They were just the support band that night too.
Joan Baez in a small tent with about a dozen of us.
My mate's unknown band playing a pub in Leeds but their support bands that night were 10,000 Things who's singer Sam Riley went on to be a Hollywood film star and opening up that evening were the Kaiser Chiefs.
The Sisters of Mercy playing a few secret warm up shows in various pubs in Leeds.
Oh and I saw a band called The Cockroaches in a tiny club in Paris. They usually use their more well known alias of The Rolling Stones when they play 0ther (much larger) venues.
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By (user no longer on site)
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I saw The Kooks, Libertines, Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs in tiny venues supporting others, I think pretty much all before they were signed or released a song so I didn’t know anything much about them at the time.
Black Keys in Rescue Rooms in Nottingham and Confidence Man in Stealth was pretty tiny too given what they play now.
Loads at Rock City and O2 venues. Yeah they have smaller rooms, the big room in Rock City for example is Comparatively huge. |
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By *arHHHTV/TS
over a year ago
Birmingham |
Pro tip for seeing artists in small venues - jump on a flight and head to Amsterdam! I lived there for a good few years and saw a lot of relatively big British bands play in small venues as they weren’t big enough in The Netherlands to sell out bigger gigs, so over a few years at a 600 odd capacity venue I’ve seen…
Muse
Biffy Clyro
Chemical Brothers
Orbital
Pendulum
Chase & Status
Stone Roses
Plus loads of other bands you would probably say are a bit smaller, all in a tiny venue with a load of ex pats going a bit crazy!
Also, you get to fall out of there and experience the rest of Amsterdam…..so a win all round!x
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"Hothouse Flowers in a local pub about 5 years ago with only 40 people there.
That's criminal! I hope that's not their regular audience now. "
No they are still playing to massive audiences.
It was a one off and almost a practice gig before they went on tour that year.
It wasn't very well advertised which I think was deliberate and I only heard about it that morning. Tickets were only a tenner. |
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