Support band you saw that blew away the headliner

Innsbruckblue said:
Stereo MCs supporting the Happy Mondays at the Free Trade Hall (93,94?). The Stereos were so good (had just released Connected, I think) that the Mondays were like a caricature of themselves. We ended up leaving halfway through the Mondays’ performance
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I was going to post Stereo MC's supporting the Happy Mondays at the Town and Country club, Kentish Town.
 
Went to see Ride at New Century Hall in September, the support was Junodream, probably one of the best support band that I have seen, I don't get in early enough to see many. I remember seeing the 1975 support All The Young at Academy 3 about 6 months before they broke into the mainstream.
 
I went to see David Essex at the Apollo in 1977, the supporting act were the Alessi Brothers who were great.

 
Sheffield uni, probably around 89. Headliner was the River City People (folky rock, pleasant enough, a bit forgettable). I'd never heard of the support band, they looked ridiculously young and the lead singer had a kind of freakish energy, never still for a second the whole gig - it was Blur
 
Used to go to a club back in the 80's in Essex which had bands playing in front of mostly punks and skins - support bands normally greeted by a few bottles to hurry them off stage. Was there one night and rather large scary female with purple hair came on before main band to loud abuse - within 5 minutes the place was enamoured with her voice - it was an unknown called Alison Moyet (Yazoo) - all you youngsters on here,give her a listen on Spotify.......
 
Coventry Theatre, around 1980, I think. Gary Numan was No1 with Cars, and we went to see him. Brilliant stuff. I wouldn't say the support act blew him away, but they were also brilliant. Two blokes, one with a bass guitar, the other with a rack of synthesisers. And a big tape machine. They were OMD.
 
horlock_was_super said:
Going to see Paul Heaton tomorrow.
Zutons & The Lightening Seeds supporting.
Could turn out a fairly decent evening for the princely sum of £40 a ticket.
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If I was putting on a gig I'd have the zutons on after Paul Heaton mainly as a tempo thing. I'd have the lightning seeds selling merch in the foyer.
 
s1ty m said:
Coventry Theatre, around 1980, I think. Gary Numan was No1 with Cars, and we went to see him. Brilliant stuff. I wouldn't say the support act blew him away, but they were also brilliant. Two blokes, one with a bass guitar, the other with a rack of synthesisers. And a big tape machine. They were OMD.
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I was just going to post the same, just substituting Hamms Odeon for Coventry. Going forward I was never a big fan of OMD's records but on that night they were superb.
 
In my student days back in the mid-seventies I went to see Clive James & Pete Atkin at MMU Union. That's THE Clive James, and Atkin was a folk-ish singer who James was doing a collaboration with.

The actual support had been on and I have no idea who it was but after they'd finished and during the interval, this weird looking guy who'd been stood near us got up on stage. He was a tall, thin guy, dressed all in black, with a mop of frizzy black hair and wearing shades. He started reading out poems and everyone was shouting at him to fuck off.

He carried on though and people gradually realised how good he was, cheering him off after his 10 or 15 minute unofficial spot. He was, of course, John Cooper Clarke. And while I'm cheering him, I felt a tap on my shoulder so turned round to see Clive James, who quietly said "Excuse me, I need to get on the stage".
 
The Princess Club, mid sixties, PJ Proby, headliner, at least an hour late on stage, the crowd turning uglier, Brian Bookbinder the MC struggling to calm things and failing....Unannounced, a big bloke came from behind the curtain, grabbed the mic, a powerhouse tenor voice, had the place rocking. So much so, when Proby eventually came on he was booed to the rafters, with the punters demanding the tenor back....
 
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