The Oldies Thread

[roydo]

I'm in Liverpool on Monday night to see OMD in their 40th anniversary tour. 40 years!!!!!! The first time I saw them was October 1979 at Liverpool Uni Freshers Ball. As I said before 40 bloody years!!! And I still love them.

I had a similar experience taking my lad to see AC/DC in Birmingham a few years back. I first saw them as a kid in 1981, and the audience walking to the arena resembled an accountants meeting rather then the one I was in at the Bristol Colston Hall gig many years earlier.

 

[anjelikaferrett]

I had a similar experience taking my lad to see AC/DC in Birmingham a few years back. I first saw them as a kid in 1981, and the audience walking to the arena resembled an accountants meeting rather then the one I was in at the Bristol Colston Hall gig many years earlier.

Love it! I'm taking my 22 year old daughter - the other half couldn't get the time off ( he is on night shift next week) Went to see Midge Ure recently. The nice lady in the seat next to me was sharing sherbet lemons with everybody. This is what it has come to when the Ultravox fans are sharing sherbet lemons!

 

[roydo]

Love it! I'm taking my 22 year old daughter - the other half couldn't get the time off ( he is on night shift next week) Went to see Midge Ure recently. The nice lady in the seat next to me was sharing sherbet lemons with everybody. This is what it has come to when the Ultravox fans are sharing sherbet lemons!

Me and me lad just couldnt stop giggling at the mid 50s bloke in front of us doing a full on air guitar job for the whole gig!

 

[anjelikaferrett]

Me and me lad just couldnt stop giggling at the mid 50s bloke in front of us doing a full on air guitar job for the whole gig!

Things like that fill my heart with joy!

 

[bigjonny]

I'm in Liverpool on Monday night to see OMD in their 40th anniversary tour. 40 years!!!!!! The first time I saw them was October 1979 at Liverpool Uni Freshers Ball. As I said before 40 bloody years!!! And I still love them.

I remember seeing the two of them sitting in The Augustus John before The Bunnymen played in Mountford Hall, must have been around 1979 as well.

 

[degsy]

See below this fine 1967 example of urban blight/regeneration Birkenhead Town Station

 

[Blue Piper]

Had a real "who's on first" moment at home when the missus started taking about Andre Gomez junior. Turns out she thought that Son was son. And the Coleman comforting son was bringing Andre Gomez junior for a McDonalds.

 

[summerisle]

When every show on television was middle-class.

 

[peteblue]

Love it! I'm taking my 22 year old daughter - the other half couldn't get the time off ( he is on night shift next week) Went to see Midge Ure recently. The nice lady in the seat next to me was sharing sherbet lemons with everybody. This is what it has come to when the Ultravox fans are sharing sherbet lemons!

Night shift you say.....watch out for @roydo......

 

[Pilks]

I had a similar experience taking my lad to see AC/DC in Birmingham a few years back. I first saw them as a kid in 1981, and the audience walking to the arena resembled an accountants meeting rather then the one I was in at the Bristol Colston Hall gig many years earlier.

I can beat you on that one - Liverpool Empire, 1978, with Bon Scott. Powerage tour. Christ, I'm old!

 

[Methuselah]

When every show on television was middle-class.

I can remember when the actors in every British film (black and white) were upper class. You occasionally got a Cockney waiter/waitress.

 

[chrismpw]

See below this fine 1967 example of urban blight/regeneration Birkenhead Town Station
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Love images like this. Reminds me of the freedoms we used to enjoy - the days when you could wander about building sites and scrub land without them being wired and fenced off with keep out and oppressive safety signs everywhere.

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

Love images like this. Reminds me of the freedoms we used to enjoy - the days when you could wander about building sites and scrub land without them being wired and fenced off with keep out and oppressive safety signs everywhere.

...That's why you had films like this.

 

[degsy]

I can remember when the actors in every British film (black and white) were upper class. You occasionally got a Cockney waiter/waitress.

Usually Sam Kydd and Irene Handl or Kathleen Harrison, with Peggy Mount as big tough landlady type.


And Thora Hird if they needed a northern one
Steady work, can't knock it.

 

[davids]

I can beat you on that one - Liverpool Empire, 1978, with Bon Scott. Powerage tour. Christ, I'm old!

I'll raise you Neil Young 1973,my then girlfriend worked for the Daily Post and got free tickets,we went to the pub first and discussed if it was another drink or the support group,which ended up being the Eagles.