The Oldies Thread

[LEONARD]

Saw many fantastic gigs at the Stadium.

Family, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Ten Years After, Be Bop Deluxe, and loads of others.

Used to enjoy a few bevvies in The St Pauls as well.

 

[brian grant]

Saw many fantastic gigs at the Stadium.

Family, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Ten Years After, Be Bop Deluxe, and loads of others.

Used to enjoy a few bevvies in The St Pauls as well.

 

[brian grant]

over the years: seen Clyde Mcphatter,Bobby Darin,Johnnie Cash,Merle Haggard,Lonnie Donegan on Empire.Ray Charles on Odeon and Buddy Holly on the Phil.All gone now,sad to say,

 

[Gwlacticos]

I’m watching Canal Boat Diaries on BBC4. Recorded it yesterday ‘cos missus came in from work like, ‘what’s all this crap you’re watching you div?.’ So I recorded it and watching the rest now before she gets in. It is pretty crap though I suppose, but I like it.

 

[roydo]

Canal Boat Diaries on BBC4

Its stuff like that that makes me realise I am in the Oldies thread! Its quite comforting.

 

[Billysgingham.]

I’m watching Canal Boat Diaries on BBC4. Recorded it yesterday ‘cos missus came in from work like, ‘what’s all this crap you’re watching you div?.’ So I recorded it and watching the rest now before she gets in. It is pretty crap though I suppose, but I like it.

I was sitting on the couch watching that the other day until I said to myself " kin lad what are you watching here."

 

[Gwladysover]

Love the Repair Shop on BBC 1. Good old -fashioned skill and craftsmanship.

 

[Johnniepk]

Found this ticket recently. Cant seem to find out who it was. Hoping its not the wifes David Essex ticket!!

 

[Pilks]

Found this ticket recently. Cant seem to find out who it was. Hoping its not the wifes David Essex ticket!!View attachment 71879

People ask me nowadays why I didn't keep all my ticket stubs from the Empire and similar venues back then. That photo shows the exact reason: back the the stub was more like a raffle ticket, didn't say who the band was. That's why I binned them, I'm sorry to say.

I saw the final gig by Deep Purple Mk 4 there in March 1976, with David Coverdale and Tommy Bolin. I was 14. man, those were the days

 

[Eggs]

...just trying to think of who I saw at the Empire back in the 70s, certainly Elton John, 10cc and Elkie Brooks. I also saw Van Morrison but that was a few years later.

 

[Johnniepk]

People ask me nowadays why I didn't keep all my ticket stubs from the Empire and similar venues back then. That photo shows the exact reason: back the the stub was more like a raffle ticket, didn't say who the band was. That's why I binned them, I'm sorry to say.

I saw the final gig by Deep Purple Mk 4 there in March 1976, with David Coverdale and Tommy Bolin. I was 14. man, those were the days

I have few like this. The Bowie one from 1973 i know because I wrote the set list out when I got home, and kept it with that. Pretty sure we bought them about 2 weeks before the show by just walking up to the box office!

 

[bigjonny]

Some long forgotten (supressed) nights at The Empire have surfaced thanks to you lot. Leo Sayer, Chris de Burgh , Max Boyce, Sade - could not hold a note live. On the other hand The Pointer Sisters , BB King, Lynx - never seen so many people on stage. And how many times did we all see The Steve Gibbons' Band ?, the perpetual support act.

 

[davids]

I was at that gig but I think it was 1975, at the Empire....Young was going through his moody phase and didn't play any of his back catalogue......the Eagles blew him offstage

Neil Young Setlist at Empire Theatre, Liverpool

Get the Neil Young Setlist of the concert at Empire Theatre, Liverpool, England on November 6, 1973 from the Tonight's The Night Tour with The Santa Monica Flyers Tour and other Neil Young Setlists for free on setlist.fm!

www.setlist.fm

Although I'm not sure if the set list printed there is correct,I seem to remember he did lots from Tonights the Night. Remember he sat on stage next to a cigar store Indian messing around with multiple harmonicas.

 

[davids]

Saw the Four Tops at the Empire in the early 70s remember it because of the then obligatary bomb scare,and that I didn't bother to look under my seat.
The folly of youth!

 

[Old Blue 2]

....I really like Mott the Hoople, I saw Elton John at the Empire around 1973 but my mother-in-law trumped that when mentioned to me the other day that she saw Nat King Cole there. Not sure when it was, but she’s 91.

Saw Mott the Hoople about 3 times at the Stadium. Best live band I saw at the time.
One time they were supported by a band called 'Peace'. Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke of Free with a bass player, Rodgers playing guitar. This was in one of those periods when Kossoff was off his skull on drugs and totally incapable. Before Mott started, Ian Hunter said to the crowd: "You've just heard the best rock singer in the business." He was right - incredible singer.
Saw Led Zep at the Stadium just after LZIII came out. Left before the end as it became a continuous cycle of Plant screeching two verses then Page playing a 10 minute solo, song after song after song!
Went along to see an all-female band called 'Fanny' (yep, that was their name!) thinking they wouldn't be up to much. Boy, was I and the rest of the crowd wrong! Absolutely superb, and when June Millington ripped into the solo of 'Badge'...
Also saw Traffic there, and Chris Wood was off his face totally. Winwood tried manfully to hold everything together. That night they were blown away by the American support band, 'Seatrain'.