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| And then he walked along the edge of the Circle
This is the place where we will post your stories about the Green's Playhouse, The Glasgow Apollo and Satelitte City (The Wee Apollo). As it develops we will break the stories up into sections such as Myths, Gigs I missed, Meeting the Bands, Where are they now etc. No story too trivial and we will only edit out bad language!
New Forum structure on Apollomemories soon.
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| If i remember correctly, they were actually called the Coventry Specials at this gig.
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| First ever concert unreal Terry Hall &Jerry Dammers were mental
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| First gig I ever went to.
I can still remember the rush to the front as soon
as the Specials came on stage. The Apollo had a good space between the first row and
the stage which was great for dancing but the stage was about 12 feet tall so you
could only see the band if they came and leaned over the edge.
I spent the
whole gig dancing at the front with a group of huge bouncers about 6 inches from my
face. I didn't see any aggro though. Their only foray into the crowd was to rescue
Jerry Dammers. He had been sitting on the edge of the stage with Terry Hall. I looked
away for a second (making a pitiful attempt to chat up the cute rude girl beside me)
and when I looked back, Dammers was in mid flight.Someone might have grabbed his
ankles and pulled him off but I think it was a truly suicidal piece of stage diving.
I mean, we can all remember how high the stage was!. All I can say is that the
missing front teeth suddenly made sense....nutter! The monkey men piled into the
crowd with fists flailing and managed to drag him out again although I think a fair
bit of his wardrobe stayed in various parts of Glasgow.
The music was superb,
the venue sweaty and everything over too soon...and yes, I can still remember the
smell like it was yesterday.
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