Maz

Over here I've seen The Who, Sting (phwoar!!!! toned muscles up the yin-yang, pun intended ), Kula Shaker, Junior Wells (before he snuffed it, obviously - hubby's band was backup ), Cherry Poppin' Daddies and a whole slew of local bands.

sky

I haven't a clue who they are, but having looked at their pictures I would feel far too pervy to like them ... they look like babies!

mickey_d

Make the most of them, as far as New Zealand is concerned Mcfly don't exist.
My Daughter is soooo Jealous. We saw them in Nottingham 2 years ago, great show, especially the covers they did at the end, ENJOY

Boopy

Rob, where did you see Bon Jovi in '95. We seen them at Gateshead, they had Val Halen & Ugly Kid Joe for support. But Thunder was kind to us, came to Newcastle 3 years running - they're brill.
Isn't Jon Bon Jovi tiny - not my type now.

Boopy

Here's some useless info, 3 of them went to the same Music College in Newcastle as my son, but just a few years before.

Boopy

Hubby is into punk, and 2 of the bands that we'd seen in UK, we'll see here in Wellington.
The Anti NoWhere League, played here in November - a better gig here than back home.
And The UK Subs - if anyone's heard of them, they play here next month. They are not the kind of bands you'd expect to come to NZ, hubby thought that he'd never get a chance to see either again.

ballsrburning

That is music to my ears . One thing I noticed when I travelled but this was only in aus, is the amount of talented musicians just doing local pubs, I hope NZ is the same.

Boopy

Our local has a band on every friday night, there's not one I've seen there that I could say was crap. From what I've seen (generally speaking) the pub muso's here are more talented than pub bands I've seen back home.

RobClubley

I saw them in Sheffield - the night before my final exam at uni

karonious

My brother is seriously considering coming out when the UK subs are here. He watches a lot of live bands in the UK and has seen the Damned so many times I often wonder if they look out and say "Hey, Pete's in tonight!"
Anti-nowhere League - I may well still have 'so what?' ( ) on vinyl if I could be bothered to look!
How about a poll to see which is the least street-cred gig anyone ever went to?
Leo Sayer
An ex-colleague admitted to queuing to see Acker Bilk.......

Boopy

And was it a night you'll never forget. I remember being abit disappointed with Van Halen.

Boopy

We've seen then Dammned loads. Stiff Little Fingers would play in Newcastle every year for St Patricks Day - first we've missed in years. Sunderland had just started having a big Punk festival, it was to be every year. That was the final hurdle to get Paul out here, he'd waited years for it to start in our city. At least he can see old Charlie Harper again on Easter Saturday.

Boopy

Karen, Hubby has just told me the Subs are playing Newcastle on May 27th with the Buzzcocks.

dazal

Stiff Little Fingers, wow thats a blast from the past. I didnt even know they were still going. I used to love them. Jake Burns was a hero of mine in my younger days along with Joe Strummer and Mick Jones - unfortunately I never got to see the Clash I would love it if SLF made ithere way out here. Unlikely me thinks!

Boopy

We never got to see the Clash either. Before we came to NZ the big punk fest in Sunderland had The Stranglers head lining, with the Damned, Wayne's County, Penetration, GoldBlade. The year before had the Dead Kennedys & UK Subs.
Last year when we seen SLF, Jake didn't look too good & was real twisty with the audience, walked off when the beer started to get thrown on stage.