Category Archives: Gigs

In an odd twist of fate while working on this gig memories projects in calendar date order, I find myself writing about a band on the same day that I’ll be seeing them live once again. That band is Less Than Jake. Thanks to a little known disruption called ‘the global pandemic’ I haven’t beenContinueContinue reading “Friday 7th April 2006 – Less Than Jake w/ Boys Night Out and Bullets To Broadway at The Astoria, London”

By 2006 Motion City Soundtrack were my favourite band. It had been a slower burner, the odd track here and there from I Am The Movie, but when Commit This To Memory came along I was all in. Most of the people in my life at the time were big fans too, so were theContinueContinue reading “Wednesday 1st February 2006 – Motion City Soundtrack at 93 Feet East, London”

Despite really liking Fall Out Boy in the early 2000’s, particularly their debut album Take This Your Grave, by 2006 I had decided I was too good for the band, who had since exploded in popularity. I was an idiot for this, they weren’t the only band I wrote off just because everyone else likedContinueContinue reading “Sunday 29th January 2006 – Fall Out Boy w / Gym Class Heroes and Nightmare Of You at Portstmouth Pyramids Centre”

Reel Big Fish toured A LOT in the UK in the 2000’s. For more than a few years straight I saw them at least once a year.  The defining memory from this show however goes to Edward Crawley. He whinged about not being referenced by name in two previous posts, despite being with me atContinueContinue reading “Tuesday 24th January 2006 – Reel Big Fish w/ Zebrahead and Fandangle at Salisbury City Hall”

For a while the ‘versus’ billing of co-headline tours was quite a thing. I have no idea why, there wasn’t any competition about it. It was a vehicle to allow bands of a similar level, perhaps with a slightly different audience to pull their collective crowd together and comfortably fill larger venues than they mightContinueContinue reading “Saturday 21st January 2006 – MxPx and The Starting Line w/ The Matches and I Am The Avalanche at Portsmouth Pyramids Centre”

New Found Glory are another band I’ve seen countless times over the years. Most recently I saw them without even realising it as I bought some Churros at Slam Dunk Festival, before figuring out it was NFG on the stage behind me playing a cover of The Power Of Love (Huey, not Frankie). But this show wasContinueContinue reading “Wednesday 26th January 2005 – New Found Glory w/ Fastlane and The Fight at Southampton Guildhall”

Almost a year to the day of our first Less Than Jake show, my friends and I were travelling away from home to see the band again. For this year’s trip Phil’s Mum, Juanita and her partner kindly drove Jim, Phil and I to Plymouth. Ed, Greg and I believe Richard Wells (more on him soon)ContinueContinue reading “Saturday 22nd May 2004 – Less Than Jake w/ Capdown and The A.K.A’s at Plymouth Pavilions”

This was an absolutely massive bill at the time. I’m probably exaggerating but I’m pretty sure all of my friends went to this. It was my first time seeing Zebrahead, and the only time seeing them with original vocalist Justin Mauriello, who left the band in 2004. It was also my introduction to The Matches.ContinueContinue reading “Tuesday 9th March 2004 – Reel Big Fish w/ Goldfinger, Zebrahead and The Matches at Southampton Guildhall”

This was an important show for a few reasons. Until this point I’d only been to gigs in big venues (or in one case, the attic of our school’s historic manor house building). This was my first ‘local’ show, in a local venue, put on by a local promoter, with local supports, for local people.ContinueContinue reading “Sunday 25th January 2004 – Jesse James w/ My Dad Joe, Mr Miagi and None The Wiser at Mister Smiths, Bournemouth”