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Classic Live Shows

The Alarm at the Wang Centre for the Performing Arts in Boston MA, 26 April 1988

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The Alarm were musically at their peak as a live band when they toured the Eye of the Hurricane album in 1987 and 1988. There […]

Iggy And The Stooges at the Michigan Palace in Detroit, 9 February 1974

21 April 2021 SB 0

“I’ve been spat on, I’ve been beaten, I’ve had rotten eggs thrown at my face. They have thrown paperclips, money, cameras, braziers, underwear, old rags, […]

Tony Martin at Baråtti Music Club in Strømmen, 10 March 2006

27 October 2020 SB 0

On a cold and very snowy winter’s day in 2006, Tony Martin of Black Sabbath fame played a small gig (some 10-15 paying people) in […]

Ray Davies at Rockefeller Music Hall in Oslo, 15 April 1998

15 April 2020 SB 0

On the day of this posting, it is exactly 22 years since Ray Davies played Rockefeller Music Hall in Oslo, Norway, on 15 April 1998. […]

Big Country vs. bottles and explosives at Reading Festival, 1983

26 February 2020 SB 0

The Reading Rock Festival is an institution in the UK. It started in the 1960s and kept going for many a year at the Richfield […]

U2 at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, 5 June 1983

14 April 2018 SB 0

It was early summer 1983. U2 were on the American leg of their War tour, supporting the album of the same name from the same […]

Deep Purple at the NEC in Birmingham, 9 November 1993

10 February 2018 SB 0

Anyone familiar with Deep Purple are fully aware of the ups and downs of their long and dynamic career, but when Ian Gillan returned to […]

Deep Purple at California Jam, 6 April 1974

9 February 2018 SB 0

California Jam (often simply called Cal Jam) was more than a rock music festival. It was a gigantic event co-headlined by Deep Purple and ELP, […]

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