[kj] OT : Meet Britain's biggest gigaholic ...

[jane.shadforth at shell.com]

Jel - festivals count as 1 gig per day. I'd lose count of the number of bands I saw at something like Glastonbury in 1 day.
 
Antoni - I'm not very good at keeping records. The only list I have is for NMA, (305 between 1985 and now, 62 in 1998), and I have no idea how many times I've seen KJ, but it is significantly less than that. Since Iain & I have pulled together annual newsletters of the last 12 years, I've listed the bands I've seen each month on those, but not how many times. I think at my peak I was seeing 120-130 gigs a year, but we're nowhere near that now - triathlon and work get in the way somewhat...
 
35 years at that rate takes some doing - my hat's off to him...
 
Jane

-----Original Message-----
From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of jerry bodkin
Sent: 25 November 2008 09:39
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] OT : Meet Britain's biggest gigaholic ...


 
 How do festivals rate in the count up? I mean, if you do all 3 days at a festival and see 5 different bands a day, does that count as 15 gigs or just 1 cos you went in and didnt come out again til the end, if you know what i mean.
 
 
 Jel



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From: pssyche23 at hotmail.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:22:24 +0000
Subject: Re: [kj] OT : Meet Britain's biggest gigaholic ...

 
I see that he went to the sweaty Subterania gig in 1994 but that was the only KJ gig I noted since the Joy Division supports. Still he saw Kajagoogoo ! Quantity not quality, eh !
 
Though a large chuck of the gigs were when he worked as security (that is cheating a tad), it's still an amazing dedication over 35 years ... that most I did in a year was 80 ... in 1987, I only went to 3 gigs ... was married and with a baby I've done well over 700 in 28 years and I thought that was some going ... Jane, have you kept a record of all the gigs you've attended ? That would be quite some read.   




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From: bq at soundgardener.co.nz
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:03:06 +1100
Subject: Re: [kj] OT : Meet Britain's biggest gigaholic ...





Hey there’s some class in the comments section at the bottom, a 41 time Killing Joke attendee (!)

 

Well done,NR-Dublin. Age is not a barrier. My 1st gig was Be-Bop Deluxe '76 @ Hemel Hempstead Pav. and i'm seeing Pendulum at Sheffield on my 48th birthday. Highlights- any Killing Joke concert x41 from 1980-2008! 
David Rees, Nottingham,UK

 


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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of Antoni Adamiak
Sent: Tuesday, 25 November 2008 09:33
To: The Gathering
Subject: [kj] OT : Meet Britain's biggest gigaholic ...

 


 
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7741457.stm *

... and strangely it's not Jon Chapman or even Tom Cavanagh ... some 5,000 gigs in 35 years ... that takes some beating ... bet he's seen a load of old shit though !
 


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