[Music] The Specials on Saturday night, Roll call....

[brighton terra]

I am no die hard fan and havent seen them before and so didnt have any massive expectations about last night. But the Centre was sold out, the Specials were absolutely fantastic and it was great to see/hear 5000 people singing along (unlike the Amex! )

It was a great gig, but I thought the level of public participation was pretty poor. However, I was in the South Balcony, which I guess is the equivalent of the East Stand Upper!

 

[Bob!]

I am no die hard fan and havent seen them before and so didnt have any massive expectations about last night. But the Centre was sold out, the Specials were absolutely fantastic and it was great to see/hear 5000 people singing along (unlike the Amex! )

How did the new songs go down?
Did they play much of the new album?

 

[HantsSeagull]

It was a great gig, but I thought the level of public participation was pretty poor. However, I was in the South Balcony, which I guess is the equivalent of the East Stand Upper!

So was i tbh! But i thought everyone was singing along to all the old favourites - well i was anyway!

 

[HantsSeagull]

How did the new songs go down?
Did they play much of the new album?

Protest songs? 4 i think - i enjoyed them - wasnt a duff song all night

 

[brighton terra]

So was i tbh! But i thought everyone was singing along to all the old favourites - well i was anyway!

The response to ‘Get Up Stand Up’ was particularly poor. It deserved raucous support!

 

[brighton terra]

Protest songs? 4 i think - i enjoyed them - wasnt a duff song all night

I enjoyed the lockdown songs he’d written!

 

[*Gullsworth*]

The response to ‘Get Up Stand Up’ was particularly poor. It deserved raucous support!

I expect fans of a group popular in the 80s are feeling their age a little.

 

[BN9 BHA]

It was a great gig, but I thought the level of public participation was pretty poor. However, I was in the South Balcony, which I guess is the equivalent of the East Stand Upper!

Did anyone leave 10 minutes before the end?

 

[brighton terra]

Did anyone leave 10 minutes before the end?

Funny you should say that, as some people did leave during the encore! ��

 

[HantsSeagull]

Did anyone leave 10 minutes before the end?

There were one or two in the South Balcony who should have left 10 minutes before it started. So pissed couldnt stand up, let alone for their rights!

 

[brighton terra]

There were one or two in the South Balcony who should have left 10 minutes before it started. So pissed couldnt stand up, let alone for their rights!

The ones that were told to sit down by the stewards? They did for all of about 10 seconds!

 

[HantsSeagull]

The ones that were told to sit down by the stewards? They did for all of about 10 seconds!

nah - there was one guy who was all over the place. fell over getting back into his seat, beer all over the person in front, etc etc

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

'78 for me.

Crawley Leisure Centre, supporting The Clash.

I saw them 3* times as far as I recall in the 70s. This was 1979:



*Hallucinating. It was 79 and 80.

I see that Suicide were on the bill when you saw them. Spooky duo. Probably didn't go down well. Their album is a classic though

The support when I first saw them was Selektor (didn't like) and Madness. I seem to recall mayhem.

 

[timbha]

I saw them 3 times as far as I recall in the 70s. This was 1979:

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You’ve certainly followed the instruction at the bottom!

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

It was a great gig, but I thought the level of public participation was pretty poor.

Yeah it was, but I’ve seen a few gigs there over the past five years, and the audiences are pretty stagnant especially in the standing section. This is either because people have been on the booze all day and have burnt themselves out, which I don’t get. I put it down to the possibility most at the gig “liked” the band back in the day, most did not fervently follow said band, or genre of music, so there is that lack of passion, couple that with the average age of possibly 55 there’s ya answer….

If The Specials had just started, and everyone in there was between 16-25 that place would have been bouncing….

Always a bad sign, when once there were scooters parked outside and now there are mobility scooters inside….

 

[studio150]

I saw them 3* times as far as I recall in the 70s. This was 1979:

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*Hallucinating. It was 79 and 80.

I see that Suicide were on the bill when you saw them. Spooky duo. Probably didn't go down well. Their album is a classic though

The support when I first saw them was Selektor (didn't like) and Madness. I seem to recall mayhem.

Certainly was mayhem with the North London skins having a day out

 

[zefarelly]

I saw them 3* times as far as I recall in the 70s. This was 1979:

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*Hallucinating. It was 79 and 80.

I see that Suicide were on the bill when you saw them. Spooky duo. Probably didn't go down well. Their album is a classic though

The support when I first saw them was Selektor (didn't like) and Madness. I seem to recall mayhem.

2 tone tour ?

Having missed out forst time round I went to the BC gig about 10 years ago, extremely good, brilliant even performance, slightly marred by a minority of the clientele. The knuckle dragging racist cockjugglers in front of us being a right royal pain in the arse, and so pissed they kept falling over, eventually got confronted by stewards, only for one of them to declare he was a copper!

 

[Bob!]

I saw them 3* times as far as I recall in the 70s. This was 1979:

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*Hallucinating. It was 79 and 80.

I see that Suicide were on the bill when you saw them. Spooky duo. Probably didn't go down well. Their album is a classic though

The support when I first saw them was Selektor (didn't like) and Madness. I seem to recall mayhem.

You're correct about Suicide.

They lasted two songs before the skins got on stage and wrapped the microphone lead round the singer's neck!

The skins were there courtesy of Jimmy Pursey who was on stage for the encore to do the vocals for White Riot i

 

[Garage_Doors]

I enjoyed the lockdown songs he’d written!

I personally found it very repetitive but overall a good set.
Terry could have made more of an effort dress wise.

 

[wigman]

It was a good set, and I thought the crowd were in good voice.
Especially when they played Nite Klub and Doesn't make it Alright.
There were a lot of p*ssed up people there.