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My favourite MES story involves a friend who shared a flat with a girl who'd just got a job in music PR. She'd been given the job of 'looking after' MES on a trip down to London. Not knowing what to do with him, she took him round the flat but then had to pop out on some errand or other. All of...

I'm wondering if the Astoria one I saw them at may have been 2005. They'd booked the venue but by the time they got to play there they'd gone massive and had to announce another date. Sounds like it must have been around the same time.

It was 2002. Wish I'd been at that one - great double header! BSP were an astonishing live band back then (and still pretty good now). Funnily enough, I came across the Argus review of that very gig just after Mark E Smith died...

Are you sure that wasn't 2004? Killers supported BSP autumn 2003 and that gig at the Barfly was Dec 03. Next time I saw them was Feb 04 at the ICA in London. Pretty sure that night was the first time they played ' All these things'. Raved to people about it after, saying 'that's gonna be a...

Saw them on their first UK tour, supporting British Sea Power at tiny venues such as Lincoln Bivouac, and then at their first UK headline gig, upstairs at the Camden Barfly (not even sold out). They had tunes for sure, but I would never have predicted they'd become so huge.

Good call - should have had it in my list.

Slightly (only slightly!) before my time. Who else did you see there - Pistols, Clash, Joy Division?

That must have been the Nashville Rooms. Love Magazine but only saw them on the reunion tour.

Unknown Pleasures The Velvet Underground and Nick Never Mind the Bollocks Funeral The Decline of British Sea Power Suede's debut album was great too. Too many to mention, really.