Also headlining the Wizard festival in Scotland in August
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johnny wrote:

1986 OCT 2nd - Tower Ballroom .Top night supporting New Order.Thought the Mondays were shit on this first viewing though , coupled with being impatient for the Order to come on 1989: MAR 26th - Birmingham NEC .Not a bad gig but not that memorable either.Again , supporting the Order.A great way to spend an otherwise boring Easter Sunday.The weather was tops for late March as i recall. 1991: AUG 4th - Cities In The ParkNow yer talkin'!! Me ,my bro and a mate were right down the front for this one.Sweaty and crushed to fcuk but a memorable night with the Mondays on top form 1992: OCT 24th - Wolverhampton Civic Hall A wet night in Wolverhampton seeing the Mondays come to a wet end to their Halcyon days.Or maybe they had already come to the end. We had more of a laff after the gig in Wolverhampton city centre drunkenly throwing some , er, body popping moves to the black girls with their ghetto blaster before receiving threatening glares from their.... hmmmm... how would i describe them?... 'Pimps'? . We wandered around Wolverhampton in the pissing rain before ending up sleeping in the motor for the night. I recall us talking about making the trip out to the Ibiza KU Club gig, June 28th 1990 to catch em.There was an all-in-one trip (can't remember how much it cost) advertised in NME or something that included flight , a week's accomadation, a couple of nights entrance to a club and ticket for the Mondays gig.Didn't do it in the end though.

at the tower ballroom gig the wonderstuff were on first then the mondays....i remember the sound was a bit muffled but the band were on top form...then new order...played a blinder as usual....bez came up to my mate during no set asking if he had any gear going free....poncing bstard...lol

Another Mondays gig was January 30th 2001 at The Palace in St.Kilda,Melb. Australia with Gerling as support.

The Paris 1991 gig was on the 1st of March on the Friday at La Cigale not the 2nd of March on the Saturday. It was a very good night in Paris. I met Bernard Lenoir at The Happy Mondays gig - the French John Peel and the man who famously recorded Joy Division at Les Bains Douches for France Inter and infamously stopped broadcasting it half way through because he thought it wasn't very good, but he was a very nice man.

The Mondays finished quite early and afterwards my friends and I carried on drinking in the Pigalle/Montmatre the place was overun with Welsh rugby fans who were there for the five nations match the next day.Then we went to La Locomotive club next to the Moulin Rouge because they had a Heavenly records night with East West,Flowered Up,Saint Etienne and The Manic Street Preachers.I actually met Bez coming out as I went in I went "alright Bez" and sort of pushed him slightly on the shoulder and he nearly fell over! He went "alright man" with a big smile and staggered off into the night.

Saint Etienne were first up making their Paris debut it was before Sarah Cracknell joined they had a singer who could have been a model she was wearing a Barbie dress and came on commando everytime she spun round the audience got a right eyefull my Parisian friends still talk about it till this day. Flowered Up were a bit like the Mondays but nowhere near as good. Dozed off on a staircase shortly aterwards and got woken up by the Manics starting Motown Junk at 3 a.m. quite strange in a Disco. Not a bad night out though.

PS La Loco wasn't a dodgy club I saw Revenge play their first gig there the year before on a Hacienda Club night it was a great place!

Cheers Lads, will update the gigography very soon and thanks for the story Philip, exactly why this thread was created

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