Saw Led Zeppelin in Birmingham in 1971- brilliant gig. At the Odeon in the 1960s I saw the Beatles, Dave Dee and the rest of them, Jimi Hendrix and The Kinks. At the Crown and Cushion in Perry Barr saw the Way of Life and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown who nearly set fire to the curtains!
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Brummie a long time ago
master brummie
I have seen Pink Floyd. Julie has screamed for Cliff Richard. Both before we met. We have seen Sandie Shaw together.
We have had sheltered lives compared to others here.
Andrew.
We have had sheltered lives compared to others here.
Andrew.
peters2boys
proper brummie kid
Have seen many of them too.In the days, when music really was music.Happy days.Have many of them on my jukebox.
Does anyone know if there is an archive of all the gigs at Birmingham Town Hall. I am looking specifically for Free supported by The Sutherland Brothers in the early 70's? Many thanks.
A Sparks
master brummie
There is this website for bands although I'm sure it's only as complete as the information they have found/been given... this is the entry for Free, no mention of Birmingham Town Hall on the page...
Free
1968 Line-Up: (April 19, 1968 to May 9, 1971) Paul Rodgers - vocals Paul Kossoff - guitar Andy Fraser - bass Simon Kirke - drums April 19, 1968 Nags Head, Battersea, ENG (first rehearsal) June 21, 1968 Marquee, London, ENG July 15, 1968 BBC Studio 1 Piccadilly, London, ENG (UK Radio "Top Gear"...
Sutherland Brothers played there twice as a support act in late 71 / early 72 but not to Free.
Sutherland Brothers & Quiver
Quiver 1970 May 8, 1970 Mothers, Birmingham, ENG (supporting Pete Drummond) May 10, 1970 Marquee, London, ENG (supporting Forevermore) June 6, 1970 Farx, Potters Bar, ENG (supporting Black Widow) June 11, 1970 Marquee, London, ENG (supporting Heavy Jelly & Jackie Lomax) August 7, 1970 Speakeasy...
There's this website too, which goes back to the 70's if you want to have a look through that!
Wow, I was at loads of those gigs, used to be at the Odeon practically every week. Great memories.A link to the bands who played the Odeon in 1980, some great names appeared that year .
New Street Odeon's fantastic 1980 gigs list that reads like the best ever
Before it became a multi-screen cinema, the New Street Odeon was a favourite gig venue for many with Duran Duran, UB40, Ozzy Osbourne, Van Halen and Black Sabbath all playing there in 1980www.birminghammail.co.uk
Source: Birmingham Live accessed 24/4/2023 @ 14:15 hrs
We went to Birmingham Town Hall yesterday evening to see Lindisfarne. The taxi driver dropped us on the corner of Margaret St and Edmund St and said he'd pick us up at the same place later. He could have said "Meet me on the Corner". Great show but how we miss Alan Hull.
Despite not being a local, my first experience of a proper stadium-scale gig was in Birmingham. My dad took me to see Page & Plant at the NEC. They'd recently released No Quarter, and did a mix of songs from that and the old Led Zeppelin standards, ably supported by a chap from the Cure and great variety of world music folk, including a very talented hurdy-gurdy player. Amazing experience. That first aftermath sensation of being able to do nothing but enjoy the residual buzz as your hearing slowly returns over the next few hours.
Odeon Gigs I can remember going to,
The Rolling Stones 1973
Slade
Bad Company ( Plant, Page and Bonham came on for 3 encore songs)
The Small Faces - 70s reformed Version
Motörhead / Girls School
Be Bop Deluxe / John Cooper Clarke
The Police
and a few others that memory fails to recall.
Also caught Heavy Metal Kids , AC/DC at The Mayfair Suite.
The Rolling Stones 1973
Slade
Bad Company ( Plant, Page and Bonham came on for 3 encore songs)
The Small Faces - 70s reformed Version
Motörhead / Girls School
Be Bop Deluxe / John Cooper Clarke
The Police
and a few others that memory fails to recall.
Also caught Heavy Metal Kids , AC/DC at The Mayfair Suite.
poker_pete82
knowlegable brummie
Paul McCartney
Donovan
The Who
Bob Dylan
The Rolling Stones
Neil Young
Coldplay
Kasabian
Oasis
Guns N Roses
Prodigy
Echo and the bunnymen
Stone Roses
Ian Brown
Ocean colour scene
Foo fighters
Peter Hook
First aid Kit
Greta van fleet
Many more lesser known bands (and some I've forgotten) and all of the above post 1995. Oh what id give to have been around in the 60's with all those bands!
Bands i wish i had the chance to see
Beatles
Pink Floyd
Jimi Hendrix
Cream
The Kinks
Joy Division
Queen
Simon & Garfunkle
Led Zeppelin
Black sabbath
Donovan
The Who
Bob Dylan
The Rolling Stones
Neil Young
Coldplay
Kasabian
Oasis
Guns N Roses
Prodigy
Echo and the bunnymen
Stone Roses
Ian Brown
Ocean colour scene
Foo fighters
Peter Hook
First aid Kit
Greta van fleet
Many more lesser known bands (and some I've forgotten) and all of the above post 1995. Oh what id give to have been around in the 60's with all those bands!
Bands i wish i had the chance to see
Beatles
Pink Floyd
Jimi Hendrix
Cream
The Kinks
Joy Division
Queen
Simon & Garfunkle
Led Zeppelin
Black sabbath
Eric Gibson
master brummie
All that 'modern stuff' 
I saw Nat King Cole at the Odeon New Street, Shirley Bassey at the Colston hall Bristol Simon and Garfunkel at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin and a few others at the Crystal Room in Hereford also back in the fifties a few old timers at the Aston Hippodrome.
I saw Nat King Cole at the Odeon New Street, Shirley Bassey at the Colston hall Bristol Simon and Garfunkel at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin and a few others at the Crystal Room in Hereford also back in the fifties a few old timers at the Aston Hippodrome.
jukebox
Engineer Brummie
At the Odeon, New Street - Shirley Bassey, Sasha Distel with Olivia Newton John; at the Night Out Lonnie Donegan, Jack Jones; at the NEC Neil Diamond, and a charity concert organised by Jasper Carrott which included Chris de Burgh, Jamelia, Shaking Stevens; at Solihull Arts Centre George Melly, Acker Bilk, Joe Brown, Helen Shapiro; at Redditch Theatre Chas and Dave, Ken Dodd
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Duran Duran - at the Blues ground
OMD - at the NEC
Simply Red ( Rehearsal On a NEC car park !)
David Bowie - Bingley Hall, Stafford (The Cowshed, Not Brum I know, but still in The Midlands).
(The Rolling Stones, numerous times but as we all know they haven't played in or near Birmingham since the 70s. Apart from Coventry in 2018)
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Eric Gibson
master brummie
This one at the Aston Hipp would cause a bit of a hullabaloo now, the Chocolate coloured coon.
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Eric Gibson
master brummie
Some of his music here:
Eric Gibson
master brummie
What I haven't said is that I didn't need to go to the theatre to see some of the bands you have mentioned, where I had my business in Clearwell the local castle was used as a recording and practice studio for many groups and I served them in the shop and garage, Deep Purple, Badfinger, ELO, Whitesnake, Sweet, Black Sabbath, Queen, Bad Company, Led Zeppelin and Dire Straits come to mind immediately.
The studio's gone now and the place has become a wedding venue, if you fancy a posh wedding.
The studio's gone now and the place has become a wedding venue, if you fancy a posh wedding.
Youngest Thorne
proper brummie kid
Got to throw a bit of me in here. Following a heap of early days gigs at the Ritz in Kings Heath and Mother's in Erdington I saw Rory Gallagher twice. Once at Kinetic Circus (supported by Nazareth) and once at the Pulse. Brilliant, but the best gigs of all had to be Jeff Beck twice. Odeon and NEC were the venues. Absolutely unbeatable. He was a genius. The bonus was Jan Hammer as his keyboard player with no bass player at the Odeon show.