First ever concert and what number was (were) Queen

Rolling Stones February 1972 first concert
Queen April 1976 first time

Gary Numan, Newcastle City Hall, 1979. 2nd, Shaking Stevens, front row, same venue, 1982, 3rd, Queen, 31st August Birmingham NEC 1984. Then saw Queen at St James, and Knebworth in '86.

Last concert was 15th December 2016, The Wildhearts at Newcastle Riverside. I've never seen The Wildhearts mentioned here, they are totally awesome. Ginger Wildheart is a completely prolific writer and its pretty criminal he isn't celebrated more in the UK.

First Queen concer was Crazy Tour; Glasgow Nov 30th 1979

First concert was erm....Gary Glitter, some years before

Next Queen concert was both nights in Royal Highland Exhibition Hall, Ingleston,Edinburgh. Sorry to deviate a bit here but it's worth mentioning that Queen at that time were a very different band compared to 1979. In the intervening years, they had learned to nail it live; the sound was awesome (despite the venue), the lights were superb for the time, the staging was awesome and Freddie had morphed into a moustachioed stadium rock icon

There were two concerts, 1st and 2nd June 1982. It was unusually warm at the time and, inside the venue, it was stifling.... if memory serves, Freddie mentioned this;
"Nobody told us we were playing a bathhouse tonight; let's all shower together after the show"
My overweight 16 year old self was suddenly terrified!

The support band on the first night was The Teardrop Explodes who were particularly poorly received; distinct memories of Julian Cope drenched in sweat strugggling to hold his nerve before a hostile Scottish audience

Queen, on the other hand, were welcomed like conquering heroes...one of the best nights ever

Saw them again in 1986 and various guises since then but nothing compares to those hot nights in '82

/\ I was there that night, I remember the stench from the 'marshall chunky chicken' factory next door when waiting for the doors to open!

Queen ingliston edinburgh june 82 amazing and just 40mins away from my hoose

The Kurgan wrote:

mooghead wrote:

I was only 10 in 1986 so never got to see Queen :-(

Seriously?
I had you down as being in your teens.

Nope, been a fan and casual collector for 30 years now... probably one of the worlds foremost experts in the field to be honest...

1st "real" show : Pearl Jam, Montreal, 1998
1st "Queen" show : Queen + Adam Lambert, Montreal, 2014

@david Blackfoot Sue! Nice! I got into them a few years ago through the whole Junkshop Glam thing. They are still playing around the home counties as a coverband called Cry Wolf.

First proper gig: Suede Portsmouth Pyramid Feb '93
First Queen related: Q+AL Hammersmith 2012 (although I met RT and BM in 1997)

it was stinking lol....everytime i go to airport,my mind drifts back to the smell ..

Earl's Court 1st night 1977

The Real Wizard wrote:

First concert - Johnny Cash at Ontario Place in 1990. I was 7.

First Queen-related concert - QPR at Meadowlands in 2005.

You're only 33, Wizard? Somehow I imagined you much older.

First concert - I was 6 or 7. It was a concert of the well-known band in Poland called Golec uOrkiestra in 2001 or 2002.
My first Queen-related concert was actually Polish project called "Queen Symfonicznie" in December 2015. Then I was at Brian's gig in Cracow in March 2016 (One Voice Tour) and Q+AL at Oswiecim in June 2016 and again "Queen Symfonicznie" which means "Queen Symphonic" last week in Cracow.

Costa86 wrote:

The Real Wizard wrote:

First concert - Johnny Cash at Ontario Place in 1990. I was 7.

First Queen-related concert - QPR at Meadowlands in 2005.

You're only 33, Wizard? Somehow I imagined you much older.

I assumed so too.
I frequently get a virtual clip round the ear from him for my posts

First concert - Fabulosos Cadillacs - Buenos Aires 1994
First Queen-related concert - Q + PR Buenos Aires 2008.