It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.
It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.
It was great fun. We had gone on tour in between the sessions and reconnected with the audience and got a lot of energy back from them, a lot of positive energy.
I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren't laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof.
That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.
In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.
Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!
I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band.
I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
First paying gig, I got 20 bucks. I played at some really weird venue. I don't remember the venue; I just remember it was the last stop on the A train. It was, like, the Far Rockaways, Queens, and it was an audience of, like, three people.