Re: Your 1st FOTN gig
Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2017 3:46 pm
Folkestone September 1988, was the night which changed my life.
We'd seen a clip of the video for Moonchild on TOTP and then read a brief thing with Carl in Woolworths music's magazine where he listed his favourite songs. And we liked what we read.
Then we heard they were coming to Folkestone which was near us. No one ever plays the south east as we're too close to London, but the Nephs did.
We had no idea what we were in for, so stupidly stood at the front with all the experienced Bonanzas and locals.
When the ice started and the music played the place went mad.
We soon realised we way out of our league and that was even before the band changed tempo during Endemoniada let alone Carl making an appearance.
The whole place was heaving and some were beginning to stage dive and surf the crowd.
Somehow we made it out in one piece grinning like loons and then as we watched mesmerised as Carl appeared and the place erupted. I'd never seen or experienced anything like it in my life. It was exhilarating and you were totally caught up in the spectacle. it was almost like being in a ritual. Nothing else mattered but the music and how it made you feel.
That was the beginning and for four years they were one of the most important things in my life.
Thankfully we learnt to stand at the front to one side by the barrier, so you see everything and dance in relative safety. Standing there you could get swept away to Sumerland....
We'd seen a clip of the video for Moonchild on TOTP and then read a brief thing with Carl in Woolworths music's magazine where he listed his favourite songs. And we liked what we read.
Then we heard they were coming to Folkestone which was near us. No one ever plays the south east as we're too close to London, but the Nephs did.
We had no idea what we were in for, so stupidly stood at the front with all the experienced Bonanzas and locals.
When the ice started and the music played the place went mad.
We soon realised we way out of our league and that was even before the band changed tempo during Endemoniada let alone Carl making an appearance.
The whole place was heaving and some were beginning to stage dive and surf the crowd.
Somehow we made it out in one piece grinning like loons and then as we watched mesmerised as Carl appeared and the place erupted. I'd never seen or experienced anything like it in my life. It was exhilarating and you were totally caught up in the spectacle. it was almost like being in a ritual. Nothing else mattered but the music and how it made you feel.
That was the beginning and for four years they were one of the most important things in my life.
Thankfully we learnt to stand at the front to one side by the barrier, so you see everything and dance in relative safety. Standing there you could get swept away to Sumerland....