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Post by kursaal75 on Jul 21, 2024 6:10:32 GMT
It is 40 years ago today that Status Quo played a sun drenched Milton Keynes Bowl, with the last gig of the End Of The Road Tour 1984.
Let's have you memories of the day.
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Post by gottagetupandgo on Jul 21, 2024 10:33:28 GMT
Remember getting the bus from Glasgow Apollo to MK. Had a good view but my pal did not like getting jostled about. Moved further back and could barely see the stage.
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Jul 21, 2024 10:43:51 GMT
13 year old me wasnt allowed to go. My memory of the day was feeling envious of the people there, and very sad that I'd never get to see my heroes
2013 meant so much
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Post by markquo on Jul 21, 2024 12:36:00 GMT
High time for a proper release from the day
Cheers
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Post by ant on Jul 21, 2024 13:02:30 GMT
Wasn't there. Went to Selhurst Park. Hoped that the throng at MK had better sound than we had.
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Post by mortified on Jul 21, 2024 13:24:57 GMT
What a day! Got there a little late after bussing it down from Edinburgh. Missed Jason and the Scorchers. Hate to be less than PC but G*ry Gli**er was the best support act all day  Nazareth were, well, Nazareth and Marillion were a bit dull. Totally unsuited probably. Quo were blinding, I don't care what they thought individually. Roll Over Lay Down, you won't hear a better version of. There is a photo of me somewhere giving it plenty. Sis must have it. I'm bleeding profusely from my nose. It's all over my face and t-shirt after she'd caught me with her forearm during a particularly boisterous moment. I cared not a jot. Neither did she 40 years? Scary stuff  |
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Post by Quoincidence on Jul 21, 2024 14:32:29 GMT
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Post by railroad007 on Jul 21, 2024 15:17:23 GMT
Wasn't there. Went to Selhurst Park. Hoped that the throng at MK had better sound than we had. I was at Selhurst, bad enough being a Millwall supporter but even worse was that days performance, it was a stinker. |
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Post by kursaal75 on Jul 22, 2024 4:32:48 GMT
Wasn't there. Went to Selhurst Park. Hoped that the throng at MK had better sound than we had. I was at Selhurst, bad enough being a Millwall supporter but even worse was that days performance, it was a stinker. ....I remember Dave Edmunds was good, Quo's sound was terrible, it rained and the bar serving under the stand at Crystal Palace was abysmal!! |
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Post by kursaal75 on Jul 22, 2024 4:39:58 GMT
What a day! Got there a little late after bussing it down from Edinburgh. Missed Jason and the Scorchers. Hate to be less than PC but G*ry Gli**er was the best support act all day Nazareth were, well, Nazareth and Marillion were a bit dull. Totally unsuited probably. Quo were blinding, I don't care what they thought individually. Roll Over Lay Down, you won't hear a better version of. There is a photo of me somewhere giving it plenty. Sis must have it. I'm bleeding profusely from my nose. It's all over my face and t-shirt after she'd caught me with her forearm during a particularly boisterous moment. I cared not a jot. Neither did she 40 years? Scary stuff You didn't miss much with Jason and the Scorchers and I totally agree with the G.G. performance. Roll Over Lay Down, also sticks in my mind regarding the performance and unlike crystal Palace the week before, the sun was out all day. |
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Post by tqontq on Jul 22, 2024 7:40:54 GMT
I think you mean 4 years, no??
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Post by Triggsy on Jul 22, 2024 10:17:22 GMT
Wasn't there but had seen Quo at the St Austell Cornwall Colesium on the 6th July (My first Quo Gig) It really was the End of an Era for The Quo, but I really did remember thinking 'What Next?' and for the next 18 Months (Bar Live Aid) reading anything remotely connected to Quo in the Press looking for the 'Comeback' (which took until 'Rollin' Home' in mid '86)
Quo 'EOTR 84' to Quo 'ITAN 86' became 2 completely different Beasts in just over 18 months...
Those 'EOTR/MFTR 84' Videos certainly became Iconic, must have been amazing to be there on the Day
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Post by roadhouse on Jul 22, 2024 12:11:19 GMT
Wasn't there but had seen Quo at the St Austell Cornwall Colesium on the 6th July (My first Quo Gig) It really was the End of an Era for The Quo, but I really did remember thinking 'What Next?' and for the next 18 Months (Bar Live Aid) reading anything remotely connected to Quo in the Press looking for the 'Comeback' (which took until 'Rollin' Home' in mid '86) Quo 'EOTR 84' to Quo 'ITAN 86' became 2 completely different Beasts in just over 18 months... Those 'EOTR/MFTR 84' Videos certainly became Iconic, must have been amazing to be there on the Day Snap, I was there at the Coliseum that night, and it too was my first Quo gig. I was just 15. Sadly the Coliseum is no longer there, its completely flattened. Such a shame as I had some of my most memorable times at that place, I used to go to the roller discos and seen countless artists there. |
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Post by dennis on Jul 22, 2024 12:50:16 GMT
I saw EOTR gigs in Leicester, Oxford & Selhurst Park [delayed arrival meant missing Dave Edmunds - the main incentive for going there!] prior to MK Bowl. I thought they had a good gig on the day, whereas the Selhurst Park was somewhat lacklustre - brightened up by the chap who decided to get up onto the roof over the stand the band were playing on!
Now waiting 40 years for an official release - like many, I was dismayed to realise that the display I saw in a record store window was for 12 Gold Bars II & not the live album!
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Post by mortified on Jul 22, 2024 13:49:36 GMT
My one main regret is that I no longer have the t-shirt from the day. That one with the signposts on it. I wore it endlessly and I can't see me having thrown it out, so it must have got lost in a house move or something. Not that it would have fitted you understand  |
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Nazareth were, well, Nazareth and Marillion were a bit dull. Totally unsuited probably.
