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| And then he walked along the edge of the Circle
This is the place where we will post your stories about the Green's Playhouse, The Glasgow Apollo and Satelitte City (The Wee Apollo). As it develops we will break the stories up into sections such as Myths, Gigs I missed, Meeting the Bands, Where are they now etc. No story too trivial and we will only edit out bad language!
New Forum structure on Apollomemories soon.
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| This gig was at Clouds. I've still got the ticket. The number on it is
1392. I don't know how many Clouds held, but it was absolutely heavin' that
night and you could only just about get through the door into the place, it was so
packed.
They were riding high in the charts at that time, having just
had hits with "Hocus Pocus" and "Sylvia" and were billed on the
ticket as "Europe's No. 1 Band". I remember they played both of those
songs at least twice that night.
I don't think they were ever heard of again,
were they?
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| The first gig I ever went to was a Focus gig, but to the best of my memory it was in
the Apollo itself, some time in 1974, and Blue were supporting? I was a scabby wee
12-year-old, but I was mightily impressed by the whole experience: The shabby
grandeur of the building itself, a pall of illicit smoke, and Focus themselves, who I
seem to recall performing most of the Hamburger Concerto album. Again, if memory
serves, they had a fantastic backline which seemed to consist entirely of those big
old wooden Leslie speakers. I think they are still going, Simon! Guitarist Jan
Akermaan left aeons ago, but yodelling organist Thijs Van Leer is still touring under
the Focus name, and the last I heard had managed to convince drummer Pierre Van Der
Linden to rejoin...
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| it was in clouds i was in the front row and taped it
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| i have this gig on cassette i was in the front row and taped it it was a great
night
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