Their first UK tour. The Palais was an old dance hall, nice little venue. I saw some film crew in the venue, probably from local tv station “Central TV”, as they featured on the Nottingham news due to all the B.S. surrounding WASP. I wonder exactly what was shown on tv ?
Tag: Nottingham
Grand Slam, Young Blood, @Palais,Nottingham 12-7-84
This is an advert from “Sounds”, don’t have a ticket. Years later, i found a bootleg CD of the show & it’s very good. 
My dad drove us to this gig & he parked up next to the venue. He told me how the band were throwing sandwiches out the dressing room at the car! Strange…
Whitesnake, @ Royal Centre,Nottingham 4-4-84
When we got there, we couldn’t find our seats, row T, as they’d been taken out to make extra room for the sound desk. We were given new seats in row K, which was fantastic 🙂 The reason why one ticket is white & the other is “aged” is the original was stuck behind the new seats. Didn’t see this for years until i started scanning my tickets !
Scorpions, Royal Centre, Nottingham 31-1-84
I’d wanted to see the Scorpions for ages. Unfortunately, the Royal Centre was the only place i could get to.(we hadn’t started going to Sheffield yet & i’m sure that would have been better ) If i’m honest, i’ve always thought that venue is rather lifeless. But beggars can’t be choosers, so have to make do. It was a cracking set list including all the classics from over the years. When i think about it nowadays, it was pretty much a perfect set list :
Bad Boys Running WildBlackout, Loving You Sunday Morning, Make It Real, Lovedrive, Don’t Make No Promises (Your Body Can’t Keep), Coast to Coast, Always Somewhere, Still Loving You, Rock You Like a Hurricane,Can’t Live Without You, Coming Home , Another Piece of Meat ,The Zoo ,Can’t Get Enough ,Dynamite
Marillion, @ Rock City,Nottingham 27-12-83
The first time at Rock City & there were certain nerves involved lol. The place has changed over the years. Back then, there used to be a food bar. Also, this show was kinda being filmed as there were screens it was projected onto. It was an in house system. I’ve often wondered if the shows were actually recorded…
Def Leppard, Airrace, @ Royal Centre,Nottingham, 4-12-83
Oh how times have changed. I planned to try tape the gig but i forgot an important thing : batteries ! Back then, there were no garages selling all sorts of stuff & as it was a Sunday, most shops were shut! A disaster. Even worse, i knew a mate who was seeing all the shows & this one he decided he wasn’t taping. So this was the show where i got into Snakebites. Not conventionally though : i’d have a pint of cider, then a pint of lager, then a pint of cider…i was young & couldn’t hold my drink (yeah, i know, that’s not changed!) so got pretty pissed up 🙂 It was a good show though !
Rainbow, @ Royal Centre,Nottingham 12-9-83
I’d really been looking forward to this gig,but it was a huge disappointment due to sound problems. Something to do with a generator i think. The sounds were there, but it just sucked with crappy sound 🙁
Iron Maiden , Grand Prix, @ Royal Centre,Nottingham 10-5-83
Went on a bus trip. I remember i’d only started working this year & straight away i was asking for time off to go to a gig….that’s happened a lot more in the years since then 😉
EDIT 5-19 : After all this time, I’ve found a bootleg of this show. I guess tape trading had it’s benefits (eventually) Shame they got the venue wrong though :