Re: Your first...
This may surprise some but although I am a music nutter I have never actually been to a big concert.Met many groups and drank and chatted with them even got the odd groupie on my knee at the end of the evening. One of the reasons I suppose the m.i.law was against me marrying her daughter.
Working for the in laws in the heart of the West End for so many years in the early 70s the pub seemed to be a magnet for actors and singers.
A lot I suppose was down to the agents who had their offices around W1 and we were in the dead centre opposite The Queens Theatre,where they all seemed to meet up.
My f.i.law hated them taking over the doubles bar upstairs and doing their jamming sessions smoking a bit of weed but I thought it great and it built up the evening trade. The afternoon trade he seemed to like because it was stripper's.
But I thought it was so much better than the Chinese gamblers in the evenings with their double brandy orders and prossies sitting on their knee's. I was young in those days and so prejudice against my oriental neighbours from Gerrard Street.
But going back to the concerts no I never went to one but I heard and sang along to many a private jamming session.
Good old days.