Prayer Tour Memories - 20th Anniversary

ChoonyFish · June 10, 2009, 17:06:36

I'm feeling a little nostalgic - it's 20 years this year since my first ever concert - Birmingham NEC 20th July.

It was a magical time, I was only 16. The coach trip down (on my own), the anticipation - and the gig itself was beyond what I expected. One of my best memories ever.

Hopefully on the anniversary of the day itself I'll be able to fit in a listen to the old bootleg of that very gig. And I'll probably feel very sad about the passing of time and not being young anymore!

Just felt like I needed to share that with someone!

wish-man · June 10, 2009, 18:48:18

Cool memories! are you British?

ChoonyFish · June 10, 2009, 22:04:58

Quote from: wish-man on June 10, 2009, 18:48:18

Cool memories! are you British?

Yeah. Shame they don't play that many UK gigs anymore. Especially north of London!

othervoices · June 11, 2009, 16:29:44

Birmingham NEC on 20th July 1989 - It was my first cure gig too - travelled on a coach from Newcastle to Birmingham with 40+ geordie cure fans... great stuff!

At the time it I thought it would be the only chance I had to see them live!

othervoices · June 11, 2009, 16:43:55

here's a pic of me and my cousin in our prayer tour t-shirts - purchased at the birmingham gig, worn proudly at the O2 in Feb 2009. Hairs a bit greyer now and the shirt has faded a bit!

ChoonyFish · June 11, 2009, 16:49:20

Quote from: othervoices on June 11, 2009, 16:29:44
Birmingham NEC on 20th July 1989 - It was my first cure gig too - travelled on a coach from Newcastle to Birmingham with 40+ geordie cure fans... great stuff!

At the time it I thought it would be the only chance I had to see them live!

Wow, that's so cool! I travelled from litle old Rochdale (north of Manchester) with a coach-load of strangers. I was so naive, it was the first time I'd seen goths! It was so exciting!

The weather was great too - the whole day was magic.

I couldn't afford a t-shirt as I was a poor schoolkid, but I got a tour programme and poster. I did however, buy that t-shirt at some point - I remember owning it. Wouldn't fit me now!

Do you have any photos from the gig itself? I've searched the web many times for some. I took a camera, but the pics didn't come out - just some blurry blobs. I've only ever found one other person who was at that gig and had just this one photo:

alwaysprayingforRAIN · June 11, 2009, 17:15:32

very cool pictures and stuff everybody!!!!
i wish i had a memory of this, being born would have helped a lot

Trust... · June 11, 2009, 22:15:26

Quote from: alwaysprayingforRAIN on June 11, 2009, 17:15:32
i wish i had a memory of this, being born would have helped a lot

alwaysprayingforRAIN your first cure-gig is somewhere, maybe someday and then you gonna feel what they are writing here. Take some pictures then, buy a shirt and post it here 20 years later

And further, enjoy the music and hold on your dreams

Trust... · June 11, 2009, 22:16:51

And to the others. Really nice memories

alwaysprayingforRAIN · June 11, 2009, 22:20:27

i know i am whining again i am just soooooooooo jealous

and i am definitely going for that 'post it here in twenty years' thing!!! and if i am the only one still posting here!!

(which i am convinced won't be the case since we are a bunch of crazy cure fans with a long memory..)

ChoonyFish · June 12, 2009, 10:02:22

Quote from: alwaysprayingforRAIN on June 11, 2009, 22:20:27
i know i am whining again i am just soooooooooo jealous

Have you never seen them live? Or is it just that you were too young to have seen them on that classic tour?

alwaysprayingforRAIN · June 12, 2009, 14:42:50

yeah I'm seventeen and i only discovered them in winter 2008 so i missed the last tour as well. :roll:
btw respect to you all for staying a fan for so long!!! 20 years is pretty impressive!!!

ChoonyFish · June 12, 2009, 14:56:52

Quote from: alwaysprayingforRAIN on June 12, 2009, 14:42:50
yeah I'm seventeen and i only discovered them in winter 2008 so i missed the last tour as well. :roll:

That's cool. I'm always amazed they can still pick up new fans, especially young people who normally think of anyone over 30 as being ancient.

alwaysprayingforRAIN · June 12, 2009, 15:09:09

Quote from: ChoonyFish on June 12, 2009, 14:56:52
Quote from: alwaysprayingforRAIN on June 12, 2009, 14:42:50
yeah I'm seventeen and i only discovered them in winter 2008 so i missed the last tour as well. :roll:

That's cool. I'm always amazed they can still pick up new fans, especially young people who normally think of anyone over 30 as being ancient.

it really is amazing!! kind of starting a dialogue between the generations.. maybe we have more in common than we think

(you can be ancient and cool at the same time

)

ChoonyFish · July 20, 2009, 16:47:28

20 years ago today.

At ths moment 20 years ago I was on the coach to Birmingham. Excited as Hell.

I feel really sad. I miss being 16 years old!