RIP Newport Centre

[Costello]

Sad to see that it’s being demolished to make way for a uni campus. Saw a lot of great gigs in that place.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58546667.amp?fbclid=IwAR1SDT5rP1xMjXgN_TDE2xnKYfdA_LYMzBTpMvF01XTgOAmIjW08kIH8luQ

Yes, real shame. Seen quite a few gigs there myself. Hopefully the old bingo hall will start to be updated soon giving us another local gig venue with a decent capacity.

I meant this :rolling_eyes: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/swansea-news-albert-hall-music-18186652

 

[Ebo]

You sound like an absolute f*****g bellend.

Does ebo mean 'e's bent over'?

So terminally stupid you had to edit that tiny line of text. Like your intellect - tiny.

 

[Ebo]

Yes, real shame. Seen quite a few gigs there myself. Hopefully the old bingo hall will start to be updated soon giving us another local gig venue with a decent capacity.

I meant this :rolling_eyes: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/swansea-news-albert-hall-music-18186652

Yeah guess it was that. 900 is a decent size for the smaller, less commercial acts which should be good.

 

[Samba]

Does ebo mean 'e's bent over'?

So terminally stupid you had to edit that tiny line of text. Like your intellect - tiny.

 

[K23]

"Bawbag",

Not really into music numbnuts...my thing is football, rugby, ale, shagging birds, eating curries, earning lots of coin, laughing at dickheads getting excited on a football forum, smashing my pb in the gym...and winding that big girls blouse up In my previous career, too much to mention

I honestly find it monotonous listening to some asswipes on stage, not my thing I'm afraid. Especially the cràp that idiot listens to!

You sound like an absolute f*****g bellend.

Perfect!

 

[Samba]

You sound like an absolute f*****g bellend.

Perfect!

Don't you start cùnt lips or I'll be inside your missus before you can say Newport Centre...now do one ya faggot.

 

[Ebo]

Perfect!

Don't you start c**t lips or I'll be inside your missus before you can say Newport Centre...now do one ya faggot.

Really? The likes of you turn her stomach, As would many other women.

 

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[Darran]

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[Jack2jack]

Just looking at the photo of the folk and bands that have played there, unbelievable. Must have hosted everyone of note back in the day.

 

[Ebo]

Just looking at the photo of the folk and bands that have played there, unbelievable. Must have hosted everyone of note back in the day.

I’d love to see a book published with the history of all who played there. Would be a fascinating read. Last band to play there were Newport’s own Goldie Looking Chain. A venue they’d always wanted to play all their lives.

 

[Itchysphincter]

I’ve seen Europe, Poison and the Manics there, god knows who else.

Seen the manics there a good few times. The Cure at least twice. And many more, as they say.

I saw the Manics there when they were still good. It was a big gig for them then on the Gold Against The Soul tour. Me and a mate were just in front of the Richey James monitor stack and we were watching him because when we’d seen them a couple of years earlier when Motown Junk came out he didn’t play a note on stage, JDB covered all the guitar parts and Richey just f*cked about with his guitar unplugged. He climbed up on the stack and me and my mate waved him to come down and he stage dived on to us. A few weeks later they played the Heineken festival in Swansea so we took up the same spot and the same thing happened, just before they got bottled off for the finial time.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Seen the manics there a good few times. The Cure at least twice. And many more, as they say.

I saw the Manics there when they were still good. It was a big gig for them then on the Gold Against The Soul tour. Me and a mate were just in front of the Richey James monitor stack and we were watching him because when we’d seen them a couple of years earlier when Motown Junk came out he didn’t play a note on stage, JDB covered all the guitar parts and Richey just f*cked about with his guitar unplugged. He climbed up on the stack and me and my mate waved him to come down and he stage dived on to us. A few weeks later they played the Heineken festival in Swansea so we took up the same spot and the same thing happened, just before they got bottled off for the finial time.

We must have been standing next to each other at the Singleton Park show mate because when he dived off the stack there he brushed me as he landed. Genuinely.

 

[Itchysphincter]

I saw the Manics there when they were still good. It was a big gig for them then on the Gold Against The Soul tour. Me and a mate were just in front of the Richey James monitor stack and we were watching him because when we’d seen them a couple of years earlier when Motown Junk came out he didn’t play a note on stage, JDB covered all the guitar parts and Richey just f*cked about with his guitar unplugged. He climbed up on the stack and me and my mate waved him to come down and he stage dived on to us. A few weeks later they played the Heineken festival in Swansea so we took up the same spot and the same thing happened, just before they got bottled off for the finial time.

We must have been standing next to each other at the Singleton Park show mate because when he dived off the stack there he brushed me as he landed. Genuinely.

Definitely would have been stood next to each other, left hand side front, pretty mad. I’m actually wondering now if I have it the right way around, maybe Singleton happened first and then Newport?

 

[Itchysphincter]

Nah, Newport first I think, and we intentionally positioned ourselves where we did in Singleton. Did you see Richey give us the eyes? We knew what he was going to do do.

I can’t remember much about any other bands that played that day, only the Tansads. Any one else?