Pauly ≫ Gigography ≫ 1996 ≫ Tripping Daisy
Thu Feb 22 1996
Manchester Roadhouse 8 Newton Street, Manchester M1 2AN
With the Smoking Popes.
Confirmed date now with the help of the Melody Maker gig guide. It was the 22nd after all, not the 24th that I thought. But it looks like it was at the Roadhouse, not the Night And Day... So that leaves me free to be at something else on the 24th. Originally I said:
Guessing the date of this one, but it's an educated guess. Hear me out...
I know I saw them in Manchester at this time, sure it is. The Night and Day. I went up to stay with Richy at university, and I know we also tried to get into Pulp at the Manchester Arena. We had no tickets, but thought we'd have a look. That was on the 23rd February 1996, so this gig must have been the day before or day after that.
So, I'm slightly less confident in the date than I am with most of my wonky gig logging, but this must be very close.
Setlist.fm say they were at London Astoria on the 21st Feb (supporting Silverchair), and the Splash Club (Kings Cross Water Rats, also London) on the 23rd, then Glasgow on the 25th, and Birmingham on the 26th. Makes more sense for this to be the 24th than between two London dates. I know I was in Guildford on the 25th and Southampton on the 26th, so can't be after that..
Did I know the singer of Tripping Daisy is also the main guy from Polyphonic Spree? I've seen them too!
This is part of my "twenty gigs in twenty days" challenge I did with three weeks off work, but I can't remember exactly when it started or ended.
| date | my gigs | other gigs possibly of interest 1 |
|---|---|---|
| Thu Feb 8 | ||
| 9 | ||
| 10 | ||
| 11 | Number One Cup 2 | |
| 12 | ||
| 13 | ||
| 14 | The Godfathers 3 | |
| 15 | ||
| 16 | ||
| 17 | ||
| 18 | ||
| 19 | ||
| 20 | ||
| 21 | Battery 2, Silverchair 4 | |
| 22 | Tripping Daisy | Bullyrag 2 |
| 23 | Pulp 5, Pele 6, Kula Shaker 7 | |
| 24 | ||
| 25 | The Bigger The God 8 | Moloko 2 |
| 26 | Christian Death 2 | Echobelly 9 |
| 27 | David Devant And His Spirit Wife 10, Hugh Reed and the Velvet Underpants 2 | |
| 28 | ||
| 29 | The Wurzels 11, Underworld 12 | |
| Fri Mar 1 | ||
| 2 | ||
| 3 | Babybird 8 | |
| 4 | Reef 13 | |
| 5 | ||
| 6 |
Expanding this table to 14 days either side while I try to figure out my "twenty bands in twenty days" schedule...
- And possibly not.
- Southampton Joiners.
- Mean Fiddler.
- London Astoria.
- Manchester Arena.
- Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms.
- Tunbridge Wells Forum.
- University of Surrey Students Union.
- Southampton Guildhall.
- Kings Cross Water Rats.
- University of Portsmouth.
- Portsmouth Pyramids.
- The Borderline.
I was at this one, more from this year in my gig history for 1996. I saw Tripping Daisy at least TWO times; Manchester Roadhouse ('96), and Southampton Joiners (1996), though I still have some bragging tagging to do so this may go up. Part of all the gigs I went to from '87 to 2026. It's an obvious step from my Best gigs of all time blog post. Yeah I know it's a bit geeky, let's let that go though, I'm enjoying reminiscing about these things.
Thu Feb 22 1996