Tour Dates -1997
November
1997 UK :
24th - Derby Assembly Room
25th - Glasgow Barrowlands
26th - Newcastle City Hall
27th - Wolverhampton Civic Hall
29th - Sheffield City Hall
30th - York Barbican Centre
December 1997 UK:
1st - Portsmouth Guildhall
2nd - Bristol Colston Hall
4th - Cambridge Corn Exchange
5th - Norwich UEA
6th - Brighton The Dome
8th & 9th - London Astoria
11th - Keele University
13th - Liverpool Royal Court
15th - Manchester Apollo
Other Appearances - 1997
- Nov 10th 1997 - London - "Pop Quiz Final"
- Live set performed, debut of Zak Starkey on drums.
- Nov 11th 1997 - live on radio with Simon Mayo
- Short interview w/Broudie, band introduction. Performed "Pure"
and "You Showed Me".
- Nov 21st 1997 - BBC's Children In Need special
- An annual BBC charity event, that involves all segments of the BBC. The
Lightning Seeds appeared on the TV broadcast on BBC1, performing "Be
My Baby".
The radio interview conducted "backstage" indicated that the band
was heading to Liverpool the next day to get ready for the start of the UK
Tour.
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1998 Summer Festivals:
- Glastonbury '98 - June 26 1998
-
This year, Blur headlined the main stage on Saturday night, and Bob Dylan
closed the festival on Sunday. Friday, June 26th on the Pyramid
stage, featured the Lightning Seeds(and lots of rain!)
- Guildford Festival 98
- STOKE PARK, GUILDFORD - August 7 - 9, featured: Lightning Seeds, Dodgy,
Lo Fidelity Allstars, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, Beth Orton, Loop Guru,
Men They Couldn't Hang, Hamsters, Labi Siffre, Oysterband.
- V98 Festival
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HYLANDS PARK, Chelmsford, Saturday Aug 22, 1998
TEMPLE NEWSAM, Leeds, Sunday Aug 23, 1998
on the main stage:
The Verve; Sea Horses, Green Day, Lightning Seeds, Chumbawamba, Iggy
Pop, Ani DiFranco, The Young Offenders
Tour Dates -1999
This tour saw the band performing as a foursome: Ian Brodie, Martyn Campbell,
Angie Pollock, and Zak Starkey
- Nov 25 - Limelight, Belfast Northern Ire
- Nov 28 - Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Dec 01 - Guildhall, Preston
- Life's Too Short, If Only, Happy Satellite, Lucky You, City Bright Stars,
Change, You Showed Me, Sweetest Soul Sensations, Perfect, Tales of The Riverbank,
Sense, Crowd Pleaser, Pure, Sugar Coated Iceberg, Life Of Riley
Encore - Marvellous, Be My Baby
- Dec 02 - Town Hall, Middlesborough
- Life's Too Short, City Bright Stars, Lucky You, If Only, Happy Satellite,
Change, You Showed Me, Sweetest Soul Sensations, Perfect, Tales Of The Riverbank,
Sense, Pure, Crowdpleaser, Sugar Coated Iceberg, The Life Of Riley
Encore - Marvellous
- Dec 03 - Manchester Academy
- Dec 04 - Guildhall, Southampton
- City Bright Stars, Lucky You, Happy Satellite, Life's Too Short, Change,
If Only, You Showed Me, Sweetest Soul Sensations, Perfect, Tales of the Riverbank,
Sense, Crowdpleaser, Pure, Sugar Coated Iceberg, The Life of Riley
Encore: Marvellous, Be My Baby
- Dec 06 - Hammersmith Palais, London
City
Bright Stars, Sense, Happy Satellite, Life's Too Short, Change, If Only, You
Showed Me, Sweetest Soul Sensations, Perfect, Lucky You, Crowdpleaser, Pure,
Sugar Coated Iceberg, The Life of Riley
Encore: Marvellous, Be My Baby
- Dec 08 - Town & Country Club, Leeds
- Dec 09 - City Hall, Sheffield
- Dec 11 - Colston Hall, Bristol
City
Bright Stars, Sense, Happy Satellite, Life's Too Short, Change, Perfect, Sweetest
Soul Sensations, You Showed Me, If Only, Lucky You, Crowdpleaser, Pure, Sugar
Coated Iceberg, The Life of Riley
Encore: Marvellous, Be My Baby
- Dec 12 - Corn Exchange, Cambridge
- Dec 13 - UEA, Norwich
- Dec 15 - Civic Hall, Wolverhampton
City Bright Stars, Sense, Happy Satellite, Life's Too Short, Change, If
Only, You Showed Me, Sweetest Soul Sensations, Lucky You, Crowdpleaser, Pure,
Sugar Coated Iceberg, The Life of Riley
Encore: Marvellous ("insane 10-minute long version")
- Dec 16 - City Hall, Hull
- Dec 18 - Philipshalle, Düsseldorf Germany
- This was the Rockpalast Christmas Special 99. The band performed City
Bright Stars, Sense and half of Happy Satellite before walking
off stage - apparently due to dissatisfaction over the sound (?!)
- December 31, 1999
- The Lightning Seeds performed New Years Eve at the Cream festival,
on Liverpool's Pier Head!!!
Other 1999 Appearances
- TFI Friday show - DEC 24, 1999 -
- RockPalast Christmas Special 99 - The Lightning Seeds were to take part
in an online chat on the Rockpalast site, and perform live at Philipshalle,
Düsseldorf Germany. Martyn did participate in a rather lame "chat" - the archive
of which can be found at:
http://www.rockpalast.de/schatz/christmas99/chat/lightning_seeds.html
The live performance ended abruptly when in the middle of the third song,
Ian took the band and walked off - apparently due to poor sound. SEE ALSO
concert date listing
- Videotech Special - Nov 18 -- a compilation of the Seeds' videos, including
"Life's Too Short", ITV
- Later with Jools Holland - Nov 14 -- performing Life's Too Short, Sweetest
Soul Sensation, Life Of Riley
- VH1 Session - Nov 4 -- Live session on VH1 including "Life's Too Short"
and other new album tracks
- T4 - Oct 30 -- Kids morning link show, will Ian w/ clips of the video
- TFI Friday - Oct 29 -- The band* perform the new single live
(*Zak not present due to Who playing in California that day!)
- Videotech - Oct 28 -- Ian broudie promotes the new single, ITV
- Jan 27th Stockholm, Sweden - Klubben
- Jan 28th Copenhagen, Denmark- Pumpehuset
(a big thanks to Arno Guzek for the
details!!)This venue holds 600, with 4-500 present (tix were 12£
each - all standing). The Lightning Seeds played for 45 minutes.
The set list: Sense, Life's Too Short, Change, Crowdpleaser, You Showed
Me, Sweetest Soul Sensations, Pure, If Only, Life of Riley, Sugar Coated Iceberg,
Lucky You
Encore 1: Marvellous, Be My Baby (was not on playlist), THREE LIONS
(was not on playlist)
Encore 2: City Bright Stars (was not on playlist)
Arno also says the event was announced as being digitally recorded by the
band, and that Danish radio DR also recorded the show for future broadcast!
If you taped a copy, PLEASE contact
me!
- Jan 29th Arhuus, Denmark - VoxHall
- Jan 30th Oslo, Norway - So What!
Opening band for all of the above was the Norwegian band Poor Rich Man
Apparently
these gigs were all part of the Scandinavian Venue 2000 rockfestival.
If anyone in these parts caught any TV or Radio broadcasts on tape, PLEASE
let me know!??
Although the band went on to make a brief tour of Germany in March and
April, Zak was not along for the ride. Instead Mat from Dodgy was on
the kit.
Other 2000 Appearances
- This Morning - March 8 - ITV
- TFI Friday, March 3rd - Channel 4
- National Lottery, Feb 5th, BBC1 - performing "Sweetest Soul Sensations"
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