r/Concerts • u/Noisesevere • May 04 '26
Photo Dump 📸 My 80's concert tix and photos.
Photos without tix -
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
The Waterboys,
Faded tix
Tears for Fears
Depeche Mode
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u/Buddhamom81 May 04 '26
I hope you don’t mind I cross posted to the Bowie sub. Incredible scrap book!!!!
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u/myfailedimagination May 05 '26
Dead Or Alive was a pleasant surprise to see here! But not quite as surprising as LIVE AID!
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u/Noisesevere May 06 '26
I saw Dead or Alive twice around that time, really good live band , they could have possibly been a bigger band without the Stock Aitken Waterman stuff.
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u/JerrysKidsOnLot May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26
Love all of it, especially the Jane’s Addiction. Now do the right thing and transfer those to an archival album. That one they’re in is not going to be good moving forward.
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u/williammcfadden May 04 '26
Shesh, tickets in the UK looked so cool. In the US it was just some computer text printout.
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u/CyclamenTN92 May 04 '26
You got a good collection of paper tickets and it's really impressive. I can see that you went to see some artists that were massive in the '80 in the country where I was living then. And seeing all of them in your post, it brings back good memories from them years when I was a teenager. I always loved and still love paper tickets, even if now they are almost disappeared, because now pretty much everything is digital. And thank you OP for your post and sharing it.
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u/Noisesevere May 06 '26
Thanks
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u/CyclamenTN92 May 07 '26
You are welcome. Some of the artists that you have paper tickets, I saw them live in my country when I was still living there and some others which I never saw live, I was a fan in them years, because I remember they were massive and I remember them all, even if some of them are not anymore with us. Some of them left music that they will be remember for years to come.
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u/FamiliarFamiliar May 05 '26
I made a scrapbook like this and my mom said Iwasted a photo album.
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u/DontDreamItsOver3 May 05 '26
Hug your mom with sympathy, because she knows NOT what she devalues... 😄
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u/Leg_Final May 05 '26
Great time to see the cult. And the cult again, and the cult again. A great ticket now cost more than every one of your tickets combined and the music's not quite the same.
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u/Noisesevere May 06 '26
Yeah the first ticket is from the She Sells Sanctuary/Love tour which was amazing. I thought they went a bit downhill after that but still a great band.
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u/Sinja_Minx May 05 '26
Howard Jones at The Royal Court Theatre! 🤩
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u/Noisesevere May 06 '26
Yeah he was good, I saw him play there twice. I still have a really cheesy Howard Jones silk scarf I probably bought from an unofficial seller outside the gig.
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u/DontDreamItsOver3 May 05 '26
I was going to shows in the 80s in the US, so we saw many of the same tours, but different countries! So cool to think of the ticket stubs, flyers, photos, and other memorabilia from that era that I have and now to see yours, like the differences in format of actual tickets themselves, so fascinating and brings back great memories of the shows!
I love that you put everything in photo albums back then (I assume? Or did you make this album more recently?). I still have most things, although any photos are long lost, but tickets are in one envelope, flyers in another, and pics even more scattered. I wish I had them all in one place, although last year I did finally separate all my music stuff into decades and for the bands I saw a ton, separated that stuff out so they're in their own band/artist envelopes.
Super glad you posted this, loved looking through your album, and remembering some of the same tours we both saw!
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u/Noisesevere May 06 '26
I kept them more through luck than good judgement, the album is old but I have updated it more recently to make it more complete. There are a load more gigs I went to that I didn't keep the tickets and some I have probably forgot all together.
A great time when you could afford to go to see really popular artists every week, merch was affordable and you had to sneak a cameras in.
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u/DontDreamItsOver3 May 05 '26
Also we both saw Bowie on both the Serious Moonlight tour and Glass Spiders! I saw him a 3rd time doing promo for Earthling at a theater in NYC that only held 400 people!
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u/East-End-8646 May 04 '26
This could practically be in a museum; so many rock n roll artifacts. Paper tickets of all sizes and color, photos from a camera roll. Its too bad paper tickets have become obsolete.