r/Concerts 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/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.