Feature article: Live music has always been here in Leicester

This page is part of the music section

Bands that your parents might have heard:

Blab Happy (1987)

Black Widow

Blitzkrieg (1980)

The Bomb Party (early 1980s)

Cornershop

Crazyhead (1986)

Delicatessen (early 1990s)

Diesel Park West (1980) Still going - gig coming up in May

The Family

Misterlee (believed to be still going)

Po!

Prolapse

Rabid (1979)

Ruth's Refridgerator (1990)

Scum Pups (1989)

Showaddywaddy (1973) Still playing

Spring

Team (2003)

Volcano the Bear (1995)

We look at some of the gigs that the parents of today's band members might have gone to.

31st March 1962 - The Beatles - De Montfort Hall.

1st December 1963 - The Beatles - De Montfort Hall.

10th October 1964 - The Beatles - De Montfort Hall.

1985 - Gaye Bikers on Acid play their first gig at the Princess Charlotte.

Sunday 1st April 2007 - The Hollies - De Montfort Hall

Wednesday 18th April 2007- The Merseybeats + The Searchers + The Dakotas + Wayne Fontana - at the De Montfort Hall

23rd June 2007 - The Searchers - The Half Time Orange.

Do you remember a Leicester band from the old days?

Do you remember a gig you went to in Leicester?

Tell us about it

Other pages you might like:

Our list of current Leicester bands

The Beehive page on Leicester rock bands.