and also Big Country (while Stuart Adamson was still with us).
...and i suppose this reply should be on the other thread
A good few years ago Big Country were the folks switching on the Christmas lights in Glasgow city centre - we heard that they'd also arranged a gig that weekend at a Glasgow venue more used to hosting hoardes of teenagers and dodgy indie bands.
We bought tickets for it, fully expecting a house full of teenies and to be the oldest there.
As there was no support act, we toddled up a bit before gig time thinking there'd probably be a queue to get in.
No queue. In fact, we wondered if it'd been cancelled or we'd got the day/time wrong.
Went upstairs and found maybe a dozen or so folks there, all of a similar vintage to ourselves. By gig time, there were maybe thirty folks there possibly less.
We found it odd and were thinking "where is everyone?". I've no idea why it was so poorly attended, maybe the weather, the short notice and very little advertising...
Band came on and played the first couple of songs as if they were at a sold out Barrowlands gig. Then they stopped. Start Adamson stepped off the stage (about a foot high) and started chatting away to those at the front. He then turned to the rest and said "hey you feckers at the bar, get yer arses doon here!".
They played for nearly two hours, BC material interspersed with some Skids. When they took a break, I seem to remember they just wandered up to the bar - no airs and graces, just a bunch of musicians happy to be able to play and chat to fans.
It's not the best gig I've ever been to, but it's up there.
And in keeping with the topic: Leonard Cohen. The timing was just never right when he was playing in the UK.
JF