The first time you heard THE WiLDHEARTS?

[RDP]

I saw the Caffeine Bomb single in a record store in Chorley, Lancs (my hometown), while buying Live Shit! Binge and Purge by Metallica, asked the record shop owner to play it and loved the sound. Been an addict ever since

[RDP]

I saw the Caffeine Bomb single in a record store in Chorley, Lancs (my hometown), while buying Live Shit! Binge and Purge by Metallica, asked the record shop owner to play it and loved the sound. Been an addict ever since

[Nomad]

In my first few weeks at college, I went to see the Almighty having been favourably impressed with them supporting Metallica/Megadeth at the Milton Keynes Bowl that summer. Kerbdog opened and then the Wildhearts were on. Somewhat hazy recollection, but I was up in the seats upstairs so it wasn't the best experience.

Then about 3 months later someone played Earth vs to my brother, and he bought it. Went to see them at Reading festival that summer.

[jediross]

Picked up the Dont worry EP when it came out and was instantly hooked, remember waiting outside the record shop for Earth Vs to come out.... have gone on to introduce, first my wife, and now my kids, to the sonic joy that is The Wildhearts!

[dangerlust]

The first time....? Hmmmm.

Pretty sure that even tho I had read about this great new band The Wildhearts in the rock press, I had not heard anything by them as it was pretty hard to find anything other than chart stuff in the sleepy backwaters of Beccles, Suffolk.....

What I do know for sure tho is that my first encounter with the band was on the Love/Hate tour in about 1992 (?). My wife fancied the pants off Jizzy Pearl from L/H and so off we went to see them in Norwich at the UEA.

Great gig, but the support act just blew me away. You guessed it, The Wildhearts. Awesome, just awesome. Went on to see the two bands on that tour at 3 more times at Cambridge, Milton Keynes and at the London Astoria (I think).

I have since gone on to purchase absolutely everything Ginger and The Wildhearts have ever purchased - with the one exception of the 7" Shitsville single. One day tho...

So that was me and the wife, once we heard the band we were fans for life. Although the better half insists that she is too old for the gigging lark these days. Me? Never too old for a gig!

So it is about 15/16 years and counting for me and my love affair with The Wildhearts - lomg may it continue too.....

[29xthefun]

One Saturday morning in May 95, I wanna Go Where The People Go was on The chart Show. loved every second of it so much I went out and got the single right after the show. Been an addict ever since.

[kris]

It was about 15 years and 9 months ago for me when they stood in for burning tree's place supporting Alice In Chains at Nottingham rock city.

Threy blew alice away and i was hooked

Stood in for Screaming Trees... very different to Burning Tree but both excellent bands

Ah fuck knows,They had tree in the name anyway lol.

[Ilsa]

I allegedly saw The Wildhearts supported by The Almighty in 1993ish

[Jason_scorching_past]

Given tomorrow's gig, thought it could be nice to reminisce about the first time you heard the band?

For me, the first rock band I loved was Guns N Roses and never listened to much else, then I bought this Kerrang! double cassette to get to hear some new music and I heard Caffeine Bomb for the first time.........

OH MY GOD!!! thats seriously exactly the same scenario as me!! Have we entered the twighlight zone or something lol

Haha, great! I wonder if it was at the exact same time as well

[Radish]

Was into the Dogs D'Amour, heard Bam was in another band and thought I'd give them a try. Ordered Mondo Akimbo a Go-go from HMV (a long, protracted, painful affair that is best left to be told elsewhere) and haven't looked back since. Apparently the first time I saw them was at Southampton Joiners, but I don't remember it. First gig of theirs I do remember is Bristol Bierkeller in 1994, still on my top 5 list of all-time best ever gigs ever in the world ever. Ever.

[Pauly]

I'm a latecomer to the band... the first thing I heard was Vanilla Radio when the video was on Kerrang TV, around 2003. When I saw Ginger mouth the phrase 'C'mon you motherfuckers' to the crowd before the last chorus I knew this was the band for me

The next few months was an ebay scrabble to buy the majority of their back catalogue and I've been driving the other half mad with it ever since

[Pudu]

I allegedly saw The Wildhearts supported by The Almighty in 1993ish

You bloody well did - I drove you there and back ......... my very first time driving on a motorway as I had only recently passed my driving test. Even though it was the Wildhearts supporting the Almighty with Kerbdog opening but I woulnd't dare be so picky as to mention something like that!!!!

I still remember fondly catching the bus from school into town to buy Earth Vs on the first day of release thanks to reading very favourable things in Kerrap! about them then spending the whole journey home reading the inlay before I could actually get to hear the CD that still ranks as my one album I couldn't do without!

[Rancidpunk_76]

I think i was about 18 and had just split up with my girlfriend, felt miserable so popped to the record shop for some retail therapy - i wanted something suitably heavy to listen to whilst i drowned my sorrows in the confines of my bedroom.

The 1st cassette my eyes fell upon on the new release shelf was Earth vs. and i thought to myself "there's a guy sunken in tar with barbed wire and creepy crawlies on his face - must be heavy". Then i recalled that The Wildhearts had just recently got album of the year in Kerrang (i think) so snapped up the cassette without having heard a single note.

I got home, pulled the curtains, cracked open a beer and prepared to wallow in self pity........ i pressed play on my cassette deck and simply couldn't stop smiling from "Shitsville" to "Luv U Til i Don't".

I don't think i had ever heard such crunchy guitar mixed with such catchy pop melodies before. Have been a HUGE fan ever since.

[JasonH]

Heard TV Tan on Radio 1 just before it came out, so would have been about November 93 and I was living in shitsville halls of residence at Liverpool Uni. Thought it was pretty good. They played it again the next day and I thought it had loads of hooks. Heard it again the day after and sang along all the way through and realised it must be a work of genius. Found the 7" picture disc and played it to death. Then a new girlfriend had Earth Vs which she played me one night and I didn't think much to it, probably cos I was concentrating on her more! So a couple of months later I bought Caffeine Bomb without hearing it on the strength of TV Tan, realised I needed to give Earth Vs a proper chance, and never looked back.

[Jules]

Back in the late 80's/early 90's I used to frequent the Thursday night live rock night at the Buckley Tivoli (anyone remember that?). One of the many bands I saw there was The Quireboys, in the days when Ginger was with them. When he parted company with the band I can remember the music press (probably Kerrang, but I also bought an odd copy of Metal Hammer etc) raving about his new band The Wildhearts, so I bought "Mondo.. " as soon as it came out and I've been hooked ever since (well, other than a slight wobble around "Endless..").