15 and counting

[fireup]

Tempted into posting at last.... now its 15 yrs since we first got to listen to Mondo, first picked the WH's up (in hmv in blackpool as I'll always remember.... anyone else remember their first time?!), and put a dent in everything else I've listened to... and in one way or another had something to say in every year since! So 1 vote for a 15th Birthday... and sounds like we have the music for it coming in another 4 weeks! Any more ?

[WiredOut]

Welcome!

It' s 11 years for me. think I bought PHUQ in January 1996. To be honest, I wasn't totally bowled over by all of it, but I loved 'Just In Lust' and 'Getting It' and liked a lot else. Meanwhile 'I Wanna Go...' sounded like something I'd been subconsciously waiting my whole life to hear. I then picked up the 'Just In Lust' single, and was blown away by the 'Mindslide'/'Friend For 5 Minutes'/'SIN (in sin)'b-sides. Then came 'Earth Vs.', and I was utterly besotted. I got into them just early enough to pick up all of the singles (apart from 'TV Tan') on either CD or vinyl at stores. Hunting for them was a bit of an adventure.

I actually first saw them in a tiny feature in Loaded at the time everyone and their gran (even the mainstream press) were lauding PHUQ to the heavens. For some reason I looked at the picture, the band name and the album title and thought they were some kind of dance band!

Loved the band name from first sight though. Sums them up for me. Even though some people think it's shit.

Did anyone see this Loaded article? Ginger said something like 'I think you should go up to people on the street, pull their trousers down and stick your finger up their arse. Then you should wiggle it around, shouting "WALALALALALA!" I can't think of a better way to piss someone off.'

[29xTheJames]

Been a WH fan 5 years now. Heard Looking For The One on a free CD. Looked into the band & read that they had a hit with Suckerpunch, so downloaded it & was hooked after one listen. Quickly went out and got all their albums. And its a year today (March 25th) since I first saw Ginger live.

[madbloke]

13 years for me. 94, supporting The Almighty - My mate had been raving about the Wildhearts after seeing them support Alice In Chains - he was right, they were awesome!

Still remember standing at the back, looking at shedloads of people in 'Demand the right to be unique' shirts and chuckling at the irony....

[SteveP]

13 years for me. 94, supporting The Almighty - My mate had been raving about the Wildhearts after seeing them support Alice In Chains - he was right, they were awesome!

Still remember standing at the back, looking at shedloads of people in 'Demand the right to be unique' shirts and chuckling at the irony....

Funnily enough, that spookily mirrors my discovery.

A mate had been raving about them for a few weeks, I thought nothing of it till I saw them supporting The Almighty at The Mayfair in Newcastle, I was blown away, and the rest, they say (to quote a well worn phrase), is history.

[blackdeathcrew]

13 years for me too - Since I bought the Caffeine Bomb single, and then saw them live at Donington Monsters of Rock

[JasonH]

I heard TV Tan on the radio (Radio 1 in fact, oh the irony), would have been November 93. By the second play I was totally hooked. A couple of weeks later I started seeing a girl who already had Earth Vs, and that was it for me.

[barbie]

saw them get screwed over by love/hate in 91-wildies played ,sound crap love/hatecame on 30 mins later sound perfect .saw wildies about 2 months later in bogiez my mate calls ginger a prick ,ginger grips hold of him and threatens to kick the living shit out of him. been a god ever since that day

[godzillas beard]

Since whenever Earth Vs came out for me. Saw the Suckerpunch live video on whatever that rock show was on late night Friday TV and was hooked.

[Dr.J.Jones]

I thought the '15 years & counting' was how long the world had been waiting for 'Chinese Democracy'!

[blackdeathcrew]

Since whenever Earth Vs came out for me. Saw the Suckerpunch live video on whatever that rock show was on late night Friday TV and was hooked.

That'll be Raw Power/Noisy Mothers. Was a top show that

[chorleydave]

I remember seeing the love/Hate tour, but being distinctly unimpressed, mainly 'cos I was waiting to see Love/hAte and hadn't really been to many gigs at that point and didn't know any WH songs, so was just impatient to see the main band

Then I heard TV tan being played on Radio 1 by Jonny Walker sitting in for Steve Wright in the Afternoon! I quite liked it, and at the time Kerrang was banging on about them every week so thought there must be something there, so bought the cassette (As someone else mentioned there is so much irony in that sentence re: other discussions around this message board!!)

Loved Earth vs, and once Caffeine Bomb came out I followed by Suckerpunch and the amazing b-sides I was completely hooked and have been since

so big thanks to, er Kerrang & Radio1!!

[Mattie]

I'd never heard of The Wildhearts until I saw a review of TWMBD saying it was 'life affirming' so I'm relatively new. Then again I was probably onlly about 8/9 when Earth Vs was released so I've had a fair bit of catching up to do.

Not been to any WH / Ginger gigs as yet

[29xTheJames]

Shame I was 9 too when Earth Vs... came out. But glad to say Im a fan of the band while there active. With Sex Pistols that could never be the case: I was born in '84. Missed out there.

Only just worked out what 'TWMBD' means. What an idiot.

[Andy Santiago]

First saw them with Alice In Chains and paid no attention,second time was Reading fest the following year.The lads were camped near us so paid more attention.Then the year after that,a main stage Phoenix festival appearence blew young Santiago away and have been a convert ever since.See y'all at Sheffield and Leeds!