the 1st time

[weebleboy]

My mate at college told me they were his favourite band and gave me a list of tracks to check out.... I think they were Nothing ever Changes, Geordie & suckerpunch. Got them and liked them, then kinda forgot about them till one day a few years later I was out trying to find some new music, ended up buying PHUQ and I just got into them more and more.

[Ean]

I think it was Caffeine Bomb on Raw Power (I'm pretty sure it was still that back then...). Swiftly followed by anything I could get my hands on, including the first two CD singles when I didn't even have a CD player.

[pissjoy]

i cant bloody remember me being an old bastard but i think it was hearing i wanna go where the people go
then when they split up i stopped listenin then got silver ginger 5 and then hearing the awesome Vanilla radio and stormy in the north

[Dave C]

I can't remember the first time I heard them, I remember when Bam joined the band. I was a huge Dogs D'Amour fan and was a gutted that the Wildhearts had nicked him.
The first CD I got was TV Tan I think, some time after it was released.

[Glen666]

rite people wot woz ur 1st introduction 2 ginger/the wildhearts? mine woz seeing NOTHING EVER CHANGES BUT THE SHOES on headbangers ball in about 1992

Me too, they showed the low budget video in the new bands section, Raw Talent. I think the show had just changed it's name from Headbangers Ball to Raw Power. Then they changed it to Noisy Mothers.

Those were the days, eh ?

[Ady]

Mine was 'i wanna go where the people go' single, then a friend of mine gave me the cassette single to caffine bomb, loved all the tracks on there not just the first track, bought 'earth vs' on a whim and the rest is history.

[EvilElvis]

March/April '95 time I was watching Noisy Mothers and the edited version of "..Lovebank" was on - I remember thinking "Kerrang! loves these guys - better check 'em out" rewound the video fell in love with the song, bought the wallet edition of the single. A few weeks later "I Wanna Go..." was released, taped the TOTP apperances and bought the single, then went and bought PHUQ the week it was relased.

[nig1012]

hey dave c thats the reason i 1st lisyened 2 the wildhearts cus i heard BAM BAM had joined em and i woz gutted cus the DOGS had split

[downonlondon]

1994: a friend gave me a cassette (remember them?) with Earth Vs on one side and the B-sides from the Suckerpunch, Caffeine Bomb and TV Tan singles on the other. The B-sides were so good I thought they were another album, and I've been a huge fan ever since.

[Aj]

Um the first thing I heard (I think) was Red Light Green Light (which I bought on vinyl from Blackbush market back in the days when it was swamped with record stalls) but I got more into them when I heard Phuq, then I stopped following for a while (I was young and stoopid) then on clearing out a wardrobe one day I found my Phuq cassette, got back into them and started collecting releases around about the time Vanilla Radio came out.
Had my first date with my boyfriend at a Wildhearts gig awwwwww

Aj
xx

[The ? Formally Known As..]

1994: a friend gave me a cassette (remember them?) with Earth Vs on one side and the B-sides from the Suckerpunch, Caffeine Bomb and TV Tan singles on the other. The B-sides were so good I thought they were another album, and I've been a huge fan ever since.

My first introduction was the same but with only the Suckerpunch EP on the other side. Gor bless them magnetic strips.... Used to think it was hearing phuq album that got me into the wildies but I've got a tape somewhere with Chris Evan's 'worm of the week' when he was doing the breakfast show when he chose 'I Wanna Go...' and was well happy that they'd got some recognition... Some things never change
Ah, the mid-nineties when music was at it's best...

[SilverBlondie]

God now you're asking... think it was in 2000 when I started college and began going out with me now-ex, introduced me to Silver Ginger 5, then to Earth Vs, and then to the solo stuff, and I think I took it from there!

You never look back once you hear what gold sounds like...

SilverBlondie x

[Cat]

Mine was a cassette that came with a magazine with Greetings on it - I remember it was a yellow cassette I have a feeling it was called Loaded or something

[evadbur]

rite people wot woz ur 1st introduction 2 ginger/the wildhearts? mine woz seeing NOTHING EVER CHANGES BUT THE SHOES on headbangers ball in about 1992

Yep- I saw the same. Went out and bought the Mondo Akimbo A-go-go CD at the first opportunity. Unfortunately some b*****d broke in to my house and stole my entire CD collection some years ago.

I'm also told that he came to stand next to me to play a guitar solo when the Quireboys played Edwards No.8 but I was far too p****d to remember.

[RDP]

Mine was buying the Caffiene Bomb single, I just saw it in a record store, asked to hear it and liked what I heard.