Eddie Floyd @ The Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow
May 22nd 1993 08:00 pm
The first music gig I ever went to. I won tickets to this show on Radio Clyde, the Sunday before the gig. Well, I say “won” - it was actually more like “was given” as there was no competition involved. The tickets weren’t exactly selling like hotcakes, so the first 10 people to phone the station got a pair of tickets. (Time hasn’t been kind to the ticket, as you can see below. You can just about make out Eddie Floyd’s name on there, if you squint hard enough.)
John B and I headed along to the Pavilion to see a living legend: the guy who gave us Knock on Wood. To be honest, I can’t actually remember much about the gig, other than the fact that he was pretty good, and the support act were Big Vern & The Shootas. (Think The Blues Brothers, but with technicolour suits).Anyway, here’s a clip of Eddie performing his best known song on Jools Holland’s Hootenany on New Years Eve 2007.
