Boston Newcastle City Hall 1979
Boston were a massive deal in the mid to late 70s. Their debut album was an incredible success, selling 17 million copies, and More Than A Feeling seemed to be playing everywhere I went at one time. The band came to the UK in 1979 for a short tour which called at Newcastle City Hall for one night. The gig sold out immediately, and I was pleased to get tickets. I went along with a group of mates, and looked forward to the gig. Although Boston are quite middle of the road rock, they do it excellently, and their first album is a classic of the genre. 
The gig was great; loud, melodic rock at its best. I still own a copy of the first Boston album, althogh can’t pretend to play it very often. Boston have never returned to the UK, to the best of me knowledge, although they continue to tour in the USA. However More Than A Feeling remains a top rock song. Support act Trickster were a short lived UK melodic rock band who also supported on an ELO tour. Boston setlist from 1979 : Rock & Roll Band; Tell Me; Peace of Mind; Feelin’ Satisfied; Don’t Look Back; More Than a Feeling; A Man I’ll Never Be; Smokin’; Foreplay / Long Time; Something About You; Party.
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Boston Newcastle City Hall 1979
Posted April 12, 2012 by vintagerock in Boston. Tagged: blues, concert, concerts, folk, gig, gigs, heavy metal, music, pop, prog rock, psych, R&B, rock, rock n roll. 4 Comments
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Posted by Derek Towers on April 22, 2012 at 8:03 am
Still remember this being a great concert. Notable for being the only time I’ve ever seen anyone play the big church organ at the back of the City Hall when Tom Scholz did Foreplay. They played a great unreleased track called Television Politician as well. Bit of trivia, the guitarist out of Trickster ended up as a presenter on That’s Life!
Posted by vintagerock on April 22, 2012 at 8:31 am
Hi Many thanks Derek; it was a great concert. I’d forgotten that Tom played the organ. The only other time (I think) I saw it played was by Keith Emerson in ELP days. Best wishes Peter
Posted by Gaz on December 18, 2014 at 2:54 pm
loved the band but found this concert a bit stale we might as well been listening to a cd it was that good…. no mistakes no real live stuff
Posted by Martin Vijay Kulkarni on March 16, 2018 at 6:11 pm
Eh Gaz a bit stale! You are on the right concert aren’t you? Unbelievable concert. They played with lights on for some of it! Derek if you remember Tom Scholz on the church organ, you’ll remember him nearly tripping up coming back down the stairs to get to the Hammond organ after that. How he kept upright on those stairs, all 6’7” of him I’ll never know!!! Great times, great band (totally underrated) great music. Sad about Brad though. Manic depressive. Who knew? One of thee greatest vocalists of all time!