The second time I saw Black Sabbath was at Newcastle Odeon in December 1973. This was the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath tour and Newcastle was the first night of the tour. Newcastle Odeon is a bigger venue than the City Hall. I went along with a friend and we obviously bought tickets late as our seats were at the back of the (very large circle). I can remember looking down on some quite small dots, and the sound not being so great. Sabbath put on a great show that night, but I didn’t enjoy it as much as my first Sabbath experience, largely because of where we were sitting. 
I remember being quite excited at seeing the band this time, and my mate and I dressed specially for the gig, bit of us all in black. I also bought a large black cross to wear around my neck for this special occasion! Typical set list from the tour: Tomorrow’s Dream; Sweet Leaf; Killing Yourself to Live; Snowblind; War Pigs; A National Acrobat; Cornucopia; Sabbra Cadabra; Supernaut; Iron Man; Black Sabbath; Embryo / Children of the Grave; Paranoid; Megalomania. Many thanks to John for the poster scan.
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Black Sabbath Newcastle Odeon December 1973
Posted April 17, 2012 by vintagerock in Black Sabbath. Tagged: blues, concert, concerts, gigs, heavy metal, music, pop, prog rock, R&B, rock, rock n roll. 2 Comments
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Posted by Craig Jackson on July 11, 2020 at 9:53 pm
Peter, this was only my second ever gig! The first was Genesis at the City Hall in the October, then Sabbath at the Odeon. I had turned 13 in the August, at which point my mam had said I was allowed to start going to see bands! Went with my cousin and his mate, and my friend from school, we were downstairs around the middle, and my memory is of being pinned back by Geezer’s bass, which you didn’t so much hear as feel in the pit of your stomach. Obviously the sound upstairs wasn’t much cop by your review. Anyway, intense memories, Genesis were pretty loud (though I had nothing to compare it to) but Sabbath were next level…though everything got put into perspective the first time the Quo a few months later, but that’s another story!
Posted by vintagerock on July 12, 2020 at 12:10 pm
Happy days Craig Sabbath were pure class in those days and very LOUD. Cheers Peter