How long ago?

Scottie · Loudmouth

How long ago?

Katharina · Dave

1994.

Where does the photo come from?

rekamarkovics · House on Fire

Between 1992 and 1995.

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

The haircut says early 90s.

Scottie · Loudmouth

It comes from a German or Austrian website, with pics of several artists, but does not seem to mention a year. I just wondered.

That colour of the suit is awful.

-- Edited by Scottie at 21:05, 2006-11-13

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

I'd have thought the Happy Club tour, but he wore that wonderful suit for that. Maybe it was in the cleaners that day?

Katharina · Dave

Scottie wrote:

It comes from a German or Austrian website, with pics of several artists, but does not seem to mention a year. I just wondered.

That colour of the suit is awful.

-- Edited by Scottie at 21:05, 2006-11-13

In that case it's likely that it was taken between November 11 and December 10, 1994. There was a Germany tour with 11 dates, and a week off somewhere where they may have been in Austria or Switzerland (or at home), not sure about that exactly.

I have a photo, taken at one of my all-time-favourite BG shows (Haldern, Germany, December 10, 1994) where he looks almost exactly like on the photo you found, Scottie. Same shirt, same suit, same hair. Same guitar even, lol!

If you want to give me the url where you found it, I could try and find out more! Maybe the photographer was in Haldern too.

Support band on that tour, by the way, were "To hell with burgundy" from Manchester. I wonder what they do these days... *sighs*

Scottie · Loudmouth

This is the site, Katharina.

http://www.sunergia.be/docs/emm/allgemein.htm

rekamarkovics · House on Fire

So it was taken in 1996.

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

Was Bob touring in 1996? Things weren't exactly rosy for him then.

Katharina · Dave

The (German) text is about a festival in Eupen, Belgium. Bob must have played there, but as far as I can see, it doesn't say which year. I know for sure I wasn't there...

The photos on the left must all have been taken in different years - one I recognize is Adam Green (top left) and he wouldn't have played the same years as Bob!

I don't think it was 1996 though. If any, there can't have been many shows that year.

Joke · The Dutch One

I happened to attend one show in 1996, it was a music-literature festival in a church in The Hague. In retrospect, it was a very special performance: Bob was alone with his guitar, he was playing some songs and reading pieces of poetry, written by himself. I remember it quite well, because I saw Bob before the show walking around in the church, and I went to him and asked him to sign a CD (which he did of course). I have some pictures of that show, they are on the happyfanclub site (I think that site is still up)

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

That sounds incredible. I have a poetry reading of his, he sounds wonderful, that accent ...