@freddy-steady is no doubt still boiling after 40 years at not being allowed to go to Monsters of Rock inn 1981. More details please! Excellent idea for a thread, the gigs you were not allowed to attend, probably by parents but maybe also by partners putting their foot down etc. etc. Me: on a French exchange aged 15 in France in 1980, and already a veteran of at least 3 or 4 gigs at home. During my stay in Nantes the Police, XTC and UB40 are playing at the Parc des Expositions. Would my French hosts have any of it? They would not. I think I’d even bought a ticket and was forced to go back to the record shop and ask for a refund. In French. Worst Exchange Ever. Your tails of thwarted trips here please.