Bargepole’s review of A Playground of Broken Hearts reminded me that I’d seen a few of the neo-proggers at the time, most notably Marillion, who I saw supporting Girl at the Marquee and then headlining it themselves a few weeks later. I knew I’d also seen a few of the second division acts at Reading in 1983 but couldn’t remember which ones exactly. When I went to check who’d actually played that year, I realised that I remembered next to nothing of what I’d seen apart from Steel Pulse getting bottled off and a few dim recollections of the headline acts. For the most part though, the weekend is a total blank. I’m pretty sure I wasn’t drinking or hepped up on goofballs or anything like that, but still, to all intents and purposes it’s like I was never there. Were Stevie Ray Vaughan, Suzi Quatro, Big Country et al so unmemorable that I’ve managed to entirely excise them from my memory?

So who have you seen who you don’t remember?