The Cross Live

[funitmom]

Did anyone see The Cross Live? Tell about the gigs and how Roger and the group were. They didn't come to the US I'm sorry to say.

[champs]

Saw them first at The Mayfair Suite in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne on Sunday 28th Feb 1988. Saw them all getting off the tour bus, saw Gerry Stickles and said Hi. Right at the front of Roger, a great set list and brilliant bootleg recording - in which I'm heard on at least twice [beginning of 'Love On A Tightrope', some prat sings 'Radio Ga Ga'...yeah, that's me.]

Last saw them together with Brian May at the Queen fan club Christmas party at The Astoria, London on 7th December 1990 in a slightly drunken haze... [it was a party]. Fantastic time, really talented band.

[WeeMann]

I was going to try to get tickets when they played The Marquee back in about 1992. Extreme were playing the same 2 nights at Wembley and my mate was getting tickets, so I held off until he'd got them, by which time the Cross tickets had sold out

The night after seeing Extreme I went down to The Marquee in the hope of picking up a ticket but a tout told me only one ticket had changed hands all evening and that had gone for £150!

To make matters worse, I later found out that Brian guested with each band - The Cross on the night I was at Extreme and Extreme the night I was sat in a pub off the Charing Cross Road on my own!

[roberta]

weemann said:

To make matters worse, I later found out that Brian guested with each band - The Cross on the night I was at Extreme and Extreme the night I was sat in a pub off the Charing Cross Road on my own!

Now that's what I call bad luck!
I got hold of some really bad bootlegs (Fan Club party included), so it's d**n hard to judge how they played/performed .

[james]

I've been really lucky with my Cross and Roger bootlegs. I've got very good quality shows from each tour, and I have the Cross Christmas Cracker with Brian May and Tim Staffel guesting. The only crap bootleg I got was the Cross's last ever show, Gosport 1993. I have it on tape and it's awful quality, which is a shame because it suggests it was a great farewell! If anybody has a good quality version of this gig, please get in touch and we might be able to sort out a trade!

JG

[funitmom]

Thanks so much for your Cross concert experiences. I have a few Cross bootlegs but most of them are fo bad quality. James where did you get good bootlegs? Let me know if you can. Thanks

[james]

I got the Town and Country Club 88, Christmas Cracker 92 and Live At The Astoria 90 from record fairs, and I got a soundboard Blue Rock show from Dusseldorf via a trade. The other Shove It ones I got via downloads from Queen fans via Queenzone.

JG

[champs]

Booties aren't that hard to come by these days - esp via downloads etc. Record fairs/ contacts were the main outlet for such things, but these days the internet is the thing to get them on - so i'm told. I had to do it the old fashioned way.

[james]

You can actually buy them on the net, but that is actually illegal to sell them, so do so at your own risk. Much better to do a trade if you have a sizable collection, of join a fan site where they often share live recordings.

JG

[rmt]

This my The Cross bootlegs. some are from mp3 but other are original CD Audio.

1987-11-06 - Meltdown
1988-02-21 - Leicester
1988-02-28 - Bradford
1988-03-01 - Newcastle
1988-03-05 - Birmingham Hummingbird
1988-03-06 - Leeds
1988-03-10 - Town & Country
1988-04-14 - Munich
1988-04-16 - Nuremburg
1988-04-19 - Esslingen
1988-04-19 - Esslingen (fixed songs)
1988-04-21 - Dusseldorf
1988-04-23 - Dortmund
1988-04-xx - Germany
1988-04-xx - Germany 2
1988-05-12 - Montreux
1988-12-04 - Hammersmith Odeon
1990-04-29 - Geneve
1990-05-24 - Gottingen
1990-05-29 - Amsterdam
1990-05-30 - Frankfurt
1990-06-03 - St Wendel
1990-06-06 - Mannheim
1990-06-15 - Vienna
1990-12-07 - Astoria
1991-10-12 - Astoria
1991-10-15 - Munich
1991-10-20 - Wertheim
1991-10-23 - Dusseldorf
1992-07-20 - Gosport
1992-12-21 - Marquee
1992-12-22 - Marquee
1993-07-29 - Gosport

And

1988-12-04 - Hammersmith Odeon VCD
1990-04-29 - Geneve VCD
1990-06-15 - Vienna VCD
1992-12-22 - Marquee VCD
1993-07-29 - Gosport VCD
Video Collection VCD

1990-04-29 - Geneve DVD
1990-06-15 - Vienna DVD
1993-07-29 - Gosport DVD


If someone wants to do a trade ask me.

[Alison]

I've only seen the 'Live in Geneva' footage at the FC convention.

[madbad]

Seen them at the Bristol Studios in March 1988. The support was the Ya Ya band I think & from memory, they were Scottish & had the appearance of Europe (with all the hair and that...). The gig was superb from beginning to end. I remember that I couldn't believe my eyes when Roger walked on with his guitar around his neck, wearing a leather jacket, his trade mark Raybands & jeans, & just looking as cool as....and when he sung IILWMC, I nearly had a heart attack (a shear one that is )

Also seen them at the Marquee, at The Christmas Cracker. Roger Daltery was brilliant, swinging his mic around in traditional style!! Got to say it, I didn't enjoy Tim Staffell slot at all, sorry!

[james]

I can second that - I have a bootleg of the second night of the Crhistmas Cracker shows, and I took the Tim Staffel songs out. Dreadful, just dreadful!

JG