ROKSNAPS #6 – THE MIGHTY MOTORHEAD IN ALL THEIR F***ING GLORY DESTROYING NEWCASTLE CITY HALL.

Roksnaps are photograph’s taken by fan’s which captured the atmosphere of concerts in the North East during the late ’70s and early ’80s.

It was a time when rock and metal ruled the city hall’s up and down the country. We had the main venues of Mecca in Sunderland, The Mayfair and City Hall in Newcastle.

The gigs were packed with hordes of mostly young lads from towns across the North East. T-shirt’s, programmes and autographs were hunted down to collect as souvenir’s – and some people took photographs on the night.

One fan who kept his photos and shared them on this blog was Dave Curry…

Found out these pic’s I took was from a Motorhead concert at Newcastle City Hall on 30th March 1981. The camera I used was a Pentax MX with a 80-200mm zoom Hoya lens. The pictures were from seat W31 so a fair distance away from the stage.

I used 400ASA film uprated to 1600ASA but even with the aperture wide open the shutter speeds were still around 1 second or so. I’ve just found some ticket stubs in the loft. I didn’t take any other photos from concerts. But from the Motorhead gig I remember the place was loud and bouncing.