Just adding my two penn'orth to the debate generated by
David-who-is-Ruth-McCurry's interesting post. I too utterly wasted my
time at university and really regret it now. Doing an English degree, I had 
the opportunity to spend three years reading, thinking and expanding my
mind and instead I spent it going to lots of really terrible nightclubs and
being unable to get up in the morning. With hindsight I think the best way
to enjoy college (should you be lucky enough to have the opportunity to
go) is to balance your social life with at least a modicum of academic
pursuit. God ! i sound like my Dad !
I think the first gig you ever go to is always going to be special, just
because the whole experience is so exciting, it doesn't really matter who
it is, unless, like someone I know, you've only ever been to one gig and
that was the Flying Pickets. Some of my gig highlights have been Prince
on the "lovesexy" tour - tears in my eyes during "The Cross". Happy
Mondays at Leeds Warehouse - loads of mates there, the feeling that
you're there at the beginning of something important. The Blue Nile - just
being in a room full of people that are beside themselves with joy to see
these people actually on a stage. David said he'd never seen anything in
the theatre that replicated that feeling. At the risk of sounding like a
mincing thesp, I'm lucky enough to have seen things that, for me, have. I
grinned for days after seeing "Guys and Dolls" at the National last year
and only last week Patrick Marber's "Dealers Choice" left a deep
impression. I hope all that didn't sound pompous. I'll go now.
Cheers, Adam. 

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