Headbang History

Looking through my old records, I can see the dates and photographs for the last 29 Headbangs, going back to November, 2003. Prior to that, of course, there were many gatherings at Dave's former pad near Torphins, all of them purely audio.

The modern Headbang era began in 2005, when we began to feature some visuals, using DVD's. After that, we eventually moved on to digital mpeg's, avi files etc, but it was the end of 2008 before the regular Themes started. Obituaries were what started it all off and that has featured at all 19 Headbangs since December, 2008.

The Septuagenarians theme started in June, 2011 and has now been featured 12 times. Today's Birthdays appeared 5 times before being dropped after the October, 2012 Headbang. Prior to that we had 4 separate sessions of everyone's Favourites.

There are 5 other themes that have each appeared twice:

Best of the Obits

Festivals

Glastonbury

Names

One Hit Wonders

Amazingly, there have been another 52 themes that have each featured once (in alphabetical order):

27 Club

40th Anniversaries

Ailments

Battle of the Rockers

BBC Bans

Beatles Covers

Best of the Best

Britpop Anthems

Brothers in Arms

Cheating Songs

Classic Rock Top 10

Colours

Connections

Disabled Artistes

Dylan Covers

Eddie Cochran

Funeral Songs

Go Forth

Good tunes, better videos

Goth

Greatest Covers

Guess the label

Guitar Heroes

Highways & Byways

Homecoming

Instrumentals

Jailbirds

Jobs

Misogyny

No longer PC

Numbers

Olympic Games

Plagiarism

Please Please Me

Protest Songs

Regal Jubilee

Requests

Rock Champions League KO

Scotland's Greatest Album

Singing Drummers

Southern Rock

Space

Summer Songs

Surfin' USA

The Day the Music Died

Trains & Boats & Planes

Trouble & Strife

TV Themes

Weather

Whistling Songs

Woody Guthrie Centennial

Wrong title

For obvious reasons, I'm the only one that has been at all 29 recorded Headbangs since the end of 2003, but Colin has done well to only miss one in all that time. Dave was an ever-present until the end of 2012, when his travels took their toll, but he's still managed 24 appearances.

Gary's made 20 appearances, as has Andy, who only made his debut in 2008, but has only missed one Headbang since then. Other attendees have been:

Malcolm	17
Jeb	14
Gerry	12
IPM	12
Steve	8
James	5
Dylan	3
Phil	1

Gary has been our host on 5 occasions, and Jeb once, but it has been Dave who has been a very genial host every other time.