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THE MEMBERS

the members

DATE: March 3, 1979 PLACE: Marquee PRICE: £1.50 Handling the big jets, Frustrated, Bagshot, Stand up and spit, Physical love, Phone-in show, Live in a lift, Soho a go-go, Solitary confinement, Chelsea night club, Sound of the suburbs Support: The Dials Waste of time, Boring, Nowhere

UFO

UFO

DATE: February 15, 1979 PLACE: Hammersmith Odeon PRICE: £3.00 Let It Roll/Natural Thing/Out In The Street/Hot n’ Ready/Cherry/On With The Action/Doctor Doctor/Only You Can Rock Me/Love To Love/Lights Out/Rock Bottom/Too Hot To Handle/Shoot Shoot Support: Liar

SKIDS

the skids

DATE: February 8, 1979 PLACE: Marquee PRICE: £1.25 Of one skin, Scared to Dance, Charles, Sweet Suburbia, All the young dudes, Night and day, The saints are coming, Walk on the wild side, Into the valley, TV Stars, Melancholy Soldiers, Six times, Calling the tone, Scale Support: The Tracks See you later, Gonna be a …

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NO DICE

no dice

DATE: December 30, 1978 PLACE: Marquee PRICE: £2.00 Come dancing, Happy in the Skoolyard, You can’t help yourself, Angel, Why sugar, Shooting in the dark, Keep it to myself, In the jailhouse Support: Harry Rabin My babe, Magnolia, Make your money green

IAN GILLAN BAND/STRIFE

gillan

DATE: December 27, 1978 PLACE: Marquee PRICE: £1.60   The only track I can remember is Child in Time Strife: Don’t know how to rock n’ roll, Feels so good, Indian Dream, Fool, Back streets of heaven

IOU BAND

DATE: December 12, 1978 PLACE: Corndolly, Oxford Night train, Sweet rock n’roll, Day tripper, Lady driver, Annabella, Never happened at all, Route 66 I was up for interview at Oxford and ripped my trousers climbing over the fence back into college after I had been locked out.

THE YACHTS

the yachts

DATE: October 29, 1978 PLACE: Marquee PRICE: 85p On and on, Look back in love (and not anger), Mantovani’s music, The yachting types, Hypnotising lies, Secret agent, Suffice to say Support: Deadringer Money, Down to the river, Population boom

STEVE HILLAGE

steve hillage

DATE: August 8, 1978 PLACE: Marquee PRICE: £1.40 Saucer Surfing, Searching for the Spark, Octave Doctors, Salmon Song, Palm Trees, Light in the sky, It’s getting better, Hurdy Gurdy Man, Radio, Sun Song, Lunar Musick Suite, Unidentified (flying being), The glorious Om riff, It’s all too much, Electrick Gypsies Recorded for a live album

THE REZILLOS

the rezillos

DATE: June 28, 1978 PLACE: Town Hall High Wycombe PRICE: £1.50 Flying Saucer attack, No, Somebody’s gonna get their head kicked in tonight, Top of the pops, It gets me, Can’t stand my baby, (my baby does) good sculptures, I like it, Getting me down, Smoke on the water, Twist and shout, Ballroom blitz, I …

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THE MOTORS

the motors

DATE: June 28, 1978 PLACE: Brunel University, Uxbridge PRICE: £1.60 Bring in the Morning light, Sensation, Cold love, Mama Rock n’ roller, Emergency, You beat the hell outa me, Be what you gotta be, Phoney heaven, Dancin’ the night away/ Airport, I can’t forget about you, Whisky and wine Support: The Jolt Numbers Include: I’m …

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