Mar 26
DATE: March 26, 1978
PLACE: Marquee
PRICE: £1.00
Run down, This perfect day, Stranded, Messin’ with the kid, No time, Demolition girl, Nights in Venice, Know your product, Do the robot, Orstralia, River Deep Mountain High, Stranded
Support: Coventry Automatics
It’s Up To You, Day Walker, Blank Expression
Coventry Automatics later became The Specials
Feb 18
DATE: February 18, 1978
PLACE: Friars, Aylesbury
PRICE: £1.95
EDDIE AND THE HOT RODS
That’s What I Want/Telephone Girl/What’s Really Going On/Quit This Town/Ignore Them/Life On The Line/96 Tears/Do Anything You Wanna Do/Beginning Of The End/Get Out Of Denver/Gimme Money/Schoolgirl
SQUEEZE
Sex Master/Bang Bang/Strong In Reason/She’s So Ugly/The Call/Backtrack
RADIO STARS
Good Personality/Talkin’ ‘Bout You/The Beast Of Barnsley/Is It Really Necessary/Eric/Arthur/Nervous Wreck/Macaroni n’ Mice/Johnny Mekon/No Russians in Russia/Dirty Pictures
Jan 21
DATE: January 21, 1978
PLACE: Dunstable Civic Hall
PRICE: £1.50
Exciter, White heat, Red hot, The Ripper, Sinner, Savage, Better by you, better than me, Diamonds and rust, Victim of changes, Beyond the realms of death, Genocide, Starbreaker, Tyrant
Support: The English Assassin
Back in the slam, Wildfire, Roadskid, Get crazy, Honky Tonk Women, Last of the dudes
Jan 21
DATE: January 21, 1978
PLACE: Friars, Aylesbury
PRICE: £1.45
I Can Tell/ Don’t Munchen It/Drinkin’ Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee/Sweet Love On My Mind/Gibson Martin Fender
Support: No Dice
Till You Do What They Say/You Can’t Help Yourself/Murder In The Rain/In The Jailhouse/Angel/Why Sugar/Someone Else’s Girl/Happy In The Skoolyard/Down and Dry/Shadows
Jan 06
DATE: January 6, 1978
PLACE: Marquee
PRICE: 60p
Why Sugar/People That Make The Music/You Can’t Help Yourself,/Happy In The Skoolyard/Fooling/So Why I/Murder In The Rain/In The Jailhouse/Someone Else’s Gold/Angel/Slow Down/Down And Dry
Support: Checkmate
Breaking Through/Cry For Me/Avant Garde Hero/Figures
Jan 02
DATE: January 2, 1978
PLACE: Marquee
PRICE: £1.00
Cop Cars, Tonight, Box Number, Tenement Kids, Tumble With Me, Soda Pressing, No Money, TCP, Do the Contract Hustle, I Don’t Care, First Time, Not Ready, Sick On You, Living In The City, The Worm Song
Dec 23
DATE: December 23, 1977
PLACE: Marquee
PRICE: £1.50
Bring in the morning light, Freeze, Cold love, You beat the hell out of me, Be what you gotta be, Emergency, Dancing the night away, Phoney heaven, Encore: Whisky and Wine, Sweet Little Rock n’Roller
Support: Bazoomi’s
Summertime Blues, Bundle, Pusher, Hot Stations, Rabies
Dec 17
DATE: December 17, 1977
PLACE: Rainbow, Finsbury Park
PRICE: £2.00
Neon Heart, Don’t believe what you read, Joey, Do the Rat, Mary of the 4th Form, Looking after no.1, Born to burn, Close as you’ll ever be, Never bite the hand that feeds, Feel so strange, kicks, She’s so modern, Barefootin’
The Yachts
Hypnotising lies, Secret Agent, Mantovani’s Music
Blast Furnace and the Heatwave
Numbers included: Ready for you, going through the motions, Don’t worry ‘bout that, Shame Shame Shame, Don’t start me talking, Keep on Dancing
Dec 09
DATE: December 9, 1977
PLACE: Brunel University, Uxbridge
PRICE: 80p
Smile, One night In Texas, Livewire, Take A Life, Houdini, Stone Free, Feel Like I’ve Been Here Before, Percy the Pimp, How Could I Forget You?
Support: Strife
Shockproof, School, Feels so good, You don’t know, Number one, Back streets of heaven, Indian Dream
Nov 16
DATE: December 16, 1977
PLACE: Brunel University, Uxbridge
PRICE: £1.75
God Save The Queen/I Wanna Be Me/New York/Seventeen/EMI/Holidays In The Sun/Bodies/Belsen Is A Gas/Submission/Pretty Vacant/No Feelings/Problems/Anarchy In The UK/No Fun/Liar, God Save The Queen
Blistering, snarling first tour. A roadie played Sid’s bass lines from behind a curtain. Best gig ever – see Top Ten.
Steve Jones on stage that night.
Archive shot of gig at Queensway Hall, Dunstable, Oct ’76. Who knew he played a Flying V?
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