gigography 1977-1982 updated 20 July 2005
May 1977 a
basement restaurant somewhere in Manchester
The Fall's first
gig was part of the Manchester Musician's Collective, organized by
Dick Witts and Trevor Wishart. Dick Witts recalls the venue as being
"like a fashionable restaurant in the late 70s, with everything white.
It was done out like a small white cave. We just took the tables and
chairs out. Mark and Martin, who were taller than the others, had
to bend down because of the low ceiling. It wasn't really public,
the audience was just a group of other musicians sitting around listening."
Martin Bramah
recalls, ""The first gig was recorded, so somebody might have
a tape somewhere. It was a small room and about half the audience
was The Buzzcocks. Mark just let fly with such venom from day one.
I remember he just sort of reached into the audience and virtually
poked his finger up Howard Devoto's nose."
The set included
Hey Fascist, Race Hatred, Bingo Master's Breakout, and closed with
Repetition. Una Baines had not yet got a bank loan for a keyboard
so watched from the audience; the drummer was "Dave," an
insurance salesman and "rabid conservative" who lasted just
the one gig.
Details about
this and a few other 1977 gigs are taken from Simon Ford's excellent
article in the May 2002 issue of Wire.
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Friday, June
3 1977 Squat Club, Devas Street, Manchester
The band's second
gig was part of a "Stuff the Jubilee" festival -- also on
the bill were the Drones, Warsaw, the Worst, and the Negatives (w/Kevin
Cummings on drums). The set included Una Baines playing the national
anthem on keyboards. No tape exists?
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Saturday, June
25 1977 North East London Polytechnic, Longbridge Road,
Barking
Rock Against Racism
benefit supporting Buzzcocks and the Verbals. Fourth band on the bill
were the Sockets, who became the Purple Hearts. After the gig they
were courted by Gary Bushell. No tape exists?
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Monday, July
4 1977 The Vortex at Crackers, 203 Wardour Street, Soho,
London
Opening night
of the Vortex. No tape exists? Supporting were John Cooper Clarke
and Buzzcocks. From George Gimarc's Punk Diary 1970-1979: "Opening
act The Fall are greeted with great indifference. Their music is aggressive
but not as banal as some openers can be. It's only The Fall's sixth-ever
gig. They got together in Manchester late last year and have a harsh,
unschooled approach to music."
An advert in Melody
Maker (2 July 1977) gives The Fall second billing between Buzzcocks
and John Cooper Clarke and DJ Nic Lee. The bar stayed open till 2
am and entrance cost £1. It was the grand opening night of the
club. Although not advertised playing two numbers that night were
Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers. No tape exists?
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Friday, July
22 1977 Hulme Labour Club, Manchester
Supporting Buzzcocks.
No tape exists?
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mid-August 1977
The Ranch, Manchester
Three photographs
from this gig are in Brian Edge's Paintwork book . No
tape exists?
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Friday, September
2 1977 Kirby Suite, Kirby, Knowsley, Merseyside
Supporting Buzzcocks.
No tape exists?
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September (October?)
1977 The Marquee, London
Supporting the
Worst and Buzzcocks. No tape exists?
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Tuesday, September
6 1977 Barbarella's, Birmingham
Supporting the
Worst and Buzzcocks. No tape exists?
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Sunday, October
2 1977 Electric Circus, Manchester
Stepping Out /
Last Orders
Very incomplete
from the Short Circuit: Live at the Electric Circus e.p. Not
November 2 as stated in the liner notes. The bill on the Electric
Circus's last night were Warsaw, Prefects, Worst, Fall, Magazine (their
first gig), Buzzcocks. Someone somewhere must have the full set on
tape.
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Thursday, October
20 1977 Katie's, Nottingham
Supported by the
Worst and the Slugs. No tape exists?
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Friday, October
28 1977 Rafters, 65 Oxford Road, Manchester
Supporting Magazine.
No tape exists?
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Sunday, November
13 1977 Band on the Wall, Swan Street, Manchester
Not sure if this
gig happened. No tape exists?
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Friday, November
18 1977 Eric's, 9 Mathew Street, Liverpool
Second on the
bill, between the Toilets and Buzzcocks. No tape exists?
Thanks to Michael for his Eric's membership card (I think this is actually from 1979).
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Friday, December
16 1977 St. John's College, Manchester
With Manicured
Noise and The Elite. No tape exists?
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Saturday, December
17 1977 Eric's, Liverpool
With Penetration.
75p for members, £1 for guests. No tape exists?
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Friday, December
23 1977 Stretford Civic Centre, 1 Chester Road, Manchester
Psycho Mafia /
Last Orders / Repetition / Dresden Dolls / Hey Fascist / Frightened
/ Industrial Estate / Stepping Out / Bingo Master's Breakout / Oh
Brother / Cop It / Futures and Pasts / Louie Louie (with John the
Postman
Tony Friel's last
Fall gig. Supporting were John Cooper Clarke and the Worst. Poor quality
recording released as Live 1977 on Voiceprint/Cog
Sinister in January 2000.
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Friday, January
13 1978 Huddersfield Polytechnic
Psycho Mafia /
Hey Fascist / Stepping Out / Repetition / Dresden Dolls / Bingo Master's
Breakout / Frightened / Industrial Estate / Futures and Pasts / You
Don't Turn Me On
Apart from the
Live 1977 gig, this is the earliest gig in circulation,
and unfortunately one of the worst-sounding tapes as well--perhaps
the worst. Only a few seconds of You Don't Turn Me On survived--someone
please correct me if I'm wrong! Also on the bill: The Doll, The Prefects,
Sham 69. Here's Danny Baker's review from
Zig Zag.
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Friday, March
3 1978 Rafter's, Manchester
With Wayne County
and the Electric Chairs and Levi and the Rockats. No tape exists?
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Friday, April
7 1978 Eric's, Liverpool
No tape exists?
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Sunday, April
30 1978 Band on the Wall, Manchester
With the Mechanics
and the Elite. No tape exists?
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Sunday, May 7
1978 Foxes at the Greyhound, Park Lane, Croydon
Psycho Mafia /
Mother-Sister / Like to Blow / Music Scene / Industrial Estate / Bingo
Master's Breakout / Repetition / Rebellious Jukebox / Hey Fascist
/ Stepping Out
Supporting Siouxsie
and the Banshees
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Saturday, May
13 1978 (afternoon) Challenge Festival, London
Possibly organized
by a communist group. Entrance fee of £1. No tape exists?
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Saturday, May
13 1978 (evening) Goldsmith's College Student Union, Lewisham
Way, London
With Tony Friel's
new band the Passage, also John Cooper Clarke and Patrik Fitzgerald.
No tape exists?
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Friday, May 26
1978 The Squat, Manchester (Rock Against Racism benefit)
Supported by Nives
and Mekon. The set included ‘Mess of My’, ‘Rebellious
Jukebox’, ‘Psycho Mafia’, ‘Frightened’
and ‘Hey Fascist.’ No tape exists?
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Tuesday, May
30 1978 John Peel Session (broadcast June 15)
Rebellious Jukebox
/ Mother-Sister / Industrial Estate / Futures and Pasts
Mark E Smith -
vocals; Martin Bramah - guitar, bass, backing vocals; Yvonne Pawlett
- keyboards; Karl Burns - drums; Steve Davis - congas. Produced by
Tony Wilson, engineered by Mike Robinson. Rebellious Jukebox has been
released on the Peel Sessions album. All 4 tracks have been released
on the Words Of Expectation 2CD compilation.
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Sunday, June
11 1978 Band on the Wall, Manchester
With F.C. Demestos
and Mekon. Marc Riley's first gig, according to Yvonne Pawlett.
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Friday, June
16 1978 Droylsden (near Manchester)
Supported by the
Distractions, John the Postman, and Purile. No tape exists?
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Tuesday, June
20 1978 Leeds Polytechnic
No tape exists?
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Sunday, June
25 1978 Band on the Wall, Manchester
Spherical Objects
supporting. No tape exists?
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Friday, July
14 1978 UMIST, Manchester
Supporting the
Rich Kids. The set included ‘Psycho Mafia’, ‘Stepping
Out’, ‘Frightened’, ‘It’s a New Thing’
and ‘Music Scene’. No tape exists?
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Saturday, July
22 1978 Deeply Vale People's Free Festival
Repetition / Psycho Mafia / Rebellious Jukebox / Frightened / Steppin' Out / Like to Blow / Mess of My / Mother-Sister / Industrial Estate / It's the New Thing / Futures and Pasts / Music Scene
Lineup: The Restricted
/ The Fall / The Durutti Column / Alternative TV / Accident on the
East Lancs / Alchemist / Hammerston Street / Victor Brox / Seventh
Angel / Here & Now. It was later
estimated that 18,000 people attended the festival.
Dave: "You
say about 18,000 people attended Deeply Vale July 78. I was there
- no more than 3000 at most I would say. Anyway, I seem to remember
seeing the Fall there - memory a
little hazy so I may be completely wrong - they played in the pouring
rain. About 30 people
in front of the stage (me included) everyone else huddling in tents
and under bin bags.
Just me and my brother and a few strangers shuffling about in front
of the high stage. Most
animated punter was .... you guessed it - Jon The Postman - oblivious
to the elements. Can
anyone else corroborate my story?"
later Dave added:
"There were 20,000 people there!!! The Fall did play in the afternoon
and the afternoon was compered by Tony Wilson. Been thinking about
the 78 festival - it wasn't entirely a pleasant
experience - Hell's Angels drove through the middle of the site
on motorbikes and generally behaved aggressively. Looking into
people's tents looking for Punks to beat up. Police turned up on
site. Things
got a bit threatening so I left late one night and went home!
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Friday, July
28 1978 Eric's, Liverpool
With John Cooper
Clarke. No tape exists?
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Aug 1978 Band
on the Wall, Manchester
Rebellious Jukebox
/ Psycho Mafia / Mother-Sister / Like to Blow / Repetition / Industrial
Estate / Mess of My / Stepping Out / Brand New Cadillac / Frightened
/ Futures and Pasts
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Saturday, August
19 1978 Apollo, Manchester
Supporting The
Rezillos. Also appearing was The Squares. Set includes: ‘Psycho-Mafia’,
‘Steppin’ Out’, ‘Two Steps Back’, ‘It’s
The New Thing’ and ‘Music Scene’. No tape exists?
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Aug 20 1978 Lyceum,
The Strand, London
Rebellious Jukebox
/ Like To Blow / Frightened / Stepping Out / Mess Of My / It's The
New Thing / Various Times / Bingo Masters Breakout / Industrial Estate
/ Music Scene
With
Penetration (headlining), Ed Banger, the Group Therapy, and Punishment
of Luxury. Tickets £2 in advance, £2.25 on door. A
couple of photos from this gig from Paintwork.
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Monday, Aug 21
1978 Tower Club, Oldham
Repetition / Like
to Blow / Frightened / Stepping Out / Mess of My / It's the New Thing
/ Various Times / Futures and Pasts / Bingo Master's Breakout / Industrial
Estate / Psycho Mafia / Mother-Sister / Music Scence
Supporting Here
and Now on a "free tour," Wilful Damage also on the bill.
Some tapes are missing Various Times and Mess of My.
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Tuesday, August
22 1978 Mr. Pickwick's, Liverpool
Like to Blow /
Stepping Out / Two Steps Back / Mess of My / It's the New Thing /
Various Times / Bingo Master's Breakout / Frightened / Industrial
Estate / Psycho Mafia / Music Scene / Mother-Sister
Supporting Here
and Now. Gig released on Cog Sinister / Voiceprint in June, 2001 --
supposedly mastered from a cassette bought at a market stall.
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Friday, September
8 1978 Marquee, London
Supported by the
Bristol group, Gardez Darkx. Admission 75p. No tape exists?
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Thursday, September
21 1978 Harp Lounge, Belfast
Supported by Protex.
A Good Vibes / Alternative Ulster Co-Production. No tape exists.
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Friday, September
22 1978 Harp Lounge, Belfast
Rebellious Jukebox
/ Like To Blow / Futures and Pasts / Various Times / It's The New
Thing / No Xmas For John Quays/ Stepping Out / Frightened / Psycho
Mafia / Mother- Sister / Last Orders / Repetition / Industrial Estate
/ Bingo Masters Breakout
Supported by Protex.
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Monday, September
25 1978 Music Machine, Camden High Street, opposite Mornington
Crescent tube stop, London
Intro / Futures
and Pasts / Like To Blow / Two Steps Back / Rebellious Jukebox / It's
the New Thing / Various Times / Stepping Out / No Xmas For John Quays
/ Frightened
With fellow Step
Forward artistes Chelsea and the Snivelling Shits (fronted by music
journalist Giovanni Dadamo) the latter had a single released ‘Terminal
Stupid’ on Ghetto Records around this time. Adminssion £1.
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Firday, September
29 1978 The Factory, Manchester
Supporting Chelsea(?);
Emergency also on the bill. No tape exists?
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Thursday, October
5 1978 Kelly's, Manchester
With the Distractions
and Militant Frank. First night in a series of RAR gigs. No tape exists?
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Saturday, October
21 1978 Manchester Polytechnic
A ‘Leveller’
benefit. Also appearing: The Passage, The Distractions, Crass and
Agony Column. No tape exists?
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Friday, October
27 1978 Leeds Polytechnic
No tape exists?
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Monday, October
30 1978 Band on the Wall, Manchester
With Rodent Enterprises.
No tape exists?
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Friday, November
3 1978 Eric's, Liverpool
With The Prefects.
Members £1, guests £1.25. 8.30 pm - 2 am. No tape exists?
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Monday, November
13 1978 Warrington
No tape exists?
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Tuesday, November
21 1978 Apollo, Manchester
With A Certain
Ratio and Grow Up. No tape exists? Yvonne Pawlett says they played
the Band on the Wall this night - did they do both shows on the same
day?
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Saturday, November
25 1978 Prestwich Hospital Social Club
Stepping Out /
Bingo Master's Breakout / Rebellious Jukebox / Two Steps Back / No
Xmas for John Quays / Put Away / Mother-Sister / Like to Blow / Mess
of My / Underground Medicin / It's the New Thing / Repetition / My
Condition / Industrial Estate / Futures and Pasts / Frightened
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Monday, November
27 1978 John Peel Session (broadcast December 12)
Put Away / Mess
of My / No Xmas for John Quays / Like to Blow
Mark E Smith -
vocals; Martin Bramah - guitar, bass, backing vocals; Yvonne Pawlett
- keyboards; Marc Riley - bass; Karl Burns - drums. Produced by Bob
Sargeant, engineered by Dave Dade & Brian Tuck. The complete session
was released on the Peel Session EP (12" & CD). Mess Of My
was also on the Peel Sessions album. All 4 tracks have been released
on the Words Of Expectation 2CD compilation.
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Saturday, December
2 1978 The Factory, Manchester
No tape exists?
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Monday, December
4 1978 Bolton Technical College
Supporting Here
and Now. Also appearing were Danny and the Dressmakers and Wilful
Damage. No tape exists?
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Thursday, December
7 1978 Strathclyde University, Glasgow
With Here and
Now and Patrik Fitgerald. No tape exists?
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Friday, December
8 1978 Dundee
Frightened (soundcheck)
Stepping Out /
Like To Blow / Underground Medecin / Two Steps Back / It's the New
Thing / Mother-Sister / Industrial Estate / Frightened / No Xmas for
John Quays / Rebellious Jukebox / Put Away / Repetition
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Saturday, December
9 1978 Stirling University
With Here and
Now.
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Sunday, December
17 1978 Marquee, London
It's the New Thing
/ Rebellious Jukebox / Two Steps Back / Put Away / Like to Blow /
Frightened / Underground Medicin / Industrial Estate / My Condition
/ Mess of My / No Xmas for John Quays / Psycho Mafia / Various Times
/ Futures and Pasts / Stepping Out / Music Scene
£1. With
fellow Manchester band, Manicured Noise. Tape also circulates as "Marquee
December 1979" so watch out.
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Thursday, December
28 1978 Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High Street, London
£2. Supported
by Subway Sect and Monochrome Set (advert in NME, 23 Dec. 1978, p.
59). No tape exists?
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Saturday, December
30 1978 The Venue, Manchester (aka New Electric Circus)
No tape exists?
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1979? Cleopatra's,
Huddersfield
No tape exists?
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Wednesday, February
14 1979 Bowden Vale Social Club, Altrincham
Under 18s (6:35
p.m.):
Jumper Clown intro / Printhead / Mess of My / Psycho Mafia / A Figure
Walks / Underground Medicine / It's the New Thing / Various Times
/ Rebellious Jukebox / Stepping Out / Let's (aka Pop Stickers) / Put
Away / No Xmas for John Quays / Psycho Mafia (again)
Over 18s (9:55
p.m.):
Jumper Clown intro / It's the New Thing / Put Away / A Figure Walks
/ Printhead / Mess of My / Various Times / No Xmas for John Quays
/ Rebellious Jukebox / 2 Steps Back / Let's (aka Pop Stickers) / Music
Scene / Psycho Mafia / Stepping Out
50p each show.
Many thanks to David Johnston.
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Friday, February
17 1979 Manchester Polytechnic
Intro / Printhead
/ Various Times / Mess of My / Underground Medecin / It's the New
Thing / Two Steps Back / No Xmas for John Quays
Possibly Monday,
Feb. 19, not the 17th. Above set list incomplete?
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Sunday, February
25 1979 Lyceum, London
The night was
promoted by Straight Music and the headlining act was Generation X.
UK Subs (not the Mekons as previously reported) third on the bill.
Admission £2.50. No tape exists?
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Monday, February
26 1979 Carlton Club, Warrington
The night was
promoted by Straight Music and the headlining act was Generation X.
The Mekons third on the bill. Admission £2.50. No tape exists?
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Thursday, March
1 1979 The Nashville Room, North End Road, London (adj.
W. Kensington Tube)
Jumper Clown /
It's the New Thing / Printhead / A Figure Walks / Bingo Master's Breakout
/ Mess of My / Rebellious Jukebox / Various Times / No Xmas for John
Quays / Let's (aka Pop Stickers) / Underground Medicin / Music Scene
/ Stepping Out / Two Steps Back
Admission 75p.
Supporting was Staff 9 with Craig Scanlon and Steve Hanley.
Here's a photo of Staff 9 at the Bowden Vale Youth Club, Altrincham, taken in March 1979. They were supporting Joy Division. Thanks to Martin O'Neill and Michael Eastwood.
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Friday, March
2 1979 Lafayette, Wolverhampton
No tape exists?
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March? April?
1979 Wellington Club, Hull
Adam Marshall
promises he'll dig out the set list Mark sent him after the gig. Mind
you he's been promsing that since about 1997. No tape exists?
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Saturday, March
17 1979 The Plough Inn, Cheltenham
With support from
Illegal Records' Vermilion. No tape exists?
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Sunday, March
18 1979 Royal Standard, Bradford
No tape exists?
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Wednesday, March
21 1979 Pop Club, York
No tape exists?
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Friday, March
23 1979 King's Hall, Belle Vue, Manchester
Supporting Buzzcocks.
In interview [Ian Penman, ‘All Fall Down’, NME, 5 January
1980] Smith later says gig attended by 4000 people. No tape exists?
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Sunday, March
25 1979 Lyceum, London
A Figure Walks
/ When the Moon Falls / Underground Medicin / Music Scene
£2.50 advance.
The infamous Gig Of The Century, with Stiff Little Fingers, Gang of
Four, Human League, Mekons, and the Good Missionaries (featuring Mark
Perry). My first Fall gig, although I was there to see the Gang of
Four and SLF. Mark was attacked by a stage invader during the Fall's
set but carried on with intensity. Here's an excellent review
of the night by Charles Sharr Murray.
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Wednesday, March
28 1979 Hazel Grove Youth Club, Hazel Grove, Stockport
No tape exists?
Mark Wilson writes: "I just checked out my diary of that day and
it says that they played amongst others: No Xmas For JK, Psycho
Mafia, Bingo MB, It's the New Thing
and Stepping Out as the last song. Support was from a band called
Illustration [with Julia Nagle, I believe - ed].
"MES introduced
the set with: 'We are The Fall. Rule One: no-one gets on stage.
Rule Two: no spitting. Rule Three: no requests' something that
is somehow imprinted in my head after nearly a quarter of a century
- and still makes me laugh. However, despite being really grumpy
throughout the set, he must have relented on Rule Three as we all
kept shouting for Last Orders and Stepping Out. If my memory serves
me right, he said 'Go on then.... I used to believe everything
I read, but now I'm stepping out' and the band kicked in. We jumped
/ pogoed like mad."
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Friday, March
30 1979 Eric's, Liverpool
No tape exists?
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Tuesday, April
3 1979 Barbarella's, Birmingham
With Lew Lewis's
Reformer supporting. No tape exists?
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Wednesday, April
4 1979 Stowaway Club, Newport
No tape exists?
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Thursday, April
5 1979 Knight's Grange Barn, Winsford
No tape exists?
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Saturday, April
14 1979 Sandpiper Club, Nottingham
No tape exists?
With the Shapes supporting. Stephen: "Can't remember too much
of what they played, intro was Printhead, including the "3 rules of
audience". No Xmas for John Quays was in there as well. Encore was
Bingo Masters, which only happened after Kay Carroll harangued the
audience."
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Tuesday, April
17 1979 Tops Club, Plymouth
No tape exists?
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Wednesday, April
18 1979 Grand Hotel, Dawlish
No tape exists?
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Martin
Bramah leaves the band and the following gigs are cancelled:
Porterhouse Club, Retford; The Limit, Sheffield; Ajanta Cinema, Derby;
Newport Village; the Factory, Manchester; Dudley JB’s; and Norwich
Boogie House.
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May 1979 Lyceum,
London
Printhead / Mess
of My / Various Times / No Xmas for John Quays / It's the New Thing
/ 2 Steps Back / Let's (aka Pop Stickers) / Psycho Mafia
Incomplete?
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Wednesday, May
9 1979 Music Hall, Aberdeen
Probably the first
gig with Craig Scanlon and Steve Hanley. No tape exists? Previewed
by Brian Aitken and Kevin Knight in Aberdeen's Evening
Express - "The Fall: Lacking in humour, but undoubtedly punk."
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Thursday, May
10 1979 Astoria, Edinburgh
No tape exists?
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Friday, May 11
1979 Wigton Market Hall, near Carlisle
No tape exists?
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Saturday, May
12 1979 Bolton Polytechnic
No tape exists?
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Tuesday, May
15 1979 Digbeth Civic Hall, Birmingham
With the Prefects.
No tape exists?
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Thursday, May
17 1979 Tiffany's, Coventry
No tape exists?
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Friday, May 18
1979 Apollo, Manchester
With Penetration
and Cowboys International. No tape exists?
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May 26 1979 Corn
Exchange, Cambridge
My second Fall
gig, this time to see schoolmates from Parkside Community College
in the Transmitters and The Sinix. Dolly Mixture and The Users were
also on the bill. Sad to say that in 1979 I had little interest in
the Fall (nor did I until hearing New Face in Hell on a John Peel
session over a year later), so now I'm kicking myself for not paying
attention at this early Craig/Steve gig. Here's a review
from the Cambridge zine Harsh Reality and a scan
of my ticket. And here are scans of the two flyers for the gig: flyer
1, flyer 2. And the poster,
which now hangs above my computer at home.
No tape exists?
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Thursday, June
14 1979 Derby
No tape exists?
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Saturday, June
16 1979 New Planet City, Lancaster
Many thanks to
Steve Crow for the programme
and autographs.
Benefit gig for
New Planet City's Youth Centre. In conjunction with Lancaster Multi
Cultural Festival. Bands paid expenses only. Also appearing: China
Street, The Smirks, and Interference. £1.25. No tape exists?
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Thursday,
June 28 1979 Hull
No tape exists?
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Friday,
July 6 1979 Eric's, Liverpool
No tape exists?
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Saturday, July
7 1979 Rochdale Technical College
No tape exists?
Reviewed in the July 28,
1979 Sounds by Mick Middles.
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Friday, July
20 1979 The Factory, Manchester
No tape exists?
Echo and the Bunnymen supporting.
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Saturday, July
28 1979 Mayflower Club, Gorton, Manchester
No setlist, but
the flyer says:
Stuff the Superstars
Funhouse Special Festival. The Hamsters / Elti Fits / Armed Force
/ Frantic Elevators (including Mick Hucknall) / Joy Division / Ludus
/ The Liggers / The Wall / The Distractions / John the Postman [or
‘Jon The Postman’s Psychedelic Five’ according to
Sounds]. The bill in order of appearance according to McCullough:
The Hamsters, Frantic Elevators, Joy Division, Ludus, Liggers, The
Fall, Distractions, John The Postman [McCullough, Dave. ‘Stuff
the Superstars Special, Manchester’, Sounds, 4 August 1979,
p. 45.]
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Sunday, July
29 1979 Marquee, London
Before the Moon
Falls / Stepping Out / Printhead / A Figure Walks / Psycho Mafia /
In My Area / Rowche Rumble / Rebellious Jukebox / No Xmas for John
Quays / Choc Stock / Your Heart Out / ? / Mess of My / Various Times
/ Put Away
Last time they
played here it was 75p. This gig was £1.50.
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Monday, August
6 1979 People's Free Festival, Deeply Vale
No tape exists? Photos courtesy http://www.deeplyvale.com - there's a good one of Grant Showbiz as well
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Thursday, August
9 1979 Marquee, London (wrong venue?)
Before The Moon
Falls / Stepping Out / Printhead / In My Area / Rowche Rumble / Psycho
Mafia / A Figure Walks / Rebellious Jukebox / Muzorewi's Daughter
/ Your Heart Out / Dice Man / Various Times / Chock-Stock / No Xmas
for John Quays / Psykick Dancehall / Put Away / In My Area
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Friday, August
24 1979 Funhouse, Manchester
With the Liggers
and Glass Animals. No tape exists?
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Saturday, September
1 1979 JB's, Dudley (date may be wrong)
Before the Moon
Falls / Rowche Rumble / Flat of Angles / Rebellious Jukebox / 2nd
Dark Age / Stepping Out / Muzorewi's Daughter / Fiery Jack / No Xmas
for John Quays / In My Area / A Figure Walks
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Sunday, September
9 1979 Futurama, Queen's Hall, Leeds
The first Futurama
festival. Saturday night was headlined by PiL, with support from Cabaret
Voltaire, A Certain Ratio, OMD and Joy Division. Sunday saw Echo And
The Bunnymen, The Fall, Hawkwind and The Only Ones. No tape exists?
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Saturday, September
15 1979 Prince of Wales Conference Centre, below the YMCA
Building, Gt. Russell Street, London
Psykick Dancehall
/ Rebellious Jukebox / A Figure Walks / Choc Stock / Rowche Rumble
/ Fiery Jack / Muzoweri's Daughter / No Xmas for John Quays / In My
Area / Before the Moon Falls / Dice Man / Spectre vs. Rector / Printhead
/ Psycho Mafia
This tape also
circulates with Session Musician at the end, which didn't exist until
1981, and a poorer quality version circulates with the date July 17,
1979. Attendee Tim Wilcox: "Supporting were Methodisch Tune (writer
Ian Penman's band - that's not a typo!), Scritti Politti (in the days
when they were experimental and before Green decided to become a pop
star). In the audience were Peter Purvis from 'Blue Peter' and Mike
Robinson from 'Fingerbobs'." Admission £2.
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Monday, October
8 1979 Eric's, Liverpool
No tape exists?
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Tuesday, October
23 1979 Brunel Rooms, Swindon
No tape exists?
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Wednesday, October
24 1979 Penthouse Basement, Sheffield
No tape exists?
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Thursday, October
25 1979 Fan Club, Leeds
With Tymon Dog
and Performance Anxiety supporting. No tape exists?
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Friday, October
26 1979 Penthouse, Scarborough
No tape exists?
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Saturday, October
27 1979 Bircoats Leisure Centre, Doncaster
I think tracks
1 through 6 of Totale's Turns [Intro / Fiery Jack
/ Rowche Rumble / Muzorewi's Daughter / In My Area / Choc-Stock] are
from this gig. Supported by the Kickstarts. No complete tape exists?
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Thursday, November
1 1979 Palm Cove, Bradford
No tape exists?
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Friday, November
2 1979 Newport Village
No tape exists?
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Saturday, November
3 1979 JB's Club, Dudley
No tape exists?
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Sunday, November
4 1979 Rock Garden, Middlesborough
Crap Rap > Printhead
/ Rowche Rumble / A Figure Walks / Rebellious Jukebox / 2nd Dark
Age / Various Times / No Xmas for John Quays / Muzorewi's Daughter
/ In My Area / Choc Stock / Fiery Jack / Psycho Mafia / That Man
There may be
two versions of this gig in circulation - the one I have is missing
Various Times and Psycho Mafia
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Wednesday, November
7 1979 London School of Economics
Photos from this
gig in Paintwork. No tape exists?
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Thursday, November
8 1979 Eric's, Liverpool
Kiley, Penny.
‘The Fall, Eric’s, Liverpool’, Melody Maker, 17
November 1979, p. 37:
"It’s
been tempting in the past to write off the Fall. After all, they’ve
changed line-up more than Jimmy Pursey’s retired ... The most
disturbing part is the voice - the arrogance of that nagging monotone
lightened only by the occasional scream. ... Mark Smith is the Fall,
the focal point of the group. Hunched, awkward, he typifies the
poet as misfit ... Some people even try to dance. ‘Choc Stock’
is almost jolly, yet the idea of dancers seems unreal, as that sarcastic
voice issues from the anti-hero, with his back to the audience.
... Are The Fall the thinking man’s Public Image?"
No tape exists?)
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Friday, November
9 1979 Stockport Technical College
No tape exists?
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Saturday, November
10 1979 Norbeck Castle, Blackpool
No tape exists?
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Monday, November
12 1979 Preston Polytechnic
Fiery Jack / Choc
Stock / Rowche Rumble / Cary Grant's Wedding / Stepping Out / 2nd
Dark Age / Muzorewi's Daughter
Incomplete?
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Tuesday, November
13 1979 Cromwell's, Norwich
No tape exists?
With D.A.F.
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Wednesday, November
14 1979 Cascade, Shrewsbury
No tape exists?
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Thursday, November
15 1979 Dacorum College, Hemel Hempstead
This and a few
other Nov. 79 dates from this NME
ad for Dragnet (thanks to John Roberts for scanning it in. No
tape exists?
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Friday, November
16 1979 Porterhouse, 20 Carolgate, Retford, Notts.
Psykick Dancehall
/ Rowche Rumble / Flat of Angles / 2nd Dark Age / Rebellious Jukebox
/ Muzorewi's Daughter / In My Area / Choc-Stock / Printhead / A Figure
Walks / Fiery Jack / No Xmas for John Quays / Psycho Mafia
Thanks to John
Roberts for a scan of the NME review.
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Saturday, November
17 1979 Brighton Polytechnic
No tape exists?
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Sunday, November
18 1979 Marquee, London
Admission £1.75.
No tape exists?
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Thursday, November
22 1979 Warehouse, Hemel Lane, Walton-le-Dale, Preston
No tape exists?
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late Nov 1979
Emerald City, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
No tape exists?
John Kempski thinks the supporting band may have been Oingo Boingo,
and remembers that "MES had his back to the audience the entire
show."
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late Nov 1979
Hot Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
No tape exists?
Either the night before or after the Cherry Hill gig.
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Saturday, December
1 1979 Palladium Theater, New York
Fiery Jack / Muzorewi's
Daughter / Rowche Rumble / Various Times / Psykick Dancehall / Flat
of Angles / Choc-Stock
Incomplete? Supporting
Buzzcocks. Guy Ewald in the February 1980 New York Rocker:
"The second-billed Fall saved the show for me. What an attitude
on these guys -- they acted like the audience wasn't even there. Lead
singer Mark E. Smith casually paced the stage, one hand in his pocket,
as he sang, screamed, screeched and preached over the band's pumping,
menacing drone. Without traditional R&R dynamics, the Fall constructed
an impressive wall of sound; the set ended with the guitarists crouched
over their small amplifiers, wrestling the last sounds from their
instruments. A few heads bobbed, a few mouths booed, but as Smith
would later tell the NYR, the Fall are "not about rock 'n' roll,"
but ideas. An intriguing and highly original band."
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Monday, December
3 1979 The Club, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Psykick Dancehall
/ Rebellious Jukebox / Various Times / Rowche Rumble / Your Heart
Out / Muzorewi's Daughter / Choc-Stock / Fiery Jack / Rebellious Jukebox
[again] / No Xmas For John Quays / A Figure Walks / 2nd Dark Age /
Rowche Rumble [again] / Repetition
Fiery Jack includes
lyrics from "Before The Moon Falls"
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Wednesday, December 5 1979 Catamaran Hotel, San Diego, California
No tape exists? Bill: "I have been a Fall fan fan for over 25 years and have found no reference to the first gig I saw of them. It was in San Diego, CA, around '78-'79 at a Polynesian style restaurant/nightclub called The Catamaran. They opened for Iggy Pop and had Berlin(!) open for them. They were received poorly as the jock type crowd was apparently there for Iggy. They sang a long version of Rowche Rumble, I never saw or heard of them before this and all I could think of was who the hell are these fuckers singing about "Valium, unh-unh" and the crowd was throwing drinks and Mark E. only got angrier and more insulting as the reception got worse, which turned me around and I began to respect their guts for continuing at all with such a hateful crowd. I later heard "Totally Wired" at a friends house and began buying their records, no easy feat in a cultural backwater like S.D."
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Thursday, December
6 1979 Madame Wong's West, Santa Monica, California
Mike recalls:
"The "Opening Band" was the Nu Kats - not oingo
boingo (by comparison oingo boingo would've been a godsend), a god-awful
local new wave band with "Bobbie Zio" on sax and vocals (ask Mark
about these clowns one day why dontcha: we -him and me- were laughing
our asses off at them). They kinda however were the headliner (regardless
of what anybody wants to twist history into). They had a big local
draw. There was a band before them and then the Fall came on after
them, but back then Madame Wong's would always have the headliners
in the middle of the bill. The Fall fans loathed the nukats and the
nukats fans loathed the fall. Once they started leaving during the
fall's set (man did that place clear out quick ! just as well....the
stench of spandex was getting kinda unbearable) there were maybe 25
- 30 of the original 125-150 people that were in the place at the
end of the nukats set. The bill made NO sense at all (but then alot
of bills in LA in those days made no sense).
"The Fall were
really good at Wong's West (so I thought driving home), but...........
.........the Anticlub show [Dec. 14] WAS awesome. EASILY one
of the best 5 -10 shows (out of about 500+) I have ever seen by
anyone ever. In comparison to the anticlub show the wong's show
was totally half-assed."
TJ: "The
Nu Kats -- a horrid skinny-tie/spiky-hairdo "new wave" band
-- was fronted by Freddie Moore, who was the husband at that time
of one Demi Moore (who has retained his surname to this day). They
had a huge following for a brief moment and then disappeared shortly
thereafter, mercifully never to be heard from again."
Greg from Artifix
Records: "Hello. I recently spoke to Rick, bass
player for CATHOLIC DISCIPLINE, and he also recalls playing with
the FALL. He remembers that it was the same night as their Dec. 6th,
1979 show at Madame Wong's West in L.A. Rick remembers that they
played at
Madame Wong's then ran over to play at the Anti-Club with CATHOLIC
DISCIPLINE. Rick
remembers that this show was only the two bands playing together
and that everyone was drinking heavily. Small crowd, but great time."
"Can
you supply any evidence for this date at the Anti-Club? Rick
says he remembers that it was this date as he ripped a flyer off
of the Madame Wong's wall before going over to the Anti-Club for
the late set. Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks, Greg
-Artifix Records"
Unfortunately
I can't supply any evidence for this gig at the Anti-Club, but
it seems quite possible. Can anyone help?
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Thursday, December
13 1979 Al's Bar , Los Angeles, California
Skip King says
this gig didn't happen, otherwise he would've gone. Nevertheless here's
a flyer.
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Friday, December
14 1979 Hope Street Hall, Los Angeles, California
Opening for X
and the Germs before heading over to the Anticlub. Many thanks to
Skip King for scanning Mark's handmade flyer announcing both gigs.
No tape exists?
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Friday, December
14 1979 Anticlub, Los Angeles, California
Psykick Dancehall
/ Rowche Rumble / Flat of Angles / Rebellious Jukebox / Various Times
/ Stepping Out / Your Heart Out / Dice Man / Spectre vs. Rector /
Choc-Stock / Muzorewi's Daughter
Marc Riley once
said this was his favorite Fall gig. Many thanks to Philip Johnson
for scanning one version of the flyer:
and to Skip King
for these versions:
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Thursday, January
10 1980 Manchester Polytechnic
Billed as a benefit
for the Manchester Musicians Collective. No tape exists?
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Thursday, February
28 (or Friday the 29th?) 1980 Palm Cove, Bradford
Crap Rap > Spectre
vs Rector part 2 / Printhead / City Hobgoblins / Rowche Rumble
/ 2nd Dark Age / Impression of J. Temperance / English Scheme /
How I Wrote Elastic Man / Cary Grant's Wedding / Your Heart Out
/ Fiery Jack // A Figure Walks / Dice Man // Muzorewi's Daughter
Crap Rap > Spectre
vs Rector and Cary Grant's Wedding are on Totale's Turns
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Friday, March
7 1980 King's College, London
Rowche Rumble
(soundcheck)
Spectre vs Rector
/ Dice Man / City Hobgoblins / Rowche Rumble / Impression of J. Temperance
/ Printhead / English Scheme / How I Wrote Elastic Man / Cary Grant's
Wedding / Fiery Jack / Chock Stock
Supporting the
Cramps
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Saturday,
March 8 1980 Eric's, Liverpool
Supporting the
Cramps. No tape exists?
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Sunday,
March 9 1980 Fan Club, Leeds
Supporting the
Cramps. No tape exists?
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Tuesday,
March 11 1980 Community Hall, Grimsby
No tape exists? Sorry for the poor quality of the ticket (fax).
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Thursday,
March 13 1980 Edinburgh
Supporting the
Cramps. No tape exists?
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Friday,
March 14 1980 Pathfoot Hall, University of Stirling
Supporting the
Cramps. No tape exists?
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Saturday,
March 15 1980 Glasgow Technical College
Supporting the
Cramps. No tape exists?
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Saturday,
March 16 1980 Dumfries
Supporting the
Cramps. No tape exists?
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Tuesday, March
18 1980 Birmingham University
C'n'C-s Mithering
/ Fiery Jack / City Hobgoblins / Muzorewi's Daughter / Flat of Angles
/ Second Dark Age / Impression of J Temperance / English Scheme /
Rowche Rumble / Frightened / Dice Man / Your Heart Out / How I Wrote
Elastic Man / Chock Stock / No Xmas for John Quays
Supporting the
Cramps. From the Fall site's guestbook: "I mostly loathe the Fall. I put on the Birmingham Uni gig supporting the Cramps and later at the Cedar Club. It always annoyed me how Mark Smith complained about the price of tickets when he charged more than anyone else. Honestly it was a dirge. I mean in that era groups didn't need talent - a bit of style, passion or pastiche went a long way, even a good tune. All the Fall had was a grudge. I remember when at the Cedar Club he came off & the audience of male raincoats hollered for an encore, I was behind the bar with the £400 ranting ..'Yes...more depressing, tuneless, worthless' etc when I looked up and there he was, staring at me, a look of horror on his face.(The 'waiting for your encore' place meant hiding behind the bar).
I was so embarrassed I gave the money to the doorman and went home.
The Cramps though, they were the real thing..."
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Friday, March
21 1980 Electric Ballroom, London
C'n'C-s Mithering
/ Fiery Jack / City Hobgoblins / Frightened / Rowche Rumble / Second
Dark Age / Impression of J. Temperance / English Scheme / No Xmas
for John Quays / Flat of Angles / Your Heart Out / How I Wrote Elastic
Man
Supporting the
Cramps, Fashion third on the bill. £2.50 admission.
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Thursday, April
17 1980 Electric Ballroom, London
English Scheme
/ Fiery Jack / Totally Wired / City Hobgoblins / Flat of Angles /
How I Wrote Elastic Man / Rowche Rumble / Impression of J. Temperance
/ Your Heart Out / Cary Grant's Wedding / Dice Man / In My Area /
Repetition
Hey! Student lyrics
during English Scheme. With the Passions, Patrik Fitzgerald, Modern
Eon. £2 admission
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Sunday, May 11
1980 Rainbow Theater, London
New Face in Hell
/ English Scheme / Rebellious Jukebox / A Figure Walks / City Hobgoblins
/ Fiery Jack / Totally Wired / How I Wrote Elastic Man / Rowche Rumble
/ New Puritan
NFIH starts off
with some WMC Blob 59 lyrics. Derek Block presents The Cure, The Passions,
The Au Pairs, Section 25 + special guests The Fall. £1.75 -
£2.75.
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Wednesday, May
14 1980 Cyprus Tavern, Manchester
The new home of
the Manchester Musicians Collective. No tape exists? except for Drago's
Guilt from the soundcheck?
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Saturday, May
24 1980 The Paddock, Harpole
No tape exists?
Religious Overdose supporting.
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Wednesday, May
28 1980 Beach Club, Manchester
2nd Dark Age /
Impression of J Temperance / How I Wrote Elastic Man / Muzorewi's
Daughter / City Hobgoblins / Chock Stock / Draygo's Guilt / Totally
Wired / A Figure Walks / English Scheme / New Face in Hell / That
Man / Putta Block
Supported by
the Biting Tongues and John Hurst. Many thanks to Nick for the
flyer.
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Friday, June
13 1980 Effenaar, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Stop Mithering
> How I Wrote
Elastic Man / City Hobgoblins / In My Area / Totally Wired / No
Xmas for John Quays / Impression of J. Temperance / Flat of Angles
/ New Puritan / A Figure Walks / Dice Man / New Face in Hell
with newcomer
Steve "cow
bell" Davis on drums; makes for an odd listening experience.
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Wednesday, June
18 1980 ICA, The Mall, London
C'n'C-s Mithering
/ English Scheme / Impression of J Temperance / City Hobgoblins /
Totally Wired / In My Area / Draygo's Guilt / Chock Stock / How I
Wrote Elastic Man / Printhead / New Face in Hell / Dice Man / New
Puritan / No Xmas for John Quays
With Ludus
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Saturday, June
28 1980 New Tyne Theatre, Newcastle
The N.W.R.A /
2nd Dark Age / Impression of J. Temperance / City Hobgoblins / Totally
Wired / Muzorewi's Daughter / Fiery Jack / Gramme Friday / Printhead
/ English Sheme / New Face In Hell / Choc-Stock / Dice Man / New Puritan
/ Psycho Mafia / Stepping Out
Supported by
local band Flesh, Clicks, and Cabaret Voltaire. Ian Cusack's first
Fall gig and admirably reported in TBLY
Issue #4. £2.00
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Sunday, June
29 1980
Valentinos, Edinburgh
With Thursdays
and Fire Engines. No tape exists?
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Wednesday, July
23 1980 Marquee, London
With support from
Felt and Alan Pellay No tape exists?
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Thursday, July
24 1980 Marquee, London
The N.W.R.A. /
English Scheme / How I Wrote Elastic Man / Putta Block / In The Park
/ Gramme Friday / Chock Stock / Draygo's Guilt / Totally Wired / City
Hobgoblins / Second Dark Age / Underground Medecin / Dice Man / Impression
of J Temperance / Your Heart Out / Cary Grant's Wedding
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Monday, July
28 1980 Deeply Vale Festival
In My Area /
Totally Wired / Gramme Friday / That Man / Fiery Jack / Underground
Medecin / The N.W.R.A. / 2nd Dark Age / Choc-Stock
Incomplete?
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Wednesday, July
31 1980 Rafter's, Manchester
No tape exists?
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Friday, August
29 1980 Nelson Railway Working Men's Club
No tape exists?
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Friday, September
12 1980 Cleopatra's, Huddersfield
Pay Your Rates
/ Jawbone and the Air Rifle / Totally Wired / City Hobgoblins / Cary
Grant's Wedding / English Scheme / New Face in Hell / Rowche Rumble
/ Draygo's Guilt / Gramme Friday / Your Heart Out / The N.W.R.A. /
That Man / New Puritan
No tape exists?
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Saturday, September
13 1980 The Leadmill, Sheffield
No tape exists?
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Tuesday, September
16 1980 John Peel Session (broadcast September 24)
Container Drivers
/ Jawbone and the Air Rifle / New Puritan / New Face in Hell
Mark E Smith - vocals; Marc Riley - guitar; Craig
Scanlon - guitar; Steve Hanley - bass; Paul Hanley - drums. Produced
by John Sparrow. Container Drivers & New Puritan have been released
on the Kicker Conspiracy double 7" single; New Face In Hell was
on the Peel Sessions album. All 4 tracks have been released on the
Words Of Expectation 2CD compilation.
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Saturday, September
27 1980 Tatton Community Centre, Chorley
The N.W.R.A. /
That Man / Totally Wired / Your Heart Out / Pay Your Rates / A Figure
Walks / Container Drivers / In The Park / English Scheme / How I Wrote
Elastic Man / New Puritan / Gramme Friday?
Gramme Friday
might be from a different date.
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Thursday, October
2 1980 Polytechnic, Cavendish House, Cavendish Street, Manchester
Jawbone and the
Air Rifle / Totally Wired / New Face in Hell / Gramme Friday / C'n'C-s
Mithering / Container Drivers / Rowche Rumble / In the Park / Pay
Your Rates / A Figure Walks / City Hobgoblins / The N.W.R.A.
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Saturday, October
18 1980 Downtown Kampus, Cork
Supported by Chant,
Chant, Chant and Microdisney. No tape exists?
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Nov 1980 London
Impression of
J. Temperance / Middle Mass / Container Drivers / Cary Grant's Wedding
/ Leave the Capital / Totally Wired / An Older Lover / Prole Art Threat
/ The N.W.R.A. / Slates, Slags, etc.
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Saturday, November
1 1980 Polytechnic, Manchester
Slates, Slags,
etc. / In My Area / Container Drivers / The N.W.R.A. / Totally Wired
/ An Older Lover / Pay Your Rates / City Hobgoblins / New Face In
Hell / 2nd Dark Age / Jawbone and the Air Rifle / Underground Medicine
/ Muzorewi's Daughter / English Scheme
Ian: My favourite
Fall moment was from the very first time I saw them at
Manchester Poly in 1980. Someone in the crowd lobbed a beer can up
and
hit MES with it. MES didn't blink and carried on the song without
pausing. At the end of the song he went over to Hanley and Scanlon
who
pointed out somebody in the crowd about half way back. MES shouts
you
fucking ugly twat and walks off stage reappearing a minute later
in the
crowd striding over to the can lobber and smacking him one in the
face.
A magic moment.
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Thursday, November
13 1980 Fan Club, Leeds
Slates, Slags,
etc. / Container Drivers / Jawbone and the Air Rifle / Printhead /
Impression of J Temperance / How I Wrote Elastic Man / Psykick Dancehall
/ An Older Lover / Pay Your Rates / Totally Wired / English Scheme
/ The NWRA / Fiery Jack
With the Hamsters
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Saturday, November
15 1980 Rock Garden, Middlesborough
Slates, Slags,
etc. / Container Drivers / Jawbone and the Air Rifle / Printhead /
Impression of J Temperance / How I Wrote Elastic Man / Psykick Dancehall
/ An Older Lover / Pay Your Rates / Totally Wired / English Scheme
/ The NWRA / Fiery Jack
With the Hamsters
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Tuesday, November
18 1980 Boat Club, Nottingham
Container Drivers
/ Gramme Friday / City Hobgoblins / New Face in Hell / Muzorewi's
Daughter / Leave the Capitol / Fiery Jack / An Older Lover / Jawbone
and the Air Rifle / English Scheme / The NWRA / Pay Your Rates / How
I Wrote Elastic Man
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Wednesday, November
19 1980 Blue Note, Derby
No tape exists?
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Thursday, November
20 1980 Cedar Ballroom, Birmingham
Slates, Slags,
etc. / Container Drivers / Totally Wired / New Face in Hell / Printhead
/ An Older Lover / City Hobgoblins / Leave the Capitol / Pay Your
Rates / The NWRA / English Scheme / Underground Medecin
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Friday, November
21 1980 North London Polytechnic, Holloway Road
Slates, Slags,
etc. / Container Drivers / Gramme Friday / New Face in Hell / Totally
Wired / An Older Lover / Leave the Capitol / Impression of J. Temperance
/ How I Wrote Elastic Man / Pay Your Rates / The NWRA / Muzorewi's
Daughter / C'n'C-s Mithering / English Scheme
Supported by the
Au Pairs. £1.75 advance, £2.00 at the door.
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Thursday, December
11 1980 Acklam Hall, Acklam Road, London W10 (Legendary
Chaos Tape)
Middle Mass /
English Scheme / New Face in Hell / That Man / An Older Lover / Slates,
Slags, etc. / Prole Art Threat / Container Drivers / Jawbone and the
Air Rifle / In the Park / Leave the Capital / Spectre vs. Rector /
Pay Your Rates / Impression of J. Temperance
Supported by Furious
Pigs. £2.00 at the door.
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Friday, December
12 1980 Acklam Hall, London
Middle Mass /
English Scheme / Draygo's Guilt / Container Drivers / An Older Lover
/ Slates, Slags, etc. / Jawbone and the Air Rifle / How I Wrote Elastic
Man / In My Area / Prole Art Threat / C'n'C-s Mithering / Pay Your
Rates / Leave the Capitol / New Face in Hell / Impression of J. Temperance
Supported by the
Hamsters. £2.00 at the door.
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Thursday, January
15 1981 Rafters, Manchester
Leave the Capitol
/ Gramme Friday / Spectre vs Rector / Middlemass / Totally Wired /
Prole Art Threat / The NWRA / Slates, Slags, etc. / An Older Lover
/ English Scheme / Winter / Container Drivers
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Saturday, January
17 1981 Sports Center, Bolton
Leave The Capitol
/ Container Drivers / Muzorewi's Daughter / Impression of J. Temperance
/ Middle Mass / Totally Wired / An Older Lover / City Hobgoblins /
The N.W.R.A. / Prole Art Threat / Slates, Slags, etc. / How I Wrote
Elastic Man / English Scheme / Winter
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Saturday, January
24 1981 University of East Anglia, Norwich
Leave the Capitol
/ Container Drivers / Gramme Friday / Middle Mass / New Face in Hell
/ Totally Wired / An Older Lover / Jawbone & the Air Rifle / Chock
Stock / Prole Art Threat / Winter / How I Wrote Elastic Man / Slates,
Slags, etc. / English Scheme / Fiery Jack
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Saturday, January
31 1981 Leicester Polytechnic
C'n'C-s Mithering
/ Container Drivers / Cary Grant's Wedding / Prole Art Threat / Impression
of J Temperance / Middle Mass / Totally Wired / Slates, Slags, etc.
(1 & 2) / An Older Lover / City Hobgoblins / Leave the Capitol
/ How I Wrote Elastic Man / Winter / Pay Your Rates / Fiery Jack /
Repetition
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Wednesday, February
4 1981 Kent University, Canterbury
No tape exists?
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Thursday, February
5 1981 Queen Mary's College, Mile End/Stepney Green Tube,
London
Your Heart Out
/ Totally Wired / Leave the Capitol / An Older Lover / New Face in
Hell / Middle Mass / C'n'C-s Mithering>Crap Rap #19 / Fiery Jack
/ Jawbone and the Air Rifle / Slates, Slags, etc. / Fit and Working
Again / Prole Art Threat / Impression of J. Temperance / Container
Drivers
£1.50 advance,
£2.50 on the door.
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Saturday, February
7 1981 Cardiff University
No tape exists?
local band the Skeleteens supported.
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Friday, February
20 1981 Technical College, St. Helens
Blob 59 > Lie
Dream of a Casino Soul / Prole Art Threat / Jawbone & the Air
Rifle / Middle Mass / Rowche Rumble / An Older Lover / City Hobgoblins
/ Leave the Capitol / The NWRA / Gramme Friday / Slates, Slags, etc.
/ Fit and Working Again / Muzorewi's Daughter
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Saturday, February
21 1981 Brady's, Liverpool (formerly Eric's)
Blob 59 > Lie
Dream of a Casino Soul / Totally Wired / An Older Lover / Cary Grant's
Wedding / New Face in Hell / :-pause to "tune up"-: / Middle
Mass / Container Drivers / Leave the Capitol / Jawbone & the Air
Rifle / Winter / Slates, Slags, etc. / English Scheme / Fit &
Working Again / Fiery Jack
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Monday, February
23 1981 Plaza, Glasgow
WMC Blob 59 > Lie
Dream of a Casino Soul / Prole Art Threat >Totally Wired / Jawbone
and the Air Rifle / An Older Lover / Printhead / Middle Mass /
Winter / City Hobgoblins / Slates, Slags etc. / English Scheme
/ Fit and Working Again / Spectre vs. Rector // Leave the Capitol
/ Container Drivers / C'n'C-S Mithering
Supported by the
Scars
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Wednesday, February
25 1981 Bungalow Bar, Paisley
Container Drivers
/ Before the Moon Falls / Winter / English Scheme / Pay Your Rates
/ Leave the Capitol / How I Wrote Elastic Man / Middle Mass / City
Hobgoblins / The N.W.R.A. / Jawbone and the Air Rifle / Slates, Slags,
etc.
------------------
Saturday, February
28 1981 Sheffield University
A benefit for the Leadmill; Cabaret Voltaire also on the bill. No tape exists?
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Tuesday, March
17 1981 Leeds University
Container Drivers
/ Hip Priest / Draygo's Guilt / Impression of J. Temperance / Totally
Wired / C'n'C-Hassle Schmuck / Middle Mass / English Scheme / Winter
/ Jawbone and the Air Rifle / Slates, Slags etc. / That Man / Before
the Moon Falls / Prole Art Threat
Video footage
of this gig released in 2003 by Cherry Red on the PBL DVD.
Power failure during the last song.
------------------
Tuesday, March
24 1981 John Peel Session (broadcast March 31)
Middle Mass /
Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Hip Priest / C'n'C-Hassle Schmuk
------------------
Saturday, May 9 1981 Doornroosje, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
No tape exists? Two photos here, thanks to Hans.
------------------
May
8? 10? 1981 Eksit, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Slates, Slags,
etc. / Fit and Working Again / Middle Mass / Impression of J. Temperance
/ City Hobgoblins / Hip Priest / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / C'n'C-s
Mithering>Do the Hassle Schmuck / The N.W.R.A. / Jawbone and the
Air Rifle / Prole Art Threat
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Sunday, May 17
1981 Vera Groningen Sessions, The Netherlands
Fit and Working
Again / Fantastic Life / New Face in Hell / Hip Priest
Incomplete? This
FM broadcast circulates under various dates, e.g. April 26 1982 and
"Swedish TV 1981," so watch out.
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Tuesday, May
19 1981 Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Fortress / Totally
Wired / Container Drivers / The N.W.R.A. / Fantastic Life / Lie Dream
of a Casino Soul / Leave the Capitol / Hip Priest / Prole Art Threat / An Older
Lover / No Xmas for John Quays / C'n'C-s Mithering>Hassle Schmuck
/ Jawbone and the Air Rifle / English Scheme / City Hobgoblins
Some circulating
copies are missing Jawbone and English Scheme. Still others may be missing Hip Priest and City Hobgoblins.
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Wednesday, May
20 1981 Jovel Cinema, Munster, Germany
New Face in Hell
/ Totally Wired / An Older Lover / Container Drivers / Hip Priest
/ Fantastic Life / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / 2nd Dark Age / C'n'C-s
Mithering / Prole Art Threat / City Hobgoblins / The N.W.R.A. / English
Scheme / Jawbone and the Air Rifle / Leave the Capitol / No Xmas for
John Quays
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Friday, May 22
1981 Alter Bahnhof, Hof, Germany
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How I Wrote Elastic Man / Fortress / Totally Wired / Jawbone and the Air Rifle / An Older Lover / The N.W.R.A. / Prole Art Threat / Your Heart Out / Hip Priest / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Session Musician
 A bootleg tape of the Hof gig surfaced soon afterwards, which included a few songs from the Berlin gig the next day as filler (specifically, No Xmas for John Quays appeared after Your Heart Out on side A, while Leave the Capitol, City Hobgoblins, Slates, Fantastic Life, and C'n'C-Hassle Schmuck appeared after Session Musician on side B. Therefore, I'd guess that most circulating copies of this gig have these tracks stuck in with the Hof gig. To add to the confusion, Voiceprint may release this gig in their Live from the Vaults series with a tracklisting identical to the bootleg tape.
Many thanks to Michael for his guest information, and to Martin for the setlists. |
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Saturday, May
23 1981 SO36, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Soundcheck: Jawbone
and the Air Rifle / Container Drivers
Gig: Leave the
Capitol / Fortress / City Hobgoblins / Slates, Slags etc. / Hip Priest
/ Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Fantastic Life / C'n'C-Hassle Schmuck
/ Your Heart Out / An Older Lover / Totally Wired / Session Musician
/ Jawbone and the Air Rifle / No Xmas for John Quays
Some tapes are missing the soundcheck and Fantastic Life / C'n'C-Hassle Schmuck
from the gig.
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Monday, May 25
1981 Bonn, West Germany
English Scheme
/ Fantastic Life / Deer Park / Totally Wired / Hip Priest / Middle
Mass / Container Drivers / Session Musican / Lie Dream of a Casino
Soul / An Older Lover / Fit and Working Again / Jawbone and the Air
Rifel / No Xmas for John Quays / Prole Art Threat / Container Drivers
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US tour,
1981:
See the last page
of Slates and Dates, an eight-page handout
included in promo copies of the U.S. release of Grotesque: After
the Gramme lp, for a provisional schedule for the U.S. 1981
tour. Several dates were added after this itinerary was put together,
and some of the venues had not yet been confirmed. Likewise it's probable
that not all gigs on this schedule happened at all; these unconfirmed
dates are so noted in the entries below.
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Sunday, May 31
1981 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
New Face In Hell
/ Deer Park / Middle Mass / An Older Lover / Jawbone and the Air-rifle
/ Cash and Carry / Leave the Capitol / Prole Art Threat / Lie Dream
of a Casino Soul / City Hobgoblins / Printhead / Totally Wired / Slags,
Slates etc. / Hip Priest / No Xmas For John Quays / Fit and Working
Again / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul (again) / How I Wrote Elastic Man
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Wednesday, June
3 1981 The Underground, New York
Fad Gadget opened.
No tape exists?
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Thursday, June
4 1981 Maxwell's, Hoboken, New Jersey
Cash 'n' Carry > Gramme Friday / Leave the Capitol / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Deer Park > Fortress / An Older Lover / Totally Wired / Prole Art Threat / Hip Priest / Middle Mass / Session Musician // Fantastic Life / City Hobgoblins
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Friday, June
5 1981 Peppermint Lounge, New York
No tape exists?
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Saturday, June
6 1981 Irving Plaza, New York
No tape exists?
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Monday, June
8 1981 The Edge, Toronto, Ontario (cancelled?)
At least one and
probably both Toronto gigs, listed in Slates and Dates, were cancelled.
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Tuesday, June
9 1981 The Edge, Toronto, Ontario (probably played Bond's,
New York on this date)
Unconfirmed date
from Slates and Dates itinerary; another source says they played Bond's
in New York on June 9 - that would be the time they supported the
Clash during their 17-gig residency at this Times Square club.
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Thursday, June
11 1981 Spit, Boston, Massachusetts
2nd Dark Age /
Deer Park / Fortress / Totally Wired / Hip Priest / Middle Mass /
An Older Lover / Jawbone and the Air Rifle / Session Musician / Lie
Dream of a Casino Soul / C'n'C-s Mithering / Prole Art Threat / No
Xmas for John Quays / Container Drivers / The N.W.R.A.
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Friday, June
12 1981 City Gardens, Trenton, New Jersey
Impression of
J. Temperance / Deer Park / Leave the Capitol / Fortress / Totally
Wired / Hip Priest / 2nd Dark Age / Fantastic Life / Lie Dream of
a Casino Soul / Fit and Working Again / Jawbone and the Air Rifle
/ Session Musician / Container Drivers / Middle Mass / Prole Art Threat
This very popular
mixing desk recording was thought to be from the Maxwell's, Hoboken
June 4 gig, but it's really from City Gardens. Someone
who was at the gig and who also has the tape remembers the announcer's
comments at the end of the gig. Apparently someone in the Fall entourage
gave this guy's girlfriend a tape of the gig.
Also be warned
that there's another tape circulating that takes a few of these tracks
and mixes up the running order. That recording runs about 45 minutes;
the better recording runs about 70 minutes and the beginning of "Impression
of J. Temperance" is cut.
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Saturday, June
13 1981 Interferon Club, New York
No tape exists?
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Sunday, June
14 1981 Mudd Club, New York
Possibly June
15, as listed in Slates and Dates? No tape exists?
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Tuesday, June
16 1981 Omni, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Leave the Capital
/ Totally Wired / Impression of J. Temperance / Deer Park / Fantastic
Life
I believe these
were the first five songs played - not sure if a complete tape exists.
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Wednesday, June
17 1981 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C.
Hip Priest / Deer
Park / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Your Heart Out / Leave the Capital
/ C'n'C-s Mithering / Gramme Friday / Totally Wired / Session Musician
/ Middle Mas / New Face in Hell / 2nd Dark Age
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Friday, June
19 1981 688, Atlanta, Georgia
No tape exists?
Clinton H.: "I remember when they returned to the stage for an
encore, Mark E. Smith said 'The dressing room is locked'."
"Like we
played Georgia in America last year, y'know, the redneck place, and
there was a packed hall when we went on, did about 2 numbers and everybody
walked out. So we did the set and there was about 15 fucking people.
So we were walking off and this redneck says to me "You dare go back
on there boy" so I says "right lads, back on". We did and it was fucking
great, we did about another quarter of an hour for about 5 people."
- MES, 1982.
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Saturday, June
20 1981 Antenna, Atlanta, Georgia
Unconfirmed date
from Slates and Dates itinerary.
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Tuesday, June
23 1981 Jimmy's, New Orleans, Louisiana
Deer Park / Impression
of J. Temperance / Leave the Capitol / Fit and Working Again / Totally
Wired / Hip Priest / How I Wrote Elastic Man / C'n'C-s Mithering /
Gramme Friday / Session Musician / No Xmas for John Quays
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Wednesday, June
24? 1981 La Augusta, Houston, Texas
Hip Priest / Deer
Park / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / An Older Lover / Leave the Capitol
/ Your Heart Out
Incomplete. The
Houston venue was Island, according to Slates and Dates.
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Thursday, June
25 1981 Clubfoot, Austin, Texas
No tape exists?
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Friday, June
26 1981 Hot Club, Dallas, Texas
Unconfirmed date
from Slates and Dates itinerary.
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Saturday, June
27 1981 Hot Club, Dallas, Texas
Unconfirmed date
from Slates and Dates itinerary.
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Monday, June
29 1981 El Paseo de la Luz, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Unconfirmed date
from Slates and Dates itinerary.
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Wednesday, July
1 1981 American Legion Hall, Phoenix, Arizona
Unconfirmed date
from Slates and Dates itinerary.
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July? 1981 Tumbleweeds,
Tucson, Arizona
New Face in Hell
/ 2nd Dark Age / Deer Park / An Older Lover / Leave the Capitol /
Totally Wired / Hip Priest / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / C'n'C-s
Mithering / Printhead / Container Drivers
May be incomplete.
If other dates are correct, this would've probably been June 30 or
July 2.
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Friday, July
3 1981 Los Angeles, California
Unconfirmed date
from Slates and Dates itinerary.
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Saturday, July
4 1981 Al's Bar, Los Angeles, California
Middle Mass /
Deer Park / Impression of J Temperance / Totally Wired / Leave the
Capitol / Hip Priest / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Slags, Slates
etc / C'n'C-s Mithering
Probably incomplete.
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Sunday, July
5 1981 Los Angeles, California
Unconfirmed date
from Slates and Dates itinerary.
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Tuesday, July
7 1981 Myron's Ballroom, Los Angeles, California
English Scheme
/ Jawbone & the Air Rifle / Prole Art Threat / The N.W.R.A. /
Your Heart Out / No Xmas for J Quays / C'n'C-s Mithering / Lie Dream
of a Casino Soul / Totally Wired / Hip Priest / Leave the Capitol
/ How I Wrote Elastic Man
Supported by The
Flesheaters and Blurt. Many thanks to Skip King for scanning in these
three flyers: one, two,
three.
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Wednesday, July
8 1981 Palo Alto, California
Prole Art Threat
/ Jawbone & the Air Rifle / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / The NWRA
/ No Xmas for John Quays / Your Heart Out / Hip Priest / Deer Park
/ Second Dark Age / Leave the Capitol / Fit & Working Again /
C'n'C-s Mithering / Gramme Friday
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Thursday, July
9 1981 The Stone, San Francisco, California
Unconfirmed date
from Slates and Dates itinerary. Probably shifted to Saturday.
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Friday, July
10 1981 Keystone, Berkeley, California
Lie Dream of a
Casino Soul / An Older Lover / Totally Wired / The N.W.R.A. / Fit
and Working Again / Hip Priest / New Face in Hell / Prole Art Threat
/ Container Drivers / No Xmas for John Quays
Broadcast on KALX
Cabinet Tapes show (on July 17?), so the above set may be incomplete;
the broadcast was 60 minutes. Supported by Blurt and Xmas Eve.
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Saturday, July
11 1981 The Stone, San Francisco, California
Middle Mass /
Winter / Totally Wired / Leave the Capitol / C'n'C-s Mithering / Gramme
Friday / Jawbone and the Air Rifle / Hip Priest / Lie Dream of a Casino
Soul / Container Drivers / New Face in Hell
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Sunday, July
12 1981 Indian Center, San Francisco, California
The NWRA / Fortress
/ Totally Wired / Leave the Capitol / C'n'C-s Mithering / Lie Dream
of a Casino Soul / Prole Art Threat / Winter / Jawbone and the Air
Rifle / English Scheme / Fit and Working Again / Second Dark Age
Also played a
matinee for under 18s only, according to a KPFA interview. You had
to bring an ID to prove you were under 18.
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Monday, July
13 1981 I-Beam, San Francisco, California
The NWRA / City
Hobgoblins / Deer Park / Impression of J Temperance / C'n'C-s Mithering
--> I'm into C.B. medley / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Printhead
/ Winter / Totally Wired / Prole Art Threat / Session Musician / Leave
the Capitol
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Thursday, July 16 1981 Tut's, Chicago, Illinois
The NWRA / Deer Park / Totally Wired / Jawbone And The Air-Rifle / Hip Priest / Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul / Leave The Capitol / Your Heart Out / C-n-C's Mithering (version) / Prole Art Threat / Middlemass / Fortress / Printhead / Winter / Container Drivers / No Xmas For John Quays
Ken Mierzwa reminisces.
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Wednesday, August
26 1981 John Peel Session (broadcast September 15)
Deer Park / Know
Look [sic] / Winter (Hostel Maxi) [sic] / Who Makes the Nazis
Mark E Smith - vocals;
Marc Riley - guitar; Craig Scanlon - guitar; Steve Hanley - bass;
Paul Hanley - drums; Dave Tucker - clarinet. Produced by Dale Griffin,
engineered by Martyn Parker.C'n'C-Hassle Schmuck has been released
on the Kimble single (7" & 12" versions only). Middlemass
was on the Peel Sessions album. All 4 tracks have been released on
the Words Of Expectation 2CD compilation.
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Friday, September
4 1981 Sheffield Polytechnic
Slates, Slags,
etc. / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul (soundcheck)
Slates, Slags, etc. / Look Know / Fortress / Deer Park / Hip Priest
/ Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Fantastic Life / Cash 'n' Carry > Prole Art Threat / Leave the Capitol / Who Makes the Nazis? //
Put Away / Winter
With Past Seven
Days and Disease. A free gig for the unemployed courtesy of South
Yorkshire County Council.
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Wednesday, September
9 1981 Hotel Borg, Reykjavik, Iceland
No tape exists?
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Thursday, September
10 1981 Hotel Borg, Reykjavik, Iceland
No tape exists?
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Saturday, September
12 1981 Austerbaejarbio, Reykjavik, Iceland
Container Drivers
/ Fortress / Middle Mass / Totally Wired / Hip Priest / Deer Park
/ Look, Know / Who Makes the Nazis / Leave the Capital / Lie Dream
of a Casino Soul / Slates, Slags etc. / Prole Art Threat (? may not have been played?)
Many lists have
this widely circulated gig as "April 1981," which is
incorrect. Supported by Purkurr Pilnikk (with Einar Örn and Bragi
of the Sugarcubes) on all three dates.
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Wednesday, September
30 1981 Fagin's, Manchester
Fiery Jack /
Who Makes the Nazis / Look Know / M Mass Explanation
> Middle Mass / Fantastic Life / Hip Priest / Lie Dream of a Casino
Soul / C'n'C-s Mithering > Gramme Friday / Fortress > Deer Park
/ Session Musician // Container Drivers / Stars on 45
Fiery Jack has
a couple of lines from Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire. Stars on 45 (aka
"Stars on Fallty Five," aka "Fall Medley" aka
"I'm into CB medley") was a medley based on I'm into C.B.
with Fiery Jack and the kazoo riff from New Face in Hell thrown
in.
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ca. Oct 1981
Blackpool
No tape exists?
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Monday, October
9 1981 North London Polytechnic
Fiery Jack / Look
Know / Who Makes The Nazis / Draygo's Guilt / Hip Priest / Middle
Mass / Fantastic Life / Fortress / Deer Park / Winter / Lie Dream
of a Casino Soul/ C'n'C-s Mithering / Prole Art Threat
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Wednesday, October
21 1981 Xtreems, New Regent, Brighton
| Blob
59 / Second Dark Age / Deer Park / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul
/ Session Musician / Look Know / Who Makes the Nazis? / How
I Wrote Elastic Man / Winter / Leave the Capitol / Just Step
Sideways / C'n'C-s Mithering / Prole Art Threat / Jawbone and
the Air Rifle / Fantastic Life
Many thanks
to Mark Howard for the flyer. |
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Thursday, October
22 1981 Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury
No tape exists?
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Friday, October
23 1981 Manchester University
Slates, Slags,
etc. / Fortress / M Mass Explanation > Middle Mass
/ Fantastic Life / New Face in Hell / Look, Know / Jawbone and
the Air Rifle / Hip Priest / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Just
Step Sideways // Winter / Draygo's Guilt / Who Makes the Nazis?
£1.75 advance,
£2.00 on the door.
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Monday, October
26 1981 Coasters, Edinburgh
No tape exists?
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Tuesday,
October 27 1981 Bierkeller (Hofbrauhaus?), Newcastle
The N.W.R.A.
/ Fantastic Life / Look, Know / Jawbone and the Air Rifle / Hip
Priest / 2nd Dark Age / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Session Musician
/ Just Step Sideways / Who Makes the Nazis / Container Drivers
// C'n'C-s Mithering > I'm into C.B. / Prole Art Threat / Deer
Park
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Wednesday, October
28 1981 Tower Club, Hull
No tape exists?
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Thursday, October
29 1981 Limit Club, Sheffield
No tape exists?
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Friday, October
30 1981 Northeast London Polytechnic
Jawbone &
the Air Rifle (soundcheck)
Fall Medley
> Look Know / Fortress > Deer Park / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul /
Fantastic Life / The NWRA / Just Step Sideways / Slates, Slags,
etc. / Middle Mass / Winter / Jawbone and the Air Rifle / Leave
the Capitol
Introduction
by Allan Pellay. With UT and the Nightingales.
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Saturday, October
31 1981 Totnes Civic Hall
No tape exists?
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Sunday, November
1 1981 Top Rank, Plymouth
I'm Into C.B.
/ Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Fantastic Life / Who Makes the Nazis
/ Just Step Sideways / Fortress / Middle Mass / Look, Know / Fiery
Jack / Winter / Put Away / C'n'C-s Mithering / Gramme Friday / Jawbone
and the Air Rifle / Draygo's Guilt / Leave the Capitol / Session Musician
With Noise Annoys.
Fiery Jack has a few lines from Ring of Fire.
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Tuesday, November
3 1981 Warehouse, Liverpool
No tape exists?
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Wednesday, November
4 1981 Gaiety Bar, Blackpool
No tape exists?
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Thursday, November
5 1981 Bierkeller (Hofbrauhaus?), Leeds
Gramme Friday
/ Fall Medley / Deer Park / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / The N.W.R.A.
/ Jawbone and the Air Rifle / Just Step Sideways / Who Makes the
Nazis / Prole Art Threat / Fantastic Life / Session Musician //
Repetition > Middle Mass / Look, Know // Hip Priest
Medley = C.B.
> Fiery Jack > New Face in Hell (kazoo riff) > segues into
storming Deer Park.
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Friday, November
6 1981 Imperial Cinema, Birmingham
Middle Mass (soundcheck)
Container Drivers
/ I'm into C.B. medley / Deer Park / Hip Priest / Fantastic Life /
Jawbone and the Air Rifle / Just Step Sideways / Who Makes the Nazis?
/ Prole Art Threat / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Session Musician
/ Middle Mass
"The Fall
and Nico co-headline a five-hour concert (7 p.m. - midnight) on November
6 at Birmingham Imperial Cinema. Eric Random and the Bedlamites will
be backing Nico as well as playing their own set, and the bill is
completed by Dr. Filth. Admission is £2.50."
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Monday, December
7 1981 The Venue, 160-162 Victoria Street, London (or Saturday the 5th?)
Thanks to Dave Guttridge for the photo.
I'm Into C.B.
/ Deer Park / C'n'C-s Mithering / Look, Know / An Older Lover / Just
Step Sideways / Hip Priest / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Fantastic
Life / The Classical / Jawbone and the Air Rifle / Who Makes the Nazis?
/ Prole Art Threat / Winter
Supporting were
The Alarm. £2.50.
In the notes for
Hex Enduction Hour Mark writes "Never knew had so many friends
till Venue. In awe. The fans were awed And cowered. Still needing
the HEXAN school. Still bowing to: Mythical Thingy, and the fresh
stool, at 'Venue' No decision equals 'consultation'. One True Sentence.
On Morning Of It: Saw Flabby Wings and Ran cross frosty crusting of
Plate glass, from the SKRIKKING KIDS, NOT FIT FOR: HEX END. -- the
Big P.) These words refer to this gig. Thanks to Charles Kennedy for
pointing this out.
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Friday, March
12 1982 Bristol Polytechnic
Hexen Definitive-Strife
Knot / Middle Mass / I'm Into C.B. / Hip Priest / Look Know / Mere
Pseud Mag Ed / Who Makes The Nazis / Solicitor in Studio / Lie Dream
of a Casino Soul / The Classical / And This Day / Fortress / Deer
Park
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Friday, March
19 1982 Palm Cove, Bradford
 Thanks to Mark Holey for the photo
Joker Hysterical
Face / Deer Park / I'm Into C.B. / Mere Pseud Mag Ed / Flat of Angles
/ Who Makes the Nazis / Solicitor in Studio / The Classical / Life
Dream of a Casino Soul / Hexen Definitive / And This Day / Middle
Mass / Just Step Sideways / Prole Art Threat / Hip Priest
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Wednesday, March
24 1982 Leicester Polytechnic
Hip Priest / Wings
/ Just Step Sideways / I'm Into CB / Fantastic Life / Surrogate Mirage
/ Who Makes The Nazis / Mere Pseud Mag Ed / The Classical / Solicitor
In Studio / Hexen Definitive-Strife Knot / And This Day / Middle Mass
/ Jawbone and the Air Rifle
One of the first
times Wings was played live - the early incarnation was rougher and
faster than recorded version (and not nearly as good.)
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Thursday, March
25 1982 Hammersmith Palais, London
Soundcheck: The
Classical / Middle Mass
Gig: Hip Priest
/ I'm Into C.B. / Mere Pseud Mag Ed / Just Step Sideways / Flat of
Angles / Who Makes the Nazis / Wings / Solicitor in Studio / Look,
Know / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Hexen Definitive-Strife Knot /
And This Day / The Classical / Fantastic Life
Between Wings
and Solicitor, the short "Town Called Crappy" (aka "Don't
Like Maggie"). Supported by the Birthday Party and the Room.
£3.50.
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Friday,
March 26 1982 Brunel Rooms, Swindon
No tape exists?
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Saturday, March
27 1982 Manchester Polytechnic
Joker Hysterical
Face / I'm Into C.B. / Mere Pseud Mag. Ed. / Flat of Angles / Who
Makes The Nazis? / Wings / Solicitor in Studio / Fit and Working Again
/ The Classical / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Hexen Definitive-Strife
Knot / And This Day / Look Know / Prole Art Threat / Deer Park
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Thursday, April
1 1982 Nightmoves, Glasgow
Joker Hysterical
Face / Just Step Sideways / Hip Priest / I'm Into C.B. / Deer Park
/ Mere Pseud Mag Ed. / Flat of Angles / Wings / Who Makes The Nazis
/ Solicitor in Studio / Hexen Definitive-Strife Knot / And This Day
/ improvisation? / The Classical
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Friday, April
2 1982 Nite Club, Edinburgh
Wings / Solicitor
in Studio / Winter / Middle Mass / I'm into C.B. / The Classical /
Mere Pseud Mag Ed / Look, Know / Draygo's Guilt / Lie Dream of a Casino
Soul / Who Makes the Nazis / Hexen Definitive / Deer Park
Same day that
the Task Force ordered to sail to the Falklands.
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Saturday, April
3 1982 Warehouse, Liverpool
Wings / Winter
/ Middlemass / I'm Into C.B. / Mere Pseud Mag Ed / Who Makes the Nazis
/ Solicitor in Studio / Look, Know / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul /
And This Day / Flat of Angles / Just Step Sideways
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Apr(?) 1982 Plank,
Brussels, Belgium
Words of Expectation
/ Room To Live / Mere Pseud Mag Ed / Tempo House / Kicker Conspiracy
/ Middle Mass / Hexen Definitive-Strife Knot / I Feel Voxish / Ludd
Gang / Wings / Backdrop / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Solicitor in
Studio
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Friday, April 9 1982 Effenaar, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Hip Priest / I'm into C.B. / Mere Pseud Mag. Ed / Wings / Who Makes the Nazis / Joker Hysterical Face / Deer Park / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Solicitor in Studio / Hexen Definitive / And This Day / Look, Know / Prole Art Threat
------------------ Saturday, April
10 1982 Paard Van Troje, The Hague, The Netherlands
Look Know / Middle
Mass / I'm Into C.B. / Mere Pseud Mag. Ed. / The Classical / Tempo
House / Solicitor in Studio / Joker Hysterical Face / Hexen Definitive-Strife
Knot / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / And This Day / Just Step Sideways
/ Who Makes The Nazis
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Monday, April
12 1982 Vera Groningen, The Netherlands
Wings / Middle
Mass / I'm Into C.B. / Tempo House / Mere Pseud Mag. Ed. / Who Makes
The Nazis / Solicitor in Studio / Look Know / Hexen Definitive-Strife
Knot / And This Day / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / The Classical /
Prole Art Threat / Joker Hysterical Face
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Friday, April
23 1982 North London Polytechnic
The Classical
(soundcheck)
Backdrop / Prole
Art Threat / Joker Hysterical Face / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul /
Tempo House / Mere Pseud Mag Ed / I'm Into C.B. / Look Know / Hexen
Definitive-Strife Knot / And This Day / Gramme Friday / The Classical
Supported by Purkurr
Pilnikk and Motor Boys Motor. £2.50. There's also an April 23
1982 tape circulating that is in fact Oct. 30 1981 (Northeast London
Poly), so watch out. Purkurr Pilnikk supported most if not all of
this UK tour.
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Saturday, April
24 1982 Essex University, Colchester
No tape exists?
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Sunday, April
25 1982 Top Rank, Reading
Look Know / Tempo
House / I'm Into CB / Deer Park / Joker Hysterical Face / Prole Art
Threat / Jawbone and the Air-Rifle / Solicitor in Studio / Hexen Definitive-Strife
Knot / Who Makes the Nazis? / Backdrop / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul
/ Just Step Sideways
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Monday, April
26 1982 Scamps, Oxford
Look Know / Mere
Pseud Mag Ed / Fantastic Life / Tempo House / Wings / Backdrop / Joker
Hysterical Face / Solicitor in Studio / Who Makes the Nazis? / Hexen
Definitive-Strife Knot / And This Day / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul
/ Prole Art Threat
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Tuesday, April
27 1982 Derby Hall, Bury
Look, Know / Tempo
House / I'm into C.B. / Mere Pseud Mag Ed / Who Makes the Nazis /
Solicitor in Studio / Draygo's Guilt / Joker Hysterical Face / Lie
Dream of a Casino Soul / Hexen Definitive-Strife Knot / Backdrop /
Container Drivers / And This Day
The live tracks
on the bonus CDs that came with the Room To Live and Palace of Swords
Reversed reissues (Cog Sinister, 1998) are from this gig, not, as
the CDs state, from one of the Band on the Wall, Manchester 1982 gigs. Michael remembers the ticket was only 50p; "a bargain."
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Wednesday, April
28 1982 Blue Note, Derby
Look, Know / Hip
Priest / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Joker Hysterical Face / The
Classical / Tempo House / Solicitor in Studio / I'm Into C.B. / Mere
Pseud Mag Ed / Hexen Definitive > Backdrop // Just Step Sideways / Fantastic Life // Wings
/ Prole Art Threat
"... Purrkur
Pilnikk trash chords alphabet fashion in dead, normal rock non-style.
A million other bands do this, and some have better names. Smith probably
recruited them between games of Asteroids in some dingy Reykjavik
coffee bar. Definitely more suited to a Killing Joke support slot
than step-ups for The Fall. Mark Smith is the hip shepherd leading
a priesthood of Catholic Fall-guys. Together they steal thunder from
a redundant rock machine and plough the plundered product into a suspect
antithetical device ... There’s been nothing but good said about
the two drummers but tonight, with Hanley and Burns closeted discreetly
away in dark Blue Note recesses, the effect is more blanket-noise
than rhythmic bounce ... [Amrik Rai,‘The Fall, Derby’,
NME, 8 May 1982, p. 44.]
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Thursday, April
29 1982 Vanbrugh College, York
Look Know / Hip
Priest / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Joker Hysterical Face / The
Classical / Tempo House / Solicitor in Studio / I'm into C.B. / Mere
Pseud Mag Ed / Hexen Definitive-Strife Knot / Backdrop
Supported by March Violets and Sisters of Mercy. £2.50. Great photos in the Fall
News archive, courtesy Ian Ellis.
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Friday, April
30 1982 Porterhouse, Retford
Backdrop / Look,
Know / Tempo House / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Mere Pseud Mag Ed
/ Solicitor in Studio / Just Step Sideways / I'm into C.B. / Joker
Hysterical Face / Hexen Definitive-Strife Knot / And This Day / Container
Drivers
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Saturday, May
1 1982 Southampton University
Spectre vs Rector
/ Look, Know / Wings / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Deer Park / Tempo
House / Joker Hysterical Face / Hexen Definitive (with Strife Knot?)
/ I'm Into C.B. / Solicitor In Studio / Backdrop / Mere Pseud Mag
Ed / Who Makes The Nazis?
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Sunday, May 2
1982 Jenkinson's, Kingswest, Seafront, Brighton
| Impression
of J. Temperance / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Mere Pseud Mag
Ed / Joker Hysterical Face / Tempo House / I'm into C.B. / Solicitor
in Studio / Hexen Definitive / Just Step Sideways / Backdrop
The above
from the band's set list, thanks to Mark Howard. No tape exists? |
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Monday, May 3
1982 Band on the Wall, Manchester
Spectre vs. Rector
/ Look Know / Wings / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Deer Park / Tempo
House / Joker Hysterical Face / Hexen Definitive (with Strife Knot?)
/ I'm Into C.B. / Solicitor in Studio / Backdrop / Just Step Sideways
/ Prole Art Threat
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Tuesday, May
4 1982 Band on the Wall, Manchester
Solicitor in Studio
/ I'm Into C.B. / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / The Classical
Very incomplete
- these four tracks taped through venue letterbox by someone who could'nt
get into the sold-out gig.
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Wednesday, May
5 1982 Band on the Wall, Manchester
Jazzed Up Punk
Shit / Prole Art Threat / Wings / Solicitor in Studio / Tempo House
/ I'm Into C.B. / Who Makes the Nazis / Hexen Definitive-Strife Knot
/ Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Joker Hysterical Face / Backdrop /
Deer Park / Just Step Sideways
Wings still the
earlier, faster version.
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Saturday, May
15 1982 666 Club, Manchester (aka Fagin's ?)
Session Musician
/ Look, Know / Middle Mass / Jazzed Up Punk Shit / Solicitor in
Studio / New Puritan / Just Step Sideways / Tempo House / Fantastic
Life / Mere Pseud Mag Ed // Backdrop
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Wednesday, May 19
1982 Social Club, Burnley Football Club
I'm into C.B.
/ Jazzed Up Punk Shit / Joker Hysterical Face / Tempo House / Middle
Mass / Backdrop / Deer Park / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Hexen Definitive-Strife
Knot / Session Musician / Just Step Sideways / Flat of Angles
Not the 17th after all - thanks Bob.
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Thursday, July
22 1982 Musician's Club, Sydney, Australia
no tape exists?
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Thursday, July
29 1982 West Town Hall, Geelong, Australia
Room to Live /
Man Whose Head Expanded / Middle Mass / Hard Life in Country / Totally
Wired / Marquis Cha Cha / Tempo House / Mere Pseud Mag Ed / Detective
Instinct / Fantastic Life / Who Makes the Nazis? / Just Step Sideways
/ Prole Art Threat / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul
According to a
contributor this was a "student invitation only" gig at
Deakin University.
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Friday, July
30 1982 Jump Club, Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia
no tape exists?
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Saturday, July
31 1982 Crystal Ballroom, Seaview Hotel, St. Kilda, Melbourne,
Australia
no tape exists?
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August ? 1982 Trade
Union Club, Sydney, Australia
Just Step Sideways / Solicitor in Studio / Tempo House / Marquis Cha-Cha / The Man Whose Head Expanded / Room to Live / Deer Park
incomplete gig broadcast on
ABC Radioalong with an MES interview
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Monday, August
2 1982 Prince of Wales, Melbourne, Australia
I Feel Voxish
/ Tempo House / Hard Life in Country / I'm Into C.B. / Lie Dream of
a Casino Soul / Solicitor in Studio / Marquis Cha-Cha / Room To Live
/ Hexen Definitive / Deer Park / Totally Wired / Joker Hysterical
Face / Hip Priest
Released on Voiceprint/Cog
Sinister in 1998 as "Live to Air in Melbourne." The gig was broadcast on the radio and Voiceprint used a not-particularly-great off-air cassette as their source.
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Thursday, August
5 1982 Prospect Hill, Melbourne, Australia
I Feel Voxish
/ Room to Live / The Classical / Hard Life in Country / I'm into C.B.
/ Solicitor in Studio / Tempo House / Marquis Cha Cha / Prole Art
Threat / Hexen Definitive-Strife Knot / And This Day / Detective Instinct
/ Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Just Step Sideways
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Friday, August
6 1982 Mt. Erica Hotel, Melbourne, Australia
Room To Live /
The Classical / Hard Life In Country / C'n'C-Black Night / Joker Hysterical
Face / Container Drivers / Tempo House / Fantastic Life / Marquis
Cha-Cha / Mere Pseud Mag. Ed / Backdrop / Solicitor in Studio / I
Feel Voxish / Totally Wired
Black Night is
a Deep Purple cover!
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Saturday, August
7 1982 Crystal Ballroom, Seaview Hotel, St. Kilda, Melbourne,
Australia
I Feel Voxish
/ Room To Live / Hip Priest / I'm Into C.B. / Man Whose Head Expanded
/ Hexen Definitive-Strife Knot / Joker Hysterical Face / Deer Park
/ Marquis Cha Cha / Look Know / Backdrop / Slates, Slags, etc. / Tempo
House
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Tuesday, August
17 1982 University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Impression of
J. Temperance / Room to Live / The Classical / Hexen Definitive-Strife
Knot / Look Know / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / I Feel Voxish / Tempo
House / Fantastic Life / Marquis Cha-Cha / Prole Art Threat / Backdrop
/ City Hobgoblins / Mere Pseud Mag Ed
Here's the excellent
flyer Chris Knox did for the 1982 New Zealand
tour.
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Wednesday, August
18 1982 Town Hall, Christchurch, New Zealand
Solicitor in Studio
/ Hip Priest / I'm Into C.B. / Mere Pseud Mag Ed / Marquis Cha-Cha
/ Flat of Angles / Deer Park / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Hard Life
in Country / Man Whose Head Expanded / Middle Mass / The Classical
/ Container Drivers / C 'n' C-Black Night / Tempo House
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Thursday, August
19 1982 Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
Soundcheck: Deer
Park / Room to Live
Gig: The Classical
/ Hard Life in Country / Mere Pseud Mag Ed / Marquis Cha-Cha /
Tempo House / Fantastic Life / Middle Mass / Hexen Definitive >
Look, Know / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Who Makes the Nazis //
The Man Whose Head Expanded / Backdrop / Prole Art Threat
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Friday, August
20 1982 Main Street, Auckland, New Zealand
Soundcheck: Joker
Hysterical Face / Mere Pseud Mag Ed / The Classical / And This
Day
Gig: Solicitor
in Studio / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Tempo House / Room to
Live / Slates, Slags, etc. / Marquis Cha-Cha / The Classical /
Gramme Friday / I'm Into C.B. / I Feel Voxish / Hexen Definitive > Deer Park // Look Know / Container
Drivers / Joker Hysterical Face / Just Step Sideways
(Just
Step Sideways is cut after a few seconds - perhaps the case on
all copies?)
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Saturday, August
21 1982 Main Street, Auckland, New Zealand
Impression of
J. Temperance / The Man Whose Head Expanded / Room to Live / Hip Priest
/ Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Prole Art Threat / Hard Life in Country
/ The Classical / Mere Pseud Mag Ed / Marquis Cha-Cha / Backdrop /
Fantastic Life / English Scheme / Joker Hysterical Face / No Xmas
for John Quays / Solicitor in Studio
Released on Flying
Nun and later on Cog Sinister/Voiceprint as "Fall in a Hole."
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Saturday, September
18 1982 Sporting, Athens, Greece
The Classical
/ Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Tempo House / I Feel Voxish / Hip Priest
/ I'm Into C.B. / Mere Pseud Mag Ed / The Man Whose Head Expanded
Incomplete from
a radio broadcast. Billed as the "First Ever Festival of Independent
Rock ‘n’ Roll." Took place in a basketball stadium
and organised by Petros Moustakas. The night before the Birthday Party
had played and the night after New Order played.
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Thursday, December
2 1982 Leadmill, Sheffield
Garden / Room
to Live / Pilsner Trail / Mere Pseud Mag Ed / Marquis Cha Cha / Tempo
House / I Feel Voxish / Detective Instinct / Ludd Gang / Dice Man
/ Backdrop / Hard Life in Country / Solicitor in Studio / The Classical
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Friday, December
3 1982 Warehouse, Liverpool
Garden / Room
To Live / Hexen Definitive-Strife Knot / I Feel Voxish / Ludd Gang
/ Hard Life in Country / Marquis Cha Cha / Tempo House / Man Whose
Head Expanded / Dice Man / Backdrop / Mere Pseud Mag Ed. / Pilsner
Trail / Solicitor in Studio
Three photos here;
many thanks to Graham Wrigley.
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Saturday, December
4 1982 Manchester University
Garden / Hexen
Definitive-Strife Knot / I Feel Voxish / Deer Park / Hard Life in
Country / Ludd Gang / Marquis Cha-Cha / Tempo House / Room To Live
/ Backdrop / Solicitor in Studio / Man Whose Head Expanded / Lie Dream
of a Casino Soul / Pilsner Trail
Thanks to Hugh McSheepshagger for the poster.
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Tuesday, December
7 1982 Riley-Smith Hall, Leeds University Union
Garden / Marquis
Cha Cha / Mere Pseud Mag ed / Man Whose Head Expanded / Hexen Definitive-Strife
Knot / I Feel Voxish / Ludd Gang / Tempo House / Joker Hysterical
face / Backdrop
Incomplete. "No
age, dress, or NUS restrictions," according to the flyer. £3.00.
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Wednesday, December
8 1982 Coventry Polytechnic
No tape exists?
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Thursday,
December 9 1982 Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham
Room to Live /
Garden / Pilsner Trail / Marquis Cha-Cha / Mere Pseud Mag Ed / The
Man Whose Head Expanded / Hexen Definitive-Strife Knot / I Feel Voxish
/ Ludd Gang / Tempo House / Joker Hysterical Face / Backdrop / Solicitor
in Studio
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Friday,
December 10 1982 North Staffordshire Polytechnic, Stoke
No tape exists?
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Sunday, December
12 1982 Lyceum, London
Room To Live /
Garden / Pilsner Trail / Marquis Cha-Cha / Mere Pseud Mag Ed / Hexen
Definitive-Strife Knot / I Feel Voxish / Ludd Gang / Tempo House /
Joker Hysterical Face / Backdrop / Solicitor in Studio / Lie Dream
of a Casino Soul
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Wednesday, December
22 1982 Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester
And This Day /
Middle Mass / Hexen Definitive-Strife Knot / I Feel Voxish / Ludd
Gang / Detective Instinct / The Man Whose Head Expanded / Marquis
Cha-Cha / The Classical / Pilsner Trail / Garden / Jawbone and the
Air Rifle / Backdrop |
