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Member	Item		Review/Comment
albert 25th Jan 2018		Live Music Levitation 2015 @ Carson Creek Ranch (2015)	Legendary band 13th Floor Elevators reforms, resulting in weather chaos as time-travellers flock to see the spectacle. Sound quality on this clip is a bit poor [YouTube Video]
albert 8th Nov 2017		Live Music Pink Floyd @ UFO Club (1966)	Opening night for UFO. International Times 12-25 Dec 1966 has an advert and a news piece "UFO (Unidentified Flying Object), IT's own Nova Xmas place opens on December 23 and 30th at 31 Tottenham Court Road, under the Berkeley Cinema. The Pink Floyd, Scorpio Rising, Trip Clothes, Mantras, Food and Heating too, 10:30 pm- 4pm". I guess Scorpio Rising is the film, not a mysterious band. Also note they say under the Berkeley Cinema, officially UFO was held in the Blarney Club (which was part of the same building).
albert 8th Aug 2017		Live Music The 5th Clerkenwell Festival @ Spa Fields (2017)	I booked a table to sell records but could not get myself properly organised so instead just brought along 3 big boxes of 50 pence bargains, many unplayed promos. Graham7 introduced himself and proved to be the biggest buyer of the day, including a pile of about 100 one-track promo CDs, hi Graham, hope you are enjoying the music. I was intending to pack up ready for Ten Benson but unfortunately missed them when the DJ opposite the stall cranked up the volume on some unsurprising 60s hits so I couldn't hear what was happening on the live stage and then a French collector came for a long chat.
albert 21st Jun 2017		Live Music Five Thirty @ Liverpool Polytechnic (1990)	Need to link 5:30 to Five Thirty as it is the same band. I never did catch them live unfortunately, but I did see Orange Deluxe who were pretty good.
albert 21st Jun 2017		Live Music The La's @ The Mayfair (1990)	Added tour advert from Sounds. Any La's fans want to add the dates to the database?
albert 21st Jun 2017		Live Music Th' Faith Healers @ The Venue, New Cross (1991)	Sure would like to have been at this gig. 'Club Awesome' was every Saturday night at The Venue, for a while anyway. I wish the news items would state the location not the club night title (as in this case).
albert 21st Jun 2017		Live Music Silverfish @ The Dome, Tufnell Park (1991)	Added advert and news item (which lists a few more Stereolab gigs).
albert 21st Jun 2017		Live Music The Stairs @ Zap Club (1991)	Address for The Zap Club: 187-193 Kings Road Arches BRIGHTON BN1 1NB It later became Digital, then The Coliseum, then The Arch
albert 21st Jun 2017		Live Music Dinosaur Jr. @ Trent Polytechnic (1989)	Added tour advert from Melody Maker, so any Dinosaur Jr. fans can add dates to the database.
albert 21st Jun 2017		Live Music The Toll @ 100 Club (1989)	Added that full page advert and the review. I see the band were on Geffen, then not on Geffen, erm, perhaps coincidentally when Geffen signed Nirvana.
albert 20th Jun 2017		Live Music Kraftwerk @ Bridgewater Hall (2017)	so it should be for £75
albert 20th Jun 2017		Live Music The Toll @ 100 Club (1989)	Talk about hyping a band. This gig (and 2 others) were advertised with a regular sized advert in the inky press, then a week or so later the gigs were advertised with a full page ad (very costly). Well they hadn't sold out any of the small venues, so I guess the idea was bigger ad=more ticket sales. A review of the gig appeared in the inky press a couple of weeks after, it wasn't the most glowing review though it didn't go so far as to say the band were terrible, ...maybe you were one of the "smattering of moderately curious onlookers". Well, did anyone pay to be there, or were the audience just people who were on the guest list? Who were The Toll anyway???
albert 20th Jun 2017		Live Music Dustball @ The Camden Falcon (1998)	I didn't see the band live on this date. That album in the special plastic ball was limited to 1000 copies, it did not protect the CD too well and also made it fiddly to get out. The album itself was poppy but unsubstantial and not very memorable, the title comes from a picture of the band beside a shop "Quality Butchers", (missing the C), guess I should have read the sign.
albert 20th Jun 2017		Live Music Happy Mondays @ Kilburn National (1989)	I don't know how they would have managed putting on 8 bands in one night even if they did start at 5pm. Note that Stitched Back Foot Airman are listed as Stitch on the advert.
albert 20th Jun 2017		Live Music Manic Street Preachers @ Hull University (1992)	Added cutting from NME advertising the tour. Any Manics fans want to add the dates to the database?
albert 20th Jun 2017		Live Music Pixies @ Top Rank Suite (1989)	As Pixies hit the charts their UK tour expanded.
albert 20th Jun 2017		Live Music Pixies @ Leicester University (1989)	As Pixies hit the charts their UK tour expanded.
albert 20th Jun 2017		Live Music Bubble-Eyed Dog Boys @ King Tut's Wah Wah Hut (1991)	Added image giving details of a 1991 tour including such venues as 'a field' in Shetland.
albert 15th Jun 2017		Live Music Bingo Hand Job @ The Borderline (1991)	Must have been a fairly open secret as the gig was listed as sold out before the actual date.
albert 6th Jun 2017		Live Music Copper Lips @ The Monarch (1999)	Copper Lips soon after changed their name to Palookaville.
albert 19th May 2017		Live Music Drugstore @ The Monarch (1995)	I remember this gig quite well, Drugstore were excellent of course and they included a cover of the Tindersticks song Milky Teeth which quite impressed me. The Monarch was in serious bad shape around this time and may even have been an abandoned pub, the bands played downstairs on a makeshift stage and there was scaffolding everywhere to support the ceiling. The bar just consisted of a few glass fronted fridges packed with cans that were probably brought in from the supermarket. After the bands you could stay there pretty much all night if you wanted to, they just didn't seem to kick anybody out, and they played a great selection of music including 60s psyche, freakbeat & garage, indie, and underground stuff, everything great. Happy times.
albert 17th May 2017		Live Music Fugazi @ Sir George Robey (1988)	The Sir George Robey along with the Bull & Gate and later The Falcon and The Monarch were favourite haunts of mine because of their policy of putting on a bunch of (good) bands for a few quid. Usually you could not buy tickets in advance, and since I did not keep diary notes its now hard for me to remember who I did see live 30 years ago. Unfortunately I did not catch this gig as I am sure to have remembered it, I did buy Fugazi's first EP when it came out though and I did see the very noisy and intense Playground on a couple of occasions around '88-'89.
albert 16th May 2017		Live Music Eager Sin Babies @ Sir George Robey (1988)	Well I didn't think I'd find much on YouTube but Eager-Sin Babies did do a single [YouTube Video]
albert 16th May 2017		Live Music Pixies @ Town And Country Club (1988)	The advert also has My Bloody Valentine down for the shows, though it is not specifically clear if they played this London gig in addition to Perfect Disaster.
albert 16th May 2017		Live Music My Bloody Valentine @ Dingwalls (1988)	Free smarties and jelly babies, that was the scene then, unnecessary cuteness maybe, ...dry ice and strobes too, I bet they did not have the fire-eaters though. This is the kind of event where you would find lots of people selling fanzines (and I would buy them too!).
albert 16th May 2017		Live Music Spacemen 3 @ Dingwalls (1988)	My Bloody Valentine had by now signed to Creation and released their classic single You Made Me Realise - a single which was roundly slagged off by pitiful reviewers in the inky press, illustrating lazy tendencies to just pull out old reviews for reference and to follow the party line. Of course once MBV started selling bucket-loads then music press attitudes changed.
albert 16th May 2017		Live Music Spacemen 3 @ Tunnel Club, Greenwich (1988)	In the listings pages the Secret Handshakes are replaced by Hiding Place, maybe somebody who was at the gig can say the correct lineup. The full address for where The Tunnel Club (for it was the promotions name) happened: The Mitre, 338 Tunnel Avenue, Off Boord Street, London, SE10 0PF These days it is known as Studio 338, a niteclub!
albert 16th May 2017		Live Music Throwing Muses @ Mean Fiddler [Harlesden] (1988)	Legendary first London gig for Pixies. The double headlining of Throwing Muses and Pixies arrived in the UK and played this date as a warm up, they then headed off to Europe and returned to the UK for a short tour a few weeks later.
albert 15th May 2017		Live Music Talulah Gosh @ London School of Economics (1988)	Last gig for Talulah Gosh, though it looks like a student union event with tickets only available from the union shop, therefore I suppose only students were allowed in.
albert 15th May 2017		Live Music The Wonder Stuff @ Dingwalls (1987)	I see the advert, but also in the same issue of Sounds (26 September 1987) the listing puts it down as: 1) Lowlife 2) The Wonderstuff 3) My Life Story I think the listing is probably more accurate as the information could be telephoned through before printing deadlines, I would also assume that the promoters wouldn't risk putting The Wonderstuff as headliners even if their new 2nd single was just about in the shops.

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