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Member	Item		Review/Comment
albert 7th Apr 2017		Live Music GWAR @ Rock City (1992)	Got the details from a full page advert in the Melody Maker, the image is cut down as it showed all the gigs for the entire month. Rock City seems like a good venue.
albert 7th Apr 2017		Live Music Bongwater @ Camden Underworld (1991)	Looking through piles of the old music press for scrapbook cuttings I am happy to say there were very few special gigs that escaped my roving eye, this alas was one gig that I somehow missed. Looks like you could not buy advance tickets, but that was quite common at the time. Probably missed through pressures of work as I would certainly have noted this one as a 'must see', Bongwater were very special on LP.
albert 6th Apr 2017		Live Music Mudhoney @ School Of Oriental And African Studies (1989)	added another cutting to show tour dates.
albert 6th Apr 2017		Live Music The Ullulators @ The Crypt (under St Pauls Church Deptford) (1989)	Here are The Ullulators from around the period, (very Club Dog & Vertigo scene): [YouTube Video]
albert 6th Apr 2017		Live Music Pixies @ University of East Anglia (1989)	check the date please, 21 April 1979 ?
albert 6th Apr 2017		Live Music Pixies @ Corn Exchange (1989)	Can somebody who attended the gig please confirm the date since the advert lists it as Sunday 23rd.
albert 5th Apr 2017		Live Music The One @ The Astoria (1994)	The One, here, was Peter Perrett's band. Headless Chickens were probably not Thom Yorke's earlier band, just in case anybody asks, well maybe they were but Thom had left by then ;) Checking other gigs I see that there was another band 'The One' who played in 1975, and a band just called 'One' or '1' who played gigs around 1989 in London and featured Steve Hovington from B-Movie. Confusing.
albert 30th Mar 2017		Live Music Pere Ubu @ Royal Festival Hall (2000)	Spotted an advert for this in an old NME and was quite surprised to see 15-60-75 (The Numbers Band) played support. Advert under "Outro" banner.
albert 2nd Jan 2017		Live Music The Rezillos @ Boston Arms (2017)	Some details here
albert 28th Dec 2016		Live Music New York Dolls @ Malcolm's Club (1972)	Apparently one of the first UK dates for the band, they were in the UK recording demos - this predates any proper record releases, and although they were well established in New York the band hadn't really stepped out of their home town. They did some bigger dates in London and around, and a UK tour was meant to include support slots for Lou Reed but I don't know if that happened. So the Dolls were big in NY and in Hull.
albert 28th Dec 2016		Live Music Buxton Festival @ Booth Farm (1974)	New York Dolls were billed but might not have played.
albert 28th Dec 2016		Live Music Status Quo @ Imperial College (1972)	New York Dolls played this gig, apparently Mick Jagger came to watch, and then band played another gig in the late evening at the Mile End Sundown.
albert 28th Dec 2016		Live Music Roxy Music @ Hardrock (1972)	New York Dolls did not play, they had to cancel because Billy Murcia had died just days earlier.
albert 3rd Dec 2016		Live Music The Ramones @ Rainbow Theatre (1977)	Ramones channel [YouTube Video]
albert 3rd Dec 2016		Live Music Ramones @ CBGB OMFUG (1974)	Amazed that I had to add the venue before adding this gig, enjoy [YouTube Video]
albert 2nd Dec 2016		Live Music Bazooka Joe @ St. Martin's College Of Art (1975)	Gig was arranged by Glen Matlock who was studying at the college, Adam Ant was in Bazooka Joe (nominal headliners).
albert 2nd Dec 2016		Live Music Sex Pistols @ Butler's Wharf (1976)	No audio for footage, but sound added from 17 Sept 1976 Chelmsford Prison gig. [YouTube Video]
albert 2nd Dec 2016		Live Music Sex Pistols @ Castle Cinema (1976)	Short programme about the event [YouTube Video]
albert 2nd Dec 2016		Live Music The Slits @ Electric Circus (1977)	Just added this event so that I could add a link to The Worst site and to tie in this documentary which is about the Manchester scene and has footage of The Electric Circus (mainly Vibrators playing) [YouTube Video]
albert 1st Dec 2016		Live Music Sex Pistols @ Lesser Free Trade Hall (1976)	The gig that was attended by the entire population of Manchester, apparently. [YouTube Video]
albert 1st Dec 2016		Live Music Sex Pistols @ Lesser Free Trade Hall (1976)	Info from David Nolan's great book of quotes which tells the story "I Swear I Was There". I wasn't there but I know that in 1976 spending 50p was worth nearly 2 pints, or at least a pint and a half.
albert 13th Nov 2016		Live Music La Femme @ O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire (2016)	The support band were called 'Loose Meat' and sounded like they'd been studious pupils of terrible TV show Rockschool
albert 18th Oct 2016		Live Music The Rolling Stones @ ABC (1964)	Pathe news [YouTube Video]
albert 18th Oct 2016		Live Music The Merseybeats @ Cavern Club (1964)	Suspect that The Merseybeats may have been there to draw an audience. Pathe News was there, some great footage of the original Cavern Club, NEMS record shop, Liverpool... [YouTube Video] In the footage I think they say the other bands are The Codells, The Drovers, and The Jynx.
albert 18th Oct 2016		Live Music Tyrannosaurus Rex @ Middle Earth (1967)	Added this event as an excuse to link this clip, Middle Earth in 1967, (though the clip is not fully dated). [YouTube Video]
albert 4th Oct 2016		Live Music The Animals @ Tiles Club (1966)	July 2012, a last look at where Tiles was before it got demolished to build a railway for the very rich. (note the URL is likely to change)
albert 4th Oct 2016		Live Music Pink Floyd @ UFO Club (1967)	UFO Club now long since demolished, it was held in the Blarney Club (pic and some info here)
albert 4th Oct 2016		Live Music The Animals @ Tiles Club (1966)	Tiles nightclub opened on Monday 28 February 1966, note also that the address is also listed "and 1 Dean Street", the venue was apparently called Beat City before it opened as Tiles. Pathe News was there, note the fake street below ground for late night shopping: [YouTube Video]
albert 3rd Oct 2016		Live Music Incredible String Band @ Middle Earth (1967)	Added the event so that I could add Middle Earth, but it seems like those hippies didn't get the postcode right, Royal Mail's postcode finder puts it as WC2E 8JS. Middle Earth supposed to have been in a sprawling basement which you got to down a fire escape.
albert 30th May 2016		Live Music New Electrics @ The Camden Falcon (1999)	Quite a fab night, New Electrics did some great gigs in their day and Drop Bears were one of those rare bands where the drummer was the lead singer - and pretty good too as far as I remember.

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