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Live Music

Artist: Dead Kennedys Venue: Imperial Cinema City:   Birmingham, England, UK Date: Friday, 2 Oct 1981 Collection:   Attended     Wishlist  Community:  3 Attended

	Lineup	Rating
1	Dead Kennedys	Rate
2	Drongos For Europe	Rate

Notes

Dead Kennedys/Drongos For Europe – 02 October 1981. The audience were wild at this one, but the atmosphere was incredible. Jello Biafra took a great disliking to the gap separating the stage from the audience and regularly hurled himself across to join the fans in the mosh pit at the front. About half way through the monitors broke down and Jello entertained the audience with dirty jokes and stories for about 20 minutes (a drum & bass version of Drug Me was also performed during this break). When the equipment came back on, Jello again leaped into the audience and the gig ended in great style. Discharge were playing across town in the Cedar Club on the same night, much to Jello’s delight and he made the trip across town to join in the audience there.

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Comments and Reviews

RobnotBob 4th Jan 2024		I was at the Imperial when DFE supported the Kennedys and have always disputed the date. We met the Dead Kennedys in the pub across the road before the gig and told them that Discharge and GBH were playing at the Cedar Club later that night. We arranged to meet them later to take them across town. I gave Jello, Klaus and Peligro a lift in my Mk3 Cortina. I passed my driving test in August 1982 and bought the car in December 1982, so I think this gig was actually in 1983, or did they play at the Imperial again?
Saladwhipperjim 14th Jul 2022		I was 16 and down the front in the mosh pit (before the name mosh pit was invented). I remember it being wild. It was the days when the crowd spat at the singer through the whole concert. I remember Jello had his shirt off and was covered in spit. At one point he stopped as there was a big slimy one hanging from his eyebrow. He scooped it up and flicked it back into the crowd saying “here you can have this one back”.

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