Sat. 11th. Sept. Staging Post, Leeds (in colour)
Sun 12th. Sept. University Theatre
Mon 13th. Sept. Bedrock, Radio Newcastle: City – Lights of Love and I see you walking.
Sun 26th. Sept. Establishment of Public Relations, Publicity and Promotion section. Members, Phil Sutcliffe (pp. 46, 20) and Dick Godfrey.
Fri. 1st. October. Newcastle Polytechnic, Supporting The Troggs.
Wild reaction from large audience. Encore after 3 minutes shouting from crowd.
The set was :- (1) Children, (2) I ain’t good looking, (3) Turn your eyes to the Left, (4) City, Lights of Love, (5) I See you Walking (6) A Little more Time, (7) Movin’ Down, (8) Clique-Non-Clique. Encore Amamus
soundcheck
Charles gets it on with Claves in “I see you Walking”.
5x “I see you walking around my door. I see you walking away from me”.
Poly dressing room. Foreground: Phil Sutcliffe
Sat 2nd Oct 1976: Staging Post, Leeds
Sun 3rd Oct 1976: University Theatre (best one ever)
Sat. 10th. Oct. Durham University – Booked at last minute on Sat. Afternoon. Two other bands on bill.
Fri. 22nd. Oct. Northern Counties College, Longbenton.
Sun. 24th. Oct. University theatre.
Fri. 5th. Nov – Ponteland Teachers Training College.
Sat. 6th. Nov – Bishop Grosseteste – Lincoln. A big gig. Two enthusiastic encores from the crowd. Pre-gig coverage in Lincoln newspapers.
Publicity at work. Phil Sutcliffe Right: Reference to band. Left: Reference to John.
Sat. 13th. Nov. West Bretton College, Yorkshire.
Sun.14th. Nov. University Theatre
Mon. 14th . Nov. Dick Godfrey’s Bedrock.
Jeffrey explains why he wears nothing but shorts on stage.
Fri. 19th. Nov. The Speakeasy, London.
Sat. 20th. Nov. Double Six, Basildon – Cancelled on arrival.
Thurs. 2nd. Dec. Guildhall, Newcastle.* supported by: The BellyRippers, Bleezer S. hack and The Midnight Tokers: and, Raven.
Fri. 3rd. Dec. TrevelYan *mucho food, ice cream, tea, coffee-free College Durham University.
Sun. 5th. Dec. University Theatre*
*Niel Perry, 2nd. Sax on Movin’ Down, AbaBoa & 100% Rock n Roll
Sat. 11th. Dec. the Greyhound. Hammersmith.
Southbound Mi –Trowell services. Accident. Truck damaged. Smashed wheel. Lost petrol tank and fittings (+14 galls fuel). Damaged Prop. Shaft.
R.A.C. Recovery take Dave, Jeff, Charles and truck to greyhound. Good Gig. Tommorow’s gig at Basildon cancelled. All except Jeff & Dave go home in Volvo. J & D stay at greyhound Sat. Night. Stay at friend of Jeff’s on Sun. & Mon. nights. Also borrow their car to collect parts.
It takes Sun, Mon. and Tuesday to get van adequately fixed.
Leave TU : 14: Dec at 10pm. AV speed 35 mph. Home 7am Wed. Very heavy Financial loss. J & D exhausted.
Also.
Jim busted for speeding on way down. Involvement with fire brigade, motorway police & 2 breakdown services on way down in Van. Police patrols look after immobile van containing thousands of pounds worth of gear in Hammersmith. J&D suspected of illegal entry by Metro. Police whilst in scrap yard with permission.
On the Whole – a disaster.
Friday 17th. Dec. Lincoln college of Technology.
From a Lincoln Local Paper.
A nice magazine feature to end the year and volume one of the story:
I was at the staging post at that gig with sharon dean now of respect music and my sister lives next to the the staging post