Posts tagged with: 1978

The Stunt Kites, Saint Cuthberts Church Hall, Fir Vale, Sheffield. 25th November 1978.

A drab, grey plastic mould chair, scuffed black metal legs akimbo, spins through the air above the ready-rubbed tobacco floor - an unhinged Apollo lunar lander in search of its own Sea Of Tranquillity. Its…

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Snips, The Limit Club, Sheffield. Friday 15th September 1978

Firth Park Comprehensive School, the Brushes Building. It’s a July afternoon near the end of term, and lessons are over for the day. I’m in the music room, sitting behind a drum kit.…

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The Push || Double Life - Sheffield University. Saturday 19th August 1978.

Vinner throws the best parties. Like a junior Jay Gatsby, he holds court at his parents’ lofty Victorian house in Burngreave. We’re a largely well brought up, well behaved bunch. No-one takes drugs, but…

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Cabaret Voltaire || Deaf Aids || Molodoy || The Push - The Limit Club, Sheffield. Tuesday 15th August 1978.

“Wilma, what’s this song called?” “Spanish Stroll.” “So why are you singing it in French?” “I don’t understand what he’s saying in Spanish, summat about rose eater, take care oh.” “What are…

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Frank White, The Broadfield Pub, Sheffield. Saturday 12th August 1978

9 Across. Frank Zappa’s got one (10). Above my head, ten thousand tiny mice tap-dance on the tin roof. It’s raining again. I’m in a four-berth caravan, hunched over the NME, trying…

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The Smirks, The Limit Club, West Street, Sheffield. Thursday 27th July 1978.

There are two yellow balls in the sky. The first one is the sun, eternal, implacable, blazing down on this gorgeous July afternoon. The second sphere is small, soft and scuffed, earthbound on a parabolic…

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