The EIGHTIES
1980 19 Jan 23 Jan 26 Jan
The Ramones + the Boys Dr Magnus Pike off the TV lectured on ‘The world in 2030’ The Revillos
£2.50 free 50p
LCR bar closed during events because of the number of broken glasses 28 Jan 30 Jan
The Mekons Robin Trower
+ Samson
at K Block
£1.25 £2.75
01 Feb 02 Feb 06 Feb 06 Feb 10 Feb 15 Feb 16 Feb
George Melly & John Chilterns Feetwarmers Fischer Z at K Block RadioActive Oxford comedy review Wreckless Eric + Capitalist Music at K Block Dexys Midnight Runners + Small Hours at K Block Squeeze + Fashion Leargo (filmed for their new video) + the Clynics
£1.65 £1.50 £1.50 £1.50 £1.60 50p
LCR bar re-opens with plastic glasses 22 Feb 23 Feb 27 Feb 28 Feb 29 Feb
The Pretenders + UB40 Leighton Rees (darts champion exhibition) Shakin Stevens RAG event Roy Harper folk club Elvis Costello& the Attractions + Fashion
£2 £1 £3
1980 02 Mar 05 Mar 07 Mar 15 Mar 17 Mar
O.M.D. + Au Pairs Nazareth + Praying Mantis Peter Casson Hypnotist Eddie & the Hot Rods The Photos + Mark Andrews & the Gents
at K Block
at K Block
£1.25 £2.75 85p £1.80 £1.25
23 Apr 25 Apr 26 Apr 29 Apr
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee blues club Tom Paxton folk club Purple Hearts at K Block Tim Good lecture ‘ UFO’s are real ‘ with photos
£1.60 £2.00 £1.50 free
O M D c Trevor Benbrook orchestral manoeuvres in the dark
05 May 07 May 08 May 11 May 16 May 17 May 24 May 25 May 28 May 30 May
Martha and the Muffins + the Interview Eddy Grant TV’s Fun Factory ft Neil Innes, John Gorman, comedy The Undertones + Moondogs The Monochrome Set + Amorphons Jane Aire & the Belvederes Joe Jackson + the Keys Fire Hydrant men + disco The Teardrop Explodes at K Block The Beat + Mood Elevators + Eclipse
£1.80 £2.50 50p £3 40p £1.30 £2.50
Student societies organize discos for fund raising, either in the LCR, The Barn in UEA village or in K block Horsham, Fifers Lane. Usually it cost 30-40p entry, 50 -300 people would go and there were 5 or 6 a week to choose from. Always last tune at 12.30, buildings on full lock by 1am and of course it was illegal for any pub to serve alcohol after 11pm, and any nightclub after 1.30am. 05 Jun 11-14 Jun 11 Jun 13 Jun 14 Jun 14 Jun 18 Jun
The Vapours + 3 Minutes The Nearly ‘Free Festival’ : Atomic Rooster Otway & Barrett at K Block free if you had a Rooster ticket Gary Glitter + free entry to 60’s disco day before Fred Wedlock and Chris Newman, in the Square Dexys Midnight Runners + Black Arabs + Upset
£1.75 70p 70p 80p free £2.50
1980 20 Sept Dr Feelgood 01 Oct Q Tips ft. Paul Young £3 ? 01 Oct Weapon of Peace at K Block £1.50 02 Oct Geno Washington £1.65 02 Oct Fischer Z at K Block £1.65 03 Oct Son of Stiff Tour £2 ft. Dirty Looks, Joe King Carrrasco, Tenpole Tudor, Any Trouble, The Equators 08 Oct 11 Oct 15 Oct 18 Oct 22 Oct 24 Oct 29 Oct
Echo and the Bunnymen + the Sound at K Block The Skids + the Books Inmates + Deaf Audio at K Block The Tourists ft. Annie Lennox + The Barracudas John Martyn Rockpile ft. Dave Edmunds & Nick Lowe + Johnny Memphis Teardrop Explodes ft. Julian Cope + Thompson Twins
£1.85 £2.25 £1.65 £2.75 £1.75 £2.75 50p
01 Nov 04 Nov 07 Nov 16 Nov 20 Nov 21 Nov 28 Nov 30 Nov
Hawkwind + Vardis Cheap Trick cancelled Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark + Fatal Charm Split Enz + Screen3 Stray Cats (Radio 1 live broadcast) + radio dj Mike Reid Steel Pulse + Jimmy Lindsay Queen Ida & The Bon Temps Zydeco Band Motels + Screen 3
£2.50 £3 £2 £1.40 £2.20 £1.50 75p
04 Dec 06 Dec
Hazel O’Connor Gary Glitter
£2.50 £2
Queen Ida & the Bon Temps Zydeco Band c Trevor Benbrook
+ Duran Duran + Moving Parts
1981 17 Jan 23 Jan 24 Jan 28 Jan
Lindisfarne The Blues Band The Fall U2
04 Feb 06 Feb 07 Feb 12 Feb 13 Feb 14 Feb 18 Feb 20 Feb 21 Feb 22 Feb 24 Feb 25 Feb
The Passions + Zilch + Screen3 at K Block the Oxford Revue Co. ft Hee Bee Gee Bees Peter Casson Hypnotist Camel Bad Manners + Dolly Mixtures The Darts + Pearl Harbour Iron Maiden + Trust Madness + Team 23 The Jam + Purple Hearts Au Pairs at K Block Q Tips (Paul Young) failed RAG Event, Ents take over Fatal Charm at K Block
03 Mar 04 Mar 07 Mar 12 Mar 14 Mar 15 Mar
£2.50 £2.25 £1 £1
+ Step Aside + Higsons + Altered Images
Dr Feelgood + the Inmates the Higsons + Clynics + Autopsy the Cramps cancelled Bow Wow Wow George Melly jazz Hot Gossip (Kenny Everett TV show dance troupe)
at K Block
£1.60 £1.50 £1.25 £2.50 £2.25 £2.50 £2.50 £5 £5 £1.50 50p £2 50p £2 £1.75 £2.75 £2.50
03 May 06 May
Freez + Torso £2.50 Stiff Little Fingers + the Wall £2.50 Radio One recorded the show for an evening broadcast 08 May Japan + Modern English £2.50 09 May Discipline ft. Robert Fripp + Lounge Lizards £2 13 May The Plastics + Screen 3 £1 17 May Cabaret Futura – a selection of performance art £2 ft Richard Jobson, Richard Strange, Everest the Hard Way, Eddie and Sunshine 20 May Modern Eon at K Block £1.50 22 May John Cooper Clarke + Invisible Girls £1.80 24 May Trust French heavy metal at K Block £2 25 May The Undertones + TV21 £3.25 29 May XTC £3 31 May Nine Below Zero £2 03 Jun 07 Jun 13 Jun 21 Jun 24 Jun 26 Jun
26 Sep 30 Sep
Thompson Twins at K Block Judie Tzuke Teardrop Explodes ft. Julian Cope TISWAS - Chris Tarrant, John Gorman, Neil Innes, John Carrolgees, Spit The Dog, & The Phantom Flan Flinger Ball ft :Elvis Costello, Revillos, Scars, Higsons, Screen 3 Pretenders
£1.50 £2.50 £2.50 £1.50 £5.50 £3.50
Killing Joke £2 Comic Strip live tour £1.50 Alexei Sayle, Adrian Edmundson, Rik Mayall, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Peter Richardson, Nigel Planer 01 Oct U2 + Comsat Angels + Wall of Voodoo £3 02 Oct Ents Disco 8pm doors 75p or in K Block a Ceildh £1.50
1981 03 Oct bouts incl. 05 Oct 10 Oct 13 Oct 14 Oct 15 Oct 16 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23 Oct 24 Oct 30 Oct 31 Oct
Professional Wrestling Cat Weasel v Sex Symbol Maurice, Mitzi Mueller v Hellcat Hagerty Q Tips ft Paul Young + Weapon Of Peace Bow Wow Wow + The Passions + Screen 3 Greg Lake ft Gary Moore + Voyager Polecats + John Cooper Clarke Ian Carr’s Nucleus jazz rock Vital Disorders + Farmers Boys Carlene Carter & the CC Riders at K Block Ents Disco 10pm-1am 500 customers the Blues Band ft Paul Jones + Supercharge 7 Bauhaus + Virgin Prunes Madness + The Belle Stars The Sound at K Block
£2 £2 £2.50 £3 £2 £1 £2 50p £1.75 £1.50 £4 £1.50
01 Nov 02 Nov 06 Nov 07 Nov 08 Nov 10 Nov 10 Nov 14 Nov 19 Nov 20 Nov 21 Nov 26 Nov 28 Nov 29 Nov
Gang of Four + Way of the West the Go Go’s ft. Belinda Carlisle + Jools Holland & his Millionaires Pig Bag + the Popes Killing Joke Steeleye Span Rock against Racism ft the Higsons + Unity Series Ceildh ft Ketts Oak band at K Block Stranglers Level 42 Stan Tracey Quartet with Ronnie Scott (jazz) Wishbone Ash Rory Gallagher + Eric Bell Band Squeeze + Point Department S at K Block
£2.50 free 50p £2 £2.75 85p £1.25 £3.50 £2 £2 £3 £3 £3 £2
02 Dec 05 Dec 08 Dec 09 Dec 10 Dec 11 Dec
O.M.D. Echo and the Bunnymen Duran Duran Gary Glitter Bill Nelson Pretenders
£5 £3.50 £3.50 £2.85 £2 £3.75
+ TV21 + Talk Talk + The Darts (Cancelled)
The Jam c. Trevor Benbrook
s/o
1982 14 Jan 20 Jan 21 Jan 22 Jan 24 Jan
the Thursday LCR Disco the first regular weekly disco 10-1am Trimmer and Jenkins (comedy) Hypnotist Peter Casson Orange Juice + The Farmers Boys Climax Blues Band + The Look
50p £1.50 £1.35 £2.50 £2.50
02 Feb 07 Feb 13 Feb 14 Feb 19 Feb 24 Feb
Stiff Little Fingers + Flying Padovanis Hot Gossip (dancers from Kenny Everett TV show) Bo Diddley Bootleg Beatles + Pookiesnackenburger Teardrop Explodes + Ravishing Beauties Depeche Mode + Blancmange
£3 £2.85 £2.25 £1.75 £3.85 £2.75
02 Mar
s/o s/o s/o s/o
Mari Wilson & the Imaginations + Trimmer & Jenkins comedy
A free daytime concert in support of the NUS Student Grants Campaign
It was this term that Thursdays became a regular SU Disco night in the LCR. Not clever marketing, but the Social Secretary wanted an excuse to avoid going to ‘ the boring political ‘ Students Council held on the same evening. 03 Mar 07 Mar 11 Mar 14 Mar 16 Mar 17 Mar
Linton Kwesi Johnson + John Cooper Clarke (poets) Hypnotist Peter Zenner Bill Nelson Dave Edmunds + Dbs Kevin Coyne Haircut 100 + Weapon of Peace
s/o
£2.50 £1.35 £2 £2.75 £2 £2.75
18 Apr 23 Apr 25 Apr 28 Apr 29 Apr
Blackfoot George Melly Jazz & the John Chiltern Feetwarmers Judie Tzuke + Bloomsbury Set Boomtown Rats The Cure + Richard Jobson + Zera1
s/o s/o
£2.50 £2.50 £3.50 £3.50 £3.25
01 May 08 May 16 May 18 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 24 May 26 May
Steel Pulse Thomas Dolby Nick Lowe + the Blasters John Martyn Pookiesnackenburger + Alexi Sayle at the Barn, Altered Images + Vic Goddard & Subway Sect s/o Kid Creole and the Coconuts + Data s/o Girlschool + Raven Level 42 + Screen 3
£2.50 £2.50 £3 £2.25 £3 £3.50 £3.50 £2.50
06 Jun 15 Jun
Lindisfarne £2.75 Dance Crazy Ball with Pigbag, Funkapolitan, Higsons, Vital Disorders + C20th Coyote (Rik Mayall & Ade Edmondson) £3 Gang Of Four + King Trigger £2.50
19 Jun
1982 07 Oct 08 Oct 10 Oct 13 Oct 17 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 22 Oct 23 Oct 27 Oct 29 Oct
Q Tips (Paul Young) Teardrop Explodes + Screen 3 Clint Eastwood and General Saint reggae Bauhaus + Amazulu Light Of The World John Martyn The Damned + Charge Thompson Twins + Tears For Fears Killing Joke + The Danse Society Joan Jett and the Blackhearts + The Smart Fashion + Kajagoogoo
at K Block
£2.75 £3.85 £2.75 £2.50 £3 £2.75 £2.50 £3 £3.50 £2.75
03 Nov 05 Nov 06 Nov 12 Nov 14 Nov 16 Nov 19 Nov 21 Nov 24 Nov 28 Nov 30 Nov
Stiff Little Fingers + Roddy Radiation & Tearjerkers Hawkwind + Baron Rojo Diamondhead + Twisted Sister Talk Talk + Music for Pleasure Level 42 Flock of Seagulls + The Happy Few Vital Disorders, Happy Few, Baptism of Fire, Unity Series Aswad Dead Kennedys + Peter & the Test Tube Babies Bow Wow Wow John Williams Guitarist
£3.25 £3.50 £2.25 £2.75 £2 £2.75 £3 £3 £3
02 Dec 04 Dec 05 Dec 06 Dec 07 Dec 10 Dec 11 Dec 12 Dec 14 Dec
Gary Moore Shakatak Slade (original full band members) + Shy Remark Simple Minds + China Crisis Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five Gary Glitter + Presence Boomtown Rats + The Alarm The Kinks + The Truth Mari Wilson + Roman Holiday
£3 £3.50 £3.75 £3.50 £3 £3.25 £3.50 £3.75 £2.75
the Cure
the Boomtown Rats Photo credits belong to Trevor Benbrook one of our student crew volunteers ’79-‘82
1983 28 Jan 01 Feb 14 Feb 17 Feb 19 Feb 26 Feb 27 Feb
Echo and the Bunnymen The Disrupters Animal Nightlife Lenny Henry Disco Roy Harper Misty in Roots Thompson Twins
02 Mar 04 Mar 12 Mar 15 Mar 17 Mar 21 Mar
Kevin Turvey and the Young Ones comedy ft. Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson and Nigel Planer Hypnotist Peter Casson Eurythmics + The Choir Marillion + Peter Hamill Tears for Fears + Verba Verba The Undertones + Cook da Books
£2.50 £2.75 £3 £3
28 Apr 29 Apr
Spear of Destiny + Kowalski Little Steven (Bruce Springsteen’s guitarist)
£2.75 £3
04 May 09 May 13 May 19 May 20 May 22 May 26 May 29 May
Kajagoogoo Steve Hackett Clint Eastwood and General Saint Weapon of Peace The Questions, + Tracie + The Craze Kissing the Pink Joboxers Clock DVA
£3.50 £3 £2.75 £2.50 £2.50 £1 £2.75 £1
02 Jun 03 Jun 07 Jun
Motorhead China Crisis Elvis Costello
£4.50 £2.75 £4.50
06 Oct 07 Oct 07 Oct 08 Oct
Level 42 Ents disco ceilidh Judie Tzuke
09 Oct
National Revue Co. comedy £1.50 ft Phil Nice, Arthur Smith, Maxine Ostwald, Babs Sutton, Adam Wilde 60’s Disco 75p Cambridge Footlights comedy £2.50 ft. Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis & Nick Hancock
12 Oct 15 Oct
£3 60p £2.75 £2.75 £2.75
(reggae) + Unity Series
+ Anvil + Howard Jones + The Time + Screen 3 + Unity Series
k block + Any Trouble
£3 75p £1 £3
17 Oct 18 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 27 Oct 28 Oct
The Alarm + the Climb Paul Young + Passion Puppets Peter Zenner Hypnotist Joboxers + Bang Go Boom Paul Haig’s ‘Rhythm of Life’ The Truth
£2 £3.50 £1.50 £3 £1 £1
04 Nov 05 Nov
The Greatest Show on Legs comedy (naked balloon dance) Lindisfarne + Alan Hull
£1.50 £3
1983 16 Nov 19 Nov 20 Nov 23 Nov 25 Nov
Aztec Camera Richard Thompson Public Image Limited John Cooper Clarke Poet S.P.K. in the Barn
£3.50 £1.50 £1.50
02 Dec 03 Dec 06 Dec 08 Dec 09 Dec 10 Dec 11 Dec
Tears for Fears Slade Steve Nieve Imagination Gary Glitter The Farmers Boys Boomtown Rats
£4 £4 free £4.75 £3.50 £1 £3
+ The Escape s/o s/o + Screen 3
1984 14 Feb 25 Feb
The Smiths Icicle Works
(In the Foyer) + Red Guitars (In the Barn in the Village)
07 Mar 07 Mar 17 Mar 22 Mar
Peter Zenner Hypnotist Carmel Stingrays Marillion + Pendragon
£3 £2.50 LT1
(In the Foyer) (at K Block) (St Andrews Hall)
£1.35 £2.75 £1.50 -
Spring 1984: The LCR was closed for a complete refurbishment, the stage was moved to its current position, the entrance foyer and backstage was built, the bar turned around and extra exits and toilets put in. Capacity went from 920 to 1100
LCR Stage 1982, Testcard F rehearsal
LCR Stage 2019,
Gary Numan
13 May 14 May 15 May 17 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 26 May
Bruce Foxton (ex Jam) Sisters of Mercy Blancmange The Cult Red Guitars Prefab Sprout Carmel Aswad
+ Shoot Dispute + Flesh for Lulu + Portion Control + Fiction Factory + Flesh for Lulu + Hurrah
£2.75 £2.75 £3.50 £2.75 £2.75 £3 £3 £3
13 June 17 June 20 June
Twisted Sister The Bluebells Thomas Dolby
+ Lita Ford + Friends Again
£3 £2.50 £3.50
04 Oct 05 Oct 05 Oct 06 Oct 07 Oct 15 Oct 14 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 23 Oct 24 Oct 31 Oct
Cambridge Footlights comedy ‘Bad Lib’ £2.50 Billy Bragg + Hank Wangford & the Frank Chickens at K block £3 Michael Chapman (didn’t show up but did the next night, agents?!) £1.50 UG 84 Freshers Disco 80p Aswad £3 Red Guitars £2.75 Boomtown Rats £3.50 Sisters of Mercy £3 FiatLux K block £1.50 Level 42 + Yes Let’s £4.25 Everything but the Girl £2.75 Shriekback £2 Elvis Costello + The Pogues £5.50
1984 09 Nov 09 Nov 11 Nov 14 Nov 15 Nov 16 Nov 21 Nov 22 Nov 23 Nov 25 Nov
Liberators + Foundation sound , ( Famine relief benefit) Barn The Alarm + Blue in Heaven + Rebel Rouse Orange Juice Lords of the New Church + Wall of Voodoo Red Guitars Gee Mr Tracey + Testcard F + Break it Gently + Cloud 9 Kane Gang Tom Robinson + Immaculate Fools REM + The Lucy Show Hawkwind + Wildfire
£1.50 £3.50 £2.50 £2.75 £2.75 £1.50 £3.25 £3.75 £3.50 £3.75
04 Dec 06 Dec 08 Dec 09 Dec 09Dec
Gary Glitter £4 The Inspirational Choir of Pentecostal First Born Church of Living God £2.75 Alison Moyet cancelled £5 UFO + Tobruk + Runestaff £3.50 Redskins + Serious Drinking miners strike benefit K Block £3
1985 18 Jan 25 Jan
Alison Moyet Hurrah
(rescheduled show) + Daintees Microdisney didn’t show up
£5 £1.50
03 Feb Marc Almond £3.75 09 Feb Misty in Roots £3.50 12 Feb King £2.75 16 Feb Killing Joke + Ellery Bop £3 24 Feb Magnum £3 28 Feb Big Sound Authority £2.50 They did TV recording early that evening in Newcastle for the Tube, then flew down but were diverted to East Midlands Airport because of fog, we ran a very late show.
03 Mar 17 Mar
Grandmaster Melle Mel with the furious five George Melly (Jazz Man)
£4.75 £2.75
29 Apr 03 May 05 May 07 May 10 May 12 May 15 May 19 May
the Alarm Hypnotist Peter Zenner Colourfield Richard Thompson Les Enfants Twelfth Night Roger McGough - Poet Magnum
£3.50 £1.50 £3.50 £3 £0.50 £3 £1.50 £3
+ Faith Brothers, + Ten Towers + Clive Gregson back of the LCR + Saga
1985 25 May 30 May
Alexei Sayle Sister Sledge
comedian
LT1
£2.50 £6.50
07 Jun 09 Jun 11 Jun 16 Jun 19 Jun 20 Jun 24 Jun
The Cult + The March Violets The Pogues O.M.D. + Alternative Radio Lost Loved Ones + window Test at K Block New Model Army Randy California Squeeze + John Cooper Clarke + the Bouncing Czecks
£3.50 £5.75 £0.50 £3.50 £1.50 £5.25
03 Oct 06 Oct 12 Oct 16 Oct 20 Oct 22 Oct 25 Oct 26 Oct
Terry & Gerry at K Block The Pogues The Fall The Men they couldn’t Hang China Crisis + Escape Club The Chieftains Spear of Destiny + Roy White Band + Living in Texas Everything but the Girl + the Apartments
£2.50 £4 £3 £3 £4.25 £3.25 £4 £4.50
29 Oct Propaganda + Then Jericho £4 A live TV broadcast for BBC’s - Old Grey Whistle Test. As the programme broadcast early evening, before a usual gig time, we had a very sparse audience. So the staff had to keep moving the arriving audience around the LCR to make it seem full for the TV cameras angles. 30 Oct 31 Oct
Long Ryders Blancmange
+ That Petrol Emotion + the Housemartins
03 Nov 05 Nov 07 Nov 08 Nov 09 Nov 10 Nov 13 Nov 15 Nov 20 Nov 21 Nov 22 Nov 24 Nov 27 Nov 30 Nov 10 Dec 13 Dec
Prefab Sprout + Hurrah Madness + The Friday Club s/o Midge Ure + Vitamin Z s/o Level 42 s/o Gee Mr Tracey + the Morags + Red Harvest + Eyes Upward Blue Oyster Cult Gil Scott Heron + Intimate Strangers UFO Siouxsie and the Banshees + Scientists s/o The Cult + Cactus World News Magnum +IQ The Untouchables Men they couldn’t hang Hawkwind + Dumpy’s Rusty Nuts Lloyd Cole & the Commotions + The Big Dish Gary Glitter
s/o
£3 £4.25 £3.50 £5 £5.75 £5.75 £5.50 £4 £4.50 £5.50 £4 £3.50 £3 £3 £4 £4.75 £5
1986 31 Jan Marillion £6.50 01 Feb John Martyn £4 07 Feb Jesus and the Mary Chain £4 Another eventful show but not for its music. After the support finished and in anticipation of the main act, the houselights went off, the crowd pushed forward…. then nothing for 20 minutes, the crowd grumbled, eventually the band emerged in the darkness, a customer threw a plastic cup, it bounced across the stage, the band turned and walked off. A huge row broke out backstage as the tour manager said they wouldn’t play in front of such an audience, quick thinking Nick Rayns, secretly told one of our crew to go into the mosh pit and make a fuss, when security come. While Nick returned to argue with the Tour Manager near the stage, a big rumpus broke out on the dancefloor and 4 doortaff dragged a kicking and screaming ‘ customer’ out of the door. Satisfied the problem was gone, the band went back on stage. They played with their backs to the audience for their full set, after about 18 minutes they walked off again. Rushing to the Tour Manager to find out what was wrong now, he said ‘ No problem that’s their show’….. and it included an encore! 19 Feb Pallas + Underground Zero £2.75 25 Feb Steel Pulse £4 27 Feb Sigue Sigue Sputnik + Black Elvis 2000 £4 A fantasy punk rock band with Tony James (ex Generation X) and Martin Degville (fashion designer). Their single Love Missile was no.3 in the charts this week. The next day Tabloid newspapers reported crowd riots at this debut show, a real shock to all the fans and staff who were there, we seemed to have missed that bit. 05 Mar 11 Mar 12 Mar 14 Mar 19 Mar 21 Mar 14 Apr 27 Apr
Terraplane (later became Thunder) + Underground Zero Big Town Playboys: Robert Plant + Rent party Amazulu + Seventh Heaven Kurtis Blow Half Man, Half Biscuit Talk Talk + Keep it Dark Waterboys Latin Quarter
£2.75 £5 £3.50 £4 £2 £4
+ Wire Train
£4 £3
01 May Underground Zero + Out of the Blue + Child Actors in the barn £1.50 04 May Blow Monkeys £3.50 08 May Katrina and the Waves + John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett £3.50 18 May Belouis Some + Eugenie Arrowsmith + War Party £3 22 May Inxs + the Flaming Mussolinis £3.50 24 May Tom Robinson £4.25 28 May Communards + Sheila Smith £4 31 May the Cramps £5 The band and lighting crew fell out during the day, the crew eventually quit/ sacked? at 7pm, so the show went on with just white house lights. But it was also the first time we used a stage crash barrier for a gig, the US tour manager insisted it was strapped to the stage ( it’s supposed to be free standing). The band went on, with the first excited crowd surge the stage sections pulled apart, leaving gaps all over for the band to avoid for the rest of the show. ( at least it was brightly lit) 04 Jun 10 Jun 13 Jun
Bronski Beat Gene Loves Jezebel Housemartins
(Cancelled) + The Proclaimers
s/o
£3.50 £3
1986 09 Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 16 Oct 19 Oct 24 Oct 25 Oct 30 Oct 31 Oct
the Bouncing Czechs Magnum Tom Robinson BB King Robert Cray Barbara Thompson Maxi Priest The Long Ryders The Mission
+ Norwich Womens Soul Choir + FM
£2 £4.50 £3.75 £5.50 £4 £3 £3.50 £3.50
+ Love and Money
+ The Rose of Avalanche
07 Nov The Damned + Blue in Heaven £5 11 Nov Pendragon + Runestaff £3 15 Nov Billy Bragg + Attacco Decente s/o £4.50 16 Nov Cutting Crew + The Stage £3 18 Nov Latin Quarter at Norwich Art Centre £3 20 Nov Suzanne Vega s/o £5 This show sold out so fast, we organised a second show, clearing one audience out of the back exit while a 9.30pm audience queued at the front. Both perfect performances. 22 Nov 27 Nov 28 Nov 29 Nov
Dr Feelgood The Communards Ben Elton Courtney Pine
+ Fingertips + Supernaturals comedy Jazz
s/o
02 Dec Sly & Robbie’s Taxi Gang ft Ini Komosi, Halfpint, Yellowman A american reggae tour, flew into Heathrow at 5pm, but made it on stage 9pm 03 Dec Human League + Drum Theatre s/o 05 Dec Hawkwind + Babysitters 12/13 Dec Gary Glitter two shows + Terry & Jerry + GOD s/o
£3 £5 £3.50 £3.75 £5.50 £5 £4.50 £5
1987 22 Jan 23 Jan 30 Jan
Julian Cope 60’s Disco Peter Zenner
Hypnotist
£4.50 £1 £2
01 Feb FM + White Sister £3 06 Feb Wang Chung + Alan Darby Band £2 05 Feb Gee Mr Tracey + Mind the Gap + Bite + the Lubes £1.50 08 Feb Pamela Stephenson comedy “It’s Not the Nine O’clock News” £3.75 13 Feb Ted Hawkins +Andy White + the Bible £4 Ted started solo, but forgot he had a band with him, after more than an hour, the Tour Manager went on and whispered a reminder, and they came on stage to join him. 15 Feb 21 Feb 26 Feb 28 Feb
The Icicle Works + The Wild Flowers £3.50 New Model Army + Roughtime £3.75 China Crisis + The Bible £4.50 Big Audio Dynamite + Chiefs of Relief + Pocket Rocket + London Pos £5
1987 03 Mar 06 Mar 15 Mar 22 Mar 25 Mar
Curiosity Killed the Cat Burning Spear The Stranglers Green on Red X-Mal Deutschland
+ Impossible Dreamers
03 May 10 May 15 May 16 May
The Mighty Lemon Drops Mental as Anything The Fall That Petrol Emotion
+ Stars from Heaven + The Larks
09 Jun 13 Jun 14 Jun 18 Jun 26 Jun 28 Jun
Latin Quarter + Jack the Bear £3.50 Dr Feelgood £3.50 Hollywood Beyond + Alberto Frog £3.50 Summer Ball ft The Communards + Mint Juleps + £8.75 Deacon Blue + The Vicious Boys ITV comedians The Christians + Danny Wilson £3.50 Zodiac Mindwarp + Beki Bondage & the Bombshells £5
01 Oct 01 Oct 02 Oct 02 Oct 03 Oct 04 Oct 04 Oct 06 Oct 07 Oct 08 Oct 09 Oct 14 Oct 15 Oct
Potato 5 at K Block Ents Undergraduation Disco That Petrol Emotion + Yargo Ceildh at K Block John Martyn + Cry no More the Jazz Defektors at K Block Afro Caribbean Reggae Night Motorhead + Sword the 60’s Disco Loudon Wainwright III Squeeze + Cry Before Dawn Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie (comedy) Ruby Turner
+ Cle Club + Tom Verlaine
+ The Twang
£3.50 £5 £6 £3.50 £3.50 £3.50 £3.50 £3.50 £3.50
£2.75 £1 £4 £1.50 £4 £2.75 £1 £5 £1 £4 £6 £3 £4
17 Oct Bad News Tour s/o £6 TV Comedians,’ the Young Ones’, Ade Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer and Peter Richardson , parodied the world of heavy metal. But played surprisingly well.
1987 18 Oct 21 Oct 21 Oct 24 Oct 28 Oct
The Christians Linton Kwesi Johnson The Ramones The Communards Deacon Blue
+ Tim & the Famous (poet) + Lover Speaks
£4 £2.75 £5 £6.75 £2
04 Nov 06 Nov 15 Nov 15 Nov 20 Nov 21 Nov 22 Nov
Then Jericho + Hard Rain The Damned + the Crows Peter Zenner Hypnotist Freddie McGregor Fields of the Nephilim Dr Feelgood Age of Chance + Mean Mouth
£3.50 £5 £2 £5 £3.50 £3.50 £3.50
LT1 s/o s/o
in LT1 s/o
25 Nov ’87 Def Jam Tour :£5.50 LL Cool J + Public Enemy + Eric B & Rakim First gig where doorstaff did pat down, body searches also the first time many customers were bigger than the doorstaff… as USAF Lakenheath airmen turned out to be the biggest hip hop fans
30 Nov 29 Nov
Black Enid
+ Giant
01 Dec 02 Dec 03 Dec 06 Dec 11 Dec
Big Country + Wonderstuff Gary Glitter + Westworld Gary Glitter + Westworld Maxi Priest T'Pau (were at Number 1 ‘China in your Hand”) + Empire
s/o
£6 £4
s/o s/o s/o
£7 £5 £5 £4 £4.50
s/o
1988 31 Jan 31 Jan 04 Feb 07 Feb 09 Feb 13 Feb 19 Feb 21 Feb 24 Feb 25 Feb 26 Feb 27 Feb
Peter Casson The Alarm
Hypnotist + the Silencers
Faith No More Mighty Lemon Drops + Wild Swans The Woodentops The Mission + Sulvation Curiosity Killed the Cat + the Empire The Pogues All About Eve + No Mans Land Fairport Convention Craig Charles + Panic Brothers Misty n Roots
in LT1
£1.75 £5 £3.50
s/o
comedy in LT1
£4 £4 £6 £6.50 £6.50 £4 £5.50 £2.50 £4.50
1988 04 Mar 05 Mar 11 Mar 13 Mar 16 Mar 17 Mar
The Cross (Roger Taylor’s band) + Ya-Ya Zodiac Mindwarp + The Wonderstuff Everything but the Girl Aswad Clannad Magnum + Kingdom Come
£4.50 £4.50 £5 £5 £6 £5.50
23 Apr 24 Apr 28 Apr 30 Apr
Hawkwind It Bites Steve Hackett Throwing Muses
+ Tubilah Dog + the Quest
£5.50 £4 £4 £3.50.50
05 Jun 16 Jun 19 Jun 26 Jun
Burning Spear The Bible Summer Ball: Maxi Priest
01 May 05 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 22 May 28 May
Nanci Griffith The Primitives The Icicle Works Public Enemy Sugarcubes (ft Bjork) Faith No More Roy Harper
+ the Bible + Goodbye Mr Mackenzie + Fire Next Time + Derek B + Cookie Crew + Wolfgang Press + The Name
30 Sep 29 Sep
That Petrol Emotion Stetsasonic
+ Hugo Largo + Epmd
£4.50 -
01 Oct 02 Oct 06 Oct 07 Oct 08 Oct 09 Oct 12 Oct 14 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 23 Oct 25 Oct 28 Oct
Tanita Tikaram K Block Freshers Bop: Boogie Bros, Yargo, Neighbourhood + Steve Rawlings Joan Collins Fan Club (Julian Clary) comedy Nanci Griffith The Wedding Present + The Heartthrobs Julian Cope + Something Happens Transvision Vamp + Fuse Deacon Blue + Big Sur Wagoneers (unknown Texas band) Balaam and the Angel The Proclaimers The Wonderstuff + the Stuff Robert Cray + Ted Hawkins
£4 £4.50 £4.50 £4.50 £5.50 £4.50 £5 £1.50 £4.50 £5 £4 £8.50
10 Nov 11 Nov 12 Nov 18 Nov 19 Nov 20 Nov 24 Nov 27 Nov 28 Nov
Glen Goldsmith £4.50 Steel Pulse £5 Underground Zero + Basti + Those Silly Vicars (a Hunt Saboteurs benefit) Blow Monkeys Steeleye Span £5 Dr Feelgood £4.50 Salt n Pepa £6.50 Peter Zenner Hypnotist £2 Gary Glitter + Girlschool £7.50
+ The Pixies
£5.50 £2.50 £8.75 £6
Squeeze + Boogie Bros. + the Twin Sets s/o s/o
£4 £5 £4.50 £6 £4.50 £4.50 £4
1988 01 Dec 02 Dec 03 Dec 04 Dec 05 Dec 06 Dec 07 Dec 08 Dec
Liberators Iggy Pop + the Seers Hawkwind + Hippy Slags Womack & Womack The Bootleg Beatles Sly & Robbie with Maxi Priest and Freddie McGregor Voice of the Beehive + Big Bam Boo Magnum + Stage Dolls
£7 £5.75 £6 £4 £7.50 £5 £7
1989 10 Feb 11 Feb 17 Feb 22 Feb 25 Feb 28 Feb
Ted Hawkins Pop Will Eat Itself Phil Cool Blow Monkeys Stray Cats Motorhead
£4.50 £4.75 £4.50 £5 £6.50
+ Nasty Rox Inc mimic and comedian + Wild Weekend + Midnighter + Death Wish + Pizza Connection
03 Mar House Of Love + The Wolfhounds £3.50 05 Mar Gregory Isaacs cancelled £6 The band arrived in the afternoon but Gregory, notorious for always being late, still wasn’t there at 9:30pm. Just as we announced to the public the show was cancelled, we took a phone call from Mr Isaacs saying he was ready for his car to pick him up… from his friend’s flat in Hammersmith, London. 08 Mar 12 Mar 15 Mar 17 Mar
Then Jerico Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel + the Boy Ruby Turner the Chairs + Bardots + Nivens
18 Apr 21 Apr 23 Apr 29 Apr 30 Apr
Michelle Shocked The Pixies Mammoth Wedding Present Big Country
03 May 09 May
Hugh Lennon Hue & Cry
£6 £4 £5 s/o
+ Wolfgang Press + Heavy Metal Thunder + Wed Pres Ukranian Set + Cry Before Dawn Hypnotist + Senators
£5 £5 £4.50 CND benefit £5 s/o £7
£6
1989 10 May 12 May 20 May 26 May 27 May
Clannad + Andy Pawlak The Men They Couldn’t Hang + Playing At Trains 10,000 Maniacs + Kevin McDermot Fields Of The Nephilim + Mary My Hope China Crisis + Highlanders
04 Oct 07 Oct 08 Oct 10 Oct 11 Oct 14 Oct 15 Oct 20 Oct 22 Oct 26 Oct 28 Oct 30 Oct
Carmel Ted Hawkins (Blues) + The Mean Red Spiders Danny Wilson + The Indian Givers Les Negresses Vertes Joe Strummer (ex. The Clash) + One Style Runrig + the Big Picture Dogs D'Amour + Underneath What Squeeze + 16 Tambourines De La Soul Ian Botham (a night of cricketing stories) Jesus Jones + Romeo Suspect Craig Ferguson comedy
£7 £5 £5.75 £5.50 £6
K Block
s/o s/o
£5 £4 £6 £5.50 £6 £4 £5 £6.50 £6 £5 £4.50 £3
04 Nov 05 Nov 07 Nov 08 Nov 10 Nov 11 Nov 15 Nov 16 Nov 25 Nov 26 Nov 28Nov
Richard Marx + Andrew Cunningham Julia Fordham £6.50 FM + Romeos Daughter All About Eve + Summer Hill s/o Ian McCulloch + the Corn Dollies The Quireboys + the Grip Peter Zenner (hypnotist) The Primitives + Pale Saints Dr Feelgood s/o Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers Anti Apartheid gig ft Lekeleke, Ouagadougous, Ordinary people
£7
01 Dec 02 Dec 03 Dec 05 Dec 06 Dec 10 Dec 12 Dec 16 Dec
Hawkwind Swing Out Sister + Andy Leek Sam Brown The Bible Lindisfarne Michelle Shocked Big Audio Dynamite + Guru Josh Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
£6.25 £6 £6.50 £4.50 £7 £6 £6 £4
s/o
s/o
£6 £6.50 £7 £4.50 £2.50 £6 £5 £6.50 £3