No - that was before their Oxford show supporting Buzzcocks in 79. We helped Ian and Bernard get a guitar strap fixed. The Birmingham concert was 16 months before I moved to a flat next door to High Hall. First show I saw there (and first ever gig I photographed) was Way of the West + Blancmange
It was literally the cafeteria / dining room for just one of several halls of residence at Birmingham Uni - not a big space at all. A lot of people don't realise that Joy Division were still a cult band while Ian was alive. My one and only concert promotion was in that space
I played guitar in a band that played “Ceremony” at Owen’s Park in Manchester in 1987. That was a lifetime memory. I was looking at my hands just like Barney.
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I also had Aston at #5 but I got into neither.
Not all lost though. I did buy the 12" of 'Party Fears Two' in the Birmingham HMV on my way back from my Aston interview 😉