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1993 in Scotland again. Different gigs though...

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1993. The Boyfriend gig listed is the one at which Alan McGee 'discovered' Oasis, though the truth is a little more prosaic. I heard 'Slowdrive' arrived late for soundcheck😀

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1983. A typical lineup of gigs at Liverpool Warehouse, where I was a regular attendee. It was The Sisters' first Liverpool show & everyone, including me, was at New Order at The State Ballroom. Was at Ludus & Durutti Column IIRC

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1981. An ad for a gig that didn't happen. With 'Ghost Town' riding high in the charts a tour was booked only for the band to fall apart after a TOTP recording. Night Doctor were a reggae collective from London fronted by Caroline Williams AKA Mrs Horace Andy

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1983 at The Bay Hotel in sunny Gourouk. Oh the glamour! SBB split shortly afterwards. Singer Libby McArthur moved into acting & now stars in BBC Scotland soap "River City", while the others recuited vocalist Moira Rankin & became His Latest Flame

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1983 in That London. The Letraset's run out again...

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What's On at The Adephi Club, Hull. I was guess at 1986? A fun gig down a wee side street IIRC. It was a long time ago...

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1982, the offices of the East Kilbride News a few miles to the south of Glasgow. Junior reporter Lorraine Kelly chases up an exclusive about lost dog in The Murray...

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1981. Davy Henderson of Fire Engines/Win/The Nectarine No.9/The Sexual Objects & Port Sulphur reveals what makes him tick to NME...

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1966. Grace supports the band who would later make her famous...

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1969, Houston, TX. Speaking of 'Secret Scots', as I was earlier, Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull was born in Dunfermline & moved to Edinburgh at an early age. He was a teenager before his family landed in Lancashire...

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1973. With only their debut LP in the shops, Freddie & Co padded out their set with a 'Rock & Roll Medley' & encored with Shirley Bassey's 'Big Spender', with Mercury camping it up to the max, & an extended jam on 'Bama Lama Bama Loo' by Little Richard...

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"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!"😾

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1978. The Table were from Cardiff & were lumped in with punk, despite the fact that they had long(ish) hair & their classic single 'Do The Standing Still' dated from 1975...

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1976. Before Monkey Tennis there was... The Pistols support the Welsh power trio. No idea what Burke Shelley made of Johnny & Co...

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Released OTD in 1972, the first LP by Roxy Music. One of THE great debuts www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCzh...

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1974 & the proggers beloved of Stuart Maconie venture to Cornwall. I didn't realise until recently that Derek & Phil Shulman of the band were born in Glasgow. 'Secret Scots' like Mark Knopfler or Gareth Sager😀

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Released OTD in 1972, "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars". I know every note & every word. All my teenage friends owned it as well. We lived in suburban South London, Bowie Country. It was the law... www.youtube.com/watch?v=na8x...

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Slade on Belgian TV in 1971 with Alvin Lee's "Hear Me Calling", originally released in 1968 by Ten Years After. A version appeared on "Slade Alive!" the following year... www.youtube.com/watch?v=9apF...

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Today's caption competition...

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Elvis Costello's 6 Essential Beach Boys tracks... ‘Don’t Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)’ - Pet Sounds ‘God Only Knows’ - Pet Sounds ‘Wonderful’ - Smiley Smile ‘Surf’s Up’ - Surf’s Up ‘Cuddle Up’ (Dennis Wilson song) - Carl and the Passions So Tough ‘The Trader’ (Carl Wilson song) -Holland

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It's one of those mornings...

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Young Neville John Holder of The Rockin' Phantoms at home on the Beechdale Estate in Walsall around 1960. Another resident of the estate, some five years younger than Neville, was Robert John Arthur Halford, later of Judas Priest...

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BREAKING: Kristie Noem who famously shot her own dog in the face because she was too stupid to train it, has instructed ICE to go after a New Mexican demographic.

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