Gigs
In 1977 and 1978 each day was spent wondering how you could stretch the £2.80 per week Family Allowance to enable you to see as many bands as possible. A night at Barbarella's was heaven, once through those doors into the red leatherette adorned labyrinth of rooms, it was all that mattered. Anarchy in the UK would come on the decks and everyone dived on the dance floor. The Passenger or Police and Thieves sent a tingle down the spine. Vince and the Armchair were inspired by such nights, backstage talking to the bands would make you think - 'We're doing this, we could play here, we will!'. Take a look at this list of gigs that inspired the Armchair:
BARBARELLA'S, Cumberland Street, Birmingham |
||
| The
Worst The Prefects Eater The Drones The Killjoys Rudi and the Rationals Spizz The Victims The Verdicts Model Mania |
The
Worst The Prefects The Fall THE BUZZCOCKS |
Wreckless
Eric (Ian Dury on drums) THE DAMNED |
| The
Rage THE ADVERTS |
Steel
Pulse SEX PISTOLS |
MAGAZINE |
| THE ADVERTS | Steel
Pulse THE CLASH |
The
Lous Model Mania THE CLASH |
| The
Zones MAGAZINE |
MAGAZINE | THE JAM |
| T.V.
Eye Model Mania Spizz Oil Scent Organs Big in Japan |
Aunty
Puss THE DAMNED |
The
Au Pairs The Coventry Specials THE GANG OF FOUR |
REBECCA'S, off John Bright Street, Birmingham |
||
| Model
Mania THE JAM |
SHAM 69 | |
THE TOP RANK SUITE, Dale End, Birmingham |
||
| Richard
Hell and the Void Oids Spizz '77 THE CLASH |
The
Rezillos THE RAMONES |
The
Prefects The Slits Patrick Fitzgerald THE BUZZCOCKS |
THE MAYFAIR SUITE, Bull Ring, Birmingham |
||
| Spizz
Oil The Human League SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES |
The
Prefects THE BUZZCOCKS |
|
THE TOWN HALL, Birmingham |
||
| Nick
Lowe Dave Edmunds Larry Wallis Wreckless Eric Elvis Costello Ian Dury |
||
ANTI-NAZI CARNIVAL , Victoria Park London |
||
| X-Ray
Spex Patrick Fitzgerald Steel Pulse The Clash Tom Robinson Band Sham 69 |
||
REVOLVER, ATV Studios, Broad Street, Birmingham |
||
| Siouxsie
and the Banshees The Buzzcocks Elvis Costello Nick Lowe The Boomtown Rats Brent Ford and the Nylons Ian Dury The Stranglers The Boyfriends The Autographs Kandidate The Vibrators Generation X |
||
THE ODEON , New Street, Birmingham |
||
| The
Dickies Patrick Fitzgerald THE JAM |
The
Psychedelic Furs The Spiderz IGGY POP |
The
Moondogs THE UNDERTONES |
| Rikky
and the Rialtos THE KINKS |
Fatal
Charm ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK |
|
| John
Cooper Clarke SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES |
The
Invisible Girls JOHN COOPER CLARKE |
PUBLIC IMAGE |
BINGLEY HALL, Broad Street, Birmingham |
||
| The
Piranhas THE JAM |
THE JAM | Apocalypse THE JAM |
SOUTH BANK POLYTECHNIC, Elephant & Castle, London |
||
| THE SUBURBAN STUDS | ||
THE STAR CLUB, Birmingham |
||
| The
Au Pairs The Denizens THE SOLICITORS |
||
THE FIGHTING COCKS, Moseley, Birmingham |
||
| Spizz
Energy The Rebounds The Solicitors THE PREFECTS |
||
THE SANDPIPERS , Nottingham |
||
| New
Mania THE SHAPES |
||
BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME |
||
| James THE SMITHS |
||