Hawkwind play Sheffield City Hall
I was in the stall in seat E13
Peter Bargh
Sights & SoundsSteve Hackett Live at Sheffield City Hall
I was in the Balcony in Seat A18
Set list
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
Jacuzzi
Funny Feeling
Ace of Wands
Picture Postcard
Tigermoth
Horizons
(Genesis song)
Kim
Overnight Sleeper
Hope I Don’t Wake
Slogans
A Tower Struck Down
Spectral Mornings
Please Don’t Touch
Band Introductions
The Show
Encore:
Clocks – The Angel of Mons
Sheffield Fanzine, Tigers On The Moor (cover date May 1981) reviewed our cassette
The review:
Subtitled “Exotic Percussion”, this is a complete mystery to me except I have a sneaky suspicion that Mark Holmes of the Fatales might just know a bit about it…a c60 album with no information attached, beautifully engineered and compiled, of apparently pointless synth which twists and winds its way through an hour of quite often gloomy but ultimately compulsive listening. There are no sides 1 and 2; one
side has a coloured label and the other is grey and t
hat’s probably the best identification. An ideal tape for late listening, especially the deeper grey side, impossible to review because there’s nothing to say about it! Definitely not just another home made tape! Very good sound quality, and good value for dole at £11.50. As the sleeve note says “Incidental Music”.
We were happy with that conclusion. It was limited to ten copies. We sold 1!
Went with Robert Baker and Mark Holmes to see Throbbing Gristle live at the Rafters Club in Manchester on 4 December 1980
Here’s a video in association with Mute
and photos I took on a budget Agfa 110 point and shoot camera
Saw Clock DVA at The Leadmill with De Tian and Prior to Intercourse as support
Nothing could have prepared us for the visual experience on stage this evening. Billed simply as Dancing by Prior to Intercourse there was nothing simple about this “dance” The slow but erratic moving and semi naked body of Robert Baker emerged from beneath a floor of black plastic sheeting. Ripping through while releasing blood dripping inners across the stage, this dance transferred into the audience’s minds as we contemplated the masterpiece of art that left us either shocked, mesmerised or stunned. This was a genius performance, presenting us with something unique that we’d never experienced before and were highly unlikely to ever see again.
Had some African wholegrain rice meal and tried to smoke Bombay Mix through one of Mick Fidler’s Pipes
Strange days. Great gig
Great day at the Leadmill with a whole host of great Sheffield talent playing the Bouquet of Steel festival
Artery headlined and were supported by The Flying Alfonso Brothers, Scarborough Antelopes, Repulsive Alien, Difficult Decision, The Naughtiest Girl Was a Monitor, Tremmers, Corridor, Pulp and Station 4
Artery did a gig at the Sheffield Polytechnic Phoenix Bar with Vendino Pact, De Tian and Naughtiest Girl was a Monitor – only 60p to get in! Great gig
Clock DVA and Vice Versa played this night at Sheffield City Hall Ballroom
Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle played Sheffield university student’s union
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Richard Strange (ex Doctors of Madness) live at the George IV Blitz. Having seem Doctors of Madness headline the Sheffield City Hall main stage it was weird to see the lead singer play to a tiny audience and one of the lowest number turnouts I’d seen at the Blitz.
No ticket number