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It's more likely that it's me to be honest. So many gigs over the years that some of them have merged a bit in my mind. Just checked and Gregory joined in '79 so you're almost certainly right. Anyway, they were both great gigs.

I think you're about the 5th or 6th person that I didn't know at the time who turned out to have been there. Think it must have been the Drums and Wires tour as Dave Gregory had replaced Barry Andrews by then. Looks like it was May 81, although I also saw them at the Top Rank in May 79.

Andy P had mental health issues which manifested itself in a fear of going on stage.. His (then) wife threw away his medication before a gig and told him he didn't need it. Bit of a breakdown and no more live shows. Funnily enough, he always seemed to excel when they played live. I have a few...

Assuming we means bands that weren't unheard of or never charted, I give you XTC. Had a few minor hits, but influenced so many future bands. I'm sure anyone who saw them live would put them right up there with the best. They changed songs almost every time they played them live, adding bits...

Wow, loved Budgie when I was a young an impressionable teenager. Titles like "Hot as a dockers armpit" and "In the grip of a tyre fitters hand". Here is my bedroom door from that time.....