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I missed it all, thank goodness. Despite going to dozens of gigs then. My wife’s uncle for decades worked at The Suite. He’s a mental list of the gigs where there was sustained trouble and how they ‘dealt with it’.

Weird wasn’t it? They hated blacks, but liked the music and gigs featuring Lynval and Horace. Can only put it down to a sheep mentality amongst society’s thick-as-shite at that time. Crowds at gigs must’ve contained an unlikely mix of those numbskulls and their political foes from the left...

Weird wasn’t it? They hated blacks, but liked the music and gigs featuring Lynval and Horace. Can only put it down to a sheep mentality amongst society’s thick-as-shite at that time. Crowds at gigs must’ve contained an unlikely mix of those numbskulls and their political foes from the left...

Were The Specials good live? I love their songs and the vocals of TH, a great find by Dammers.

In more recent times, JJB dealing with a gobby abuser.

Did you go to them all? I was far too young just 12 in the first year of secondary school, living 7 miles out of town. From the very beginning I got the impression that JJB/Cornwall could handle any thuggery, could look after themselves. Don’t know if that was true or deliberate management hype?

“Some of the legendary big bands played Brighton in the same year. At the Buccaneer: “Stranglers in the evening – hard rockin’ punks. Crowded, loud, claustrophobic and exciting” (4th April, 1977). They were back again at a grander and pricier venue a few weeks later: “Then the Stranglers (at the...

Our sixth form had an all male miserablists corner of half a dozen rockers creaming themselves over Angus of ACDC and Def Lepperd. They really, really hated the countless other music genre of the 80’s, all the dance, post punk and new wave fun being had by everybody else.

Uncool, but I love some of their pop songs …. and Thereza

This album track is beautiful.

:love: [@Stat Brother might like this song?]

Jam, great pop song and vocals.

Did you have the energy to club afterwards, if say a gig finished 11-ish?

I’ve still got the album in fantastic condition. Well you can add me and four of my mates at the time, still in contact with two of them, they too still love music. Yeah, I often analyse that period of music. A John Peel bio also stimulated that. I think of a couple of panaceas - 1976/77...

Yep, I was the smashed 17 year old, ordering my 9th snakebite. I forgot to tip.

Two brilliant pop songs in 1982.

A great gig at The New Regent, unmissable.