March 1981

March 01 – The Belle Stars

March 02 – Fatal Charm. Support: The Naughtiest Girl Was A Monitor. The review of Fatal Charm below is from “Sounds” dated March 14th.

March 03 – Praying Mantis. Here they are with “Children Of The Earth” from their first album, Time tells No Lies”, released this month.

March 04 – Nash The Slash. February saw the release of their cover of The Rolling Stones classic, “19th Nervous Breakdown”. Here’s a taster of it.

March 05 – Jools Holland & His Millionaires

March 06 – Thompson Twins

March 07 – Pearl Harbour

March 08 – The DB’s. Here they are with “Big Brown Eyes” recorded in session for Whistle Test while they were in London on this trip.

March 09 – Alex Harvey

March 10 – Eddie & The Hot Rods

March 11 – Eddie & The Hot Rods

March 12 – Lionheart

March 13 – Samson. Support: 720

March 14 – Atomic Rooster

March 15 – Long Tall Shorty

March 16 – Trust

March 17 – TV Smith & The Explorers

March 18 – Tenpole Tudor. Here they are with “Swords Of A Thousand Men” which hits the charts next month.

March 19 – Wilko Johnson

March 20 – Wilko Johnson

March 21 – Supercharge ’81

March 22 – Dolly Mixture

March 23 – The Freshies. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any footage of this but here’s their chart entry from last month, “I’m In Love With The Girl On A Certain Manchester Megastore Checkout Desk”.

March 24 – Cuban Heels + The Shaking Pyramids

March 25 – Lionheart

March 26 – Q-Tips. Here they are with a single from this year, “Stay The Way You Are”.

March 27 – Q-Tips

March 28 – Q-Tips

March 29 – Trust

March 30 – Wasted Youth. The review below is taken from “Sounds” dated April 25th.

March 31 – Wasted Youth