Archive
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
February 1981
February 01 – The Mechanics. These Orange County rockers made it across the pond to play The Marquee, Here’s the only footage I could find of them from a Long Beach cable station two years ago.
February 02 – Taurus
February 03 – More. Support: Limelight
February 04 – The Gas
February 05 – Au-Pairs. Seen here with Come Again (from the film “Urgh! A Music War” which is out this year).
February 06 – Reluctant Stereotypes
February 07 – Pretty Things
February 08 – The Polecats
February 09 – Fatal Charm. Support: X-Effects
February 10 – More. Support: Bronz
February 11 – Weapon
February 12 – Lionheart. This band are supposed to be THE NWOBHM supergroup but seem to be dogged by problems. They recently ousted ex-Tygers Of Pan Tang singer Jesse Cox with John Farlam. Farlam flew in to London from his home in Switzerland for this show but the next day was sacked “for his lack of stage presence”.
February 13 – Budgie
February 14 – Atomic Rooster
February 15 – Any Trouble. Here they are from Swedish TV’s Måndagsbörsen on 2nd Feb. The interview is totally crazy but the track, “Girls Are Always Right” shows just how underrated Clive Gregson has always been.
February 16 – Fatal Charm. Support: Sinking Ships
February 17 – More. Support: Bastille
February 18 – Dedringer
February 19 – Theatre Of Hate
February 20 – Magna Carta
February 21 – Samson. Support: Money
February 22 – Spiff Radio Show (ex-Nina Hagen Band)
February 23 – Fatal Charm
February 24 – Sledgehammer. Support: The Lasers. The review of The Lasers below is taken from “Sounds” dated March 7th.
February 25 – The Moondogs. Support: TV-21
February 26 – Lionheart
February 27 – The Ruts DC. Here they are, live from Hurrah at the end of last year. The review below comes from “Sounds” dated March 7th.
February 28 – The Ruts DC
