Sex Pistols Gigs, Free Trade Hall, June/July 1976

[MCFCTrick]

I always and still do believe that Punk was for blokes that weren't good enough to play Metal. Never could understand why my mates used to all say 'why do you like heavy metal you cant understand anything they're supposed to be singing and it's all just noise' yet I've always thought metal musicians to be unequalled in their playing.

That was kind of the point, though. Punk opened the door to young working class lads to form their own band with their own sound. Music was never the same.

Black Sabbath were once young working class lads...

Ditto Judas Priest, Zeppelin, (well half of them) Thin Lizzy, and many rock/metal bands....Punk didn't have any monopoly on 'working class'....

 

[scotty123]

My first wedding was Summer of 76 and at the reception i vaguely remember the legendary Blue Daffy going around the reception with a list of names for people wanting to go to an up coming gig as he was arranging tickets and doing other dodgy things related to it, i am pretty sure it was this gig at Free Trade Hall
I wanted to go with my Blue mates but the first wife said ''your married now grow up''
Miserable cow

 

[tidyman]

I have a very vague recollection of going to see The Pistols at Civic Centre Forum in Wythenshawe at some point around then. But getting turned away because we weren't 18. Just been looking at a list of their gigs and can find no record of it though. So I'm probabaly imagining the whole thing and we got turned away from pitch and putt and Wythenshawe Park or something.

I noticed when looking through the list that they played at Didsbury College on 01/10/76 though.

Never heard this mentioned before.

Any of the 100,000 who claim to be at The Free Trade Hall at this one too?

It was probably a Slaughter & The Dogs gig you nearly attended. They played The Forum a couple of times.


On a side note, does anyone remember a tv programme called ' Revolver ' on a Saturday night presented by Peter Cook. A great show with live punk bands on.

I remember that, seem to remember the Sid Vicous - My Way video being shown for the first time on there.

Apologies for taking this way off topic but they won the jackpot on Celebrity Pointless the other week by giving the answer, My Way, to the question, Name Sex Pistols top 20 hits?

Surely it was Sid on his own wasn't it?

 

[Didsbury Dave]

That was kind of the point, though. Punk opened the door to young working class lads to form their own band with their own sound. Music was never the same.

Black Sabbath were once young working class lads...

Ditto Judas Priest, Zeppelin, (well half of them) Thin Lizzy, and many rock/metal bands....Punk didn't have any monopoly on 'working class'....

But none of those bands changed the entire musical landscape forever.

 

[OB1]

Black Sabbath were once young working class lads...

Ditto Judas Priest, Zeppelin, (well half of them) Thin Lizzy, and many rock/metal bands....Punk didn't have any monopoly on 'working class'....

But none of those bands changed the entire musical landscape forever.

I'd argue that Zep and Sabbath actually did, such is their influence. Nirvana, who impact wise were for me like the Sex Pistols of their day, wanted to meld the Beatles and Black Sabbath.

Punk did have an impact. I'm not sure now whether the flourishing of independent record labels was entirely driven by punk but they, and new wave, were happy bedfellows. I suspect that side of the business would have changed anyway but, who knows, maybe Def Leppard would not have thought to form Bludgeon Riffola had it not been for the Sex Pistols.

Punk also tempered some of the self indulgence that was prevalent among established rock bands but most of the dinosaurs that punk was supposed to kill off outlived punk and the punk bands. Had Zep go on tour after their hugely oversubscribed O2 gig, we'd have probably seen the biggest grossing tour in history.

 

[totallywired]

Remember my cousin who posts on here going to see the Pistols at wolverhampton around the same time. Twat never mentioned it until the day after the gig.

 

[MCFCTrick]

Black Sabbath were once young working class lads...

Ditto Judas Priest, Zeppelin, (well half of them) Thin Lizzy, and many rock/metal bands....Punk didn't have any monopoly on 'working class'....

But none of those bands changed the entire musical landscape forever.

Sabbath and Zeppelin certainly did. As before them did Jimi Hendrix...beyond question....and he was from a dirt poor family...

 

[yayas trusty right foot]

I saw Blondie at the Free Trade Hall in 1978 i think..

Does that count ?

 

[Balti]

nah

ramones free trade hall in 78 about as good as it gets for me

 

[bluemoon32]

Pfft, all these top bands i never saw. Although i did see Simply Red at Cardiff University in the late 80's. The reason i remember it well is that it was a god awful gig but the bird that dragged me to see them asked me to smash her back doors in later on that night.