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

[Didsbury Dave]

Is there any Blue out there who can lay claim to have been at the two legendary Sex Pistols gigs at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in the summer of 1976? The first one was the "Big Bang" for the entire modern day Manchester music scene. I think most of the audience have been accounted for as time as gone by. Hook, Sumner, Morrisey, Shelley, Devoto, Wilson, Smith etc.

I would love to know what it was really like to have been at one of these two gigs, especially the first one. Legend has it there were only forty two there at that one, although it's disputed. Certainly a good number were blues.

FActory, New Order, Spike island, Madchester, The Smiths, the Hacienda....it all started here

 

[CTID1988]

Everyone who was at York away was given a free ticket to both

 

[-dabz-]

My mate deffo was...he was the drummer in Slaughter and the dogs who was on the same bill. Told me some cracking stories about the whole era.
<a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughter_&_The_Dogs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughter_&_The_Dogs</a>
Jonathon Ross once said in a documentary that Slaughter were his favourite band at the time.

Personally, I thought they were crap, but good on them for getting as far as they did.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

My mate deffo was...he was the drummer in Slaughter and the dogs who was on the same bill. Told me some cracking stories about the whole era.
<a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughter_&_The_Dogs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughter_&_The_Dogs</a>
Jonathon Ross once said in a documentary that Slaughter were his favourite band at the time.

Personally, I thought they were crap, but good on them for getting as far as they did.

They played the second one, didn't they, and stood out because they weren't punks.

 

[The Pink Panther]

My mate deffo was...he was the drummer in Slaughter and the dogs who was on the same bill. Told me some cracking stories about the whole era.
<a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughter_&_The_Dogs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughter_&_The_Dogs</a>
Jonathon Ross once said in a documentary that Slaughter were his favourite band at the time.

Personally, I thought they were crap, but good on them for getting as far as they did.

Ahh yes, "Where have all the boot boys gone!!"
I had that on a 12" single

 

[siwright]

Pretty sure Tony Wilson only went to the second one. There's a good account of both in Paul Morley's The North.

 

[-dabz-]

My mate deffo was...he was the drummer in Slaughter and the dogs who was on the same bill. Told me some cracking stories about the whole era.
<a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughter_&_The_Dogs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughter_&_The_Dogs</a>
Jonathon Ross once said in a documentary that Slaughter were his favourite band at the time.

Personally, I thought they were crap, but good on them for getting as far as they did.

They played the second one, didn't they, and stood out because they weren't punks.

Not sure, the wiki page says "The now legendary gig" 26th of July 76.<br /><br />-- Wed Oct 23, 2013 10:10 am --<br /><br />

My mate deffo was...he was the drummer in Slaughter and the dogs who was on the same bill. Told me some cracking stories about the whole era.
<a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughter_&_The_Dogs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughter_&_The_Dogs</a>
Jonathon Ross once said in a documentary that Slaughter were his favourite band at the time.

Personally, I thought they were crap, but good on them for getting as far as they did.

Ahh yes, "Where have all the boot boys gone!!"
I had that on a 12" single

They are still going apparently, minus two of the original members.
Believe it or not, they still have quite a big fan base.

 

[MCFCTrick]

Missed those gigs. But saw Pistols. Clash and Damned at Electric Circus...

 

[Blue2112]

Missed those gigs. But saw Pistols. Clash and Damned at Electric Circus...

Dave I was just about to say I was too young to go to those Pistol gigs but we lived in Collyhurst Flats and I always remember going to the shops with my mam and she would cross the road to avoid the punks hanging outside the Electric Circus LOL!

I remember seeing an old black and white clip of Siouxsie and I'm sure it was filmed at the Electric Circus and someboidy spat at her and it hit her full on right on her eyebrow and it began to dangle right over her eye and she didn't fucking flinch a muscle but just stood there and sang the whole of the song. Sure it was some old clip about the Circus with Tony Wilson but I can't find the clip anywhere. Maybe I dreamt it HAHA.

 

[johnmc]

Does anyone still like the music? It was all about the movements wasnt it rather than good music.