Eric's - Clash, May 5th 1977

Thursday 5th May      The Clash

                                          + The Slits

                                          + Subway Sect

A big night for Liverpool.  This is the night that Julian Cope's idiot dancing caused him to crash into Pete Wylie and his buddy, birthday boy The Duke.  The Duke, so named because of his love of the Thin White Duke, aka Duke, aka McCull, aka Mac, aka Ian McCulloch.  Julian Cope, Pete Wylie and Ian McCulloch.  Hey, let's form a band.  We'll be The Crucial Three.  And a legend was born.  The Crucial Three never recorded but within eighteen months Pete Wylie's Wah! Heat, Julian Cope's Teardrop Explodes and Ian McCulloch's Echo & the Bunnymen were all making Single of the Week.

 But that wasn't all.

According to Dave Haslam's Life after Dark this was the night that Big in Japan formed.  They split up ffiteen months later with members going on to The Slits, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Pink Military Stand Alone, Pink Industry, Teardrop Explodes, Zoo Records, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Original Mirrors, Bette Bright's Illuminations, Stevie & the Secrets, Care, Lightning Seeds, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and The KLF (and the Timelords and all the rest of Big Bill Drummond's imaginary bands)

Thanks to Marc Jones From Erics to Evol

Eric's - July 1st - 12th 1979

Monday 2nd July                     Rhesus Records present

                                                 The Tunes

                                                      + The Donkeys

                                                      + CP Lee

                                                      + Gordon the Moron

Thursday 5th July                     Dexy's Midnight Runners

                                                       + The Upsets

Friday 6th July                          billed as B52s + Fashion but actually . . .

                                                  The Fall 

                                                        + Echo & the Bunnymen

same again at The Factory a fortnight later

E&TB recorded August 1979; 

compare & contrast with June 1979 What's On performance (see last month)

Saturday 7th July                      Wire

                                                        + billed as Manicured Noise
                                                        + last minute replacement Nightmares in Wax

Hullo, we're Wire

Nightmares in Wax, I'll Turn Away

4 track demo recorded Open Eye, November 1979

courtesy Mick Reid

 Nightmares in Wax, 1st gig

Paul Hornby (drums), Mick Reid (guitar), Pete Burns

Martin Healy (keyboards) and Rob Jones (bass)

Nightmares in Wax

Manicured Noise

Thursday 12th July                   Special CoRRA gig featuring

                                                  Activity Minimal

                                                        + Modern Eon

                                                        + Chink

                                                        + The Drills

Eric's - September 14th - 15th 1979

 

Street to Street Party poster courtesy of Joe Mckechnie

Friday 14th September                      A Street to Street Party
                                                                    Moderates
                                                                    Activity Minimal
                                                                    Modern Eon

Side One
00:00    Big in Japan - Mach of the Day
02:01    The ID - Julia's Song
06:06    Jacqui & Jeanette  - 194 Radio City
10:10    Modern Eon - Benched Eon/70s60s
19:34    Dead Trout - The Arab
Side Two
23:38    TonTrix - Screen Love (Clear on Radar)
27:25    The Accelerators - Radio Blues
29:49    Malchix - Crisis
32:30    Fun - I heared you call my name
36:28    The Moderates - I don't want to go bald
             Echo & the Bunnymen - Monkies

Saturday 15th September                  A Zoo Party
                                                                    Teardrop Explodes
                                                                    Echo & the Bunnyman
                                                                    X-pelairs

Eric's on the television

A collection of tv documentaries about Eric's and the Liverpool punk & new wave scene of the late 70's

Granada, In the Club

Italian tv

The Mighty Wylie

Yorkie

Eric's - all the best clubs are downstairs

Punk Snow

Ian McCulloch

Julian Cope

ON MY RADIO

Here's a few radio programmes featuring Roger Eagle and Eric's progeny

Here's Radio 4's tribute to Roger Eagle

Janice Long at Eric's

Liverpool - the New Wave (part 1) BBC Radio 2 2002

Janice Long & the Crucial Three

Liverpool - the New Wave (part 2) BBC Radio 2 2002

Janice Long keeps on giving

Liverpool - the New Wave (part 3) BBC Radio 2 2002

Liverpool - the New Wave (part 4) BBC Radio 2 2002

Liverpool - the New Wave (part 5) BBC Radio 2 2002

Liverpool - the New Wave (part 6) BBC Radio 2 2002
Thanks to Michael Reid for the upload

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN PLAY AT HOME

Echo & the Bunnymen Play at Home (part 1)

Echo & the Bunnymen Play at Home (part 2)

Echo & the Bunnymen Play at Home (part 3)

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