Nightmares in Wax, Girl Song
Recorded at Open Eye demo studios Liverpool 1979
Photos from Nightmares in Wax' headline show at Eric's February 1980
Uploaded by NIW guitarist Mick Reid
Friday 1st February Gang of Four (members notice)
Friday 1st February The Boys (Sit Down, Listen to This)
+ Red Line
Saturday 2nd February Spizz Energi
+ Frantic Elevators
Monday 4th February The start of Eric's regular Monday night jazz sessions
Inside Out
Jerry & Brenda Kerry recorded and gigged under many guises, including Inside Out, Naffi Sandwich, The Minister of Noise, Sir Freddy Viadukt, Brenda & the Beachballs and Brenda Ray. (Bill Sykes, Sit Down)
Thursday 7th February The Heat
+ The Jerks
member's notice says "from the USA". Southend Punk Rock webpage says Southend band The Heat played Eric's. Here's The Heat's Steve Brooker at the legendary Railway Inn, Southend
Friday 8th February Charley Records presents
Splodgenessabounds
+ The Sex Beatles
+ Th' Lone Groover (aka NME cartoonist Tony Benyon)
whatever happened to punk?
Saturday 9th February Wreckless Eric
+ Red Line
Les Glover of Red Line
Monday 11th February Inside Out
Thursday 14th February Nightmares in Wax
+ The Shattered Dolls
+ Think of the Winter (formerly of Dead Trout, later of Revolutionary Army of Jesus Christ)
shout out to Jaki Florek of Shattered Dolls and "Eric's . . . All the best clubs are downstairs"
Friday 15th February Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
+ Neuklon
Neuklon was the band formed by Mike Lloyd, who’s daughter
Claire Welles is now a prominent
musician herself on Merseyside working with the likes of The Charlatans‘ Tim
Burgess.
"I've got a photo of that gig somewhere, where my dad
Lloyd is wearing cling film and black leckie tape. Nuts." says Claire.
Read more at Get Into This
ok, I know, I know, but Lee Mavers was in Neuklon in 1980
and I can't find anything by Neuklon
Saturday 16th February The Ruts (first members notice)
Saturday 16th February The Pop Group (second members notice)
+ Raincoats
Monday 18th February Inside Out (live recording)
Wednesday 20th February After the Fire
Thursday 21st February The Movies
Friday 22nd February The Vibrators
+ The Nice Men
Saturday 23rd February Killing Joke
+ Dr Mix
and possibly Bauhaus
Monday 25th February Jazz tba
Thursday 28th February Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias
Friday 29th February The Planets
+ The Room
You sure that killing Joke played on Feb 23rd 1980 as I've got this as a bauhaus gig and I have the event badge,and it's also listed in their gig guide as the date played there also?
ReplyDeleteThe Heat from the USA *was* touring the UK in February 1980 and certainly could have played Eric's. I was involved in managing the band, but I don't have a copy of the tour itinerary. I do know they played the University of Warwick on 2/2/80 and the Marquee on 18/2/80 and were touring in between those dates. Oddly, they played a gig at Shrimper's in Southend at the end of the tour, which may have confused locals there who thought they were getting Steve Hooker and the Heat. I'd be interested if anyone from that band has anything actually showing that they played Eric's on 7th Feb., 'casue I really think it was my band. Just too much of a coincidence that they'd advertise it as From the USA while The Heat was out and about in the country at the time. They were a NY band who played CBGB, Max's, Hurrah a lot and they'd just had a single out in the U.K. that was reviewed in most of the weeklies. I'm also pretty sure that The Jerks were on The Heat tour.
ReplyDeleteFrom Jeff Formosa, the drummer of The Heat (USA variety): "Yes, we played Liverpool. The Jerks were the opening act to the best of my reelection.
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