1981

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1981

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THE MEN IN BLACK TOUR
Phil Coxon's excellent tour diary http://www.thestranglers.co.uk/?p=3429
Thanks also to Duncan Round and Ken Sander


19.1.81 Thrown Away single released - makes no.42 in charts
29.1.81 Band appear on TOTP to promote Thrown Away
31.1.81 Band attend promo photoshoot

8.2.81 Cardiff Top Rank (Cancelled)
9.2.81 The Gospel According To The Meninblack album released
9.2.81 Bristol Locarno
10.2.81 Plymouth Polytechnic (Replaced Exeter University)
11.2.81 Southampton Gaumont
12.2.81 Canterbury Odeon Support from "The Wall" http://www.punk77.co.uk/talkpunk/viewto ... 0&start=15
13.2.81 Brighton Top Rank
15.2.81 Hammersmith Odeon Link 2
16.2.81 Birmingham Odeon
17.2.81 Hanley Victoria Hail, Stoke
18.2.81 Sheffield Polytechnic Link 2
19.2.81 Nottingham Rock City
20.2.81 Liverpool University
21.2.81 Manchester Apollo
https://www.psaudio.com/article/pond-ho ... tranglers/
23.2.81 Durham University
24.2.81 Edinburgh Playhouse
25.2.81 Glasgow Apollo
26.2.81 Newcastle Mayfair
27.2.81 Lancaster University
28 2 81 Leeds University

2.3.81 Winter Gardens, Cleethorpes (Cancelled)
3.3.81 Leicester De Montfort Hall
4.3.81 Coventry New Theatre
5.3.81 East Anglia University, Norwich
6.3.81 Cambridge Corn Exchange
7.3.81 London Rainbow

AMERICAN TOUR

Band arrive in New York and check into Manhattan's Abbey Victoria Hotel (51st and 7th Avenue). Rehearsals at SIR (Studio Instrumental Rentals), West Side Manhatten. https://www.psaudio.com/article/the-str ... stateside/

26.3.81 Privates, Lexington Arts Center, New York (band on stage 00:30) Support: Wall of Voodoo / Bee Girls
27.3.81 Privates, Lexington Arts Center, New York Support: Wall of Voodoo / Bee Girls
28.3.81 Privates, Lexington Arts Center, New York Support: Wall of Voodoo / Bee Girls Image

30.3.81 Nicos, Allentown, Pennsylvania - This was the day of the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan
31.3.81 Center Stage, Providence, Rhode Island (rock club with a capacity of 800)
1.4.81 The Channel, Fort Point, Boston, Mass.
2.4.81 The Shaboo Inn in Willimantic, Connecticut (low stage)
3.4.81 Left Bank, Mount Vernon, New York - band onstage at 01:30am (support Single Bullet Theory)
4.4.81 Irving Plaza, New York City (band and crew stay at Abbey Victoria) gig finishes after 2am
5.4.81 Day Off
6.4.81 Toad's Place, New Haven, Connecticut - band onstage at 11pm
7.4.81 West Orange Creations Club, NJ
8.4.81 Mosque Ballroom, Cellar Door, Georgetown, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Richmond. Single Bullet Theory support. "All proceeds to benefit 1708 main art Gallery"
9.4.81 Virginia Beach, Richmond, Virginia
10.4.81 Ontario Theatre, Washington DC (support from Fleshtones and Insect Surfers)
11.4.81 Emerald City, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
12.4.81 Day Off (Sunday - band drive back up to NYC)
13.4.81 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
14.4.81 Bogarts, Cincinatti, Ohio (on way to gig Ken Sander gets pulled over for speeding with Hugh and JJ in car)
15.4.81 Tyrone’s, Athens, Georgia (band onstage at 10pm)
17.4,81 688 Club, Georgia, Atlanta
18.4.81 688 Club, Georgia, Atlanta
19.4.81 Day Off (Sunday - band travel 500 miles to New Orleans)
20.4.81 Ole Man Rivers, New Orleans (band drive all night 365 miles to Houston)
21.4.81 Agora Ballroom Houston, Texas (band onstage 10.30pm)
23.4.81 Club Foot, Austin Texas
24.4.81 Club Bijou, Dallas, Texas
25.4.81 Opry House, Lawrence, Kansas - New Era support
28.4.81 Blu Note, Boulder Colorado
29.4.81 Blu Note, Boulder Colorado
30.4.81 Band stay overnight at The Stardust, Las Vegas
1.5.81 Perkins Palace, Pasadena, California
2.5.81 Reseda Country Club
3.5.81 Bacchanal, San Diego
4.5.81 Flipper's Hollywood ("with special guest Robert Williams") https://hypebeast.com/2021/10/flippers- ... -interview
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Gig was cancelled and rescheduled to The Country Club in Reseda, California
8.5.81 Keystone , Palo Alto, California
9.5.81 The Stone, San Francisco
13.5.81 The Showbox, Seattle support from Idiot Culture
14.5.81 Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC
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20.5.81 Uncle Sam's, Minneapolis
22.5.81 Thumpers North, 2020 Northdale Blvd Coon Rapids Minneapolis
23.5.81 Thumpers North, 2020 Northdale Blvd Coon Rapids Minneapolis
24.5.81 Milwaukee The Palms#
26.5.81 Hugh and Jet appear on Kent State University Radio, Ohio.
27.5.81 Dooley's East Lansing
28.5.81 Detroit - Clutch Cargo's (on Elizabeth Street) ??
29.5.81 Fryfogle's, London, ON
30.5.81 Toronto, Canada

(also Vancouver somewhere round this time probably Commodore Ballroom also Duluth)
81 Winnipeg's Playhouse Theatre (peaches handed out to audience)

1.6.81 Ottawa - Civic Centre - Support from Men Without Hats.
"the Stranglers at the salons of the civic centre in Lansdowne Park. It was the spring of 1981 and the band was on their ‘Men in Black’ tour. In the audience I saw for the first time real, live punk rockers complete with leather, studs, mohawks and Doc Marten boots. The opening act was Montreal’s ‘Men without Hats’ whose synth/dance pop left me cold. But the Stranglers – although not exactly young lions even then – grabbed me right away. No cameras were allowed in, and I was awestruck when lead singer Hugh Cornell dove headfirst into the crowd and fought his way toward someone taking illicit photos. He got a hold of the camera, ripped out the film, and was back on stage before the band missed a note." http://ottawaexplosion.blogspot.com/200 ... rning.html
2.6.81 Montreal Le Club, Canada
3.6.81 Montreal Le Club, Canada
10.6.81 The Starlite Ballroom, Philadelphia, support from Circle Jerks and The Excuses
11.6.81 The Showplace, Dover, New Jersey
12.6.81 Bond International Casino, New York (matinee show ) support from The Units and Jo Marshall
13.6.81 Bond International Casino, New York (matinee show - "Saturday Kiddie Matinee, No Booze") support from The Units and The Rattlers (Billed as "Last US show")
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19.6.81 Bond International Casino, New York (matinee show?) support from Velveteen
20.6.81 Bond International Casino, New York (matinee show 1pm and evening show? 10pm) support from Velveteen

July is spent writing the La Folie album at Jets house.

August 81 - Recording of the La Folie album commences
11.8.81 Band are pictured rehearsing at Jet's house for Strangled magazine



9.9.81 JJ appears onstage in Paris to perform with Taxi Girl

28.9.81 Leeds - Special One off gig ?



9.11.81 La Folie the album is released.
LA FOLIE TOUR

11.11.81 The Granary, Bristol
14.11.81 Let Me Introduce You To The Family single released makes no.42 in charts
14.11.81 Norwich University
15.11.81 Birmingham, Odeon
16.11.81 Cardiff, Sophia Gardens
17.11.81 Hammersmith Palais (gig filmed?)
19.11.81 Southampton,Gaumont
20.11.81 Nottingham Rock City
21.11.81 La Folie Album Released
22.11.81 Edinburgh Playhouse
23.11.81 Glasgow Apollo - Support from The Pretenders
24.11,81 Newcastle City Hall
25.11.81 Manchester Apollo
26.11.81 Liverpool Royal Court
27.11.81 Bradford St. Georges Hall Link 2
28.11.81 Sheffield Lyceum
30.11.81 Ulster Hall, Belfast
2.12.81 Loughborough University
3.12.81 Bath Pavilliion
4.12.81 Rainbow Theatre, London


West Runton Pavillion, Norfolk?? https://www.edp24.co.uk/features/herita ... -1-6778906) "“When punk first started there was a lot of spitting and throwing beer about going on, but that had faded out in most places by this time, but I can remember Hugh Cornwell [the Stranglers’ lead singer] had a towel constantly hanging from his guitar because people just kept spitting at him and JJ Burnel on the bass and in the end he had to tell them ‘stop spitting it’s not 1977 anymore’.

“Most people stopped but one person kept having a go at JJ Burnel and in the end he snapped and threw his bass down and jumped into the crowd after him and the bloke legged it out of the venue and down the road - and that was very funny.

“When he came back Hugh Cornwell said the bloke was ‘just swimming across to Norway’, it was really funny.”

Mr Harvey saw the band three times on their 1981 tour and paid just £2 to get in that night." Stuart Harvey

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