1978

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27.1.78 5 Minutes single released - makes no. 11 in charts
03.2.78 Penny Farthing, Ulverston
06.2.78 Scarborough Penthouse
07.2.78?? Clouds, Edinburgh - Skids support - JJ is so impressed that he gets booking agency to arrange a London tour for them.
08.2.78 Clouds Disco, Edinburgh
09.2.78 Falkirk, Martiqui Hall
13.2.78 Central Hotel, Portsmouth
14.2.78 "Johnny Sox", Duke Of Lancaster, New Barnet (Laura Logic joins the band onstage http://www.thestranglers.co.uk/?p=3045)
15.2.78 - Photo session at 5pm with Chris Gabrin
22.2.78 TW Studios - 27th


02.3.78? Old Waldorf, San Francisco, Ca
16.3.78? Act One Club, Philadelphia, https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/ne ... /124509245
20.3.78 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - Act One Club 239 Chestnut Street
21.3.78 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - Act One Club 239 Chestnut Street
23.3.78 The Rathskeller, Boston (support from City Thrills (featuring G.G Allin's brother on bass) and The Nervous Eaters) https://www.themeninblack.co.uk/forums/ ... 00#p494300
24.3.78 The Rathskeller, Boston (JJ interviewed for WBCN Boston Radio)

B&W mixed in New York and LA around here.

28.3.78 Privates, New York
3.4.78 Cleveland Agora Ballroom, Ohio
4.4.78 Schaumburg, Illinois, USA - Beginners Club
05.04.78 Chicago, Illinois, USA - Phoenix Club
06.4.78 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
7.4.78 Jay's Longhorn Bar, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
8.4.78 Longhorn Bar, Minneapolis - The Tuff Darts and Falmingo support
9.4.78 Stone Hearth, N.Park Madison City - Tuff Darts support
10.4.78 Dooley's Tavern ,East Lansing,Michigan (Hugh and JJ are greeted by local women's lib movement handing out ant-Stranglers placards. Hugh reads out a carefully worded statement which ends: „The Stranglers have always loved women and will continue to do so…“ The gig goes ahead.) http://webinblack.co.uk/Stranglers_in_America_1978.htm
11.4.78 East Lansing, Michigan, USA - Dooley's
12.4.78 Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
14.4.78 Toronto Horseshoe Tavern, Canada - Martin Rushent presents band with final B&W album mix.
15.4.78 High School of Commerce - Ottawa - Support from locals The Action
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16.4.78 El Casino, Montreal

27th, 28th, 29th April. Hugh attends Captain Beefheart gigs in San Francisco with Blondie. He is introduced to Robert Williams " I was in San Francisco and went to a Captain Beefheart show with Blondie, because I was friends with Debbie (Harry) and Chris (Stein). We were all Beefheart fans. And Beefheart was playing for three nights in a row, so we trouped down to see him all three nights, and I met Robert there. I think it was the first tour that he’d played (drums) with Beefheart, and we immediately became very firm friends"

1.5.78 Iceland
2.5.78 Iceland http://www.themeninblack.co.uk/forums/v ... 06#p202806
3.5.78 Reyjavik Exhibition Hail, Iceland
5.5.78 Oslo Club 4, Norway
6.5.78 Nice `N` Sleazy single released makes no. 18 in charts
7.5.78 Orebro, Sweden
12.5.78 Black & White album released
18.5.78 Band appear on TOTP to promote Nice N Sleazy
19.5.78 Madrid, Spain

BLACK AND WHITE TOUR

20.5.78 Brighton Centre
26.5.78 Glasgow Apollo The Skids Support
27.5.78 Edinburgh
28.5.78 Glasgow
30.5.78 Stafford Bingley Hall - An inspired Peter Hook in the audience Image
7.6.78 Leeds University - In aid of Prisoners Rights Assoc.

12.6.78 Paris, France (Le Stadium?)
13.6.78 L'Ancienne Belgique, Brussells, Belgium
19.6.78 Hannover, Germany 20.6.78 Cologne, Germany
22.6.78 Erlangen, Germany, according to Finchley Boy Al Hillier "Hugh was found on the floor pissed as a proverbial newt, was eventually sobered up and still managed to play the gig (Class) . I asked how pissed was ‘pissed’ and .he replied “when we found him in his hotel room and he was completely unconscious with his strides around his ankles and could not be woken”.." https://www.themeninblack.co.uk/forums/ ... p?p=100654
23.6.78 Munich, Germany
"The Stranglers in 1978 on the Rattus tour in Hamburg, Germany. They were brilliant. It may still be the loudest gig I have ever seen, including the utterly deafening Motorhead the following year. " Mick Barnard (u2 tribute band)

29.6.78 Zagreb??
30.6.78 Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, Hala Tivoli support from 999 http://www.themeninblack.co.uk/forums/v ... 75#p207175

06.7.78 Volkhaus , Zurich - support on these dates from 999
10.7.78 Municipal Palace of Sports of Barcelona
12.7.78 El Teatro Alcalá Palace de Madrid
13.7.78 Band travel to Lisbon and stay overnight at Hotel Atlantis Sintra Estoril, Estrada Nacional 9, Estoril, Cascais 2645-545 Portugal

14.7.78 Cascais Sports Stadium, Portugal - Cancelled which caused a riot https://thestranglers.co.uk/i-predict-a ... cais-1978/

Damned and HotRods Paul Gray....
"Last time I played Portugal was sometime around '77 with the Hotrods - we were supporting The Stranglers in some town hall type gaff in Lisbon. It was only a coupla years since the military had overthrown the fascist dictatorship, and being politically unstable there was a still an uncomfortable amount of military presence everywhere. Naturally, something billed as a punk rock gig was gonna attract attention, and it did...in spades. There was a riot halfway thru the night, the cops were clearly expecting trouble and started enthusiastically tear-gassing everyone...things got pretty lively. The whole thing ended in complete chaos, we somehow got back to our hotel in one piece and all ended up in Jet Black’s room. Dave Greenfield was already clearly in a blissfully advanced mind-altered state, bless him, and pooling our resources we proceeded to get hideously and happily out of it. I recall tv's and telephones going for flying lessons out of the window... the usual stuff, but perhaps a little unwise under the circumstances. It was when the manager came banging on the door threatening to call the feds that paranoia set in, and we somehow escaped to the airport before the they had a chance to slam the anchors on us. It's all rather vague now but I do recall retiring to the gents and standing on a bog seat for a good few hours, just in case they turned up at the airport to look for us...they'd never find me there!
Anyway, 46 years later we're doing this, our last European date of the year, in Coimbra 'twixt Porto and Lisbon. It's an interesting and varied lineup...and hopefully will be slightly less eventful than my last live experience there!"

15.7.78 Band leave Lisbon airport at 4pm arriving back into Heathrow at 6.25pm.
16.7.78 The Canary Islands
22.7.78 Band appear on Revolver TV programme (presented by Peter Cook) performing Tank and Curfew. This is the transmission date.


USA Mini Tour "Showcase Tour"
"This was a ‘showcase’ tour with Gigs through July at the Whiskey a Go Go in LA, the Sunset Marquee on Sunset Strip and other Gigs in San Francisco. Prior to the US trip there were a few other gigs in Estoril Portugal and Lubliyana Yugoslavia which are not mentioned." https://www.themeninblack.co.uk/forums/ ... p?p=100654

7.78 San Francisco
22.7.78 The Starwood, West Hollywood, CA
27.7.78 Entermedia Theater, New York (now Village East Cinema) https://www.themeninblack.co.uk/forums/ ... 20&t=23354

At some point around July/August here. Hugh meets with Robert Williams at The Automatt studio in San Franscisco where Captain Beefheart are recording Shiny Beast. He and Hugh had a little improv session one evening with the instruments in the studio.



10.8.78 Jet is interviewed for Strangled magazine issue 7.
12.8.78 Walk On By single released makes no. 21 in charts
17.8.78 Band appear on TOTP to promote Walk On By

August Clouds, Edinburgh Festival

PUBS & CLUBS TOUR

2.9.78 Hammersmith Red Cow - Billed as The Shakespearos
3 9.78 The Nashville, London - Billed as The Old Codgers
4.9.78 Band rehearse before Ireland gigs.
5.9.78 Further rehersals at "Ritz"
7.9.78 Belfast Ulster Hall (cine film exists for this)
8.9.78 Portrush Arcadia Ballroom - Undertones support http://www.themeninblack.co.uk/forums/v ... 22&t=15440
9.9.78 Dublin Top Hat "U2 support The Stranglers at the Top Hat Ballroom, playing to 2,500 people" "In Dublin, a young U2 supported The Stranglers at the Top Hat Ballroom. The Stranglers and their entourage took up two dressing rooms, which left Bono and company to dress behind the speakers." "Stranglers fans throw lighted cigarettes at U2" "Brocklebank was shooting for the Irish music magazine Hot Press in 1978 when he attended several of U2's first Dublin gigs and became their occasional roadie. His first photo on Sept. 9, 1978, is of a muscle-shirted Bono, mike in hand, performing as the opening act for English punk rockers The Stranglers in front of a foul crowd of hard-core punks. U2 was paid 50 Irish pounds (about $80) for the gig.
The Stranglers' pre-set equipment took up most of the stage, leaving U2 only one claustrophobic corner. Brocklebank recalled that fans, reflecting the punk crudities of the day, spat and tossed lit cigarettes at them throughout their set. Afterward, he said, Bono confronted The Stranglers in their dressing room about the shoddy treatment."


https://jamesmahonblog.wordpress.com/20 ... blin-1978/
11.9.78 Lancaster University
12.9.78 Dunfermline Kinema (Cancelled)
13.9.78 Aberdeen Ruffles (Cancelled) - Both cancelled due to problems with Dave's keyboards
16.9.78 Battersea Park London
17.9.78 Cardiff Top Rank
18.9.78 Peterborough Wirrina Stadium
19.9.78 Lincoln Drill Hall
JJ sitting in the Drill hall while the Finchley boys kick a ball about, the crowd starts gathering at about 4, there is no repeat of the punk bashin of 77 when the Damned played! The pub over the road is packed with the new punks and the soul boys seem to know that this is the real deal, the drill hall is stuffed by 8 and restless when the Skids come on, each song is announced by Jobson thus " this songs about a girl walkin down a street in Glasgow who gets raped" into Charles! Then next up "this songs about a girl walkin down a street in Glasgow who got raped and raped" straight into Of One Skin.
The Skids the best ever Scotish band but then there were the STRANGLERS!
On they came the crowd went wild spit flying, sweat pourin, more than a 1000 packed into the drill, all denim and leather and what did they hear and what did they want! Hugh into Grip screaming "OH, OH ,OH Did'nt Have the money round to buy a!...." then the spit flew and the crowd went wild
For the first ten minutes it was a shower of spit as the band sliced into Bitchin, JJ stamped on my fingers on the stage as he snarled in rage about the Windsor C
Death and night and Blood thumped out along with Burning up time and all to soon the apex of Toiler on the Sea rang out and whisked the band away, i remember my sister and me passed around a bottle of Bells so we could all get pissed. The gig next night was the top rank Sheffield, that was a real fucker.
Carl Greenwold
20.9.78 Sheffield Top Rank
21.9.78 Great Yarmouth Tiffanys
22.9.78 Malvern Winter Gardens (Skids support)
24.9.78 Portsmouth Locarno - Skids Support http://everygigiveeverseen.blogspot.co. ... glers.html "The bass sound was enormous. Jean Jaques Burnel did his standing-on-one-leg dance and between songs picked at a scab where his bass kept rubbing on his arm. Hugh threw Dolly Mixtures out while singing, “would you like a sweetie?” I kept some for years. Strobe lights! "
25.9.78 Exeter Routes (Skids and The Pop Group Support)
26.9.78 Bournemouth Village Bowl
27.9.78 Bath Pavillion http://themeninblack.co.uk/forums/viewt ... 68#p244868
28.9.78 Manchester Apollo

29.9.78 Bridlington Spa Pavillion
30.9.78 Glasgow Apollo - Cuban Heels and The Valves support
2.10.78 Aberdeen Ruffles
3.10.78 Dunfenline Kinema http://www.themeninblack.co.uk/forums/v ... =22&t=8696
6.10.78 Bataclan, Paris
19.10.78 - Guildford Uni - "Rock Goes to College" incident!

1st December Social Secs First listed in a session 1st Dec '78, with Rushent producing & Winstanley engineering. Studio not given. Also in this session they recorded versions of first versions of Fools Rush Out & YCUF6. On being presented with a demo for Meninblack Rushent decided he'd heard enough and parted ways with the band.

Hugh and Robert Williams commence recording of Nosferatu over Xmas 78
"I bathed in sun and walked in rain
It taught me how to laugh again"
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