1982

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09.1.82 Golden Brown single released makes no.2 in charts
28.1.82 Band appear on TOTP to promote Golden Brown
14.2.82 Band appear on TOTP to promote Golden Brown
30.1.82 Golden Brown drops to 6 in the charts


21.1.82 Sheffield Polytechnic
22.1.82 Aberystwyth University
23.1.82 Leicester UniverSity
25.1.82 Brighton Top Rank
26.1.82 Guildford Civic Hall
27.1.82 St Austel Colliseum
28.1.82 Hemel Hempstead Pavillion
29.1.82 Hanley Victoria Hotel
30.1.82 Swindon Oasis - person spitting in audience receives a "good spanking" During a show at the Swindon Leisure Centre, the group are angered by a retro-punk shower of spittle fired in their direction throughout their set. They apprehend the ring-leader of the gobbing throng, remove his trousers, and use his bare buttocks as tom-toms during Golden Brown.
31.1.82 Poole Arts Centre
1.2.82 Bristol Locarno
3.2.82 Derby Assembley Rooms
4.2.82 Warwick University
5.2.82 Ipswich Gaumont
6.2.82 Portsmouth Guildhall
7.2.82 Leeds Tiffanys
8.2.82 London Hammersmith Odeon - Boys In Darkness support

19.2.82 Band appear on Friday Night...Saturday Morning performing Tramp and La Folie

March - JJ works with Polyphonic Size

9.4.82 No Nukes Festival, Utrecht, Holland - Broadcast on Dutch TV
24.4.82 La Folie single released - makes no.47 in charts
10/5/82 Utrecht ??

22.7.82 Band appear on TOTP to promote Strange Little Girl
24.7.82 Strange Little Girl single released makes no.7 in charts
05.8.82 Band appear on TOTP to promote Strange Little Girl


07.08.1982 - Vilar de Mouros Festival, Portugal https://youtu.be/oH09I3WaQyc?t=182

September - Most of Feline written and rehearsed at Jet's house. Band record Feline at ICP Studios, Brussels. The incident where Hugh and Steve Churchyard spend an evening working on Souls. JJ and Dave didn't approve. Sticking the recording to the studio door with the words "this is shit" on it. Souls would later appear on Aural Sculpture.

13.09.82 The Collection Album Released
18.10.82 TVS Theatre, Gillingham - Broadcast on ITV "Off The Record" programmepic

30.12.82 Band appear on TOTP with Golden Brown
"I bathed in sun and walked in rain
It taught me how to laugh again"
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