User:A Thousand Doors/The Sex Pistols at the Lesser Free Trade Hall

On 4 June 1976, the Sex Pistols played a gig at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester.


 * Influence; date; venue; follow-up gig six weeks later; David Nolan: "that was it, that was the day, that was the time, that was the year that was the precise moment when everything took a left turn. And that is the music that we’re listening to now, the clubs we have in Manchester, the way we buy records, the independent music scene, basically came out of that audience."; audience thought SP were rubbish; 35-40 people there; attendees: Morissey, The Buzzcocks had organized the gig; guys from Joy Division went out and bought guitars from Mazel Radio the next day, Mark E Smith, Paul Morley, also schoolchildren, plasterers from Denton, Manchester Dock Company workers; 24 Hour Party People; support act was Solstice; details of David Nolan's book; thousands claim to have attended; 3rd best gig behind Live Aid and Woodstock;
 * date; venue; "gig that changed the world"; attendees: future members of the Buzzcocks Howard Devoto and Pete Shelley (who organized the gig and opened for the Pistols), Joy Division, the two founders of Factory Records Martin Hannet and Tony Wilson, Mark E. Smith of The Fall, Mick Hucknall of Frantic Elevators and much later Simply Red and Morrissey; the gig "spawned the British punk movement and the post-punk movement"; SP played 13 songs in their set, including covers of Dave Berry’s “Don’t Give Me No Lip Child,” Paul Revere and the Raiders “(I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone”, the Small Faces “What’cha Gonna Do About It,” The Stooges’ “No Fun”, and The Who’s “Substitute.” When asked for an encore, they played “No Fun” again; rest of set list; bassist Glen Matlock left SP in earl 1977; later gig was played to hundreds;
 * date, venue, gig changed the world; SP spotted by Buzzcocks and booked to play in Manchester; hall cost £32 to book; tickets cost 50p; advertised in the small ads at the back of the Manchester Evening News; audience were sitting down; local band Solstice played a 20 minute version of Mountain's Nantucket Sleighride to kick the night off; audience closer to 42; attendees: Peter Hook and Bernard Sumner, Kevin Cummins, Paul Morley; Sumner's wife, Terry Mason; Hook decided to become a musician that night, "I literally thought,' I could do that'";
 * "greatest gig of all time"; thousands now claim to have attended; attendance around 40; Paul Morley: ", the yokel audience, were scruffy, isolated avant garde music fans"; second gig six weeks later on 20 July in LFTH; Ian Curtis attended second gig;
 * tickets were 50p; this article written by David Nolan; about 40 attendees; first time SP had played Manchester; audience thought they could do better; LFTH = upstairs; Peter Hook: "You just thought we could do that"; Steve Diggle joined Buzzcocks that night; Buzzcocks took tickets on way in; Pete Shelly and Howard Devoto (then students at Bolton Technical College) [how old were they?] were inspired to organise gig after reading about SP in NME, they borrowed a car and drove down to London in Feb 76 to track down band and Malcolm McLaren; they saw band twice and invited them to play Manchester; original choice of venue was Bolton College; Buzzcocks weren't ready to support, so Solstice did instead; Buzzcocks supported for second gig 6wks later; Peter Hook (then a Salford county clerk) bought a bass guitar the next day; thousands claimed to have been;
 * attendees: Martin Fry and younger brother; John Lydon drank from beer cans in between songs;
 * Shelley and Devoto were students in Bolton; they read a review of them and then went to London to find the band; sought out manager and invited band to play in up north; gig originally to be in Bolton college; Buzzcocks to originally support, but had only played first gig on April 1st and decided they were not good enough; their name was still on the ticket; prog rock Solstice performed instead; just 28 tickets were sold; attendees: Morrissey, the band Joy Division, The Fall frontman Mark E Smith, Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall and Granada TV presenter and Factory Records owner Tony Wilson(?); Tony Wilson at second gig but not first?;
 * http://www.live4ever.uk.com/2016/06/sex-pistols-legendary-lesser-free-trade-hall-gig-among-new-4cd-live-collection/
 * date; venue; Gig included in Live '76;
 * "nearly didn’t get there that night because [Glen Matlock] got us lost near Chesterfield for bloody ages, which made us miss this radio thing we had planned."
 * date; venue; "most influential gig of all time"; audience between 35 and 40;
 * http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1Kw2j5LJfwpwz9KB55Gvh1Z/the-10-gigs-that-launched-a-thousand-bands
 * Mark E Smith at SECOND gig (as was Ian Curtis); attendees: Morrissey, Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner; 35-40 attendees in total;
 * http://www.itv.com/news/granada/update/2016-06-04/40-years-since-the-gig-that-changed-the-world/
 * venue; "gig that changed the world";
 * http://theconversation.com/year-zero-for-british-punk-was-1976-but-there-had-long-been-anarchy-in-the-usa-61329
 * SP first gig on 6 Nov 1975, and includes various cover versions of songs by the Who, the Small Faces, the Monkees;
 * https://www.wired.com/2016/10/lets-obsess-intricate-map-alt-music-history/
 * date; venue; "one of the most influential performances of all time"; 30-40 attendees; thousands claimed to have gone;
 * https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/may/21/popandrock3
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 * https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YTVQDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT131&lpg=PT131&dq=%22They+just+looked+like+a+standard+bunch+of+northern+cunts+with+moustaches+and+kipper+ties+from+where+I+was+standing%22&source=bl&ots=CxzBTZ8iBA&sig=IxeujSS-kVT9ICPVAMFJBXkDtXg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjWioyy6svQAhVLBsAKHWxgBzQQ6AEIIjAB


 * http://louderthanwar.com/sex-pistols-free-trade-hall-40-years-ago-key-gig-thousands-people-pretend-go/


 * https://hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/june-4-1976-sex-pistols-play-manchester-for-the-very-first-time/
 * https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzZWFuYWxiaWV6fGd4OjRmNWI5NTE5ZmI0OTU3NDk&pli=1

Gig featured on Live' 76, the 2016 four-CD/LP set