50 Years of Liverpool DIY #12 : Bill Drummond joins the Liverpool School and Illuminatus!
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50 Years Jung order of screenings for the event on the 6th of June at Mathew St.
These will be playing in the former O'Halligans Parlour all afternoon.
So, plenty of time for everyone to have a chat, share memories and reflections; have food, a drink, go and come back or watch some rare films
Joy Division were booked to play here, 46 years ago today.
This is what I was getting up to at the weekend.
And lovely to meet Allan Williams' children.
Not only did Allan effectively start MerseyBeat when he replaced local bands for the departed Eddie Cochran slot, he told Bill Drummond to start Big in Japan
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'Jerks set off protests'
The Sex Pistols 1978 tour of America has been extensively covered.
Surprisingly, there was a lot of space dedicated to the band in 1976, from their earliest days.
I've compiled a chronological look at what was written then.
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6th June 1976. Liverpool's Lesser Free Trade Hall moment : The 1st Jung Festival.
A new Substack article
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49 years ago today the Sex Pistols didn't play Clouds, Edinburgh, due to the fall-out from the Jubilee boat-trip.
Emergency Exit were due to support and Jim Kerr was due to attend.
Edinburgh was more open to punk than Glasgow and pressure rarely applied. Generation X would see similar weeks later
49 Years of Scottish Punk: Glasgow's Burning.
An extended story of when the Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads and Television spent a weekend in Scotland.
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Proof that music can change people and cities
On the left, 50 years ago today: Sex Pistols at Lesser Free Trade Hall (Paul Welsh)
On the right: Tony Wilson Place, 40 years later
With lots of money and great records made inbetween.
Hopefully new footage gets released today
50 Years of Liverpool DIY #9 Dream.
The two dreams which changed a city and the very strange story of how they opened a warehouse on Mathew St.
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The Sex Pistols 1978 tour of America has been extensively covered, and the last few months of 1977 also had extensive coverage of what was about to land on their shores.
