Acts @ Eric's

1976-1980

First time at Eric's - in no particular order

Bands that played for the first time at Eric's in 1976-77, in no particular order - The Stranglers, Flamin’ Groovies, Ramones, Deaf School, Buzzcocks, Talking Heads, The Runaways, O’Boogie Brothers, Spitfire Boys, Racing Cars, Roogalator, The Brownies, Generation X, Little Bob Story, Ultravox, John Martyn, Sex Pistols, The Vibrators, Plummett Airlines, Nasty Pop, Cherry Vanilla, The Police, Kenny Shaw Band, Berlin, Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers, Neill Innes, The Darts, Count Bishops, Dave Edmunds Rockpile, MC (“Hot from Detroit”), Will Gaines, Frankie Miller, Tony Levoi, Silly Wizard, Tyla Gang, The Clash, Subway Sect, 29th & Dearborn, Chris McGregor’s Blue Notes, The Gorillas, John Cale, Gary Boyle Band featuring Rod Argent, The Jam, Split Enz, Bud Freeman with Joe Palin Trio, Henry Cow, Wayne County & the Electric Chairs, The Pirates, Johnny Griffin & Carmel Jones, The Darts, Albert Dock (& the Cod Fish Warriors), The Damned, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Sad Cafe, Zbigniew Namyslowski Band, The Saints, Alberto y Los Trios Paranoias, Ian Dury, Bert Jansch with Martin Jenkins & Danny Thompson, Red Brass, Elton Dean Quartet featuring Keith Tippett, Joe Gallivan & Hugh Hopper, XTC, Harry Miller's Isipingo with Mike Osborne, Malcolm Griffiths, Mark Charig, Keith Tippet & Louis Moholo, Five Hand Reel, Bobby Bradford Quartet with Trevor Watts, Rosco Travis, Desolation Angel, Benny Carter / Ralph Sutton Quintet, Radio Blank, Elvis Costello & Attraction, Nick Lowe, Radio Stars, Stanley Clarke, Flying Saucers, The Slits, Slaughter & the Dogs, John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett, The Table, Crazy Cavan & the Rhythm Rockers, Pacific Eardrum, Adverts, 999, The Motors, The Models, Alternative TV, The Soft Boys, The Invaders, Billy Boy Arnold, Tom Robinson Band, The Kursaal Flyers, Stiff Greatest Stiffs Live @ Empire, Killjoys, The Skunks, X-Ray Spex, The Lurkers, Fabulous Poodles, Boomtown Rats, Sham 69, Mystery Girls, The Ants, Rich Kids, Gordon Giltrap, Krysia Kocjan, The Pleasers, Nancy Boys, Wilko, The Crabs, Colosseum, The Rezillos, Third World, The Toilets (later The Alarm), Victor Brox, South Side Johnny & the Asbury Dukes, Greg Kihn, Amazorblades, Boys of the Lough, Howard Devoto’s Magazine, Plummet Airlines, Hawk, London, Dramatis Personae, Anniversary, Penetration, The Rage, Fast Breeder, Theatre Wardrobe, The Warm Jets, American Autumn, The Law, Hugo Dines Band, The Mirrors, Tenth Avenue, Yachts, Civilian, Guess, Desperate Bicycles, Sinister
Bands that played for the first time at Eric's in 1978, in no particular order - Black Slate, John Cooper-Clark, Power Pop, Gary Boyle, Audition Night, The Smirks, Jegsey Stinnog, Dire Straits, Bernie Tormie, Breakdown, Stevie & the Dropouts, Strychnine, The Whirlwinds, Catch, Famous Players, 051, Scharnhorst, Hieronymous Bosch, Clayson & the Argonauts, Body, Fun, Spiders, Steel Pulse, Radiators from Space, Pekoe Orange, The Jack Ketch Band, Robert Gordon with Link Wray, The Mechanics, Dillinger with Zabandis, Wire, Deke Leonard’s Iceberg, Levi & the Rockcats, The Depressions, Prince Far I, Bethnal, Car Crash, Defiant, Vice Versa, The Doll, Passport, Earthquake (“from the USA”), The Fall, The Boys, The Albion Dance Band, The Destroyers, Ton Tricks, Virginia Wolfe, Electric Chairs, Richie Havens, Devo, 999, Errol Holt (“from Jamaica”), Matumbi, Rubinoos, Psalms, Mosiah, Tapper Zukie, David Coverdale’s Whitesnake, The Planet Gong, British Lions, Marseilles, Tradition, Adam & the Ants, Supercharge, Wreckless Eric, The Gladiators, Magazine, Doctors of Madness, Eclipse, Pere Ubu, Aswad, Johnny Moped, The Records, Black Maria, Gyro, Jilted John, Van Der Graaf, Gruppo Sportivo, Durutti Column, The Young Ones, Steve Hillage, Stadium Dogs, Alternative TV, The Young Bucks, Tony McPhee’s Terraplane, Big in Japan, Moondogs, Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers, Natrus Roots, I’Wa, Gloria Mundi, Advertising, More, The Lurkers, Mink de Ville, The Dickies, The Shirts, Suicide, The Squad, The ID (OMD), The Movies, The Germs, Punishment of Luxury, Ed Banger, Reggae Video, Doll by Doll, Human League, C P Lee, Margox & the Zink, The Specials, Nose Bleeds, Radio Birdman, Marseilles, Prime Time Suckers, Jolt, Tanz der Youth, Sore Throat, The Second Thought Band, Stevie & the Secrets (“Average, Broudie, Budgie + Dave from Dalek”), The Edge, Crawler, Les Prior, Spherical Objects, C-Gas 5, Mainline Junction, Jah Woosh, John Dowie, Jenny Darren, The Names, Clug Cat, Dame Loony, Dalek (I Love You), Matumbi, Azania, Torchy & the Moonbeams, Ludus, Joy Division, Nancy Pallones (“formerly Jackie & Janette”), Gordon the Moron, Bulldog Clips, Hooker, Chromium, Teardrop Explodes, David Johannsen, Pere Ubu, Sore Throat, The Normal, Strangeways, Pink Military Stand Alone, The Doomed (Damned sans Brian James), Essential Logic, National Health, The Moderates, Crash Course, Ded Byrds, ‘Eric’s Allstars’
Bands that played for the first time at Eric's in 1979-80, in no particular order - Hot Water, UK Subs, Eric Bell, Jeff Hill Band, China St, Bette Bright & the Illuminations, Iganda, Roger Chapman, Leyton Buzzards, Moon Martin, Gang of Four, The Cheats, Blazer Blazer, Cabaret Voltaire, Stiff Little Fingers, Marionettes, Manicured Noise, The Flys, Public Image, The Prefects, Radio Earth, Raaw, Truncheon, Cygnus, PMSA, The Undertones, Joe Jackson, Patrik Fitzgerald, The Pretenders, The Fall, The Cure, Bim Sherman, Prince Hammer, Crass, Phil Jazz ( Paul Blackburn ), Razar, Jean Jacques Burnel, The B52s, Sausages from Mars, Sheeny & the Goys, Ozones, V2, Iggy Pop, The Zones, Prag Vec, Inner Circle ('the heaviest Reggae band in the world!'), Here & Now, Next, The Glass Torpedoes, Cool Notes & Vhybes, The Knack, Kleenex, Clive Langer & the Boxes, Spizz Energi, Clint Eastwood, The Pop Group, Original Mirrors, Misprints, The Tourists, Twisted Nerves, Malchix, The Straits, Joker, Bongo Danny, Freedom Fighters, Good Missionaries, Fireplace, Chris Bernard, The Cramps, Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Angletrax, Chelsea, Simple Minds, The Passage, Merton Parkas, Rocking Dopsie & The Twisters, The Selector, Toyah, Madness, Secret Affair, The Drills, Nightmares in Wax, Tribesmen, Revelation, Shake, Protex, Squire, The Chords, Don Cherry, Facto Prince Hammer, The Ruts, The Not Sensibles, Vibrant Thigh, Property Of, Purple Hearts, Back, The Zeros, The Allumettes, Local Operator, The Pack, The Afenders, The Astronauts, The Mob, Androids of Mu, X-Pelairs, The Royal Rasses, King Sound, The Israelites, Dangerous Girls, Walkie Talkies, Destroy All Monsters, The ('Manchester') Mekons, The Little Roosters, Back to Zero, The Motels, Eddie C Campbell, Good Rockin’ Charles, Billy the Kid Emerson, Lester Davenport, Chico Chism, Little Smokey Smothers, The Psychedelic Furs, Red Beans & Rice, Landscape, Staff 9, The Distractions, Tours, Junk Art, Creation Rebel, The Modettes, Joy Division, Eddie & the Hot Rods, The Beat, Echo & the Bunnymen, Roy White & Steve Torch, The Mighty Vhybes, I Society, The People’s Sound System, Bad Manners, The Portraits, Algiers, The Au Pairs, The Associates, Pictures, ADT, Scars, Tempo, Dead Trout, Squares, Chink, Blitzkrieg Bop, Eater, Dead Finger Talk, The Tunes, The Donkeys, Comsat Angels, Essential Logic, The Delta Five, Chris Sievey & the Freshies, Psycamesh, Interview, Vermillion, Fashion, Starjets, The Zorkie Twins, Attempted Moustache, The Posers, Tim Byers, Sector 27, Killing Joke, Alexis Corner, The Bogey Boys, The Moth Men, Exodus, Section 25, The Nice Men, Paraquat, The Victims, Flock of Seagulls, Stevie & the Stopouts, Modern Eon, The Denizens, Eat at Joes, Script Politti, Frantic Elevators, Victor Drago, The Mods, Brakes, Swell Maps, Activity Minimal, The Flowers, Viva, Poison Girls, The Passions, The Cheaters, Cadenza, Pinpoint, Inside Out, The Heat, After the Fire, Pyramid, The Planets, Basement 5, Modernaires, Bauhaus, The Room, A Certain Ratio, Two Tone Pinks, Red Line, God's Toys, Slodgienessabounds, The Sex Beatles, The Lone Groover, Victims of Romance, The Nice Men, The Slippers, The Raincoats, Neuklon, The Shattered Dolls, Think of the Winter, Holly & the Italians, Killermeters, Eric Beat, Wah! Heat

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