[theraven1979]

23.01.76 London Red Cow http://www.sff.net/people/chris.amies/rfm/Latymers.htm
13.02.76 London Red Cow
20.02.76 London Red Cow
22.02.76 London Hope & Anchor
03.03.76 London Speakeasy club - band get paid £35
March 76 - College in North London with Vibrators supporting
07.03.76 Red Cow, Hammersmith
10.03.76 The Greyhound, Fulham
24.03.76 London Speakeasy club - band get paid £35
30.04.76 - Nashville, London - support from Snakes
13.4.76 The Speakeasy, London -Played 2 sets, 10.3Opm & 1.30am
17.4.76 The Raven Hotel, London
07.5.76 Bristol, Newlands Park College
16.5.76 Roundhouse, London - Support to Patti Smith
17.5.76 Roundhouse, London - Support to Patti Smith
22.5.76 Kettering Central Hall
23.5.76 Newark Palace Leisure Centre
24.5.76 Leeds Locarno
25.5.76 Harlow Tiffanys
26.5.76 Cambridge Corn Exchange
27.5.76 Brunel University, Uxbridge - The Jam supporting
31.5.76 Nashville, London
4.6.76 St.Osyth's college, Clacton
10.6.76 High Wycombe Nags Head
12.6.76 Valley Football Club, Redditch " 'The Stranglers' who were a new wave band from Guilford but they would cost £70.00!!
I agreed and on 12th June 1976 the Stranglers turned up in a converted ice cream van to play the Valley Club in Redditch. The first song they played was 'Grip' and followed that with a lot of other stuff from the Rattus album.
"
14.6.76 The Nashville Rooms, London
15.6.76 The Red Cow, London
"Yeah, by the middle of 1976 we had a couple of really good regular gigs, like residencies really. One was at The Hope and Anchor, one was at The Red Cow and we had another in The Nashville Rooms." JJ
17.6.76 Midsummer Music Festival, Walthamstow Assembley Hall - with lan Dury & Sex Pistols
Sumner 76 Played a regular Thursday night spot at The Nashville
4.7.76 Roundhouse London Supported The Ramones and The Flamin' Groovies at a special American Bi-centennial concert. First ever UK Ramones date
9.7.76 Forest School, London
11.7.76 Forest School, London E17
13.7.76 Hope & Anchor London
15.7.76 Hope & Anchor London (also 14th,16th & 17th???)
20.7.76 Nashville, London
21.7.76 Fulham Greyhound, London
22.7.76 band record Go Buddy Go and Bitching for demo reel to UA
25.7.76 Hammersmith Red Cow
26.7.76 Ashford Wye College
30.7.76 Chelmsford Prison
03.8.76 Nashville, London - support from Sugar Daddy
24.8.76 The Nashville Rooms, London
6.9.76 The Rochester, London
28.9.76 Rock Garden, London
??.10.76 Westcliff Clacton Lasted 10 minutes on stage
??.09.76 The Squat, Manchester also http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/skrewdriverinterview.htm "I was the only one who had a car at the time so I had to drive everywhere. During Freshers' week at Manchester University the Stranglers played at a dingy little club called the Squat. They caused quite a stir, they weren't a punk band as such but they had the attitude."
1.10.76 Eric's, Liverpool (opening night) with Pistols?
7.10.76 High Wycombe Nags Head
8.10.76 Kings College, London
9.10.76 Roehampton Digby Stuart College
10.10.76 The Nashville Rooms, London
12.10.76 Cardiff Top Rank
15.10.76 Southbank Polytechnic, London
16.10.76 Westfield College, London
17.10.76 The Nashville Rooms, London 1 Bracknell Arts Centre
18-20.10.76 Wales
22.10.76 Hamnersmith Odeon - Support to Patti Smith "I first saw the Stranglers in 1976 when they were the support act to Patti Smith - this was at the Hammersmith Odeon. The Stranglers were far superior to Patti Smith on this particular night. She was self indulgent and ultimately quite boring!!"
23.10.76 Hamnersmith Odeon - Support to Patti Smith
24.10.76 Birmingham Odeon - Support to Patti Smith
25.10.76? Birmingham Odeon??? - Support to Patti Smith
26.10.76 Cardiff Tap Rank
28.10.76 The Granary Birstol then support to Patti Smith at Manchester Free Trade Hall (is this right?)
30.10.76 Portsmouth Polytechnic
Oct/Nov Liverpool Erics - with The Sex Pistols
??.11.76 Valley Football Club, Redditch
2.11.76 Canterbury University
4.11.76 Bristol Granary
5.11.76 York University
6.11.76 Reading University
7.11.76 The Marquee, London
9.11.76 Acklam Hall. London
11.11.76 Plymouth Woods Centre
12.11.76 Cardiff University
"I first saw the Stranglers play in the bar at the student union building in Bangor, 30 years ago this November. They were there the week we were occupying the Maths Tower in support of four Welsh-speaking students who had been sent down for putting graffiti all over the college, backing a bilingual policy. The Stranglers lead singer said between songs:

I hear you've got a problem with a bloke called Reggie.

Reggie-strar!

They only cost about £90 to play that night. Shortly after, they had a string of hits, and when we booked them for the following October's Fresher's Week they cost a grand."

13.11.76 Redditch Valley Club
14.11.76 Torrington Arms, Woodside Park, London First encounter with The Finchley Boys
15.11.76 Oxford Poly - Support to The Flamin' Groovies (or The Vibrators) & The Damned
17.11.76 Bradford University
18.11.76 Fforde Green Hotel Leeds
20.11.76 Teeside Polytechnic
21.11.76 The Nashville, London - support from Chelsea
25.11.76 Banger University
27.11.76 Derby Cleopatras
28.11.76 Hull Tom Cotton's
29.11.76 100 Club, London
30.11.76 100 Club. London - Infamous gig where Dagenham Dave came to blows with The Finchley Boys. On the bill with Clemen Pull and Lee Kosmin Band http://www.thestranglerssite.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7113&highlight=&sid=bfe40646afc86a8c61fcc7ed063c0499
2.12.76 Hammersmith Red Cow
3.12.76 Dudley J.B.'s
4.12.76 Burton Paradise Rooms
10.12.76 The Nashville Rooms, London - support from Tom Robinson band
(gig recorded for live debut album that never happened)
11.12.76 Aylesbury Friar's support from Deaf School
13.12.76 Edinburgh, Tiffany's - support from Nobodaddy
16.12.76 High Wycombe, The Nags Head



Notes:
"They did play the Nashville just about every Thursday from July to September76. Backing bands included The Vibrators, Plummet Airlines, Radio Stars. There were also more gigs at the Roundhouse, the Jam backed once as did London and the Hammersmith Gorillas.

The Affair in Swindon (backed by XTC who could not play cos the stage was too small). " Thanks for that Jeremy

Further Notes on this year:-


"The band's 1st Scottish gig was @ Strathclyde University in Glasgow in December 1976 (don't know exactly which date, but if Edinburgh was the 13th, Glasgow was probably the 12th).
The Union had booked Ian Gillan's band, however they pulled out @ the last minute & 'The Stranglers' were booked as their replacement.
The hippies didn't care much for our boys, especially as they were expecting Gillan. The band ended up baricading themselves in the dressing room whilst angry punters tried to beat a way in.
Whenever I walk past the Uni. Union (I was once a student there), I always try & imagine the old ice cream van outside.
The venue is up on the 6th Floor, so the boys would have had their work cut out hiking the kit up the stairs - what with Jet & his bad back !

Steveareno"