[theraven1979]

I think you`ll agree this was a very busy year for the Stranglers!


Early Jan in TW recording studio with Martin Rushent
2.1.77 Roundhouse
16.1.77 Maidenhead Skindles Hotel
21.1.77 Royal College of Art, London - Support to The Adverts
22.1.77 The Roxy Club, London WC2 ??? unconfirmed
30.1.77 Rainbow; London - Support to The Climax Blues Band when Hugh wore the famous 'Fuck' T-Shirt
February 77 "Red Deer public house in Croydon in about February 1977. There was only about 50 people in the audience and I felt really lucky to be so close to the band. Hugh hung out at the bar and was quite chatty. "
9.2.77 Woking Central Halls
11.2.77 Aberdeen Robert Gordon Institute
12.2.77 Glasgow .Queen Margaret Uni
13.2.77 Falkirk, Miniqui Hall
15.2.77 Newport Alexandra Club
18.2.77 Crawley Technical College
19.2.77 Scunthorpe Priory Hotel
19.2.77 (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) 1st Stranglers single released - makes no. 44 in charts
21.2.77 Canterbury Kent University
22.2.77 University of Essex, Colchester - Supported by The Damned
23.2.77 Newcastle Polytechnic
24.2.77 Middlesborough Rock Garden
25.2.77 Scarborough Penthouse
26.2.77 Liverpool Erics
28.2.77 Doncaster Outlooks "I took some mates from Sheffield University to see this "new band !" at Doncaster Outlook Club in the early part of the year. They had just released Grip/Peaches and I reckon they played to 30 people if that (and we were 4 or them). We showed up to the Top Rank (which was a big place) for this gig just a few months later to find it heaving with people. "
1.3.77 Birmingham Barbarellas
2.3.77 Huddersfield Polytechnic
4.3.77 Wolverhampton Lafayette
5.3.77 Manchester Electric Circus
6.3.77 Egremont Tow Bar Inn, Cleveland
7.3.77 Hawick Town Hall
8.3.77 Birmingham Barbarellas - Doubtful
9.3.77 Wakefield Unity Hall
10.3.77 York University
11.3.77 Ulverston Penny Farthing
12.3.77 Liverpoot C.F.Mott College
16.3.77 Swindon Affair
17.3.77 Ipswich Manor Ballroom (Cancelled)
18.3.77 Brighten Sussex Centre - Replaced Egham Royal Holloway College
23.3.77 Plymouth Woods Centre
24.3.77 Penzance Garden
29.3.77 The Roxy, London
30.3.77 Darlington Incognito
2.4.77 Netherton Tow Bar Inn, Cleethorpes Winter Gardens
8.4.77 Brighton. The Bucaneer
11.4.77 Brighton. The Bucaneer ??
14.4.77 Bristol (Cancelled)
18.4.77 1st Album Rattus Norvegicus released
15.4.77 Bracknell Sports Centre (Cancelled)
16.4.77 The Roundhouse
17.4.77 The Roundhouse
20.4.77 Le Havre, France
21.4.77 Dunkirk M.J.C., France
22.4.77 Geneva Bluebird Disco. Switzerland
23.4.77 ? Geneva Bluebird Disco, Switzerland
24.4.77 ? Paris Theatre, London Radio 1 In Concert (Anyone got this? - Email below)
25.4.77 Palais des..., Paris. France
27.4.77 Daysur Champs Epernay, France
April/May Newport Roundabout Social Club, Wales
7.5.77 Canterbury (Doubtful)


RATTUS TOUR
6.5.77 Peaches single released
11.5.77 Twickenham Winning Post
19.5.77 Coventry Tiffanys
20.5.77 Brunel University, Uxbridge
21.5.77 Bletchley Sports Centre
21.5.77 Peaches single released - makes no. 8 in charts
22.5.77 Croydon Greyhound (Cancelled)
24.5.77 Brighton Top Rank
25.5.77 University of Essex, Colchesfer
26.5.77 Nowich St.Andrews City Hall
21.5.77 Cardiff Tap Rank
28.5.77 Canterbury Odeon
29.5.77 Guildford Civic Hall
30.5.77 Bournernouth Village Bowl
31.5.77 Wolverhampton Civic Hall
1.5.77 Birmingharn Barbarellar
2.6.77 Birmingham Barbarellar
3.6.77 Cambridge Corn Exchange
4.6.77 Wigan Casino http://whycontrol1977.blogspot.com/2008/08/bombsite-fanzine-2008-london-discusses.html
5.6.77 Manchester.Electric Circus
7.6.77 Taunton Odeon
8.6.77 Plymouth Castaways
9.6.77 Torquay Town Hall (Cancelled)
10.6.77 Llandrindod Wells Grand Pavillion
11.6.77 Dunstable California Ballroom Replaced Southend Kursaal
12.6.77 Sheffield Top Rank
13.6.77 Bradford St.Georges Hall Replaced Leeds Town Hall or Polytechnic
14.5.77 Shrewsbury Tiifanys
15.6.77 Newcastle City Hall
16.5.77 Middlesborough Town Hall
17.6.:77 Doncaster Gaumont
18.6.77 Blackpool imperial Hotel (Cancelled) Replaced Cheltenham Town Hail
19.6.77 Liverpool Empire Replaced Blackburn King Georges Hall Replaced Nottingham playhouse
20.6.17 Staffard Top of the World
21.6.77 Stoke on Trent Victaria Halls
22.6.77 Glasgow City Hall
23.6.77 Cleethorpes Winter Gardens "The Battle Of Cleethorpes" - Replaced Bracknell Sports Centre
24.6.77 Brirtol Exhibition Centre (Cancelled) - Replaced Wolverhampton Lafayetter
25.6.77 St.Albans Civic Hall (Cancelled)
26.6.77 Roundhouse, London - Played 2 sets 4.00pm & 8.00pm
30.7.77 Double A Side - Something Better Change & Straighten Out single released - makes no. 9 in charts
August Rotterdam Festival, Stockholm, Sweden - Free Festival
27.8.77 Wilmot Youth Centre, Finchley, London - Special gig for Finchley Boys
2.9.77 Amsterdam Paradiso Club, Holland
??.9.77 Kilppan, Sweden

No More Heroes Tour

16.9.77 No More Heroes Album released
23.9.77 Cambridge, Corn Exchange
24.9.77 Bracknell Sports Centre, The Only Ones were support
24.9.77 No More Heroes Single released - makes no. 8 in charts
25.9.77 Canterbury Odeon
26.9.77 Oxford Polytechnic
27.9.77 Nowich St Andrews Hall
28.9.77 Ipswich Gaumont
29.9.77 Brunel Sports Centre
30.9.77 Crawley Sports Centre
1.10.77 Southend Kursaal
2.10.77 Dunstable Queensway
3.10.77 Leicester De Montford
4.10.77 Coventry Locarno
5.10.77 Carmarthen St Peters Hall
6.10.77 Malvern Winter Gardens
8.10.77 Bangor University
9.10.77 Plymouth Fiesta
10.10.77 Exeter University
12.10.77 Newcastle City Hall - Penetration support
13.10.77 Manchester Apollo ""Trust House Forte should concentrate on the food served up in their motorways cafes before they start worrying about punk"
14.10.77 Liverpool University - The Drones support
15.10.77 Leeds Queens Hall - The Drones and The Saints in support
16.10.77 Glasgow Apollo "A number of Glaswegian councillors attend
tonights gig to check on the group's behaviour.Hugh Cornwell has spotlights shone on them in the stalls and
dedicates 'Ugly' to them."......." Glasgow Councillor Bill Aitken, now a Conservative MSP, let them play at the Apollo providing he and his licensing committee could attend. They did, were booed by the crowd, but had a great night."
17.10.77 Carlisle The Market - Rezillos support
18.10.77 Sheffield Top Rank????
19.10.77 Sheffield Top Rank - The Drones & 2.3 support

20.10.77 Birmingham Mayfair Suite - Steel Pulse support "It's late autumn 1977, and the Stranglers are headlining a show in the Midlands. The support comes from the roots reggae band Steel Pulse. They know what to expect from a punk crowd: gobbing, cans being thrown. Steel Pulse are barely into their first number when a huge wad of phlegm shoots from the audience and lands on the hand of bassist Ron "Stepper" McQueen. The band's nickname for McQueen was "Psycho" and they fully expected him to live up to his name. "We all stared at Ronnie and we stopped playing," remembers Steel Pulse's singer, Mykaell Riley. "So there's this silence onstage, then eventually 4,000 punks went silent." McQueen didn't react, however. Instead, Stranglers bassist, Jean-Jacques Burnel, stepped out of the wings, waded into the crowd, identified the culprit, and knocked him out cold. Then he turned to face the crowd.

"He just went, 'You fucking wankers. You love reggae,'" laughs Riley."

21.10.77 Hanley Victoria Hall - Steel Pulse support
22.10.77 Bristol Exhibition Centre - Dictators support
23.10.77 Cardiff Top Rank "New York's Dictators join the Stranglers for the final part of their UK tour after being spotted by Hugh Cornwell on a promotional tour of the US earlier this year."
24.10.77 Swansea Top Rank The Dictators support
26.10.77 Brighton Top Rank The Dictators support
27.10.77 Bournemouth Village Bowl
28.10.77 Surrey University The Dictators support
29.10.77 Hastings Pier Pavillion The Dictators support
30.10.77 Reading Top Rank The Dictators support
31.10.77 Southampton Top Rank The Dictators support
2.11.77 London Roundhouse - The Dictators support all 5 Roundhouse gigs
3.11.77 London Roundhouse - The Dictators support
4.11.77 London Roundhouse
5.11.77 London Roundhouse - Dictators & Pop Group support
6.11.77 London Roundhouse - Bootlegged as 'London Ladies' and 'Rattus Brittanicus'
9.11.77 Belfast Ulster Hall - Radio Stars support BANNED at very short notice by the local council, who withdrew insurance cover.
10.11.77 Coleraine University of Ulster - Radio Stars support
11.11.77 Dublin Trinity College - Radio Stars support
12.11.77 Dublin The Stadium - CANCELLED ?
13.11.77 Cork City Hall - Radio Stars support
14.11.77 Dublin Trinity College - Radio Stars support
22.11.77 Hope & Anchor, Islington, London
26.11.77 Paradiso Club, Amsterdam, Holland
27.11.77 Paradiso Club, Amsterdam, Holland

December 77` - Work begins on the Stranglers next album (Black & White)

Notes:-

Also Hammersmith Odeon supporting Climax Blues Band

Nice account http://music.guardian.co.uk/urban/story/0,,2130399,00.html