[theraven1979]

4.2.78 5 Minutes single released - makes no. 11 in charts
06.2.78 Scarborough Penthouse
08.2.78 Clouds Disco, Edinburgh
Feb/March Boston Rat Club
New York
Schamburg Beginnings Club
Chicago Phoenix Club
Milwaukee
Old Waldorf, San Francisco, Ca
21.3.78 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - Act One Club
28.3.78 Privates, New York
3.4.78 Cleveland Agora Ballroom, Ohio
4.4.78 Schaumburg, Illinois, USA - Beginners Club
05.04.78 Chicago, Illinois, USA - Phoenix Club
06.4.78 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
7.4.78 Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
8.4.78 Longhorn Bar, Minneapolis - The Tuff Darts and Falmingo support
9.4.78 Stone Hearth, N.Park Madison City
10.4.78 Dooly's Tavern ,East Lansing,Michigan
11.4.78 East Lansing, Michigan, USA - Dooley's
12.4.78 Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
14.4.78 Toronto Horseshoe Tavern, Canada
15.4.78 High School of Commerce - Ottawa
3.5.78 Reyjavik Exhibition Hail, Iceland
5.5.78 Oslo Club 4, Norway
6.5.78 Nice `N` Sleazy single released makes no. 18 in charts
7.5.78 Orebro, Sweden
12.5.78 Black & White album released
19.5.78 Madrid, Spain

BLACK AND WHITE TOUR

20.5.78 Brighton Centre
26.5.78 Glasgow Apollo
27.5.78 Edinburgh
28.5.78 Glasgow
30.5.78 Stafford Bingley Hall
7.6.78 Leeds University - In aid of Prisoners Rights Assoc.

12.6.78 Paris, France (Le Stadium?)
13.6.78 L'Ancienne Belgique, Brussells, Belgium
19.6.78 Hannover, Germany 20.6.78 Cologne, Germany
22.6.78 Erlangen, Germany,
23.6.78 Munich, Germany
"The Stranglers in 1978 on the Rattus tour in Hamburg, Germany. They were brilliant. It may still be the loudest gig I have ever seen, including the utterly deafening Motorhead the following year. " Mick Barnard (u2 tribute band)



16.7.78 The Canary Islands
12.8.78 Walk On By single released makes no. 21 in charts
August Clouds, Edinburgh Festival

PUBS & CLUBS TOUR

2.9.78 Hammersmith Red Cow - Billed as The Shakespearos
3 9.78 The Nashville, London - Billed as The Old Codgers
Barnet Duke of Lancaster
7.9.78 Belfast Ulster Hall
8.9.78 Portrush Arcadia Ballroom - Undertones support
9.9.78 Dublin Top Hat "U2 support The Stranglers at the Top Hat Ballroom, playing to 2,500 people" "In Dublin, a young U2 supported The Stranglers at the Top Hat Ballroom. The Stranglers and their entourage took up two dressing rooms, which left Bono and company to dress behind the speakers."
11.9.78 Lancaster University
12.9.78 Dunfermline Kinema (Cancelled)
13.9.78 Aberdeen Ruffles (Cancelled) - Both cancelled due to problems with Dave's keyboards
16.9.78 Battersea Park London
17.9.78 Cardiff Top Rank
18.9.78 Peterborough Wirrina Stadium
19.9.78 Lincoln Drill Hall
20.9.78 Sheffield Top Rank
21.9.78 Great Yarmouth Tiffanys

24.9.78 Portsmouth Locarno
25.9.78 Exeter Routes
26.9.78 Bournemouth Village Bowl
27.9.78 Bath Pavillion
28.9.78 Manchester Apollo

29.9.78 Bridlington Spa Pavillion
30.9.78 Glasgow Apollo
2.10.78 Aberdeen Ruffles
3.10.78 Dunfenline Kinema
6.10.78 Bataclan, Paris
19.10.78 - Guildford Uni - "Rock Goes to College" incident!