[theraven1979]

JAPANESE TOUR

9.2.79 Tokyo, Japan, TV Gig
13.2.79 Fukuoka, Syonenbunka Kaikan
14.2.79 Osaka, MainichiHall
15.2.79 Kyoto, Seibukodo
16.2.79 Nagoya Nagoyashi Kokaido
17.2.79 Tokyo, Korakuen Hall
18.2.79 Tokyo, Korakuen Hall
19.2.79 Tokyo, Korakuen Hall
23.2.79 Live X-Cert Album Released

AUSTRALIAN TOUR

25.2.79 Sydney State Theatre
27.2.79 Brisbane Queens Hotel - "police violence" at this one
28.2.79 Collangatta The Patch
1.3.79 Brisbane Festival Hall
The Stranglers caused a riot in Brisbane on March 1, 1979. This was at the Queen's Hotel, long since buried under high rise, down near where the Riverside Centre is now.

This was the second night at the venue. The first night Jean-Jacques Burnel beaned local punk V2 on the head with his bass. At the next gig, as Cornwell came forward to sing for the first time, a beer glass sailed from down the back and caught him on the brow. He shrugged it off and kept playing, blood and all.

After about 10 songs of this the band trashed their gear and took off for their hotel. The mood inside turned nasty, or nastier, at which point . . . well, discretion the better part of valour and all that, so I missed the riot and the arrests.

Cornwell still remembers it well, he told me on the phone the other day.

"I thought it was getting incredibly hot and I was sweating, so I got a towel and wiped my brow thinking I'd see water and it was blood. But whenever you get a cut there it looks worse than it is."

4.3.79 Newcastle Civic Theatre
5.3.79 Canberra Theatre
10.3.79 Adelaide Apollo Stadium
13.3.79 Melbourne La Trobe Union Hall
14.3.79 Melbourne Dallas Brooks Hall


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JJ Burnel Solo Tour - EUROMAN COMETH

06.4.79 JJ`s Euroman Cometh solo album released
15.4.79 Glasgow Pavillion
16.4.79 Manchester Apollo
17.4.79 Liverpool Erics
18.4.79 Derby Assembly Rooms
20.4.79 Birmingham Digbeth Town Hall
21.4.79 Brighten Dome
22.4.79 Bristol Locarno
23.4.79 Canterbury Odeon
24.4.79 Portsmouth Locarno "this gig was cancelled due to poor ticket sales. I know, I had a ticket and it took me six months to get a refund."
25.4.79 Hemel Hempstead, Pavillion - Released on the 1992 Euroman CD Re-Issue
26.4.79 Newcastle Mayfair
27.4.79 Edinburgh Odeon
28.4.79 Bradford St.Georges Hall
29.4.79 Ilford Odeon
30.4.79 Theatre Royal Drury Lane - Cancelled
1.5.79 Hammersmith Odeon - Cancelled



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26.5.79 Loch Lomond Festival
17.8.79 Ellesmere F.C. Liverpool (Cancelled)
18.8.79 Duchess single released - makes no.14 in charts
18.8.79 Wembley Stadium - Support to The Who


THE RAVEN TOUR

21.9.79 The Raven album released
21.9.79 Taunton Odeon
22.9.79 Cambridge Corn Exchange
1.10.79 Arcadia Hall, Cork, Ireland
2.10.79 Arcadia Hall, Cork, Ireland
3.10.79 Dublin Chariot Inn
4.10.79 Belfast Ulster Hall
6.10.79 Bridlington Spa Pavilion
7.10.79 Glasgow Apollo
8.10.79 Carlisle Market Hall
10.10.79 Blackburn St.Georges Hall (Replaced Newcastle)
11.10.79 Derby Assembly Rooms
12.10.79 Lancaster University
13.10.79 Leeds University
14.10.79 Sheffield Top Rank
15.10.79 Birmingham Top Rank
18.10.79 Southampton Gaumont
19.10.79 Rainbow, London
20.10.79 Rainbow, London
20.10.79 Nuclear Device single released makes no.36 in charts
21.10.79 Leicester Granby Hall
22.10.79 Liverpool Romeo & Juliet
23.10.79 Portsmouth Locarno
25.10.79 Manchester Apollo
27.10.79 Coventry Theatre
28.10.79 Bristol Colston Hall
29.10.79 Oxford New Theatre
30.10.79 Brighton Centre
31.10.79 Cardiff Top Rank
1.11.79 London Rainbow



08.11.79 Brussells L'Ancienn Belgium
09.11.79 Brussells L'Ancienn Belgium
10.11.79 Le Paradiso Amsterdam
12.11.79 Paris Empire
13.11.79 Paris Empire
16.11.79 Hugh releases Nosferatu album
21.11.79 Metropol, Mittwoch

27.11.79 Hamburg, Musikhalle


JAPANESE TOUR

01.12.79 Don`t Bring Harry single released - makes no.41 in charts
10.12.79 Sapporo Ohyakaikan
11.12.79 Nagoya Kohkaido
12.12.79 Fukuoka Tsukushikaikan
13.12.79 Tokyo Korakuen
14.12.79 Osaka Mainichi Hall
15.12.79 Kyoto, Kyohoaiseibukohodo
16.12.79 Tokyo Korakuen