The Clash, Dancette at Poole Arts Centre – 27th July 1982

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12th May 2022 – Looking for info on this show, I discovered that the poster for the attached image sold for more than £1,600!

Another band played this show too but I don’t remember and can’t find any other information.

My mum would’ve taken Rupert and me down to this and picked us up afterwards. I wonder now, what she was doing during the time we were there. Did she go home or go and hang out somewhere? If it was me (now) I would’ve found something to do nearby although, admittedly, back then there wasn’t much else to do except go to the pub. I guess there’s not much else to do even now but people can keep themselves occupied fiddling with their phones whilst waiting. I’d take a book.

I don’t remember anything about this show. I just have a snapshot in my head of a blurry stage and Mick Jones on the left. I’m sure I enjoyed it though. Rupert and I would’ve been pogoing like mad punks were supposed to.

Altered Images, Vic Godard at Poole Arts Centre – 25th May 1982

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13th May 2022 – Like many other young teen boys, I was infatuated with Clare Grogan from Altered Images. She was just the cutest thing to me. But more than that was the band’s first single, ‘Dead Popstars’ and its b-side ‘Sentimental’ which, unfortunately, outshined all their forthcoming songs, though there were one or two cool tunes on their first album. After that, it all went a bit too commercial for my tastes.

At the time I had taken to wearing fingerless gloves which my mum would knit for me. I was still figuring out my punk fashion style but for sure would have dressed up as if to impress, so I thought. In a fit of joy, bopping around near the front of the crowd, I took off a glove and threw it on stage, where it brushed against the lovely Ms Grogan’s leg. I have an image in my mind of lots of detritus being on stage so perhaps others were throwing things too, which would seem a bit odd for a well-behaved crowd of teenyboppers in attendance.

Anyway, after the last song and many people heading for the exit, I lent over the barricade and asked the nearest bouncer to grab my glove back for me and so it was I held in my hand an object which had touched the gorgeous Clare Grogan’s leg, not to be washed for many weeks afterwards, until the smell became unbearable.

Friday night’s here, what’s the scene? – 29th January 1982

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Stiff Little Fingers
Flying Padovanis

Poole Arts Centre, Poole, Dorset

19th Oct 2021 – My very first concert. Mum dropped me and Rupert at the Arts Centre around 7pm and would come back around 10.30pm to pick us up again. There were people everywhere. This was still a time when entertainment was not at anyone’s fingertips and folks would save their money for events like this and make a night of it. We were rowdy 14-year-olds on what felt somewhat like unknown territory.

My only recollection of the Flying Padovani’s was a bald guy on stage. Their music passed me by like a familiar b-movie, anticipating the real deal.

Stiff Little Fingers had made a big impression on me back in 1980 with their ‘Nobody’s Heroes’ album and seeing them perform ‘At The Edge’ on Top of the Pops. Intelligent lyrics and rousing choruses, melodic guitars and galloping rhythms.

By 1982 they had already released their third album ‘Go For It’, another classic, and were touring around this new ‘Listen’ EP. Although the recording felt a lot more restrained than previously, they were still writing great songs and they translated perfectly for the live experience.

Our skinny bodies were adept at squeezing our way near the front and the hall was rammed with people. When SLF came on I learned something that many have noted since, that the floor at the Art Centre was sprung, or at least felt that way. Jammed side by side with other sweaty youthful punks and rockers, the whole front of the audience pogoed and bounced in rhythm with the songs. It was impossible to fall over, everyone was packed in so tight. It was so exhilarating.

I was rapt from start to finish and asked my mum to buy me an SLF silk scarf which I still have.

*1981’s Top 28 or so – 30th December 1981

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B-Movie – Remembrance Day
The Jam – Going Underground
Angelic Upstarts – We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
The Professionals – Just Another Dream
Clash – Clash City Rockers
Sex Pistols – No One Is Innocent
UK Subs – Keep On Running
Exploited – Dogs of War
UK Subs – CID
The Members – Solitary Confinement
Generation X – King Rocker
Bow Wow Wow – C30 C60 C90 GO!
UK Subs – Tomorrow’s Girls
The Damned – Dr Jykell and Mr Hyde
The Mutants – Hard Time
Tenpole Tudor – Who Killed Bambi?
The Members – Sound of the Suburbs
Stiff Little Fingers – Sound of the Suburbs
Undertones – My Perfect Cousin
The Professionals – 1-2-3
Cockney Rejects – Here We Go Again
The Damned – Wait For The Blackout
Tenpole Tudor – Rock Around The Clock
Stiff Little Fingers – Johnny Was
The Damned – Curtain Call
Sex Pistols – Black Leather
Stiff Little Fingers – Just Fade Away
Tenpole Tudor – Swords of a Thousand Men

3rd Feb 2023 – This list is from the back of my diary and on the page following is a revision, top 25 only, though it looks like I planned more. That list added Stiff Little Fingers – Picadilly Circus, Adam and the Ants – Stand and Deliver, Stiff Little Fingers – Silver Lining and Clash – Magnificent Seven.

*The Week and rest of the year that might have been – 3rd August 1981

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Single of the week: Skodas – Everybody Thinks Everyone Else Is Dead Bad

3rd August 1981
Graeme’s coming
Going to Bournemouth

3rd Feb 2023 – And here ends any entries for the rest of the year. Maybe the school holidays got too exciting to document. It’s a shame I didn’t get back to writing after the holidays as this was when I went to my first year of high school at Queen Elizabeth’s. Things became both more traumatic and more fun, as may be expected for any 13-year-old.

*The Week That Was – 27th July 1981

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Single of the week: Channel 3 – I’ve Got a Gun, London PX – Orders, 4 Skins – One Law For Them

27th July 1981
Ist Day off
Bored

28th July 1981
Went to town
Bored
same as friends

29th July 1981
Guess who got married

30th July 1981
Damned album
but

31st July 1981
caught smoking yesterday

1st August 1981
Great Rock N Roll Swindle
In A Rut
3 quid (illegible)

2nd August 1981
(no entry)

This week’s chart-topper is: Shakin’ Stevens – Green Door

*The Week That Was – 20th July 1981

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Single of the week: Oi – The EP, Flux of Pink Indians – Neu Smell

20th July 1981
Paul Cook eh!
(Paul Cook born 1956)

21st July 1981
Boring
I think

22nd July 1981
Guts for sale
Tennis
Understand this

23rd July 1981
It’s Friday and I still can’t fuckin’ remember what happened today

24th July 1981
Finish school
Got a pack and swapped it (illegible)
Playing cards all-day
Got me ears pierced

25th July 1981
beat Matthew at tennis
7-8, 6-2, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3

26th July 1981
WHY WHY WHY BUT WHY
DISCHARGE

This week’s chart-topper is: The Specials – Ghost Town

*The Week That Was – 13th July 1981

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Single of the week: 999 – Lil Red Riding Hood, Siouxsie and the Banshees – Arabian Nights

13th July 1981
This is now Tuesday
I got some leather

14th July 1981
Malcolm Owen 1980 overdose
For Malcolm – Shine On
Athletics again – go to Lychett and Sandford

15th July 1981
1 week to the shit

16th July 1981
Ain’t it boring

17th July 1981
1 week til the end

18th July 1981
Oi – The Album

19th July 1981
Today was (not) really interesting

This week’s chart-topper is: The Specials – Ghost Town

*The Week That Was – 6th July 1981

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Single of the week: Bauhaus – Passion of Lovers, Modettes – Tonight

6th July 1981
A good day
Something happened but I can’t remember (July 10)

7th July 1981
Same as yesterday

8th July 1981
East Dorset
1st, 1st and 3rd
Fuckin hot

9th July 1981
Started raining
Fuckin hot and wet

10th July 1981
APOCALYPSE NOW
in Sounds

2nd Feb 2023 – This would have been about the Apocalypse Now tour with Exploited, Discharge, Anti Nowhere League and Chron Gen and not connected with the movie of the same name.

11th July 1981
Strength Thru Oi
Seb Coe breaks another record. YAWN

12th July 1981
Made a tape
Well, half a tape

13th July 1981
This week’s chart-topper is: The Specials – Ghost Town