This comprehensive gig list was kept by Richard Wyatt. He attended the most amazing amount of gigs during the period 1978-1985.
Cataloguing. A boy’s thing, I know. But keeping a note of which bands I’d seen, where, and how much each gig cost to get into, seemed a kind of natural thing for me to do in summer 1978 when I started going to gigs, a teenager living in Bishopsworth, south Bristol.
Nowadays this obsessive behaviour might attract medical intervention, or at least be called a ‘condition’ and allocated a long name and a swathe of learned articles in medical journals. Come to think of it, maybe it would have back then… if only I’d told anyone I was doing it. I didn’t.
Alone in my room I began a furtive habit that would see me keeping sheets of lined A4 paper, probably intended for geography homework handed down by Bedminster Down Comprehensive’s finest pedagogues, instead becoming the subject of a finely detailed and now-precious chronicle of Bristol’s brilliant music heritage.
Weird, I know. But I’m so glad I did it, because these six simple double sided sheets now give the sort of insight into a teenage music fanatic’s life in Bristol from 1978 to 1985 that many shared but few recorded. Well, not so much ‘few’, as none, I reckon.
My brother, three years older than me and a veteran of the weekly £1.50 Sunday punk nights at Bristol Locarno, had taken me under his wing soon after I hit 15, letting me join him when decent post-punk bands came to town. The fact he had a car meant we were free to travel away from Bristol for live music too. These were days when a band’s national tour was truly a tour. No European dates back then, so 50 or 60 British venues, pretty much night after night. It meant the opportunity to see the same band not only in Bristol, but also follow them when they visited Bath, Newport, Cardiff and Malvern.
A school pal or two, also avid music buffs, would sometimes come along too, and so a culture of gig-going pretty much night-after-night for six or seven years was begun. My brother’s interests went in different directions so after a few months of my christening I was a regular at Bristol gigs. Sometimes I went with mates. Sometimes I’d go and I’d stand on my own.
Things that should really have got in the way of my music fandom found themselves edged out. I’d done okay in my O levels but didn’t hit the dizzy heights my teachers thought I should. Then when it came to sixth form and A levels, well, the notion of ‘independent evening study’ that formed a centrepiece of the academic high flyer’s lifestyle never really troubled mine. Three A level subjects eventually became two as maths went by the wayside. I scraped through the two. Did I blame music for my under-achievement? No. But perhaps looking back I should have. Did the teachers blame the music? Well, no, but maybe had those gig lists not been quite so secret they’d have started asking questions.
I left sixth form in 1981, going straight into work. Living at home and earning what felt like a decent wage at WD & HO Wills on a business apprenticeship scheme meant there was cash for my passion. Just as well, really. Take a look at the prices of gigs those days and it looks dead cheap (£2.50 for Colston Hall ticket, 80p for The Green Room), but it mounted up, especially when you drank when you were there. And of course the money was stretched further when you spent Saturdays acquiring vinyl treasures in Revolver Records on The Triangle, Rival in Bedminster, or HMV and Virgin in Broadmead.
Highlights from big-name and emerging bands on their local tour dates are too many to list in full, but who amongst those who were there could forget The Ruts at Romeo and Juliet’s, The Smiths at the University Anson Rooms, U2 at The Berkeley, or The Comsat Angels and The Sound at Bath Tiffany’s?
Then there was an unforgettable night at The Locarno when Joy Division had meant to be supporting The Rezillos. They’d travelled down from Manchester but The Rezillos split up that day and somehow Joy Division got removed from a bill which mysteriously would contain the then-unknown Undertones, Chelsea and John Otway. A someone who now dotes on New Order I probably should regret the late switch. But this triple-header turned out to be one of the best gigs I’ve ever been to. Ever. And Feargal Sharkey signed my t-shirt. Think I’ve still got it. Don’t think it still fits.
But the majority of my nightly outings weren’t major gigs - rather ones at smaller venues, mainly watching Bristol bands who I came to love - the likes of Essential Bop, Vitus Dance, Apartment, Art Objects & The Blue Aeroplanes, X-Certs, TVIs, Sneak Preview, Out of Order (who became Thin Air) and Dancing Teeth.
And Mind Tunnel, good friends who asked me to ‘manage’ them … in other words get them gigs, generally promote them, and cart their bloody heavy drums around in my Datsun 100A. It was a privilege, an honour, hard work and great fun, and some time down the line Thin Air came asking me to do the same with them.
You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone, and some of those Bristol venues – all now long gone - were paradise to me. The Stonehouse, a room behind The Bunch of Grapes pub that usually cost 50p to get into, run by the indomitable Madge, who let you hire the place for a crisp five pound note. When they knocked it down they put up, well, not a parking lot, but a massive glass office block called Spectrum which itself is now long gone, so maybe there is some justice after all.
The hire-cost of the Green Room, King Street, run by Les and Rich, was, ahem, a little more fluid than that of The Stonehouse, but it was a fantastic small venue. Then there was The Plume of Feathers pub in Hotwells, where bands somehow set up in the corner at the end of the bar, right next to the Gents, meaning several times each set there were awkward avoidance manoeuvres for bassist and would-be bladder evacuee.
The Bristol Bridge Inn was a gem, as was The Berkeley, a room above what’s now a Wetherspoon’s at the top of Park Street – and was at the time a Carwardine’s Coffee House. It hosted very refined tea dances on Sunday afternoons, and noisy gigs a couple of nights a week. I say they’ve all closed now, but that’s not true: Trinity Hall still hosts gigs and it existed back then. It was cavernous and bloody freezing most of the time. My most recent experience there tells me it still is.
My ambitions stretched to trying to get Mind Tunnel gigs further afield. We found gigs in places like Stroud, Bath and Weston-super-mare, where Birnbeck Pier hosted the band the night after guitarist Simon had smashed his leg in a motorcycle accident, and performed seated with plastered-leg aloft. I understand Dave Grohl did his best to emulate him years later.
In comic-and-badge shop Forever People half way up Park Street you used to be able to buy a Somerset-based fanzine called Sheep Worrying. I got involved with the arts enthusiasts from Bridgwater who ran the fanzine. They were keen to set up a scheme whereby their local bands could play support gigs in Bristol, with a reciprocal arrangement for city-based musicians to entertain the good folk of the Somerset Levels. I was asked to be the Bristol link, writing reviews for the fanzine, arranging gigs here and generally stretching my metaphorical gig-going legs still further to Bridgwater and Glastonbury village halls. Oh, the glamour.
There were Battle of the Band nights at The Granary, Sunday evenings in pubs watching bands unknown-to-me simply to stave off the horror of a Monday morning return to work, and the occasional trip to London to see up-and-coming bands perform in venues that had previously only existed to me as places from reviews in Sounds and NME. The Marquee, Hammersmith Palais, The Fulham Greyhound and others now became real, though I still contend none of them beat The Stonehouse.
Nowadays I look at these gig lists and wonder many things. Why did I keep these bits of paper all these years? Why did I go every night? Why spend so much money? What did I miss out on as a result? But the biggest question to myself might just be ‘Why did I stop writing them down?’ Was it because in 1985 I stopped going? I don’t think so, because I know that, despite going off to study a teaching degree, I still saw bands - albeit not as frequently. I can’t remember the details because, errrm, well, I stopped writing them down.
Perhaps I came to feel that boyhood-style cataloguing was ill-becoming of an undergraduate in a College of Higher Education. If only I’d then been able to see what a valuable academic historical artefact I’d created.
Thirty years on I’m still living in south Bristol, working here too. As my family grew, I started to rediscover the gig-going habit in recent years. I don’t go every night – far from it. And so I don’t spend much on tickets these days.
Ask me who I’ve been to see in the past year or two and I’ll happily reel the names and venues off. Is that because I’ve resumed my cataloguing habit? Well, no, just memory, actually. For now at least.
Richard Wyatt (May 2016)
The Gig List
| Date | Bands | Venue | Cost |
| 28/06/78 | Young Ones, Boomtown Rats | Colston Hall | £2.50 |
| 14/07/78 | Zones, Magazine | Colston Hall | £1.50 |
| 20/09/78 | 10CC | Colston Hall | £4.00 |
| 22/09/78 | Stiff Little Fingers, Tom Robinson Band | Colston Hall | £2.50 |
| 27/09/78 | Skids, Stranglers | Bath Pavillion | £2.50 |
| 19/10/78 | Buzzcocks | Malvern Winter Gardens | £2.00 |
| 30/10/78 | Subway Sect, Buzzcocks | Colston Hall | £2.50 |
| 13/11/78 | Blazer Blazer, AC/DC | Colston Hall | £1.80 |
| 19/11/78 | Undertones, John Otway, Chelsea | Locarno | £1.25 |
| 28/01/79 | John Cooper Clarke,Richard Hell and The Voidoids,Elvis Costello & The Attractions | Locarno | £2.50 |
| 22/02/79 | The Members, Eddie & The Hot Rods | Bath University | £2.20 |
| 04/03/79 | Robert Rental & The Normal,Essential Logic, Stiff Little Fingers | Locarno | £1.50 |
| 22/03/79 | The Pretenders | Bristol Poly | £0.90 |
| 28/05/79 | The Chords, The Undertones | Locarno | £2.00 |
| 29/05/79 | Starjets, Stiff Little Fingers | Colston Hall | £2.50 |
| 17/06/79 | Ruts, The Damned | Locarno | £2.00 |
| 30/06/79 | Essential Bop | Ashton Court | Free |
| 01/07/79 | X-Certs, Europeans, (Steps, Spoons, Shoes for Industry | Ashton Court | Free |
| 01/08/79 | Interview, Pretenders | Newport Stowaway | £1.50 |
| 06/09/79 | TVI's | Crown Cellar | £0.50 |
| 11/09/79 | Spics, Starjets | Granary | £1.00 |
| 18/09/79 | Viva, Yachts, XTC | Colston Hall | £1.75 |
| 30/09/79 | The Photos, The Undertones | Locarno | £2.00 |
| 07/10/79 | Donkeys, Stiff Little Fingers | Locarno | £2.50 |
| 08/10/79 | Flys, Ruts | Romeo & Juliets | £1.75 |
| 11/10/79 | Revelation Rockers, Spics | Tiffanys | £1.25 |
| 19/10/79 | Stingrays, Apartment, Double Vision, Private Dicks, Essential Bop | Hope Chapel | £1.00 |
| 21/10/79 | The Meteors, Jane Eyre & The Belvederes, Lene Lovich | Locarno | £2.50 |
| 23/10/79 | Gas Taps, Spics | Granary | £1.00 |
| 25/10/79 | Apartment, Sneak Preview,Private Dicks | Tiffanys | £1.00 |
| 27/10/79 | Vitus Dance | Crown Cellar | £0.50 |
| 04/11/79 | Joy Division, Buzzcocks | Colston Hall | £2.00 |
| 07/11/79 | Under Fives, Vitus Dance | Stonehouse | £0.50 |
| 13/11/79 | Vitus Dance | Stonehouse | £0.50 |
| 21/11/79 | Vitus Dance, Generation X | Granary | £2.00 |
| 15/12/79 | The EF Band | Granary | £1.50 |
| 30/01/80 | Zyklon B | Chestnut | £0.75 |
| 07/02/80 | Boys, Ramones | Colston Hall | £3.50 |
| 13/02/80 | Zyklon B | Chestnut | £0.95 |
| 16/02/80 | Zyklon B | Chestnut | £0.95 |
| 29/02/80 | Amaziah | Redland Church Hall | £0.60 |
| 05/03/80 | Zyklon B | Chestnut | £0.75 |
| 08/03/80 | Sound to Light, Mayfair, Siren | Stonehouse | £1.00 |
| 10/03/80 | Another Pretty Face, Stiff Little Fingers | Colston Hall | £3.00 |
| 12/03/80 | Zyklon B | Chestnut | £0.75 |
| 15/03/80 | Zyklon B | Chestnut | £0.75 |
| 19/03/80 | Zyklon B | Chestnut | £0.75 |
| 29/03/80 | Mayfair, X-Certs | Hope Chapel | £0.80 |
| 26/04/80 | Zyklon B | Chestnut | £0.75 |
| 27/04/80 | Moondogs, Undertones | Bournemouth Winter Gardens | £2.75 |
| 10/05/80 | TVI's, Apartment | Stonehouse | £1.00 |
| 16/05/80 | Dolly Mixture, Moondogs, Undertones | Bath Pavillion | £2.25 |
| 17/05/80 | Dolly Mixture, Moondogs, Undertones | Malvern Winter Gardens | £3.00 |
| 18/05/80 | Dolly Mixture, Moondogs, Undertones | Cardiff Top Rank | £2.25 |
| 31/05/80 | Sneak Preview | Green Room Club | £1.20 |
| 01/06/80 | TVI's | Plume of Feathers | n/k |
| 09/06/80 | One on One, Toyah | Locarno | £2.25 |
| 24/06/80 | Otway and Barrett | Trinity Hall | n/k |
| 28/06/80 | Off Balance, Fans, X-Certs, Sneak Preview | Ashton Court | Free |
| 29/06/80 | Negative Earth, Zyklon B , TVI's, Shoes for Industry | Ashton Court | Free |
| 15/07/80 | Screen Gems, The Fans, | Rainbow | 0.85 |
| 26/07/80 | Weapon of Peace, Stiff Little Fingers | Bath Pavillion | n/k |
| 29/07/80 | Circus Circus, Electric Guitars | Rainbow | 0.85 |
| 13/08/80 | X-Certs | Stonehouse | £0.90 |
| 19/08/80 | Points, Juan Foote 'n' The Grave | Rainbow | £0.85 |
| 20/08/80 | The Untouchables | Green Room | £0.60 |
| 30/08/80 | Amaziah | Salt Cellar | £1.00 |
| 02/09/80 | X-Certs, Protex | Rainbow | £1.25 |
| 05/09/80 | The Untouchables, Various Artists, Electric Guitars | Berkeley | £0.75 |
| 09/09/80 | Misdemeanour, U2 | Rainbow | £1.25 |
| 14/09/80 | Swinging Cats, Specials | Locarno | £2.00 |
| 16/09/80 | TVI's, Shoes for Industry | Rainbow | £1.00 |
| 23/09/80 | The Toys, Split Enz | Berkeley | £1.75 |
| 28/09/80 | Zyklon B, Demob, Vice Squad | Trinity Hall | n/k |
| 29/09/80 | Utility Stops, Misdemeanour | Stonehouse | £0.50 |
| 30/09/80 | The Sound, Echo & The Bunnymen | Berkeley | £2.00 |
| 02/10/80 | The Piranhas | Bristol Poly | £1.80 |
| 14/10/80 | Virus, Zyklon B | Stonehouse | n/k |
| 22/10/80 | The Toys, Nine Below Zero | Berkeley | £1.50 |
| 28/10/80 | Stingrays | Stonehouse | £0.75 |
| 01/11/80 | Utility Stops, Misdemeanour | Green Room Club | £1.20 |
| 03/11/80 | The Fatal Charm, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Colston Hall | £2.00 |
| 06/11/80 | Stingrays, X -Certs , Electric Guitars | Tiffanys | £1.50 |
| 13/11/80 | The Untouchables | Granary | £1.00 |
| 14/11/80 | Flash Harry, Misdemeanour, Points, Voice of Nature | Berkeley | £0.50 |
| 15/11/80 | Midnight & The Lemon Boys, U2 | Bristol Poly | £1.50 |
| 17/11/80 | X-Certs, Sneak Preview | Berkeley | £1.00 |
| 20/11/80 | Lozenges, The Moondogs | Bristol Poly | £1.50 |
| 14/12/80 | Modern Man, XTC | Locarno | £3.00 |
| 10/02/81 | Richmond, Zyklon B, React | Stonehouse | £0.50 |
| 11/02/81 | The Amateurs | Green Room | £1.00 |
| 18/02/81 | TV21, The Moondogs | Berkeley | £2.25 |
| 19/02/81 | Mind Tunnel, Out of Order, React | Stonehouse | £0.50 |
| 27/02/81 | Fish Food, TVI's | Trinity Hall | £1.25 |
| 03/03/81 | Mind Tunnel | Stonehouse | n/k |
| 04/03/81 | Out of Order, Sky High | Granary | £1.00 |
| 10/03/81 | Out of Order, The Options | Stonehouse | n/k |
| 13/03/81 | Undertones, Revillos | Bristol Uni | £7.00 |
| 23/03/81 | Out of Order, Virus, Mind Tunnel | Stonehouse | n/k |
| 28/03/81 | Robert Lawrence, React, Out of Order, Baleeshas | Trinity Hall | £1.00 |
| 06/04/81 | Motörhead | Granary | £3.00 |
| 23/04/81 | Out of Order, Mind Tunnel | Green Room | n/k |
| 27/04/81 | Blue Orchids, Echo & The Bunnymen | Colston Hall | £2.50 |
| 02/05/1981 | The Cure | Colston Hall | £3.00 |
| 03/05/81 | Mood Elevators, Au Pairs, The Beat | Locarno | £3.50 |
| 14/05/81 | The System, Squashed Piranha | Stonehouse | £1.00 |
| 16/05/81 | Orgasm, Grief, Desperate Hours, Mind Tunnel | Bridgwater A.C | n/k |
| 25/05/81 | Voice of Nature, Theatre of Hate | Granary | £2.50 |
| 27/05/81 | React, Essential Bop | Green Room | £1.00 |
| 01/06/81 | Essential Bop, Altered Images | Granary | £2.50 |
| 05/06/81 | Court Martial, Mind Tunnel | Bear | n/k |
| 10/06/81 | Dolly Mixture, The Undertones | Bath Pavillion | £3.50 |
| 13/06/81 | Exploding Seagulls, Essential Bop, Art Objects | Churchill Hall | £1.00 |
| 14/06/81 | The Tropics | Plume of Feathers | n/k |
| 15/06/81 | Dancing Teeth, Thin Air | Stonehouse | £0.99 |
| 17/06/81 | Dolly Mixture, The Undertones | Cardiff Top Rank | £3.00 |
| 18/06/81 | Dolly Mixture, The Undertones | Colston Hall | £3.25 |
| 20/06/81 | Delmontes, Teardrop Explodes | Colston Hall | £3.50 |
| 27/06/81 | The Controls | Chutes | £1.25 |
| 29/06/81 | Mind Tunnel, Demented Stoats | Roxpot, Bath | n/k |
| 30/06/81 | Various Artists | Chutes | £1.00 |
| 04/07/81 | Mind Tunnel | Chutes | n/k |
| 07/07/81 | Streets Ahead, The Controls, Terraplanes, The Review, Nightwatch, Mr Sprat's 21st Century M??? | Granary | £0.50 |
| 09/07/81 | Thin Air, Noiz Boiz | Stonehouse | n/k |
| 11/07/81 | Uncle Fred's Lucky Tandem, Victory Boogie Woogie, Noiz Boiz, Shiva, | Bridgwater A.C | n/k |
| 14/07/81 | Hep Cats, Mind Tunnel, Rimshots, Beat Treatment, Emotion Picture, Camden Cruisers | Granary | n/k |
| 18/07/81 | The Controls | Green Room | £1.00 |
| 27/07/81 | Juice, Essential Bop | Roxpot, Bath | £1.20 |
| ?/07/81 | SOS, The Options, Mind Tunnel, The Review | Granary | n/k |
| 01/08/81 | The Tropics | Green Room | £1.00 |
| 02/08/81 | Misdemeanour | Plume of Feathers | n/k |
| 03/08/81 | Stage, Misdemeanour | Roxpot, Bath | £1.00 |
| 08/08/81 | Mind Tunnel, Black Roots | St James Theatre Bath | n/k |
| 17/08/81 | Neon Downwards, Intensified Chaos | Stonehouse | n/k |
| 22/08/81 | Bop Street, The Untouchables | Green Room | £1.20 |
| 26/08/81 | The Untouchables | Pumphouse | n/k |
| 28/08/81 | Atilla the Stockbroker, Patrick Fitzgerald | Roxpot, Bath | £1.50 |
| 04/09/81 | Riz Wah Wah, Dangerous Brothers, The Bite | B.A.C | £1.00 |
| 10/09/81 | The Voice of Nature | Green Room | £1.00 |
| 11/09/81 | Over The Edge | Wheatsheaf | £0.50 |
| 12/09/81 | Red Radio | Wheatsheaf | £0.50 |
| 12/09/81 | Streets Ahead | Green Room | £1.20 |
| 14/09/81 | Author Unknown, Dancing Teeth, Neon Downloads, Mind Tunnel | Stonehouse | n/k |
| 17/09/81 | Hybrids | Chutes | £1.00 |
| 21/09/81 | Mind Tunnel, The Ultimate Dance | Roxpot, Bath | n/k |
| 22/09/81 | Thin Air | Chutes | £1.00 |
| 24/09/81 | Rhythm Puppets, Thin Air | Green Room | £1.00 |
| 27/09/81 | The Sound, Comsat Angels | Bath Tiffanys | £2.50 |
| 29/09/81 | Voice of Nature, Mind Tunnel | Barge, Semington | |
| 03/10/81 | Over The Edge | Wheatsheaf | £0.50 |
| 03/10/81 | The Controls | Green Room | £1.20 |
| 06/10/81 | Boys Will Be Boys, The Passions | Bath Tiffanys | £2.25 |
| 09/10/81 | Bad Detectives, Red Factory, Mind Tunnel | B A C | n/k |
| 10/10/81 | Thin Air, The Controls | Bristol Bridge Inn | £0.50 |
| 13/10/81 | Hybrids, Thin Air, Over The Edge | Granary | £1.00 |
| 14/10/81 | Comsat Angels, U2 | Cardiff Top Rank | £3.00 |
| 15/10/81 | Dancing Teeth, Thin Air | Green Room | £1.00 |
| 16/10/81 | Mind Tunnel, Over The Edge, Red Radio, Recorded Delivery | Trinity Hall | n/k |
| 17/10/81 | Mind Tunnel | Epicurean Bar | n/k |
| 18/10/81 | Comsat Angels, U2 | Locarno | £3.00 |
| 22/10/81 | Glass Life | Stonehouse | £0.50 |
| 23/10/81 | Escape | Trinity Hall | £1.50 |
| 24/10/81 | Thin Air | Epicurean Bar | n/k |
| 29/10/81 | Mind Tunnel, Red Radio | Green Room | n/k |
| 30/10/81 | Garbage, Mind Tunnel, The Untouchables | Street | n/k |
| 31/10/81 | Lucan, Sneak Preview | Green Room | £1.00 |
| 03/11/81 | Talisman, Bauhaus | Locarno | £3.50 |
| 05/11/81 | East 42nd Street, | Green Room | £0.80 |
| 06/11/81 | Red Factory, Mind Tunnel | Weston Poly | £7.00 |
| 07/11/81 | Glass Life, Misdemeanour | Green Room | £1.00 |
| 10/11/81 | Inflammable, Mushroom, Dancing Teeth | Stonehouse | n/k |
| 12/11/81 | Mind Tunnel, Thin Air | Green Room | n/k |
| 14/11/81 | Mind Tunnel, Noiz Boiz | Weston Pier | n/k |
| 19/11/81 | Milan Models | Green Room | £0.80 |
| 24/11/81 | Mind Tunnel, Thin Air | St Mathias | n/k |
| 25/11/81 | Escape, Delta 5 | Trinity Hall | £2.00 |
| 26/11/81 | Another Unknown, Glass Life, Mind Tunnel | Stonehouse | n/k |
| 01/12/81 | Club Waiters,Hybrids | Stonehouse | £0.50 |
| 05/12/81 | Mind Tunnel, Ten Pole Tudor | Stroud Leisure Centre | n/k |
| 06/12/81 | The Bureau, Roddy Radiation and The Tearjerkers, Modettes | Trinity Hall | £2.00 |
| 08/12/81 | Lozenges, Heebeegeebees, Electric Guitars | St Mathias | £2.00 |
| 10/12/81 | Thin Air, Gross Club | Green Room | £0.80 |
| 12/12/81 | Another Unknown, Rye & The Quarterboys | Green Room | £1.00 |
| 17/12/81 | Mind Tunnel, Thin Air | Green Room | n/k |
| 22/12/81 | Voice of Nature (Xmas Party) | Ace of Clubs | n/k |
| 23/12/81 | Jon Kelly etc, The Builders | Trinity Hall | £2.00 |
| 02/01/82 | Controls | Green Room | £1.00 |
| 07/01/82 | Neon Downwards, Another Unknown, Special Guests | Stonehouse | n/k |
| 28/01/82 | Ravishing Beauties,Teardrop Explodes | Colston Hall | £3.50 |
| 01/02/82 | Boys in Darkness, The Stranglers | Locarno | £3.50 |
| 04/02/82 | Club Waiters, Mind Tunnel | Green Room | n/k |
| 06/02/82 | Floating Mozarts, Confined Spaces, 57 Man Overboard, Pure Motivation, | BAC | £1.00 |
| 08/02/82 | Panicking Grannies, Another Unknown, Dancing Teeth | Stonehouse | n/k |
| 13/02/82 | Sneak Preview | Green Room | £1.00 |
| 16/02/82 | Dancing Teeth, Another Unknown | Green Room | n/k |
| 18/02/82 | Dancing Teeth, Mystery Guests | Green Room | £0.80 |
| 19/02/82 | Dancing Teeth, Sneak Preview | Bristol Bridge Inn | £1.00 |
| 26/02/82 | The Wake, New Order | Trinity Hall | £2.50 |
| 28/02/82 | Mr Spratts, John Cooper-Clarke | Bath Tiffanys | £2.50 |
| 02/03/82 | Panicking Grannies | Stonehouse | £0.50 |
| 06/03/82 | Manslaughter, Squashed Piranha, Mind Tunnel | West Penard | n/k |
| 08/03/82 | Meteors, Theatre of Hate | Locarno | £3.00 |
| 11/03/82 | Dancing Teeth, Thin Air | Green Room | £0.80 |
| 13/03/82 | Cold | Trinity Hall | £1.00 |
| 18/03/82 | Dancing Teeth, Another Unknown | Green Room | n/k |
| 19/03/82 | Dancing Teeth, Sneak Preview | Bristol Bridge Inn | £1.00 |
| 20/03/82 | Another Unknown, Rye & The Quarterboys | Green Room | £1.00 |
| 23/03/82 | Another Unknown, Dancing Teeth | Green Room | £0.80 |
| 26/03/82 | Mind Tunnel, Lunatic Fringe, The Escape | Trinity Hall | n/k |
| 27/03/82 | The Controls | Green Room | £1.00 |
| 03/04/82 | Another Unknown, Misdemeanour | Green Room | £1.00 |
| 08/04/82 | Bop Street | Green Room | £0.80 |
| 10/04/82 | Pure Motivation | Bristol Bridge Inn | £1.00 |
| 10/04/82 | Wild Beasts | Green Room | £1.00 |
| 11/04/82 | King Trigger, Thompson Twins | Trinity Hall | £2.00 |
| 15/04/82 | Builders | Green Room | £1.00 |
| 16/04/82 | Scream and Dance, The Higsons | Trinity Hall | £1.00 |
| 17/04/82 | Bop Street, The Untouchables | Green Room | £1.00 |
| 18/04/82 | Cardiac Caress | Bristol Bridge Inn | n/k |
| 19/04/82 | Club Whoopee, Quazor, Headless Horsemen | Stonehouse | £0.70 |
| 20/04/82 | The Cure | Colston Hall | £3.50 |
| 23/04/82 | Unconditional Love | Bristol Bridge Inn | n/k |
| 24/04/82 | Dancing Teeth, Club Whoopee, Quazor, Headless Horsemen | BAC | £0.80 |
| 28/04/82 | Camden Cruisers | Bristol Bridge Inn | n/k |
| 29/04/82 | Another Unknown, Thin Air | Green Room | n/k |
| 01/05/82 | Harry and Hilary, Electric Guitars | Trinity Hall | £1.50 |
| 04/05/82 | The Escape, Crown of Thorns | Bath Tiffanys | £1.80 |
| 06/05/82 | Rhythm Puppet | Stonehouse | £0.50 |
| 08/05/82 | Misdemeanour | Bristol Bridge Inn | £1.00 |
| 11/05/82 | Ground Zero, The Red And The Black, Syl Sylvain's Teardrop | tThe Venue | £2.50 |
| 12/05/82 | The Reactions, The Crack | Fulham Greyhound | £1.50 |
| 15/05/82 | Trainspotters | Bristol Bridge Inn | £0.50 |
| 16/05/82 | Vic Goddard's Subway Sect, Altered Images | Locarno | £3.00 |
| 18/05/82 | Screaming Dead, Necromancy | Trinity Hall | £0.75 |
| 22/05/82 | Juan Foote 'n' The Grave | Green Room | £1.00 |
| 23/05/82 | Real Numbers, The Sound | Bath Tiffanys | £2.50 |
| 26/05/82 | Panicking Grannies | Stonehouse | n/k |
| 28/05/82 | Play Dead | Trinity | n/k |
| 29/05/82 | Bop Street, Jim McLean 5 | Green Room | £1.00 |
| 30/05/82 | Choice Treats for Children | Bristol Bridge Inn | n/k |
| 31/05/82 | Brilliant Corners, Club Waiters | Landsdown | n/k |
| 01/06/82 | Thin Air, Mind Tunnel, Dancing Teeth | Stonehouse | n/k |
| 03/06/82 | Moral Minority, Rhythm Puppet | Stonehouse | n/k |
| 05/06/82 | Misdemeanour | Green Room | £1.00 |
| 06/06/82 | Spot The Dog | Bristol Bridge Inn | n/k |
| 11/06/82 | Pure Motivation | Bristol Bridge Inn | n/k |
| 13/06/82 | Opposite Man | Bridge | n/k |
| 15/06/82 | The Red And The Black | Moonlight | n/k |
| 19/06/82 | Bop Street, Face to Face | Green Room | n/k |
| 26/06/82 | Panicking Grannies | Stonehouse | n/k |
| 27/06/82 | Loose Change | Bridge | n/k |
| 02/07/82 | Tao | Green Room | £1.00 |
| 03/07/82 | Brilliant Corners, Mind Tunnel | Green Room | n/k |
| 08/07/82 | Thin Air | Green Room | £1.00 |
| 17/07/82 | Pigbag,The Beat, Drummers of Burundi, Echo and The Bunnymen | Womad | £5.00 |
| 18/07/82 | Dinner Ladies | Bridge | n/k |
| 22/07/82 | Airbridge, The Red And The Black | Moonlight | n/k |
| 28/07/82 | Spot The Dog | Bridge | n/k |
| 31/07/82 | Spot The Dog, Misdemeanour | Bridge | £0.50 |
| 11/08/82 | Club Whoopee | Bridge | n/k |
| 16/08/82 | The Alarm, The Undertones | National Club, Kilburn | £3.50 |
| 05/09/82 | The Inane | Bridge | n/k |
| 15/09/82 | The Scars, Comsat Angels | The Venue | £3.00 |
| 17/09/82 | The Escape | Bridge | £1.00 |
| 18/09/82 | Misdemeanour | Bridge | £1.00 |
| 21/09/82 | Apocalypse, The Jam | Showering Pavillion | £5.00 |
| 25/09/82 | Mind Tunnel, Face To Face | Viaduct, Limpley Stoke | n/k |
| 26/09/82 | Thin Air | Bridge | n/k |
| 02/10/82 | Misdemeanour | Western Star Domino Club | £1.30 |
| 09/10/82 | Thin Air | Western Star Domino Club | n/k |
| 24/10/82 | Thin Air | Bridge | n/k |
| 28/10/82 | Thin Air | Redland Bar | n/k |
| 04/11/82 | Eaeagba, Bohana Mouse Band, Distant Cousins, Mind Tunnel, Agents,Umo Vogue | Trinity | £0.80 |
| 11/11/82 | Club Waiters,Screaming Dead, Opposite Man, Decay Sisters, Cold, Thin Air | Trinity | £0.80 |
| 13/11/82 | False Idols, The Sound | Redland Poly | £1.80 |
| 14/11/82 | Moral Minority | Bridge | n/k |
| 18/11/82 | Mind Tunnel | Redland Bar | n/k |
| 21/11/82 | Strawberry Switchblade, Orange Juice | Locarno | £3.00 |
| 25/11/82 | Deckchairs, Decay Sisters, Umo Vogue, Poppies | Trinity | £1.30 |
| 26/11/82 | Black, It's Immaterial, Wah! | Bristol Uni | £2.25 |
| 03/12/82 | Confined Spaces, Mind Tunnel, Mr Completely | BAC | £1.00 |
| 05/12/82 | Mind Tunnel | Bristol Bridge | n/k |
| 10/12/82 | Trainspotters | Bridge | n/k |
| 15/12/82 | Mind Tunnel | Bemmy Down 6th Form | £1.00 |
| 18/12/82 | Restriction, The Escape | Trinity | £1.75 |
| 19/12/82 | Now is the time to forget the whimpering child, become the Warrior, Echo and the Bunnymen | Golddiggers | £4.00 |
| 21/12/82 | Opposite Man | Bridge | £0.75 |
| 28/12/82 | Mind Tunnel | Bridge | n/k |
| 07/01/83 | Thin Air | Western Star Domino Club | £1.00 |
| 27/01/83 | John Cooper Clarke | St Mathias | £1.70 |
| 28/01/83 | Wilko Johnson & Lew Lewis | Ding walls | £2.00 |
| 03/02/83 | Now is the time etc, Echo and the Bunnymen | Colston Hall | £3.50 |
| 04/02/83 | Thin Air | Bridge | £0.80 |
| 10/02/82 | One The Juggler | Dingwalls | £1.50 |
| 15/02/83 | The Escape | Bridge | n/k |
| 02/03/83 | The Nightingales | Dingwalls | £1.50 |
| 03/03/83 | Groovy Pineapple, Dancing Teeth, Moral Minority | Granary | £0.75 |
| 05/03/83 | Kevin Brown, Streets Ahead | Bridge | £1.50 |
| 07/03/83 | The Nightcaps,U2 | Colston Hall | £4.00 |
| 18/03/83 | U2 | Leeds Uni | £3.50 |
| 19/03/83 | Tears for Fears | Leeds Uni | £3.50 |
| 22/03/83 | Cook da Books, The Undertones | Locarno | £3.50 |
| 04/04/83 | Decay Sisters | Dingwalls | £1.50 |
| 08/04/83 | Thin Air | Western Star Domino Club | £1.00 |
| 15/04/83 | Sneak Preview | Bristol Bridge | £1.00 |
| 17/05/83 | Trainspotters | Bridge | n/k |
| 25/05/83 | Mayfair, The Alarm | Dingwalls | £0.50 |
| 09/07/83 | Gaspar Laural, The Undertones, Thompson Twins, Peter Gabriel | Selhurst Park | £8.30 |
| 23/07/83 | Losenges | College Green Fair | n/k |
| 24/07/83 | Birth of Sharon, Either/Or, Koto, Startled Insects, Malcolm Bennett, Untouchables | Ashton Court | Free |
| 05/08/83 | Thin Air | Western Star Domino Club | £1.00 |
| 23/08/83 | Empire, Comsat Angels | Venue | £3.20 |
| 13/09/83 | One the Juggler, Big Country | Colston Hall | £4.00 |
| 24/09/83 | Belle Stars, The Strawbs, Big Country, David Essex, UB40 | Showering Pavillion | n/k |
| 07/10/83 | Seven Seven | Crown | n/k |
| 20/10/83 | The Climb, The Alarm | Bath University | £2.75 |
| 25/10/83 | Rank and File, Elvis Costello and the Attractions | Studio | £4.00 |
| 02/12/83 | Big Outdoor Type | Crown | n/k |
| 29/12/83 | Hurt | Bristol Bridge Inn | n/k |
| 04/01/84 | Kiev, Vice Squad | Granary | £1.50 |
| 08/01/84 | Basic Humour | Bridge | n/k |
| 16/01/84 | Thin Air | Bridge | n/k |
| 21/01/84 | The Pretenders | Leeds Uni | £4.00 |
| 03/02/84 | Waddi Vision, New Model Army | Bath University | £1.00 |
| 07/02/84 | Thin Air | Bridge | n/k |
| 12/02/84 | Lost Loved Ones, Jake Burns' Big Wheel, Alarm | Studio | £3.00 |
| 13/02/84 | Billy Bragg, The Clash | Colston Hall | £4.00 |
| 24/02/84 | Telephone Boxes, The Smiths | Bristol Uni | £3.00 |
| 25/02/84 | Blue Aeroplanes | Trinity Hall | £2.00 |
| 01/03/84 | Ground Zero, Jake Burns & The Big Wheel | Venue | £3.00 |
| 22/03/84 | Come in Tokio, Icicle Works | Bower Ashton Poly | £2.00 |
| 26/03/84 | Thin Air | Bridge | |
| 29/03/84 | Ian Dury and The Music Students | Bath University | £4.00 |
| 13/04/84 | The Waterboys | Bournemouth Upstairs At Eric's | £2.50 |
| 14/04/84 | The Scarecrows, The Waterboys | Birmingham Tin Can Club | n/k |
| 16/04/84 | Felt, Cocteau Twins | Cardiff New Ocean Club | £3.50 |
| 04/05/84 | And Also The Trees, The Cure | Colston Hall | £4.50 |
| 04/05/84 | Thin Air | Bridge | £1.50 |
| 13/05/84 | Prefab Sprout | Studio | £4.00 |
| 26/06/84 | False Idols, Misdemeanour, Ian Dury and The Music Students | Studio | £4.50 |
| 03/07/84 | The Tears, The Waterboys | Cardiff New Ocean Club | £2.50 |
| 07/07/84 | Nick Lowe and his Cowboy Outfit, Santana, UB40, Bob Dylan | Wembley | £11.00 |
| 15/07/84 | Automatic Dlamini, Anthill Mob, Blue Aeroplanes, Brilliant Corners | Ashton Court | Free |
| 20/07/84 | The Tears, The Waterboys | Birmingham Tin Can Club | n/k |
| Sep-84 | Immaculate Fools, Tom Robinson and his crew | Hippodrome | £5.00 |
| 06/10/84 | The Real Thing | BCHE | £3.50 |
| 14/10/84 | The Pogues, Elvis Costello and the Attractions | Studio | £5.00 |
| 24/10/84 | Joy Polloi, Opposite Man | Reviews | n/k |
| 06/11/84 | Elderly Bop, New Model Army | Bierkeller | £2.50 |
| 10/11/84 | Harpoons | Crown | n/k |
| 14/11/84 | T-Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello | Colston Hall | £5.00 |
| 23/11/84 | Hedone, 99 Shy | Bath University | £2.00 |
| 13/12/84 | Eddie & The Hot Rods | Bath Uni | £2.50 |
| 15/12/84 | Blue Aeroplanes | Old Profanity | £1.50 |
| 18/12/84 | Shattered Silence | Bridge | n/k |
| 03/02/85 | Woodentops, Everything But The Girl | Studio | £3.50 |
| 07/02/85 | John Otway | Walcot U H | £1.50 |
| 12/02/85 | Shattered Silence | Bridge | £0.50 |
| 14/02/85 | False Idols | N P S U | n/k |
| 12/03/85 | James King & The Lone Wolves | Moles | £1.60 |
| 17/03/85 | Porky the Poet, Sid Presley Experience, Billy Bragg | Studio | £3.50 |
| 20/03/85 | Eden, The Sound | Marquee | £2.75 |
| 04/04/85 | James, The Smiths | Hippodrome | £5.00 |
| 10/05/85 | Harpoons, The Long March | Cabot Club | £1.00 |
| May-85 | Dr Feelgood | Underground | £3.00 |
| 29/05/85 | Shattered Silence, The Long March | Old Profanity | £1.00 |
| 05/06/85 | The Joeys | Forum Cinema | £3.00 |
| 20/21/06/85 | Roger Chapman, Ya-gas, Steel Pulse, The Pogues, Boomtown Rats | Glastonbury | £16.00 |
| 24/06/85 | The Opposition, New Model Army | Bierkeller | £3.00 |
| 08/07/85 | Circus Circus Circus, The Sound, Midnight Oil | Hammersmith Palais | n/k |
| 25/07/85 | Pride, The Long March | Old Profanity | £1.50 |
