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   76 Club Memoirs

By A.N. Onymous 

(This page is “hosted” from  http://www.biffo.net/76club/76club.htm – in the fear that this amazing piece of Friday-night social history might disappear in this ephemeral world of Internet sites. We send our infinite thanks to whoever put the material together. It is - in the vernacular of another time – An Absolute Blast!) 

The sweaty old 76 Club is long gone and at the top end of High Street kebab fumes have replaced the heady aroma of patchouli.  Even Adams (later Eves) bit the dust in the end. Long gone too is Sharps & Knights Social Club where we gathered with our Double Diamonds and No.6 ciggies to watch the likes of Ginmil and Food For Thought and (in between) groove to such disco delights as Ya Ready Now, Johnny Reggae and Ride A White Swan. Could maxi skirts really have been so trendy? Even the old-fashion disco has had its day. In our day scratching was a crime punishable by deportation and the only chemical brothers we knew were the blokes who founded ICI. Boo-hoo-hoo....where have all the years gone?

An A-Z of 76 Club gigs
1971 - 1977 

AC/DC

6/8/76

Ace

21/12/73 - 17/5/74 - 17/1/75

Alan Bown

28/4/72 – 6/10/72 - 

Alberto Y Los Trios P

27/6/75

Alex Harvey Band

16/3/73 - 

Alkatraz

24/10/75 - 301/76 - 25/6/76 - 14/1/77

American Train

5/8/77

Armada

30/6/72 -

Automatic Fine Tuning

19/11/76

Average White Band

25/5/73 - 31/8/73 

Baby

3/1/75

Back Door

21/5/76

Batti Mamzelle

12/10/73 - 1/3/74

Be Bop De Luxe

29/11/74

Beckett

20/7/73 - 24/5/74

Bees Make Honey

9/11/73 – 9/5/75

Beggars Opera

11/5/73

Bethnal

21/1/77

Black Widow

21/1/72 - 25/2/72 - 2/6/72 - 18/8/72 - 

Blitz

13/8/76

Blodwyn Pig

28/6/74

Bronco

15/12/72 - 22/2/74

Bond & Brown

17/11/72

Brown's Home Brew

1/6/73

Brush

12/1/73 - 

Budgie

29/9/72 - 10/8/73

Byzantium

30/8/74 - 25/4/75 - 29/8/75

Cado Belle

5/11/76

Camel

21/4/72 - 

Casino

27/2/76 - 29/10/76

Charlie

2/4/76 - 26/11/76

Chicken Shack

7/7/72 -

Chilli Willi & Red Hot Peppers

19/4/74 - 23/8/74

City Boy

26/12/75

Clancy

16/5/75 - 1/8/75

Clear Blue Sky

8/12/72

The Cold

31/3/77 (Battle Of The Bands)

Conker

Onker

Count Bishops

18/3/77

Daddy Longlegs

29/3/74

Dana Gillespie & Band

10/12/76

Darryl Way's Wolf

5/7/74

Darts

22/7/77

Dead Kat

31/3/77 (Battle Of The Bands)

Dirty Tricks

9/7/76

Doctors Of Madness

14/11/75

Dogsbody

24/12/71

Doris Henderson's Election

3/11/72

Druid

3/9/76

Ducks De Luxe

12/4/74

East Of Eden

22/8/75

Eddie and the Hot Rods

16/7/76

Egg

9/6/72 - 

Ellis

3/8/73

Emery Chase

1/10/71

The Enid

27/8/76

F.B.I

18/7/75 - 23/4/76

F F & Z

20/10/72

Fabulous Poodles

10/6/77

Fast Buck

30/7/76

Flesh

5/10/73

Flying Aces

4/3/77

Freedom

28/1/72

Frankie Millers Full House

11/6/76

Fruup

2/3/73 - 8/6/73 - 4/1/74

Fumble

20/9/74 - 10/1/75 - 13/6/75 - 7/11/75 - 5/3/76

Fusion Orchestra

4/8/72 - 1/12/72 - 6/4/73 - 27/7/73 - 14/6/74

Gary Moore Band

7/9/73

George Hatcher Band

18/2/77

GT Moore & Reggae Guitars

14/2/75

Glencoe

18/5/73 - 14/9/73

Good Habit

8/8/75 - 12/12/75

Gravy Train

18/10/74

Gryphon

9/1/76 - 1/10/76

Gypsy

19/5/72 - 24/11/72 - 8/2/74 - 19/7/74

Hackensack

25/8/72 - 29/12/72 -24/8/73 - 15/2/74

Halcyon

15/6/73 - 

Half Breed

5/12/75

Headstone

22/11/74

Heavy Metal Kids

30/11/73

Hi-ballers

31/3/77 (Battle Of the Bands) - 1/7/77

Hollywood

15/11/74

Hooker

26/8/77

Hustler

15/3/74 - 13/9/74 - 21/3/75

Jack The Lad

1/2/74 - 5/4/74 - 6/6/75

Jellybread

28/7/72 - 13/10/72 - 16/2/73 - 

Jenny Haan's Lion

22/4/77 - 19/8/77

Jo'Burg Hawk

28/9/73 - 12/7/74

Jonesy

13/4/73 - 13/7/73 - 14/12/73

Judas Priest

8/11/74

Jude

24/3/72

Juicy Lucy

31/3/72

Kilburn & The High Roads

21/9/73 - 7/6/74 - 9/4/76

Kilroy

24/9/71 - 

Krazy Kat

2/1/76

Kursaal Flyers

7/3/75

Left Right & Centre

8/10/71 - 31/12/71 -

Lew Lewis & his band

6/5/77

Little Acre

13/2/76 - 16/4/76 - 10/9/76 - 11/2/77

Little Bob Story

7/1/77

Loving Awareness

20/8/76

Max Merrit & The Meteors

21/11/75 - 12/11/76

Meal Ticket

20/5/77

Medicine Head

9/3/73 - 3/10/75 - 6/2/76 - 23/7/76

Mick Abrahams Band

3/3/72 - 5/5/72 - 20/4/73 - 17/10/75

Mike Story Band

23/5/75

Mojo Hannah

23/2/73 -

Moon

17/9/76 - 27/5/77

Moonrider

25/7/75 - 19/9/75 

Morgan

10/11/72

Motors

17/6/77

Mr Big

4/6/76

Nasty Pop

7/5/76

Neil Innes & Fatso

30/5/75 - 19/3/76

Nicol & Marsh

11/4/75 - 4/7/75

Nutz        

2/11/73 - 9/8/74 - 14/4/75 - 15/8/75 - 19/12/75 - 18/6/76 - 7/4/77

O Band

4/10/74 - 2/9/77

Oakdale

31/3/77 (Battle Of The Bands)

Paladin

26/5/72 

Patto

7/4/72 - 

Pat Travers Band

22/10/76

Pete Browns Back To Front

24/6/77

Plummett Airlines

15/10/76 - 4/2/77

Principle Edwards M/T

23/11/73

Quicksand

11/1/74 - 31/5/74

Racing Cars

8/10/76

Rare Bird

11/10/74

Raw Material

23/3/73 - 6/7/73

Raymond Froggat Band

22/12/72 - 10/5/74 - 27/9/74 - 29/7/77

RDB

15/4/77

Renaissance

16/6/72 

Roedean

31/3/77 (Battle Of The Bands)

Roogalator

20/2/76 - 3/6/77

Roy Young Band

17/3/72

Sam Apple Pie

26/10/73 - 26/7/74 - 26/9/75

Sarah Gordon + LFR

22/6/73

Sassafras

26/4/74 - 2/8/74 - 20/12/74 - 11/7/75 - 15/7/77

Savoy Brown

4/4/75

Scorpions

26/3/76

Sex Pistols

24/9/76

Shanghai

28/11/75 - 2/7/76 - 23/12/76

Sharks

18/1/74

Skid Row

15/9/72 - 

Skin Alley

10/3/72 - 

Slowbone

23/1/76

Snafu

16/11/73

Stackridge

14/7/72 - 

Stan Webb Band

28/2/75

Starry Eyed & Laughing

7/2/75

Steve Gibbons Band

31/1/75 - 2/5/75 - 30/12/76

Stray

25/3/77

Stretch

20/6/75 - 

Strider

21/6/74

Strife

14/5/76

String Driven Thing

17/8/73 - 25/10/74

Stripjack

13/5/77

Sundance

25/1/74 - 6/9/74

Supercharge

6/12/74 - 28/5/76