Portsmouth Music Scene


The Portsmouth Music Scene


Gigs at the Polytechnic and other educational venues


1967

1st February Expolding Galaxy
8th February Music of India
15tgh February Enviroment Arts Co
22nd February Alexis Korner

1968

March 6th 1968 Portsmouth Tech College-Moody Blues
13 December 1968 Heaven College of Art Portsmouth

1969

18 January 1969 Yes College of Art and Design
25 January 1969 Heaven College of Tech Portsmouth
6 February 1969 Heaven at Clarence Pier for the College of Education. with The Fortunes.
22 February 1969 Heaven Portsmouth College of Tech
25 February 1969 Heaven Portsmouth Students week social
18 April 1969 Heaven Portsmouth College of Tech K Block
29th October 1969 Heaven, Paper, Image, Gold Dust at the Union House

1970

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25th April 1970 Tea & Sympathy, Mushroom at the Union Huse St Pauls Road
2nd May 1970 Black Sabbath, Image at the Union Huse St Pauls Road
9 May 1970 Portsmouth Art College- Gentle Giant(first ever gig), Fairfield Parlour
16 May 1970 Portsmouth Art College- Jody Grind
04 Deccember 1970 Cochise

1971

16 January 1971 Yes w/Iron Butterfly, Da Da
24th February Keef Hartley, Groundhogs, Spirit Of John Morgan (24th) 02 March 1971 Leon Russell
27th April Tech College: Bonzo Dog Freaks
1st May College of Education: Paladin
9th October College Of Education: Danta
26th November 1971 Hookfoot, Quintessence
8th December 1971 Bent Frame, Samurai, Woods Band
17th December Tech College: Chicken Shack, Andy Roberts

1972

14 January 1972 Humble Pie at the Tech College
21 January 1972 Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come
25 February 1972 Roy Harper
28 April 1972 Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come
18th May Purbrook College: Arthur Brown’s Kingdom Come
4 November 1972 Barclay James Harvest
12 Novcember 1972 Rare Bird
02 Deccember 1972 The Kinks

1973

24 March 1973 Portsmouth Polytechnic- Paul Brett, Hunter Muskett
9 June 1973 Portsmouth College- Holy Mackerel
7 Nov 1973 Portsmouth Polytechnic- Fruupp
15th Nov 1973 Portsmouth Polytechnic- Sutherland Brothers & Quiver
28 Nov 1973 Portsmouth, Highbury Tech College- Grimms

1974

14 February 1974 Portsmouth Polytechnic- Beckett
21 February 1974 American Blues Legends (Cousin Joe, John Wrencher, GP Jackson, Eddie Taylor, Dr Ross) at the South Parade Pier
02 October 1974 Peter Atkin
3 Octo 1974Portsmouth Polytechnic- Isotope
8th Octo 1974 Portsmouth Polytechnic- 10cc, Climax Blues Band

1975

9 Jan 1975 Portsmouth College- Mike Absalom
16 Jan 1975 Portsmouth College- Lol Coxhill & Steve Miller

1976

05 October 1976 5 Hand Reel-Martin Simpson
06 October 1976 Alcatraz
07 October 1976 Bridget St John
21 October 1976 Mott-Lone Star [Mecca] Fresher's Ball
28 October 1976 Deaf School (Centre Hotel)
30 October 1976 The Stranglers
25 Novcember 1976 Steve Hillage at the Mecca
10 Deccember 1976 Split Enz

1977

05 March 1977 Hammersmith Gorillas
19 May 1977 Split Enz

1978

17 June 1978 The Soft Boys
1978 January 26th Lesser Known Tunisians

1979

14 February 1979 The Cure
10 March 1979 The Skids
10 May 1979 The Soft Boys
15 May 1979 Mark Andrews and the Gents
25 May 1979 The Cure
18 October 1979 The Smirks/John Dowie
27 October 1979 The Chords
06 Novcember 1979 After The Fire
29 Novcember 1979 The Cure

1980

05 February 1980 Gang of Four/The Raincoats
21 May 1980 Twelfth Night
31 May 1980 Mark Andrews and the Gents
02 July 1980 The Blind Willie-Lee Wombat Blooze Band
15 October 1980 Temple
01 Novcember 1980 Teardrop Explodes
08 Novcember 1980 Eric Bell
22 Novcember 1980 The Moondogs

1981

25 February 1981 Twelfth Night
30 April 1981 Weapon of Peace
09 October 1981 Girls At Our Best!
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1982

30 January 1982 The Passage
25 February 1982 John Cooper Clarke, support, DJ at Union House Hall
28 February 1982 The Polecats
04 March 1982 Talisman
06 March 1982 Poets - Gerry Johnson, S Wells & Attila the Stockbroker
07 March 1982 Richard Digance
09 March 1982 Otway & Barrett (Rag Ball)
11 March 1982 Cousin Joe
13 March 1982 Bow Wow Wombat ****************
18 March 1982 Crown of Thorns
06 October 1982 New Variety I - feat Captain JJ Walker, Mountbatten's Plimsol, Benhamin Zephaniah and the Flying Picketts
07 October 1982 The Beatroots & Tony Allen
09 October 1982 The Farmer's Boys
14 October 1982 A Blue Zoo
16 October 1982 The G B Blues Co featuring Root Jackson
19 October 1982 Clint Eastwood & General Saint (Freshers Ball at the Locarno) [B]
21 October 1982 Vice Squad
30 October 1982 Dave Kelly Band
13 Novcember 1982 Anti-Nowhere League
20 Novcember 1982 The Higsons + Seething Wells
24 Novcember 1982 Equalisers
25 Novcember 1982 Amazulu
27 Novcember 1982 OK Jive
01 Deccember 1982 Vivienne Encore & The Jesters
04 Deccember 1982 Music for Pleasure
07 Deccember 1982 Gary Glitter - Christmas Ball
08 Deccember 1982 Twelfth Night
14 Deccember 1982 New Variety III
15 Deccember 1982 The Legendary 10 Foots

1983

12 January 1983 The Nozes
19 January 1983 Gerry Hackett & The Fringes
30 January 1983 Direct Drive
03 February 1983 17 Seconds
08 March 1983 Eurythmics - booked for UHH, broke in Charts so moved to Locarno
12 March 1983 Tyrant
16 March 1983 Shriekback
19 March 1983 The Impossible Dreamers
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20 April 1983 Big Country
30 April 1983 Weapon of Peace
15 May 1983 Pallas
28 May 1983 Hanoi Rocks / London Cowboys
06 October 1983 GB Blues Co.
15 October 1983 Laurel and Hardy
22 October 1983 The Truth
29 October 1983 The Fall
05/11/1983 Sex Gang Children Sunglasses After Dark
10 Novcember 1983 The Smiths
12 Novcember 1983 Sex Gang Children
19 Novcember 1983 Talisman
26 Novcember 1983 The Icicle Works
02 Deccember 1983 APB
06 Deccember 1983 Wilko & Lew

1984

21 January 1984 Eyeless in Gaza/Felt
28 January 1984 Twelfth Night
11 February 1984 Prefab Sprout
21 February 1984 Geshlecht Akt
23 February 1984 B Movie
25/02/1984 Brighton Poly Cockcroft Hall The Smiths Red Telephone Boxes
17 March 1984 The Pale Fountains
24 March 1984 Ruby Turner
28 March 1984 The Cage [Free Ents]
12 May 1984 Billy Bragg/The Redskins
02 June 1984 The Lotus Eaters
18 August 1984 Emptifish, Leigen, Silent Troop
19 September 1984 Pete Shelley
06/10/1984 Boothill Foot Tappers EmptiFish
08 October 1984 The Chevalier Brothers [South Parade Pier] Fresher's Ball
11 October 1984 Quando Quango
13 October 1984 Ruby Turner
17 October 1984 Phil Lynott's Grand Slam
18 October 1984 Friends Again
20 October 1984 Wilko Johnson
23 October 1984 Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers
27 October 1984 Misty in Roots
29 October 1984 Snowy White
30 October 1984 Restless
08 Novcember 1984 Memphis Slim
10 Novcember 1984 King
13 Novcember 1984 Orange Juice
15/11/1984 John Otway
17 Novcember 1984 Lords of the New Church-Wall of Voodoo
24 Novcember 1984 Girlschool

1985

17/01/1985 The Three Johns Paris In The Terror
19/01/1985 Hank Wangford Band Empti Fish
07/02/1985 The Nightingales Toxic Shock Terry & Gerry Ted Chippington
09/02/1985 999 Missed due to car stuck in mud on IOW.
14/02/1985 Farmers Boys The Larks
02/03/1985 Sid Presley Experience The Volcanoes
07/03/1985 Tools You Can Trust True Colours
13 March 1985 King
16/03/1985 The Pogues The Swamps
20/03/1985 A Certain Ratio Life
21/03/1985 The Long Ryders Elysian Fields
24/04/1985 The Wounded
25/04/1985 Winston Reedy Sound System
27/04/1985 Screaming Blue Messiahs Folk Devils
16/05/1985 Monochrome Set Del Amitri
18 May 1985 Twelfth Night
22/05/1985 The Enid
08/06/1985 10,000 Maniacs The Stage
10/06/1985 The Redskins
15/06/1985 The Men They Couldn't Hang
22/06/1985 The Skeletal Family Dark Ravens Of Dance
29/06/1985 The Revillos Dr and the Medics The Caravans
04/07/1995 Jason and the Scorchers
13 July 1985 Shriekback/Radical Dance
06 August 1985 10,000 Maniacs
05/10/1985 Root Jackson & GB Blues Lenny Tench Band
10/10/1985 Dr and the Medics The Promise
12/10/1985 Hugh Masakala
16/10/1985 The Housemartins
17/10/1985 Jazawaki Toxic Shock
19/10/1985 Savajazz
22/10/1985 The Long Ryders
26/10/1985 The Frank Chickens Impossible Dreamers
31/10/1985 TV Personalities Go Service
07/11/1985 That Petrol Emotion The Wait
07/11/1985 That Petrol Emotion The Wait
09/11/1985 A Certain Ratio Radical Dance
16/11/1985 The Three Johns The X
20/11/1985 Citizen Cain
21/11/1985 Lash Larriot and the Long Riders
23/11/1985 the Boothill Foot Tappers
27/11/1985 The Organization
05/12/1985 George Melly

1986

08/01/1986 House of Cards
18/01/1986 Charlie Messiah six gun sound Radical Dance Shakin Sharks
25 January 1986 Orchestra Jazira
29/01/1986 BeBop Dustbins
01/02/1986 The Bangles Moving Pictures
08 February 1986 The Larks
12/02/1986 Hectors House
15/02/1986 LW5
19/02/1986 Red Letter Day
20/02/1986 Pendragon
22 February 1986 Misty in Roots
25 February 1986 Love and Money/Hue and Cry
01/03/1986 Red Wedge Tour
05/03/1986 All Day Jam
06/03/1986 GB Blues Co
07/03/1986 Rag Ball?
22 April 1986 Cactus World News/Then Jericho
26/04/1986 The Redskins
03 May 1986 Against The Tide
17 May 1986 Smiley Culture
24 May 1986 LW5
31 May 1986 Buddy Curtis & The Grasshoppers
07 June 1986 Eek-A-Mouse
14 June 1986 Ruby Turner
21 June 1986 The Larks
14 October 1986 The Mighty Lemon Drops
15 October 1986 The Shamen [Free Ents]
18 October 1986 Peter Murphy/The Bolshoi
30/10/1986 Restless
06 Novcember 1986 James
19/11/1986 The Men They Couldn't Hang
20 Novcember 1986 Ghostdance
22 Novcember 1986 UK Subs
29 Novcember 1986 Blues 'N' Trouble
04 Deccember 1986 Courtney Pine
13 Deccember 1986 Cranes/Bushbabies
13/12/1986 Dr Feelgood Shakin Sharks
18/12/1986 John Otway

1987

05 January 1987 Red Herring
21 January 1987 Chris Ford [Free Ents]
22 January 1987 Girlschool
29 January 1987 Pete Shelley
31 January 1987 Buddy Curtis and the Grasshoppers
07 February 1987 The Bolshoi [b]
09 February 1987 Dr. Brown
12/02/1987 Pendragon
19/02/1987 Pete Shelley
1987 March 5th The Urban Warriors, Podomovsky
1987 March 7th Blues Brothers Roadshow
1987 March 11th Duck Soup
12 March 1987 John Dowie, Joan Collins Fan Club
1987 March 14th Chiefs of BeRelief
1987 March 18th The Big Sleep
1987 March 19th Simon Fanshaw/Mark Miwurdz/Paul Martin
1987 March 21st Hank Wangford
1987 March 25th Mark Snice
1987 March 26th John Hegley/Jeremy Hardy/Otiz Cannelloni
1987 March 27th Xmal Deutschland 1987 March 31st Your Thingy
1987 April 1st County Line
1987 April 2nd Skint Video & HYope Augustus
04/04/1987 The Vulcans
30 April 1987 Its Immaterial
30 May 1987 Charlie Massiah
03 June 1987 Doctor and the Medics [B]
06/06/1987 Pop Will Eat Itself
17/07/1987 Alt Grad Ball
15 October 1987 Deacon Blue
17 October 1987 The Bolshoi [B]
21 October 1987 The Wonder Stuff [Free Ents]
14/11/1987 Third World First
21/11/1987 Pop Will Eat Itself
28/11/1987 Edwyn Collins

1988

20 January 1988 Salvation
05/03/1988 The Men They Couldn't Hang
12/03/1988 Bad Manners
21 May 1988 Cardiacs
04/06/1988 Zoot and the Roots
03/06/1988 Hothouse Flowers
21/07/1988 Pop Will Eat Itself
22 July 22 1988Pop Will Eat Itself
22 July 22 1988Somekinda Wonderfull
22 July 22 1988Yeah God!
06/10/1988 That Petrol Emotion
27 October 1988 Salvation
05/11/1988 George Melly
Bolshoi 1988 Novcember 18
John Moore and the Expressway 1988 Novcember 18
House of Love 1988 Deccember 06
Pacific 1988 Deccember 06
10/12/1988 James Taylor Quartet The Mild Mannered Janitors

1989

14/01/1989 Prong Bolt Thrower
1989 January 18th The Immortals
Pop Will Eat Itself 1989 February 07
Nasty Rox Incorporated 1989 February 07
Yeah God! 1989 February 07
Throwing Muses 1989 February 11
Sundays 1989 February 11
14/02/1989 My Bloody Valentine Silverfish Spermwails Psylons
02/03/1989 Rock Society
13/03/1989 Head Of David God Godflesh
Godflesh 1989 March 13
God 1989 March 13
Spacemen 3 1989 March 15
Telescopes 1989 March 15
Ryecatchers 1989 March 15
16/03/1989 VJ
29/04/1989 Goodbye Mr McKenzie
01/05/1989 T.L.P. ?
03/05/1989 Psylons
Dinosaur Jr 1989 May 06
Lunachicks 1989 May 06
1989 May 10th Three Little Piggies, plus 70 Policemen in my kitchen
13/05/1989 Mudhoney Soundgarden
17/05/1989 Dr Brown
Swans 1989 June 15
Cranes 1989 June 15
30/06/1989 Psylons
14/07/1989 Barence Whitfield
22nd July, Pop will eat itseld plus Some Kinda Wonderful plus Yea God
04 October 1989, The Telescopes-Cranes
05 October 1989, The Cropdusters-Resque
08 October 1989 Naz Nomad and the Nightmares-Dr. Brown
11 October 1989 JB Allstars
12-10.1989 Yargo
14-10.1989 The Chills
18 October 1989 Jive Turkey
10 October 1989 James Taylor (Freshers Ball)
24 October 1989 Faith no More
26 October 1989 Dr Brown
28/10/1989 Nirvana TAD The Cateran
01 Novcember 1989 Jesus Jones
01 Novcember 1989 Gerry Sadowitz (Pier)
02 Novcember 1989 Joolz
06 Novcember 1989 Soup Dragons (cancelled post sound check due to noise issues)
10/11/1989 Bad Brains
11 Novcember 1989 Eric Bell and the Sunsets
15 Novcember 1989 Fugazi
18/11/1989 Bues n Trouble
02/12/1989 Mudhoney Thee Headcoats
04 Deccember 1989 The House of Love
06 Deccember 1989 Doctor and the Medics (Xmas Ball)
09 Deccember 1989 Loop-Lush
14 Deccember 1989 Bhundu Boys

1990

09 February 1990 Showaddywaddy (Valentine Ball)
10 February 1990 The Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Birdland 1990 February 16
Destroy the Boy 1990 February 16
21 February 1990 A Guy Called Gerald
24 February 1990 The Sand Kings
01 March 1990 Lush
09/03/1990 Portmouth Poly Icicle Works
Mega City Four 1990 March 04
Passion Flower Hotel 1990 March 04
15 March 1990 Crazyhead
Levellers March 19th 1990
My Bloody Valentine 1990 May 02
Silverfish 1990 May 02
23 May 1990 Firework Party
29 May 1990 The Charlatans
09 June 1990 Ronny Scott
13 June 1990 Tad
14 June 1990 Neds Atomic Dustbin
Nova Mob featuring Grant Hart 1990 June 16
Walkabouts 1990 June 16
Dont know 1990 June 16
23 June 1990 Sister Morphine
13 October 1990 That Petrol Emotion

1991

11 January 1991 EMF
18 May 1991 The Orb
29 October 1991 Lush
Family Cat 1991 October 31
PJ Harvey 1991 October 31

1993

07 October 1993 Sunshot
02 Novcember 1993 World Party

1995

10 Novcember 1995 Scarfo
20 Novcember 1995 Gorkys Zygotic Mynci

1996

11 January 1996 Lush
19 January 1996 Skunk Anansie
02 February 1996 Shed Seven
16 June 1996 Freakpower

1997 May 23rd Screeper (at the Uni)

1998 June 13th Running on Empty

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