Anarchy Tour supporting the Sex Pistols with the Heartbreakers

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A Sex Pistols recording from the night circulates

1976/77 Julian Temple's early footage 18hrs

Known to contain several concerts including The Roxy 1 Jan 1977 and Harlesden plus Rehearsals footageJulian Temples 1976 footage 18 hours - included Roxy/Anarchy Tour/Harlesden/Rainbow - only the footage that was used in the film eventually got digitised because it was shot on an obscure format that does exist anymore and so it cost a fortune to put onto tape. 

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BBC Look North 30th Anniversary of Punk/Anarchy Tour at Cleethorpes Winter Gardens. Contains interview with Captain Sensible. TX 14th Dec. 2006

Punk Rock: An Oral History - By John Robb

[Rob Lloyd] "When I turned up at Endale’s office one day, lo and behold, they had not being lying to me. They were the Sex Pistols’ agent! Which is why when you see the early Pistols gigs pre-making records, they were always playing Burton-on-Trent and Birmingham. They were organising the ‘Anarchy in the UK’ tour at the time. I went with Dave Crook from Endale to some of the gigs. He drove to most of them. So I saw them at Cleethorpes Winter Gardens and the Electric Circus in Manchester. The gigs were fantastic. You got the Clash and the Heartbreakers as well. With all the furore with the gigs being banned, it was very exciting, and because I knew the group I was not having to pay to get in. You could feel part of the whole thing. It was a fabulously exciting time for me. I was still a fifteen-year-old from Cannock.

One thing I remember about Cleethorpes is that I didn’t look much different from what I look like now, pretty normal really, and there were these couple of greaser-type characters who tried to pick a fight with me, saying that I was a punk and they were Teds so there was going to be some trouble. I thought it was a fabulous time. The bands were getting better the more they played. Johnny Thunders was a bit of fruit loop, but a decent enough person to get on with. I thought the Heartbreakers were a shit-hot band, certainly live, but they made disappointing records."
copyright Punk Rock: An Oral History - By John Robb

Stereo Society

"The last time I saw the tour was in Cleethorpes, a blue collar seaside resort in Lincolnshire, on the east coast of middle England. I remember an express train from Kings Cross and then shivering through the change to a local on a bare platform with snow slanting sideways. It was appropriate that they'Anarchy In The UK', 'I Wanna Be Me' played at the Winter Gardens, because the rain and sleet were even more robust when roaring in off the North Sea as I walked from the bed and breakfast after a solid seaside dinner in the company of just one other misfit, a lonely traveling salesman. Although I was handling the company’s most newsworthy group, I still hadn’t been granted a company car. That night, the Pistols were anxious, but the Clash were outstanding. I had no reassurances to offer on behalf of Sir John. The hall was about half full, but cheerful and involved. The group were unsettled and apprehensive, even John, but I couldn’t read the tea leaves in the cup at Manchester Square." https://stereosociety.com/anarchy/ or archived PDF

It started out as the art deco style Olympia in 1934, and it was built with compensation which local railway worker George Eyre received from an accident which resulted in his legs being amputated. George's wife, Rose, owned the land on which Olympia was erected.

After the war in 1946, the establishment was reopened as the Winter Gardens. The Winter Gardens held a range of events including rock gigs, a Melody Night and a Tea Dance.

15th Aug 2013, plans have been unveiled for a £3.5-million housing development on the former Winter Gardens site in Cleethorpes.The Winter Gardens were demolished in the summer of 2007

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Grimsby Telegraph
December 20, 1976 - the day the Sex Pistols came to Cleethorpes' Winter Gardens

Grimsby Telegraph
Sex Pistols hold their fire

Grimsby Telegraph
Pistols - with Guarantee

BBC TV Look North look back
Youtube
BBC Look North 30th Anniversary of Punk/Anarchy Tour at Cleethorpes Winter Gardens. Contains interview with Captain Sensible. TX 14th Dec. 2006

Blll Grundy Interview

BBC TV Look North look back
Youtube
BBC Look North 30th Anniversary of Punk/Anarchy Tour at Cleethorpes Winter Gardens. Contains interview with Captain Sensible. TX 14th Dec. 2006

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