Short 'Secret' Midlands Tour
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Pete Clemon's article for the Coventry Telegraph - this time on The Locarno (later known as Tiffanys and now of course Coventry Central library)
This old dance hall is arguably as important of any venue Coventry has ever had. Over the years the list of live acts that appeared there, whether it is visiting the city or a local band, quite simply reads like a who's who of British music. The history is quite staggering and I can only touch on it here. The Locarno was run by the Mecca Leisure Group who, during the 1960s and 70s, were at the forefront of the entertainment industry in the UK. They ran clubs and bingo halls up and down the country and staged TV programmes such as Come Dancing and Miss World. At their peak they owned 80+ similar dance halls. The group opened the Locarno in Coventry during August 1960 and, despite a name change in the mid 1970s to Tiffany's, continued to operate through to May 1981.
JANUARY 79?
“We just wanted to keep our hand in,” said Mick Jones. “There’s a lot of people in Luton and Dunstable who wanted to see us.
The Queensway Hall itself is a coliseum-like oval ballroom. The Sex Pistols - The Jam, would you believe once played by- before 70 people at the same place. Tonight it’s packed. A top heavy punk audience.
The bar at the back of the hall is stocked with no glasses - plastic or otherwise - just those long, economy size ring pull cans. A ludicrously naive move on the part of the hall management.
The first band, Birmingham’s Modelmania, come and go. By their third number, the sporadic can starts flying towards the stage. The situation gets worse until, after the set, the road crew face a struggle to shift the gear offstage against a torrent of cans.
Joe Strummer walks onstage to cheers and makes a worthy effort to calm down the fans as a can bounces off his head. Joe steps into the swelling mass at the front of the crowd and a kid who a moment earlier had aimed a can at a roadie rushes up and vigorously shakes his hand.
Just when it seems things are cooling down, the worst scenes of the evening begin.
Female French quartet The Lous take the stage. On their night,The Lous are a great little band. They play bouncy, rocking rhythm `n blues, and enjoy it like no-one else around. On the last full Clash tour, they surprised a lot of people by their tough resilience to life on the road
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The giants of punk rock the Lanch bar
Coventry Telegraph 28 Nov 2006
Lanchester Poly Gigs
New York Rocker
Vol 1 #No12 – April / May 1978
Pearlman dates & interview
A Riot of Our Own * pg57 *
Johnny Green & Garry Barker
BBC Radio 1 'Rock On'
w/John Tobler Mick & Paul
7" single Talking to the Clash
Side A&B
Birmingham - Barbarellas
1 audio & video track from Rude Boy
London - Victoria Park, Hackney
2 audio & video tracks from Rude Boy
1978 TISWAS 1st Appearance UKTV - ITV
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