Paul Lewis - Wycombe Gigs
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🎶Celebrating #musichistory | Specialist subjects #punk #postpunk #gigs #livemusic #otd in and around High Wycombe and London #1960s to present www.wycombegigs.co.uk
#OTD Saturday 15th July 1972 David Bowie returns to Aylesbury for a third time. Tickets for the 600 capacity Borough Assembly Hall are 75p #DavidBowie and his band are paid £250 📷Mick Menday 📰Bucks Herald
🎗Remembering Ian Curtis Born #OTD 15th July 1956 Would have been 7️⃣0️⃣ today Singer, songwriter & musician Frontman of Joy Division Played Town Hall, High Wycombe 20th February 1980 📷 Paul Nichols Tragically lost far too early on 18th May 1980, aged just 23 💙 #JoyDivision #IanCurtis
#OTD Saturday 10th July 1976 5️⃣0️⃣ years ago #PunkRock Sex Pistols play the Sundown Discotheque in Charring Cross Road, London. The venue was in the basement of The Astoria and close to Denmark Street where #SexPistols rehearsed and recorded early demos. Several punk gigs there in 1977
#OTD Friday 9th July 1976 5️⃣0️⃣ years ago #PunkRock Old meets new at Lyceum Ballroom, London The Pretty Things headline but first on the bill, playing at their biggest venue to date, are the Sex Pistols. Hosted by Capital Radio's Nicky Horne #SexPistols 📷Kate Simon
This gig was 28th June 1978. Still looking for an image of the poster from this show in Aylesbury. I only have this music paper ad. Please help 🙏 #TheClash
#OTD Friday 8th July 1977 Three band #PunkRock special Nag’s Head, High Wycombe Headliners Pink Parts include Paul Ferguson (pre-Killing Joke) & art student Stephen Jones. Support is local punks The Xtraverts & The Pretty, playing their first public gigs. Photo shoot previous week #Buckinghamshire
#OTD Tuesday 6th July 1976 5️⃣0️⃣ years ago #PunkRock The Damned make their official live debut when they support Sex Pistols at 100 Club, London, promoted by High Wycombe's Ron Watts (Ron was later manager of #TheDamned for a very brief spell 😬). #SexPistols 📷 Mick Rock
#OTD Sunday 5th July 1981 4️⃣5️⃣ years ago The Damned + Ruts DC + Anti-Nowhere League + Vice Squad Lyceum, London "5️⃣ years of Anarchy, Chaos & Destruction" Earlier in 2026, I saw #TheDamned celebrating 5️⃣0️⃣ years in the #punk business 😱 Review, Record Mirror
#OTD 4th July 1976 5️⃣0️⃣ years ago #PunkRock Members of The Clash meet The Ramones outside The Roundhouse in the afternoon before travelling to Sheffield for their debut gig #TheClash #TheRamones 🤝 📷Danny Fields L-R - Stuart Keen, Tommy Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone, Keith Levene, Paul Simonon, Johnny Ramone
#OTD Sunday 4th July 1976 5️⃣0️⃣ years ago #PunkRock The Clash make their live public debut as support to #SexPistols at The Black Swan in Sheffield. Support from #Buzzcocks 🤯 #TheClash line-up was Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Terry Chimes & Keith Levene
#OTD Sunday 4th July 1976 5️⃣0️⃣ years ago #PunkRock Roundhouse, London Flamin' Groovies + Ramones (UK debut) + The Stranglers £1.60 🤯 📷 Danny Fields #RockNRoll #Punk
#OTD Saturday 3rd July 1976 5️⃣0️⃣ years ago #PunkRock Sex Pistols [London😎] are support to Heavy Rock band Budgie at Hastings Pier. A review a week later in the local paper saw Stephen Turner describe #SexPistols sound as 'abysmal' and their set lacking the 'violent punk image'
Remembering Poly Styrene💙 3rd July 1957 - 25th April 2011 Promoter Ron Watts on Poly "She had a brace on her teeth and carried a plastic shopping bag - a total contrast to the leather clad punks. X-Ray Spex were a mile away from the Sex Pistols/Ramones copyists."
#OTD Saturday 2nd July 1977 4️⃣9️⃣ years ago #SexPistols release their 3rd single. 'Pretty Vacant' had been a live favourite for more than a year and was written before 'Anarchy' and 'God Save The Queen'. Glen Matlock wrote the main riff having been inspired by hearing #Abba’s SOS
#OTD Friday 1st July 1983 David Bowie plays the first of three shows at the Milton Keynes Bowl in #Buckinghamshire. Each date attracted more than 50,000 people. 10 years earlier #DavidBowie had played to less than 1,000 at Friars, Aylesbury 📷 Denis O'Regan
🎂Debbie Harry Born #OTD 1st July 1945 Singer, songwriter, actress Best known for her time with US punk/pop icons Blondie #Blondie played Friars, Aylesbury #Buckinghamshire November 1977 #DebbieHarry photos by Geoffrey Tyrell and Mark Jordan at Friars 💙💜❤️
#OTD Saturday 30th June 1979 Wire + The Cure + The Beez (Chesham band) Friars, Aylesbury #Buckinghamshire Shared headline spot between #Wire and #TheCure #RobertSmith and his band had just released single 'Boy's Don't Cry' 📷 From gig by Mark Jordan
#OTD Friday 29th June 1979 Two classic #PostPunk singles released in one day by Siouxsie & The Banshees 🚸Playground Twist – UK 🇬🇧 📪Mittageisen (Metal Postcard) - Germany 🇩🇪 #SiouxsieAndTheBanshees 🔥🔥🔥
#OTD Tuesday 29th June 1976 5️⃣0️⃣ years ago #PunkRock Sex Pistols 100 Club, London Another #SexPistols gig promoted by High Wycombe's Ron Watts. The Jamie Reid design poster is one of the first that used the, to become iconic, cut out letters for the name of the band #punk #NotAI
'How low can the Sex Pistols sink?' NME advert #OTD 28th June 1980 for 'Rock 'n' Roll Swindle' album from Woolworth. Only £4.25 (approx £23.50 in 2026!) 'Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?' 💷 💷 💷 #punk #SexPistols
🖤Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division Released #OTD Friday 27th June 1980 Mixed reviews from the music press; NME, Record Mirror and Sounds; by Paul Rambali, Mike Nicholls and Betty Page #JoyDivision
🎂Mick Jones Born #OTD 26th June 1955 7️⃣1️⃣ today Singer, songwriter & musician Founder member of The Clash Played High Wycombe 1976 to around a 100 people. Later shows at nearby Friars, Aylesbury in 1978 x2, 1980 and 1982 + B.A.D. in 1986 📷 Mark Jordan #TheClash #MickJones #punk
#OTD Sunday 23rd June 1996 3️⃣0️⃣ years ago Sex Pistols Finsbury Park, London The Filthy Lucre tour Punk fan Stuart Pearce introduces the #SexPistols on stage, alongside a youthful Gareth Southgate (the latter attending his first ever gig, aged 25) #England
🎂Nigel Martin Born #OTD 23rd June 1957 Lead singer and founder member The Xtraverts, one of the first #punk bands in High Wycombe. First gigged in 1977 but split in early 80’s. Reformed #TheXtraverts 2014, releasing 4th single in 2017 at time of Nigel's 60th 🤝
💙Remembering David 'Screaming Lord' Sutch Musician/serial politician (10th November 1940 – 16th June 1999) Played High Wycombe 1960s a few times with his band but also opened a petrol station! Returned February 1976 with #SexPistols and some #Buzzcocks watching...
#OTD Tuesday 15th June 1976 5️⃣0️⃣ years ago George Melly with John Chiltons Feetwarmers, Town Hall, High Wycombe On the same day #SexPistols play 100 Club with his poster behind, 49 year #GeorgeMelly is in Buckinghamshire. Rare review from Bucks Free Press by Leo Dennan
#OTD Tuesday 15th June 1976 5️⃣0️⃣ years ago #PunkRock Sex Pistols - 100 Club, London 5th appearance of the year for #SexPistols at the famous venue. All promoted by High Wycombe based Ron Watts. Each time the crowds were getting bigger. "Sartorial correctness" 📷unknown + 🎨 😎
Released #OTD 15th June 1979 Unknown Pleasures Debut album from #JoyDivision A masterpiece, produced by the genius of Martin Hannett. The now iconic sleeve artwork by Peter Saville was 'inspired' by radio pulsar plot CP 1919 spotted by a band member. Initial copies were textured #PostPunk