Early yesterday evening, at the end of another working week, I picked up a pen and paper and put my mind to bands that have covered other people's songs (as mentioned earlier, it didn't take long for it to dawn on me that such a list would include nearly every band who have ever got to stage two of being in a band i.e. picking up an instrument (stage one of course involving coming up with a band name!)).
For some reason, one of the first bands that came to mind were The Price. A previous recording that I posted on here (Angler's Retreat, West Drayton... on here somewhere) saw them plating 'Ever Fallen In Love...' and 'Turning Japanese'. On this recording from Uxbridge Football Club where they played with TV Smith's Cheap at Christmas time 1990 they played a different Buzzcocks cover, the brilliant 'You Say You Don't Love Me' from their third studio album, 'A Different Kind Of Tension' released in 1979.
I cannot recall why I was not at this gig.... the one in Uxbridge as opposed to the one in Hollywood. I can only assume that so close to Christmas I may have gone back to Sussex for the break.
A search for a flyer for this gig lead me to The Price's Facebook page, from which it became apparent that this gig was an early post on the Aural Sculptors site, but one that was lost in the technological ether as a consequence of the demise of the Rapidshare platform. So here it is again, with some artwork now.
At the time Leigh posted a comment on this gig:
'I remember this show - Cheap were great as usual, and although our performance was somewhat hampered by our singer Malcolm over-indulging in Christmas spirit we played well too.
I saw Cheap play many times and they were rarely less than excellent. T'V. tells me that their one and only album 'R.I.P. - Everything Must Go!' is about to be reissued with extra tracks, which is good news as it means that more people may get to discover this criminally underrated band.
Incidentally The Price will be reforming to play at The London Punk Festival at The 229 Club in London on the last weekend of September, where I'm also playing with Ruts D.C. and T.V. Smith - as you say Adrian, the lengths I'll go to to avoid getting a normal job... (note this post is from 2012!)
Cheers - Leigh'
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-62A3Yf1oL2iyUvF3
'You say you don't love me
Well, that's alright with me, 'cause I have got the time
To wait in case someday you maybe change your mind
I've decided not to make the same mistakes this time around
As I'm tired of having heartaches, I've been thinking and I've found
I don't want to live in a dream, I want something real
And I think I understand now the way that you feel.'
Here are Buzzcocks on the US West Coast at the end of '79, promoting the album that had been released in the UK back in September.
But who did they play with in Los Angeles that December. The gig ad below indicates that the Alleycats and the Zippers provided support on the night. And I checked that the 12th December 1979 did fall on a Wednesday. Elsewhere on the net is a poster for the same date indicating that Squeeze were on the bill. It may be the case, but Squeeze had been in the US in April of that year supporting The Tubes and they appear to have been playing dates in the UK that bookend this Hollywood gig (Squeeze at St Mary College, London on 24th November (as part of a UK tour) and at Lewisham Odeon on 22nd December with the Police). Are there any Buzzcocks/Squeeze aficionado reading this who can set the record straight on this point?
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-Fm4ZPjTgBqEyPE4w
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