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That would be a logical deduction.
Good work!

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Scott - do you have the full text?
Perhaps you could email me?

I saw them in Birmingham in 1977 at a club called Barbarellas. It was a very famous punk club in those days. I think I saw them there at least three times there. SOme of my memories are,
-John wearing sort of wolly jumper. At the end of the show it was pulled all over the place.
-I remember John would pick up a rather large strobe light and hold it very close to his body and dance all over the place.
-Another time he came out in this very nice suit. I dont remember what song it was but at one point he was singing very serenely and someone gobbed on his left shoulder.
I think at one point the punks were pretty confued because "Young Savage" was almost a standard "kick the can" punk song so I think they expected all their songs to be rock-rock and YS.
I can also remember them walking off stage at the end of Distant smile ( I think) with all the feedback making this horrible moise (it might have been artificial life??) .

Fantastic anecdotes!

Thanks for posting

Saw the guys at the Roundhouse, they appeared alongside Boomtown Rats and The Stranglers...... i remember being totally pissed off cos johns mic went dead and there were no vocals going on, now this must have been either 77 or 78, but looking in the archive i couldnt see it with those other two bands playing.
I was there,I did see it, I just hope someone can confirm it, and as i seem to remember it was a sunday evening?...t was all so long ago but it was wonderful

Thanks for this.
I have only got a note of Ultravox playing a couple of times at the Roundhouse.
The last of these maybe the one you're referring to:

Late October 1978
Ultravox, Chris Spedding (formerly of The Sharks) and The Boomtown Rats headlined and (among others) The Klonez played too. But I can't find anything about The Stranglers being on the same bill?
Will keep looking though..

Ooh Err, that was probably it then, i did see the stranglers at the RH as well but it was a long time ago and i wasnt averse to ermm enjoying meself and getting a little twatted, (we all did back then lol) and not sleeping for 2-3 days at a time so maybe thats why its all overlapping. I do still remember the mic failing on john tho, i was livid cos id been looking forward to the gig for ages, and my best mate worked the bar at the roundhouse and got me in for nowt. Apart from the mic failing i can still to this day remember that raw sound and the pure energy jumping out of the band...magnificent!

Excellent.
Those youthful days.

I remember such stories so well.
Sleeping in stairwells...

Thanks for the anecdote!

I saw Ultravox ! at Eric's in Liverpool in 78 I mentioned this to John in Milan the other day ,and he said it was a great place for gigs. the support band "The Ded Byrds " had Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Holly Johnson in them .

August 21 1977

Oostende, Netherlands.
Ultravox! (with Livin' Blues and Water support prog rockers Caravan.

Can anyone confirm this?

http://calyx.club.fr/caravan/chrono.html

Reading Festival, 1978