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1980

1980 Jan / Feb		Weird Tales Into The 80s Tour		Zounds line-up for this 2nd Weird Tales tour: Lawrence Wood (gv); Nick Godwin (gv); Steve Lake (bv); Judge (d) The Entire Cosmos, with Joseph on drums, play on some dates. Recordings from the previous tour in September 1979 released on the Weird Tales tape and sold at gigs on this tour.
1980 Jan 17	London	The Raindrop Club The Trafalgar 2 Bramley Rd, Frestonia	Androids Of Mu Zounds The Mob The Entire Cosmos	The tour started off with a gig at The Trafalgar pub, a squatted venue in the short-lived Free and Independent Republic of Frestonia. It was boarded up not long after this gig and subsequently demolished.
1980 Jan 18	Birmingham	Birmingham Aston University	Androids Of Mu Zounds The Mob The Entire Cosmos
1980 Jan 19	Wolverhampton	Wolverhampton Polytechnic	The Weird Tales Extravaganza Androids Of Mu Zounds The Mob Blues Drongo All-Stars	Recording exists - erroneously dated as 1979-09. Angels / Ugly Vomit / Holland Park > Bats / Forgery / Can't Cheat Karma / War / Wolves / I Made It Happen
1980 Jan 20	Manchester	Manchester Polytechnic	Androids Of Mu Zounds The Mob The Entire Cosmos
1980 Jan 21	Manchester	Funhouse Club The Mayflower	Androids Of Mu Zounds The Mob Danny & The Dressmakers The Entire Cosmos
1980 Jan 25	Nottingham	Nottingham University	Androids Of Mu Zounds The Mob
1980 Jan 26	Letchworth	Leys Youth Club	Androids Of Mu Zounds The Mob
1980 Jan 27	Bishops Stortford	Triad Leisure Centre	Androids Of Mu Zounds The Mob	At this gig, Crass / Dial House were brought to the attention of Zounds by the gig promoter[04]... at some point [presumably during the next day], Steve and Lawrence take a tape to Dial House; Crass agree to release a single. At this point, Crass had only released a single by Honey Bane and a single and album by Poison Girls other than their own material.
1980 Jan 28	London	Thames Polytechnic Woolwich	Androids Of Mu Zounds The Mob
1980 Jan 29	High Wycombe	High Wycombe Polytechnic	Androids Of Mu Zounds The Mob The Entire Cosmos
1980 Jan 30	London	Middlesex Polytechnic Enfield	Androids Of Mu Zounds The Mob	CANCELLED.
1980 Jan 30	Nuneaton	77 Club	Androids Of Mu Zounds The Mob	Here's a dismissive review of this gig from Coventry fanzine Alternative Sounds #12.
1980 Jan 31	Bicester	Nowhere Club	Androids Of Mu Zounds The Mob

1980 Feb 01	Slough	Slough College	Androids Of Mu Zounds The Mob	In his book Zounds Demystified Steve Lake states that Slough was the last gig of the tour, despite Brighton, Watford and Acklam Hall being extensively advertised.[04]
1980 Feb 02	Brighton	Sussex University	Androids Of Mu Zounds The Mob
1980 Feb 03	London	Acklam Hall Portobello Road	Androids Of Mu Zounds The Mob	CANCELLED. Rearranged for the following day, but that was also cancelled. Eventually took place on the 21st.
1980 Feb 05	Watford	Carey Club	Androids Of Mu Zounds The Mob
1980 Feb 21	London	Acklam Hall Portobello Road	Androids Of Mu Zounds The Mob	Oddly on this night, nearby at The Raindrop Club, The 012, The Entire Cosmos, Vince Pie & The Crumbs, The Hills Are Alive and Blue Midnight also have a gig. [Who were The Hills Are Alive ?]

1980 Mar				Joseph Porter takes over drums from Judge at some time in March.
1980 Mar 16	Bishops Stortford	Triad Leisure Centre	Exit Zounds The Astronauts	3 conspiracy theorists walk into a bar. Coincidence? EXIT was the name of the 1970s avant-garde performance art group that included Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher. This Exit may have been a separate afternoon event and the name a merry coincidence.
1980 Mar 28	London	The Elgin Ladbroke Grove	The Entire Cosmos Vincent Units	The Entire Cosmos, probably with Joseph on drums, play a couple of Ladbroke Grove gigs this weekend. This one part of a series of gigs at The Elgin as part of the Street Level Musicians' Co-op.
1980 Mar 29	London	The Raindrop Club The Trafalgar Freston Road	The Entire Cosmos The Attitudes The Commuters	The Attitudes were a mod band that Joseph joined shortly after moving to London. The Commuters ?

1980 Apr 25

High Wycombe

High Wycombe College

Zounds The Astronauts

1980 May 10	London	Hyde Park	Misty In Roots / Androids Of Mu Alexis Korner / Keith Christmas Inner City Unit	A midday event to benefit the Legalize Cannibis Campaign. A notable cultural event, that may have been of interest.
1980 May 11	London	Centro Iberico Harrow Rd	Zounds The Hills Are Alive The Astronauts The 012	This poster is interesting as it shows the 'Crass' Zounds logo a couple of months before Can't Cheat Karma was even recorded and probably only a month or so after Steve and Lawrence first met Crass. Design is credited to Zounds and Eve Libertine on the single. Quick work and what we would now call branding. Larger version here.
1980 May 17				Split Poison Girls / Crass single Persons Unknown / Bloody Revolutions released on Crass Records.
1980 May 18				Ian Curtis hangs himself in Macclesfield.

1980 Jun 13-26

Stonehenge

Solstice Festival

Here And Now / Zounds Crass / Poison Girls The Mob / Inner City Unit The Epileptics / The Snipers Hawkwind / Thandoy

At the 1980 Stonehenge Festival the biker contingent, a mainstay of most UK festivals, took exception to the number of punk bands and punks on site. During The Epileptics' set cans and bottles were thrown on stage and some violence erupted and the generator was effectively taken over by the bikers. As a result, Zounds along with the Poison Girls and Crass were prevented from playing.

1980 Jun

Nick Godwin leaves the band prior to the recording of Can't Cheat Karma.

1980 Jul 05-07	London			First single Can't Cheat Karma recorded and mixed at Southern.
1980 Jul 14				Malcolm Owen found dead in his parents' bathroom.
1980 Jul 18	London	Drill Hall Action Space Theatre Chenies Street	Poison Girls Annie Anxiety Zounds	Reviewed in Fack #4 here.

1980 Aug 29

Can't Cheat Karma / War / Subvert 7" released on Crass Records.

1980 Sep 24

London

Drill Hall Action Space Theatre Chenies Street

Poison Girls Zounds Annie Anxiety

Action Space advert

1980 Oct

This Crass / Poison Girls October 1980 tour was originally scheduled as: Oct 07 Tropical Club, Rochdale Oct 08 Le Mount Club, Halifax Oct 09 The Blind Institute, Hull Oct 10 Cleopatras, Huddersfield Oct 11 The Rock Garden, Middlesbrough Oct 13 The Sweatbox, Bradford Oct 15 Gatsby's, Liverpool Oct 16 Ad Lib Club, Nottingham Oct 17 The Mayflower, Manchester Oct 18 The Playhouse Nite Club, Edinburgh Oct 19 Civic Hall, Cleator Moor Zounds played 3 of these. Nottingham was cancelled but Winsford was added.

1980 Oct 14	Winsford	Community Youth Centre	Crass Poison Girls Annie Anxiety Zounds	Zounds tape exists somewhere.
1980 Oct 15	Liverpool	Gatsby's	Crass Poison Girls Annie Anxiety Zounds	City Fun and other listings Zounds tape exists somewhere.
1980 Oct 16	Nottingham	Ad Lib Club	Crass Poison Girls Annie Anxiety Zounds	CANCELLED. Advertised but did not take place.
1980 Oct 17	Manchester	Funhouse Club The Mayflower Birch St, Belle Vue	Crass Poison Girls Annie Anxiety Zounds	City Fun Manchester gig guide and reviewed in the 1st November 1980 issue of Record Mirror

1980 Nov		European Tour with Cheap 'n' Nasty		Earlier in 1980, probably June, a chance meeting at Dial House between Zounds and members of Dutch group Cheap 'n' Nasty led to an agreement to tour Europe. Later Steve travelled to Leiden and hung out with Herman from Cheap 'n' Nasty; between them they organized this tour. More info and photos can be found at the Bacteria website. Have a dig around, there's loads of great info regarding Dutch punk and commentary of this tour. Zounds: Steve Lake, Joseph Porter, Lawrence Wood. Photo credit: Terry of Cheap 'n' Nasty; other posters and most info for this tour courtesy of the great Herman De Tollenaere.
1980 Nov 07	Rotterdam	Kaasee	Zounds Bunker Suburbans
1980 Nov 08	Amsterdam	Melkweg	Zounds Cheap 'n' Nasty
1980 Nov 09	Appeldoorn Netherlands	Gigant Schoolstraat	Zounds Cheap 'n' Nasty	Poster here
1980 Nov 14	Berlin	KZ36 Waldemarstraße	Zounds Slime Cheap 'n' Nasty Stromsperre Razors	Photo credit: Annelies / Cheap 'n' Nasty
1980 Nov 15	Berlin	SO36 Kreuzberg	Zounds TNT Beton Combo ZK Vopo's Hass	Festival der Aggressiver Musik Poster here
1980 Nov 19	Koningshooikt Belgium	Alcazar	Zounds Cheap 'n' Nasty	Alternate poster here
1980 Nov 20	Tilburg Netherlands	Kijkhuis	Zounds Cheap 'n' Nasty
1980 Nov 21	Leiden Netherlands	LVC	Zounds The Beez The Photomodels	The Beez were scheduled to support but couldn't make it. The Photomodels were Cheap 'n' Nasty. They had to use another name (a reference to one of their songs) because they had previously been banned by the venue for... "not being good enough".
1980 Nov 22	Zaandam Netherlands	Drieluik	Zounds Cheap 'n' Nasty
1980 Nov 23	Nijmegen Netherlands	Doornroosje	Zounds Cheap 'n' Nasty
				Specific links at bacteria.nl for further info: Pin - English version of Herman's Dutch fanzine Pin containing tour details and diary of events. Photos Flyers and tour info Thanks go again to Herman, Terry and Annelies for their collective goldmine.

1980 Dec 03	London	The Moonlight Club West Hampstead	Flux Of Pink Indians Zounds
1980 Dec 04	Letchworth	Leys Youth Club	Zounds The Astronauts The Solution
1980 Dec 08				John Lennon shot dead in New York City.
1980 Dec 10	Manchester	Oozit's Beach Club Shudehall	Poison Girls Zounds	City Fun Manchester gig guide & Flyer
1980 Dec 11	Bletchley	Compass Club	Zounds Flying Ducks	Compass Club Flyer
1980 Dec 12	Northampton	Roadmender Club	Poison Girls Zounds

Updated: Aug 2022

	Sources

004	Steve Lake - Zounds Demystified - ISBN 9781909798014 Active Distribution Available by emailing bevrecords@btinternet.com
020	Lance Hahn's interviews with Steve Lake & Joseph Porter for his book. Printed as an article titled The Story Of Zounds in Maximum Rock 'n' Roll #227
025	Some general information deduced from Joseph Porter - Genesis To Revolutions - Downwarde Spiral Available at Blyth Power HQ
0xx	Some general information from Kill Your Pet Puppy and contributors.