Fact #184650
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Short story:
When Screaming Lord Sutch plays at The College Of Arts, High Wycombe, England, UK, Europe, The Sex Pistols turn up and manage to blag their way onto the bill as his support act. On this night, The Pistols are seen by Howard Devoto and Pete Shelley who have driven down from Manchester to see them. Devoto and Shelley will, in due course, become founders of The Buzzcocks.
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Ron Watts (manager, 100 Club) : They weren’t booked or invited. They just arrived and said they were the support band, set up their gear and played. I thought they were great so I found out who their manager was and he came down The 100 Club to see me the following week. The outcome was that I began to book them consistently whereas other promoters and venues wouldn’t have anything to do with them.
John Lydon : That was one of the funniest gigs ever, seeing that fool come out of his coffin. We were all at the back of the hall in fits. They got upset because they said we’d broken some of their equipment.They wouldn’t give us a sound check or any space on stage to put up a drum kit.
Glen Matlock : A couple of our mates, Jim and Steve, got very plastered and insisted on doing our sound, so we locked them in the van, but they punched the window out and did the sound anyway. John was so pissed off, he smashed up the PA, which belonged to Screaming Lord Sutch. Five hundred people watched him do it, but he still denied it to Lord Sutch.
Howard Devoto (Mancunian musician) : My life changed the moment I saw the Sex Pistols. I immediately got caught up in trying to make things happen. Suddenly there was a direction, something I passionately wanted to be involved in. It was amazingly heady. I said to Malcolm, ‘Do you want to come and play at my college?’ and he said, ‘If you can set it up, we’ll do it.’
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John Lydon : That was one of the funniest gigs ever, seeing that fool come out of his coffin. We were all at the back of the hall in fits. They got upset because they said we’d broken some of their equipment.They wouldn’t give us a sound check or any space on stage to put up a drum kit.
Glen Matlock : A couple of our mates, Jim and Steve, got very plastered and insisted on doing our sound, so we locked them in the van, but they punched the window out and did the sound anyway. John was so pissed off, he smashed up the PA, which belonged to Screaming Lord Sutch. Five hundred people watched him do it, but he still denied it to Lord Sutch.
Howard Devoto (Mancunian musician) : My life changed the moment I saw the Sex Pistols. I immediately got caught up in trying to make things happen. Suddenly there was a direction, something I passionately wanted to be involved in. It was amazingly heady. I said to Malcolm, ‘Do you want to come and play at my college?’ and he said, ‘If you can set it up, we’ll do it.’
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