The Meteors - 1985 Gigs!
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| 1985 - Me in my 'Eat The Baby' Tee - Hounslow College |
School & College just didn't work for me! so towards the end of 1984 I joined a YTS (Youth Training Scheme) at Heathrow Airport and went headlong into 1985 with full time employment and earning £25 a week! but as you can imagine, every weekend was full on gigs, gigs & gigs! mostly at the Klub Foot in Hammersmith and every spare time I had was looking through the records at Our Price or Beggars Banquet in Kingston!
The Meteors were still the band that had something for me but I got to admit that after Rick Ross left the band (mid 1984) I really do believe the wheels started to fall off! the artwork on the records was appalling, the songs were way to fast and with no melody or direction by the end of summer 1985 I decided not to buy anymore Meteors stuff and saw them at the Klub Foot for the very last time on 2nd Nov 1985! By Sept 1985 I got myself up to Camden Town and started going to rockin' clubs at The Electric Ballroom in Camden & Silks in Shepherds Bush, just going back to original Rockabilly music, the clothes and the girls were stunning (which sort of helped my decision).
So by the end of 1985 this is where my story with Psychobilly and The Meteors comes to an end! They did change my musical direction and I still have all the early records, T-shirts, badges and magazines! they were my band! and I didn't want to share them with the big wide world! I didn't want them to change! but like all good things they did and they just were not the same by mid 1985 (but I kept hoping they would go back to that sound and style) but alas they never did! I have not seen them live since Nov 1985! I don't think I ever will again!
I have seen Nigel Lewis do a few gigs before retiring in The Tall Boys and his Zorchmen project where he usually smashed his way through some early Meteors stuff (which I loved) so all say Zorch! and lets get the final chapter for me .....The Meteors 1985 gig list & official record releases!
Line up for 1985 was
Paul Fenech, Ian 'Spider' Cubitt & Nev 'The Spectre' Hunt.
1985 saw just one LP release 'Monkey's Breath' and a few 12" and 45's
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| Monkey's Breath - LP |
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| 12" |
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| 12" |
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| 45 rpm single |
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| 45 rpm single |
(all gigs with # are the ones I did attend)
1 - Sat 26th Jan - The Loft, Berlin, Germany.
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| Photo - The Loft, Berlin © Petra Gall |
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| The Loft, Berlin © Petra Gall |
2 - Thurs 31st Jan - Paard Van Troje, Den Haag, Neteherlands
3 - Wed 20th Feb - Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany.
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| Photo - Fabrik © Uwe Uwe |
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| Photo - Fabrik © Uwe Uwe |
4 - Tues 5th March - Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands + Batmobile.
5 - Fri 19th April - Swindon Technical College, Swindon, UK
6 - Mon 22nd April - Adam & Eve's, Leeds, UK + All Over The Carpet
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| Flyer 1 |
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| Flyer 2 |
7 - Wed 24th April - The Pyramid Club, Liverpool, UK
8 - Thurs 25th April - King George's Hall, Blackburn, UK + Popeye's Dik
9 - Fri 26th April - Oddy's Bar, Oldham, UK
10 - Tues 30th April - Riverside Club, Fetcham, Leatherhead, UK + The Rapids.
11 - Wed 1st May - The Pink Toothbrush, Rayleigh, Essex, UK + Outer Limits.
12 - Thurs 2nd May - Dingwalls, Camden, London
13 - Sat 4th May - Burtwood Recreation Centre, Burntwood, Midlands, UK
14 - Sun 19th May - Rock Arena, Poznan, Poland - + Hanoi Rocks + Lombard
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| Sun 19th May 1985 |
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| Sun 19th May 1985 |
15 - Sat 8th June - Donington Park, 'Scooter Rally Day 2' Donington, UK + Bad Manners + The Gents.
16 - Mon 10th June - Shelly's, Stoke-On-Trent, UK
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| Flyer |
17 - Sat 10th Aug - Klub Foot, Clarendon Hotel, Hammersmith + The Outer Limits + Long Tall Texans + Temple Slang #
18 - Sat 1st Sept - Saltlageret, Copenhagen, Denmark + City-X + Not Wanted (show did NOT happen)
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| Flyer Courtesy - Peter Glob Frandsen |
19 - Fri 6th Sept - The Duchess, Leeds, UK
20 - Sat 14th Sept - Porterhouse, Retford, Notts, UK
21 - Fri 20th Sept - Strutz, Glasgow, Scotland .
22 - Tues 22nd Oct - The Duchess, Leeds, UK
23 - Friday 25th Oct - Granny's, Portsmouth, UK
24 - Sat 2nd Nov - Klub Foot, Clarendon, Hammersmith + Turnpike Cruisers + Long Tall Texans + The Outer Limits #
