1979-03-09 London - Isleworth Polytechnic (England)

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Robert Smith
Laurence Tolhurst
Michael Dempsey

Day of the week: Friday
Tour: -

Attendance: ~250
Capacity:

thanks to Dave R.

from JC Moglia

from the book 'Cured - The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys' (Lol Tolhurst)

At Isleworth Poly, the skinhead with the eagle tattoo and his band of jolly skins turned up and served as our protectors from other not-so-jolly racist thugs who were intent on making trouble. When a huge brawl broke out, our ally "calmed" things down by whirling a wooden crutch he'd liberated from some guy with a broken leg, clearing a space between the skins and the stage. As local security had fled at the first sign of trouble, we were grateful for Eagle's presence.

from Dave R.

... it was held in the college hall ,this venue wasn't a regular venue and there wer only about 250 people there. There was a fight amounst the crowd which I remember because one bloke had a broken leg and I recall seeing a crutch being used as a weapon. The concert itself was based around The Three Imaginary Boys album with 10.15 and Killing AN Arab as encores

from Graham K.

I was one of the 250 people at the above gig and remember it well. I also remember the fight mentioned which involved a member of the local Whitton UK Subs crew, he was the guy with the crutch. Nothing very serious just a lot of thrashing around!
The gig was great, no stage just the band standing on the floor at one end, very little in the way of amplification, lighting etc... all very basic.