1 April 1977 – The Stinking Anus, Aberdeen
14 April 1977 – Refuse Club, Bromley
15 April 1977 – Club Foot/V.O.M.I.T. Transmissions, London
8 May 1977 – The Electrical Rash, Morrowvale
29 May 1977 – The Electrical Rash, Morrowvale – Fuzzknobs, The Sidneys, The Simpering Shits, The Right Bastards
3 June 1977 – The Electrical Rash, Morrowvale – The Pinched Loaves, Fuzzknobs, The Subliminal Girls, The Twats – Sibley filmed, with a quote used on ANBC’s Leave It segment featuring local music. Peter, interviewed backstage: “Am I truly a monster? Don’t answer so quickly, think, THEN answer.”
18 June 1977 – Review of Electrical Rash gig by Ant McCormack for Nightly Standard. “Thundering waste of time. And no pork scratchings at the bar.”
2 August 1977 – The Electrical Rash, Morrowvale – with support from The Bright Penises.
4 August 1977 – The Marqueel, London – with support from The Simpering Shits.
16 August 1977 – The Electrical Rash, Morrowvale – After gig, the band sign with the agent from Merde Recordings, rather than UA, whose agent is stuck inside the loo. ‘What Do I Know’ filmed for Whatever Now on ANBC (airdate: 10/9/77)
29 September 1977 – Mid- and Senior-Geriatrics Cardiac Center, Finchley
30 September 1977 – (Repeat performance, slightly louder) Mid- and Senior-Geriatrics Cardiac Center, Finchley
1 October 1977 – The Electrical Rash, Morrowvale – Last 2 nights before its closure due to an injunction for unpaid rent since 1975, totalling £33,215.93. Takings from the door first night are £154, as tickets are mis-advertised at £ 1 at the door.
2 October 1977 – The Electrical Rash, Morrowvale – Last night, with performances from The Twats, Pinched Loaves, The Subliminal Girls, The Sidneys, The Simpering Shits, and Fuzzknobs headlining. A pair of disinclined film students from Morrowvale Central University record and film “Bat-Man ‘n’ Robbin’” which is later included on the 10” Scabby Grooves at The Electrical Rash. Takings at the door on closing night, despite extravagant hype, are £37.12 None of the bands performing that night get paid. Many of them form charities just to prove a point, and later, succeed at not getting paid elsewhere too.
‘FITTING a MUSICAL KITCHEN’ 1977 North Sea Tour Dates
14 October 1977 – The Cheese Wheel, Romford – Warm-up gig
18 October 1977 – SkumNFilth, Morrowvale
19 October 1977 – Morrowvale Football Club, Morrowvale
20 October 1977 – Nevermorrow, Morrowvale
3 December 1977 – Morrowvale Football Club, Morrowvale
(Encore performance, filmed on Super 8 by Doug Nourse, but with faulty sound using a NAGRA reel to reel with no pre-amplifiers. His archives of the full concert would have become the first complete document of a Fuzzknobs show, had it been silent performance art. Instead, the studio recordings would later be matched up during post-production to Nourse’s archival films when the footage was initially transferred to video in 1982, months after the band had split but were looking for a release to fulfill their contractual obligation to the label. The first full show remains still, as yet, unreleased.)
2 February 1978 – The Slipped Disc, Rochdale
3 February 1978 – The Mersey Beet, Maghull
17 February 1978 – STANK, Stockport
‘EATING CHIPS WITH FRIENDS’ 1978 TOUR of Aurora Nova (& Poole, Southampton & Leuven, BE)
14 May 1978 – Nerts, Grantlepool
15 May 1978 – Nerts, Grantlepool
16 May 1978 – Nerts, Grantlepool
17 May 1978 – Nerts, Grantlepool
19 May 1978 – The Itchy Hole, Wyddlecombe
4 June 1978 – The Hit Pit, Poole
5 June 1978 – RASH, Southampton
7 July 1978 – Krankenschvester Festival, Leuven
19 August 1978 – Morrowvale Football Club, Morrowvale
21 August 1978 – Pudding, Wyddlecombe
22 August 1978 – PILES, Rimmington Spa
2 September 1978 – Klamp, Aberdeen
3 September 1978 – Bradish, Glamorgan
14 December 1978 – The Lemon Space, Preston
15 December 1978 – Strings & Roundabouts Club, Leeds
16 December 1978 – Piles, Greater Yarmouth
5 January 1979 – The Big Poof, Morrowvale
with The Jelly (top bill), Porridge Stan and Cheek
12 February 1979 – Sub-Zed, Brussels
13 February 1979 – abomiNation, Brussels
24 February 1979 – L’Ultimo Squalo, Liege
2 March 1979 – The Missing Cat, Leuven
5 March 1979 – Boîte A, Ghent
10 March 1979 – Miko, Hamburg
12 March 1979 – Eine Kleine Fuzzmuzik Festival, Bremen
19 May 1979 – Innocent Funk, Reading
24 June 1979 – Incinerat, Woking
25 June 1979 – GROSS, Didcot
14 July 1979 – Pound19, Watford
2 August 1979 – Assƒault Space, Southwark
3 August 1979 – The 103 Club, Maidstone
12 August 1979 – Morrowvale Town Hall
with The Justines (top bill), Dank Pink Draincoats, The Sniveling Shits and The Sidneys
28 August 1979 – TRAVEL DAY – Flights LHR, UK to Boston, MA
29 August 1979 – Freddie’s, Boston, MA
30 August 1979 – The Utica Majesty Palacial Gubernatorial Ball and Event New York, NY
31 August 1979 – Un4scene – New York, NY
1 September 1979 – The Penis Club, Philadelphia, PA
2 September 1979 – Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
3 September 1979 – The Bursting Flapjack, Hoboken, NJ
6 September 1979 – The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA
7 September 1979 – The Cow’s End, San Francisco, CA
9 September 1979 – The Sally Forsythe Pustule Clinic, Portland, OR
10 September 1979 – Furskin, Seattle, WA
11 September 1979 – TRAVEL DAY – Flights to LHR
14 October 1979 – Tiny Rafters, Feresden
This official ‘Lust Mites Release Party’ gig was supposedly advertised by the label but no local support showed up from either the fans, nor the local press. The gig was supposed to take place at the stone circles overlooking the White Goose but instead was canceled due to hail. The re-booked gig was improvised at the Tiny Rafters Club at nearby Loch Gyl, in which an eight-song set was filmed by the (pre-arranged) camera crew and enjoyed by club owner Baz, plus one errant postal delivery worker who’d dropped by with the day’s mail a bit later in the day than he’d hoped.
23 October 1979 – Electronic Rash, Stepford-Upon-Whyss
24 October 1979 – Loose Morrows, Morrowvale
12 April 1980 – Rooftop, Tesco’s Morrowvale, followed by The Upper Magistrates Courthouse, Morrowvale
9 August 1980 – Electronic Rash, Stepford-Upon-Whyss
“Never Mind THE Fuzzknobs, Here’s the Lawsuit” Album Launch Party gig where two of the songs (“Death By Genre” and “Guns, Cars, People”) were filmed, at the end of an otherwise deeply lacklustre performance. Sibley sat down four times during the set, staring off looking bored, and Gaz, typically turned away from the audience, lay down in the fetal position between songs, next to his bass amp and pretended to nap. At one point Mal rose from the drum stool during one song and pogoed in place instead of hitting anything, until he crash-landed into his kit upon losing his footing. An uncomfortable Steve told Northern jokes in between songs and tried on different sunglasses for each gag, much to the bemusement of the band’s patriarchal label hosts, who considered suing Fuzzknobs out of boredom.
4 January 1981 – Berlin, Germany
~ TOURING HIATUS ~
Late 1989-1990 Let’s Get Back Together Tour
1993-1994 Let’s Get Back Together (Again) Tour
1996-1997 Let’s Get Back Together (Forever) Tour
June 12, 2004 VomFest
September 19, 2006 Glarstonbury Festival
November 11, 2008 Punk Flats Festival
November 14, 2010 Punk Flats Festival
September 18, 2012 Glarstonbury Festival
September 16, 2014 Glarstonbury Festival
April 3, 2016 Fennshire Festival
September 15, 2018 Warm-up Gig #1 (Secret Location: Under the Bridges at the Welwythn Pumphouse)
September 16, 2018 Warm-up Gig #2 (Secret Location: At Gaz’s Nan’s place to an invited audience of Nan’s unhelpful friends)
September 19, 2018 Warm-up Gig #3 (Secret Location)
September 22, 2018 Glarstonbury Festival
March 24, 2020 Metaverse Festival (canceled)
September 20, 2022 Glarstonbury Festival