20 November 1955 – Gaumont

With Gene Williams and Irene Miller, Joe ‘Mr Piano’ Henderson and Jeffrey Lenner.

THE PASSIONS

1981 - College Of Technology

Supported by the Crimmos

Review by Perry M from Vague 10: 'There was the usual mixed crowd of bikers, skins, punks, mods, trendies, etc, which usually means the gig ends in some sort of fight. Amongst the punk contingent was Albert from Andover who still owes me fanzine money. Well, the disco ends, the trendies go out to the bar, and the various tribes of rock fans take up their respective places in the hall. The Crimmos are: Nick Kemp guitar and vocals, Jez Kemp bass and backing vocals, Lloyd (ID Crisis) drums, ? keyboards. They start with a very tight version of Iggy Pop’s ‘Funtime’. Then after the second song there was a break while Jez disappeared to fix a broken bass string. They continued to play a good strong set, Nick’s vocals being particularly powerful. They came back for two encores, finishing with an arrangement of the Monkees’ ‘Stepping Stone’ – disco – exit tribes of rock fans to the bar, enter trendies to funk it up for half an hour. The Passions come on and do a refreshing set which seemed to go down well with everyone in the mixed crowd, the lighting was very good, marred only by the main hall lights being switched on towards the end of the set causing Barbara Gogan, the Passions’ frontperson, to think there was some sort of trouble, but there wasn’t and the Passions finished with a reggae- ish ‘Hunted’. They came back to do an encore with a song with psychedelic guitar effects and dry ice. Well, time for a drink I guess while the disco finished off the night.

TOM PAXTON

12 November 2011 - City Hall

Margaret Cluett (writing in the Salisbury Journal of 17 November 201): As one of the foremost singer/songwriters of New York’s Greenwich Village in the 1960s, Tom Paxton gave a dedicated audience exactly what they were hoping for on Saturday night. He strolled onto the City Hall stage looking just as he had done more than 30 years ago when I last saw him perform and his voice and guitar still sound just as good as ever. No one could help but warm to this endearing and talented man who is a spokesman for human rights, racial equality and conservation of the planet – all delivered in beautiful songs interspersed with moments of great humour. The importance and influence of Paxton’s song catalogue cannot be denied and as his expert accompanist Robin Bullock stated, there is hardly an aspiring folk singer who has not learnt to sing at least one of Tom’s songs. He spoke of his debut at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival, paying tribute to his fellow performers and sang many songs from that era as well as a more recent composition for his daughters. This revealed a truly warm and proud father and grandfather who can equally well write and perform songs of great political comment alongside those about his loved ones. Of course Tom Paxton’s signature songs, The Last Thing On My Mind and Ramblin’ Boy are iconic and had the whole audience joining in and calling for an encore which Tom graciously supplied – paying tribute to the heroic firemen of 9/11. He finished his set without a microphone singing The Parting Glass as a beautiful farewell to us all.

PETER AND GORDON

3 April 1964 - City Hall

Supported by The Emeralds and The Trendsetters.

PETER AND THE TEST TUBE BABIES

Arts Centre

THE PINK FAIRIES

16 March 1977 - College Of Technology Rag Ball

Supported by Blue Angel

Tom Vague: 'The Pink Fairies, formerly Mick Farren’s underground hippy/freak Deviants, are described as 'proto- punk' but I only remember the gig as a pub rock experience'

PINK FLOYD

6 April 1967 - City Hall

Supported by The Nightshift.

THE PIRATES

13 May 1978 - City Hall

Supported by Sixteen

Tom Vague: 'Iggy Zevenbergen was hit in the car park afterwards.

GENE PITNEY

12 March 1964 – Gaumont

Supporting Billy J Kramer and The Dakotas.

20 May 2000 - City Hall

23 March 2006 - City Hall

THE PLAIN CHARACTERS

1980 - College of Technology

THE PLATTERS

18 April 1957 – Gaumont

With Ronnie Aldrich and the Squadronaires.

BRIAN POOLE AND THE TREMELOES

26 February 1964 - City Hall

19 September 1964 - City Hall

Supported by Dick Delmont and The Strangers and The Skyliners Dance Band.

2 December 1965 - City Hall

Supported by The Bohemians and Just Us.

THE PRETTY THINGS

26 May 1965 - City Hall

Supported by The Quiet Five.

4 November 1965 - City Hall

Supported by The Pathfinders.

11 August 1966 - City Hall

Supported by The 1st Lites.

13 May 1967 - City Hall

Supported by The Chapter IV.

27 May 1967 - City Hall

Supported by The Talismen.

1 June 1971 - City Hall

Supported by The Pink Fairies

THE PROCLAIMERS

21 October 2003 - City Hall

23 November 2005 - City Hall

As the young people of today might say, they (surprisingly enough) 'rocked'.

PUNISHMENT OF LUXURY

10 October 1980 - College of Technology

Supported by Program

Despite their magnificent 'Puppet Life' being a hit on the jukebox in the college common room, Punilux were replaced by Supercharge.

QUIVER

14 August 1971 - Alex Disco

RADIATOR

24 January 1998 - Arts Centre

Supporting The Catherine Wheel

12 February 1999 - Arts Centre

Supported by Tribute To Nothing

RAZORCUTS

25 June 1988 – College of Technology

Supported by The Mayfields and Jane From Occupied Europe

Dave Todd: This gig was organised by Mayfields' singer Kev Russell who was running the College Student Union at the time. The college common room was at the back of the college in Tollgate Road, almost opposite the Snooker Club. It hadn't been used for ages, although both Jane From Occuopied Europe and The Mayfields used to practice there from time to time. The weekend before was spent with most of the members of these two bands cleaning the place up. I remember many hours on hands and knees scraping up heavily glued down bits of carpet from the floor. Good gig, not sure that the relevant licensing authorities ever knew anything about it though. I think the building is a workshop now.

THE REAL THING

1982? - City Hall

RESTAURANT FOR DOGS

1981 - City Hall

CLIFF RICHARD

30 April 1961 – Gaumont

With The Shadows, Patti Brooks, Red Price and his Band, Alan Randall, The Nevitt Brothers and Dave Allen.

RIDE

11 April 1990 - Arts Centre

ROCKBITCH

Black Pig

TOMMY ROE

17 October 1963 - City Hall

Supported by Rod and The Cortinas.

THE ROLLING STONES

27 October 1963 – Gaumont

Supporting The Everly Brothers, Bo Diddley and Little Richard.

17 January 1964 - City Hall

Supported by Johnny Carr and The Cadillacs.

18 March 1964 - City Hall

Supported by The Outlaws and the Johnny Quantrose 5

Unconfirmed Set list: Talkin' 'Bout You; Poison Ivy; Walking The Dog; Pretty Thing; Cops And Robbers; Jaguar And The Thunderbird; Don't Lie To Me; I Wanna Be Your Man; Roll Over Beethoven; You Better Move On; Road Runner; Route 66; Bye Bye Johnny

2 August 1964 – Longleat House, Warminster

25000 fans paid 2/6d each to attend this open- air concert and the Stones got paid £1000. The crowd was hysterical and girls were carried way on stretchers. ‘We could easily have some dead on our hands if things go on as they are’ a police spokesman said.

10 October 1964 – City Hall

This show was cancelled.

27 October 1963 – Gaumont

Two shows.

17 January 1964 – City Hall

18 March 1964 – City Hall

Set list: Talkin' 'Bout You; Poison Ivy; Walking The Dog; Pretty Thing; Cops And Robbers; Jaguar And The Thunderbird; Don't Lie To Me; I Wanna Be Your Man; Roll Over Beethoven; You Better Move On; Road Runner; Route 66; Bye Bye Johnny

2 August 1964 – Longleat House, Warminster

25000 fans paid 2/6d each to attend this open- air concert and the Stones got paid £1000. The crowd was hysterical and girls were carried way on stretchers. ‘We could easily have some dead on our hands if things go on as they are’ a police spokesman said.

THE ROSEHIPS

28 April 1988 - City Hall Alamein Suite

Supported by Mega City Four, The Mayfields and Jane From Occupied Europe

One of a series of gigs put on by Dave Todd with Marty and Alan from Bubblegum Splash!

Dave Todd: Quite an eventful night - one member of Mega City Four managed to fall through the temporary stage during the band's set, while earlier in the evening the volume from The Rosehips soundcheck managed to stop the performance at the Playhouse!

ROXY MUSIC

14 July 1972 – City Hall

KATE RUSBY

4 August 2000 - City Hall

26 September 2003 - City Hall

20 November 2005 - City Hall

28 February 2009 - City hall

SAVOY BROWN

20 April 1968 - Alex Disco

26 April 1969 - Alex Disco

THE SAW DOCTORS

10 December 2011 - City Hall

Supported by Keith Mullins

John Palmer (writing in the Salisbury Journal of 15 December 2011): The City Hall had an extremely lively night on Saturday when the Saw Doctors came to play to a large and enthusiastic crowd. Formed in 1986, the band has since forged an enviable reputation as a great live act. They hail from the small town of Tuam in the rural west of Ireland and many of their songs reflect that background. Saturday’s set included several of these favourites including N17, a paean to the road that leads back to their home, and the wonderfully evocative Meet Me on Clare Island. Other songs reflected the universal themes of love, life and sorrow such as their elegiac opening number Exhilarating Sadness. The City Hall can sometimes lack atmosphere, with the generally quiet Salisbury crowd feeling lost in the large space. This was not a problem on Saturday. From the opening bars of the first number the majority of the crowd were on their feet cheering, clapping and singing along. The Saw Doctors showed that great songs and industrial quantities of infectious good humour can conquer anywhere. Most of their performances are of their own songs, but they include an occasional cover. Their latest single is the classic song, Downtown, made famous by Petula Clark, who sings on their recording. Sadly she was not with them on Saturday, but they had plenty of help with the chorus from the audience. This was their first visit to Salisbury and they gave every impression of having a good time, so with luck we won’t have to wait another 20 years for their return.

LEO SAYER

197? - City Hall

Bill Chapman: 'Leo Sayer played, but what year I couldn't tell you, I remember because a few of us spent the entire concert in the bar drinking because the sound was better!'

THE SCAFFOLD

28 May 1968 – Odeon

Supporting The Hollies.

THE SCREAMING BLUE MESSIAHS

26 October 1985 - Arts Centre

THE SEARCHERS

24 October 1963 - City Hall

Supported by The Crescendos.

29 April 1964 - City Hall

Supported by Tony and Howard with The Dictators.

8 April 1965 – Odeon

Supporting Dusty Springfield.

THE SELECTER

6 December 199? – Arts Centre

Supported by Big Shot

Black Pig

THE SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY BAND

11 December 1973 – City Hall

SENSELESS THINGS

9 November 1989 - Arts Centre

THE SHADOWS

30 April 1961 – Gaumont

With Cliff Richard.

12 October 1962 – Gaumont

With Chas McDevitt and Shirley Douglas, The Belltones, The Dale Sisters, The Trebletones and Dave Allen.

DEL SHANNON

10 March 1965 – Odeon

With Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders, Herman’s Hermits, Dodie West, The Soul Savages and Jerry Stevens.

Wayne Fontana left this package tour after collapsing with exhaustion at the Salisbury show.

HELEN SHAPIRO

24 April 1962 – Gaumont

With The Four Jays, The Brook Brothers, The Swinging Red Price Band, The Dale Sisters, Colin Day and Dave Allen.

MICHELLE SHOCKED

25 March 2001 - Arts Centre

Entering a somewhat spiritual phase, Ms Shocked was highly excited at playing in an old church. She tried to coax the crowd into joining her for a version of 'Amazing Grace' but the response was less than enthusiastic. As a result she apparently spent most of the rest of the show with her back to the audience.

SHOWADDYWADDY

17 September 1981 - City Hall

8 February 1982 - City Hall

SHOW OF HANDS

25 February 2005 – Glebe Hall, Winterbourne Earls

3 June 2005 – Village Hall, Ebbesbourne Wake

6 May 2006 - Arts Centre

Set included: The Oak; Cousin Jack; Roots; Union Street; Crow On The Cradle; The Train; Are We Alright.

This was a Saturday afternoon show organised by local solicitor Denise Broomfield in aid of the Duke Of Cornwall Spinal Unit at the District Hospital.

THE SHRUBS

3 March 1988 - Arts Centre

Supported by The Badgeman

SHY

January 1990 - Arts Centre

SIDI BOU SAID

8 July 1995 - Arts Centre

12 December 1996 - Gallery Club

THE 6.5 SPECIAL ROADSHOW

7 January 1958 - Gaumont

Wee Willie Harris, Don Lang and The Frantic Five, Rosemary Squires, Jimmy Jackson, Carl Barriteau, Kenny Baker and his Half Dozen, The Blue Star Skiffle Group and Joe ‘Mr Piano’ Henderson.

This was the opening date of the roadshow

SLADE

18 December 1971 - Alex Disco

SMALL FACES

7 April 1966 - City Hall

Supported by The Impacts.

17 November 1966 - City Hall

Supported by The 1st Lites.

SPACEMEN 3

31 March 1988 - Arts Centre

SPIRITUALIZED

20 January 1998 – Arts Centre

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD

8 April 1965 – Odeon

With The Searchers, The Zombies, Bobby Vee, Tony Jackson and The Vibrations, George Meaton, Heinz and The Wild Boys and The Echoes.

SPUNGE

18 March 1999 - Arts Centre

25 November 1999 - Old Ale House

15 January 2000 - Arts Centre

16 July 2000 - Churchill Gardens

‘Skate n Mosh’ event with Brutal Deluxe, Earthtone 9, Raging Speedhorn, Rachel Stamp and local bands

6 October 2001 - Arts Centre

Supported by Whitmore and 4 Foot Fingers.

STACKRIDGE

1 January 1972 - Alex Disco

13 May 1972 - Alex Disco

Bryan Langford: “Colossus of Rhodes (had) supported them in September 1971 so at the Alex Rooms they asked us to join them for a drink – maximum ‘brownie’ points to us.”

27 October 1972 -City Hall

VIVIAN STANSHALL

199? – Arts Centre

STATUS QUO

8 February 1972 - City Hall

Supported by Paul Brett's Sage

STEAMHAMMER

5 June 1969 - Alex Disco

1 July 1969 - City Hall

Supported by Aardvark and Failed Heritage.

13 September 1969 - Alex Disco

2 May 1970 - Unknown Venue

STEELEYE SPAN

16 December 2002 - City Hall

'The Official Bootleg' CD (Park Records PRKCD75) includes 'The King', 'Black Jack Davey' and 'One Misty Moisty Morning' recorded at this show.

ROD STEWART

11 March 1965 – City Hall

Rod was lead singer of The Soul Agents when they appeared as support to Dave Dee and The Boys. This was approximately ten years before he started binning his talent.

STIFF LITTLE FINGERS

6 October 2003 - City Hall

Supported by The Almighty Inbredz

21 October 2006 - City Hall

THE STILLETTOS

20 December 1979 - City Hall

THE STRANGLERS

1978 – City Hall

19 November 1998 - City Hall

2004 – City Hall

THE STRAWBS

1980 - Arts Centre

From 'Dickie’s Gossip Column', Vague 4, April 1980: 'The Strawbs recently played at St Edmund’s Arts Centre, the first gig of the first tour for over 2 years. Their set consisted of mainly their new album and all previous hit singles. Everyone who went apparently enjoyed themselves, including local looney Ken Stretch who jammed on keyboards in the afternoon sound-check while nosing about.'

SUBHUMANS

6 April 1985 - Arts Centre

Supported by Don't Feed The Animals and Obvious Action

SUPERCHARGE

10 October 1980 - College of Technology

Supported by Program

Supercharge replaced the originally billed headliners Punishment Of Luxury.

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS

5 April 2004 – City Hall

SUPERGRASS

26 August 1998 - City Hall

3 June 2008 - City Hall

Supported by The Days and Futs Lung

Karen Randall, writing in the Salisbury Journal of 12 June 2008: ‘The return of Supergrass to Salisbury was greeted with much anticipation.
Support was by Futs Lung, a four hander rock band from Glastonbury. Lead singer John Bentley blasted out tunes, getting the crowd going with Muse/Radiohead-like anthems.
Next up from Devon was The Days, whose debut album is due to be released next spring. Currently on tour to promote their upbeat Indie songs, they proved a fine accompaniment to Supergrass. Then the band everyone was waiting for came on and the hall filled up with fans of all ages (even children).
Supergrass began with a bang, playing tracks from their new album Diamond Hoo Ha, including Diamond Hoo Ha Man, Bad Blood and Rebel In You. A few technical problems with the lead guitar and bass drum came and went without too much disruption to the set. Gaz Coombes, the lead singer, teased at chucking his favourite hat into the crowd, but thought better of it.
Richard III and Sun Hits The Sky were some of their older songs, which thrilled everyone and got the crowd energised. Pumping On Your Stereo was the last track before everyone was stomping, shouting and clapping for more.
Caught By The Fuzz and We Are Young (sic) were fantastic and all band members played their hearts out. One fan even made it to the stage for a few moments of fame before being removed.
A thoroughly good gig , despite the technical hitches and the queues for the bar.

SUPERTRAMP

1972 - College of Technology

Supported by CORE

Bryan Langford: “In either late November or early December 1972 we (CORE) played at the college in Southampton Road as support to Supertramp. I’ve tried to find out the exact date but without success. This was pre-‘Crime of The Century’ Supertramp but they were still a ‘name’ - I believe they had a financial backer. All their gear was transported by a small lorry which, on the way to Salisbury, hit a low bridge. Unfortunately it was raining cats and dogs that day so guitarist Roger Hodgson’s amplifier got wet and wouldn’t work. I spent most of their set swapping our amp tops between a variety of 4x12 cabinets to try and get a sound he was happy with.”

SCREAMING LORD SUTCH AND THE SAVAGES

19 March 1964 - City Hall

Supported by Dave Dee and The Bostons.

THE SWEET

29 March 1973 - City Hall

8 February 1996 – Arts Centre

This was a bona fide modern ‘Sweet’ gig with Andy Scott, but nobody else you would have recognised off ‘The Pops’.

THE SWINGING BLUE JEANS

19 October 1963 - City Hall

Supported by The Concords and Ricky Vernon and The Pathfinders.

3 January 1964 - City Hall

Supported by Clive Shane, Ricky Lewis and The Avengers.

12 March 1964 – Gaumont

Supporting Billy J Kramer and The Dakotas.

1 June 1964 - City Hall

Supported by The Transatlantics and The Sceptres.

TALISMAN

19 September 1981 - The Grange Hotel

In aid of 'Salisbury No Nukes'

TANGERINE DREAM

21 August 1974 - City Hall

TATTOOED LOVE BOYS

October 1989 - Arts Centre

Supported by French Lips

THE TELESCOPES

2 November 1989 - Arts Centre

TELEVISION PERSONALITIES

The Grange

THE TEMPERANCE SEVEN

8 October 1961 – Gaumont

With Ian Menzies and his Clyde Valley Stompers and Clinton Ford.

10cc

2008 – City Hall

3 May 2009 – City Hall

For the benefit of the purists: this was Graham Gouldman plus two of the old sidemen and two more blokes. Whatever, it was a good show, preceded by an acoustic set of Gouldman’s sixties songs made famous by others. By my reckoning he has written, co-written or played on 19 top 40 hits, of which we heard 18, plus a smattering of album tracks, which pleased my mates who are long-term fans. The one he missed out was ‘Life Is A Minestrone’.

TEN YEARS AFTER

21 September 1968 - Alex Disco

2 January 1969 - Alex Disco

TERRORVISION

13 February 199? – Arts Centre

Supporting Zodiac Mindwarp and The Love Reaction

15 December 2000 – Arts Centre

Terrorvison headlined the ‘Millennium Bug Ball 9 - Xmas Bash’

THEM

15 July 1965 - City Hall

THIEVES LIKE US

22 March 1979 - College Of Technology

THIN LIZZY

26 June 1971 - Alex Disco

RICHARD THOMPSON

22 January 1998 – City Hall

1 June 2004 - City Hall

5 February 2009 - City Hall

21 January 2011 – City Hall

Roger Elliott writing in the Salisbury Journal on 27 January 2011: “In these days of instant fame X- Factor style, it is very satisfying to witness a great singer songwriter and master guitarist who has been plying his trade since the sixties and still continues to evolve and progress. Richard Thompson is all these things (and the recipient of an OBE in the New Year Honours to boot) and remains a beacon to anyone with a love of folk or rock or anything in between.
Backed by an impressive band, including a rock solid rhythm section, a skilful multi-instrumentalist who played all manner of reeds and strings, and a soulful violinist, armed with his trusty pale blue Stratocaster, Mr Thompson proceeded to rock the house in no uncertain terms.
The first set of the two and a halfhour performance was taken up with powerful renditions of songs from his recent album Dream Attic. The Money Shuffle, his opening rant on the subject of bankers was well received by the strongly partisan audience who obviously knew his work well and from that point onwards with these good folk he could do no wrong.
There was the warm anthemic Big Sun Falling In The Water, the chilling Crime Scene, the touching If Love Whispers Your Name, and a skewed take on that great folk tradition - the murder ballad. The grisly account of the serial killing trucker Sidney Wells was delivered at a hectic pace apparently in the time signature of a slip-jig.
Throughout the show Thompson continued to amaze with his wonderfully individual guitar solos. By George, for an old folker he can certainly rock out. Full credit to the audience for staying with him as he pushed the limits of sonic possibilities.
The second half was a stroll down memory lane with old favourites like Wall of Death and Tear Stained Letter hitting the spot nicely. A short acoustic interlude gave us some lovely Left Bank Jazz in Al Bowllys In Heaven, then quite suddenly we were on to the timeless I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight. Mr Thompson and his worthy cohorts saluted the audience and were gone leaving a standing ovation and a warm glow".

THE THOMPSON TWINS

Circa 1981 - Stonehenge Festival

Tony Clayden: 'When there was about fifteen of them and a bunch of Hippies!'

TIGERTAILZ

February 1988 - Arts Centre

Supported by Cherokee

TINDERSTICKS

6 June 2003 - Arts Centre

Supported by James Yorkston and The Athletes

THE TORNADOS

14 March 1963 – Gaumont

Supporting Joe Brown.

TOYAH

13 September 1989 - City Hall

8 April 1993 - City Hall

Arts Centre

TRAFFIC

20 January 1968 - City Hall

Supported by The Cavaliers.

THE PAT TRAVERS BAND

1 July 1977 - City Hall

Supported by Doctors of Madness

THE TRENIERS

21 June 1958 – Gaumont

With The Hedley Ward Trio, The Chas McDevitt Group and Terry Wayne.

Jerry Lee Lewis was originally billed as the headliner of this show.

TRIBUTE TO NOTHING

17 October 1997 - Gallery Club

12 February 1999 - Arts Centre

Supporting Radiator

3 June 2000 - Arts Centre

THE TROGGS

22 August 1964 - City Hall

Supported by The Aliens.

17 March 1965 – City Hall

Supporting The Fairies.

23 June 1965 – City Hall

Supporting The Yardbirds.

24 July 1965 - City Hall

Supporting The Birds.

14 July 1966 - City Hall

Supported by Take Five.

2 December 1967 - Alex Disco

Supported by Modes Move. This was the first pop or rock gig at the Alex.

EDWARD TUDORPOLE

27 June 2008 - Winchester Gate

JUDY TZUKE

City Hall