From Aylesbury, these shots of the Disco Students were on the end my Fall Dudley gig film. I gave them a positive review in Alternative Sounds 10 complete with an okay shot of vocalist Simon Cheetham.

The band have an indepth website www.discostudents.com which is where I got the gig date from.

Simon Cheetham, Disco Students at the Climax
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The Fall doing their stuff at Dudley JBs, September 3rd November 1979, not a Cov gig or band, but I did review it in Alternative Sounds at the time. Judging from my write up of the gig I wasn’t impressed with either the band or audience, but a reasonable set of shots.

Plus thanks again to Stefan Cook of the comprehensive Fall website at http://www.visi.com/fall/ for info on the shots.

Fall drummer Mike Leigh enjoying himself at Dudley JBs

My final film of Criminal Class, at the Zodiac again, don’t known who the support band are. Film was very faint so probably none of these shots were printed at the time and for some reason there is quite a few audience shots.

I’ve now scanned my entire set of negs documenting the Cov scene, round about a 100 films, which means, assuming I can manage to free up the time, there is still about six months work to process the raw scans and upload them to this site.

In the meantime if anyone has any idea who the support band are, please drop a comment.

Audience, Criminal Class gig, Zodiac, probably early 1980

The Wild Boys with International Megastars State Express(?) in support, plus open mic spot which features a turn from Craig St Leon main man of Criminal Class. Plus a couple of shots of the audience.

Mark Byers, Wild Boys, Zodiac

A Birmingham gig featuring Crass and the Au Pairs, which I reviewed in issue seven of Alternative Sounds. Crass really pissed over everything ‘punk’ that came before them.

Crass, Festival Suite, Birmingham, July 20th 1979