#OTD Tuesday 6th July 1976 The Damned make their official live debut when they support Sex Pistols at 100 Club, London, promoted by High Wycombe's Ron Watts (Ron was later manager of #TheDamned for a very brief spell 😬). #SexPistols

#OTD Saturday 6th July 1968 Woburn Music Festival Bedfordshire Featuring: Jimi Hendrix Experience + Geno Washington + Tyrannosaurus Rex with #MarcBolan + The Family Entry was £1 😱 #JimiHendrix 📷 Michael Putland 🎸Hendrix set was recorded and eventually released in 2009

#OTD Saturday 7th July 2018 Hyde Park, London The Cure Interpol Editors + more What a line up, what a gig 😍 England men reached World Cup Semi-Final, too, as Editors were on stage. #TheCure #RobertSmith The Cure Interpol EDITORS My 📷 👇

#OTD Saturday 9th July 1977 The Jam + Chelsea California Ballroom, Dunstable A headline appearance for #TheJam in Dunstable having supported The Sex Pistols the previous year at The Queensway Hall. Having a wee with Paul Weller by Gary Logden 👇 garyswordz.com/2020/04/29/the…

#OTD Friday 9th July 1976 Old meets new at Lyceum Ballroom, London The Pretty Things headline but first on the bill, playing at their biggest venue to date, are the Sex Pistols. Johnny lit the place up for this all nighter 🚬 📷Kate Simon #PrettyThings #SexPistols

Lovely stuff in these Sounds gig listings, including the famous #OTD Sunday 4th July 1976, where #TheRamones played The Roundhouse AND 165 miles away #SexPistols hit The Black Swan in Sheffield with Joe Strummer's new band #TheClash making their debut🤯

Oasis trending, so let's rewind to Saturday 7th May 1994 at the Old Trout, Windsor, Berkshire where the entry fee was less than a pint of beer at their current gigs. 400 or so in attendance at this wonderful riverside venue. 📷 #oasis at #windsor by Bentley

#OTD 5th July 1976 The Clash meet The Ramones outside Dingwalls, London #TheClash had debuted the previous night in Sheffield while #TheRamones played the Roundhouse 📷Danny Fields L-R - Stuart Keen, Tommy Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone, Keith Levene, Paul Simonon, Johnny Ramone

#OTD Sunday 5th July 1981 The Damned + Ruts DC + Anti-Nowhere League + Vice Squad Lyceum, London "Five years of Anarchy, Chaos & Destruction" Next year, #TheDamned will be celebrating 50 years in the #punk business 😱 Review, Record Mirror

#OTD Tuesday 5th July 1983 Bauhaus Hammersmith Palais, London The second of two nights at The Palais for what would be the final #Bauhaus shows for 15 years. 5th July date released as live album, 'Rest in Peace'. My tickets 👇

#OTD 5th July 1975 5️⃣0️⃣ years ago Marc Bolan back on the road. Front page of Sounds. Dates at Isle Of Man Lido 13th July, Yarmouth Tiffany's 23, Hastings Pier 25, and Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall 26. #TRex #MarcBolan

#OTD Tuesday 6th July 1976 4️⃣9️⃣ years ago Johnny Rotten - Sex Pistols 100 Club, London 📷Mick Rock #SexPistols #Punk #JohnnyRotten PunkAndNewWave

Adam and the Ants released Zerox on 6 July 1979 Adam and the Ants Zerox PunkAndNewWave #adamandtheants #zerox #70s #music #recordcollection #vinylcollector #vinyl Adam Ant

🎂Richard Starkey (AKA Ringo Starr) Born #OTD 7th July 1940 8️⃣5️⃣ today Musician, singer, songwriter & actor. Best known as drummer for the Beatles (didn't play High Wycombe but made it to nearby Slough a couple of times + Stowe school in Buckinghamshire) #RingoStarr #TheBeatles

Gang of Four played their last ever gig on Saturday 5th July 2025 at the Paradiso in Amsterdam. A ground breaking and heavily influential #PostPunk band. Still sounding as raw as ever #GangOfFour Gang Of Four 💙 youtu.be/RPYT-llSuBk?si…

The Clash supported by The Specials gig at Aylesbury Friars reviewed by Garry Bushell in Sounds 8th, July 1978. Pic by Walt Davidson. The Clash The Specials Garry Bushell 🎶Paul Lewis - Wycombe Gigs

#OTD Friday 8th July 1977 Three band #punk special Nag’s Head, High Wycombe Headliners Pink Parts include Paul Ferguson (pre-Killing Joke) & art student Stephen Jones. Support are new local punk bands The Xtraverts & The Pretty both playing their first known public gigs.

#OTD Saturday 9th July 1983 Peter Gabriel Thompson Twins The Undertones At Selhurst Park, Crystal Palace FC #cpfc A farewell performance by Feargal Sharkey and #TheUndertones 📷 found on FB ✍️ from Sounds by Hugh Fielder #PeterGabriel #ThompsonTwins

#OTD Friday 10th July 1981 A Promise – Echo & The Bunnymen Single released Taken from their classic album ‘Heaven Up Here’ 12" inch had a 7 minute version of 'Broke my Neck' #EchoAndTheBunnymen