1987
Gigs & Press Articles:
Jan 31st - Manchester Boardwalk (audio bootleg available)
Feb 22nd - Black Horse supporting Jasmine Minks
March - Tart Tart single released.
Mar 14th - Camden Black Horse
Apr 18th - Blackburn Top Hat (audio bootleg available, includes soundcheck)
Apr 19th - Cafe Berlin, Liverpool (see poster for the gig in the top section)
Apr 20th - Manchester International II, support The Fall, Bodines
Apr 23rd - London Convent Rock Garden
Apr 24th - Liverpool & Merseyside Trade Union and Resource Centre
May 1st – Liverpool, upstairs at The Picket, supporting The Farm
May 3rd – Camden Black Horse/Kilburn National (audio bootleg available)
Set list: Tart Tart, Kuff Dam, Russell, Desmond, Olive Oil, Enery, Little Matchstick Owen, 24 Hour Party People
May 9th – 'Everything Else is Foreign' – NME press article
May 9th – 'Nuts in May' – Melody Maker (on cover) 'Urban Blighters' press article
May 9th – 'The Monday Club' – Sounds press article
May 9th - 'Fixing, Snorting, Smoking, Whoring' - Record Mirror press article
May 12th - Stoke Shelleys
May 15th - Brighton Zap Club
May 16th - Cardiff Poly, supporting The Weather Profits
May 17th - Cheltenham Humphreys, supporting The Weather Profits
May 18th - Liverpool Uni
May 20th - Leeds Warehouse, supporting The Weather Profits, The Bodines
May 21st - London Astoria supporting The Bodines
May 23rd - Hull Uni
May 28th - Manchester Hacienda (audio bootleg available)
Set list: Wah Wah (Think Tank), Kuff Dam, Tart Tart, Desmond, Yahoo, Little Matchstick Owen, 24 Hour Party People, Russell, If I Needed Someone (Beatles cover)
May 29th - Middleton Civic Hall (audio bootleg available)
Set list: Wah Wah (Think Tank), Kuff Dam, Tart Tart, Weekends, Yahoo, Little Matchstick Owen, Russell, Desmond
June 6th - Finsbury Park (audio bootleg available)
June 9 - Glasgow Barrowlands, supporting New Order (audio bootleg available)
Set list: Wah Wah (Think Tank), Kuff Dam, Tart Tart, Demond, Russell, Yahoo, Freaky Dancin', 24 Hour Party People
July 3rd – The West End Centre, Aldershot (audio bootleg available)
July 13th – Glasgow (venue unknown)
July 15th – New York, Limelight
July 20th – London Camden Dingwalls (audio and video bootleg available)
Aug 7th - Platt Fields, Manchester
Aug 13th – Manchester Boardwalk (plus video of rehearsal session at the Boardwalk)
September 22nd - Sonic Sounds 7" released.
24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE PROMO TOUR:
Oct 5th - London Portlands (audio and video bootleg available, 1 track only)
Oct 7th - Leicester Princess Charlotte, headline (audio bootleg available)
Oct 8th - Cambridge Technical College (audio bootleg available)
Oct 9th - Northampton Roadmenders Club
Oct 10th - Sheffield Leadmill
Oct 15th - Liverpool University
Oct 16th - Manchester University in the Solem bar
Oct 19th - Nottingham Trent Poly
Oct 20th - Newcastle Riverside, headline
Oct 21st - Hull Adelphi, headline, col, rainy 25 people
Oct 26th – London Camden Dingwalls
Nov 14th – 'Something Could Just Snap' – NME press article
November – 24 Hour Party People single released
Nov 28th – 'Funk Disc Location' – Melody Maker press article
Dec 10th – Warrington legends (audio bootleg available)
Set list: Wrote For Luck, Tart Tart, Movin in With, Kuff Dam, Little Matchstick Owen, Russell, 24 Hour Party People, Fat Lady Wrestlers
Dec 11th - Manchester International 2
This was a freebie given away with Sounds magazine and featured a great alternative version of Movin in With.
