Manchester Boardwalk 13th Aug 1987
There isnt much early video footage of the band around unfortunately and what there is is pretty poor quality as you can imagine seeing as it came from VHS tapes that were played a lot and got gradually worse over time. It is a shame cos some of these early shows by the bands were pretty legendary in my opinion and you can just see and hear the magic. To some it may sound a mess but to me and many others like the people visiting this site of mine, that mess is what made them different, they were just so funky and dirty in the early days and its a shame that Shaun always dismissed the first album as rubbish really cos I still think it sounds fresh today.
Anyway, here you go, some footage from this gig:
Earlier that same day the band were in the rehearsal studio kicking some tunes about so this theory about them being just a bunch of lazy dossers could not be further from the truth, the band actually worked their socks off to eventually gain the success they got.