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Saturday May 27th 1978
                      friars aylesbury phase three - MAXWELL hall, civic centre, market square, aylesbury

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

whirlwind  matumbi
  exclusive friars interview with the blockheads' mick gallagher
  exclusive pictures from this gig in the galleries
   
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  ian dury and the blockheads set list
  I'm Partial To Your Abacadabra; Wake Up And Make Love With Me; Clever Trevor; Woman;  Fair; Billericay Dickie; Sweet Gene Vincent; Upminster Kid; What A Waste; Plaistow Patricia; I Made Mary Cry In A Lonely Bus Shelter; Blackmail Man; My Old Man; Blockheads
 
  band line up
 

Ian Dury and the Blockheads: Ian Dury (vocs)  Chaz Jankel (guitar)  Mick Gallagher (keys) John Turnbull (guitar/keys) Charley Charles (drums) Norman Watt Roy (bass) Davey Payne (sax)

Matumbi:  Glaister Fagan (drums), Dennis Bovell (guitar), Lloyd Donaldson (guitar), Eaton "Jah" Blake (bass guitar), Bevin Fagan (vocs) Webster Johnson (keys).

Whirlwind: Nigel Dixon, Mick Lewis, Rob Russell, Gary Hassett and Chris Emo.
 
  gig poster and flyer (click to enlarge flyer)

   
  ticket
 
 
  memories
 

 
 
  press cuttings
 

thanks to graham britten for the nme cuttings

 
 
  what happened next
 

Ian Dury had reformed the Blockheads by 1990 for sporadic gigs. Dury died in 2000. The Blockheads continue to perform as at 2012

Matumbi had split by 1982 
 
  odds and trivia
   
 
  official web presence
  Ian Dury and the Blockheads official site  Whirlwind official site
 
  sound and vision
  Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick  Matumbi - Empire Road  Whirlwind - I Thought It Was Over
   
 
   
 
   
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