YMG itinerary

Live performances, television broadcasts and radio sessions.

This is an admittedly incomplete list. Please write if you have additional information.

1979-1980

Date	City	Venue	Performed With:	Notes/Other
7/27/79	Cardiff	Charles Street Carnival	GBH Reptile Ranch Riotous Bros. Beaver many others	Schedule
12/15/79	Cardiff	Grass Roots Coffee Bar	Reptile Ranch The Janet & Johns Puritan Guitars Riotous Bros others	Flyer. The Grass Roots was YMG’s home base of sorts during their early career; they almost certainly played more gigs here.
NA	Cardiff	Casablanca Club		The Casablanca was a converted chapel in Cardiff’s Mount Stuart Square.

1980

Date	City	Venue	Performed With:	Notes/Other
2/14/80	London	Deptford Albany Empire	The Raincoats Necessary Girl Stepping Talk	Flyer
2/23/80	London	Moonlight Club	The Raincoats
5/1/80	London	Clarendon Hotel	Cabaret Voltaire Red Crayola	Flyer
5/15/80	Cardiff	Cardiff Art College	Reptile Ranch
5/23/80	London	The Nashville	Essential Logic
6/10/80	London	Rock Garden	Nick Woods Captain Music
6/15/80	London	The Lyceum	Toyah Au Pairs A Certain Ratio
6/17/80	Paris	Les Bains Douches		Set list: N.I.T.A., The Man Amplifier, Choci Loni, Radio Silents, Wurlitzer Jukebox!, Music for Evenings, Colossal Youth, Salad Days, Ode to Booker T, Brand-New-Life, Include Me Out, Final Day, Cakewalking
6/19/80	London	Rock Garden	The Combo
6/19?/80	Brussels	Plan K		Photos (offsite). Note: Phillippe Carly’s site pegs this gig as June 19, but other sources list the above Rock Garden on that date.
7/80	Apeldoorn, Netherlands	De Gigant		Note: According to Wendy Smith, YMG played other dates on their Summer 1980 European tour, including Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Berlin.
7/12/80	Cardiff	Charles Street Carnival	Reptile Ranch Riotous Bros. many others	Program Live photo
7/18/80	London	Moonlight Club	TV Personalities Furious Pig
8/01/80	London	Clarendon Hotel	This Heat Furious Pig	Photos
8/18/80	London	John Peel Show session, BBC Radio 1		Songs: Posed By Models, Searching for Mr. Right, N.I.T.A., Brand-New-Life, Final Day
8/26/80	London	Something Else taping, BBC-TV	The Damned	Songs: N.I.T.A., Wurlitzer Jukebox! Live photos and video
9/10/80	Edinburgh	Nite Club	Thompson Twins Local Heroes
9/11/80	Stirling	Sword Hotel	Thompson Twins Local Heroes	Notes: The unofficial Thompson Twins tour page lists the Stirling venue as Albert Hall, but the NME and readers of this site have placed the gig at Sword Hotel.
9/12/80	Dumferline	Glen Pavilion	Thompson Twins Local Heroes
9/14/80	Leeds	Queens Hall, Futurama 2 Festival (Day 2)	Household Name Vice Versa Naked Lunch Artery Boots for Dancing The Flowers Frantic Elevators Not Sensibles Brian Brain Classix Nouveaux Tribesman Blurt Durutti Column Soft Boys 4 Be 2s Hazel O’Connor Psychedelic Furs Athletico Spizz 80 Gary Glitter Bokobobos	Notes: Photos from both nights here. YMG played between the Soft Boys and 4 Be 2s. These concerts were filmed by BBC-TV, and edited into four half-hour segments for broadcast. YMG’s “Colossal Youth” appeared in the first segment, along with Classix Nouveaux (“Soldier”), Acrobats of Desire (“Queen of The Wake”), League of Gentlemen (“Dislocated”), Not Sensibles (“Death to Disco”), Vice Versa (“Democratic Dancebeat”), and Hazel O’Connor’s Megahype (“Zoo,” “Glass Houses”). Bootleg videotapes exist. Other interesting trivia: Vice Versa later became ABC. Mick Hucknall (Simple Minds) sang lead for Frantic Elevators.
9/16/80	Nottingham	Boat Club		Set list: The Man Amplifier, Choci Loni, Radio Silents, Music For Evenings, Colossal Youth, Salad Days, Ode to Booker T, Searching for Mr. Right, Credit in the Straight World, Brand-New-Life, Include Me Out, Eating Noddemix, Final Day, Wurlitzer Jukebox
9/17/80	London	Rock Garden	TV21 Dave Hopper
10/3/80	London	North London Poly	LiLiPut Essential Logic
10/24/80	San Francisco	Tenth Street Hall	Cabaret Voltaire The Sleepers Minimal Man
10/25/80	Berkeley	Keystone	Cabaret Voltaire The Sleepers The Gears	Flyer
10/26/80 (day)	San Francisco	Civic Center (outdoor festival)	Cabaret Voltaire Our Daughter’s Wedding others	Live photos
10/26/80 (eve)	Palo Alto	Keystone	Cabaret Voltaire	Flyer
10/29/80	Los Angeles	Sokol Hall	Cabaret Voltaire Monitor Victory Acres
11/80 (no date)	Vancouver BC	The Western Front	e
11/8/80	Seattle	WREX
11/14/80	Hoboken NJ	Maxwell’s	The Cyclones
11/80 (no date)	NYC	TR3
11/21/80 and 11/22/80	NYC	Hurrah!	ESG (according to Rip It Up and Start Again – could not verify)	Set lists included: N.I.T.A., Choci Loni, Radio Silents, Colossal Youth, Credit in the Straight World, Brand-New-Life, Include Me Out, Wurlitzer Jukebox!, Salad Days, Final Day, Music For Evenings, Searching for Mr. Right, Cakewalking. Notes: These performances were filmed for the Live At The Hurrah! DVD..

2004

Date	City	Venue	Performed With:	Notes/Other
1/27/04	Cardiff	BBC Radio Wales	NA	Interview and live session for BBC Radio Wales documentary Colossal Youth: The Story of Young Marble Giants. The band included Alison, Stuart Phil and drummer Andrew Moxham. They performed one new song, “Alright,” which is otherwise unavailable.

2007 and onward

Date	City	Venue	Performed With:	Notes/Other
5/27/07	Hay-on-Wye, Wales	The Hay Festival	NA	Photos and other materials.
10/28/07	Bologne, France	Boulogne-Billancourt Bbmix Festival	NA	Photos and other materials.Set list: Brand ~ New ~ Life, Wurlitzer Jukebox!, Choci Loni, Ode to Booker T., Radio Silents, Eating Noddemix, Music For Evenings, Searching for Mr Right, Constantly Changing, Include Me Out, Cakewalking, Final Day, N.I.T.A., Salad Days
5/29/08	Vigo, Spain	Festival Sinsal 6 at Auditorio Caixaova	NA	NA
5/30/08	Porto, Portugal	Casa da Musica	NA	NA
5/31/08	Barcelona, Spain	Primavera Sound Festival	NA	NA
11/1/08	Nivelles, Belgium	Factory Festival	NA	NA
11/14/08	Cardiff, Wales	SWN Festival, National Museum of Wales	NA	NA

Additional information
YMG cover artist Wendy Smith wrote in with these comments: “In the European tour, we (also) went to Paris ,Brussels, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and
Berlin. Also you left out some of the Scottish dates as well with Furious Pig and the Thompson Twins; I know we played Stirling.”