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.”