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Date: Monday, November 1st 1982 404956800 (42 years 31 days ago)
Venue: Hammersmith Palais
Location: London England
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Performers
Pat Fish ( guitar, vocals ) , Max Eider ( guitar, vocals ) , Alice Thompson ( organ, voice ) , Mark Hadley ( Louis Leroi ) ( saxophone ) , Rolo McGinty ( bass )
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[poster for XX]

Notes

Opened for Bauhaus
Credit: pat

📝 Pat Says

Excerpt from 1989 Milwaukee Interview

INTERVIEWER: Now David J (Bass), he had joined up post-Bauhaus, right?

PAT FISH: Yeah, just about the time that "Ziggy Stardust" hit the top 10, they were doing some shows at Hammersmith Pallais, which is kind of a big venue.

Now, I knew Kevin (Haskins-Drummer for Bauhaus and Love & Rockets) and we had a phone call when I was at work. I got home and Alice said, 'Pat, they want us to support Bauhaus at Hammersmith Pallais." I thought, 'FREAK OUT! GET A BAND!"

So we rounded up a few people, we got Rolo (McGinty, guitarist-The Woodentops) and Alice and Max and me and this sax player we used to know.

We went up there and they hated us, it was brilliant. There was 2,000 people going, "FUCK OFF! FUCK OFF AND DIE!" We'd never been on a stage where there'd been guerrillas to protect us from the audience, but this time there was, so we thought, 'Great! Now we'll do 'Partytime'. Now we'll do 'Love Kittens'', and we just played all these ballads at these rabid gothics, it was great.

And they hated us. After the show, I said to Kevin, 'Well, thanks for asking us to do it, mate. It was quite an experience.' And he said, 'It wasn't me.' And it turned out it was his big brother, Dave, who I'd never met at that stage.

We just got on really well. We all sort of started hanging out. When he joined the band, we knew he was going to leave again. He joined officially for six months, but he ended up doing about ten.
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