University of Glasgow Queen Margaret Union

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Red Hot Chili Peppers - Freshers week '87

[Toby Dammit]

Love Triggerhappy's avatar.



Kittens invade!

[triggerhappy]

Ha ha ha! That's amazing!

Thanks again for all the responses guys. If anyone has anything they'd like to lend us/scan for us etc. please get in touch with Gary.

You'll catch him on 0141 339 9784 or [email protected].

Cheers!

[triggerhappy]

*bump*

Sorry, fell off the radar a little recently. Work taking over sadly!

Anyone managed to come up with anything?

[AndyTF]

I was Broadsheet Convenor from 1985-1986 and on the ents crew so have a few (!) memories of the union from my time there (1982-1986). I may have copies of the broadsheets from that time and I think I have my diaries too. I have got the board photo but I assume you have that already?

In case you're interested, here are the gigs from 1985-6. I have photos somewhere of some of them.

1985
October 4th The Fall
October 5th The Long Ryders
October 12th The Waterboys/We Free Kings/Ten Ten
October 19th Prefab Sprout
October 26th Marc Almond
November 2nd Propaganda/Then Jerico
November 9th Hank Wangford Band/Strangers and Brothers
November 16th Westside/Gallery/His Latest Flame
November 22nd New Model Army
November 23rd Hugh Masekala (AA Benefit)
November 30th The Robert Cray Band/Kick Reaction
December 6th Blue Oyster Cult/Statetrooper
December 7th Wet Wet Wet/Painted Word (CND Benefit)
December 13th The Pogues/Major 5/Heaven Sent

1986
January 10th The Men They Could Hang/Rick Raucous and The Rowdies
January 17th Love And Money/Hue And Cry
January 31st Erasure/Heaven Sent
February 1st The Bluebells/Love And Money/Hue And Cry/Heaven Sent/Dave Rudden and Jim Creighton/Gallery/His Latest Flame/Candy King
February 14th The John Peel Roadshow/Strangers and Brothers/Strip
February 22nd Steel Pulse
March 1st The Bangles/Baby Go Boom
March 7th The Redskins
March 14th Sigue Sigue Sputnik/The Robert Cray Band/Black Elvis
April 18th Big Audio Dynamite/Whistle/Three Wise Men/Chiefs of Relief
April 26th Pete Shelley/Ten Ten
May 2nd Hipsway (Unannounced gig – performed as The Honeythieves)
May 3rd The Latin Quarter
May 9th Runrig/Heaven Sent
May 17th The Cherry Bombz
May 21st The Bhundu Boys
May31st Tom Robinson/Love and Money/The Bluebells/Hue And Cry
October 4th Sandie Shaw

[Josef]

My favourite memory of the QMU was seeing Steven Lironi's 'blink and you'll miss them' band Flesh (somewhere about 82-84). As the story at the time went, they had been signed by a major label the week before as a Funky/Disco-y band (of the kind popular in Glasgow at the time), with a couple of very pretty female singers and a couple more as back up vocalists. All the A&R men from the record company were up to see their new signing.

Steven and the other guitarist (Keith Band?) proceeded to turn up by themselves, stripped to the waist with 'Fuck' painted across their chests in red letters, turn on a beatbox and play very loud random chords for twenty minutes. The management turned the lights off after five minutes; they kept on playing. Eventually someone found the appropriate switch and cut their power.

It was great!

[Dexter St. Clair]

November 30th The Robert Cray Band/Kick Reaction

This was combined with a cut price Fustenberg promotion so succesful that even the black lager was being downed afterr the pilsner ran out. The crowd consisted of every Glasgow musician who'd ever played a blues lick. Unfortunately very few picked up what was great about the Robert Cary band. an up front , swaggering presentation backed up with great playing. An emphasis on good short songs without overamped and too long guitar solos and a sense of fun.

In traditional blues style his band played a vamp before introducing along teh lines "He's young, he's good looking and he plays the blues. He's Robert Cray."

[Gary Brown]

Well thanks to this site I've managed to get a bunch of stuff about the QM, the most exciting being the 1984 handbook.
So if any of you have anything else you could offer, then please email me
[email protected]

Thanks again

Gary R. Brown
QM Union President 2006-2007