Can anyone recall the name of the tour which included a set of Red Noise numbers by the Practical Dreamers and also The Yorkshire Actors Company performing Das Kabinett (The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari).
Tour Dates:
May
21st Bristol Polytechnic 22nd The Cedar Club, Birmingham 23rd Manchester Polytechnic 25th The Porterhouse, Retford 26th The Warehouse, Leeds 27th The Warehouse, Leeds 28th The Limits Club, Sheffield 29th The Kirklevington Country Club, Yarm 30th The Nite Club, Edinburgh
June
1st Heaven, London
I attended one of the Leeds Warehouse performances.
Slightly tenuous connection to this thread, but may be of interest to some. A couple of pictures below of Bill with Frank Chickens - Billy Bragg that is! 😊 These photos are from a post this week on Billy's Facebook page - detailing his reunion with Frank Chickens (plus Hank Wangford) at this year's Glastonbury Festival - 40 years after they toured the UK together. The black and white photo features both Frank Chickens - Kazuko Hohki and Kazumi Taguchi. Kazuko only is in the colour photo.
Back to the Practical Dreamers tour 1981 - the 14 year old me travelled a fair distance in the hope of persuading my brother to take me to the Retford Porterhouse but he wouldn't take me because it was a nightclub and I wouldn't get in. Hence I never got to see Bill promoting Quit Dreaming. I also wouldn't (of course) have got into the Heaven gig. It would have been quite a coup for my first gig to have been Bill plus the fab Josef K...