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    1979

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Summary:

Dunfermline & District Accordion & Fiddle Club hosted gigs seven times this year.

Siouxsie & The Banshees & The Scars were billed to appear on Sunday 9th September 1979 as part of the 'Join Hands Tour', however the gig was cancelled (tickets were advertised and sold for £2). The night before, Kenny Morris and John McKay walked out of the band prior to that evening's gig in Aberdeen. They hopped into a taxi, went to Stonehaven, then got the first available train to London. Despite that, the Aberdeen gig went ahead, but the Banshees only played a couple of songs, accompanied by Robert Smith and The Cure's drummer. This led to the cancellation of the ballroom gig and the next couple of dates too, but the rest of the tour went on with Robert Smith playing for both The Cure and The Banshees, with Budgie taking over the drumming duties. (Nearly 20 years later, Siouxsie and Budgie were in a remote hotel in the Lake District, when they went down for an evening meal on their first night there and who should be sitting at the next table but John McKay and his wife. The first time they had met since McKay and Morris went AWOL in 1979...! (Oh to have been a fly on that wall).
Many thanks to Ray Smillie for the above.

Highlights this year included:

The Damned
The Revillos
The Ruts
The Skids
The UK Subs

January 1979

February 1979

March 1979

April 1979

May 1979

June 1979

July 1979

August 1979

September 1979

October 1979

November 1979

December 1979

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