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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

DateDayHeadline ActSupport ActRemarks
01/01/1979MondayYankee

05/01/1979FridayJoe Lethal

09/01/1979TuesdayWalter Petrie
Dunfermline & District Accordion & Fiddle Club
12/01/1979FridaySneaky Pete

19/01/1979FridayJody

26/01/1979FridayYankee

February 1979

DateDayHeadline ActSupport ActRemarks
06/02/1979TuesdayThe Billy Anderson Trio
Dunfermline & District Accordion & Fiddle Club
16/02/1979FridayLight Of The World
 

March 1979

DateDayHeadline ActSupport ActRemarks
02/03/1979FridayHigh Voltage

08/03/1979ThursdayRonnie Easton & His Band
Dunfermline & District Accordion & Fiddle Club
25/03/1979SundayThe SkidsTrax Trax were formerly Straits

April 1979

DateDayHeadline ActSupport ActRemarks
19/04/1979ThursdayGrace McLeaver's Broadcast Band
Ceilidh
20/04/1979FridaySh-Boom

21/04/1979SaturdayBlack Rose

27/04/1979FridayJody

28/04/1979SaturdayBlack Rose

May 1979

DateDayHeadline ActSupport ActRemarks
04/05/1979FridayDuke

07/05/1979MondayDelinx
Under 18s Disco
11/05/1979FridayStage 3

14/05/1979MondayDelinx
Under 18s Disco
18/05/1979FridayMahanna
7-Piece Soul Band
21/05/1979MondayDelinx
Under 18s Disco
24/05/1979ThursdayDelinxInsect Bites / Trax / The Subject / Activan / The Hibernating Bears / The DifferentTickets 70p
Trax were formerly Straits

June 1979

DateDayHeadline ActSupport ActRemarks
05/06/1979TuesdayMax Houliston & His Band
Dunfermline & District Accordion & Fiddle Club
08/06/1979FridayCissy Stone

12/06/1979TuesdayThe DamnedThe Ruts / Activan 
15/06/1979FridayJimmy St.John & The Funktastics

17/06/1979SundayThe SkidsThe Edge / DelinxTickets £1.50
22/06/1979FridayStimulators
 
29/06/1979FridayFantasy

July 1979

DateDayHeadline ActSupport ActRemarks
06/07/1979FridayFunktion
6-Piece Coloured Band

August 1979

DateDayHeadline ActSupport ActRemarks
03/08/1979FridayStage 3

10/08/1979FridayClique
5-Piece Soul Band
17/08/1979FridayThe Jets

24/08/1979FridayRadar

31/08/1979FridayScotch

September 1979

DateDayHeadline ActSupport ActRemarks
07/09/1979FridaySloopy

09/09/1979Sunday*
* Siouxsie & The Banshees / The Scars was cancelled (Tickets were advertised for £2)
14/09/1979FridayDuke

20/09/1979ThursdayThe Jets

21/09/1979FridayThe UK Upstarts

28/09/1979FridayThe Jets

30/09/1979SundayThe RevillosTraxTickets £1.50
Trax were formerly Straits

October 1979

DateDayHeadline ActSupport ActRemarks
02/10/1979TuesdayThe Currie Brothers
Dunfermline & District Accordion & Fiddle Club
05/10/1979FridayThe UK Upstarts

07/10/1979SundayThe UK Subs
Tickets £2.30 in advance or £2.80 at the door
12/10/1979FridayYankee

19/10/1979FridayDuke

26/10/1979FridayThe Jets

November 1979

DateDayHeadline ActSupport ActRemarks
02/11/1979FridayDuke

04/11/1979SundayThe RutsThe Flys
The Flys were from Coventry
06/11/1979TuesdayDouglas Lawrence
Dunfermline & District Accordion & Fiddle Club
09/11/1979FridayFantasia

16/11/1979FridayScotch

20/11/1979TuesdayTrax
Trax were formerly Straits
23/11/1979FridayThe Jets

30/11/1979FridayYankee

December 1979

DateDayHeadline ActSupport ActRemarks
03/12/1979MondayThe Hibernating Bears
Under 18s Disco
04/12/1979TuesdayIan McPhail & His Band
Dunfermline & District Accordion & Fiddle Club
07/12/1979FridayT.L.U.J.

10/12/1979MondayThe Hibernating Bears
Under 18s Disco
14/12/1979FridayDuke

22/12/1979SaturdayThe SkidsFingerprintz
Tickets £2.25 in advance or £2.75 at the door
23/12/1979SundayThe SkidsFingerprintz
Tickets £2.25 in advance or £2.75 at the door

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