Saturday, 15 October 1983   University of Surrey, Guildford

Kicker Conspiracy / Tempo House / Mere Pseud Mag Ed / I Feel Voxish / The Man Whose Head Expanded / Smile / C.R.E.E.P. / 2 x 4 / Eat Y'self Fitter / Totally Wired / Clear Off / Ludd Gang

Tim: "Myself, a mate called David, and his girlfriend attended this gig. At first we couldn’t find our way inside and a few members of The Fall, viewed through the building’s rear window, pointed us in the right direction. There were two support bands I remember. One being Serious Drinking: a kind of fringe rock’n’roll indie band who wore matching blue flat caps, and another mob called Shadow Planet, who were a bit more gothic punk. I enjoyed Shadow Planet’s set more, but the audience was somewhat apathetic towards them. During Serious Drinking’s performance, a group of Skinheads started mouthing off and doing Nazi salutes, to which their lead singer retorted: “we have always been an anti-Fascist band” - which gained the approval of the audience. When The Fall appeared, Brix Smith also came on stage with them - it was the first time I had seen her, or knew of her existence. I have the feeling she might have not been on stage the whole time though. During Mere Psued Mag Ed (I think it was) some idiot threw a full pint glass of lager onto Mark E. Smith from a distance of just a few feet. I’m surprised nobody hit the guy. Poor M.E.S. was instantly soaked, he stopped singing, and for a minute just stood there motionless blinking in utter disgust; the band kept on playing the tune regardless, then Mark grabbed a towel and started wiping clean a nearby keyboard which he probably feared would break if it remained wet. The cleaning of the keys caused a discordant howl above and beneath which Mere Psued Mag Ed continued: wordless and unabated. I also remember it was the first time I ever heard C.R.E.E.P., and I was quite taken with it at the time. At the end of the concert, during Totally Wired, the aforementioned skinheads invaded the stage and started doing the cancan (for some reason) to which the audience screamed “f*** off” and such like. I am sure The Fall hated the gig for all the agro, but it was certainly memorable and musically they seemed well on form."
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