Various - 100 Club Punk Special (Sep. 20, 1976)

100 Club, a London venue of great importance is under a closure threat. The story emerged in September, but I couldn't help to write about it even if I am very late. A relevant campaign is running.





Although its history as a venue starts from the 40's its focal point was in the late 70's where many of the groups of UK punk found a place to play. Most importantly, on 20 and 21 September 1976 the 100 Club Punk Special took place there, an event with which punk entered the limelight.

The line-up was:
Monday, 20 September
Sex Pistols
The Clash
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Subway Sect
Tuesday, 21 September
Buzzcocks
The Damned
Chris Spedding & The Vibrators
Stinky Toys




















Siouxsie, Michelle and Steve Severin at the front of the queue, the 100 Club, 20 September, 1976

Jon Savage writes in "England's Dreaming" (p.217,218): "'Always announce your music in the most theatrical manner possible' McLaren wrote in a retroactive manifesto. He was preparing his final media assault; the movement was to be born by caesarian if necessary. The idea of a festival was good: if it could be done at CBGBs or Mont de Marsan, then he would make the English festival the way to secure England's lead. The 'Punk Rock Festival' was the climax of his campaign to woo the record companies." (...) 'Its was a good idea of Malcolm's,' says Simon Barker, 'because it gave the media the idea that Punk Rock was big enough to have a festival. Really it was just a couple of nuts down at the 100 Club, but people still go there just to see the place. It's like some Mecca.'(...) 'That first afternoon, when people were first putting down their gear and sound checking,' say John Ingham, 'Ron Watts was saying that there were going to be hundreds of people down that night and the place would be packed. People told him he was out of his mind, but he went out, came back and said there were about five hundred people outside. This was the first time I'd seen a Punk I didn't know in the street.'"

Tracklisting:
01-Siouxsie & the Banshees - The Lords Prayer
02-Clash - White Riot
03-Clash - London's Burning
04-Clash - I'm So Bored With The USA
05-Clash - How Can I Understand The Flies
06-Clash - Protex Blue
07-Clash - Deadly Serious
08-Clash - Deny
09-Clash - 48 Hours
10-Clash - What's My Name
11-Clash - Janie Jones
12-Clash - 1977
13-Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK
14-Sex Pistols - I Wanna Be Me
15-Sex Pistols - Seventeen
16-Sex Pistols - New York
17-Sex Pistols - No Lips
18-Sex Pistols - Submission
19-Sex Pistols - Liar
20-Sex Pistols - No Feelings
21-Sex Pistols - Substitute
22-Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
23-Sex Pistols - Problems
24-Sex Pistols - No Fun (cut)

download link (part1): here (link removed due to a relevant request) :-(
download link (part2): here (link removed due to a relevant request) :-(