HW: help identifying tape 11/5/80

[Alun Hughes]

>  Alun Hughes wrote:
>>Treforest is effectively a suburb of Pontypridd, in South Wales, home of
>>the University of Glamorgan and I would have thought a perfectly
>>likely place for HW to play, though I don't know the Town Hall.
>

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>If they are not close enough to actually justify a legitimate mix-up,
>how about the order that the venues are played during this week?
>..cut..
>>Norwich         University      01-Nov-80  Sat
>>London          Hammersmith     02-Nov-80  Sun
>>London          Hammersmith     03-Nov-80  Mon
>>Croydon         Fairfields Hall 04-Nov-80  Tue
>>Trefforest      Town Hall       05-Nov-80  Wed
>>Chelmsford      Odeon           06-Nov-80  Thu
>>Cardiff         Polytechnic     08-Nov-80  Sat
>>Hull            City Hall       09-Nov-80  Sun
>>Doncaster       Rotters         10-Nov-80  Mon
>>Grimsby         Central Hall    11-Nov-80  Tue
>..cut..

Just to add to the confusion - there is no Polytechnic in Cardiff and
there wasn't one in 1980 - but the University of Glamorgan in
Treforest was a Polytechnic then .....

Alun

>Is playing in the towns of London/Croyden/Treforest/Chelmsford, in
>exactly that order, likely to be a relevent fact?  Or are they all
>close enough in proximity to each other that nightly travel to any
>of them could be equally likely?
>
>I think it unlikely that BOTH Treforest and St.Albans were played at,
>simply because there is so little slack in the very tight gig schedule.
>The only days off from the start and end of the tour were 18/10,
>23/10, 27/10, 7/11, and 12/11.  And on 6/11/80 we know that a song
>was played that does not appear on the tape we are trying to identify.
>
>Perhaps we can still narrow down what date Treforest was most likely
>played at, assuming that Treforest is where the gig actually happened.
>Then there is still the issue of whether tapes labelled as Treforest
>or as St.Albans were *actually* recorded at either of these venues --
>when the date is wrong, sometimes the venue is wrong too...  :-(
>
>
>Captain Cloud
>cjohnson at sur1a.hpsc.hisd.harris.com
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