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Sex Pistols play Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester. Without either a bass player or a drummer, Buzzcocks are unable to make their planned debut. Their place is quickly filled by the Mandala Band from Blackburn, and the show plays to a hundred people, each paying 50p. Instead, Diggle has arranged to meet a guitarist outside the venue, totally unaware of what is happening inside. Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren is hustling kids inside, including Diggle. Pete Shelley is doorman for the evening and, when Diggle introduces himself as a bass player wanting to form a band, Shelley quickly introduces him to Devoto.