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Buzzcocks play the Band on the Wall, Manchester, a jazz club in a public house, which the New Manchester Review occasionally use for gigs like this, their second-anniversary celebrations. Devoto introduces the band as ‘Buzzcocks, the best in good food’! Also on the bill are Bob Williamson, the Phantom Band and C. P. Lee of Alberto y Los Trios Paranoias.

During the set, Boon is at the bar when an old flatmate from Reading university, Pete Monks, walks in. Monks asks him what he is doing there. Boon tells him he is managing the band on stage and the two watch the set. Pete Monks later becomes Buzzcocks’ driver and tour manager.

A segment of Buzzcocks’ gig at Band on the Wall is featured in the opening intro of the bootleg album Best in Good Food. The compère’s intro is taken from a flexi-disc given away with Reader’s Digest, featuring the big-band sound of Glenn Miller, but on this bootleg it is cleverly edited with Shelley’s two-note lead solo from ‘Boredom’.