SAHB

1972

23/6/72 London Lyceum (Alex) I think this is the gig where the band first see Alex perform; either that or it's the band's first gig. Too early by my reckoning! 11/12/72 Dumfries, SCOT 13/12 Caledonian Hotel, Inverness, SCOT 14/12 Glasgow Art College, Glasgow, SCOT 15/12 Strathclyde Uni 16/12 Kinema, Dunfermline, SCOT 17/12 Watermill, Paisley, SCOT 20/12 Weymouth Grammar School 23/12 YMCA, Bellshill, SCOT

1973

12/1/73 London Thames Poly. Guessing year of this tour - might be 74 13/1 ChichesterBishop Otter College 14/1 Chiswick Chevalier Lodge Club 18/1 London Marquee Roger St Pierre review in NME: "the Fantastic (sic) Alex Harvey Band gave entertainment rather than a technical display of musical prowess - and that, after all, is what live rock should be all about. Evil is the best word to describe the demonic stage presence of Harvey himself... Harvey came closer than anyone I've seen before to the brash womanising evoked by the Chicago blues greats - he did it more effectively even than Jagger. Vocally, Harvey may be limited; as a guitar player he's even more so but in terms of sheer stage presence there are very few who can match this elder statesman..." 19/1 Skegness Festival Pavilion 20/1 Nottingham College 22/1 Manchester Hardrock 25/1 Northampton Fantasia 26/1 Newcastle Poly 27/1 Bolton Inst of Tech 3/2/73 Preston Guildhall 4/2/73 Hemel Hempstead Pavilion, supp Atomic Rooster (certain date) tickets 70p adv, 80p door 8/2 Northwich Memorial Hall 9/2 Brixton Sundown 10/2/73 Stevenage Education Ctr 15/2 Cardiff College 16/2 Brighton Poly 17/2 Bristol St Mathias College 18/2 Finchley Torrington 19/2 Sutton-in-Ashfield Golden Diamond 22/2 Birmingham Tech 23/2 Mile End Sundown 8/4/73 Finchley, Torrington

13/4/73 Glasgow Tech 14/4/73 St Andrew's Uni 18/4/73 Manchester Stoneground admission 40p 21/4/73 Glasgow Uni 29/6/73 Northampton Molton College 30/6 Manchester Stoneground 1/7/73 London Earl's Court, w Slade ?/?/73 Pauline Cooper writes on the SAHB Yahoo! Groups: "... Buxton Festival (First time S.A.H.B performed Crazy Horses in public) Among the bands who performed that day were Chuck Berry, Nazareth, Edgar Broughton Band, Canned Heat) It rained heavily all day, but when the boys took the stage the rain stopped, not to start again until they had left the stage. Roy Wood and Wizard were supposed to perform, but Roy Wood only walked on the stage and walked off directly. The weather was too bad to perform he said, but it didn't stop anyone else performing." 25/8/73 Reading Festival 18/9/73 Marquee, London, ENG (with Big Bud's Brass) 8/11/73 Warwick University 9/11 Manchester Stoneground 11/11 Ayr Pavilion 12/11 Falkirk Town Hall 13/11 Perth Salvation Hotel 14/11 Hamilton Town Hall 17/11 Northampton County Cricket Club 18/11 Southport Floral Hall 19/11 Derby King's Hall 20/11 Hull City Hall 22/11 Middlesborough Town Hall 23/11 Newcastle Poly 24/11 Hemel Hempstead Pavilion 25/11 Birmingham Barbarella's 26/11 Reading Town Hall 27/11 Hanley Victoria Hall 28/11 Barnsley Civic Hall 29/11 Liverpool St George's Hall 30/11 Edinburgh University 1/12/73 Cromer Links Pavilion 2/12 Croydon Greyhound 3/12 Wolverhampton Civic Hall 5/12 Blackburn King George's Hall 8/12 Dagenham Roundhouse 9/12 Plymouth Guild Hall 10/12 Barry Memorial Hall 11/12 Salisbury City Hall 12/12 Sheffield City Hall 13/12 Huddersfield Poly 14/12 Chatham Central Hall 15/12 Cambridge Corn Exchange 21/12 Harrogate Royal Hall
 * Three-week Tour supporting Slade roundabout here

1974

11/2/74 Leicester Square Empire Ballroom, London, ENG (Valentine Ball, with The Troggs & The London Scottish Regiment's pipes and drums) 16/2/74 Chelmsford, Mid-Essex Tech * Guessing year of this tour - could be 73 17/2 Bristol, St Mathias College 18/2 Finchley, Torrington (same time last year?) 19/2 Birmingham Town Hall* *supp Mott the Hoople 21/2 Falkirk Town Hall* 22/2 Glasgow, Greens Playhouse* 24/2 Edinburgh Empire* 25/2 Newcastle City Hall* 27/2 Radio Medway 2/3/74 Newcastle Mayfair 3/3 Halifax Clarence Club ?/?/74 Pauline Cooper writes on the SAHB : "... Manchester Umist (Manchester University). Two bands that I can remember supported the lads were Beckett and String Driven Thing." 6/3 Hull Intercontinental 7/3 London Marquee 8/3 Glamorgan Poly 9/3 St Albans College 10/3 Birmingham Newman College 15/3 Liverpool Cavern 16/3 Burton-on-Trent, 76 Club 17/3 Chester College 22/3 Sunderland Locarno 23/3 Harrogate College 24/3 Nottingham College 27/3 Stoke, Changes Club 30/3 Southgate, Badgers Club 26/5/74 Glasgow Apollo 27/5/74 Edinburgh 9th May 1974 Leeds Town Hall Simon Orrell review: "Almost a year ago the SAHB came to Leeds as support group to Slade. They played to packed audience of teenyboppers on that day and unnecessarily shocked many of them with their bizarre, over-suggestive and at times degrading act. But at Leeds Town Hall last Thursday they showed just how a band can mature in 12 months both visually and musically. The 39-year-old Glaswegian has with him a band of immense talent. The extraordinary-looking Zal Cleminson on lead guitar is horrific. If he wasn't such a capable musician he would probably be appearing somewhere with Christopher Lee. [Alex] has some new ideas on his new album, CanÕt Get Enough, and indeed the song of that title is a revelation in itself. Harvey puts so much effort into his act yet doesn't seem to break into a sweat. A nice little ditty about his childhood hero, Sgt Fury is an experiment that has proved very successful. I wonder now whether the band might try to widen its musical field. Incidentally their stage props are quite good. An old fashioned streetlamp lights up a wall which Harvey duly scrawls on with a can of spray paint - all good stuff." 10th Sheffield City Hall 11th Liverpool Stadium 12th Preston Guild Hall 13th Swansea Top Rank 15th Brighton Top Rank 16th Hanley Victoria Hall 17th Newcastle Mayfair Ballroom 18th Nottingham University 19th Guildford Civic Hall 22nd Perth City Hall 25th Dundee Caird Hall 26th Glasgow Apollo 27th Edinburgh Caley Cinema 28th Manchester Free Trade Hall 29th Birmingham Town Hall 30th Bristol Colston Hall 31st Hull City Hall 1st June 1974 Leicester Polytechnic 3rd Wolverhampton Civic Hall 7th London Rainbow 8th Southend Kursal 9th Norwich Theatre Royal (The above dates, beginning with 9/5/74, were provided by members of the SAHB Yahoo! Groups.) 20/7/74 Knebworth Fest Allman Bros Band, Van Morrison, Doobie Bros, Mahavishnu Orchestra, SAHB, Tim Buckley. Tickets £2.75adv, £3 gate 23/8/74 Reading Fest 18/9/74 London Marquee 3/10/74 Leicester, de Montford Hall 4/10 Birmingham Town Hall 6/10 London Palladium 8/10 Portsmouth Guildhall 9/10 Sheffield City Hall 10/10 Bradford, St George's Hall 11/10/74 Lancaster Uni 12/10 York Uni 13/10 Glasgow Apollo 14/10 Edinburgh Usher Hall 16/10 Manchester Palace 18/10 Newscastle Mayfair 19/10 Southend Kursaal then Euro tour w Deep Purple 8/11/74 Band leave for US tour

Fall 1974 Travis Electric Company, Dallas, TX Fall 1974 Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, OH Fall 1974(?) ?, Syracuse, NY 11/12/74 Roxy Theater, Northampton, PA


 * Press receptions in Boston, Philly and NY; then band play Trenton, NJ; first US gig (finished with ÔAnthemÕ, encored with ÔSchoolÕs OutÕ then ÔJumping Jack FlashÕ; next night band perform first-ever live broadcast on NY radio station WQIV FM - Electric Lady Studios (broadcast in quad sound!) Band will play a week at The Whiskey (?) and stay in US till mid-December.

1975

1/75 Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ 25/3/75 Allen Theater, Cleveland, Ohio 2/8/75 Sam Houston Coliseum, Houston, TX 14/8/75 Memorial Auditorium, Chattanooga, TN 19/8/75 Carolina Colliseum, Columbia, SC 28-29/8/75 Jai Alai Fronton, Miami, FL (Venue where equipment truck robbery influences Harvey solo tune "The Mafia Stole My Guitar") 11/75 Michigan Palace, Detroit, MI

13/3/75 Northhampton, PA, USA Roxy Theatre 1/5/75 Newcastle City Hall 2/5 Edinburgh Usher Hall 3/5 Dundee Caird Hall 4/5 Glasgow Apollo 7/5 Liverpool Empire 8/5 Bradford St George's Hall 10/5 Leeds Uni 11/5 Preston Guildhall 12/5 Manchester Free Trade Hall 13/5 Sheffield City Hall 15/5 Birmingham Odeon 16/5 Portsmouth Guildhall 17/5 Southend Kursaal 20/5 Leicester de Montford Hall 21/5 Watford Town Hall 22/5 Cardiff Capitol 23/5 Bristol Colston Hall 24/5 Hammersmith Odeon Delilah & Soul in Chains recorded live at this gig. The tour sold out some venues three weeks in advance. 17/5/75 Stoke City FC, supp Yes Tickets £2.50. Also playing: Ace and Gryphon 22/12/75 Hammersmith Odeon 23/12/75 Hammersmith Odeon 24/12/75 Hammersmith Odeon (added due to demand) 31/12/75 Glasgow Apollo

1976

2/1/76 Glasgow Apollo 3/1/76 Glasgow Apollo (added due to demand) 14/2/76 Porterhouse, Retford, Notts 30/4/76 Ipswich Gaumont Tickets for this tour £1.25 - £2.50 1/5/76 Southend Kursaal *also listed as Bracknell 2/5 Coventry Theatre 3/5 Oxford New Theatre 5/5 Hull ABC Theatre 6,7/5 Newcastle City Hall 8/5 Leeds Uni 9,10/5 Manchester Free Trade Ctr 10/5/75 QPR FC, supp Yes 11/5 Liverpool Empire 12/5 Preston Guildhall 15/5 Bracknell Sports Centre *also listed as Southend 16/5 Stoke, Trentham Gardens 17,18/5 Bristol, Colston Hall 20/5 Southampton Gaumont 21/5 Bournemouth Winter Gardens 22/5 Leicester de Montford Hall 23/5 Wolverhampton Civic Hall 24,25/5 Birmingham Odeon 26,27/5 Sheffield City Hall 28/5 Edinburgh Odeon 1/6/76 Portsmouth Guildhall 2/6 Eastbourne Congress Theatre 3/6 Taunton Odeon 24,25/5/76 Birmingham Odeon, w supp Pat Travers 28/5/76 Edinburgh Odeon (only Scottish date on tour) 29/5/76 Edinburgh Odeon (added due to demand - were there more?) Who Boot the Boot In (Who, SAHB, Little Feat, Outlaws): 31/5/76 Charlton Athletic FC, London 5/6/76 Celtic Park, Glasgow Scottish press report SAHB blow the Who offstage. English press doesn't! Alex has boasted he's got about 400 cousins in the audience... and congratulates the crowd on their behaviour, noting the English crowd at Charlton last week were a bit violent. 12/6/76 Swansea FC, Wales 4/7/76 Turku festival, Finland Sunday Mail quotes Alex as saying although Chuck Berry's playing, SAHB are actually headlining, although Alex will let Chuck go on last... 3/10/76 Cirque, Brussels 4/10/76 Hamburg Alex performs as Hitler in Hamburg; he says it doesn't worry him, although he's more apprehensive about doing it in Dusseldorf, Frankfurt and Berlin. But he will anyway. 12/10/76 Sweden Alex collapses near the beginning of the show but manages to carry on. Later he has a more serious collapse. The tour is cancelled and Alex is flown home under sedation; his agent says: "Alex is suffering from exhaustion and his doctor is seeing him every day."

1977

SAHBWA: 26/1/77 Derby, King's Hall 27/1 Carlisle Market Hall 28/1 Edinburgh University 29/1 Glasgow, Strathclyde Uni 30/1 Aberdeen Music Hall 31/1 Glasgow Tiffany's 2/2/77 Leeds Uni 3/2 Liverpool Uni 4/2 Durham Uni 5/2 Lancaster Uni 6/2 Redcar, Coatham Bowl 7/2 Hull, Tiffany's 8/2 Manchester, Electric Circus 9/2 Cardiff Top Rank 11/2 Cambridge Corn Exchange 12/2 Southend Kursaal 13/2 Southampton Top Rank 15/2 Portsmouth Locarno 16/2 Birmingham Uni 17/2 Hanley Victoria Hall 18/2 Newcastle Mayfair (La Verne review) 19/2 Sheffield Uni 20/2 Bristol Locarno 23/2 London Marquee 24/2 London Marquee 25/2 Uxbridge, Brunel Uni 26/2 Bracknell Sports Centre (Barry Flatman review) 27/2 Dunstable Civic Hall 28/2 Swansea Top Rank SAHBWA 7/4/77 Rainbow Theatre, London (w Krazy Kat) xx/8/77 Reading Fest - SAHB's last live appearance