“Pictures up at http://www.camera1.free-online.co.uk/sounds-sal-2.htm”

“Gaslight Club. I met my partner here in 1973. I can clearly remember knocking on the door of the club in Stamford Street Ashton-u-Lyne, a young man opened the door and asking me if I knew this club was for homosexuals and said I do and walked into my adult life. Back then I was Albert and my future partner Richard. I was 22. We have lived in Melbourne since 1978 and our 50th anniversary is coming up. The Gaslight was not exclusively women, with a mixed clientele. A wonderful place that shaped for the better many lives, ours included”

“That was a great night. The Mondays were a shambles - but a compelling shambles. And I'm sure at this point Bez still had a full percussion rig! ACR the highlight.”

“I've got a ticket stub from the Lesser Free Trade Hall from 20 July 1976 (Buzzcocks first gig supporting Sex Pistols and Slaughter and the Dogs). Saw them previously as "Jets of Air" at a school in Bolton.”

“City Slicker legend.”

“I'm pretty sure whiteout didn't make the gig at Sheffield”

“I am David Plumb's daughter”

“Joy Division's gig was chaotic indeed, aka: the Bury Riot. Ian was deemed unfit to perform, but turned up after some persuasion from Rob (Gretton) Alan Hempsall (Crispy Ambulance's vocalist) was due to take Ian's place and did indeed sing the first three or four songs of a very short set, Ian then appeared on stage and sang 'Decades' (then titled 'Europop') and 'The Eternal' with everyone joining in on 'Sister Ray' - and that's when the fun started. Someone threw a pint pot at the stage - bedlam broke out. A gang of skinheads had also been present at the gig, that was their cue to join in.”

“dellydee is entirely correct: this would have been in 1996. Still a DCSK legend, mind.”

“Went there as a weekly pilgrimage every Friday. We called it The Arts College but it was really the Mcr Poly Union. Saw a number of great acts there close up and personal. I remember talking to Roy Woods sat at one end of the bar after his act and seeing the likes of Focus for 25p paid on the door. The routine was Jillys (the original on Gore Street) midweek, Arts College on Fridays, The University Students Union (Now the Academy) on Saturdays and UMIST on a Sunday. The Arts College was also famous for its sticky carpets, cheap bar and poor decor, you got what you paid for but the place was legend”