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I'd say 84 or 85 for this - Billy Bragg and Test Dept were prominent in support of the striking miners in those years.
I remember being skint and drinking lime and sodas- the cheapest thing going- for 15p!
This was in the days when you'd often find just a few dozen people rattling round what could feel like a freezing, cavernous, echoey venue. Shivering in our "dead men's overcoats."
One packed night around this time was a Miners' Strike benefit headlined by The Redskins, from York. Tony Wilson (not yet Anthony H) got on stage and intro-d the band and was roundly booed and abused, I recall.
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