Ticket
Manchester Polytechnic Mandela Building
13th October 1988

“it's a shame too as it was agood venue...”

“Yeah I was at this too. Don't remember going to too many gigs there. This one, first Big Country tour (Stuart Adamson was born in Stretford - will post some Skids stuff up), Mega City 4, and metal-bashing noise merchants SPK are all I can remember there. Think U2 played there around the time of Boy?”

“ok- who can list the gigs at the poly...

spiritualized (or was it spacemen3 ? - yeah, good start!)
go betweens
throbbing gristle”

“I saw the Go Betweens and Spiritualized there, also Too Much Texas (with Tom Hingley), though that was in the upstairs bar rather than the first floor hall/bar.”

“If you go back to the 70s/early 80s then the Student Union was in a different building on the other side of All Saints park, Talking Heads played there at some point.”

“mudhoney supported by nirvana (i think?),”

“Not aware of the Mudhoney gig. I know Nirvana supported a band called Tad at the International 1.

(Threads like this make me think that if the discussion forum is brought back we could open a load of threads like Poly memories, Pips memories, Casino memories, etc to get some discussion going?)”

“i sort of agree, but sadly tony i think it would be me, you and jsz!”

“Ok, back to listing Poly gigs. From the distant corners of my sad mind emerges Toyah, Carmel, Swans and NWOBHM faves Tygers of Pan Tang - pretty sure the latter was on So It Goes! (None of which I was at.)”