Ticket
Varicose Veins
Academy 2 (Main Debating Hall)
21st November 1981

“Was at this Gig - second on the bill was the Anti-Nowhere League showcasing their rousing version of Streets of London.”

“I was at this too!! Ian Pearson of Varicose Veins was our mate.
I can remember the singer Aninal wearing some kind of box thing over his groin because of all the bottles thrown at them?
Good times...”

“I was at this gig too, i remember the VV guitarist, i think his name was Toothpaste trying to climb the speaker stack and falling, i had a copy of the Charles & Diana tape given to me by Ian Pearson, it came with a homemade fake porn pic of C & D and a free teabag and sugar sachets, it had 4 tracks on it, the one about C & D and one about shooting Ernest Bishop, i cant remember the 2 others, i sadly lent this to a mate and never got it back”

“From memory the 4 tracks are;

1) Lady Diana 2) I shot Earnest Bishop 3) My Grandma's Got VD and 4) Maggie Thatcher's Got Piles

Those are the right tracks but am happy to stand corrected if the running order is wrong. I also got it on tape; Bought from a band member at the Mayflower I think. Not played it in ages but the lyrics are hard to forget!”

“Hi Mitch.
Its Ian here (Jesus) ive still got the tape .My brother bought a cd of it at The Blackpool punk festival.What great days.Got some greatpics from the Damned gig.Sorry to here that Bert bladder (Dale) our drummer died a few years ago.
Long live Punk Acne and Peas
Ian”

“Hello all, I was at this gig too. Hello Ian i used to travel from Oldham to buy bootlefgs off you in Bury...i once got the Pistols belsen was a gas single off you. What a gig that was. I remember Animal of ANL was pissed up on Whisky, Dave vanian and Rat Scabies invited me and my mate Willie to go on tour with them but we fucked them off in order to go and smash windows at the University with you lads. Ive got the Leila EP on CD.. I made it myself for Steve at X-Records in Bolton...Gonna sell copies of it on EBay and get some of my money back for them bootlegs you ripped me off for. Up The Punks !!!!”

“Hi can you send your email address.do you still collect.can you remeber two other collectors from Oldham Keith and Chris.Chris moved to London in the early 80s.i collect punk memabilia and still listen to all the old punk stuff.keep in toch”