launched into 'songs' - we use the term lightly - from debutДЄlbum 'First Comes First'. Swaggering on stage, like a youthful John Lydon, ginger lead singer Tom Atkins and co. Japanese-punk duo Comanechi followed, before the arrival of the pork-pie hatted, braces-wearing, five-piece Paddingtons. Without shame - a young Siousxie meets Justine Frischmann, but, sadly, with none of the vocal charisma.

Well, we wished someone had switched off the first support band Battant - but no such luck all pose and little substance, and unnecessarily loud. I'm not being wimpish when I say they were over-amplified that's why I switched them off.' It was something different but they were too loud and the space was not big enough. But enough was enough and I unplugged them.'Дiggle adds: 'They were bloody awful and untogether. Glen was in a little pink number I seem to remember Lydon was in a ripped jumper. Jeremy Diggle, a student and a co-promoter who was there on that legendary night (and who unveiled a commemorative blue plaque of the event tonight), recounts: 'The whole band had a presence. Memories of the evening were hazy for all who those present. On the same bill that night on November 6th 1975, was 'Bazooka Joe' featuring Stuart Goddard, who later split from 'Bazooka Joe' and became Adam Ant. Faves of Pete Doherty, these Hull jokers headlined the 30th anniversary debut gig of the Sex Pistols' 'performing' at Central St Martins.Д«ack in those spitting days, four street punks marched their way across the Charing Cross Road to St Martins College, clambered on stage and played a shambolic twenty minute set, before the promoter pulled the plug.

What could be better for the career of young punk upstarts The Paddingtons than dueting with an ex-Pistol?ДЇ**k-all, is the considered answer.

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