Must check out the Maximum Effect album on youtube to see if they’re any good or not, or it was just that night.Īnyone got any news on the state/health of Nik Turner. However, I do remember seeing them two months later in a tent at Bristol Ashton Court festival playing to their audience – ie 10 hippies, two dogs and some kids asleep in pushchairs and they were blistering – Hawkwind’s space rock has rather passed me by -but the combining of this with punk speed and new wavey poppy songs – worked wonders on me that night. When I say I can ‘claim’ to have seen both bands its because I previously had no memory of Inner City Unit supporting Sham at Swindon Oasis and, now that I am aware they were the tour support, I have a vague memory bubbling up or is this auto-suggestion. I suspect the low placing of Ultravox and Jam is that they came at the end of a very long day – my sister and I hitched to Reading and then followed the road signs to get to the venue – this bypassed the town centre so we ended up walking for two hours what should have been a twenty minute walk. If I hadn’t seen that gig and I had come to them blind they would probably have been number 1) 5 Radio Starts 6. BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF SUFIS SOUTH ASIA Copyrighted material ‘This work Biographical Encyclopaedia of Sufis (South Asia) highlights on the biographical. My league rating would beġ Pirates 2 Penetration 3 Sham 69 4 Jam -(Only because I found them a bit disapointing, lost on a big stage and lacking the energy of when I saw them in a small club, summer of 77. Up to this point I had seen maybe 10 gigs. Vintage 1978 READING ROCK FESTIVAL pin button badge Sham 69 The Jam Patti Smith. Sham 69 took a different direction with their music, moving gradually away from punk rock, and releasing an album called The Adventure of the Hersham Boys in 1979. Reading 1978 – Friday afternoon – blistering line up, Radio Stars, Penetration, Sham, the Pirate, Ultravox and the Jam. READING ROCK 1978 Status Quo/The Jam/Ultravox/Punk/Gillan (A)(Framed). Their following album That’s Life which was released in late 1978, peaked at number 27.