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1976 Club Listings - Boston Punk Scene

Dates in YELLOW are ones we're sure of. Other gigs need a date or day to be 100% sure.
If anyone has further confirming info please contact us at The BGN.
Anything in GREEN is an unusual event or something of interest.
Listings for 1977... Click Here.
Listings for 1978... Click Here.
Listings for 1979... Click Here.
Listings - Various Years... Click Here.
The Channel gig listings... Click Here.


Jazz Workshop - Jan 8-11 Thur-Sun Patti Smith

The Club - Jan 14-17 Wed-Sat Chris Martin Group
The Club - Jan 20+21 Tues+Wed The Walnut Band
The Club - Jan 27 Tues Mikey Clean and the Mezz
The Club - Jan 28+29 Wed+Thurs Lovelace

In Square Men's Bar - Jan 13-17 Wed-Sat Garland Jeffries

The Club - Feb 24 Tues The Walnut Band
The Club - Feb 25-26 Wed-Thurs 8 to 10pm Third Rail
The Club - Feb 26 Thur 10 to 2am The Ramones
The Club - Feb 27 + 28 Fri + Sat The Deadend Kids

The Plymouth Rock Party (951 Comm Ave) - Feb 20+21 Fri+Sat

Television, Bonjour Aviators, and Mickey Clean and the Mezz
…Rock Party Prizes:Free Baby Watson Cheese Cakes, Columbo yogurts and jeans from The Lodge
…tickets $3.00

The Rat - Feb 24 Tues Showcat
The Rat - May 25-29 Wed -Sun Sass

The Club - March 2+3+4 Tues_Thurs Stormin' Norman and Susie.
The Club - March 5+6 Fri+Sat Pep's Energy
The Club - March 10 Wed Greater Boston's First Bicentennial Tournament of the Bands

Marshalls, Peps Energy & Willie Alexander & The Boom Boom Band $2.50 Cover
The Club - March 11 Thurs Greater Boston's First Bicentennial Tournament of the Bands
High Heels, Third Rail, The Boize $2.50 Cover
The Club - March 12 Fri Greater Boston's First Bicentennial Tournament of the Bands
$2.50 Cover Infliktors, Rich Kids (They backed out and Back Alley filled in-ed), Fox Pass
The Club - March 13 Sat Greater Boston's First Bicentennial Tournament of the Bands
Winners play…Willie Loco, High Heels and Back Alley….Willie wins.$2.50 Cover
The Club - March 19+20 Fri Sat The Boize
The Club - March 23+24 Tues+Wed Baird and the Year of the Ear (Jazz Funk)
The Club - March 25+26+27 Thurs+Fri+Sat Fox Pass

The Rat - March 24 Weds Mickey Clean & The Mezz and Willie Loco

"A Mezza Zoic Party to say Good Bye To Helanie Saad" (She's still leaving and coming back!...2004.-ed)
The Orpheum - March Roxy Music and Fox Pass
The Rat - March 2 Tues Showcat…live recording session.
Symphony Hall - March 28 Sun Patti Smith

The Club - April 6 The Walnut Band
The Club - April 7 Lovelace
Cohen Auditorium (Tufts) - April 9 Fri Willie Loco and The Boom Boom Concert Band

with Fox Pass and The Atlantics
The Club - April 13+14 Boston's Top Rock ... Fox Pass
The Club - April 27+28 DMZ "Newest heavy metal band in The City"
The Club - April 29+30+ May 1 Thurs+Fri+Sat Willie Alexander & The Boom Boom Band and Reddy Teddy
The Club - May 6+7+8 Thurs+Fri+Sat The Boize

The Rat - May 14 Friday The HeartBreakers and The Bonjour Aviators ($2.00 Cover!)
The Rat - May 20 Thursday Infliktors
The Rat - May 21+22 Fri + Sat Infliktors w/ Willie Alexander & The Boom Boom Band
The Club - June 11+12 Fri+Sat Tuff Darts and Fox Pass
The Rat - June 21+22+23 Mon+Tues+Weds DMZ
The Rat - June 25+ 26 Fri+Sat Reddy Teddy & Susan
The Ra t -July 3 Bicentennial Cavalcade of Boston Rockers

Willie Loco and The Boom Boom Band, DMZ
…guests Marc Thor, Jon Macey, Mickey Clean.
The Rat - July 8-11 Thurs- Sun The Infliktors
The Rat - July 9-10 Fri +Sat The Infliktors and The Miamis (from NYC)
Max's Kansas City - July 11th Sunday Willie Alexander & The Boom Boom Band & Reddy Teddy (NYC Debut)
The Club - July 26 Mon Willie Loco Benefit (Money needed to release Hit Her Wid De Axe)
Featuring… Thundertrain, Marc Thor, The Bloody Virgins and Third Rail
Fitzhugh Lane Park (Gloucester) August 1st , Sunday
Willie Alexander & The Boom Boom Band
with Andy & Jon Paley, The Marshalls & The Boize
The Rat - Aug 5-8 Thurs-Sun The Infliktors
The Rat - Aug 6+7 Fri+Sat The Infliktors and The Heartbreakers
Paul's Mall - Aug 16 Mon Fox Pass and Cap'n Swing (Early Cars-ed)

The Rat - Aug 19+21 Thur-Sat Third Rail and Cherry Vanilla from NYC
The Rat - Aug 26 Thurs The Runaways
The Rat - Aug 28 Sat The Tracks

The Rat - Sept 16-17 Thurs-Fri The Inflictors, The Boize
The Rat - Sept 18 Sat The Boize and Riot (from NYC
The Rat - Sept 19 Sun The Boize

Jonathan Swifts - Sept 20+21 Orchestra Luna

The Club - Sept 14-16 Tues-Thurs Mickey Clean & the Mezz and (New York's) Cold Steel

Messiah Parish Hall - Sept 17 Fri Third Rail, Bonjour Aviators, Boom Boom Band and Sneaker
The Rat - Sept 23-26 Thur-Sun Susan and The Heartbreakers
The Rat - Sept 26 Sun From 2 till closing, A benefit for the forthcoming LIVE AT THE RAT recording.
   Marc Thor, Beams, The Pop Tarts, Reddy Teddy, Willie Loco,
   Sass, Real Kids, Cap'n Swing, Third Rail, DMZ, Thunder Train,
   Mickey Clean, The Boize, The Inflictors and Susan.
The Rat - Sept 27 Mon LIVE AT THE RAT recorded.
The Rat - Sept 28 Tues LIVE AT THE RAT recorded.
The Rat - Sept 29 Wed LIVE AT THE RAT recorded.    Rat Schedule

The Club - Sept 24 Fri Third Rail

The Rat - Oct 1+2 Fri+Sat Reddy Teddy and DMZ Poster
The Club - Oct 8+9 Fri+Sat Willie Loco and the Boom Boom Band and Third Rail
The Rat - Oct 10 Sun Tuff Darts

Dummy's - Oct 19 Tues Stephan Lovelace Benefit with DMZ, Reddy Teddy, The Boize, Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band, Third Rail, Thundertrain, Marc Thor, The Inflictors, Love Lace Lads and Charlie Flannery's Oil Well.

The Rat - Oct 18+19 Mon+ Tues Chris Martin.
The Rat - Oct 20 Wed DMZ and Riot
The Rat - Oct 21-23 Thur-Sat Wayne County
The Rat - Oct 24 Sun The Inflictors

The Club - Oct 19+20 Tues+Wed Orchestra Luna's Lilith
The Club - Oct 21-22 Thurs-Sat The Back Alley Band and the Real Kids

Jonathan Swifts - Oct 25+26 Mon+Tues Orchestra Luna

Tufts Cohen Auditorium - Oct 29 SFri Jonathan Richman and Ray Jason

The Club - Nov 11 Thurs Orchestra Luna
The Rat - Thurs-Fri The Infliktors and The Boize
The Rat - Sat+Sun The Boize and Riot (from NYC)
The Rat - Sun Pinch
The Rat - Mon+Tues+Wed Lawrence Talbot and The Molls
The Rat - Thurs+Fri Blondie and The Boize
The Rat - Mon+Tues+Wed Cloud
The Rat -Thurs Thundertrain with The Dead Boys
The Rat - Fri Thundertrain with The Infliktors
The Rat - Sat Thundertrain with Suicide

Bosco's (Scituate) - 20-23 Wed-Sat Cap'n Swing

The Rat - Dec 20 Mon The Infliktors with special guest
The Rat - Dec 21 Tues Thrust
The Rat - Dec22 Wed Carnelian
The Rat - Dec 23 Thurs DMZ
The Rat - Dec 24+25 Fri+Sat Merry Xmas
The Rat- Dec 26 Sun Cloud
The Rat - Dec 30 Thurs Willie Loco and The Boom Boom Band and DMZ
The Rat - New Years Eve Dec 31 Fri

Reddy Teddy, Willie Loco and The Boom Boom Band and Thundertrain.

Steel Rail Blues…released.
Benefit for Willie at The Club in late July netted $700 to put out his record Hit Her Wid De Axe
Boston the band released Aug 23
Count single…Salt Water Summer
Fox Pass single released in March
July issue of Rock Scene Mag has pictures of the Marshalls, Fox Pass, Marc Thor, Third Rail, Reddy Teddy.

Listings for 1977... Click Here.
Listings for 1978... Click Here.
Listings for 1979... Click Here.
Listings for Various Years... Click Here.
The Channel gig listings... Click Here.


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