YMG itinerary
Live performances, television broadcasts and radio sessions.

Updated May 28, 2007.  This is an admittedly incomplete list.  Please write if you have additional information.

1979

Date City Venue Performed With: Notes/Other
7/27/79 Cardiff Charles Street Carnival GBH
Reptile Ranch
Riotous Bros.
Beaver
many others 		Schedule
12/15/79 Cardiff Grass Roots Coffee Bar Reptile Ranch
The Janet & Johns
Puritan Guitars
Riotous Bros
others		 Flyer.  The Grass Roots was YMG's home base of sorts during their early career; they almost certainly played more gigs here.
NA Cardiff Casablanca Club   The Casablanca was a converted chapel in Cardiff's Mount Stuart Square.

1980

Date City Venue Performed With: Notes/Other
2/14/80 London Deptford Albany Empire The Raincoats
Necessary Girl
Stepping Talk		 Flyer
2/23/80 London Moonlight Club The Raincoats  
5/1/80 London Clarendon Hotel Cabaret Voltaire
Red Crayola		 Flyer
5/15/80 Cardiff Cardiff Art College Reptile Ranch  
5/23/80 London The Nashville Essential Logic  
6/10/80 London Rock Garden Nick Woods
Captain Music		  
6/15/80 London The Lyceum Toyah
Au Pairs
A Certain Ratio		  
6/17/80 Paris Les Bains Douches   Set list: N.I.T.A., The Man Amplifier, Choci Loni, Radio Silents, Wurlitzer Jukebox!, Music for Evenings, Colossal Youth, Salad Days, Ode to Booker T, Brand-New-Life, Include Me Out, Final Day, Cakewalking
6/19/80 London Rock Garden The Combo  
6/19?/80 Brussels Plan K   Photos (offsite).
Note:  Phillippe Carly's site pegs this gig as June 19, but other sources list the above Rock Garden on that date.
7/80 Apeldoorn, Netherlands De Gigant   Note: According to Wendy Smith, YMG played other dates on their Summer 1980 European tour, including Amsterdam, Rotterdam and
Berlin.
7/12/80 Cardiff Charles Street Carnival Reptile Ranch
Riotous Bros.
many others		 Program
Live photo
7/18/80 London Moonlight Club TV Personalities
Furious Pig		  
8/01/80 London Clarendon Hotel This Heat
Furious Pig		 Photos
8/18/80 London John Peel Show session, BBC Radio 1   Songs: Posed By Models, Searching for Mr. Right, N.I.T.A., Brand-New-Life, Final Day
8/26/80 London Something Else taping, BBC-TV The Damned Songs: N.I.T.A., Wurlitzer Jukebox!
Live photos and video
9/10/80 Edinburgh Nite Club Thompson Twins
Local Heroes		  
9/11/80 Stirling Sword Hotel Thompson Twins
Local Heroes		 Notes: The unofficial Thompson Twins tour page lists the Stirling venue as Albert Hall, but the NME and readers of this site have placed the gig at Sword Hotel.
9/12/80 Dumferline Glen Pavilion Thompson Twins
Local Heroes		  
9/14/80 Leeds Queens Hall,
Futurama 2 Festival (Day 2)		 Household Name
Vice Versa
Naked Lunch
Artery
Boots for Dancing
The Flowers
Frantic Elevators
Not Sensibles
Brian Brain
Classix Nouveaux
Tribesman
Blurt
Durutti Column
Soft Boys
4 Be 2s
Hazel O'Connor
Psychedelic Furs
Athletico Spizz 80
Gary Glitter
Bokobobos		 Notes: Photos from both nights here.  YMG played between the Soft Boys and 4 Be 2s.  These concerts were filmed by BBC-TV, and edited into four half-hour segments for broadcast.  YMG's "Colossal Youth" appeared in the first segment, along with Classix Nouveaux ("Soldier"), Acrobats of Desire ("Queen of The Wake"), League of Gentlemen ("Dislocated"), Not Sensibles ("Death to Disco"), Vice Versa ("Democratic Dancebeat"), and Hazel O'Connor's Megahype ("Zoo," "Glass Houses"). Bootleg videotapes exist.  Other interesting trivia: Vice Versa later became ABC.  Mick Hucknall (Simple Minds) sang lead for Frantic Elevators.
9/16/80 Nottingham Boat Club   Set list: The Man Amplifier, Choci Loni, Radio Silents, Music For Evenings, Colossal Youth, Salad Days, Ode to Booker T, Searching for Mr. Right, Credit in the Straight World, Brand-New-Life, Include Me Out, Eating Noddemix, Final Day, Wurlitzer Jukebox
9/17/80 London Rock Garden TV21
Dave Hopper		  
10/3/80 London North London Poly LiLiPut
Essential Logic		  
10/24/80 San Francisco Tenth Street Hall Cabaret Voltaire
The Sleepers
Minimal Man		  
10/25/80 Berkeley Keystone Cabaret Voltaire
The Sleepers
The Gears		 Flyer
10/26/80 (day) San Francisco Civic Center
(outdoor festival)		 Cabaret Voltaire
Our Daughter's Wedding
others		 Live photos
10/26/80 (eve) Palo Alto Keystone Cabaret Voltaire Flyer
10/29/80 Los Angeles Sokol Hall Cabaret Voltaire
Monitor
Victory Acres		  
11/80
(no date)		 Vancouver BC The Western Front e  
11/8/80 Seattle WREX    
11/14/80 Hoboken NJ Maxwell's The Cyclones  
11/80
(no date)		 NYC TR3    
11/21/80 and 11/22/80 NYC Hurrah!  

Set lists included: N.I.T.A., Choci Loni, Radio Silents, Colossal Youth, Credit in the Straight World, Brand-New-Life, Include Me Out, Wurlitzer Jukebox!, Salad Days, Final Day, Music For Evenings, Searching for Mr. Right, Cakewalking.
Notes: These performances were filmed for the Live At The Hurrah! DVD..

2004

Date City Venue Performed With: Notes/Other
1/27/04 Cardiff BBC Radio Wales NA Interview and live session for BBC Radio Wales documentary Colossal Youth: The Story of Young Marble Giants.  The band included Alison, Stuart Phil and drummer Andrew Moxham.  They performed one new song, "Alright," which is otherwise unavailable.

2007

Date City Venue Performed With: Notes/Other
5/27/07 Hay-on-Wye, Wales The Hay Festival NA Photos and other materials.
10/28/07 Bologne, France Boulogne-Billancourt Bbmix Festival NA Photos and other materials.

Set list:  Brand ~ New ~ Life, Wurlitzer Jukebox!, Choci Loni, Ode to Booker T., Radio Silents, Eating Noddemix, Music For Evenings, Searching for Mr Right, Constantly Changing, Include Me Out, Cakewalking, Final Day, N.I.T.A., Salad Days

Additional information
YMG cover artist Wendy Smith wrote in with these comments: "In the European tour, we (also) went to Paris ,Brussels, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and
Berlin.  Also you left out some of the Scottish dates as well with Furious Pig and the Thompson Twins;  I know we played Stirling."