Page 94
Thursday 24th May 1973
WOLF

Page 143
Sunday 3rd October 1976
THE RUNAWAYS
Confirmed as the actual date of their appearance at the Granary. The original date was postponed due to their equipment being impounded by customs and that was September 1976.

Page 158
Saturday 1st October 1977
CLAYSON & THE ARGONAUTS (£100)
The text in the book is as follows : A punk band (who may have been the Sex Pistols) was supposed to play at a college in town but the gig was stopped by nervous college officials at the last moment. A large number of local punks, disappointed at the loss of the college gig, made their way to the Granary to do their punky thing to Clayson and company. It wasn’t a riot but it got pretty close. Not one to remember for either the band or the Granary.
Alan Clayson has for many years been a respected author of rock music books."
There is an update from journalist and drummer Shane Baldwin who has been in touch with Alan Clayson and tells us what Alan says about the gig. "I remember the Heartbreakers played a gig at the Anson Rooms that was stopped by rioting Bristol City fans. Steve Jones and Paul Cook guested with the band that night, which probably accounts for the Sex Pistols rumour. That was when £100 was worth something! It definitely was Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers - who we met in an M4 service station later that night. As well as an influx of punks - owing to the sudden cancellation of Thunders et al at the University - the Granary show was remarkable too for some bloke climbing on stage and stripping naked during our arrangement of "Arnold Layne".

ADDITION
Monday 13th February 1978
THE VIBRATORS
supported by THE AUTOMATICS
Granary member Philip Davidge found this missing date in an old diary. Phil also noted that The Vibrators did a song called 'Three Flying Ducks' which was a reference to the china ornaments on the wall of Hilda Ogden's house in Coronation Street. They also did one called 'I Wanna See You Naked'. At that time Phil was a healthy 19 year old so there are no prizes for guessing why he remembered that title.

Page 168
Saturday 29th July 1978
HANDOVERFIST
The line-up of the band was Dave Bowyer (guitar and vocals), Chris Weeks (guitar), Neil Russell (drums) Neil now plays with 'Brave Uylesses', Richard Lineton (piano and guitar) Richard plays as 'Snake' in 'Los Vanquis', Kit Jackson (vocals) and Dave Smith (bass and vocals).

Page 171
Thursday 26th October 1978
ERIC BELL BAND
In the book the tale is retold of when Thin Lizzy were at the Colston Hall on the same night as Eric Bell was playing the Granary. Eric appeared onstage at the Colston Hall to play his intro to “Whiskey in the Jar” and later on Phil Lynott joined Eric at the Granary to join in the same song. Granary fan Aidan Naughton writes ‘I'm also certain that the Lynott appearance with Eric Bell is listed for the wrong date and is in fact something of a myth. I was at both shows and I've checked it with several others who were also there. Bell did indeed get up with Lizzy at the Colston but only Brian Downey sat in with Eric Bell at the Granary. Lynott was much rumoured to be making an on stage appearance ahead of the gig, but didn't even make it to the Granary. I remember asking Downey where he was during the evening."
SEE PAGE 187 FOR MORE INFORMATION

Page 175
Saturday 17th February 1979
GENGHIS KHAN
The spelling above is correct not Ghengis Khan as in the book. The line-up was John Butcher from Birmingham on vocals, Billy Morrison on drums and Jimmy McTurk on guitar both from Glasgow. Alwyn Lovell was on ead guitar and Robert Boston was on bass. These two remained in the band from 1975 to 1980 despite there being over a dozen changes in the line-up.
Genghis Khan had played an earlier support date at the club but the information is still to be found.

Page 175
Thursday 22nd February 1979
TONY MCPHEE & TERRAPLANE
Granary fan Mark Rummings found a note in his diary to the effect that his visit to the club on this night was somewhat spoilt by the non-appearance of Tony McPhee. A rock disco replaced the live music.

Page 177
Thursday 21st June 1979
LOOSE CHANGE
Drummers surname should be Geoff Hillyard not Hilliard.

ADDITION
Ian of Bertie Dugga P.A. hire tells that some time in the late Seventies or early Eighties, the all girl group THE SLITS played at the Granary. Please contact us if you have any recollections of this gig especially if you have a note of the date. Ian thinks it might have been a last minute replacement.

ADDITION
Tuesday 5th February 1980
A very cold Tuesday night if memory serves me correct writes Aidan Naughton
SLEDGEHAMMER
The line up was Mike Cooke, Terry Pearce, Ken Revell and they were promoting their single called Sledgehammer. Guitarist and vocalist Cooke also played a violin bow solo a la Jimmy Page. They also had a song called Oxford City (their hometown) which they changed to Bristol City at the Granary (presumably the town they played was inserted each night). Aidan Naughton also remembers a song called Perfumed Garden with a very strange riff and the line "She blew my mind and that's not all"). Sledgehammer played the Granary at least twice (one of the gigs was supporting Vardis - but I'm not sure which date).

ADDITION
Tuesday 25th March 1980
SLAUGHTER
They were a late incarnation of Slaughter and the Dogs
supported by ABRASIVE WHEELS
They hailed from Leeds and had a single on release on their own label. Later they signed to Riot City.

Page 187
Saturday 24th May 1980
ERIC BELL
Richard Morris tells us that this was the night when Eric joined Thin Lizzy onstage at the Colston Hall. Lizzy were on their 'Chinatown' tour. Richard says he could never forget that gig as he met the band backstage after the show and has a signed tour programme.

ADDITION
Sunday 6th July 1980
SAMSON

Page 191
Saturday 13th September 1980
JOAN JETT
In the book Al is not sure if this gig took place. It was recorded as being booked and Al had an autographed copy of the Joan Jett single so presumed that they had met about this time. Al however could not remember the actual gig. Aidan Naughton contacted the web site to say ‘My brother is pretty certain the Joan Jett gig didn't happen. He also has a signed record from that era which he picked up after an interview you did with her at Radio Bristol.’

Page 192
Tuesday 21st October 1980
Also on the bill along with the
COCKNEY REJECTS was the
EXPLOITED

Page 197
Sunday 1st March 1981
VICE SQUAD
supported by COLD
The visual of Vice Squad in the book shows a much later incarnation of the band than the original 1981 lie-up. The publicity photograph that was intended to be used in the Granary book is this one with Dave Bateman (guitar), Becky Bondage (vocals), Mark Hambly (bass) and Shane Baldwin (drums). This picture was also featured in Smash Hits with the caption “Dave, Becky, Mark and Shane waiting for the leather forecast”. Don’t we wish we’d used that caption in the Granary book - NOT!



Page 215
Friday 13th November 1981
Day 3 of BBC TV's recording of live bands for the RPM TV series
SLOW TWITCH FIBRES
NEON
and not the Paynekillers but ace rockabilly band
DIXIE REBELS

Page 224
Al Read leaves the Granary in April 1982 and in the book it simply says that Glenn Daniel takes over the job of disc jockey. Later on Glenn was joined by John Mason who then took over when Glenn left in October 1985 (see page 268). The book then has John Mason as the DJ with the only mention of any other DJ is of an Adrian on the closing night. This was in fact Adrian Coleman who had often covered for both Glenn and John throughout the 1982 to 1985 period as well as replacing John on many occasions in the period up to the closure of the club for refurbishment in January 1986 (page 272). When the club reopened in November 1986 Adrian Coleman was the sole DJ through to the final closure of the club on Saturday 27th August 1988 (page 276).

Page 234
Tuesday 30th November 1982
BUDGIE
The support band on this night was
GENGHIS KHAN

Page 236
The information is given as
Saturday 15th February 1983
HANDSOME BEASTS
The day and date do not match.
The above band played the Granary on Tuesday 15th February 1983 not as above. The live music on Saturday 12th February 1983 was provided by
ORION

ADDITION
Saturday 17th December 1983
TREDEGAR

Page 248
Saturday 5th May 1984
BACK STREET SLIDE
are given as the live act on this night however Ian Carter tells us that it was in fact
NEW MODEL ARMY
Their Vengeance tour reached Bristol, probably the best clog-wearing rock three piece to emerge from Bradford in the mid-'80s. They were supporting their single "Vengeance" which, despite the catchy chorus of "I believe in vengeance, I believe in killing the bastard", failed to generate the hoped-for air play. However, they did in fact go on to achieve considerable success and are still going, with an impressive back catalogue to call on. And I bet they still play "Vengence".

ADDITION
Sunday 15th December 1985
SHOP ASSISTANTS
Ian Carter writes that there was no mention of killing the bastard when the Shop Assistants played with their ground-breaking indie sound. The Shoppies (as their fans probably called them) were at the forefront of the C86 sound which launched the careers of fellow Scots the Jesus & Mary Chain and many others who have since slipped back to obscurity. Of course, those in the know are well aware that without the mid-eighties indie scene we'd never have bands like Nirvana. Or Busted...

ADDITION
Page 273
Sunday 1st March 1987
PENDRAGON
ROG PATTERSON

ADDITION
Monday 21st December 1987
JADIS


This Evening Post piece from January had alerted rock fans to the fact that closure was inevitable. It was late in August that the inevitable took place.

ADDITION
Sunday 10th April 1988
RED JASPER
OPHIUCUS

ADDITION
Thursday 21st April 1988
THE HERB GARDEN
MYRIAD LIFEFORM
THE BIG FAT LIARS

My thanks to A.J.Samuels who has provided first hand information and photographs of the last nights of the Granary as a rock club

Page 276
The final live music gig is given in the book as Thursday 11th August 1988 but the the final live gig was actually on
Thursday 25th August 1988
and the honour of playing went to
HERB GARDEN
An Ashton Court Festival programme described them as 'the fastest, loudest, weirdest and finest purveyors of thrash in Bristol. This group of charming, upright young men will have more people turning green in one go than the enviromentalists could ever dream. You,ll need heavy constraint to keep you from the front banging your head to such grooves gone haywire as 'Ice Cream Man' and 'Bulldozer Jones'. Don't let their thrash tag put you off though as they are a great live band with good songs and a charming weird appeal. Let them take you on a cartoon trip to their far out world but don't ever expect to get out again'.
AJ tells us that Herb Garden were formed in 1987 and gigged around the Bristol scene until the early 90's. He says that their finest hour was possibly at the Ashton Court Featival in 1990 when lead singer Carl 'gave birth' on stage to a blood covered plastic foetus. Outraged citizens wrote letters of complaint to the Evening Post.
With vocalist Carl were Dave on bass, Rat on guitar, Phil Marsden on lead guitar and Ben on drums. In 1989 they released a self titled 5 track !2" EP on Vermin Vinyls.


HERB GARDEN on stage at the Granary's last live music gig
supported by WHITE HOT HELMETS and NIGHT TERROR SYNDROME
The Helmets were described as getting straight to the point both musically and politically. Their raw, hard-hitting guitar sound contained more than a hint of the punk era, and they took a strong left-wing stance in their well crafted lyrics. Not a band who preached politics but you were left in no doubt where they stood. Disrespectful protest songs sang with a snarl and a smile.
Quick thinking AJ also brought his camera into use to capture some atmospheric visuals of the club 24 hours before it closed forever.













Page 276
Saturday 27th August 1988
LAST NIGHT OF THE GRANARY CLUB
ROCK ON RECORD WITH ADRIAN COLEMAN


In the book the DJ is just named as Adrian. This was Adrian Coleman who had been the sole DJ at the Granary since the reopening in November 1986 and on many occasions had replaced both Glenn Daniel and John Mason in the disco booth in the years previous.
A.J.Samuels was also at the club on the last night and can claim to be the last person to be served a pint at the Gran. He writes "My diary confirms that the last night was Saturday 27 August as stated inthe book. As I recall, by that time it seemed to be the policy of the club to have only rock disco nights on Fridays and Saturdays, any gigs being held on Sunday or during the week. I don't have any record of whether they were also open on the Friday night that weekend but I would imagine so.
I'm not sure if we definitely knew before that night that it was going to be the last one, but I think it's fairly likely that word had got around. Obviously it was well known that it was bound to happen before very much longer, as it had been announced some time before that the place was being sold. Certainly the DJ (Adrian Coleman) in the club confirmed it during the evening.
The whole night is a bit hazy, for obvious reasons. The main things I remember are that firstly the bar pretty much carried on serving until the beer ran out, by which time it was well past the normal closing time. Also I can clearly remember walking into the gents at some point late in the evening to find that all the toilets had been removed from the cubicles, leaving just holes in the floor. Presumably someone had taken them as souvenirs.... I've no idea about the disappearance of the 'House of Rock' banner though, I don't remember noticing if that had gone.
Eventually it would appear that somebody decided to clear out everybody who was left, and so I end up standing on the pavement outside the front entrance with my friend Adrian Clay, still with pints in hand. By this time it was probably about 3.00am. As we're stood there finishing our drinks, Les appears out of the entrance and gets chatting with us. He takes us down to Charlotte's bar in the basement where he produces a crate of beer bottles from behind the bar and invites us to help ourselves. We stay there drinking and talking to Les for another hour or two before staggering off home, unfortunately I have no recollection of what was said! So I think we were almost certainly the last to have a drink in the Granary and the last to leave that night.
A few weeks later, as I recall, there was an attempt by a group of ravers to break into the building and hold an illegal party. I think we heard about it in the pub and went down to have a look but something happened to stop it before we got there, probably the police turned up or something. I'm not sure of the exact date of this but I think it may have been mentioned in Venue at the time."

THE END - OR IS IT?