The Modern City · event 5 of 12

1976

Forty people see the Sex Pistols. On 4 June the band play the Lesser Free Trade Hall to a very small room containing, among others, the future members of Joy Division, the Fall and the Smiths, and a television presenter named Tony Wilson. It is the most consequential small gig in British history.

The The Modern City era

  1. 1917
  2. 1940
  3. 1948
  4. 1958
  5. 1976
  6. 1982
  7. 1992
  8. 1996
  9. 2002
  10. 2017
  11. 2023
  12. 2025

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