1980-06-05 Scamps, Southend-On-Sea, Essex, England, UK

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"Composition Of Sound" supported "The School Bullies" (featuring Perry Bamonte and Paul Langwith) some day between 1980-05-30 Paddocks Community Center, Laindon, Essex, England, UK and 1980-06-14 St. Nicholas School, Basildon, England, UK.

Former St. Nicholas School pupil Brian Denny said to Jonathan Miller:

"Perry's band was basically an early tribute band that played a set of Damned covers, mostly from the Machine Gun Etiquette period, plus original songs such as 'I Don't Agree With You' and 'Third World War'. They also did a version of 'Ballroom Blitz' known as 'Great Big Tits'! The audience was made up of mainly hostile hippies who heckled or said nothing. When one hippy slagged off the Bullies for ruining a Sweet song, the band simply shout, 'I don't agree,' and broke into 'I Don't Agree With You' - quite clever for some teenagers, don't you think? 'Composition Of Sound's song list included a version of 'Then I Kissed Her', and also a Roxy Music song - I think it was 'Virginia Plain'."

The Composition Of Sound members recalled this gig in June 1981:

Vince: "[This gig and 1980-05-30 Paddocks] weren’t even minor successes."

Andy: "The crowd didn’t react so Vince lost his temper with them – plugs were kicked out."

Martin: "There were a lot of fourteen-year-olds who’d never seen a synth before, so they were fiddling with the knobs going ‘What does this do?’."