1980-07-02 Top Alex, Southend-On-Sea, Essex, England, UK

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The Top Alex was upstairs in a R&B pub called Alexandra. DM played here as Composition Of Sound (so without Dave) about two weeks before.

BBC London host Robert Elms recalls:

“This place was above a greengrocers or dry cleaners or something. It really was. It was a room 8ft by 10ft with about 10 people in with silly haircuts and baggy trousers. I thought there can’t be a band playing here. We went in and then these four, frighteningly young boys, I mean I was young, I was only 18 or 19 and these looked like my little brother. These were skinny school kids basically standing around some ten bob keyboards. They started to play and I thought this is really good, they are going to be really terrible, cause that’s what you hoped, it was like going to see the opposition football team and they started to play and they weren’t terrible.”