1977-08-05

1977-08-05
a ticket for the concert
Henry Padovani's backstage pass
an ad for this festival in BEST - July 1977
an ad for this festival in BEST - August 1977
an ad for this festival in Rock & Folk - August 1977
Performance summary
Artist performing:	The Police
Tour:	1977-1978 The Police performances
Venue:	Arènes de Mont-de-Marsan
Location:	Mont-de-Marsan, France
Support acts:	SUPPORT ACTS
Ticket prices:	70 Francs for two days

On 1977-08-05, The Police performed at Arènes de Mont-de-Marsan in Mont-de-Marsan, France.

Setlist

• Landlord

• Visions Of The Night

• Kids To Blame

• Clouds In Venice

• Three O'Clock Shit

• Nothing Achieving

• It's My Life

• Fall Out

• How Are You?

• Dead End Job

• Visions Of The Night

Recording information

There's a recording of this concert.

Trivia

Earlier that day The Police travelled from Paris to Mont-de-Marsan in a chartered bus with other bands (having travelled from London to Paris on 1977-08-04).

This was the second and last time that The Police played a complete concert with both Andy Summers and Henry Padovani. They were one of many UK punk bands at Mont de Marsan's punk festival. Other bands who played at this festival were more famous then: The Clash, The Damned, The Jam (cancelled their performance) ...

The Police received 200 UK pounds for this gig.

Alan Lee Shaw from The Maniacs remembered this day on Unplugged2, a French online punk fanzine (used with the author's permission):

The Maniacs came on just before The Police as the hot sun was going down and the light was beginning to fade. I remember our performance went down very well with the audience. We had just got Henri Paul in the band as a second guitarist who was something of an up and coming star in French rock, at that time. We did our version of “Kick out the Jams” by the MC5, which seemed to go down well with the French. Unfortunately we had trouble with the bass amp that broke down. We were using 50-watt Hiwatt hired amps. Still, we did a good show. The French bands on the bill were pretty cool. I think Henri Paul knew more of them personally of course. Bijou was the most commercially popular at time but not a hardcore Punk Rock band. Little Bob Story was a really good garage rock band. I did know Little Bob, as he was a fan of the Rings, we were lucky enough to support his band at the 100 club in London a few months before. I also knew the French guitarist Henry Padovani well who was in The Police and on the coach with us at the time."

See also

1977-08-04

UK, Dutch and German versions of the 1978 single Roxanne had a picture from this concert on the back cover. More photos from this day can be seen in Ian Dickson's book FLASH BANG WALLOP! There's a small photo of Sting on the cover plus more pictures on pages 192-194.

External links

photo from The Maniacs MySpace website with Sting in the background

References

sources: ticket, French ads, Henry Padovani, UK magazine reviews, Stewart Copeland, Alan Lee Shaw