"Against a backdrop of a bare brick wall plastered with posters advertising holidays in Belgium, The Clynics played their first ever concert at Norwich City College last Friday night. Six chaps and a girl up on stage: lead guitar, two rhythm guitars, bass, keyboards and drumkit. Sound problems were evident from the start: Lindsey's keyboards were inaudible, the guitars drowning out the bass and drums, and the low ceiling of the prestigious F block coffee bar not allowing the sound to go anywhere but right flat out at the audience. But after the first couple of numbers, nobody cared about the abysmal acoustics - the three guitars meshed into a frabjous metallic KO, For a debut concert, these people showed great  poise, even if the stage was a little crowded. There they were, Tony leaping about like he was already famous; Alan looking as if he should be playing in a New York night club instead of some crummy English college; Lindsey hopping between keyboards and centre-stage mikestand, displaying real confidence, and dare I say it, stage presence. And the songs! All featuring jangling, pulsating guitars, catchy rhythms, each one an instant little hit, but all with an indefinable weirdness behind them that lingers on afterwards. This isn't ramalama garageland punk, but it isn't clever-clever either. And The Clynics don't really sound like anyone else. When they played what was announced as the last number, you could feel the electricity in the hall: nobody was going to let this bunch get away without an encore. They were just smashing. Afterwards, I went home and listened to the new Lou Reed album. It all sounded pretty old-hat, I must say.
Douglas Cumberlandmouth.

Set List: Nights Dream, Sending My Messages, Devil, Prizegiving Day, Private Life, Cross One Off, What To Say, No Hesitating, Dream Her, Don't Ask Me Questions, Young Love, Girl Of The Month, Insane Reasons, Hellraiser, Blood Test, These Lost Years, [encores], Dream Her, Insane Reasons, Dizzy Miss Lizzie (were we serious?)

Fez

The second gig was on 27th May 1979 at the
  LCR, UEA supporting  English Subtitles.

Set List: Nights Dream, Sending My Messages, Devil, Prizegiving Day, Confused Issue, Private Life of a Lady, Cross One Off, No Hesitating, Dream Her, Don't Ask Me Questions, Young Love, Girl Of The Month, Insane Reasons, Blood Test, These Lost Years, [encores], Confused Issue

Horsham 'K' Block

Fischer-Z were really good too!  

Our only gig at Horsham.

The fourth gig was part of an Open Day at the Music Centre, played outdoors.

During our first summer holiday at UEA we had been down to a studio in Bristol and recorded three tracks.

The first gig back at UEA term time was on
28th October 1979 at the

  LCR, UEA for the Welsh Society supporting
 Leargo, a 'West coast' band, who were crap.

Set List: Stepping on our Hearts, Nights Dream, Sending Messages, Prize-giving Day, Doppelganger, Overexposed, Young Love, Loved Ones Don't Love Anymore, I'm a Liar, No Hesitating, Camera Shy, Venus

9th December, 1979 at LCR, UEA

supporting High Heels starring Maria and Duncan Beamont on drums.

Cromwells Nightclub

supporting Japanese Toy

This was an important gig - it was the first without Neil who had left to form Screen 3 - who went on to play their first gig in mid-May 1980. 

Set List: Confused Issue, Simple Twist of Fate, No Hesitating, Doppelganger, Venus, Camera Shy, Overexposed, Lighthouse, Young Love, Stepping on our Hearts, Weekends (11 songs)

 Eastern Evening News, Tuesday, May 27th 1980

The next gig scheduled was to be our first appearance at Pinebanks the Norwich union Social Club on 21th June 1980 

but it was CANCELLED, I can't remember why.

Ian Cann, our drummer, worked at N.U.

Pinebanks, Norwich Union 

on 15 August 1980

This was in the summer holidays for we students although for Ian it was just another week. We all stayed around in Norwich for this summer.

7 October 1980 at  Cromwells Nightclub, Norwich

supporting Screen 3 and The Stingrays (thanks Neil) 

Set List:  Stepping on our Hearts, Young Love, Doppelganger, Overexposed, Sending Messages, Nights Dream, Prize-giving Day, I'm a Liar, Loved Ones Don't Love Anymore, Lighthouse, No Hesitating, Camera Shy, Venus

Another gig supporting Screen 3 and the first with The Nolan Brothers (Fez's new band) on  28th November, 1980 

at The Prince of Denmark pub, Sprowston Rd, Norwich

Set List:  Stepping on our Hearts, Young Love, Doppelganger, Overexposed, Sending Messages, Nights Dream, Prize-giving Day, I'm a Liar, Loved Ones Don't Love Anymore, Lighthouse, No Hesitating, Camera Shy, Venus

The Prince of Denmark pub

on Friday 13 Feb 1981   with Screen 3

Our last gig was at Pinebanks, the social club for Norwich union employees. Our drummer Ian Cann worked here. This gig was sponsored by the N.U. Car Club. Maybe Ian was a member of that too?

This gig was on 6th March 1981.

From the text of the advert, the Welcome To Norwich LP had not been released, and we must have had one of our tracks played on local radio but I don't think anyone we knew actually heard it ....

Following this gig we all started studying for our finals in the summer of 1981. After that we made plans to move the band to Bristol but it didn't quite happen that way.....