Photo courtesy of the Scottish Screen Archive/CTA archive taken 1971

1980 
9th March Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, & The Flowers 
1980  6th April Shake, & Boots For Dancing                                    
1980  27th April The Delmontes, The Ettes, & The Fire Engines
 
Julie Hepburn (nee Hogg).  Thank you to Simon Clegg for the picture. 
Simon writes "Julie Delmonte of the Edinburgh band the Delmonte's. I was experimenting with an 8mm Minox spy camera - terrible result!"


Gill and Trash from The Ettes at Valentino's .  Thank you to Trash for this picture.  © Pete Tainsh 1980.
1980  May 4th The Cure, & The Passions
1980  11th May The Monochrome Set,  & Josef K                            
1980  18th May The Teardrop Explodes                                                                
1980
  1st June Adam & The Ants
1980  8th June Pink Military                                                                                    
1980  29th June The Fall, The Thursdays & Fire Engines
1980  17th August Bauhaus                                                                                  
1980  21st August The Scars, The Associates, Josef K, & Fire Engines
 

Paul Research of Scars.  Thank you to Simon Clegg for the picture.
1980  12th October Echo & The Bunnymen
Ian McCulloch, Valentino's 12th October 1980.  Thank you to Simon Clegg for the picture.
1980  26th October The Mo-dettes
The Mo-dettes, Valentino's 26th October 1980.  Thank you to Simon Clegg for the picture.
Simon Clegg writes: "The Mo-dettes most well-known song is "White Mice", which was self-released as their first single in mid 1979 on Mode records, with "Masochistic Opposite" on the b-side. The single was distributed by Rough Trade. It spent 5 weeks at No.1 on the Indie charts. This gig at Valentino's was to promote that single. June Miles-Kingston (in this picture) re-emerged in the late 1980s as the drummer for The Communards; and she also worked with Fun Boy Three, Thompson Twins and Everything but the Girl. She is the sister of the former Ten Pole Tudor guitarist, Bob Kingston and now performs as a jazz singer in London."

1980  9th November The Teardrop Explodes, & The Thompson Twins
1981  25th January U2, & Fire Engines
1981  8th February A Certain Rato, & Josef K                                  
1981  15th March Nash The Slash
1981  19th April New Order                                                                                   
1981  10th May Orange Juice, & Blazing Saddles
1981  24th May Dead Or Alive                                                                                
1981  21st June Scars                                                                                     
1981  11th July Blue Orchids (this gig took place in JJ's)                                    
1981  9th August Fire Engines
1981  16th August Josef K, & Aztec Camera

Thank you to Alan for the Scan.


A review of the gig from Dundee's "Cranked Up" fanzine.  Thank you to Gordon for the scan.
 
1981  30th August The Delmontes, & Article 58                                
1981  25th October Bow Wow Wow
1981  26th October The Au Pairs, & The Visitors                             
1982  10th January A Certain Ratio

Thank you to Andrew for this scan.

1982
  20th February Blue Rondo A La Turk                                                           
1982  1st April Spandau Ballet aftershow party

The ticket for Spandau Ballet's party after their gig at The Usher Hall.  Thank you to Simon for this item.

1982
  4th April Orange Juice                                                                                   
1982  24th April TV21, & Peter Capaldi                                                     
1982  1st May Scars (Mk2 without Bobby "Rab" King)                                        
1982  9th May Mari Wilson & The Wilsations                                                       
1982  15th May Passage

Liana Martella at JJ's.  Thank you to Simon Clegg for the picture.
Simon Clegg writes "This picture of my then girlfriend Liana was taken upstairs at Valentino's in the early 1980's. She now goes out with a famous Scottish Sound engineer called David Henderson."
 

From the 1981 Edinburgh telephone directory.

 

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