Xmas Party at Panic Station
Stump / The Blue Aeroplanes / Eat / Summerhill - Your Compere: Ed Barton
Electric Ballroom, Camden High Street, London.
Reviewed in Melody Maker, 7th January 1989.
Monday 15th August 1988:
Dingwalls, Camden Lock, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1
Panic Station / Sounds:
STUMP + EDWARD BARTON + THAT MANGLED LANGER + SUMMERHILL
ADM £5/£4 MEMBERS
Microdisney, Eddy Barton. Liverpool Polytechnic, 26/4/88 Free
New Ardri Ballroom, Manchester
Microdisney, The Flatmates, Edward Barton: Town & Country Club, London
"On 22nd April 1988 we supported Microdisney at the Town and Country Club in London. The second support act, who we shared a dressing room with, was Edward Barton, bearded author of ‘It’s A Fine Day’, purveyor of fine wooden products (including Wooden Records) and maker of the chairs in James’s ‘Sit Down’ video. Of all the support acts we played with I regret not having got into conversation with Mr Barton the most. At the time we thought he was some odd eccentric. To be honest I still suspect he is an odd eccentric, but one I’d have liked to have chatted with a while"