Olympia London 3rd January 1976 I think three of us went to this, Me Age and who!, got the train to Fenchurch and then the Tube to Olympia we got there about 11.30 and I was going to meet a mate from work ”Derek Bourne” got to the stadium and the queue went for miles so we started at the front and started walking about 10 yards from the front there was Del and a couple of his mates, so after a little bit of light banter we snuck in the front with them. Doors opened and it was a mad rush for the front of the stage, don’t even remember any barriers just a yellow line in front of about a five foot high stage.

First Band on where “Charlie” seem to remember them going down quite well with the crowd, then next was “Be-Bop Deluxe” who I’d really got into already saw them at the Dagenham Roundhouse and had all three of there Albums out so far, so my judgement might be clouded but thought they were brilliant and went down great with the crowd. Next up were the “Pretty Things” cant remember much about them, do remember about this time I brought a Morris 1100 hundred from a neighbour and somebody gave me an Eight Track player and about four cartridges one of which was Freeway Madness which I played a to death in the car, found the vinyl copy years later in a bargain bin and was not that impressed with it, how tastes change, will have to give it a listen have converted it to digital so on my laptop. Next on was “Ronnie Lane and Slim Chance”, these did not go down well, a bit too laid back for the audience and I must admit I wasn’t impressed, but looking back now Ronnie made some fine tunes back then! Then we had “Nazareth” well I think it was them it took about half hour for the dry ice to disperse, but they went down great with us and the audience. Then “Bad Company” was looking forward to this and they didn’t disappoint, storming from the off, they had two Albums out by this point Bad Co and Straight Shooter and I think they played every track, Mick Ralph’s great riffs and the “Voice” of Paul Rodgers was just sublime and the great rhythm section of Boz Burrell and Simon Kirke, remember they did two encores and the crowd were still going crazy,when Simon Kirke came back on sweat pouring off him and said sorry I’m just to fucked to play anymore and that was that. The next weeks Sounds Newspaper hand a photo from the front of the stage where you could clearly see us all in it, below New Musical Express front page which shows us but not so prominent.