1978

 

Chris Frantz, interview from 1979, speaking about the 1978 tour: “It was really an education for us. I’m afraid we bit off more than we could chew. We thought that we could play every night, and we found that after four months we were feeling pretty uninspired.”

 

 

Date	Venue	City	State	Country	Recording	Comment
[January 1, 1978]	My Father's Place	Roslyn	NY	USA		Cancelled due to illness in the band
January 10, 1978	Universiteitshuis, Radboud Univ	Nijmegen		NETH		circulating file-set is a mis-labeled copy of Jan 11, 1978 concert
January 11, 1978	Eksit	Rotterdam		NETH	AUD	Shows from Jan 10 thru Jan 18 with XTC
January 12, 1978	Onkel Po	Hamburg		GER
January 13, 1978	Onkel Po	Hamburg		GER	AUD	AUD partial
January 14, 1978	Paradiso	Amsterdam		NETH	AUD + FM	AUD complete, FM partial
January 15, 1978	De Groene Meersen	Zedelgem		BELG
January 16, 1978	Foyer Culturel	Liege		BELG
January 17, 1978	Salle de Vieux Saint-Job	Brussels		BELG
January 18, 1978	Bataclan	Paris		FRA	AUD	Encore with members of XTC
January 20, 1978	University	Sheffield		UK		Shows from Jan 20 thru Feb 05 with Dire Straits
January 21, 1978	University	Manchester		UK
January 22, 1978	Eric's	Liverpool		UK
January 23, 1978	Outlook	Doncaster		UK
January 24, 1978	Friar's, Maxwell Hall	Aylesbury		UK	AUD	AUD - only 2 minutes of fragments
January 25, 1978	Student's Union, University	Southampton		UK		Originally scheduled for Feb 10th
January 26, 1978	Student's Union, University	Leicester		UK
January 27, 1978	Polytechnic	Newcastle		UK
January 28, 1978	Great Hall, Polytechnic	Huddersfield		UK
January 29, 1978	Roundhouse	London		UK	AUD	Originally scheduled for Feb 12th
January 30, 1978	Polytechnic	Leeds		UK		Originally scheduled for Jan 29th
January 31, 1978	BBC Studio A "Old Grey Whistle Test" Program	Manchester		UK	VID
February 1, 1978	Top Rank	Brighton		UK
February 2, 1978	Barbarella's	Birmingham		UK		Originally scheduled for Feb 7th
[February 2, 1978]	University	Swansea		UK		Cancelled when UK tour was shortened
February 3, 1978	Civic Hall	St Albans		UK
February 4, 1978	Oasis Centre	Swindon		UK
February 5, 1978	Greyhound	Croydon		UK	AUD	Two AUD's circulating. Members of Dire Straits play with TH in the encores.
[February 6, 1978]	Castaways	Plymouth		UK		Cancelled when UK tour was shortened
[February 9, 1978]	Village Bowl	Bournemouth		UK		Cancelled when UK tour was shortened
[February 11, 1978]	Leas Cliff Hall	Folkstone		UK		Cancelled when UK tour was shortened
[February 7, 1978]	Zellerbach Hall	Berkeley	CA	USA		Cancelled tour supporting Elvis Costello
[February 8, 1978]	Coffee House UC	Davis	CA	USA		Cancelled tour supporting Elvis Costello
[February 9, 1978]	Lane County Civic Center	Eugene	OR	USA		Cancelled tour supporting Elvis Costello
[February 10, 1978]	Paramount Northwest Theater	Seattle	WA	USA		Cancelled tour supporting Elvis Costello
[February 11, 1978]	Paramount Theater	Portland	OR	USA		Cancelled tour supporting Elvis Costello
[February ?, 1978]	Unknown west coast venues			USA		Some cancelled California shows due to David's exhaustion
[February 18, 1978]	The Backdoor, SDSU	San Diego	CA	USA		Cancelled, also listed as "Feb 13th"
[March 3, 1978]	Paradise Theater	Boston	MA	USA		Rescheduled to May
[March 4, 1978]	Paradise Theater	Boston	MA	USA		Rescheduled to May
May 5, 1978	Main Point	Bryn Mawr	PA	USA		Two shows, 8 & 10 PM
May 6, 1978	Main Point	Bryn Mawr	PA	USA		Two shows, 8 & 10 PM
May 7, 1978	O'Keefe Sports Center, Salem State College	Salem	MA	USA		TH opens for both Poussette-Dart Band and Edmunds & Curley (comedians)
May ?, 1978	The Hullabaloo	Rensselaer	NY	USA	SBD	Erroniously listed w/March & April date
[May 9, 1978]	[David Bowie at MSG]	[New York]	[NY]	[USA]		TH meets Adrian Belew
May 10, 1978	My Father's Place	Roslyn	NY	USA	AUD + VID	VID is partial, two shows 830 & 1130 PM
May 12, 1978	Horseshoe Tavern	Toronto	ON	CAN
May 13, 1978	Horseshoe Tavern	Toronto	ON	CAN	AUD + VID
May 18, 1978	Paradise Theater	Boston	MA	USA		Two shows each night, 7:30 & 10:30 PM
May 19, 1978	Paradise Theater	Boston	MA	USA	AUD	AUD is from one of the three nights
May 20, 1978	Paradise Theater	Boston	MA	USA		Final date of May tour
June ?, 1978	TV Studio "Blue Jean 78" program	Paris		FRA	VID	Aired on June 11th, TH do a hilariously bad lip-sync of Psycho Killer
June 6, 1978	Le Stadium (Ave d'Ivry)	Paris		FRA	AUD
June 7, 1978	Theatre 140	Brussels		BELG
June 8, 1978	Huise Maas Vismarkt	Gronigen		NETH
June 9, 1978	Harmonie	Tilburg		NETH	AUD
June 10, 1978	Stovikshal	Arnhem		NETH	AUD
June 11, 1978	Paradiso	Amsterdam		NETH	AUD	Recordings mislabeled as "Nov 6th"
June 13, 1978	Concertgebouw Vereeniging	Nijmegen		NETH	SBD
June 14, 1978	Gota Lejon	Stockholm		SWE	AUD	TH opened for Mink DeVille
June 15, 1978	Crazy Daisy	Gothenburg		SWE
June 16, 1978	Klubb Ron	Ronneby		SWE
June 22, 1978	Kant Kino Music Hall	Berlin		GER	AUD
June ?, 1978	Unknown venue (Onkel Po?)	Hamburg		GER		date not certain
June 24, 1978	Volkshaus	Zurich		SWI
July 8, 1978	Woodlands Festival	Torhout		BELG
July 9, 1978	Rock & Blues Festival	Werchter		BELG
July 12, 1978	Lyceum	London		UK	AUD	One-off UK show
[August 1, 1978]	Calderone Concert Hall, or listed as Hofstra University	Hempstead	NY			"It's Not Yesterday" bootleg is a fake repackage of KSAN 09/16/78 broadcast
August 10, 1978	Entermedia Center	New York	NY	USA	AUD + VID	AUD complete, VID partial
August 11, 1978	Entermedia Center	New York	NY	USA	AUD*	*RnRHoF library recording
August 15, 1978	Paradise Theater	Boston	MA	USA	MP3 AUD	Two shows (AUD is late show)
August 16, 1978	The Shaboo Inn	Willimantic	CT	USA		tickets $3.50
August 17, 1978	Toad's Place	New Haven	CT	USA		Two shows(?)(possibly August 7th)
[August 19, 1978]	Penn's Landing	Philadelphia	PA	USA		Penn's Landing season cancelled after unruly fans disrupted 08/08/78 show
August 21, 1978	Punch & Judy Theater	Grosse Pointe	MI	USA	AUD	Newspaper clipping confirms two dates with only one show per night (8PM)
August 22, 1978	Punch & Judy Theater	Grosse Pointe	MI	USA	AUD	Some tapes marked as "Aug 21st Late show", Pre-show band appearance at Peaches Records & Tapes in Detroit
August 23, 1978	Park West	Chicago	IL	USA	FM	two shows, FM is from the late show
August 25, 1978	Jay's Longhorn	Minneapolis	MN	USA		two shows per night, 9PM & 11PM
August 26, 1978	Jay's Longhorn	Minneapolis	MN	USA	AUD	two shows; two circulating AUDs one complete, one partial
September 7, 1978	Commodore Ballroom	Vancouver	BC	CAN	AUD
September 8, 1978	Paramount Northwest Theater	Seattle	WA	USA	AUD	Complete show AUD, same recording as found on "Allied Records" bootleg LP
September 9, 1978	Paramount Theater	Portland	OR	USA
September 10, 1978	The Place	Eugene	OR	USA		two shows
September 13, 1978	Cassady's	Davis	CA	USA
September 15, 1978	The Boarding House	San Francisco	CA	USA
September 16, 1978	The Boarding House	San Francisco	CA	USA	FM
September 17, 1978	Performing Arts Theater, UCSC	Santa Cruz	CA	USA
September 18, 1978	Lower Sproul Plaza (in front of Zellerbach Hall), U.C.	Berkeley	CA	USA	VID Partial	First TH free noon concert at UCB 78, this is often mis-dated as "April 18th"
September 19, 1978	Roxy Theatre	West Hollywood	CA	USA	AUD	two shows, 900PM & 1130PM
September 20, 1978	Roxy Theatre	West Hollywood	CA	USA		two shows, 900PM & 1130PM
September 21, 1978	Ackerman Grand Ballroom, UCLA	Los Angeles	CA	USA	AUD	Tickets $2.50
September 23, 1978	The Backdoor, SDSU	San Diego	CA	USA		Two shows
September 24, 1978	Night Train	Tucson	AZ	USA
September 25, 1978	Dooley's Nightclub	Tempe	AZ	USA
September 28, 1978	Texas Opry House	Houston	TX	USA	FM	Most KLOL tapes labeled "Dec 10th"
September 29, 1978	Armadillo World Headquarters	Austin	TX	USA
[October ?, 1978]	Sea-Saint Studio	New Orleans	LA	USA		Recording session (scrapped)
October 3, 1978	The Kingfish	Baton Rouge	LA	USA
October 4, 1978	Ole Man River's	Avondale	LA	USA
October 6, 1978	Agora Ballroom	Atlanta	GA	USA
October 7, 1978	Agora Ballroom	Atlanta	GA	USA	AUD
October 13, 1978	Grand Ballroom, Univ. Maryland	College Park	MD	USA
October 14, 1978	Gaston Hall, Georgetown Univ.	Washington	DC	USA
October 16, 1978	Craft Ave Theater, Point Park Univ	Pittsburgh	PA	USA	AUD Partial
October 17, 1978	Bogart's	Cincinnati	OH	USA		two shows
October 19, 1978	Lydia Mendelssohn Theater	Ann Arbor	MI	USA		two shows, TH interviewed on WIQB
October 20, 1978	Punch & Judy Theater	Grosse Pointe	MI	USA		two shows 800 & 1030 PM
October 21, 1978	Punch & Judy Theater	Grosse Pointe	MI	USA	AUD	two shows 800 & 1030 PM (both taped)
October 26, 1978	C.W. Post College, Lecture Hall	Brookville	NY	USA		two shows
October 27, 1978	Unknown	Unknown	?	USA		(missing date here, possible CT)
October 28, 1978	Alexander Hall, McCarter Theater	Princeton	NJ	USA		two shows
October 30, 1978	Walnut Street Theater	Philadelphia	PA	USA
October 31, 1978	Bardavon Theater	Poughkeepsie	NY	USA
November 1, 1978	Madison Theater	Albany	NY	USA
November 3, 1978	Alumnae Hall, Brown University	Providence	RI	USA
November 4, 1978	Berklee Performance Center	Boston	MA	USA		Two shows, 700PM & 1000PM
November 5, 1978	Atwood Hall, Clark University	Worcester	MA	USA		WCUW-FM benefit
November 6, 1978	Bowker Auditorium, U Mass	Amherst	MA	USA
November 8, 1978	The Spectrum	Buffalo	NY	USA
November 9, 1978	Triangle Theatre	Rochester	NY	USA	AUD	Tina's Polaroid was stolen at this show
November 10, 1978	The Social Room, State University of New York	Binghamton	NY	USA		two shows, aka "Susquehanna Room"
November 11, 1978	Finney Chapel, Oberlin College	Oberlin	OH	USA	AUD	Opening act was a magician
November ?, 1978	The Backdoor, SDSU	San Diego	CA	USA		Second 1978 appearance? unconfirmed
November 17, 1978	Roxy Theatre	West Hollywood	CA	USA	AUD	Two shows, 900PM & 1130PM
November 18, 1978	Roxy Theatre	West Hollywood	CA	USA	AUD	Two shows; two circulating AUDs one complete, one partial
November 19, 1978	Janss Steps, UCLA	Los Angeles	CA	USA	AUD + VID	Free outdoor daytime show, Silent VID, two AUD's circulating (one is partial)
November 20, 1978	Roxy Theatre	West Hollywood	CA	USA	VID	Two shows, 900PM & 1130PM; VID is two song fragments from Super-8 film
November 21, 1978	Roxy Theatre	West Hollywood	CA	USA		900 PM show (all seven of the Roxy November shows were sold out)
November 23, 1978	Boarding House	San Francisco	CA	USA		Thanksgiving; two shows
November 24, 1978	Boarding House	San Francisco	CA	USA		Two shows
November 25, 1978	Boarding House	San Francisco	CA	USA		Two shows
November 27, 1978	Lower Sproul Plaza (in front of Zellerbach Hall), U.C.	Berkeley	CA	USA	AUD + VID Partial	2nd free TH noon concert at UCB 78; VID is partial fragment, AUD is complete
November 27, 1978	Boarding House	San Francisco	CA	USA		Played a night gig after free UCB show
November 29, 1978	Campbell Hall, UCSB	Santa Barbara	CA	USA		Two shows, 730 PM & 1000 PM
November 30, 1978	Central Coast Theater	Pismo Beach	CA	USA		Two shows, 730 PM & 1000 PM
December 1, 1978	Civic Auditorium	Santa Cruz	CA	USA
December 2, 1978	Coffee House UC	Davis	CA	USA		two shows, pre-show interview KDVS-FM
December 5, 1978	Glenn Miller Club, Univ Colorado	Boulder	CO	USA		The "Club" was in the Ballroom venue
December 8, 1978	Armadillo World Headquarters	Austin	TX	USA
December 9, 1978	Armadillo World Headquarters	Austin	TX	USA
December 10, 1978	Texas Opry House	Houston	TX	USA		FM tape with this date is Sept 28 show
December 11, 1978	Texas Palladium	Dallas	TX	USA	AUD	"Heads in Dallas" bootleg
December 13, 1978	One Block West	Kansas City	KS	USA
December 14, 1978	Kiel Opera House	St Louis	MO	USA		Benefit for the Judevine Center
December 15, 1978	Park West	Chicago	IL	USA	AUD	Michael Zieve lead vocal on "Artists Only", two shows, 730 & 1100 PM
December 16, 1978	Park West	Chicago	IL	USA		one show 800 PM
December 17, 1978	Tomorrow Club	Youngstown	OH	USA		aka "Youngstown Agora"
December 18, 1978	Agora Ballroom	Cleveland	OH	USA	SBD	Partial, LP "Warner Bros Music Show"
December 29, 1978	War Memorial Theater	Trenton	NJ	USA
December 30, 1978	Paradise Theater	Boston	MA	USA
December 31, 1978	Beacon Theater	New York	NY	USA	AUD
Unknown, 1978	Unknown	Unknown			VID Partial	The well-known "Syracuse 78" video is from an unknown fall tour 1978 concert
Unknown, 1978	Electric Ballroom	Milwaukee	WI	USA		October date (?)
Unknown, 1978	Unknown venue	Tulsa	OK	USA		Cited in magazine, Sept or Dec tour(?)