Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Liverpool Eric's 1977
Liverpool Eric's ad from Deaf School programme, March, April 1977
11th February Little Bob Story
10th March The Heartbreakers + Cherry Vanilla + The Police
11th March Darts
12th March Rockpile
18th March Buzzcocks (SD-LTT) or Bert Jansch (flyer) take your pick
19th March Frankie Miller
25th March Silly Wizard
26th March Wayne County
1st April Generation X
2nd April Plummet Airlines
4th April The Western Kirby Cowboy*
5th April The Western Kirby Cowboy
6th April The Western Kirby Cowboy
8th April Roogalator
9th April Tyla Gang
13th April Jazz night with Chris McGregor's Blue Notes + Kenny Shaw + Will Gaines
15th April Wayne County
16th April Gorillas
20th April Jazz night
21st April John Cale + Count Bishops + The Boys
22nd April Little Bob Story
23rd April The Pirates
27th April Jazz night
29th April Plummet Airlines
30th April The Jam
*During the Everyman Theatre's thirteenth season, the extensive rebuilding project forced the company out and into a year of touring - playing in school gymnasiums, pubs, and working men's clubs throughout the Merseyside area. One of the Everyman Company's most popular shows was The Western Kirkby Cowboy (a Merseyside version of Shane Connaughton's Western Coyney Cowboy), starring Bob Mason as Billy Longbottom - a council tenant in the titular West Kirkby who fantasises about an idealised life in the hard deserts of the American Old West. The play opened at Eric's (later to become the centre of Liverpool's punk scene) and toured around Merseyside.
Liverpool Eric's ad from Last Trumpet, April, May 1977
5th May The Clash
6th May Wayne County & the Electric Chairs
7th May The Heartbreakers
11th May Jazz night Johnny Griffin + Carmel Jones + Joe Palin Trio
12th May Private hire
13th May The Stranglers
14th May Siouxsie & the Banshees (SD-LTT) Blondie (flyer) Albert Dock (flyer)
19th May Ramones + Talking Heads + Boomtown Rats
20th May Alberto Y Los Paranoias
21st May Bert Jansch
25th May Jazz night Red Brass
27th May Generation X
28th May The Damned
Liverpool Eric's flyer, May 1977 (edited)
1st June Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia
Liverpool Eric's flyer, July, August 1977
6th July Liverpool Jam
8th July The Darts
9th July The Saints
12th July 'Sleak' = Alberto y los Trios Paranoias
13th July 'Sleak' = Alberto y los Trios Paranoias
14th July 'Sleak' = Alberto y los Trios Paranoias
15th July 'Sleak' = Alberto y los Trios Paranoias
16th July The Jam (or The Spitfire Boys) + Radio Blank)
18th July Deaf School
19th July Deaf School
20th July Liverpool Jam
21st July The Thursday Bop (at last)
22nd July Spitfire Boys
23rd July The Vibrators
27th July Liverpool Jam
28th July The Thursday Bop
30th July Elvis Costello & the Attractions
2nd August1977 elvis costello and the attractions
2nd August Private hire - Granada TV, So It Goes, Elvis Costello & the Attractions
broadcaast 3rd December 1977
3rd August Liverpool Jam
4th August The Thursday Bop
5th August "Murder at Eric's" = Everyman Theatre Company
6th August Buzzcocks (or Stanley Clarke)
10th August Liverpool Jam
11th August The Thursday Bop
12th August Flying Saucers
13th August The Table + XTC
19th August The Movies
20th August The Slits + The Prefects + The Spitfire Boys
22nd August Slaughter & the Dogs + Wire + Breeder + Johnny Moped
August X-Ray Spex + Warsaw (+ matinee show)
26th August John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett
27th August Generation X + Big in Japan
28th August Private hire - Beatles Convention
29th August Private hire - Beatles Convention
Liverpool Eric's flyer, Liverpool Jam, 1977
Liverpool Eric's flyer, Thursday Bop, 1977
Liverpool Eric's flyer, September 1977
2nd September Crazy Cavan & the Rhythm Rockers
3rd September Buzzcocks + The Worst + Rage
7th September Pacific Eardrum
16th September The Adverts + Only Ones
17th September 999 + The Rage
23rd September Ultravox!
24th September The Motors
25th September Sad Cafe
30th September Slits
Liverpool Eric's flyer, October, November 1977
1st October Alternative TV + Amazorblades
2nd October Billy Boy Arnold + The Moondogs
7th October Tom Robinson Band
8th October Cherry Vanilla + Killjoys
9th October Kursaal Flyers
14th October Radio Stars + The Skunks
15th October Lurkers + Depressions + (Adam and) The Ants
16th October Fabulous Poodles
17th October 29th & Dearborn
18th October John Martyn
19th October John Martyn
21st October Boomtown Rats
22nd October Clash + The Toilets
26th October Heartbreakers + Slaughter & the Dogs
28th October X-Ray Spex
29th October Eater + The Crabs
30th October The Pirates
Liverpool Eric's flyer, November 1977
5th November Darts + The Moondogs
10th November Gordon Giltrap
16th November Colosseum
18th November Buzzcocks + The Fall + The Toilets
19th November Rezillos
20th November 5 Hand Reel + Krysia Kocjan
21st November Third World
23rd November Wayne County & the Electric Chairs
25th November John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett
26th November XTC
Liverpool Eric's flyer, December 1977
1st December Theatre Wardrobe + The Warm Jets + Hugo Dines Band
2nd December Greg Kihn
3rd December Ultravox!
4th December Amazorblades
9th December Boys of the Lough
10th December The Clash
11th December Ian Dury + Deke Leonard's Iceberg
16th December Howard Devoto's Magazine + John Cooper Clarke
17th December Penetration + The Fall
18th December Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias
20th December film show
21st December The Pirates
23rd December Roogalator
24th December Sausages from Mars + Radio Doom + Fast Breeder
I should credit all the sites that I found these on, but being a poor archaeologist I didn't keep records. I've been collecting them for a while so they're just there on my hard drive. A whole bunch came from BombedOut. The Liverpool Band Posters group on Facebook was another major resource, as was the Erics77 facebook group. Google helped. And a few of them are from my attic. Some filled in dates are from Bill Sykes excellent book about Roger Eagle "Sit Down - Listen To This"
