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On this day, 16 December 1988, Macclesfield’s finest the Macc Lads played the Venue in Cardiff.
The band had recently released their Live at Leeds, The Macc Lads (the who?).
Self-proclaimed the "rudest, crudest, lewdest, drunkest band in Christendom", the Macc Lads used irreverent, foul-mouthed and politically incorrect lyrics; common lyrical themes were binge drinking, sex and fighting.
The band were prevented from entering or ejected from gigs in Macclesfield, London, Huddersfield, Bury, Cornwall, Blackpool, Colchester, Hull, Newcastle, Cleethorpes, Northampton, Leeds, Wigan, Lincoln, Bolton, Mansfield, Portsmouth, Cheltenham, and Norwich. They were also banned from entering the United States.
A concert at the Birmingham Hummingbird in 1989 resulted in thousands of pounds' worth of damage by fans. Vandalism included scaffolding being pulled apart and thrown onstage as well as a broken toilet, pots of paint and ashtrays. Band members McCavity and Muttley suffered cut heads and fans went on stage to fight road crew, and stage security members Lockstock and Mungo.
The Lads' website states that at a gig in Cheltenham in 1991 a "bag of hot sick" was thrown at the band.[5]
The band played their 500th gig at Nottingham Rock City on 4 December 1995.
Setlist
Knock Knock
Julie the Schooly
Head Kicked In
Twenty Pints
Bitter, Fit Crack
Ben Nevis
Bloik!
Saturday Night
Failure With Girls
Fat Bastard
No Sheep 'til Buxton
Barrel's Round
Jingle Bells
God's Gift to Women
Sweaty Betty
