The Pale Fountains
Plato’s Ballroom, Liverpool (with Orange Juice & The Wild Swans) – 31st August 1981
from Made in Scotland
Orange Juice headlined their Plato’s Ballroom show, supported by The Wild Swans and The Pale Fountains, two bands I’d never heard of but whose names again sounded feyer, more romantic than existentially inclined pretenders of old. It was to be a night which, as I’d remember when I closed my eyes all those years later listening to Bricolage, and like the Joy Division show at Eric’s, or the first time I ever heard ‘Unknown Pleasures,’ was to change everything forever.
