Aftershow News: 23rd June 2018

Billy Idol + The Professionals live at Brixton Academy. After-show party from 10.45pm to 11.30pm. Around 70 or 80 guests are here in the backstage bar. It is a pay bar here. All The Professionals are here. Sex Pistols/Professionals drummer Paul Cook told me they were driving straight down to Isle of Wight Festival after as they were due on stage Sunday afternoon. Also here was Tony James who was in Generation X with Billy Idol. Billy Idol & band were doing meet & greet stuff in the dressing rooms area so not sure if they made it here...my sore throat & chesty cough were playing up so headed off home...

Posted 23rd June 2018

Aftershow News: 23rd June 2018

Psychedelic Furs live at The Royal Festival Hall, London. 10.30pm to 11.20pm. Afterparty for around 80 guests in one of the many bars here at this venue. It is a pay bar but all the band turn up after they have towelled themselves down. No sign of Meltdown curator Robert Smith so perhaps he is only going to certain shows. Jordan was here .She is an English model and actress noted for her work with Vivienne Westwood and the SEX boutique in the Kings Road area of London in the mid-1970s, and for being a fixture at many of the early Sex Pistols performances. She also was in the punk film ' Jubilee ' that came out in 1978. She went AWOL by the seaside for 30 years but since the 40th anniversary of punk in 2016 she has been going to loads of gigs again. Singer Richard Butler left at 11.15pm and i left a few minutes after him.