Be Stiff Travel by Train tour '78

[lou Reed]

Anyone go to the Stiff records tour in '78? First real gig I went to and was pretty awesome. Eric rocked hard and Lena was on top form. Rachael Sweet got a rare slagging cos of her high pitched squeaky voice. As a broke 5th former all I could afford to buy was the tour poster but my mate got the t-shirt!
Good times...

[George 1978]

I notice that Lene Lovich (please do see my signature if you must) was obviously one of the artistes on the Stiff record label at the time and I have just noticed that you and the poster have mentioned her - 1978 was the year before she had that Lucky Number hit. I have never owned a 7 inch single of it (even though around 20 years ago I went through a phase of rummaging through charity shops' record collections after getting a hi-fi from Argos). I know that she was on Stiff because it was mentioned in the Guinness Book of Hit Singles which I had for a while - YouTube, Alexa, NOW 70s, Pick of the Pops (as long as it isn't skipped), and the Lovich album which lives on my bookcase are places where I would usually hear it.

I actually started a thread on Lovich which you can find on the search function - you might have already seen it as I notice that you have been with us since November 2022.