I was there that night at the Old Grey Horse, still got the tape somewhere. Used to be a great night, especially the Xmas one.👍

Glad to have been part of their following over many years, The Rails, Mothers Little Helper, and debut shows at the Boogaloo, Moth Club, Blues Kitchen, 100 Club, Lexington, Lafayette.

„Side project“ of James Walbourne, guitarist for The Pretenders.

One of the most under rated bands in Manchester in their time. Their album Death in Buzzards Gulch is testament to this IMHO. "I believe"

Brilliant band. Spent many happy evenings down the Cavalcade in West Didsbury, listening to these chaps. Happy days, indeed. Thank you for the memories.

3 piece , cool.

Outstanding ‼️😎🔥🎸

Prime example of Phone recordings from the Audience not doing Artists/Bands the full justice they deserve. This outfit is absolutely savage, 3 lads on stage, Rock 'n' Roll in every sense of the word and just how it should be..

Amei 💖

Much BETTER now with a bassist! Rockin'! \m/

Saw them twice in 14 hours last April in Kilkenny. They are nuts

Saw them in London in July and it was an amazing gig.

Possibly the worst band ive seen in a long time ,if not ever...directionless and devoid of any musical talent....the epitome of bland

Thanks for sharing. Loved their set.

Great memories of Gags Monday nights in the Old Grey Horse.

Great tribute to the boys. At their slightly dangerous swaggering best. Never equalled since by anybody in 50 years in my honest if not very humble opinion.

You're so lucky to have witnessed this gig - this recording bears out that this was THE definitive Rolling Stones line up - not only was Mick Taylor the best lead guitarist they ever had - I think he made Keith play better....

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Was listening to their album this afternoon,great as us this recording.I'm sure I saw Gags live somewhere back in the day,can't remember where though.

a best kept secret, very listenable (after alle these 32 years.....). Treat yourself ! ! ! Jan van Riel, The Netherlands

Hi Robin. Watch this space - there's a Gags website coming soon with lots of photos/stories etc about the band. This summer... Cheers.

Fantastic. I never thought I would hear them again. I was almost certainly at this gig. Nigel Coatman lived in Timperley I think and he was previously the drummer in a band called Against The Grain. I was part of their road crew !

'Easy Lay' and 'Money Makers' were legend back in the Cavalcade Pub days. Mind you their renditions of Coronation Street and the theme to Steptoe and Son always secured rapturous applause.

I followed Gags for years around Sale, Didsbury, Manchester and recorded them a number of times. Back in the day, the original drummer was Nigel....back when Brendon had hair (as did I!) Thanks for uploading.

Hi, I made this recording along with a few other overs series of weeks at the Cavalcade in Didsbury, Manchester. I might still have the other tapes somewhere. If so I'll upload. Together with Graham and the other guys,we used to follow this band. Don't think we realised just how good they were.

My name is Graham and I am the guy who handed over this recording to Gerry McLauglin at the Spinning Top in Stockport (It doesn't seem like four years ago!). I knew I had this tape and prior to converting it to digital I hadn't listened to it for maybe 15 years or more! It had deteriorated slightly and had acquired a bit of background noise that makes it sound like it's been transferred from a vinyl record! It looks like I just caught it in time. If I remember rightly Gags used to play every Tuesday at the Cavalcade in Didsbury and I used to go with a friend called Tom Gillett. One night Tom took his Dad's rather posh stereo cassette recorder along and the band kindly let him record the gig. My cassette was a copy from the original. I think Tom recorded more than one gig and I thought I had another recording somewhere but as yet I have not been able to locate it. I have not seen Tom for about 30 years, he moved away to a different part of the county, however some other friends have located him and a Zoom meeting is imminent! I still have a copy of the LP 'Death in Buzzards' Gulch' and the 4 star review from 'Sounds' that compared Gerry to Eric Clapton. It's good to see an accurate track listing (Above) I got most of the song titles correct but had to guess at others!

Saw Gags at The Red Cow, Hammersmith (yet another long gone venue) circa 1978/79. Had no idea what their music was but back then virtually every decent sized pub in London had a live band most nights. Great time to live in the capital! Their act was built around the Clapton-esque solos of their guitarist but that was probably the problem; it wasn't the music of that time but four or five years earlier. Bought the album nonetheless; probably played it once but got rid of all my vinyls years back. But this does bring back good memories.

What a find...fantastic

Wonderful rarity

Cracking Band, saw them many. many times at The Cav

fab

This song always goes down well when we play it - The King Biscuit Boys

come back Brendan, ya' Yorkshire Sod.

fab

Never saw them but was given a tape by a friend who did (thanks Adrian) which I copied to minidisk and have enjoyed many times since. In fact I was caught playing the intro to Juicy John Pink by my band mates, and when asked what it was I couldn't not remember. So I dug the minidisk out last week and enjoyed the full set again in the car. Blisteringly good music and a great band. Sorry I never saw them live. Great post, many thanks to you and Gags.

my lucky day! more Gags.

Brilliant, brilliant post. Thank you.

Brendan Gore on piano/vocals, it is! Plus Gerry McLaughlin on guitar, John Kelly on bass and Bernie Nuttall on drums. Bren and Gerry still play together, in The Removal Men. Baker's Vaults, Stockport Market, one Thursday a month, and The Nursery, Heaton Moor, last Sunday in the month.

Brendan Gore I think Many a great night in Stockport boozer near the market somewhere. Cheers for posting as my cassette has just about had it!!!

Great to see the lads with Adam in the line up. Brings back memories of some cracking gigs at the Old Grey Horse.

Classic poignant and politically incorrect tale - she's really got a hold on him, as Smokey Robinson might have sung...

Tremendous stuff. I was happy to be a small part of the team back in the days of Gags' residencies at the Old Grey Horse in Didsbury and at Cobdens Place in Stockport. My occasional role was to carry trays of Holy Water to the lads during the set.