11-may-1976 Back Street Crawler
DATE: Wednesday, 11th, May, 1976
LOCATION: 90 Wardour Street
MAIN ACT: Back Street Crawler
SUPPORTING: AC/DC
BAND MEMBERS: Bon Scott (vocals), Angus Young (guitar), Malcolm Young (guitar), Phil Rudd (drums), Mark Evans (bass)
AC/DC played their first gigs at the Marquee club on the 11th and 12th of May 1976 as the support act for Back Street Crawler and as part of an European tour which was originally scheduled to start in April but was postponed due to the death of Back Street Crawler's guitarist Paul Kossof in March that year. By the 4th of June the band was stepping on the stage of the Marquee club again as heading act a month later they started a Monday residence at the club marking one of the attendance records at the club attracting more than 1,000 people, when the capacity of the club was not more than 700.
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