Clouds, Coasters, or The Cavendish Ballroom in Tollcross, was the venue for many concerts throughout the seventies and into the eighties, having been a popular dancehall since the forties. In it’s time also known as Outer Limits, Bermuda Triangle, and The Network.

Clouds/Coasters etc and area 20th April 2009. ©S.S. 2009.

• 1969  26th February Pink Floyd (benefit for Shelter)

• 1977  25th March The Rezillos, Street Noise, and Ignatz

• 1977  15th July The Jam, support bands The Rezillos & The Jolt (The Jam earlier that day signing copies of All Around The World at Hot Licks Cockburn Street.  They were paid for the instore signing with 24 cans of lager!)

• 1977  19th August Generation X, support band Johnny & The Self Abusers (moved to Pantiles Hotel, West Linton after the venue temporarily lost it’s license).      
• 1977  14th October The Heartbreakers
• 1977  26th October The Clash, support bands Richard Hell & The Voidoids, & The Lous

•   1977  28th October The Adverts & The Saints

• 1977  4th November Buzzcocks, support bands The Prefects, The Skids
• 1977  26th November The Clash
• 1977  9th December The Damned, support band The Dead Boys

• 1977  18th December The Ramones, & The Rezillos

• 1978  23rd January Ultravox

• 1978  10th February The Stranglers(secret gig) support band The Skids (at this gig JJ Burnell was so impressed with the Skids, he got their London booking agency to arrange a London tour for them)
• 1978  24th February Stiff/Chiswick challenge, with  The Skids,The Scars,Freeze, Mono’s, Subs, Cuban Heels, Berlin Blondes, and Groper
• 1978  3rd March The Vibrators, support band The Skids
• 1978  24th April Slaughter And The Dogs, Eater, & Blitzkreigbop

• 1978  2nd June Steve Gibbons Band
• 1978  16th & 18th June “Farewell To The Roxy Tour”, featuring Blitz, The UK Subs, XL5, Red Lights, The Bears, Jets, Open Sores, Goats, & Acme Sewage Co

• 1978  15th July The Movers                                                                               
• 1978  22nd July The Movers
• 1978  28th July The Rich Kids, support bands The Slits & The Deleted

1978  18th August Siouxsie & The Banshees, support band Spizz Oil

• 1978  25th August The Rezillos, support band The Mekons

• 1978  1st September Sham 69, support band Local Heroes & The Valves

• 1978  16th September The Movers                                                                        
• 1978  25th October Be Stiff Route 78 Tour with Wreckless Eric, Lene Lovich, Jona Lewie, Mickey Jupp, & Rachel Sweet

• 1978  1st December The Lurkers, support band TheValves, & Switch
• 1978  2nd December Screwdriver                                                                        
• 1978  15th December The Doomned/The Damned (Gary Holton vocals), support band The Freeze 

• 1978  17th December Ultravox
• 1979  27th March Stiff Little Fingers, support bands Mekons & Freeze
• 1979  20th April Magazine, support band Simple Minds

• 1979  25th May The Dickies
• 1979  20th July Adam & The Ants, support band Josef K, their first gig under this name(the poster below was printed with the wrong date)

• 1979  17th August The Ruts, support Linton kwesi Johnson 

• 1981  20th March Scars
• 1981  17th August Dexy’s Midnight Runners, support Projected Passion Revue 
• 1981  24th August Joe Jackson’s Jumpin Jive     
• 1981  31st August U2, support band Boots For Dancing

• 1981  2nd November Depeche Mode, & Blancmange

• 1981  21st December Altered Images

• 1982  3rd May Nick Lowe                                                                                     
• 1982  10th May Steel Pulse                                                                                 
• 1982  14th June Gang Of Four

• 1982  3rd August Bauhaus(rescheduled to the 16th August?)
• 1982  8th, 9th & 10th September Simple Minds, support band Hey Elastica!

• 1982  15th October Big Country

• 1982  19th October Culture Club (this gig took place the day “Do You Really Want To Hurt Me” went to number one).

• 1982  15th November Bow Wow Wow

•  1982  22nd November The Birthday Party, support band The Laughing Clowns

• 1982  29th November Orange Juice
• 1983  14th February Nazareth

• 1983  11th April New Order

• 1983  23rd May China Crisis

• 1983  11th July Soft Cell (Marc Almond meeting fans upstairs in “The Hoochie Coochie Club” after gig.

• 1983  28th November Cabaret Voltaire

• 1983  15th December Killing Joke

• 1984  30th January The Alarm

• 1984  5th March The Smiths, support band The Red Guitars

• 1984  19th March Julian Cope

• 1984  26th March The Icicle Works
• 1984  7th June Paul Haig, & The Screaming Nobodies

• 1984  27th August The Armoury Show

• 1984  17th September Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
• 1985  30th January Microdisney
• 1985  16th April Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

• 1985  14th May The Clash “Busking Tour”

• 1985  16th May China Crisis

• 1985  13th June The Redskins

• 1985  25th June REM

• 1985  7th August Win, support Lip Machine(R.King Scars)

• 1985  5th September The Jesus & Mary Chain

• 1985  7th October The Fall                                                                                       
• 1985  10th October The Armoury Show

• 1985  28th November Simply Red
• 1986  6th May Simply Red                                                           
• 1986  23rd May Half Man, Half Biscuit

• 1986  14th October New Model Army

• 1986  6th November The Mission

• 1987  30th April Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction, support band The Batfish Boys

• 1988  11th August Joe Strummer

• 1989  9th March Fields Of The Nephilim

• 1990  29th January Faith No More

• 1990  12th February Birdland

• 1990  1st October Janes Adiction

• 1990  6th December The Fall

1991 28th January Killing Joke

• 1991  9th April Ned’s Atomic Dustbin