The band's debut gig in March 1984 was supporting The Saints and The Triffids at the Old Civic Theatre in Perth.

In February, shortly after the band's third gig supporting The Damned, they signed a recording contract with Stiff Records.

Highlights included a slot supporting Pallas at Hammersmith Odeon, London, in March and several more gigs at the band's second home the Marquee Club-including one which was filmed.

The band's first live appearance was in Nottingham supporting The Adverts.

This line-up played one of the band's first gigs at The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, London on 23 July 1972 supporting The Jeff Beck Group.

However, despite making # 6 in the US, the album did not chart in the UK, perhaps due to the band's lack of a supporting hit single (" Touch Me " also did not chart ).

In 2003, Trujillo joined Metallica, leaving the bass position in Black Label Society open, which left room for Inez to rejoin the band for a short 2 week tour, supporting the band's album The Blessed Hellride.

They were initially compared to the British acid rock scene, a mistake hardly rectified by the band's early performances supporting Spacemen 3.

Although Watts-Russell and John Fryer were technically the only two official members, the band's recorded output featured a large rotating cast of supporting artists, many of whom were signed to, or otherwise associated with, 4AD.

Produced by John Leckie, it was the band's last album before they announced their breakup in October 2003 and interestingly never enjoyed a supporting tour, unlike the two EP's ( Revolution and We Bounce-a two part single for " I Wear My Skin " was also released ) which came during the anticipation for the album release.

In August 2008, Adam Perry revealed six tour dates supporting The Wildhearts on the band's forum, noting that: " This is going to be wicked and we are grateful to The Wildhearts for dragging us from our retirement!

The supporting Europe-wide tour saw the band's first trip to the Balkans.

The band's origins date to 1963 and the Los Angeles-based a cappella doo wop group Danny And The Memories, which consisted of main singer Danny Whitten and supporting vocalists Lou Bisbal ( soon to be replaced by Bengiamino Rocco ), Billy Talbot, and Ralph Molina.

Before embarking on the Octopus tour, the band played a grueling set of dates supporting Black Sabbath, during which they proved to be very unpopular with the majority of the headlining band's fans.

A compilation of the band's singles, Mcluskyism, came out in February 2006 ; a limited-edition version came with two additional CDs of B-sides ( labelled as B-sides and C-sides ), rarities and live recordings from their final headline performance at the University of London Union ( The band would make one further live appearance on 01 / 12 / 04 supporting Shellac at the Scala in London ).

In 1996, after that band's 1994 album Fall of Life and a supporting European tour ( with Impaled Nazarene ), Sattler re-formed God Dethroned with guitarist Jens van der Valk, bassist Beef, and drummer Roel Sanders.

Following the band's first UK-wide tour, supporting label-mates Aereogramme, they retreated to Chemikal Underground's recording studios, Chem19 in Hamilton to begin work on their debut album with Paul Savage of The Delgados as producer.

It is rumoured that the band were offered several lucrative tours in 1995, such as supporting Iron Maiden on their " X-Factour 95 " tour, which had the album been released as expected in 1995, could have improved the band's sales and longevity.

After the release of the band's self-titled debut album, Thunderstone, the band toured Europe supporting Stratovarius and Symphony X. Thunderstone released the first four of their albums through Nuclear Blast ; however, their album Dirt Metal was released in October 2009 under Sony Music.

The band's formal live debut ( outside of school performances ) was at the Sir George Robey public house in Finsbury Park, London, supporting Extreme Noise Terror.

Soon after, Flowers announced hopes to release the band's new album by spring 2011 under a major label and with a supporting US tour to follow.

Following the tour supporting Gato Negro, guitarist Roisin Dunne left, and was replaced by Lisa Faye Beatty, the band's live sound engineer and long-time friend.

Drummer Sylvain Coutu joined the band for its supporting tour, but was replaced by Pierre Taillefer before the band's next album.

The band then went on a worldwide tour as a supporting act for bands like HIM, Lostprophets and Killswitch Engage, with Ken Floyd switching to second guitar, and Jason Shrout ( later replaced by Trevor Friedrich ) being added to the band's line-up for all drumming duties.

In June 1994, Pfaff died of an apparent heroin overdose, and Love recruited bassist Melissa Auf der Maur for the band's upcoming tour.

It would be the band's final album of all-new material, and lead singer Holly Johnson would leave the band following the corresponding world tour, followed by a flurry of lawsuits from ZTT.

For the band's R30 tour, one dryer was replaced with a rotating shelf-style vending machine.

The recording had taken place during three concert nights at Madison Square Garden in July 1973, during the band's concert tour of North America.

The rest of the tour was immediately cancelled, prompting widespread speculation about the band's future.

A North American tour, the band's first since 1977, was scheduled to commence on 17 October.

The band released an album and DVD, entitled Live in Texas, which consisted of audio and video tracks of some of the band's performances in Texas during the tour.

The band spent the first few months of 2004 touring around the world, first with the third Projekt Revolution tour, and later several European concerts. At the same time, the band's relationship with Warner Bros. Records was deteriorating rapidly on account of several trust and financial issues.

Despite the tour ending prematurely in financial disaster, it was the basis for the band's first international press.

Curtis committed suicide on 18 May 1980, the day before Joy Division were scheduled to depart for their first American tour, and prior to release of the band's second album, Closer.

" The tour became notable for the band's in-jokes, such as playing their entire set list in alphabetical order.

Intended to be the band's first " break-through " album, Caress of Steel sold below expectations and the promotional tour consisted of smaller venues, which led to the moniker the " Down the Tubes Tour ".

In October 1996, in support of Test For Echo, the band embarked on a North American tour, the band's first without an opening act and dubbed " An Evening with Rush ".

The album was supported by the band's first tour in six years, including first-ever concerts in Mexico City and Brazil, where they played to some of the largest crowds of their career.

Roxy Music performed seven dates around the UK in January and February 2011, in a tour billed ' For Your Pleasure ', to celebrate the band's 40th anniversary.

The band's appearance at Reading Festival during the 2003 tour had another impromptu acoustic set, this time due to equipment failure.

The Goo Goo Dolls also toured in support for the band's final tour.

Since the band's inception, Andi Watson has been their lighting and stage director, designing the visuals of Radiohead's live concerts, such as the carbon-neutral " LED forest " of the In Rainbows tour.

In 2000, Bill Viola collaborated with the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, and its lead singer Trent Reznor to create a video suite for the band's tour.

On the band's tour through the segregated South in 1934, they avoided some of the traveling difficulties of African-Americans by touring in private railcars.

Queen commenced the News of the World Tour in October 1977, and Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times called this concert tour the band's " most spectacularly staged and finely honed show yet ".

The band's drummer Roger Taylor commented ; " We never thought we would tour again, Paul came along by chance and we seemed to have a chemistry.

The band's 1984 – 1985 tour was the most lucrative in their history and spawned 9012Live, a concert film directed by Steven Soderbergh with added special effects from Charlex that cost $ 1 million.

The tour was also dogged by legal battles sparked by Atlantic Records due to the band's references to Yes in promotional materials and the tour title.