CHELMSFORD ROCKS
Live music, memories & history from Chelmsford and beyond.
Established January 2006
Build v232 · Evidence layer

Event Evidence Register

A transparent register for the gig records currently carried forward from the Library. This page separates what the archive currently supports from what still needs a later confirmation check.

Important: a Subject to confirmation label does not mean a date is wrong. Your recorded date is retained unless a later, documented editorial decision changes it.
Gig records

20

Currently indexed

Confirmed

3

Current archive support

Subject to confirmation

17

Retained pending later checks

Venues

6

Represented in this layer

How to read this register

Confirmed is used where the current Library evidence is strong enough for the present build. Subject to confirmation is used where the date remains part of your archive but the later external-source checking has not yet been completed.

The rebuild is therefore not silently rewriting history while research is still in progress.

Event records

Penetration
13 May 1979 · Chancellor Hall
Confirmed

Yearless Sunday 13 May ticket; calendar check plus contemporary Record Mirror corroboration.

Editorial rule: the recorded date is retained. The current archive evidence supports the confirmed label.

Open event record →
The Who
23 Jan 1965 · Corn Exchange
Subject to confirmation

Local support: Coletrane Union. Source/date discrepancies remain in the archive.

Editorial rule: the recorded date is retained. The date is retained and awaits the later confirmation pass; this label does not imply that the date is wrong.

Open event record →
Jimmy Nicol
3 Apr 1965 · Corn Exchange
Subject to confirmation

1960s Corn Exchange archive.

Editorial rule: the recorded date is retained. The date is retained and awaits the later confirmation pass; this label does not imply that the date is wrong.

Open event record →
Alex Harvey Soul Band
4 Sep 1965 · Corn Exchange
Subject to confirmation

1960s Corn Exchange archive.

Editorial rule: the recorded date is retained. The date is retained and awaits the later confirmation pass; this label does not imply that the date is wrong.

Open event record →
Jimi Hendrix / Soul Trinity
25 Feb 1967 · Corn Exchange
Subject to confirmation

Photographs and community memories form one of the strongest surviving Corn Exchange stories.

Editorial rule: the recorded date is retained. The date is retained and awaits the later confirmation pass; this label does not imply that the date is wrong.

Open event record →
Pink Floyd
23 Sep 1967 · Corn Exchange
Subject to confirmation

1960s Corn Exchange archive.

Editorial rule: the recorded date is retained. The date is retained and awaits the later confirmation pass; this label does not imply that the date is wrong.

Open event record →
The Clash
27 May 1977 · Chancellor Hall
Confirmed

White Riot Tour.

Editorial rule: the recorded date is retained. The current archive evidence supports the confirmed label.

Open event record →
The Damned + 999
6 Nov 1977 · Chancellor Hall
Subject to confirmation

Ticket survives; ticket wording says playing for free.

Editorial rule: the recorded date is retained. The date is retained and awaits the later confirmation pass; this label does not imply that the date is wrong.

Open event record →
The Vibrators
26 Jun 1977 · Chancellor Hall
Subject to confirmation

Separate 7 Jul 1977 appearance also survives in the index.

Editorial rule: the recorded date is retained. The date is retained and awaits the later confirmation pass; this label does not imply that the date is wrong.

Open event record →
Buzzcocks / The Slits / John Cooper Clarke
12 Mar 1978 · Chancellor Hall
Subject to confirmation

1970s punk/new-wave archive.

Editorial rule: the recorded date is retained. The date is retained and awaits the later confirmation pass; this label does not imply that the date is wrong.

Open event record →
Generation X
2 Apr 1978 · Chancellor Hall
Subject to confirmation

1970s punk/new-wave archive.

Editorial rule: the recorded date is retained. The date is retained and awaits the later confirmation pass; this label does not imply that the date is wrong.

Open event record →
Radio Stars
3 Sep 1978 · Chancellor Hall
Confirmed

Surviving ticket No. 333 explicitly prints Sunday 3rd September 1978, 8 p.m.; Radio Stars plus support.

Editorial rule: the recorded date is retained. The current archive evidence supports the confirmed label.

Open event record →
The Undertones
11 Mar 1979 · Chancellor Hall
Subject to confirmation

The Deep Throats support; contemporary Record Mirror tour notice and independent listings document this separate appearance.

Editorial rule: the recorded date is retained. The date is retained and awaits the later confirmation pass; this label does not imply that the date is wrong.

Open event record →
The Undertones
3 Jun 1979 · Chancellor Hall
Subject to confirmation

Late-1970s Chancellor Hall archive.

Editorial rule: the recorded date is retained. The date is retained and awaits the later confirmation pass; this label does not imply that the date is wrong.

Open event record →
Adam & The Ants
13 Dec 1980 · Odeon
Subject to confirmation

Chelmsford Odeon archive.

Editorial rule: the recorded date is retained. The date is retained and awaits the later confirmation pass; this label does not imply that the date is wrong.

Open event record →
Ozzy Osbourne + Budgie
22 Oct 1980 · Odeon
Subject to confirmation

Chelmsford Odeon archive.

Editorial rule: the recorded date is retained. The date is retained and awaits the later confirmation pass; this label does not imply that the date is wrong.

Open event record →
Junior Jump and the Bottom Line
3 Jun 2017 · Bassment
Subject to confirmation

Poetry-style review survives in the archive; Maurice Hyde.

Editorial rule: the recorded date is retained. The date is retained and awaits the later confirmation pass; this label does not imply that the date is wrong.

Buzzcocks
4 Oct 2012 · Evoke
Subject to confirmation

Later use of the former Chancellor Hall site.

Editorial rule: the recorded date is retained. The date is retained and awaits the later confirmation pass; this label does not imply that the date is wrong.

From the Jam
28 Nov 2013 · Evoke
Subject to confirmation

Later use of the former Chancellor Hall site.

Editorial rule: the recorded date is retained. The date is retained and awaits the later confirmation pass; this label does not imply that the date is wrong.

V Festival
1990s–2010s · Hylands Park
Subject to confirmation

Chelmsford archive. Kept separate from Away Gigs.

Editorial rule: the recorded date is retained. The date is retained and awaits the later confirmation pass; this label does not imply that the date is wrong.