ON THIS DAY ... in 1978 - THE SLITS!

At that weird Bournemouth Village Bowl place. (30 photos)

Bournemouth Village Bowl was a big basement venue, with two large rooms, one of them a bar. There was a bowling alley at ground level, with a multi-story on top of that. I guess the gig room was maybe the size of half a dozen Marquees? Something like that. The bar was cool as there was a DJ playing. I remember asking him to paly some Penetration or Gen …