Pulp played second from bottom of the bill. The other bands were:
Artery (headlining), The Flying Alfonso Brothers, Scarborough Antelopes, Repulsive Alien, Difficult Decision, The Naughtiest Girl Was a Monitor, Tremmers, Corridor, Station 4
(Some sources also list 'Vector 7-7', but they appear on neither the running order nor the poster, and presumably didn't play.)
Line-up: Jarvis Cocker (vocals, guitar), Peter Dalton (guitar, organ), Philip Thompson (bass) and Jimmy Sellars (drums)
Russell Senior was present and wrote a review for his Bath Banker fanzine (see below).
Included:
Teenage Kicks riff on ½ acoustic guitars but different words. They claim to have written "Stepping Stone" - it's the definative version! "Subtlety time, dedicated to Elvis" sounds like "Don't Fear the Reaper" a bit. A dirge. "Message for the Marshians" with a keyboardist who hadn't learnt the other songs. Another dirge. The appearance of the front man is entertaining. A fun band. Tuning up of hopelessly out of tune semi-acc. "Happy House" riff out of tune, different words. "I won't say that this is the penultimate song because that's pretentious. "This is for dancing but I don't suppose anybody's going to dance. Sounds like "Christine" and is a disco spoof! I wonder what Kieth Strong would say. Vast cheering for encore.
Our first Sheffield gig was a "Bouquet of Steel" festival in August 1980, at the Leadmill. We were second-from-bottom of the bill [...] We tried a version of "Stepping Stone". By this time, we'd got a new drummer called Jimmy Sellers, but he was into drinking. When we got to the middle break, he just stopped, so it only lasted about 30 seconds. The bass player encountered feedback. It was the first time we knew it existed because we'd been playing through the record player at home, and could never play that loud because the neighbours would complain. He walked away from the amp hoping it would stop - he ran out of stage and fell into the audience, which caused a lot of hilarity.
There are no known recordings.
Running order courtesy of http://www.myspace.com/tsitasmusic (note different bands listed - might have changed on the day?)