History of Sun City Girls Performances: The '80s

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1982

10-30 Alwun House Art Gallery (Phoenix, AZ) (Lineup: AB / RB / CG / Linda Cushma)
11-7 Alwun House (Phoenix) - Lineup: AB / RB / CG / Linda Cushma
11-12 House Party (Tempe, AZ) - Lineup: AB / RB / CG / Linda Cushma
12-6 Calderon Ballroom (Phoenix w/ Black Flag) - First show as Trio
12-18 Mad Gardens (Phoenix)
12-31 New Years Eve house party (Phoenix)


1983

1-10 Alwun House (Phoenix)
1-12 Tent City (Phoenix Homeless Shelter)
2-5 Grotto of Miracles (Tempe)
2-6 Tempe Post office (Tempe / on the street)
2-7 Rick Video's House Party (Phoenix)
2-17 Chuy's Jazz Club (Tempe)
2-19 AAA Gardeners Club (Phoenix) w/ Mighty Sphincter / Poet's Corner
2-25 Tony's Italian Pizza (Tempe)
3-19 Club Mayhem (Mesa, AZ) w/ Meat Puppets
3-26 Mad Gardens (Phoenix) w/ Flipper / Meat Puppets / Sphincter
4-10 Park and Swap (Phoenix Greyhound Park)
4-29 Decadance (Phoenix) w/ Meat Puppets / Victory Acres
9-3 Udinotti Gallery (Phoenix)
9-29 Happy Suds Laundromat (Mesa, AZ) w/ Poet's Corner / Mike Beram
10-5 Funnyfellows Restaurant (Phoenix)
10-8 Whiskers West (Phoenix) w/ Meat Puppets / Maybe Mental
11-11 Mad Gardens (Phoenix) w/ Violent Femmes / Zany Guys
12-2 The Greenhouse (Tempe) w/ Eddy Detroit / Hellfire / Zany Guys


1984

1-16 Mason Jar (Phoenix)
1-20 Whiskers West (Phoenix) w/ Eddy Detroit / Hellfire / Zany Guys
1-23 Mason Jar (Phoenix) w/ Meat Puppets
1-30 Mason Jar (Phoenix) w/ Maybe Mental / Zany Guys
2-13 Mason Jar (Phoenix) w/ JFA / Domino Theory
2-18 The Temple (Phoenix) w/ Meat Puppets / Mighty sphincter
2-20 Mason Jar (Phoenix)
2-27 Mason Jar (Phoenix)
3-6 Mason Jar (Phoenix)
3-13 Mason Jar (Phoenix)
3-20 Nino's (Tucson) w/ Domino Theory
3-27 Mason Jar (Phoenix)
4-3 Mason Jar (Phoenix)
4-13 Donna Oliphants Birthday Party
4-16 Mason Jar (Phoenix) w/ JFA
4-19 Las Vegas (w / JFA and Mity Sphincter)
4-21 On Broadway (San Francisco) w/ JFA, Mity Sphincter, Fang
4-28 AAA Gardeners Club (Phoenix)
5-9 Knights of Pythias Hall (Tempe)
5-26 Bundini's Warehouse (Phoenix) w/ Vandals
5-27 Zia Records (Tempe in-store)
6-7 Purple Turtle (Phoenix) - w/ JFA

1984 US / CANADA Tour with JFA - June, July, August

JFA played every show unless noted. Additional groups listed below for each city if remembered/documented.

6-19 Albequerque, NM
6-20 Kokehaus (El Paso, TX) w/ Big Boys
6-21 Villa Fontana (San Antonio, TX) w/ Big Boys
6-22 Consolidated Arts Warehouse (Houston, TX) w/ Marginal Man
6-24 Liberty Lunch (Austin, TX)
6-25 Twilight Room (Dallas, TX) w/ Corrosion of Conformity
6-26 Fool Killer Theater (Kansas City, MO)
6-27 Mississippi Nights (St. Louis, MO)
6-28 Rickie's Cantina (Bloomington, IN) w/ Killing Children
6-30 The Jockey Club (Newport, KY)
7-1 Cantrells (Nashville, TN)
7-2 The Antennae (Memphis, TN)
7-3 Jacy's (Baton Rouge, LA)
7-5 House Party (Gainsville, FL) No JFA (cops came and ended Party after SCG set)
7-6 / 7-7 Flynn's (Miami FL 2 Shows)
7-8 American Legion Hall (Orlando FL) w/ Damage
7-9 Metroplex (Atlanta, GA)
7-10 Vic and Bill's (Knoxville, TN)
7-11 A Church in a Basement ? (Durham, NC w/ Tex and the Horseheads)
7-12 Hard Times (Richmond ,VA)
7-13 The Newton Theater (Washington DC)
7-17 The Court Tavern (East Brunswick, NJ)
7-20 Alpha Chi-Roe Frat House at Penn Campus (Philadelphia PA)
7-21 The Paradise (Boston, MA)
7-22 Electric Body Association (Albany, NY)
7-23 Cargo (Montreal, Quebec)
7-25 Quoc Te' (Toronto, ONT)
7-26 JB's (Kent State University (Ohio) 2 shows)
7-27 The Lakefront (Cleveland, OH)
8-2 JB's (Madison, WI) w/ Meat Joy
8-3 7th Street Entry (Minneapolis, MN -2 shows)
8-9 Art Gallery ? (Seattle, WA) No JFA (cops came and ended show)
8-10 (Olympia, WA)
8-14 The Entertainment Factory (Sacramento, CA)
8-16 Mabuhay Gardens (San Francisco, CA w/ Mighty Sphincter)
8-17 Cathay De Grand (Los Angeles, CA w/ Mighty Sphincter)
8-19 Knights of Pythias Hall (Phoenix, AZ ) Last show of Tour
9-3 Clark Rigsby's House Party (Tempe)
9-10 Clancy's (Tempe) w/ Minutemen
10-7 Mason Jar (Phoenix)
11-14 Wreck's (Tucson)
12-17 Theater in the Gulch (Bisbee, AZ) w/ Domino Theory
12-25 Purple Turtle (Phoenix) w/ Joke Flower


1985

2-4 Mason Jar (Phoenix w/ Racer X)
2-14 AAA Gardeners Club (Phoenix - w/ Meat Puppets / Racer X)
3-7 Sound Seas (El Paso, TX) w/ Mighty Sphincter / Dr Michael Pemulis
3-28 AAA Gardeners Club (Phoenix) w/ Maybe Mental / Mighty Sphincter
4-15 House Party (Tempe - Dan and Mary Clark's house)
8-24 ASU Mem. Union (Tempe) SCG Big Band / Joke Flower / Maybe Mental
10-24 Valley Art Movie Theatre (Tempe) w/ Joke Flower
10-26 AAA Gardeners Club (Phoenix) w/ Joke Flower / Domino Theory
11-16 Electric Rhino (Phoenix) w/ Sphincter / Maybe Mental / Joke Flower
12-7 Vivian's (Phoenix w/ Meat Puppets?Mighty Sphincter / Response)
12-8 Party Gardens (Phoenix) w/ Necros / Raw Power
12-15 Bootleggers (Phoenix) w/ Domino Theory
12-21 Jaguar Club (Phoenix) w/ Eddy Detroit / Joke Flower / Sphincter
12-31 New Years Eve Party (Phoenix - 335 W. Willetta)


1986

1-23 Mason Jar (Phoenix) w/ Circle Jerks (2 shows)
1-24 Crash (Phoenix) w/ Caroliner
1-31 Crash (Phoenix)
2-7 Mason Jar (Phoenix w/ Green on Red)
2-9 Vivian's (Phoenix) w/ Vandals / Racer X / Boot Beast Carnival
3-16 Mason Jar (Phoenix) w/ Tex and the Horseheads / The Harvest
4-10 Impulse Club (Phoenix) w/ Groovy Truth / Domino Theory
4-22 Mason Jar (Phoenix) Anti-Apartheid Benefit
4-27 Mason Jar (Phoenix) w/ Mad Parade
5-11 Mason Jar (Phoenix) Big Mountain Benefit / Hans Olsen
5-31 Crash (Phoenix) Grotto of Miracles LP release party
6-1 Mason Jar (Phoenix) w/ Frightwig / SWA / NOMEANSNO
6-20 Powell and Market (San Francisco show on the street)
6-20 Club Foot (SF, CA) w/ Beanchurch / Caroliner
7-2 Mason Jar (Phoenix) w/ Sonic Youth / Saccharine Trust
7-4 Monsoon's (Flagstaff, AZ) w/ Six Flags Over Jesus
10-1 KASR Radio Live show (In studio at ASU campus)
11-15 The Metro (Phoenix) J. Biafra benefit
Somebodys house ? (Sedona, AZ)
The Metro (Phoenix)
The Metro (Phoenix)
Anti-Club (Los Angeles) w/ Saccharine Trust


1987

Crash (Phoenix) w/ JFA
The Cleanhouse (Phoenix)
Mason Jar (Phoenix)
Anti-Club (Los Angeles) w/ SWA / Lawndale / Zoogs Rift
Drama City / ASU Campus (Tempe)
3-14 924 Gilman Street (Berkeley, CA)
5-13 Crash (Phoenix) w/ Snakefinger
5-21 Mason Jar (Phoenix) w/ Eugene Chadbourne
5-22 House of Karate (phoenix) w/ Eugene Chadbourne
7-4 Graybill Ranch (Chino Valley, AZ)
9-11 Rub-A-Dub-Club (Tempe) w/ Joke Flower
9-18 Club Congress (Tucson) w/ Poet's Corner
10-17 ASU Music Bldg. (Tempe) w/ Jello Biafra
12-17 11 E. Ashland Gallery (Phoenix)


1988

1-23 Crash (Phoenix)
2-10 Nurine's House Party (Phoenix)
4-23 Muddy Waters (New Orleans / Jazz Fest 88)
5-6 East Side Records (Tempe) In-store show
7-17 Graybill Ranch (Chino Valley, AZ) w/ Sabot / Burning Bush
8-15 Excorcism House show (Phoenix)
8-26 Sun Club (Tempe)
9-29 East Side Records (Tempe) In-store show w/ Jack Wright / Damon Bostrom
10-3 11 E. Ashland Gallery (Phoenix) w/ Troy Weber / Damon Bostrom
10-15 Crash (Phoenix) w/ Meat Puppets
10-29 Rundle's Party (Tempe)
11-2 Sun Club (Tempe) w/ Victory Acres / Tristan Shtaka
11-19 Time Out of Mind (Phoenix) w/ Victory Acres
12-6 Sun Club (Tempe) w/ Half-Japanese / Victory Acres


1989

1-22 ASU Music Bldg. (Tempe)
2-11 Dodijak (Tucson) w/ Black Sun Ensemble
2-22 ASU Music Bldg. (Tempe)
3-10 Time Out of Mind (Phoenix) w/ Victory Acres
3-26 Sun Club (Tempe)
3-28 Mason Jar (Phoenix)
5-16 Sun Club (Tempe) w/ Warlock Pinchers
5-20 Lo-Ball Club (Tempe) w/ Caroliner
6-16 Sun Club (Tempe) w/ The Dickies / Eugene Chadbourne
6-25 Sun Club (Tempe) w/ Crash Worship / Nirvana
7-8 Wat Soi Rambutri (Bangkok THAILAND)
8-3 Equatorial Hotel (Padang Sidempuan Sumatra / INDONESIA)
9-23 Pelni Passenger Ship (from Surabaya to Medan / INDONESIA-2 shows)
12-31 Gallery X (Phoenix) w/ Victory Acres / The Gary Russell Apocalypse

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