Two-Tone-Pinks first gig was in Aug 79 with The 2 Tone band The Selecter at Tony Wilson's Factory (Russell Club) in Manchester. This is what Mick Middles said about the TTP's in Sounds. "The self penned songs were very impressive and in fact highly original" The write up of  the gig on the left includes a picture of The Selecter but not of the Two-Tone-Pinks,   Typical over half of the write up is about TTP's but they only included a picture of The Selecter! Well I suppose they were a much bigger band and signed to the 2 Tone record label and had a single in the charts, says it all really.

Band on The Wall Flyer from Aug 79, if you look closely you can make out Two-Tone-Pinks advertised for Sept 4th 1979. At the top you will see A Certain Ratio, The Hoax, Picture Chords and The Manchester Mekon along with others, all this for only a 70p admission fee! The venue opened as a jazz club in 1975 and is still going strong today and remains an important Manchester venue catering for all musical tastes. Visit the Band on the Wall website to find out more about this famous Manchester music venue.

"The Truth About Northern Mods" a feature written by Gary Bushell in Sounds Oct 79 is a great picture of The Killermeters from Huddersfield,  Two-Tone-Pinks supported The Killermeters at Pips disco in Manchester on 29th Oct 1979.         If you have any old photos of Two-Tone Pinks  from this gig then please get in touch or email an electronic copy if you have the facilities as the bands memories of this gig are pretty hazy after 25 years.

Two-Tone-Pinks & Salford Jets at Pinkies Place. Another press write up dominated by TTP's with no photo of the TTP's included in the finished article.  "The set consisted mainly of their own songs was lively varied and above all fun and this band at the moment worth going to see, and given time they could end up as a damn good band".

To the left are some handmade TTP stickers made from envelope address labels, the band hand wrote thousands of these and stuck them everywhere around Manchester, Mick Middles wrote in Sounds "Its all over Manchester, on every lamppost on every hip toilet wall. A message Two Tone Pinks Manchester's only mod band". At least the band got a write up the strength of these stickers but as you can see it only said Two-Tone-Pinks and didn't include Manchester's only mod band. It just goes show how the press can misquote you even when the band didn't actually speak to them.