Manchester's Sex Pistols, A Small Free-To-Use Cinema, Was Sold For £15,000.

Music fan Mark Roberts' Super 8mm filmed a punk band performing at the town's small free trade hall in 1976. Future members of the Buzzcocks, New Order, The Smiths, and The Fall and Anthony Wilson, who founded the famous Factory Records label, attended the show.

He and his friend Bernard Sumner, who was also there, continued to form Joy Division with Ian Curtis, who attended the July 20 and then New Order concerts.

Also at the first show was Morrissey, then 17 years old, who would later co-found The Smiths before a lengthy solo career, who wrote a "note" to the New Musical Express about it saying he "wanted to see Guns." succeed.".

A spokesperson for Omega Auctions said the films were "the only known footage from the concert," so their "historical nature" was "undeniable."

Fairweather said the broadcast was "essential." He said the concert was "huge for the band that made them" and added, "It was the birth of punk. During the Sex Pistols at the 4th Folk Party in the movie "There were 12 men at the Last Supper".

Young Peter Hook is one of the punk apostles of a concert that seems to change everything - played by Pete Shelley and Howard the Virgin of the would-be Buscocks - and teenager Stephen Morrissey impresses (though you'll never understand) Inconsistent music from London and text- fat text that is barely audible", he said in his letter to NME.

For Wilson, the youngest head of Factory Records, who made his second busy appearance two weeks later, the show was a realization — and he wasn't the only one: the lives of Ian Curtis and Mark E. Smith also changed forever that summer. The inspiration from the future post-punk and indie icon above is that suddenly anyone with a guitar and an overabundance of emotions can start.

Steve Diggle of the Buzzcocks described the first show as "the day the punk rock atom split," adding, "It exploded, changed Manchester and changed the world." Without the music to follow, the city is indispensable today.