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(Sullivan)
I must have been looking in all the wrong places
From island to island across the blue
Land astern we're setting sail into the yonder
We'll be navigating by the stars
747 into the
morning
High above the ocean and the curve of the earth
All the way from somewhere back, forty nights all lost in dreaming
Still navigating by the stars
Bound forever, still driving home
In the cool of the darkness on the silent roads
Rising up before us now, the hanging trees and the looming mountains
Still navigating by the stars
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Navigating by the Stars - CD
(2/03)
(Remix) - Ocean Rising 1 - CD Single (4/03)
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(Sullivan)
Pioneers running round in circles, originators
staring in empty disbelief
And the dictates start their fashion, making their killing
And the bastards take the bottle, take the ruins, take the streets in
Ch:
Desperation – searching for a new frontier
Somewhere for the lovers, somewhere for the hunters
Somewhere for the dreamers, somewhere for the hustlers
Somewhere for the killers, somewhere for the angels
Somewhere for us to go
Down at the Art School, there's dull panic
Joey hit the bottle and Billy hit his wife
And Annie screams you know it's all been done before
You can either go back or go down - decadence calling
Ch
English cities reeling in claustrophobic spasms
Running with martyrs just looking for a cause
I'm looking to the sky, I'm looking for a mystery
Just show the direction and I'll never come back
Ch
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(Demo) - Vengeance - The Whole Story 1980-84 - Double CD (12/12)
14/09/81- Funhouse Bar, Keighley
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(Sullivan/Morrow)
I was less than seventeen when I left the farm
Marching out with the village men to join the men at arms
We trained in pike and musket work and learned the Bible creed
And marched out to meet the King to end that tyranny
Ch:
We're gonna fight, we're gonna die
Put your faith in God, keep your powder dry
We're gonna fight, we're gonna die
Remember what you're fighting for – keep the fire in your eyes
My brother fell at Naseby field when the war was almost won
We buried him in a shallow grave and I cried when it was done
But they told us we were Cromwell's men and held our banners high
We were fighting for our liberty, fighting for our rights
Ch
The smoke cleared into the summer skies, the blood drained to the land
The King broke all his promises, stained his guilty hands
On a cold and shiny winter's day, we put the man to death
While Cromwell planned his Commonwealth as England held its breath
Ch
We waited in our summer camps, singing round the fires
Talking of our victories and the land that was ours
But Cromwell's generals turned on us, put out the fires they'd fanned
We've got no part in their Brave
New World because we own no land
Ch
We're gonna fight, we're gonna die
Remember what you're fighting for – don't believe their lies
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(Demo) - Vengeance - The Whole Story 1980-84 - Double CD (12/12)
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(Sullivan)
The vans they come in convoys now
Stealing through the dawn
Silent in the countryside
In the hills up to the north
There's road blocks on the Meden
bridge
There's click click clicking on the phone
They're sealing off our villages
Sealing off our homes
Her father crossed the battle lines
In the first months of the war
She frowns down at the soup kitchen
She doesn't have a father anymore
It's cold in the early mornings
Standing with your mates
Staring at the thick blue line
Armed and ready at the gates
This ain't some tinpot story arriving from a
distant shore
But our own sweet green and
pleasant land in 1984
The servants of our great nation
Have lied in the name of us all
While the officers of peace and order
Are busy breaking every law
There's hundreds on trumped-up charges
Hundreds on the streets
The future of our villages
Sown with bitter seeds
And hatred starts to rumble where there was no hate
before
In our own sweet green and pleasant land in 1984
Nobody wanted to see the blood
As the blue lights flash through in the night
But all the words fell on deaf ears
And now the blind frustration bites
Two nations
under one crown divided more and more
In our own sweet green and pleasant land in 1984
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The Price - 12" (10/84)
The Price - 7" (10/84)
Vengeance - The Independent Story - CD (6/87)
Vengeance/Radio Sessions - Double Picture CD (6/95)
Smalltown England - Double CD (97)
(Remastered) - Vengeance - The Whole Story 1980-84 - Double CD (12/12)
(Christmas 2014 shows) - Between Wine and Blood Live - Triple CD (4/15)
(Christmas 2014 shows) - Between Wine and Blood Live - DVD (4/15)
Dec. 14 - UK, Europe Christmas Shows
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(Sullivan/Morrow/Heaton)
There's storm clouds amassing over in the west
Up above the moor
The city shines in grey, mills closing down
On the valley floor
All you can do here is survive
Grit your teeth and just stay alive
And never understand
The young ones they dance with fire in
their hearts till the years go by
And older, defeated they stare in their
beer at closing time
No greater love could there ever be
Than what I feel for you
- What you gave to me
You saved my life from this . .
While kings are
in their counting houses
People just wait here in silent rows
They spat and they jeered in a last
desperate fear as they watched us go
Remember how we turned and ran
Heads into the wind running hand in hand
We laughed until we cried . . .
So many tears . . .
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No Rest for the Wicked - CD (5/85)
No Rest for the Wicked - LP (5/85)
(Remastered) - No Rest for the Wicked - Double CD (5/05)
(Brixton GLC Festival, 84) - No
Rest - 12" (plus Bootlegged Bootleg) (4/85)
(London Marquee, 21/04/85) - Live 21.4.85 - Video
(85)
(London Marquee, 21/04/85) - History - The Videos
85-90 - Video (3/92)
(Nottingham etc.) - Rock City
23-10-2000 - Video (2001???)
(London Marquee, 21/04/85) - 1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)
Apr.-Jun. 84 - UK Tour
Sep.-Dec. 84 - Northern Europe, UK Tour
Apr.-May 85 - UK Tour
Jun. 85 - UK Tour
Sep.-Nov. 85 - Brave New World Tour (Europe, Japan, UK)
14/02/91 - Marquee, London
Dez. 91 - UK, Germany Tour
Dec. 94 - UK Tour/Feb. 95 - Europe Tour
18/12/87 - Red Sky Coven - Topic
Club, Bradford
Mar.-Apr. 88 - Red Sky Coven - UK Tour
Sep.-Oct. 89 - Red Sky Coven - UK, Germany Tour
24/07/90 - Justin Sullivan and Joolz - Hackney Empire, London
04/09/93 - Justin Sullivan - Freilichtbuehne, Luebeck (Anti Fascism
Festival)
Nov.-Dec. 93 - Justin Sullivan and Dave Blomberg - Europe Tour
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(Sullivan)
You say that you'd rather be really poor
Than scratching, saving, scrimping all the pennies
Looking in the windows at what you can't afford
Always hungry, never starving
Ch:
In no man's land the days are
long
You say that you'd rather be really ill
Than just having headaches, never have no energy
All the little allergies and all the little pains
Never getting better, never getting worse
Ch
You say that you'd rather have no love at all
Than pathetic little words, half-hearted kisses
Never feeling anything, anything at all
Never no fire, never no passion
Ch
Do you believe you can come out
Fighting from you shellhole
Or do you run for cover every time
You hear a shot is fired in anger
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The Price - 12" (10/84)
Vengeance - The Independent Story - CD (6/87)
Vengeance/Radio Sessions - Double Picture CD (6/95)
Smalltown England - Double CD (97)
(Remastered) - Vengeance - The Whole Story 1980-84 - Double CD (12/12)
51st State - 12" (Bootlegged
Bootleg on B-Side) (10/86)
51st State - 12" (plus Bootlegged Bootleg) (10/86)
All of This - The "Live" Rarities - CD (4/99)
(London Town and Country Club, 23/12/86) - Join the Army - Bootleg LP
Apr.-Jun. 84 - UK Tour
Sep.-Dec. 84 - Northern Europe, UK Tour
Sep.-Nov. 85 - Brave New World Tour (Europe, Japan, UK)
Feb.-Mar. 86 - UK Mini Tour
05/04/86 - Breekend Festival, Bree (Belgium)
Aug.-Dec. 86 - Ghost of Cain Tour (UK, Europe, USA, Canada)
Mar. 87 - Northern Europe Tour
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(Sullivan/Nelson/Dean/White/Gill)
It's hard to talk to people who remember what I say
I guess I need an amnesiac priest
or something
Or a stranger on a long bus journey to somewhere far away
One day the desert will cover all the earth
With only the wind to sing in the silence
All my secrets buried forever in the blown dust
It seems so simple but they just don't get it
I meant what I said at the time that I said it
Nothing is ever meant to last
I want no mirror, I want no shadow
I want my follies to have no echo
Only the ties to hold on fast
Nobody has their consciences clean
Loyalty in the end will be enough
This family thicker than blood
The way we grew together, roots twisted together
And everybody thinks what they shouldn't think
Everybody does what they shouldn't do
Everybody wants what they shouldn't want
Hold on to me and I'll hold on to you
Maybe I'm wrong but they just don't get it
I meant what I said just at the time that I said it
Nothing is ever meant to last
I want no mirror, I want no shadow
I want my follies to have no echo
Only the ties to hold on fast
We spread our mischief with a little glint in the eye
Where there is war we like to bring peace
Where there is peace we want to bring war
Seduce the priests and break it all
Just don't ask me to remember
It seems so simple but they just don't get it . . . .
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High - CD (8/07)
(High Tour 07/08) - Fuck Texas, Sing
for Us - CD (11/08)
(Christmas 2014 shows) - Between Wine and Blood Live - Triple CD (4/15)
(Christmas 2014 shows) - Between Wine and Blood Live - DVD (4/15)
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(Sullivan)
Across the town on the other hill,
your lights glow from a different world.
You always found a place to hide - nails
and cross to lay beside;
with all the ghosts that we denied.
Now, in rippled arcs across the sky the great white birds of winter fly,
and the wheel turns, and people change - scattered ashes to the wind.
And there's no pain, there's no pain, there's no pain . . .
A dry river in the blazing sun . . .
Your parched face and your calloused hands,
Behind us, lie the arid lands . . .
To say too much - well, it was not our way,
and in the end there wasn't much to say;
the scars are healed now anyway . . .
and there's no pain . . . a dry river in the blazing sun . . .
And Abraham
rose, took his only son, and knife and tinder
in his hand, and setting out across the desert and up into
the scrubland hills, he bound the boy Isaac to the stone,
raised the blade and waited for the miracle.
But the wind blows silent across the dead and empty hills,
dead, like the god that never came;
like your face, the day that you turned away . . .
And there's no pain . . . a dry river in the blazing sun . . .
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Strange Brotherhood - CD (4/98)
Strange Brotherhood - CD (plus Bonus CD) (4/98)
Strange Brotherhood - Triple LP (7/98)
(Cologne, Bizarre Festival,
17/8/96) - Bizarre Festival 1996 - Video (97)
(Paris La Cigale, 16/05/98) - New Model Army . .
. & Nobody Else - CD (8/99)
(London Astoria, 16/12/03) - Live
161203 - DVD + CD (5/04)
(Cologne, Bizarre Festival, 17/08/96) - 1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)
(Beauvais Theatre de Beauvais, 09/06/96 ?) - 1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)
(Cologne Palladium, 16/12/06) - 1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)
(Christmas 2014 shows) - Between Wine and Blood Live - Triple CD (4/15)
(Christmas 2014 shows) - Between Wine and Blood Live - DVD (4/15)
(9/94) - Big Guitars in Little Europe - CD (3/95)
Dec. 94 - UK Tour/Feb. 95 - Europe
Tour
Jun.-Jul.95 - Europe Festivals
21/04/96 - Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Aug.-Oct. 96 - Europe Festivals
Jun.-Aug. 97 - Europe Festivals
Feb.-May 98 - Nobody Else Tour (UK, Europe)
Jun.-Sep. 98 - Europe Festivals
Oct.-Dec. 98 - Europe, UK Tour
Feb. 99 - UK Tour
Nov. 99 - UK, Europe Tour
Jul. 94 - Justin Sullivan and Dave
Blomberg - Netherlands Festivals
Sep. 94 - Justin Sullivan and Dave Blomberg - Netherlands Tour
Dec. 95 - Red Sky Coven - Germany Tour
23/07/96 - Justin Sullivan - Kaue, Gelsenkirchen
Aug. 98 - Justin Sullivan - Germany Tour
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(Sullivan/Morrow/Heaton)
Ch:
4 o'clock in the morning
And still we cannot sleep
Turning over turning round
Twisting in our sweat
They say there is no rest for the
wicked ones
Dear God what have we done
There is no rest for the wicked ones
Dear God what is this evil that we've done
Is it that we wanted more than you gave
Why did you put us then in this smalltown grave
Humility - is that what you want
Why did you make us then the way you did
Yes we have pride - is this our sin?
Is it the times that we've been out fighting
Well I'll tell you all those times - we never really hurt anybody
Or is it that we were eating
While other people were starving
Is this our crime?
Is it the times we laughed about it all
Through all those whisky nights so far away
Yes we betrayed you - is this our crime?
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No Rest - 12" (4/85)
No Rest - 12" (plus Bootlegged Bootleg) (4/85)
No Rest - 7" (4/85)
No Rest for the Wicked - CD (5/85)
No Rest for the Wicked - LP (5/85)
(Remastered) - No Rest for the Wicked - Double CD (5/2005)
History - The Singles 85-91 - CD (3/92)
History - The Singles 85-91 - LP (plus Bonus 12") (3/92)
The Best - CD (2001)
(Remastered) - Great Expectations - The Singles Collection - CD (10/03)
The Collection - CD (10/04)
(London Marquee, 21/04/85) - Live
21.4.85 - Video (85)
51st State - 12" (Bootlegged Bootleg on B-Side)
(10/86)
51st State - 12" (plus Bootlegged Bootleg) (10/86)
(Impurity Tour 90) - Space - 12" (5/91)
(London Marquee, 21/04/85) - History - The Videos
85-90 - Video (3/92)
All of This - The "Live" Rarities - CD (4/99)
(Nottingham etc.) - Rock City 23-10-2000 - Video (2001???)
(London Astoria, 16/12/03) - Live
161203 - DVD + CD (5/04)
(London Marquee, 21/04/85) - 1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)
(Christmas 2014 shows) - Between Wine and Blood Live - Triple CD (4/15)
(Telford Ice Rink, 13/09/86) -
This Is For the Fans Not the Militia - Bootleg LP
(London Town and Country Club, 23/12/86) - Join the Army - Bootleg LP
(Bonn Biskuithalle, 25/10/88) - In This Together - Bootleg LP
(Nottingham Rock City, 28/02/89) - Like a Storm - Bootleg CD
Sep.-Dec. 84 - Northern Europe, UK
Tour
Apr.-May 85 - UK Tour
Jun. 85 - UK Tour
Sep.-Nov. 85 - Brave New World Tour (Europe, Japan, UK)
Feb.-Mar. 86 - UK Mini Tour
05/04/86 - Breekend Festival, Bree (Belgium)
26/07/86 - Mersea Island Festival, Colchester
13/09/86 - Ice Rink, Telford
Aug.-Dec. 86 - Ghost of Cain Tour (UK, Europe, USA, Canada)
Mar. 87 - Northern Europe Tour
Aug. 87 - USA Tour
Sep.-Oct. 87 - UK, Europe Tour
Jul. 88 - Northern Europe Festivals
Sep. 88 - UK Tour
25/10/88 - Biskuithalle, Bonn (WDR Rocknacht)
Jan.-Apr. 89 - Thunder and Consolation Tour (Europe, UK)
May-Jun 89 - USA, Canada Tour
Jun.-Jul. 89 - Europe Festivals
Oct.-Dec. 90 - Impurity Tour (UK, Europe)
Mar.-May 91 - Europe Tour (Partly as Raw Melody Men)
Feb.-Jul. 93 - Love of Hopeless Causes Tour (Europe, UK, USA, Canada)
Feb.-May 98 - Nobody Else Tour (UK, Europe)
Jun.-Sep. 98 - Europe Festivals
Oct.-Dec. 98 - Europe, UK Tour
Feb. 99 - UK Tour
03/07/99 - Justin Sullivan and Friends - Forestglade Festival, Wiesen
Nov. 99 - UK, Europe Tour
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(Sullivan/Heaton)
Are we still not speaking?
Bitter words leave such a bitter taste
Well yes I meant to hurt you
But it was never meant to go as far as this
And still I can make no sense
Out of these things that I do
And I still put myself through this version of hell
Just put you through it too
Yes I know I started it
But you shouldn't say those things you say
I always thought people were meant to learn by their mistakes
But it never seems to work out that way
Nothing's ever good enough for me
Or good enough for you
So I still drag myself through this version of hell
Just to drag you through it too
Sweat on the dancefloor
Blood from the broken glass
No favours ever given, no favours ever asked
This strange kind of communion
As these empty words are played
These are the promises we made
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Better Than Them (The Acoustic EP) - 12" (7/85)
Better Than Them (The Acoustic EP) - 7" (7/85)
Better Than Them (The Acoustic EP) - Double 7" (7/85)
Adrenalin - LP (11/85)
Puritiy - Maxi CD (10/90)
Purity - 12" (10/90)
Purity - 10" (10/90)
B-Sides and Abandoned Tracks - CD (9/94)
(Remastered) - No Rest for the Wicked - Double CD (5/2005)
(Nobody Else) - New Model Army . . . & Nobody Else - CD (8/99)
Justin Sullivan and Friends - DVD (10/04)
(Nobody Else) - Feb.-May 98 - Nobody Else Tour (UK, Europe)
25/01/85 - Justin Sullivan - Apples and Snakes, London
(Sullivan/Nelson/Dean/White/Gill)
On the strand beneath the towering cliffs
We said goodbye to the helmsman
The best man I ever sailed with
Across the seven oceans
Steering, gazing out ahead
As the ragged crew were singing
And the wild life and stories told
As the misty dawns were breaking
Ch:
And the North Star is not a bright star
But the guiding star
It took us over mountains to the East
Through the maze of city streets
To the Sennen Cove shore
Tonight I stood in the empty street
As a heavy snow was falling
I saw a flight of geese passing fast and low
Just above the rooftops
Godspeed and I thought of him
As they vanished into the white-out
And Godspeed to all of us
Vanishing into the white-out
Ch:
And the North Star is not a bright star
But helmsman's star
He took us over mountains to the East
Through the maze of city streets
To the Sennen Cove shore
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Today Is a Good Day - CD (9/09)
Today Is a Good Day - Double LP (9/09)
(Sullivan/Nelson/Dean/White/Gill)
I'm like a gambler in a velvet-curtained room
Half-light and shadow, nothing is moving
I'm playing but I know that I'm losing
Good money after bad
I fooled myself that her number was lucky
I stare at my phone, my phone stares back at me
I feel my fingers pushing down at the keys
Good faith after bad
And nothing dies easy, it holds on until the end
It takes all of your power to push the blade in
A last glow in the ashes, a last spark in the eye
Breaking the glamour, breaking the spell
Breaking another wild part of myself
Breaking the glamour, breaking the spell, breaking the will
Every sound you hear is the sound of
Something praying for more life to be given
For maybe just another precious second
And every junkie I've known trying to do straight time
Leaves a little piece of their soul behind
You can't shed your skin like you think you can, like I think I can
And nothing dies easy, it holds on until the end
It takes all of your power to push the blade in
The last glow in the ashes, a last spark in the eye
Breaking the glamour, breaking the spell
Breaking another bad part of myself
Breaking the glamour, breaking the spell, nothing dies easy
So a toast to the mercy killings
For all these cursed obsessions
For all the useless passions
For when I'm shot and gone
Because nothing dies easy, it holds on until the end
It takes all of your power to push the blade in
The last glow in the ashes, a last spark in the eye
Breaking the glamour, breaking the spell
Breaking another wild part of myself
Breaking the glamour, breaking the spell, breaking the will
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High - CD (8/07)
(High Tour 07/08) - Fuck Texas, Sing for Us - CD (11/08)
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(Sullivan)
We drive in silence
Beneath the grey dawning skies
Past the cooling towers
Where the white clouds slowly rise
I watch the world through motionless eyes
Nothing touches . . nothing ever touches
Raised as son of Empire
Hardened like a piece of steel
I am the master now
Of all that I can see
This means so much to you
But nothing much to me
Nothing touches . . nothing ever touches
Please take me home
I am very young
Please take me home
And yes I heard you screaming
As you walked out of my door
And yes I've seen those bloody faces
Picked up from the floor
I feel nothing and yet I understand it all
Nothing touches . . nothing ever touches
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Stupid Questions - Maxi CD (1/89)
Stupid Questions - 12" (1/89)
Stupid Questions - 7" (1/89)
Thunder and Consolation - CD (2/89)
(Remastered) - Thunder and Consolation - Double CD (5/2005)
Sep.-Oct. 89 - Red Sky Coven - UK, Germany Tour
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(Sullivan/Morrow)
I'll take any drug in the whole damn world
If you'll only notice me
Mainline poisons by the score
Please will you notice me
I'll break any law, hurt anybody
For God's sake notice me
Cut my wrists and slash my face
For Christ's sake notice me
I'll drink anybody into the ground
If you'll only notice me
I'll kick the teeth out of anyone here
Come on and notice me
I'll wear the clothes and cut my hair
Please will you notice me
I'll be a pop star and I'll stand on stage
For God's sake notice me
Ch:
Whoever told him that it mattered
Who told him that anyone cared
He's got an overgrown sense of his own importance
No-one's really bothered around here
He was such a quiet boy
Never any trouble before, never any trouble before
I'll get a big car and drive like a maniac
Please notice me
I'll make a lot of money and tread on you
If you'll only notice me
I'll tell you any lies you want to hear
For God's sake notice me
I'll kill myself while you are watching
For Christ's sake notice me
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Vengeance - LP (4/84)
(David Jensen Show) - The Price - 12" (10/84)
Vengeance - The Independent Story - CD (6/87)
(David Jensen Show) - Vengeance - The Independent Story - CD (6/87)
(David Jensen Show) - Radio Sessions 83-83 - CD (6/88)
(David Jensen Show) - Radio Sessions 83-83 - LP (6/88)
Vengeance/Radio Sessions - Double Picture CD (6/95)
(David Jensen Show) - Vengeance/Radio Sessions - Double Picture CD
(6/95)
(David Jensen Show) - Vengeance/Radio Sessions - Double Picture CD
(6/95)
Smalltown England - Double CD (97)
(David Jensen Show) - Smalltown England - Double CD (97)
(Remastered) - Vengeance - The Whole Story 1980-84 - Double CD (12/12)
(David Jensen Show) - Vengeance - The Whole Story 1980-84 - Double CD (12/12)
(Demo) - This Is For the Fans Not the Militia -
Bootleg LP
(Demo) - State of Mind- Bootleg CD
30/04/83 - Pavilion, North Ormesby
Apr.-Jun. 84 - UK Tour
Sep.-Nov. 85 - Brave New World Tour (Europe, Japan, UK)
Feb.-Mar. 86 - UK Mini Tour
26/07/86 - Mersea Island Festival, Colchester
Aug.-Dec. 86 - Ghost of Cain Tour (UK, Europe, USA, Canada)
Mar. 87 - Northern Europe Tour
06/06/87 - Reichstag, Berlin
Aug. 87 - USA Tour
Sep.-Oct. 87 - UK, Europe Tour
Jan.-Apr. 89 - Thunder and Consolation Tour (Europe, UK)
May-Jun 89 - USA, Canada Tour
Jun. 90 - UK Tour, Europe Festivals
(New Version) - 03/07/99 - Justin Sullivan and Friends - Forestglade
Festival, Wiesen
(New Version) - Nov. 99 - UK, Europe Tour
Mar. 85 - Justin Sullivan - UK
Mini Tour
(New Version) - Jan. 99 - Red Sky Coven - Germany Tour
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01/04/99; last update 11/06/17