February 19th: The Sex Pistols play Hertfordshire College of Art in St. Albans for the first time

February 20th: The Sex Pistols play the Valentines Dance at the College of Art in High Wycombe. Although they weren't booked , they arrived claiming to be the support band for Screaming Lord Sutch. A fight developed between the Pistols and the PA company after the equipment failed and Rotten began smashing it up. Watching them was Ron Watts, the manager of the 100 club in London who was so impressed by them that he contacted Malcolm McLaren in order to book the band. Also in the audience were Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto (founders of the Buzzcocks) who had read the review of the previous weeks gig at the Marquee club in the New Musical Express and contacted them to find out about about any forth coming dates.Through the NME they tracked down Malcolm McLaren who told them about this gig. Devoto and Shelley borrowed a car and, collecting their future manager Richard Boon from Reading University, drove down to High Wycombe. Not really knowing what to expect, Devoto later said "The audience included the Bromley Contingent - Malcolm, Jordan, Nils Stevenson, Helen Wellington-Lloyd. In their own ways they almost looked more interesting than the band, except that Lydon was so charismatic. We thought they were great, the look, the attitude and the music. I was catching bits of John's lyrics; we secretly taped it." The Mancunians discovered that the Pistols were playing the next night in Welwyn Garden.

February 21st: The Pistols round off the weekend playing in Welwyn Garden City. After the gig, Devoto approached Malcolm McLaren to get the Sex Pistols to play at his college, The Bolton Institute of Technology.This was to lead to the Pistols northern debut in June. Devoto and Shelley had recently formed a band and were playing Stooges and Velvet Underground material.They found the name Buzzcocks while looking through Time out magazine, a London Listings paper. This weekend was just the catalyst the pair needed to kickstart the punk scene outside of London. They returned to Manchester full of new ideas and immediately adopted a punk look and began rehearsing in earnest.