November 9th Small Wonder in London and Virgin found several of their shops raided by police who confiscated promotional material and every single copy of Never Mind the Bollocks, the Pistols debut album. The culmination of this was a test case planned for November 24th in Nottingham in which the Crown tried to bring charges under the Indecent Advertisements Act. Penetration play Ealing Technical College

November 10th Steve Garvey plays his first gig with Buzzcocks replacing Barry Adamson who has stood in since the departure of Garth Davies. They play the Sand piper club in Nottingham supported by the Lurkers. The Sex Pistols debut album Never Mind the Bollocks' sits firmly at number one in the charts despite ongoing legal wrangles about the name.

November 11th Buzzcocks and the Lurkers play Keele University in Cheshire. Virgin records release the debut single by Penetration, 'Don't Dictate' the band currently promoting it by doing a short tour.

November 12th Buzzcocks ' Tour No1' plays to the home crowd at Manchester polytechnic. Penetration play to their own home crowd in Newcastle. Adam and the Ants play the Marquee Club in London

November 13th Buzzcocks and the Lurkers play the Greyhound in Croydon

November 15th Buzzcocks supported by the Flies play Barbarellas in Birmingham, the cities longest running punk venue. Penetration arrive in London again to play the Rock Garden in Covent Gardens

November 17th The local police enforce a 'no punk gigs' ban on the Buzzcocks tour which was due to play at Wigan Casino. NME carries the first reports of new punk bands forming in California USA. It is titled 'There are 70 punks in Los Angeles ,here are most of them' and is a feature pulled largely from Creem magazine. The NME name checks the Avengers (left),the Nuns and the Dils. The Dils had just released I hate the Rich, their first single . It notes that the homegrown punk acts were struggling to find venues in and around Los Angeles and San Francisco

November 18th The Pistol's record promotion starts with a visit is to Virgin records in Manchester, then on to Piccadilly Radio and BBC Radio Manchester. Over to Liverpool to the Virgin record shop. After this they visit Radio City and BBC Radio Merseyside. That evening Paul Cook and Steve Jones head over to Eric's 9 Mathew Street, Liverpool to watch The Toilets, The Fall, and The Buzzcocks. Eric's Regulars and "Bombsite fanzine" writers Martin Cass and Mark Hodgkinson interview Steve Jones at the club, Paul spends most of the evening sitting off to one side with a couple of girls. Later Steve throws a beer glass at Pete Shelly as he is performing, but he misses and nobody is hurt.

November 19th Buzzcocks ' Tour No1' arrives in Ilkley in Yorkshire. They are supported by Manchester band the Worst and new local band the Gang of Four. This is the first gig for the Gang of Four and they convince Richard Boon , Buzzcocks manager to let them open . They already have some of their better known songs in the set such as 'ArmaliteRifle' and 'Anthrax'. In Manchester, Rafters plays host to an early gig by Pete Perret's group the Only Ones, who would go on to better things in 1978/79.

November 20th Due to the closure of the Electric Circus, Manchester is currently lacking a focus for punk and new wave gigs so tonight the Damned and the Dead Boys play the Elizabethan Hall at Belle Vue in Gorton. Other temporary venues include the Squat on Devas street and largeley Rafters night club in the city centre which hosts regular thursday nights for punk acts.

November 21st Buzzcocks ,the Flies and the Worst play the Marquee Club in LondonJohnny Thunders plays two nights at the Vortex. He has said that if there is as much trouble here with the bouncers as he ran into the previous month at the Rainbow he will not play London again. His group the Heartbreakers has finally settled its line up with Jerry Nolan replaced by Terry Chimes , the original Clash drummer.

November 22nd Buzzcocks Tour No1 ends with another night at the Marquee. Press adverts for their single Orgasm Addict thank fans for waiting so long (it had been 10 months since the Spiral Scratch EP's release) and looks forward to Tour No2.