August 28th The Adverts headline at the Electric Circus supported by 999 and London. Adam and the Ants play an unlikely double bill with the Tom Robinson Band at Jacksons Lane Community Centre in London. TRB had just been signed to EMI in a deal reckoned to be worth £100,000 which EMI were hoping would bring them back some of the credibility they had lost over the handling of the Sex Pistols.

August 29th Glen Matlock's new band , the Rich Kids plays at the Vortex on Wardour Street. as the line up is not complete, Mick Jones of the Clash plays guitar. Support is from Chelsea and New York band Neo.

August 30th United Artists book Buzzcocks into Indigo Studios with Martin Rushent at the controls for a couple of days. They demo Orgasm Addict, What Do I Get, No Reply and What Ever Happened To? Siouxsie and the Banshees supported by the Ants play the Woods Centre in Plymouth.

August 31st The Woods Centre in Plymouth, one of the few venues to stick by the Pistols during their ill-fated 'Anarchy in the UK' tour hosts another secret gig by them . Tonight they take to the stage as 'the Hamsters'.Stiff records release punk classic 'Whole Wide World' by Wrecless Eric

September 01st Buzzcocks supported by the Prefects play Rafters on Oxford Rd, Manchester.(Poster left features Linders artwork and the title 'Buzzcocks and other domestic utensils at Rafters').This venue in the basement of Fagins nightclub was to host many punk and post-punk gigs in the years to come- partly due to the influence of local promoter Alan Wise. Alan had been quick to catch on to punks potential and was responsible for many local gigs and produced some of the first Clash bootlegs available. The Take it or Leave it album was recorded at the Electric Circus on the White Riot tour in May 1977 and put out by Alan Wise shortly after.
Sex Pistols finish their undercover tour at the Winter Gardens in Penzance playing as 'A Mystery Band of International Repute'. As talk in the Pistols camp has now turned to making a film this is the last live outing the band make until December. The plans include soft porn director Russ Meyer who is asked to work on a script which eventually becomes the Great Rock and Roll Swindle.

September 03rd Buzzcocks play Erics in Liverpool.Amongst the audience are several individuals such as Julian Cope and Pete de Freitas who would go on to carry forward the punk ideals into the 1980's in Teardrop Explodes and Echo and the Bunnymen.At the other end of the Manchester music spectrum Slaughter and the Dogs play at the Electric Circus supported by the Drones.

September 04th Buzzcocks take a coach load of fans down to London for a showcase gig originally at the sundown Club in Charing Cross but moved to the Greyhound in Croydon. Members of the groups record company UA are prsent in the audience

September 06th Buzzcocks play Barbarellas in Birmingham with support from the Fall and the Worst, both fellow Mancunian bands.

September 07th Buzzcocks record three tracks at Maida Vale studios for broadcast on the John Peel show. The tracks (which are now available on CD) are Fast Cars, Moving Away from the Pulse beat and What Do I Get.

September 08th Buzzcocks play Erics in Liverpool. The Adverts play The Outlook in Doncaster

September 09th Buzzcocks are in the studio for United Artists to work on a debut single. Martin Rushent produces and they manage to record 5 or 6 tracks including Orgasm Addict and Whatever Happened to which are eventually released.

September 10th Buzzcocks play Erics in Liverpool.Slaughter and the Dogs supported by the Drones play the Dunfermline Kinema

September 16thThe Adverts play Erics in Liverpool.Slaughter and the Dogs supported by the Drones play the Top Rank in Plymouth

September 17thThe Jam , the Boys, Generation X , Aswad and Otway and Barret play at Chelmsford in what is to be their second attempt at a punk festival . It turns out to be an anti-climax with a low attendance.Slaughter and the Dogs finish their Slaughter on the Streets tour at the Top Rank club in Southampton.

September 19th John Peel plays the Buzzcocks session recorded the fortnight before.EMI release the debut singlr by the Tom Robinson Band '2468 Motorway'.

September 23rd The Clash release their third single, the Mick Jones composition Complete Control. This tune tells the story of how the Clash felt CBS had cheated them over claims of artistic freedom while forcing the release of Remote Control against their wishes. A measure of how little threat was left in the Clash is the fact that CBS released and promoted it at all .The Adverts tour reaches the Penthouse in Scarborough a venue which had resolutely booked punk acts since the Sex Pistols had played there over a year before.