SLADE 25TH SILVER ANNIVERSARY MUSEUM EXHIBITION WALSALL 5TH APRIL 1991.

33 years ago this weekend saw the last ever live performance on a public stage, I of course refer to Walsall 1991.
The weekend started on the Friday with the opening of the Walsall Museum exhibition, I couldn't attend due to work commitments, so phoned up BBC Midlands Today at Pebble Mill a week before, to see if they would do a piece on the Museum exhibition.
I was also invited to record a piece for Radio WM at Pebble Mill on the Tuesday, which would be edited into the live piece of Radio WM coverage of the Museum opening.
I got to Walsall early on the Saturday morning, bumping into a few Slade fans who I knew from past conventions, I went to see the exhibition first, before getting into the Town Hall.
The atmosphere was electric with anticipation, there was a big screen for video footage, which failed to work, so somebody went around Walsall Town Centre and bought two old fashioned 1970s Colour Televisions (what a let down from my perspective)
A couple of Slade tribute acts, a quiz and plenty of booze later the ladz finally graced us with their presence on the Town Hall stage back where it all began 25 years previously.
Each member of the group were presented with an engraved silver platter.
It is well documented that Noddy Holder wasn't happy to perform on that stage on that night, however he caved in and they performed Chuck Berry's Johnny Be Goode.
The night ended abruptly with the band walking off a public venue stage together for the very last time as a unit and the 'dance floor' covered in blood after two fans started fighting.
A sad way to bow out in public in front of 700 delirious Sladeheads.