1981 Top Singles & Albums Chart

1981 NME Singles
1. Ghost Town - The Specials
4. Fascist Groove Thang - Heaven 17
5. Love Action - Human League

12. Tainted Love - Soft Cell
13. Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag - Pigbag
20. Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode
23. Rapture - Blondie

30. Doors Of Your Heart - The Beat
31. Kitchen Person - The Associates
33. Favourite Shirts - Haircut 100
34. Pocket Calculator - Kraftwerk

38. Chant No.1 (We Don’t Need This Pressure On) - Spandau Ballet
42. Ceremony - New Order
45. The ‘Sweetest Girl’ - Scritti Politti
46. Pretty In Pink - Psychedelic Furs
48. Computer Love - Kraftwerk

1981 NME Albums
2. Computer World - Kraftwerk
3. Red - Black Uhuru
4. Wha'ppen - The Beat
5. Penthouse And Pavement - Heaven 17
6. Dare - Human League
9. Red Mecca - Cabaret Voltaire

22. Heaven Up Here - Echo And The Bunnymen
23. See Jungle! Etc..... - Bow Wow Wow
34. Tattoo You - The Rolling Stones
44. Wild Gift - X

UK Inde Singles
01/81
 1,  5 Cartrouble - Adam & Ants
 3,  6 Zerox - Adam & Ants
 8,  4 Telegram sam - Bauhaus
19, 18 Holiday In Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
29, 20 Atmosphere - Joy Division

10/81
 6,  1 One In Ten - UB40
11, 24 Holiday In Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
23,  6 New Life - Depeche Mode
24, 21 Dreaming Of Me  - Depeche Mode
28,  * Wardance - Killing Joke


Billboard Disco Top 80
08/81
24, 24 Computer Love - Kraftwerk
25, 25 New Toy - Lene Lovich
28, 34 Dumb Waiters/Into You Like A Train - P Furs
39, 27 Planet Earth - Duran Duran
41, 35 Sound of the Crowd - Human League

42, 49 Our Lips Are Sealed - Go-Go's
49, 54 New Life/Shout - Depeche Mode
54, 44 Primary - Cure
65, 62 Stand & Deliver - Adam & Ants
69, 70 Papa's Got a New Pigbag - Pigbag
73,  * Chant No.1 (We Don’t Need This Pressure On) - Spandau Ballet
79, 76 The American - Simple Minds

Damned, Bow Wow Wow: Queen's Hall 81-12-20

Bauhaus: Hammersmith Palais 81-11-09, Depeche Mode, Blancmange: Lyceum 81-11/15-16

BAUHAUS: The Tower, Hull 81-11-06

OMD: Architecture & Morality Tour UK Nov/Dec 81

Oingo Boingo: Santa Monica Civic 81-10-31

The Cure: Lille, France 12/10/81

1 The Holy Hour
2 In Your House
3 The Drowning Man
4 10.15 Saturday Night
5 Accuracy
6 The Funeral Party
7 M
8 Primary
9 Other Voices
10 All Cats are Grey


11 At Night
12 Three Imaginary Boys
13 Fire in Cairo
14 Play for Today
15 Splintered in the Head
16 A Forest
17 Faith
18 Grinding Halt
19 Killing an Arab
20 Forever

The Clash: Apollo Theatre, London 81-10/7-8

DEAD KENNEDYS: Temple Beautiful, SF 81-10-06

Echo & The Bunnymen, Cramps, Bauhaus, Thompson Twins: Daze Of Future Past, Leeds 81-09-26

The Go-Go's: Emerald City, Cherry Hill, NJ 81-08-31

Siouxsie And The Banshees: Southampton Gaumont 81-08-31

Siouxsie & The Banshees: Nottingham Rock City 22/08/81

Nottingham Rock City was the name of the TV show it was aired on, recorded at The Theatre Royal.
The Polecats were the support.

THOMPSON TWINS: Heaven 81-08-03

Pretenders: The Tour 81 Aug

The Cure: Belgium 81-07/4-5

Kraftwerk: Apollo Theatre, London 81-06-16

BOW WOW WOW: Adams Ave Theatre, San Diego 81-06-13

Gang O Four, Pigbag, U2, Altered Images: Lyceum, London 81-06/7-9

A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS: Heaven 81-06-01

The Clash: Bond's Casino, New York 81-5/28-6/3

The Clash: Milano 81-05-21

Cabaret Voltaire, Fad Gadget, Clock DVA: Univ. Of London 81-05-09

The Cure: Hammersmith Odeon 81-05-04

Echo and rhe Bunnymen: England 81 April/May

OMD: Calgary 81-4-22

Thompson Twins, Modern English: Lyceum, London 81-04-05

Bauhaus, Clock DVA: Heaven 81-3-30

REM: RAPID.EYE.MOVEMENT.TOUR.1981 3/27-4/6

Siouxsie and the Banshees: University of Warwick, 9 March, 1981

Siouxsie and the Banshees live at The University of Warwick 1981

ADAM AND THE ANTS: Germany 81-2/10-14

NEW ORDER: HEAVEN 81-2-9