On the bill at Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall on June 4, 1976, was due to be Bolton Institute of Technology band The Buzzcocks, who were later to become famous for hits such as Ever Fallen In Love and What Do I Get?

But the band was not fully prepared and Solstice stepped in.

The night is now recognised as being the start the punk rock movement. It was attended by just 40 to 100 people, and is now the subject of a new book called I Swear I Was There: The Gig That Changed The World.

Those who were at the gig billed as being organised by the Bolton Institute of Technology Students Union and went on to become famous were singer Morrissey, the band Joy Division, Simply Red frontman Mick Hucknall and Granada TV presenter and Factory Records owner Tony Wilson.

Members of Solstice by then were Dave Campbell of Horwich, Paul Taylor of Worsley, Paul Flintoff of Walkden, Harry Box of Darwen Street, Bolton, and Geoff Wild of Burnham Avenue, Bolton, although it is known that keyboard player Dave "Zok" Howard played at the legendary Manchester gig.

Mysteriously, Wild said of The Sex Pistols: "But we don't mention them."