PSYCHIC TV, Ticket, Manchester Polytechnic Students' Union, 1988

Printed for Psychic TV's concert at Manchester Polytechnic Students' Union on Thursday 8 December 1988, this ticket was issued by M.P.S.U. for the night on the "1st Floor Mandela", part of a UK run that took the band from Glasgow on 4 December to Sheffield on 11 December. Doors at 8 p.m., end of evening 11 p.m.; tickets £3.00 with a Social Card, £4.00 without. It is printed in black over a repeated red drawing of a gorilla, with a dotted diamond rule beneath the heading and the counterfoil still attached; both halves are numbered 0114. It was never torn at the door. 1988 was also the year of Jack the Tab, Psychic TV's fake compilation of British acid house, and of Damien Hirst's Freeze in London's Docklands. From a private collection. 17 × 9.5 cm. Fine, with faint signs of age, light creases across the ticket and soft corners; counterfoil and perforation intact. The management reserved the right to refuse admission, and banned glasses, cans, bottles and tape recorders.