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IC Godard, later to form Subway Sect, attended the gig at the Odeon with future Sect bassist Paul Myers. “I bet loads of people who went on to be in groups were there,” says Godard. “I know Steve and Paul from the Pistols were there. When I was at the Odeon, I had no plans to be a musician and seeing Bowie is the sort of thing that turned me off. It made me think you needed to do years of training with bloody Marcel Marceau. The people who made me think I could be a musician were the likes of Dr Feelgood. Bowie made me think I’d need to be an alien.”
Steve Jones pinched some of Bowie’s gear from the Odeon, something that Godard spotted in the early days of the Sex Pistols. “We knew he’d nicked the microphone because those square mics were very rare and Bowie was the only person in the world who had one,” he says. “When I went to see the Pistols, Rotten had exactly the same mic. It was a dead giveaway. I found out later that Jonesy would walk about on stage before or after gigs as if he should be there, making out he was tidying up. That’s when he’d take stuff.”