This view, taken from the wings of the stage at Leeds Polytechnic, shows the band failing to impress the judges at the Melody Maker Rock and Folk Contest in 1978. They were marked as "commercially unviable" by the panel who comprised business-heads and suits from EMI - if Gama had had a fig, they wouldn't have given it!

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