Echo And The Bunnymen

On this day in 1978 and band of men... and one drum machine, took to the stage together for the first time in Liverpool

Ryan Adams, The Hives and Echo And The Bunnymen also set to play Clapham Common event on 4 July

Here's a little bit of all the songs on the Liverpudlians' forthcoming record Meteorites (out 26 May)

With a new side project Poltergeist on the way, the Echo And The Bunnymen finds his musical DNA is split