Au Pairs Concert History

The Au Pairs was a post-punk band who formed in Birmingham, UK in 1979. Musically they were very similar to bands such as Ludus, Gang of Four and Delta 5. That is, the rhythm section was tight and funky (obvious influences were James Brown and Funkadelic), but the guitars were light and "scratchy" (like Subway Sect). All these bands shared a strongly left wing social outlook, but the Au Pairs stood out due to their frontwoman, Lesley Woods, being...

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Au Pairs Tours & Concerts (Updated for 2026)

Date Concert Venue Location
Aug 06, 2026
Upcoming
Au Pairs

Rebellion Festival

Winter Gardens Blackpool, England, United Kingdom
Aug 06, 2026 –
Aug 09, 2026
Upcoming
REBELLIØN 2026
The Stranglers / Die Toten Hosen / Stiff Little Fingers / the vapors / Subhumans / Sham 69 / The Dickies / GBH / Discharge / UK Subs / The Boys / Cock Sparrer / The Kids / Beans on Toast / The Rezillos / 999 / Cockney Rejects / MDC / The Godfathers / Anti-Nowhere League / The Business / Au Pairs / Scream / Chelsea / Booze & Glory / Citizen Fish / Slaughter and the Dogs / Ferocious Dog / Spleen / The Courettes / One Way System / Popes Of Chillitown / Los Fastidios / Channel 3 / Ruts DC / Disorder / Chron Gen / Maid of Ace / Splodgenessabounds / Johnny Moped / Millie Manders and The Shutup / TV Smith / The Drowns / Bad Cop/Bad Cop / UK Decay / Special Duties / The Iconoclasts / SPUNK / Pizzatramp / Foreign Legion / Goldblade / Steve Ignorant / Screaming Dead / Henshaw / Lost Cherrees / Janus Stark / Hung Like Hanratty / Sick on the Bus / Pussyliquor / Under the Influence / 4ft Fingers / Millions Of Dead Cops / Shanghai Treason / Blyth Power / Gypsy Pistoleros / Threats / Paranoid Visions / MDM / Knock Off / Skeptix / In Evil Hour / Jess Silk / Spunk Volcano And The Eruptions / Slackrr / Drongos For Europe / Noose / Eastfield / Borrowed Time / Fire Exit / jc carroll / Mikabomb / Hagar The Womb / Pete Bentham & The Dinner Ladies / Choking Susan / Carol Hodge / Vomit / Face Up / Voodoo Radio / Bloody Benders / Steve Ignorant Band / Broken 3 Ways / Jo Carley and The Old Dry Skulls / Cryssis / EXTC / Black September / Rat Hole / Salford Jets / Headstone Horrors / Dog Rotten / Marc Valentine / Anti Nowhere League / John E Vistic / Tear Up / Diaz Brothers / Pubic Enemy / The Countess of Fife / Subalternos / Litterbug / Last Tree Squad / I, Doris / 50 Foot Woman / The Bolokos / Sensa Yuma / The Gakk / 18 Fevers / Convict Class / Fantazmaz / Bite Back / CLUB BRAT / Phat Problem / The John E Vistic Rock 'N' Roll Soundsystem / Molly Vulpyne / Battery Acid / Henry Cluney / Riot City Radio / Grippers / Spunk Volcano / Dead Pollys / The Antipoet / Segregates / On The Huh / Twist Off! / The London Sewage Company / Oorya / Ambition Demolition / Charlie Harper / MC16 / Kombi Killers / Mauri Clash City Rocker / Nick Cash / Unrivalled / Pete Bentham / COVID 21 / Goldblade / The Puncturists / MESS (MX) / Dead Dates / 18fevers / The Samples (UK) / LITTERBUG (UK) / Millie Manders and The Shutup / Third House / The Outcasts (Belfast) / Jessi Eastfield / 50'♀ [50 Foot Woman] / Rivalry (UK) Show all bands
Winter Gardens Blackpool Blackpool, England, United Kingdom
May 24, 2026
Au Pairs

Bearded Theory

Catton Hall and Gardens Walton upon Trent, England, United Kingdom
May 22, 2026 –
May 24, 2026
Bearded Theory Festival
Pixies / Garbage / Skunk Anansie / Kae Tempest / Honeyglaze / Miki Berenyi Trio / The Wran / NewDad / Au Pairs / La securite / CMAT / Heartworms / Kate Nash / Idlewild / Katacombs / PET NEEDS / Little Grandad / The Pale White / The Damned / Girl Scout / The Unthanks / 3 Daft Monkeys / The Leisure Society / Venus Grrrls / Bloodworm / Liines / Native James Show all bands
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Catton Hall Derby, England, United Kingdom
May 21, 2026 –
May 24, 2026
Bearded Theory Festival 2026
Pixies / Garbage / Kate Nash / Sir Chloe / Everything Everything / The Horrors / Skunk Anansie / Badly Drawn Boy / The Damned / CMAT / The Magic Numbers / Kae Tempest / NewDad / EMF / Reverend and the Makers / Goldie / Idlewild / Bad Nerves / Utah Saints / The Twilight Sad / Jon Spencer / The Wedding Present / Los Bitchos / Lambrini Girls / Getdown Services / SPRINTS / The Leisure Society / Fat Dog / Kid Kapichi / ozric tentacles / A Certain Ratio / Beans on Toast / The Unthanks / The Pale White / Pop Will Eat Itself / Sabres Of Paradise / Panic Shack / Peter Hook & The Light / Au Pairs / The Wildhearts / Chalk / big special / Heartworms / swim school / Opus Kink / HENGE / Westside Cowboy / DJ Rap / Senser / The Undercover Hippy / Basht. / Grandmas House / Girl Scout / BCUC / Ferocious Dog / The Nightingales / SCALER (fka SCALPING) / Graeme Park / King Prawn / The Molotovs / Stewart Lee / TEKE::TEKE / Tankus / She's In Parties / Adult DVD / Venus Grrrls / Meryl Streek / Gans / La Sécurité / Rianne Downey / Better Joy / jasmine.4.t / 3 Daft Monkeys / Good Health Good Wealth / Kezia Gill / Cowboy Hunters / Native James / Black Water County / Jools / Liines / Bez / Thistle / Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican / Amelia Coburn / An Dannsa Dub / Slay Duggee / Bloodworm / Miki Berenyi Trio / China Shop Bull / Jess Silk / Split Dogs / The Wran / BE N!CE / The Drum Machine / Meatdripper / Steve White & The Protest Family / Indignation Meeting / Neville Staple - From The Specials / Andrea Kenny / Dub Pistols Dj Set / Taylor More Swiftly (Tribute to Taylor Swift) / The League Of Rebelz / CHRIS HAWKINS BBC 6 MUSIC DJ SET / THE NIGHTINGALES & TED CHIPPINGTON / Muddy Summers & The DFWs / PHIL HARTNOLL (ORBITAL DJ SET) / LEEROY THORNHILL (EX-PRODIGY) / Papa Gumbo / Cara Means Friend / Thy Last Drop / omega nebula / forest of fools / The Mighty Flux / Common Culture / Genexus / Jake T White / Smag På Dig Selv / The Mob / Bad Fractals / Lost Cherries / The Twistettes / Howlin' Grassman vs Stompin' Bigfoot / Rites Of Hadda / Knock Down Dolls / Ciderobics / PET NEEDS / Little Grandad / Mr. Bruce / K.O.G. Soundsystem / Katacombs / Matt Millership / Frank Turner / The cabarats / Cortney Dixon / Fidget And The Twitchers / The Randy Pandy Hand Shandy Band / DH Temple / Archy And The Astronauts / Dogshite / The Blunders / The Sporadics / Red Method / anarchistwood / Be Nice / M/X / Throb / The Hempolics / Lynks / Lawnmower Deth / Honeyglaze / Papa Shango / Mr. Vast / Midnite Life / Danny Wildheart & The UK Reprobates / Ouse Valley Singles Club / Oi Mate! / Pete Hubbard / Sunday Mass / Slamboree Soundsystem / Dead Silence / One Eyed God / Pizza Tramp / Hagar The Womb / Zombie Met Girl / Spanner / SUNK / Raggedy Jack the Storyteller / Beardy Keef / Sam Draisey / Scott Doonican / Matty Humphries / Mary Moden Band / J Terrestrial / POG / the papashangos / The Fossilheads / I, Doris / Star Botherers / Attila the Stockbroker / Boss Caine / Roughneck Riot / Interrobang‽ / Cheated / The Carol Hodge Band / Toots and the Maytals featuring Leba Hibbert / Ed Tangent / The Beatles Dub Club / Warmduscher Show all bands
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Catton Hall Walton upon Trent, England, United Kingdom
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May 01, 2026
Au Pairs
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Electric Ballroom Camden London, England, United Kingdom
Apr 30, 2026
Au Pairs / Gina Birch

'Playing With a Different Sex' 45th Anniversary 1981

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Trinity Centre Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Apr 25, 2026
Au Pairs

'Playing With a Different Sex' 45th Anniversary 1981

The Queen's Hall Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Apr 24, 2026
Skids / Au Pairs
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Barrowland Ballroom Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Apr 18, 2026
Skids / Au Pairs The Dome, Grand Central Hall Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Apr 17, 2026
The skids / Au Pairs Y Plas Nightclub Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Mar 28, 2026
Skids / Au Pairs

'Playing With a Different Sex' 45th Anniversary 1981

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O2 Ritz Manchester Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Mar 27, 2026
Skids / Au Pairs Leeds Beckett University Students Union Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Mar 26, 2026
Gina Birch / Au Pairs
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Colchester Arts Centre Colchester, England, United Kingdom
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Mar 21, 2026
Au Pairs

'Playing With a Different Sex' 45th Anniversary 1981

Network Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Mar 20, 2026
Au Pairs

'Playing With a Different Sex' 45th Anniversary 1981

Wylam Brewery Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Mar 07, 2026
Au Pairs / Gina Birch The Limelight Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Feb 28, 2026
Au Pairs / Gina Birch
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The Drill Lincoln, England, United Kingdom
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Feb 27, 2026
Au Pairs
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Metronome Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
Feb 08, 2026
Au Pairs / Wick Bambix
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Effenaar Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Feb 07, 2026
Au Pairs

Kalt & Duuster presents: Au Pairs

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Poppodium Grenswerk Venlo, Limburg, Netherlands

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May 21 - 24, 2026
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Genres:

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Post-Punk
New Wave
Female Vocalists
Gothic Rock
Cold Wave
Proto-Punk
Riot Grrrl
Dance-Punk
No Wave
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Latest Setlist (05/01/2026):

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  1. Come Again
  2. We’re So Cool
  3. Love Song
  4. Repetition
  5. Let It Go
  6. Diet
  7. Armagh
  8. Cross The Bridge
  9. Dear John
  10. Headache (for Michelle)
  11. In The Wrong Body
  12. Unfinished Business
  13. It's Obvious
  14. You
  15. Set-Up
  16. Piece of My Heart

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Concerts Per Year:

2026 28 concerts
2025 1 concert
1996 1 concert
1983 5 concerts
1982 29 concerts
1981 73 concerts
1980 51 concerts
1979 10 concerts
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