List of Dead Kennedys live performances

Dead Kennedys are an American hardcore punk band from San Francisco, California. Below is a list of their live performances.

Shows

1978

Date	Venue	City	Country	Other Bands	Shows Total	Shows This Year	Flyer	Tour
July 19	Mabuhay Gardens	San Francisco, CA	USA	Negative Trend, The Offs, DV8	1	1	1 2	?
August 2				The Weirdos, X	2	2	?
August 13				The Offs, The Eaters	3	3	1
August 20	Sproul Plaza	Berkeley, CA		The Zeros	4	4	?
August 26	The Rio	Rodeo, CA		Sleepers, Permanent Wave, The Offs, P.P.	5	5	1 2
August 30	Mabuhay Gardens	San Francisco, CA		Kid Courage, Contraband	6	6	?
September 1				Crime, Negative Trend, Ogden Edsel	7	7
September 2				The Mutants, Yoel, The Screamers	8	8	1 2 3
September 4				Dils, The Mutants	9	9	1 2 3
September 16				The Dogs, Fear	10	10	1
September 22	Community Centre			Negative Trend, Savage	11	11	?
September 23	Aitos	Berkeley, CA		The Mutants, Rad Command	12	12	1
	Mabuhay Gardens	San Francisco, CA		The Enemy, The Telepaths	13	13	1
September 28				The Mutants, The Plugz	14	14	1
October 5				The Weirdos, The Feederz	15	15	?
October 22				The Zeros, The Young Adults	16	16	1 2
October 28	Aitos	Berkeley, CA		The Young Adults, The Avengers, Sudden Fun	17	17	1 2
November 4	Mabuhay Gardens	San Francisco, CA		Germs, The Red Products, The Imposters	18	18	1 2 3 4
November 22				Subhumans, Blow Up, Young Canadians, Private School	19	19	1 2 3 4 5 6
November 25	Aitos	Berkeley, CA		The Controllers, The Young Adults	20	20	1 2
December 1	S.F. Art Institute	San Francisco, CA		The Dils	21	21	1
December 15	Mabuhay Gardens			The Offs, Zero Factor	22	22	1
December 16	330 Grove St.			The Avengers, The Mutants	23	23	1 2 3
December 19	Campolindo High School	Moraga, CA		The Liars, The Zeros	24	24	?

1979

Month/Day	Venue	City	Country	Other Bands	Shows Total	Shows This Year	Flyer	Tour
January 12	New Masque	San Francisco, CA	USA	The Germs	25	1	1	?
January 13					26	2
January 20	La Plaza	Cotati, CA		The Imposters, The Variables	27	3	?
January 26	The Pit	San Francisco, CA		The Mutants, K.G.B.	28	4	1
February 24	Mabuhay Gardens			The VIPs, The Runz	29	5	?
March 3	The Deaf Club			Germs	30	6	1 2
April 6	Mabuhay Gardens			Situations, William Talon	31	7	?
April 7	10th Street	Berkeley, CA		The Mutants, D.O.A.	32	8	1
April 19	The Temple	San Francisco, CA		The Neo Boys, The Urge	33	9	1 2 3
April 20	Mills College Student Union	Oakland, CA		The Queers, Negative Trend	34	10	1
April 27	Mabuhay Gardens	San Francisco, CA		Germs	35	11	1
May 18				Bags, Units	36	12	1 2 3
May 26	The Temple			D.O.A., The Offs, Middle Class	37	13	1
June 5	Hurrah	New York City, NY		Chain Gang	38	14	1	1979 East Coast Tour
June 6	The Hot Club	Philadelphia, PA		Pink Section, China Comidas	39	15	1
June 7	Max's Kansas City	New York City, NY		Voodoo Shoes	40	16	1
June 13	The Rat	Boston, MA		Chinas Cortinas	41	17	?
June 14	Tomato	New York City, NY		?	42	18	1
June 30	The Temple	San Francisco, CA		Zeros, Eaters, Bus Stop, Ready Mades, Exxploding, Pintos, Roy, Loney, Phantom Movers, Space Trash, Shashi, X-M Rhythm, Casselbury Dupres, Magic, Hyway, Fleshapoids, Ivy, X-Isles, Monica, DuPont Blues Band, Mondellos, SVT, Eye Protection, Snuky Tate	43	19	1	?
July 4	Mabuhay Gardens			Vs., Units	44	20	1 2
July 7	Washington Hall	Seattle, WA		Ice-9	45	21	1 2	1979 Pacific Northeast Tour
July 11	The Long Goodbye	Portland, OR		The Fit, Ziplocs	46 (7:00 PM)	22	1 2
					47 (10:00 PM)	23
July 12	Smilin' Buddha	Vancouver, BC	CAN	The Modernettes, Braineaters	48	24	1 2
July 13					49	25
July 14					50	26
July 15	Vancouver East Cultural Center			?	51	27	?
July 24	Mabuhay Gardens	San Francisco	USA	The Punts, The V.I.P.s, The Rotters	52	28	1 2	?
July 28	The Temple			Crime, Zeros	53	29	1 2
August 3	Bear's Lair,University of California	Berkeley, CA		SVT	54	30	?
August 16	Hong Kong Café	Los Angeles, CA		Vs.	55 (9:00 PM Show)	31	1
					56 (11:00 PM Show)	32
August 17					57 (9:00 PM Show)	33
					58 (11:00 PM Show)	34
August 24	Mabuhay Gardens	San Francisco, CA		The Go-Go's, The Penetrators	59	35	1
September 3				Symptoms, Anti-Bodies, Eye Protection, Vs., Jars, Contractions, Pink Section	60	36	1 2
September 8				The Silencers, Anko-Ku Botu	61	37	1
September 11	Slick Willy's	Sacramento, CA		The Nervebreakers, Pressure	62	38
October 6	The Temple	San Francisco, CA		Alley Cats, The Bags	63	39	1 2 3 4
October 10	Mabuhay Gardens			Black Flag, The Feederz, The Insults	64	40	1 2 3
October 19	Center for Independent Living	Berkeley, CA		The Jars, The Insults	65 (7:30 PM Show)	41	1 2
					66 (11:00 PM Show)	42
October 21				The Jars	67 (7:30 PM Show)	43	1
				Sudden Fun, The Tools, The Jars, C.I.A.	68 (11:00 PM Show)	44	1 2
October ??	The Squeeze	Riverside, CA		Pearl Harbor and the Explosions	69	45	1
October 25	Old Waldorf	San Francisco, CA		The Members	70	46	?
October 26	The Temple			The Offs, The Plugz	71	47	1 2
October 30	The Pauley Ballroom	Berkeley, CA		The Mutants, The Zeros, Vkims, No Sisters	72	48	1 2
October 31	Mabuhay Gardens	San Francisco, CA		The Next, Crime, Pearl Harbor and the Explosions	73	49	1 2
November 2				Middle Class, The Urge	74	50	?
November 11	Whiskey A-Go-Go	Los Angeles, CA		391	75	51	1 2
November 19	The Earth	Portland, OR		Smegma, The Rubbers	76 (7:00 PM Show)	52	1 2 3
					77 (10:00 PM Show)	53
November 22	Legion Hall	Vancouver, BC	CAN	Subhumans, Young Canadians	78	54	?
November 30	Mabuhay Gardens	San Francisco, CA	USA	Madness, The Dishrags	79	55	1
December 2				The Mutants, K.G.B.	80	56	1
December 7	Whiskey A-Go-Go	Los Angeles, CA		Sham 69	81	57	?
December 8					82	58
December 15	The Temple	San Francisco, CA		Buzzcocks, Pointed Sticks	83	59	1 2 3 4
December 17	Mabuhay Gardens			Push Ups, Times Five, Contractions, Room-mates	84	60	1

1980

Month/Day	Venue	City	Country	Other Bands	Shows Total	Shows This Year	Flyer	Tour
February 1	Mabuhay Gardens	San Francisco, CA	USA	Mutants	85	1	1	?
February 9				8 Eyed Spy, Zey	86	2	?
March 7	Whiskey A-Go-Go	Los Angeles, CA		Legonnaires' Disease	87	3	1 2 3a 3b
March 8				Wall of Voodoo	88	4
March 22	The Temple	San Francisco, CA		Mutants, Alley Cats, Soul Rebels, No Alternative	89	5	1
March 25	Warfield Theater (The Bay Area Music Awards)			?	90	6
April 4	Mabuhay Gardens			No Alternative, Social Unrest	91	7
April 5				Soul Rebels, VKTMS	92	8	1
April 11	S.F. Art Institute			Romeo Void, Dickheads, Ultrasheen	93	9	1
April 19	Ft. Mason, Building C			Das Block, Confession, Little Death	94	10	1
April 20	Savoy Tivoli			?	95	11	?
April 25	Barrington Hall	Berkeley, CA		The Zeros, The Decadents	96	12	1
April 26	China Wagon	Sacramento, CA		Flipper	98	14	1
June 7	Somona State University Commons	Rohnert Park, CA		Tattooed Vegetables, Regime	99	15	?
June 13	Mabuhay Gardens	San Francisco, CA		Subhumans, Black Flag, Doorways	100	16	1 2
June 14				Bent, Subhumans, See Spot	101	17
June 20	609 South Lincoln Street	Stockton, CA		F.O.C., Society Dog, Terminal Boredom	102	18	1
June 21	The Dew Drop Inn	Berkeley, CA		Neutrinoz, Vs.	103	19	1 2
June 26	American Indian Center	San Francisco, CA		Speedboys	104	20	1
June 27	Whiskey A-Go-Go	Los Angeles, CA		Middle Class	105	21	1 1b.1 1b.2
June 28				BPeople	106	22
July 3	The Fleetwood	Redondo Beach, CA		Chiefs, Red Cross, Stains	107	23	1 2
July 4	The Lions Club	San Diego, CA		Flipper, Buffy's Ghost	108	24	1 2
July 9	Belmont Ballroom	Fresno, CA		The Subtractions, The Short Order Cooks	109	25	1 2
July 12	California Hall	San Francisco, CA		The Mutants, Society Dog, The Offs	110	26	1 2
August 7	The Topper Annex	Sacramento, CA		Sans Figures	111	27	1
August 9	Mabuhay Gardens	San Francisco, CA		Flipper, Circle Jerks	112	28	1
August 15	Santa Monica Civic	Santa Monica, CA		The Cramps, X, Chelsea	113	29	1 2
August 19	Whiskey A-Go-Go	Los Angeles, CA		Circle Jerks	114	30	1 2 3 4
August 23	Thatcher's	Santa Cruz, CA		?	115	31	?
August 25	Mabuhay Gardens	San Francisco, CA		Dirk Dirksen, Wasp Women, Ultrasheen, Zev	116	32	1
September 12				Sick Kidz	117	33	?
September 25	Taboo	Scarborough, ENG	GBR	U.K. Decay	118	34		1980 Europe Tour
September 26	Caird Hall	Dundee, Scotland			119	35
September 27	Night Club	Edinburg, Scotland			120	36
September 29	Brady's	Liverpool, ENG			121	37	1
September 30	The Boat Club	Nottingham, ENG			122	38	?
October 1	The Paddock	Northampton, ENG			123	39
October 3	The Leadmill	Sheffield, ENG			124	40	1
October 4	Manchester Poly	Manchester, ENG			125	41	?
October 5	King George's Hall	Blackburn, ENG			126	42
October 8	Music Machine	London, ENG			127	43	1 2 3 4 5
October 10	Lanchester Poly	Coventry, ENG			128	44	?
October 11	The Pavilion	West Runton, ENG			129	45
October 12	Jenkinson's	Brighton, ENG			130	46	1 2
October 15	Rheinterasse	Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia	GER	?	131	47	?
October 16	SO36	Berlin, GER			132	48	1
October 17	Realschule	Rothenburg, Bavaria			133	49	1
October 18	Scala	Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia			134	50	?
October 29	The Hayloft	San Francisco, CA	USA		135	51	1	?
December 12	Mabuhay Gardens			VKTMS, Wounds	136	52	1 2

1981

Month/Day	Venue	City	Country	Other Bands	Shows Total	Shows This Year	Flyer	Tour
March 15	Hotel Saint Claire Ballroom	San Jose, CA	USA	Social Unrest, Retorts	137	1	1 2	?
March 20	Mabuhay Gardens	San Francisco, CA		Middle Class, Wounds	138	2	1
March 22	V.F.W. Hall	Reno, NV		D.O.A., 7 Seconds, Thrusting Squirters, Section 8	139	3	1 2
April 3	Mabuhay Gardens	San Francisco, CA		U.K. Decay, Fried Abortions	140	4	1 2?
April 4				U.K. Decay, Red Rockers	141	5	1 2
April 9	The Channel	Boston, MA		?	142	6	?	1981 U.S. Tour
April 10	Simon's Downtown	Pawtucket, RI		The Probers, The D.C. Tenz	143	7	1
April 15	9:30 Club	Washington, DC		Half Japanese	144 (8:00 PM Show)	8	1 2
					145 (11:00 PM Show)	9
April 16	The Marble Bar	Baltimore, MD		Black Market Baby	146	10	1 2 3
April 17	Omni's	Philadelphia, PA		?	147	11	?
April 18	City Gardens	Trenton, NJ		Sic F*cks	148	12	1 2
April 23	Zappa's	New York City, NY		Xdavis	149	13	1 2
April 24	Club 57			The Undead	150	14	1 2 3 4b
April 26				The Sirens	151	16
April 29				Bad Brains	152	17
April 25				Sic Kidz	153	15
April 30	The Rusty Nail	Sunderland, MA		?	154	16	1 2 3
May 1	Stage West	Hartford, CT		Dead Fabulous	155	17	1 2
May 2	Emerson College	Boston, MA		?	156	18	?
May 29	10th Street Hall	San Francisco, CA		Circle Jerks, No Alternative, Naked Lady Wrestlers, Warzone	157	19	1 2 3 4 5 6	?
June 6	The Elite Club			1313, Lydia Lunch, Lockjaw	158	20	1 2 3 4
June 26	American Indian Center			Speedboys, Big Boys	159	21	1
June 28	Dwinelle Hall	Berkeley, CA		Fipper, No Alternative	160	22	?
July 2	Mabuhay Gardens	San Francisco, CA		Stains, Dicks	161	23	1
July 4	The Belmont Ballroom	Fresno, CA		7 Seconds, The Fix, Capital Punishment	162	24	1
July 10	The Commodore Ballroom	Vancouver, BC	CAN	D.O.A., Toxic Reasons	163	25	1 2 3
July 12	The Showbox	Seattle, WA	USA	?	164	26	1
July 20	Mabuhay Gardens	San Francisco, CA		Pointed Sticks	165	27	1
July 31				Hüsker Dü, Toxic Reasons, Church Police	166	28	1 2 3
August 6				Lewd, Crucifix	167	29	1 (Minor Threat/Youth Brigade didn't play) 2
August 24				Social Unrest, Church Police, Naked Lady Wrestlers	168	30	1 2
September 4	Fairmount Hall	San Diego, CA		Bad Religion, The Men of Clay	169	31	1
September 5	The Florentine Gardens	Los Angeles, CA		T.S.O.L., 45 Grave	170	32	1
September 6				Circle Jerks, Mission of Burma	171	33	1 2 3
September 12	The Elite Club	San Francisco, CA		Non, Flipper, Meat Puppets	172	34	1 2 3
September 17	The C.O.D. Lounge	Chicago, IL		Hüsker Dü, Naked Raygun, The Effigies, Strike Under	173	35	1 2 3
September 18					174	36
September 25	The Concert Hall	Toronto, ON	CAN	Screamin' Sam and the Problems, L'Etranger	175	37	1
September 29	Tiffany's	Glasgow, UK	GBR	?	176	38	1	1981 Europe Tour
September 30	Royal Court Theater	Merseyside, UK			177	39	?
October 1	The Mayflower	Manchester, UK			178	40	1
October 2	The Imperial Cinema	Birmingham, UK			179	41	1
October 4	The Lyceum	London, UK		Anti-Nowhere League, D.O.A.	180	42	1 2 3 4
October 8	Much More	Rome	ITA	?	181	43	1
October 9	The Quasar	Perugia, Umbria			182	44	?
October 10	Palasport	Gorizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia			183	45
October 12	The Arena	Vienna	AUT		184	46	1
October 14	Tavastia Club	Helsinki	FIN		185 + 186	47 + 48	?
October 15	The Roxy	Tampere			187	49
October 16	Kisasuoja	Saarijarvi, Central Finland			188	50	1
October 17	Underground	Stockholm	SWE	The Imps	189	51	1
October 19					190	52
October 20	Les Bains-Douche	Paris	FRA	?	191	53	1
October 21					192	54	2
December 4	The Elite Club	San Francisco, CA	USA		193	55	1 2 3	?
December 14	Mabuhay Gardens			Toxic Reasons, Fried Abortions, Angst	194	56	1
December 24	Bards Apollo	Los Angeles, CA		China White, Black Flag, Wasted Youth, Red Cross, CH3, The Crowd, Social Distortion, D.O.A., Circle Jerks, Shattered Faith, 45 Grave, Minutemen, T.S.O.L., Bad Religion, Saccharine Trust, Youth Gone Mad, Stains	195	57	1
December 31	The Factory	San Francisco, CA		Flipper, Anti-Pasti, The Effigies, The Fix	196	58	1 2

1982

Month/Day	Venue	City	Country	Other Bands	Shows Total	Shows This Year	Flyer	Tour
March 6	Veterans Memorial	Walnut Creek, CA	USA	(Impatient) Youth, Half Church, Church Police	197	1	1 2	?
March 13	Danceland Bruce Hall	San Jose, CA		?	198	2	?
March 20	The Elite Club	San Francisco, CA		Bad Brains, 7 Seconds, T.S.O.L., Domino Theory	199	3	1 2 3
April 23	Veteran's Hall	Cotati, CA		No Alternative, Soldiers of Fortune	200	4	1
April 28	On Broadway	San Francisco, CA		M.D.C., Rebel Truth, Bad Posture	201	5	1 2 3
April 29				Christian Death, God, Hellations	202	6	1 2
May 7	American Legion Hall	Sacramento, CA		Rebel Truth, Karnage, Square Cools	203	7	1 2 3 4
May 29	10th Street Hall	San Francisco, CA		Naked Lady Wrestlers, Warzone, No Alternative	204	8	1 (C.J. didn't play)
June 11	609 South Lincoln St.	Stockton, CA		The Authorities, The Frigidettes, Young Pioneers	205	9	1 2
June 22	On Broadway	San Francisco, CA		Flipper, Sleepers, Bad Posture, Women of Borneo	206	10	1
June 25				Minor Threat, Fifth Column, Free Beer, Personality Crisis	207	11	1 2
June 26				Flipper, Naked Lady Wrestlers, Fang	208	12	1
July 1	Fairmont Hall	San Diego, CA		Battalion of Saints, Big Boys	209	13	1
July 2	The Barn	Torrance, CA		Bad Religion, Descendants	210	14	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
July 3				Minor Threat, M.D.C., Detonators, Zero Boys	211	15	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
July 4	Whiskey A Go-Go	Los Angeles, CA		T.S.O.L., Butthole Surfers	212	16	?
July 15	Terminal 406/Club Banned	Baltimore, MD		Scream, ?	213	17		1982 U.S. Tour (Schedule)
July 16	The Paramount	New York City, NY		D.O.A., Kraut, S.S. Decontrol, Flipper	214	18	1 2 3 4 5 6 7
July 17	The Starlite Ballroom	Philadelphia, PA		Autistic Behavior, Informed Sources, Sic Kidz	215	19	1 2 3 4
July 18	City Gardens	Trenton, NJ		Flipper, Autistic Behavior, Adrenalin	216	20	1 2 3
July 22	G.W.U. Marvin Center	Washington, DC		Government Issue, Double O, Faith	217	21	1 2 3
July 23	Casablanca	Richmond, VA		White Cross, Void, Front Line	218	22	1 2 3 4 5
July 25	Cyclorama Building	Boston, MA		S.S. Decontrol, Flipper	219	23	1 2 3 4 5
July 26	9 Lansdowne St.			Freeze, The F.U.'s	220	24	?
July 28	The Concert Hall	Toronto, ON	CAN	Youth Youth Youth, Young Lions	221	25	1
July 29	Clutch Cargo's	Detroit, MI	USA	Necros, Negative Approach, Blight, The Crucifucks	222	26	1 2
July 30	Club C.O.D.	Chicago, IL		Necros, Subverts	223	27	?
July 31				Toxic Reasons, Trial By Fire, Six Feet Under	234	28	1
August 3					235	29	1
August 4					236	30
August 5					237	31
August 6					238	32
August 7					239	33
August 8					240	34
August 10					241	35
August 12					242	36
August 13					243	37
August 14					244	38

1983

1984

Month/Day	Venue	City	Country	Other Bands	Shows Total	Shows This Year	Flyer	Tour
June 16	On Broadway	San Francisco, CA	USA	Black Athletes, Freeze, Witnesses, Naked Lady Wrestlers			1	?

1985

1986

Month/Day	Venue	Location	Other Bands	Shows Total	Shows This Year	Flyer	Tour
February 16	The Stone	San Francisco, CA, USA	7 Seconds, Gang Green, Rhythm Pigs		1		None
February 17			7 Seconds, Whipping Boy		2
February 21	Freeborn Hall	Davis, CA, USA	7 Seconds, Mojo Nixon, Phranc		3	1 2

^[1] (Shows + Flyers)

References

1. "Metallipromo Dead Kennedys page". Metallipromo. December 15, 2025. Retrieved December 15, 2025.

See Also

Dead Kennedys

Dead Kennedys discography