(I think) I saw Home Service at Plymouth Theatre Royal in the early 1980s. The theatre hadn't been open long and they were trialing late night performances. Plymouth wasn't quite ready for such avant garde notions as starting shows after the pubs shut and there were barely twenty people in the audience. A couple of friends and I were sat in the second row (no one in the first) and part of the band climbed over the seats to play because the audience was bigger behind us.

A short while before, John Tams (and I think Maddy Prior?) had been in Don Quixote with Paul Scofield and Tony Haygarth at the theatre. Playing to a full house, I guess they got the wrong impression of Plymouth's hunger for culture.

Did John Tams write the music for that production of Don Quixote?

Whatever, both shows were bloody marvellous!

Plymouth is very different city now.