# Rock Garden admission card, 7 December

> This printed admission card for the Rock Garden in Covent Garden, London, reads “To see: The New English at Breakthrough I”, for Monday 7 December 1987, 7.30pm to 3am, at a special admission price of £3 to be paid at the door. Breakthrough I was the name of the night, and the card’s conditions run down the right edge, including an age limit of 18 and no refunds or transfers. The Rock Garden was a basement music venue at The Piazza, Covent Garden, and the card’s design runs its name down the left side in red and grey.

- Type: Ticket
- Date: Monday 7 DEC; 7.30pm - 3am
- Subjects: The New English
- Also named: Rock Garden, The Piazza, Covent Garden, London, Breakthrough I
- Image credit: Photographer or publisher not recorded.
- Canonical page: https://thenewenglish.org/archive/rock-garden-ticket/
- Image: https://thenewenglish.org/media/rock-garden-ticket-635.jpg (635 x 322 px)

Excerpt: “THE NEW ENGLISH at "BREAKTHROUGH I"” (Printed on the Rock Garden admission card.)

## Related performances

- **7 December 1987**, Rock Garden, London. (Sources: [A03](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/rock-garden-ticket/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English))

## Source note

This is a scan supplied to the archive and catalogued at https://thenewenglish.org/archive/rock-garden-ticket/. Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.

## Cite this item

Rock Garden admission card, 7 December. The New English Archive. Last substantive revision 5 November 2026. https://thenewenglish.org/archive/rock-garden-ticket/