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Get out your BONDAGE trousers for a thread full of PUNK
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Undertones best to come out of Ireland
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Tom Hark Preston Park
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Here's possibly the most comic/tragic Johnny-come-lately punk moment of all time...
'Guns for the Afghan Rebels' by the moronic Gary Bushell-sponsored Angelic Upstarts. And the singer Mensi - wait for it - was a former squaddie.
Not many shouts for that particular song nowadays then. Even on the disgustingly-named Thirtieth Anniversary Celebrations for something that was dead by 1979
'Guns for the Afghan Rebels' by the moronic Gary Bushell-sponsored Angelic Upstarts. And the singer Mensi - wait for it - was a former squaddie.
Not many shouts for that particular song nowadays then. Even on the disgustingly-named Thirtieth Anniversary Celebrations for something that was dead by 1979
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Why did you go that night then
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Tom Hark Preston Park
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More to the point, why did you go?
Simple. I liked them so I went. They did a shit gig and refused to do an encore. People started throwing glasses onto the stage. A mate of mine got on stage started to dance and a roadie came at him with an object in his hand. As they say the rest was History. At least they didn't need the van to take away their equipment.
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Bravest band I ever did see in the punk days was Suicide. They used to open for various punk luminaries, and were veritable GLASS-MAGNETS. Best named band EVER
Tho you had to admire their staying power. Unlike Patrick Fitzgerald at The Clash RAR gig at Victoria Park. Seem to recall he was about a line and a half into his fragile poetry set when a skinhead's can of lager hit him full in the face. No encore that day for the boy. Never even reached the end of the first verse
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Bravest band I ever did see in the punk days was Suicide. They used to open for various punk luminaries, and were veritable GLASS-MAGNETS. Best named band EVER
Tho you had to admire their staying power. Unlike Patrick Fitzgerald at The Clash RAR gig at Victoria Park. Seem to recall he was about a line and a half into his fragile poetry set when a skinhead's can of lager hit him full in the face. No encore that day for the boy. Never even reached the end of the first verse
Oh yes Suicide supporting the Clash at Crawley. Think the Skinheads broke his jaw that night and he carried on. Bloody scarey gig that.
I remember Patrick getting canned. I think he was on before the Clash. I think he said. I hope you give the Nazis as much grief as you gave me. The funny thing was it was the nazis throwing the cans
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Crawley Sports Centre? Yeah, I went to that one. The natives were as evil then as they are now. Not nice having glasses aimed at your head when you're just walking along the road with short hair. Still, nevermind eh, at the end of the day, they still had to go home and live in Crawley
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Crawley Sports Centre? Yeah, I went to that one. The natives were as evil then as they are now. Not nice having glasses aimed at your head when you're just walking along the road with short hair. Still, nevermind eh, at the end of the day, they still had to go home and live in Crawley
The Skins that caused the trouble that night were from Pimlico. I know because they chased me and my mates to the station. Happy days
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Did you ever go to the Greyhound pub in Croydon? Scarey place for punks, what with the ever-lurking skins, and that seriously spongey first-floor dancefloor that threatened to cave in at any moment. Hence the 'Strictly No Pogoing' signs
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Did you ever go to the Greyhound pub in Croydon? Scarey place for punks, what with the ever-lurking skins, and that seriously spongey first-floor dancefloor that threatened to cave in at any moment. Hence the 'Strictly No Pogoing' signs
Never went there. I used to go to the Marquee and the Music Machine in London.
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Tyrone Biggums
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Is the answer to "which punk band is quite underated?"
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999 was alright, Emergency and Nasty nasty still sound good.
The Skids had some good tunes too.
The Skids had some good tunes too.
Deportivo Seagull
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Bollocks we smashed them northen monkeys off the stage at the Top Rank
My first ever gig. It was over 18 yet there was no rhyme nor reason to who got in. I was 14 and got in even though I look 12 and yet my mate who at least looked close to being 18 didn't.
I think the backing band was Subway Sect ... anyway it was very entertaining, though not quite a fraught as the UK Subs at the Top rank and then Crawley Leisure centre.
Trufflehound
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Wasted Life - SLF
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Mainly notable because a youthful 17-yr-old Trufflehound is somewhere in the middle of the crowd there, about halfway back. It was filmed at the Electric Ballroom on March 10 1979, fellow nerds, by London Weekend Television for an episode of the South Bank Show on Rough Trade Records. I remember distinctly because the bright TV floodlights that day threatened to ruin the atmosphere (but thankfully didn't).
One of the support acts was early electronic-industrial pioneers Robert Rental and The Normal...
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Mainly notable because a youthful 17-yr-old Trufflehound is somewhere in the middle of the crowd there, about halfway back. It was filmed at the Electric Ballroom on March 10 1979, fellow nerds, by London Weekend Television for an episode of the South Bank Show on Rough Trade Records. I remember distinctly because the bright TV floodlights that day threatened to ruin the atmosphere (but thankfully didn't).
One of the support acts was early electronic-industrial pioneers Robert Rental and The Normal...
Trufflehound
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A couple of weeks after the above SLf gig I saw the Banshees at the rainbow. The support act was The Human League (back when they were a real band and good). When they played their encore - an electro version of Rock n' Roll Pt 1 - Spizz came on wearing a bacofoil suit, and pranced around doing pretty passable Gary Glitter impressions - perhaps with hindsight not his greatest career choice...
I saw SpizzOil/SpizzEnergi/AthelticoSpizz 80 several times around that era - he was always a good laugh.
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I also note that Spizzenergi are playing the Prince Albert in Brighton TOMORROW. I, however, am in the wrong country... (and besides, I'm already going to see Elbow.)