Old Brighton Bands

[Goodfella]

17 free mp3 downloads here:

http://www.punkbrighton.co.uk/ammo.html

Brought back some fine memories of those heady days in the Basement/Alhambra etc

 

[Peteinblack]

Ah, halcyon days: I remember going to see Birds With Ears (singer Ian Smith used to wear a suit covered with fairy lights !) and The Chefs at various venues in Brighton during the early 1980s, and also knew the guys who worked in Attrix Records on Sydney Street.

Fond memories.

 

[Goodfella]

17 free mp3 downloads here:

http://www.punkbrighton.co.uk/ammo.html

Brought back some fine memories of those heady days in the Basement/Alhambra etc

Sorry, this is the proper link : http://www.punkbrighton.co.uk/downloadmp.html

 

[scooter1]

My old man lived upstairs, above Attrix records. I still look up when I walk past Davids Bookshop..
Can't say I remember the Basement, but I do remember the Resources Ctr and the Vault, and of course the Buccaneer which is now the Escape

 

[Goodfella]

My old man lived upstairs, above Attrix records. I still look up when I walk past Davids Bookshop..
Can't say I remember the Basement, but I do remember the Resources Ctr and the Vault, and of course the Buccaneer which is now the Escape

The Basement was under the Art College, first saw 'The Piranahs' and 'Peter And The Test-Tube Babies' there.

Not sure how i remember that.

 

[scooter1]

I played there in about 1990, I didn't realise it had lasted that long - just assumed it was another place with the same name..

 

[Stinky Kat]

Nicky and the Dots were my faves followed by Smeggy and the Cheesy bits.
Never liked the Pirahnas, nice guys, but dull music. Midnight and the Lemon boys had their moments, story ges all the AR men went to the Marquee to see them, unfortunately a band called U2 were on the same bill and the rest is history

Read Atillas piece on the Vault. Plague victims skulls in the walls, god those were the days.

 

[scooter1]

Nicky and the Dots were my faves followed by Smeggy and the Cheesy bits.
Never liked the Pirahnas, nice guys, but dull music. Midnight and the Lemon boys had their moments, story ges all the AR men went to the Marquee to see them, unfortunately a band called U2 were on the same bill and the rest is history

Midnight and the Lemon Boys toured with U2 for a while and the rest is history.
But then talking of old Brighton bands, These Animal Men made their first and onlt Top of the Pops appearance on the same show as Oasis and t look how their fortunes differed


Read Atillas piece on the Vault. Plague victims skulls in the walls, god those were the days.

And glue sniffers trying to break in to the rehearsal rooms..

 

[NMH]

Sorry, this is the proper link : http://www.punkbrighton.co.uk/downloadmp.html

Where were The Molesters?? "End Of Civilisation" , "Commuter Man" Two good singles in the punk era, produced by John Cale, did a Peel session??

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The Basement was under the Art College, first saw 'The Piranahs' and 'Peter And The Test-Tube Babies' there.

Not sure how i remember that.

I saw New Order play one of their first ever gigs there

 

[coventrygull]

All those Brighton "Punk Bands" were dire to be honest. The only ones that were anygood were wrist action and the depressions

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Ah, halcyon days: I remember going to see Birds With Ears (singer Ian Smith used to wear a suit covered with fairy lights !) and The Chefs at various venues in Brighton during the early 1980s, and also knew the guys who worked in Attrix Records on Sydney Street.

Fond memories.

Birds With Ears were art-school pretentious tossers IMHO. That Ian Smith was a legend in his own imagination. In fact, most of the Brighton lot were so far up their own arses that they never really bothered busting a gut. Midnight And The Lemon Boys even got handed a mega-contract if memory serves, and STILL couln't be arsed. Me, I used to SWOON over pop poppets like the Chefs and The Red Squares. Best thing about Brighton music scene at the time was that it was a complete no-go-zone for heavy metal, apart from maybe the Northern

Used to know all the Attrix lot also; Rick and Julie and stewart and Noddy. GRAND days!