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[Music] Punk Rock
- Thread starter Harry Wilson's tackle
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- Jul 10, 2003
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I lived right through it, never really got it, but don't feel i missed out 
In 1975
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp2DvPKh118
1976
1977
In 1975
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp2DvPKh118
1976
1977
- Jul 10, 2003
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There was a rumour that in the summer of 1977, when anti-punk hysteria was at a high, the Pistols played at the Embassy Cinema on Western Road under the Name of The Spots (Sex Pistols On Tour). Anyone else aware of this or, if true, actually went to it.
Uh_huh_him
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- Sep 28, 2011
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Yeah same here. The dead kennedys took punk forward IMO.
Holiday in Cambodia and California Uber Alles are probably my 2 favourite punk songs.
Jello Biafra is an absolute genius.
boik
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Loved Spizz in all his incarnations. Such a showman. Remember him coming on at the Centre supporting The Cure and Siouxsie. He'd wrapped bog roll all round himself and said "Do you think I look like the Pope?" Still got a tshirt made by his own fair hands.
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It didn't happen as far as I am aware. I remember the younger lad in The Depressions cycling round Brighton from venue to venue one evening because he'd heard this rumour.
The Jam did play the Embassy cinema. 'Punky Steve' off his tits and causing trouble outside as we queued to get in....<sigh>
happypig
Staring at the rude boys
Sometime in 1977 my mate's sister asked us if we wanted to go and see a band at BHASVIC. That band was local outfit The Depressions.
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Worried Man Blues
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Saw them many times. Old rockers, really.
Just looked up Dave Barnard to see how he is, and apparently he reformed Tonge a couple of years ago.
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/15563744.rockers-head-back-out-on-tour-after-band-reunites/
The article is a bit weird - I practically live in the Hungry Years at one point as [MENTION=37530]monty uk[/MENTION] can confirm, and I don't everremember gigs there. Downstairs in the Buccaneer, different story.
happypig
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I saw the Molesters in the Hungry Years.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Indeed. There were 3 or more gigs a week on in Brighton in the summer of 77, at the Alhambra, Basement or Vault. Great days.
My biggest single regret in all of punk? Not lugging a camera around. Never crossed my mind. Never crossed just about ANYBODY's mind. All those - in retrospect - glorious chances to document the time of our lives not taken up. Gah!
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Did you?! Upstairs? Crikey! You live and learn....
The male singer, John, was a bit of a 'movie star' wasn't he
banjo
GOSBTS
Uh_huh_him
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Loved SLF but running bear? really??
It takes all sorts I suppose
Think that was the b side to at the edge wasn't it?
Which was an absolutely brilliant song.
I think Dave is the only one still alive, I'd heard all the others had died - I definitely know Oz has.
I saw them many times too, including seeing them in Manchester. Took them aback to see someone from Brighton in the audience. Oz was a great bloke; he sat in on a Brighton Riot Squad rehearsal once when our drummer hadn't turned up and laid down a vicious beat.
studio150
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If only smart phones had been around 40 odd years ago. Mind you the video would have been very shaky giving the bouncing around
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Ha! Used to be a punk venue in Croydon called the Greyhound. Gigs were in an upstairs room. Notices abounded stating that Pogoing (not that anybody worth their salt ever really did that anyway outside of the pages of the Daily Mirror) Was Strictly Forbidden By Order Of The Management lest we all fall through the floor
