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Post by zeopold on Jun 4, 2020 20:18:57 GMT
They were a very early punk band. I vividly remember them playing on local news TV (ATV?) when the scene was taking hold nationwide. I suppose it was our Grundy moment for the Midlands. They had a sax player as well, all jumping about wildly, playing both tracks from their debut single Questions and No Faith. IIRC Steve Heart, later sax player for Wolverhampton's Neon Hearts, played on a version of 'Questions', their best number They were bandwagon jumpers like the Drones, but they briefly caught the zeitgeist
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Post by johnnyoi on Jun 5, 2020 18:35:00 GMT
It's now an underground car park.They should put a plaque up "Punk lived here" The last I remember of it was it becoming a New Romantic venue called The Final Solution! Do you remember the Ad Lib club just around the corner? Mainly reggae but Billy Bragg and some other of those Red Wedge types played there. No i don't remember that.I remember having pre gig drinks in Hearty Goodfellows on Maid Marion Way and then trying to avoid the Townies & Soul Boys on the way over to the Sandpiper Have a look at this website .See if you can spot yourself www.smfpics.com/backcat/sandpiper/Sorry tried to do a link but didn't work.
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Post by personunknown on Jun 5, 2020 19:48:01 GMT
I remember the Hearty Goodfellow. We used to start off at the Salutation and stop off at a great backstreet dive called Warrows Wine Bar. It got so hairy around the Market Square at one stage, we gave up on the centre of town and started at a place (I think) was called The Angel on Hockley.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2020 9:37:19 GMT
Age-wise, The Vibrators and The Stranglers are up there. I still reckon The Vibrators first LP is a classic and The Stranglers were more punk than many of the punks.
I love Peter Cook's introduction of The Stranglers on Revolver '... a young band, possibly younger than me'. Fantastic clip as well
I always liked the V2 album by the Vibrators more. It has better, bigger ideas and is gloriously played👍
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Post by doug61 on Feb 14, 2021 14:59:53 GMT
Like The Drones, they were bandwagon jumpers. If you Google image them, there is a press cutting picture, all long hair and silk shirts. Can't remember which Clash biography it is but Bernie Rhodes mentions their transition from satin jackets to bondage strides. Even SLF were a dodgy metal band before they changed style. Nothing inherently wrong with it if the music stands up. Otherwise where does the snobbery end?.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Feb 14, 2021 15:30:47 GMT
Like The Drones, they were bandwagon jumpers. If you Google image them, there is a press cutting picture, all long hair and silk shirts. Can't remember which Clash biography it is but Bernie Rhodes mentions their transition from satin jackets to bondage strides. Even SLF were a dodgy metal band before they changed style. Nothing inherently wrong with it if the music stands up. Otherwise where does the snobbery end?. Agree 100% Doug We all wore flares and had long hair before we were punks and doubtless had a few "dodgy" singles and albums too So what? It's not where you come from but what you're at
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Post by johnnyoi on Apr 23, 2021 11:51:29 GMT
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Post by zeopold on Apr 23, 2021 22:25:19 GMT
where does the snobbery end?. In the true holy grail of street credibility. Ain't zackly rocket science.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Apr 24, 2021 7:02:51 GMT
where does the snobbery end?. In the true holy grail of street credibility Or Stalinist purges and Gulags
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Post by personunknown on Apr 24, 2021 7:45:05 GMT
Maybe it's time to acknowledge that Eater were the only true punk band.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Apr 24, 2021 8:14:25 GMT
Maybe it's time to acknowledge that Eater were the only true punk band. In his autobiography Andy tells how he reverse engineered his (loss of) credibility, becoming a hippy traveller in the late 70s after the demise of Eater
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Post by andyloneshark on Apr 24, 2021 9:31:27 GMT
I can't remember if i mentioned it already, but i am currently working on some Eater related projects with Andy Blade and Paul Marko Andy was burnt out, when the thugs that got all their ideas on what Punk is from the tabloids started turning up at gigs, so going to the opposite extreme is understandable. Brian Chevette did likewise.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Apr 24, 2021 9:41:21 GMT
I can't remember if i mentioned it already, but i am currently working on some Eater related projects with Andy Blade and Paul Marko Andy was burnt out, when the thugs that got all their ideas on what Punk is from the tabloids started turning up at gigs, so going to the opposite extreme is understandable. Brian Chevette did likewise. I've replied over here Andy... talkpunk.freeforums.net/thread/186/eater?page=2&scrollTo=14178
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Post by zeopold on Apr 24, 2021 9:57:17 GMT
In the true holy grail of street credibility Or Stalinist purges and Gulags Good idea. Lock up the plastics and bandwagon jumping musos and make them listen to GBH, The Varukers and Abrasive Wheels 24/7 until they understand the true meaning of the new wave
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Post by andyloneshark on Apr 24, 2021 10:15:49 GMT
...there was alot of uniformity in that third wave of UK Punk. I already felt like a discerning veteren by the time they released their first records, so i gravitated towards the more overlooked bands that didn't fit any obvious template, getting more into 'Post-Punk' and what was going on in other countries.
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