..and not one of you has mentioned the ultimate punk icon, Plastic Bertrand.
to those already mentioned would add; Mind your own business - Delta 5 Promises - Buzzcocks Wash it all off - You've got foetus on your breath My cherry is in sherry - Ludus Sonic Reducer - The Dead Boys
I didn't know that had been released as a single, only having bought the album, otherwise I'd have had that in my list. There was another mainly/all female band around the same time who were of a similar quality as Delta 5 and I can't for the life of me remember their name - it wasn't The Slits, that I do know.
Damned - New Rose The Saints - I'm Stranded The Clash - Complete Control Eater - Outside View Subway Sect - Ambition The Drones - Bone Idol The Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks Swell Maps - Read About Seymour The Killjoys - Johnny won't get to Heaven Johnny Moped - Incendiary Device The Cortinas - Fascist Dictator The Outcasts - Just another Teenage Rebel The Users - Sick of You The Waps - Can't wait 'til '78 999 - I'm Alive The Snivelling Shits - Terminal Stupid The Zeros - Hungry Wire - 12XU Sex Pistols - Anarchy Angelic Upstarts - I'm an Upstart
Damned - New Rose Buzzcocks - Boredom 999 - Emergency The Jam - In the City Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop Clash - White Riot Undertones - Teenage Kicks Chelsea - Right to Work Ruts - In a Rut Generation X - wild youth X Ray Spex - Identity Lurkers - Aint got a clue UK Subs - live in a car Wire - 12XU
Cheers for the Lurkers nudge, forgot...the lurkers ....self destruct
The Clash - White man in Hammersmith Palais, Pressure Drop Sex pistols - Anarchy in the UK, Pretty Vacant, GSTQ stiff little fingers - Alternative Ulster, Suspect Device Ian Dury - sweet Gene Vincent Eddie and the hot rods - Do anything you wanna do Spizz something-or-other, whatever they happened to be called at the time, possibly Energi - Where’s Captain Kirk? John Cooper Clarke - Beasley Street Undertones - Teenage Kicks Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop, Sheena is a punk rocker Siouxsie - Hong Kong Garden, Mittageisen, Spellbound, Israel Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet Ruts - Babylon’s Burning Girls at our best - Getting nowhere fast Slits - Typical Girls
And that’s without looking through the shelves of 45s.
I saw Spizzenergi last week supporting Theatre of Hate. Here he is after (lights round his neck).
The Clash - White man in Hammersmith Palais, Pressure Drop Sex pistols - Anarchy in the UK, Pretty Vacant, GSTQ stiff little fingers - Alternative Ulster, Suspect Device Ian Dury - sweet Gene Vincent Eddie and the hot rods - Do anything you wanna do Spizz something-or-other, whatever they happened to be called at the time, possibly Energi - Where’s Captain Kirk? John Cooper Clarke - Beasley Street Undertones - Teenage Kicks Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop, Sheena is a punk rocker Siouxsie - Hong Kong Garden, Mittageisen, Spellbound, Israel Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet Ruts - Babylon’s Burning Girls at our best - Getting nowhere fast Slits - Typical Girls
And that’s without looking through the shelves of 45s.
I saw Spizzenergi last week supporting Theatre of Hate. Here he is after (lights round his neck).
ATV - Action Time Vision Cortinas - Fascist Dictator Radiators from Space - Television Screen Users - Sick of You Damned - New Rose Subway Sect - Ambition Wire - Outdoor Miner 999 - Feeling Alrights with the Crew Members - Offshore Banking Business Ruts - Staring at the Rude Boys Clash - White Man in Hammersmith Palais Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet Vibrators - Baby, Baby Slaughter & the Dogs - Where Have All the Boots Boys Gone The Boys - Brickfield Nights Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant Public Image Ltd - Public Image The Professionals - Just Another Dream
My first day at ITN, 11 July 1977 I walked out of reception and walked past studio two, and could hear them recording the video for this. They got chucked out for throwing beer cans at one of the cameramen (Micky James) who innocently asked if they were joking. They came back the next day and finished the vid. I loved the Pistols and got to know Paul Cook when he was helping his dad with his carpentry work.
That's really interesting. People always go on about Pistols performing Pretty Vacant on TOTP but they never did. It was just a promo video shot by Mark Mansfield of Supersonic fame that was shown on TOTP. The Pistols never went on TOTP nor did the Clash.
ATV - Action Time Vision Cortinas - Fascist Dictator Radiators from Space - Television Screen Users - Sick of You Damned - New Rose Subway Sect - Ambition Wire - Outdoor Miner 999 - Feeling Alrights with the Crew Members - Offshore Banking Business Ruts - Staring at the Rude Boys Clash - White Man in Hammersmith Palais Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet Vibrators - Baby, Baby Slaughter & the Dogs - Where Have All the Boots Boys Gone The Boys - Brickfield Nights Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant Public Image Ltd - Public Image The Professionals - Just Another Dream
Had forgotten Alternative TV - Action Time Vision is a great single.
I wasn't into punk, but some of the music has grown on me.
Friggin in the rigging-I heard that for the first time driving up from the Man of Kent to see Charlton play at Rotherham in a Mk3 2L Cortina. Top motor.
Gary Gilmores eyes- because I have sort of got to know TV Smith in recent years.
A punk band local to me here in North Devon had this very quickly banned, so very few records exist of it, I can't think why. The bulk of the band members are still going under a different name playing very different stuff, but the crowd always demand this gets played. You really must hear it. https://youtu.be/GZpXll8dBVY
I wasn't into punk, but some of the music has grown on me.
Friggin in the rigging-I heard that for the first time driving up from the Man of Kent to see Charlton play at Rotherham in a Mk3 2L Cortina. Top motor.
Gary Gilmores eyes- because I have sort of got to know TV Smith in recent years.
A punk band local to me here in North Devon had this very quickly banned, so very few records exist of it, I can't think why. The bulk of the band members are still going under a different name playing very different stuff, but the crowd always demand this gets played. You really must hear it. https://youtu.be/GZpXll8dBVY
One of our secretaries is called Lucy Loo, just mentioned it to my engineer about playing it, next time she walks into the office.
Telly...is TV Smith still married to Gaye Black (known as Gaye Advert)
I wasn't into punk, but some of the music has grown on me.
Friggin in the rigging-I heard that for the first time driving up from the Man of Kent to see Charlton play at Rotherham in a Mk3 2L Cortina. Top motor.
Gary Gilmores eyes- because I have sort of got to know TV Smith in recent years.
A punk band local to me here in North Devon had this very quickly banned, so very few records exist of it, I can't think why. The bulk of the band members are still going under a different name playing very different stuff, but the crowd always demand this gets played. You really must hear it. https://youtu.be/GZpXll8dBVY
One of our secretaries is called Lucy Loo, just mentioned it to my engineer about playing it, next time she walks into the office.
Telly...is TV Smith still married to Gaye Black (known as Gaye Advert)
I was introduced to him by the lady that he is living with now, my understanding is that they go back a long way but got back together in more recent years. So not as far as I'm aware Chippy and not an item.
I bought the Patti Smith single Because the Night and found Rock n Roll Nigger on the B side.
Quite an experience at that age, I can tell you.
Did anyone attend Reading in 1978 or was it 1979 with Sham 69, The Jam, Eurythmics, The Police. Quite something.
Got to interview Captain Sensible and Paul Cook of the Pistols and watch them gig many years later. Brought it all back.
Happy days full of hope, energy and attitude.
Patti Smith's Because the Night is brilliant but is it punk? Not that I care, it's so good you could call it a power ballad or experimental jazz and I wouldn't stop listening to it.
Interesting point. Probably not pure punk but of that genre and era. I loved the Feelgoods but they were really pub rock not punk either.
Rock n Roll Nigger I thought was punk in musical style , lyrics and sheer anger.
As you say, the labels don't really matter.
Makes me weep to think of young people listening to Ed Intetesting Sheeran though. Punk it is not.
Harmony In My Head - The Buzzcocks Don't Dictate - Penetration Captain Kirk - Spizz A Forest - The Cure Nobody's Hero/Tin Soldiers - Stiff Little Fingers Happy House - Siouxsie & The Banshees For My Country - UK Decay Go Buddy Go - The Stranglers Kiss Me Deadly - Generation X
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This 45 is about 1/4" thick - roughly three times as thick as a normal one, I guess. It's more like a side plate than a record.
The Saints - I'm Stranded
The Clash - Complete Control
Eater - Outside View
Subway Sect - Ambition
The Drones - Bone Idol
The Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks
Swell Maps - Read About Seymour
The Killjoys - Johnny won't get to Heaven
Johnny Moped - Incendiary Device
The Cortinas - Fascist Dictator
The Outcasts - Just another Teenage Rebel
The Users - Sick of You
The Waps - Can't wait 'til '78
999 - I'm Alive
The Snivelling Shits - Terminal Stupid
The Zeros - Hungry
Wire - 12XU
Sex Pistols - Anarchy
Angelic Upstarts - I'm an Upstart
Here he is after (lights round his neck).
Definitely loved this
Mekons - Where were you?
Anti Nowhere League - So What? (most offensive lyrics)
Cortinas - Fascist Dictator
Radiators from Space - Television Screen
Users - Sick of You
Damned - New Rose
Subway Sect - Ambition
Wire - Outdoor Miner
999 - Feeling Alrights with the Crew
Members - Offshore Banking Business
Ruts - Staring at the Rude Boys
Clash - White Man in Hammersmith Palais
Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
Vibrators - Baby, Baby
Slaughter & the Dogs - Where Have All the Boots Boys Gone
The Boys - Brickfield Nights
Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
Public Image Ltd - Public Image
The Professionals - Just Another Dream
That's really interesting. People always go on about Pistols performing Pretty Vacant on TOTP but they never did. It was just a promo video shot by Mark Mansfield of Supersonic fame that was shown on TOTP.
The Pistols never went on TOTP nor did the Clash.
Spizz at 229 couple of weeks ago.
Theatre of Hate at 229.
around 1980 in East London
ended a bit nasty.
Preferred following
Conflict.
Eltham based Punk Band
Friggin in the rigging-I heard that for the first time driving up from the Man of Kent to see Charlton play at Rotherham in a Mk3 2L Cortina. Top motor.
Gary Gilmores eyes- because I have sort of got to know TV Smith in recent years.
A punk band local to me here in North Devon had this very quickly banned, so very few records exist of it, I can't think why. The bulk of the band members are still going under a different name playing very different stuff, but the crowd always demand this gets played. You really must hear it.
Reminded me of Be My Girl by The Police, first album I bought.
The Saints This Perfect Day Original Top Of The Pops Kid Jensen Intro - YouTube
The Saints = perfect day Aussie punk band. Think they are still about in one form or another.
The adverts were another great band, have a couple of their albums.
Shot from both sides-Magazine.
Telly...is TV Smith still married to Gaye Black (known as Gaye Advert)
Rock n Roll Nigger I thought was punk in musical style , lyrics and sheer anger.
As you say, the labels don't really matter.
Makes me weep to think of young people listening to Ed Intetesting Sheeran though. Punk it is not.
Don't Dictate - Penetration
Captain Kirk - Spizz
A Forest - The Cure
Nobody's Hero/Tin Soldiers - Stiff Little Fingers
Happy House - Siouxsie & The Banshees
For My Country - UK Decay
Go Buddy Go - The Stranglers
Kiss Me Deadly - Generation X