pocket.calculator Posted June 8, 2012 Posted June 8, 2012 Just watching last week's episode one now - there's loads of 70s archive street footage with an awful lot of shite in evidence. Hillman Husky! Datsun Cherry E10! Episode two is on tonight at 9pm.
Vin Posted June 8, 2012 Posted June 8, 2012 Did you spot the white 850T mini bus parked bang in the middle of the road during the Notting Hill riot footage from 1976
Cavcraft Posted June 8, 2012 Posted June 8, 2012 Prog rock? What the hell is all that about, I can't even think of a relative old enough to ask about it The programme is ace, taking me right back to my yoof and all that jazz. First punk band I saw live were SLF, my janmy sod brother saw the Sex Pistols playing in Chester (they had to use a different name to be able to play), going to Manchester to see The Uk Subs who did what they were apparantly notorious for by not actually bothering to turn up and then going to see Sham 69 (who'd copped out by then and were crap), Anti-Nowhere-League, Toy Dolls, The Damned, The Exploited and various others.Them was the days etc.
pompei Posted June 9, 2012 Posted June 9, 2012 Time has not been kind to some of them - Jake Burns in particular
fotorabia Posted June 9, 2012 Posted June 9, 2012 Prog rock? What the hell is all that about, I can't even think of a relative old enough to ask about it The programme is ace, taking me right back to my yoof and all that jazz. First punk band I saw live were SLF, my janmy sod brother saw the Sex Pistols playing in Chester (they had to use a different name to be able to play), going to Manchester to see The Uk Subs who did what they were apparantly notorious for by not actually bothering to turn up and then going to see Sham 69 (who'd copped out by then and were crap), Anti-Nowhere-League, Toy Dolls, The Damned, The Exploited and various others.Them was the days etc. SLF was also my 1st band eva 1981..had to drive to Inverness..and then Edinburgh again the same week..i had a very liberal Mum..also saw Siouxsie and the Banshees in Inverness..JuJu Tour..Then went to live with conservative Dad in Sydney same year..New Order and the Clash..and then in 1983 I befriended the The Dead Kennedys and did the whole Sydney Tour..so saw them about 5 times..
meggersdog Posted June 9, 2012 Posted June 9, 2012 Siouxsie and the banshees were the first band I went to see which was probably the same JuJu tour as it was in 1981.Same year I saw The Damned with the Anti-Nowhere league as support.I bought the "streets of London" single that weekend in Andie's records for the very shortly afterwards banned b.side (so what).Again in '81 I saw SLF.Great days,home pierced noses bringing tears to your eyes (literally) and leaving your jeans in a bucket of bleach for too long so they fell to bits when you washed them.
Cavcraft Posted June 9, 2012 Posted June 9, 2012 Must have been late 1980 or 1981 when I saw SLF. I think it was at The Gallery in Manchester, wherever it was though they were stunning live. My biggest regret was not going to see Slaughter & The Dogs (Wythenshawe/Manchester band) as I loved all their stuff and had everything they did on vinyl inc. some mega rare stuff. The Anti-Nowhere-League only seemed to be famous for 'The Streets of London' and weren't the best live band I saw but was worth going anyhow. Seem to recall watching them at an old cinema in Ashton-under-Lyne where we'd seen The Exploited, The Buzzcocks and someone else. The night we saw The Exploited still sticks firmly in my mind, the whole thing was surreal and the concert was only a part of it. Coming out afterwards and getting what we thought was a genuine taxi to take us back to Chorlton Street was a scare. the driver was completely and utterly off his face on something and admitted he wasn't a taxi at all, he just put a big aerial on his car and waited for people to flag him down. He though we wanted to go to Chorlton in Manchester and we were driving through some very 'different' places and were getting ready to bale at the lights. Eventually he twigged what we kept telling him and took us back to where we wanted to go and wasn't even that bothered about the money. We'd have never baled at any lights anyhow as he just kept creeping forward blocking off oncoming traffic and what not.When we got to Chorlton street we got back in the car and decided to drive round Piccadilly for a while about 11.00 at night. To describe that as an eye opener would be a massive understatement.
trigger Posted June 9, 2012 Posted June 9, 2012 I watched that myself last night, I've never seen The Damned on tele before, that drummer seems a excitable fellow smashing his drum kit up, I googled him and found this comment on line that made me laugh. Punk fact. I saw the Damned at Essex Uni back in the day. Rat Scabies had a clear kit with live rats inside. At the end of the gig he poured petrol lighter fluid on the kit and torched it! The rats had already been beaten into submission. Fuckin ace! Afterwards was a documentary about Poly Styrene, I've never heard of her before but she's came across as a bit thick and she couldn't sing for shit but there was plenty of old car action, but best of all was the "Synth Britannia" program, now that rocked with Heaven 17, Eurythmics, Tears for Fears and Yahoo, Excellent stuff!
Cavcraft Posted June 9, 2012 Posted June 9, 2012 Wasn't Poly Styrene that erm 'hefty-ish' bint who sang in X-ray Specs? Identity, it's a crisis can't you see?
Gaz_Volga Posted June 9, 2012 Posted June 9, 2012 Wasn't Poly Styrene that erm 'hefty-ish' bint who sang in X-ray Specs? Identity, it's a crisis can't you see? I loved Poly Styrene, a total legend!
pompei Posted June 9, 2012 Posted June 9, 2012 Oh bondage, up yours! Germ Free Adolescence was my fave. I read an interview with her shortly before she died last year. I think she was a troubled soul.
gtd2000 Posted June 9, 2012 Posted June 9, 2012 Oh bondage, up yours! Germ Free Adolescence was my fave. I read an interview with her shortly before she died last year. I think she was a troubled soul. I remember my mate Foxy buying that single in Woolies in Galashiels!
Guest Posted June 9, 2012 Posted June 9, 2012 I wasn't born. However, I was old enough for the tidier post hardcore Washington DC stuff that came later off the back of punk.
fotorabia Posted June 9, 2012 Posted June 9, 2012 I loved Polly Styrene..i thought she was gorgeous..her last album is ace...i saw the Banshees in Sydney 82/83..Nocturne with Robert Smith..[they opened with Stravinsky's The Rites of Spring.still send s a shudder down my spine]...i managed to stick my leg thru his van window so he could autograph my jeans..i also saw Killing Joke in 84..i was literally deaf afterwards
gtd2000 Posted June 9, 2012 Posted June 9, 2012 I've not seen that many Punk bands but have seen The Exploited, GBH and Iggy Pop. After reading this thread, I had to burn a Sex Pistols and The Exploited compilation CD for the car
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