30 Year Anniversary of Punk!
Apr 2nd 2006, 6:11 pm
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Re: 30 Year Anniversary of Punk!
Originally Posted by BlightyBoy
I actually think that punk was a bit of a myth! Well at least the extent of its popularity and influence anyway. I grew up in the punk era and it didn't seem to have hit the Kent coast much. You saw the odd person with spiked hair but not that many. The Sex Pistols were banned on radio and tv so I and many others didn't get to hear them until a lot later. I remember seeing a documentary about pop music through the decades and it got to the punk era. They played Blondie and the Boomtown Rats! Not really punk now is it? I remember Ska being much more popular and kids dressing in two tone stuff, soul boys dressing in Lacoste and Pringle, neo-Mods, neo-skinheads but hardly any punks. I think it was more of an underground thing that got a lot of media attention. Maybe also it was more of a London thing and kind of got diluted when it reached the suburbs. However, you watch an American movie set in London today and they still think the youths are all dressed as punks!
Apr 2nd 2006, 7:18 pm
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Re: 30 Year Anniversary of Punk!
Did anyone else ever hear an old tale that Paul Weller and Sid Vicious came to blows in the dressing rooms while filming Top of the Pops and Weller gave Sid a good hiding. I've heard it a few times but never from reliable sources.
Apr 2nd 2006, 7:34 pm
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Re: 30 Year Anniversary of Punk!
Originally Posted by LuTziE
I have seen the damned about 5 times and the Stranglers the same.
Many supporting bands like GBH. Saw the Damned at the tower ballrooms with GBH supporting, think that was circa 1983.
I have never understood why the damned never get credited with anything punk. ts always the Sex pistols and Clash.
The Clash were more musical and political, The Sex Pistols more punk I guess, but the Damned have alwys been the best fun (at least with the captain).
Many supporting bands like GBH. Saw the Damned at the tower ballrooms with GBH supporting, think that was circa 1983.
I have never understood why the damned never get credited with anything punk. ts always the Sex pistols and Clash.
The Clash were more musical and political, The Sex Pistols more punk I guess, but the Damned have alwys been the best fun (at least with the captain).
New Rose is the name of the song.
Apr 2nd 2006, 7:48 pm
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Re: 30 Year Anniversary of Punk!
Originally Posted by BlightyBoy
I actually think that punk was a bit of a myth! Well at least the extent of its popularity and influence anyway. I grew up in the punk era and it didn't seem to have hit the Kent coast much. You saw the odd person with spiked hair but not that many. The Sex Pistols were banned on radio and tv so I and many others didn't get to hear them until a lot later. I remember seeing a documentary about pop music through the decades and it got to the punk era. They played Blondie and the Boomtown Rats! Not really punk now is it? I remember Ska being much more popular and kids dressing in two tone stuff, soul boys dressing in Lacoste and Pringle, neo-Mods, neo-skinheads but hardly any punks. I think it was more of an underground thing that got a lot of media attention. Maybe also it was more of a London thing and kind of got diluted when it reached the suburbs. However, you watch an American movie set in London today and they still think the youths are all dressed as punks!
Few clubs & pubs would let punks in due to their dress, drugs and propensity towards violence. Can't say I blame them if I had been a pub owner at the time, trendy wine bars were a much more viable business concern as opposed to catering to the punk rock crowd who were generally inner city broke kids.
The hardcore punk pub in Birmingham at the time was the Crown in B,ham city center. Due to the low income demographics we used to share the pub with what was the dregs of society at the time. The Crown's clientele was punks, skinheads, drug dealers, homosexuals and transsexuals, closet gay middle aged businessmen and rent boys. There were also working class people tapping into the punk movement with socialist worker party ideas and National Front recruiters tapping into the skinheads.
Quite an eclectic mix.
Apr 3rd 2006, 3:05 pm
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Re: 30 Year Anniversary of Punk!
Saw
The Clash
Sex Pistols
Ramones
Sham 69
Buzzcocks
The Damned
Stiff Little Fingers
Madness
The Specials
The Jam
Teardrop Explodes
Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls
The Ramones
The Vapors
The Police and The Cramps - same bill London Lyceum. Met Sting !!!
Nina Simone
Siouxsie and the Banshees
and many more. Lived in London so pretty much spoiled for seeing bands
The Clash
Sex Pistols
Ramones
Sham 69
Buzzcocks
The Damned
Stiff Little Fingers
Madness
The Specials
The Jam
Teardrop Explodes
Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls
The Ramones
The Vapors
The Police and The Cramps - same bill London Lyceum. Met Sting !!!
Nina Simone
Siouxsie and the Banshees
and many more. Lived in London so pretty much spoiled for seeing bands
Apr 4th 2006, 2:11 am
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Re: 30 Year Anniversary of Punk!
Originally Posted by Kate2112
Saw
The Clash
Sex Pistols
Ramones
Sham 69
Buzzcocks
The Damned
Stiff Little Fingers
Madness
The Specials
The Jam
Teardrop Explodes
Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls
The Ramones
The Vapors
The Police and The Cramps - same bill London Lyceum. Met Sting !!!
Nina Simone
Siouxsie and the Banshees
and many more. Lived in London so pretty much spoiled for seeing bands
The Clash
Sex Pistols
Ramones
Sham 69
Buzzcocks
The Damned
Stiff Little Fingers
Madness
The Specials
The Jam
Teardrop Explodes
Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls
The Ramones
The Vapors
The Police and The Cramps - same bill London Lyceum. Met Sting !!!
Nina Simone
Siouxsie and the Banshees
and many more. Lived in London so pretty much spoiled for seeing bands
)
Apr 4th 2006, 2:12 am
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Re: 30 Year Anniversary of Punk!
Originally Posted by Eskimo
your are offically the BE queen of punks - a title held by Lionheart before (not sure about Nina Simone though )
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Apr 4th 2006, 2:18 am
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Re: 30 Year Anniversary of Punk!
Originally Posted by lionheart
The teardrop explodes?!?!
The first gig I went to was a rubbish band called the heavy metal kids, I Must have been pretty young and i went with my brother who was so little that he could only see because a kind man carried him on his shoulders. The support act was a porn film.
Apr 4th 2006, 2:21 am
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Re: 30 Year Anniversary of Punk!
Originally Posted by Sallyanne
I could't remember their actual sound, they were later weren't they?
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Apr 4th 2006, 4:24 am
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Re: 30 Year Anniversary of Punk!
Originally Posted by Eskimo
your are offically the BE queen of punks - a title held by Lionheart before (not sure about Nina Simone though )
)
Apr 4th 2006, 4:26 am
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Re: 30 Year Anniversary of Punk!
Originally Posted by Bradford Lass
I demand a recount. just remember I sat through the Fall and the band that kicked the pigs head around that I cant remember the name of...
Angelic Upstarts.................. game over
Apr 4th 2006, 4:27 am
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Re: 30 Year Anniversary of Punk!
Okay, can somebody give a list of bands that were considered punk? Not obscure ones but the sort of band that made the top 20.
Apr 4th 2006, 4:28 am
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Re: 30 Year Anniversary of Punk!
Originally Posted by lionheart
Angelic Upstarts.................. game over
Apr 4th 2006, 4:29 am
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Re: 30 Year Anniversary of Punk!
Originally Posted by BlightyBoy
Okay, can somebody give a list of bands that were considered punk? Not obscure ones but the sort of band that made the top 20.
Apr 4th 2006, 4:32 am
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Re: 30 Year Anniversary of Punk!
Originally Posted by BlightyBoy
Okay, can somebody give a list of bands that were considered punk? Not obscure ones but the sort of band that made the top 20.