Who else was a punk???
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Corin Denton said:
My dad has just emailed an old photo that he claimed at the time never came out - I can see why!
Cue me as a charming teenager approaching 20 years ago complete with 14 hole Doc Martins, bleached jeans, red braces, flight jacket etc..
Oh my god!
awesome.... Yup, 'fraid I was there too.
Complete with DIY mohican (sp?), tartan trousers and my favourite - a navy and white buzby jumper.
The other day was funny. My son has just bought Tony Hawks Underground 2 for the Xbox and me and him were taking turns trying to out-score each other. Anyway, a track comes on the game and immediately I was transported back to old school discos. I started singing along, desperately trying to remember what it was. Then it came to me - Sonic Reducer by The Dead Boys. Love that song....
My son was looking at me with an expression that said "How the hell did you know that song?"
was?!, although only a whipper-snapper (25) I think I still am!!. Having an older brother certainly helped in these situations. He would give me a copy of a Ramones album or something similar when I was twelve and say "play this". I did as i was told and the future took a dramatic turn for the better!
Still listen to loads of the classic stuff like The Clash, The Buzzcocks et al but also the newer stuff from the West Coast like Rancid and The Business who seem to have fused the late 70s punk with the early 80s two tone sound.
Current favourites in the cd player are Catch 22 and Streetlight Manifesto whom I would recommend to anyone who listened to the Clash etc.
Still listen to loads of the classic stuff like The Clash, The Buzzcocks et al but also the newer stuff from the West Coast like Rancid and The Business who seem to have fused the late 70s punk with the early 80s two tone sound.
Current favourites in the cd player are Catch 22 and Streetlight Manifesto whom I would recommend to anyone who listened to the Clash etc.
Unfortunately too young to have got in on the scene at the time. However you'll still find the likes of:
Dead Kennedys
Flux of Pink Indians
Slaughter and The Dogs
Newtown Neurotics
Subhumans
Zounds
Crass
Sex Pistols
et al
in my CD collection.
(I have also owned a pair of tartan bondage trousers before, which I wore to a Billy Bragg gig and was accused by the great man of wearing a skirt
)
Dead Kennedys
Flux of Pink Indians
Slaughter and The Dogs
Newtown Neurotics
Subhumans
Zounds
Crass
Sex Pistols
et al
in my CD collection.
(I have also owned a pair of tartan bondage trousers before, which I wore to a Billy Bragg gig and was accused by the great man of wearing a skirt
) Yep, at the age of 15 it was the 100 Club seeing Discharge, the Vice Squad, Anti-Pasti, Chelsea and tonnes of others. At the weekend it was down the anarchist centres in Wapping and Westbourne Park to see the Mob, Flux of Pink Indians, Subhumans and loads of others.
At the age of 12 my first gig was X-Ray Spex, followed by Siouxsie and the Banshees and Ultravox in 1978.
Lost track how many gigs I ever went to from Killing Joke to the Subs, Stranglers, Stiff Little Fingers, Damned, Theatre of Hate, Anti-Nowhere League etc.
Fun times before I discovered drugs and techno.
At the age of 12 my first gig was X-Ray Spex, followed by Siouxsie and the Banshees and Ultravox in 1978.
Lost track how many gigs I ever went to from Killing Joke to the Subs, Stranglers, Stiff Little Fingers, Damned, Theatre of Hate, Anti-Nowhere League etc.
Fun times before I discovered drugs and techno.
I was always getting into trouble at school for customising my uniform. One day the deputy head mistress had a fit and took all my jewellery and everything bar my skirt and blouse. Bloody weirdo - that was her not me. I was really into Toyah and Blondie. My trademark was severely back-combed hair 
Strangely I am playing some Pete Shelley now.....
Most of the "raw" punk passed me by. I always preferred those bands who got caught up in the start of punk, bands like Ultravox,Simple Minds,early Dead or Alive etc.
too much spitting n scrapping at punk places, I was more in the new romatic pretty boy thing!
Most of the "raw" punk passed me by. I always preferred those bands who got caught up in the start of punk, bands like Ultravox,Simple Minds,early Dead or Alive etc.
too much spitting n scrapping at punk places, I was more in the new romatic pretty boy thing!
Yep, me too, but then I morphed into Gary Numan and my folks wouldnt be seen dead with me.
I remember once we were going out as a family and I was wearing very tight black velvet drainpipe jeans, black boots with cuban heels and pointy toes, black roll neck jumper, black leather jacket, white rubber gloves, pale slightly powdered face and some grey eyeshadow. I had some weird Monkees/Beatles hybrid hair style.
I cant understand why they refused to go anywhere until I got changed
I remember once we were going out as a family and I was wearing very tight black velvet drainpipe jeans, black boots with cuban heels and pointy toes, black roll neck jumper, black leather jacket, white rubber gloves, pale slightly powdered face and some grey eyeshadow. I had some weird Monkees/Beatles hybrid hair style.
I cant understand why they refused to go anywhere until I got changed
Balmoral Green said:
Yep, me too, but then I morphed into Gary Numan and my folks wouldnt be seen dead with me.
I remember once we were going out as a family and I was wearing very tight black velvet drainpipe jeans, black boots with cuban heels and pointy toes, black roll neck jumper, black leather jacket, white rubber gloves, pale slightly powdered face and some grey eyeshadow. I had some weird Monkees/Beatles hybrid hair style.
I cant understand why they refused to go anywhere until I got changed
Right thats it..."Replicas" hits the turntable next.
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