Punk and New Wave thread.

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Mike Joyce was in The Hoax (and Victim) before joining The Smiths (I knew I could get them into this thread!!!!)

lol. Only the blind can see in the dark. Cracking 4track EP.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

At the time I was living in Coventry so my Crass gigs were at Birmingham's Digbeth Civic Hall, deffo 2 times, maybe 3, along with Dirt, Conflict, Flux and Honey Bane.

Have you heard of a band local to Coventry The shapes? Leamington Spa's finest. I'll dig it out. Batman in the launderette and college girls were great tracks. Can't remember the other 2 on yet another good 4 track EP.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Go on then Methuselah, enlighten him. I have read pre pistols history but I'll let you mention it. Anyway this thread isn't for bit picking who is the oldest bestest most knowledgeable punk. Everyone who got involved, please feel feel to share your punk/New wave stuff.

His response was rather cryptic and I'm not really sure what I'm missing. All great musical turning points get co-opted by commercialism -- ALL of them. For me, punk was about the music described as such and nothing else. Already submitted I wasn't any kind of punk from an attitudinal nor lifestyle perspective -- I just liked the tunes.

And this coming from a guy who personally knows the guys on the forefront of the invention of straight edge and eventually the emo scene in DC the early/mid-80s. They were guys I knew; I was no adherent.

 

[BimboBob]

Have you heard of a band local to Coventry The shapes? Leamington Spa's finest. I'll dig it out. Batman in the launderette and college girls were great tracks. Can't remember the other 2 on yet another good 4 track EP.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Have you heard of a band local to Coventry The shapes? Leamington Spa's finest. I'll dig it out. Batman in the launderette and college girls were great tracks. Can't remember the other 2 on yet another good 4 track EP.

No, the main cov band was Criminal Class and a little later The Wild Boys

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

The Shapes 4.track EP.

A1 Wot's For Lunch Mum?
A2 College Girls
B1 Batman In The Launderette
B2 Chatterboks

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[idahoblues]

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Used to go to school with the lead singer and his mate....

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Nice one Bimbo. Were you into them at the time?

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Used to go to school with the lead singer and his mate....

Never heard of them before. That track sounds decent. Many bands lost their way. Just needed a vut of backing. I was briefly a drummer in a band. Vamana. We thought we were good. Never did a good though.

 

[BimboBob]

Nice one Bimbo. Were you into them at the time?

No mate, was only 12 or 13 at that time. I remember all the news and ho har, especially around the Jubilee, but for a lad brought up on The Carpenters, The King's Singers, The Beatles and ELO and also living in a sleepy Hampshire backwater at the time meant that it wasn't until a few years later that the full majesty that was the Punk Movement hit me.

 

[vicg47]

Saw the stranglers at Electic Circus, they were great live

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Anyone remember, and bare with me here.......was it Streets ahead or Factory records in Alty. Down opposite Paddy Crerands pub, the Park. All been redeveloped around Tescos now but used to hang around in there.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Another rare band were Crisis.

1:No Town Hall
2: Holocaust
3: PC1984

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

ATV another small band with a few good tracks

1: you bastard
2: How much longer

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Bringing back my youth this thread: )

Menace
1: GLC
2: I'm Civilised

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

No mate, was only 12 or 13 at that time. I remember all the news and ho har, especially around the Jubilee, but for a lad brought up on The Carpenters, The King's Singers, The Beatles and ELO and also living in a sleepy Hampshire backwater at the time meant that it wasn't until a few years later that the full majesty that was the Punk Movement hit me.

That was the problem of suburban punks who lived in the Sticks. All the big cities got the best gigs.

 

[PinkFinal]

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

This needs no introduction

 

[TravisBickle]

Loved most of the early punk stuff.

But these are still one of my favorite punk bands ever.