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Cheers T-X, might go along and check them out.

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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No Rat Scabies is a shame but at least there's no risk he'll set himself on fire.
 
During my time in the UK I think I saw every original member (Vanian, Sensible, Scabies and Brian James) play in a version of The Damned at one time or another, but just never all at the same time!
 

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terminator_x wrote:
Are you going to be there?? You lucky bastard.
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Have you checked out the new live album? It's very good, well worth getting.

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I was tentaively booked in for a Uni reunion...so now i am having a moral dilemma. Sadly, none of the guys I kicked around with at Uni would appreciate F. K. Stubbs and co. , so can't combine the two.
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They are playing some other gigs around the UK at the same time. Gotta be done, surely!!
 

 

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I think I have two choices:

1. Dip out of Liverpool reunion and do London on 10th
2. Manchester on 9th and reunion on 10th

If Family Hotspur weren't with me I'd be tempted to do all 4 nights!HarryHotspur2011-10-20 17:10:50
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I'm jealous!

How long are you in the UK for? There's bound to be some other good stuff on, especially if you're in London at all.

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6 weeks.

Voodoo Glow Skulls are in London on Dec 13th, which is highly probable on my list too.

HarryHotspur2011-10-20 21:32:25
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Who do voodoo, we do, f**k you!

Mate, I am totally living vicariously through you at the moment. I had a look at what's on, what a great time to be in London!

Stargreen Box Office - December

Dec 1 Superchunk
Dec 2/3 Grant Hart
Dec 3 Agent Orange
Dec 3 Cathedral
Dec 3 King Kurt
Dec 9 Eddie & The Hot Rods + The Members
Dec 9 The Vibrators
Dec 10 Klub Foot - Guana Batz
Dec 10 GBH
Dec 10 Big D and the Kids Table
Dec 11 The Rezillos
Dec 13 Gallows
Dec 13 Hot Snakes (John Reis - Rocket From The Crypt)
Dec 16 The Business
Dec 16 Napalm Death
Dec 17 UK Subs
Dec 17 Voodoo Glow Skulls
Dec 18 Subhumans

Drooooool.

You could also throw in Thurston Moore, Machine Head, De La Soul, Jeru the Damaja and Geno Washington if that's your thing.

F*ck me. That's almost worth flying over for a few weeks!!

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The only one I'd give a miss out of that list is Grant Hart. 

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Well, I am probably going to have to make Dec 16 & 17 a double header.

I've never seen ND live, and while they have long since dropped the incredible hardcore of their first two LPs, I can go a bit of quality metal every now and again. Now, how the hell do i tell family Hotspur?
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Yeah, families can be a f**king drag. They give you love and meaning and purpose and sh*t but apart from that, what are they good for?
 
Anyway, just fantasising for a minute, if I had no other commitments and a spare $5k in my pocket (and adding in a few other options I missed the first time through the list) I'd fly to London for three weeks and catch the following... 

Dec 1 Superchunk
Dec 2 Thurston Moore
Dec 2 Alabama 3 + Ruts DC in Dub
Dec 3 Grant Hart
Dec 3 Agent Orange
Dec 3 Cathedral
Dec 3 King Kurt
Dec 3 Machine Head
Dec 4 De La Soul
Dec 5 Hard-Fi
Dec 6 Arch Enemy
Dec 7 Leatherface (Bristol)
Dec 8 Leatherface (Exeter)
Dec 9 Leatherface (Manchester)
Dec 9 Eddie & The Hot Rods + The Members
Dec 9 The Vibrators
Dec 10 Leatherface (Kingston upon Thames)
Dec 10 Klub Foot - Guana Batz
Dec 10 GBH
Dec 10 Big D and the Kids Table
Dec 11 Front 242
Dec 11 The Rezillos
Dec 11 Archers of Loaf
Dec 12 The Lemonheads
Dec 13 Gallows
Dec 13 Hot Snakes (John Reis - Rocket From The Crypt)
Dec 14 Jeru the Damaja
Dec 15 Title Fight
Dec 16 The Business
Dec 16 Napalm Death
Dec 16 New Model Army
Dec 17 UK Subs
Dec 17 Voodoo Glow Skulls
Dec 17 Mariachi El Bronx
Dec 18 Subhumans
Dec 18 The Black Lips

 
So that would be 18 gigs in 18 days. Outstanding. Some pretty tough choices in there though.
 
If Ruts DC finish early enough on Dec 2 might shoot away and see Thurston Moore.
 
Dec 3 is a clusterf**k, can see me changing my mind about that several times.
 
Dec 9 is tough also. Could skip the Leatherface gig if seeing them 3 other times anyway (they are the only band I'm letting myself travel outside London for and see more than once). The Vibrators are great but can't resist the 2 for 1 special that is Eddie and the HR's plus The Members.
 
Dec 10 is another clusterf**k but if Leatherface were only down the road there's no way I'd miss it.
 
Shame to miss Gallows on Dec 13 but wouldn't want to miss Speedo fronting Hot Snakes.
 
Dec 16 and 17, more tough choices.
 
Can someone remind me why I live in New Zealand again?

 
terminator_x2011-10-21 13:51:02

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THE WIND & RAIN & PHOENIX
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Less choices.
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Leatherface Tues 6 December booked: Derby.

Kingston Upon Thames is offically the most innaccessible London Suburb, as it requires taking the M25 towards Heathrow before cutting in. I reckon it will take me 30mins less going North from Bedford to Derby, despite it being probably 50km longer.

For Leatherface, I'd do anything.

Now to break the news to the family about Napalam Death and Voodoo Glow Skulls...HarryHotspur2011-10-27 20:04:09
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Nicely done.

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Considering seeing the Business at Bodega after Friday's game even though I don't really know any of their material.
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It will be loud and shouty.
 
What else do you need to know?
 

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So it'll be just like the game.  Hmmmmm.   Sounds good.

 
  A mate gave me a couple of their CD's...just have to find time to listen to them.
 
 
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Good to see the Klub Foot back in business and the Guana Batz too. Ok it won't be the same as the old Clarendon but good to see nevertheless.

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Not exactly Punk, but The Bats play at the Kings Arms Tavern on Sat
Could be a good kick on after the Nix game 
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Yep
Flying Nun Tribute Night Friday......The Bats Saturday
Tempting but
Can`t do the '24 hour Party People' anymore
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UK Kiwi wrote:
Can`t do the '24 hour Party People' anymore
 
 
Some advice from the great Frank Gallagher - " I'll have a couple of vowels with that!"
 
 

We're the WELLINGTON Phoenix

And this is our Home

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Might look at seeing The Clean as much as I like the Bats who I have seen a couple of times, I've never seen The Clean.
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Whats your opinion on the new Blink 182 album

and even less punky the new Angels & Airwaves album?
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Check out this largely unheralded Kiwi punk band from the early eighties, Nee Bulcraig. Their bastardisation/dubification of Anti Pasti's No Government with its' No David Lange' mantra is either a work of genius or utter tripe. I can't decide which one.
 
TheJam2011-11-25 10:29:40
Nix, Leyton Orient and Alloa Athletic supporting schmuck.

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Tripe  
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TheJam wrote:
Check out this largely unheralded Kiwi punk band from the early eighties, Nee Bulcraig. Their bastardisation/dubification of Anti Pasti's No Government with its' No David Lange' mantra is either a work of genius or utter tripe. I can't decide which one.
 
 
 haha fr*ggin awful

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Hard News wrote:
THis should be amusing.
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So Term.� Blink 182?


Well, for starters I have no idea why they would get mentioned in a punk thread.

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Yeah, if you are going to start on about Blink 182 in this thread I might bring up Val Doonican. He's as punk as they are, cable-patterned jumpers and all.
Nix, Leyton Orient and Alloa Athletic supporting schmuck.

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Well written review of the new Sticky Filth album here:

http://manualmagazine.com/2011/11/29/music-haze-sticky-filth%E2%80%94fourth-domain/

They were the first band I ever saw play in a bar way back in the late 80's.Product2011-12-01 12:56:08
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terminator_x wrote:
Hard News wrote:
THis should be amusing.
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So Term.� Blink 182?


Well, for starters I have no idea why they would get mentioned in a punk thread.

I like Blink 182, well I liked them ~10 years ago and not as much of there stuff since. I would say they were very much a punk band, and gradually became less so
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Bullion wrote:
terminator_x wrote:
Hard News wrote:
THis should be amusing.
 

So Term.  Blink 182?


Well, for starters I have no idea why they would get mentioned in a punk thread.

I like Blink 182, well I liked them ~10 years ago and not as much of there stuff since. I would say they were very much a punk band, and gradually became less so
 
 
As you know "punk" tends to mean different things to different people and there are sub genres which other more informed posters here would tell you more about than me. theJam, Terminator-x, HarryH, etc... 
 
I class punk bands as the pistols, buzzcocks, damned, clash, UK Subs, DK's , ruts, slaughter and the dogs, stiff little fingers, ramones, discharge, GBH, exploited, just for starters...(not a full list by a long long shot and not from one era just names that sprang to my mind and I'm sorry for those great bands I missed).
 
cramps - nah too trashy I love them. not quite pschobilly either. trash band who helped create the Psycho feel with the Tall Boys and the like.  
 
Adolescents, DOA, circle jerks, mdc, black flag etc, - I would class as Hardcore
Others might disagree.
 
PsychoBilly - Meteors, Guana Batz, Demented Are Go, Coffin Nails, this area is probably what I know about.
 
Oi - Don't get me started, 4 skins etc. "punks idiot brother" - although the movement was misunderstood, beacuse they had the Angelic Upstarts
 
Punk/New Age/Convoy/StoneHenge brew crew, Crass, Conflict, Subhumanz, Cit Fish, Here and Now, (maybe). Rainbow Pete, Nick Turner, etc...
 
 
 
I would not class Bands like Green Day as a punk band ever nor would I Blink 182. They are both pop bands. Not saying they are bad bands, but punk they ain't
 
It's just what I consider punk. 

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The line is certainly very blurred nowadays. When I first got into punk (circa 1979) it had started to mutate into punk on one side (Slaughter ATD, 999, Pistols, Clash, SLF etc) and New Wave on the other (Costello, The Vapors, Devo etc). In fact, quite a few of the New Wave bands were punk bands that went off on a different tack, The Jam being probably the most notable example.
Then along came the Oi thing, and some of the punk bands got lumped into that (Sham 69, Upstarts) and then Post-Punk and the same thing, punk bands becoming post-punk (Wire, kind of PiL by association).
In a nutshell the lines were blurred very early on and it has just got messier since. It's all about opinion, which makes my earlier statement regarding Blink 182 a bit redundant.
For instance, in my opinion the straight-edge movement has very little to do with punk. Punk is about thinking for yourself and not following a doctrine, whereas straight-edge seems to do exactly that. In my book, that's not punk at all.
But who's to say I'm right?
Nix, Leyton Orient and Alloa Athletic supporting schmuck.

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I recall seeing green day as spotty 18yr olds and they were punk ass fcuk! Inflammatory...? Certainly weren't pop as I was one of about 50 in attendance! Although it was in hull...HarryHotspur2011-12-02 11:02:36
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The original straight-edgers absolutely believed that they were reacting against a doctrine though. That was the whole point - they didn't want to be associated with the typical american middle-class, high-school jock, getting drunk, smoking weed and listening to Van Halen. So they said "we're different, and this is how". Of course, like anything worthwhile it didn't take long for it to become misinterpreted and indoctrinated itself. I would still classify Minor Threat as one of the great punk (hardcore?) bands of all time though and I don't think Ian MacKaye has ever had a non-punk thought in his life. In fact, the whole Fugazi/Dischord thing would be close to representing punk at its best for me - intelligent people doing things on their own terms, with very few concessions to the mainstream or cultural conformity, but without sloganeering.
 
Anyway, all this proves is that Punk is an enigma, a mysterious mistress, you just know it when you see it. The thing I love about it is all the weird places it will take you, even back in time (listen to the Nuggets compilations and you will hear a lot of punk).
 
Blink 182 are a pop band for my tastes, however. Their sound is too polished and their lyrical content is banal. They are the kind of party band that straight edge was reacting against.
 
Green Day are interesting. Like Harry I was lucky enough to catch them relatively early in their career and they were just a bunch of scruffy little street urchins, very DIY in their approach and a pop/punk sound. Of course the rest is history and I wouldn't call them anything other than a mainstream rock band now, but I think they still deserve credit for American Idiot which was a great record and, lyrically at least, still pretty punk to my ears.
 

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I agree with what you say about straight edge TermX, and, like anything, it's original meaning gets diluted with the passing of time and misinterpretation of original intent. And by trendy bandwaggon jumpers too, who maybe like the look but don't get the message.
I've based my view I guess on the hardcore scene here, in which these basketball singlet/dickies shorts wearing clones get together at gigs to show off their tats and discuss what they haven't eaten this week. Like any movement, there's good and bad within it, and I've met some good straight-edge guys, it just seems that within it all the original notion of punk has been heavily eroded.
As for Nuggets, I have the box set and couldn't agree more, punk existed long before Steve Jones and Johnny Rotten swore at Bill Grundy. And in many forms too; the Last Poets were as punk as it comes in my book.
 
Nix, Leyton Orient and Alloa Athletic supporting schmuck.

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Straight edge I thought didn't come as a back lash to jocks and their drinking, drugs etc., rather the self destructive bent of a lot of punks of that time (and still). The 'X' on the hand was so that at all age shows kids had an x on their hand so they wouldn't be served alcohol, this was adopted by what became the straight edge movement.

And I don't think you can generalise punk too much dependent on lyrical content, you could then just about not include bands like NOFX and Teenage Bottlerocket and again on the polished sound, it is so easy now days to do it yourself and it sounds polished.

I don't know what you know of Blink 182, but I still they were very much a punk band and like a lot of other punk bands, changed their sound to a more mainstream sound once gaining commercial success
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