This week its : Start, Going underground, Eton Rifles, Down in the tube station In the City, Butterfly collector, That's Entertainment, Town called Malice, English Rose, Funeral Pyre
30 albums in 25 years, plus 39 films in 20 years during the same period. They really got their money's worth from her, didn't they?
Butterfly Collector, To be Someone, Saturday Kids, Down In The Tube Station, Strange Town, Private Hell, That's Entertainment, Town Called Malice, Bitterest Pill, Going Underground...and When You're Young. Yes, that's 11 but I can't pick which one to drop out.....okay, maybe To Be Someone
London really was the place to be in the seventies so many small venues to watch some great punk bands .great memories
When I went to see TV Smith last week, he opened the show by saying... "Back in 1976/77 we thought that we had big problems. It turns out that it was a golden age." He wasn't wrong. London was exploding with music during my teenage years. It was everywhere and it was affordable (like football was). I wouldn't swap my youth for that of my kids.
Personally I think my kids missed out on so much music and most of the the venues will never be as good as back then but maybe now I'm nearly 60 they think I'm an old git and don't appreciate the so called music around now .I'm watching rod and the faces in concert at the moment some good ol tunes
One venue I remember was the Three Rabbits in Stratford , Eddie and the Hotrods tore the roof off that night , Half Moon in Putney Ian Dury, Tally Ho, Jam, Feelgoods, Nick Lowe ,101ers , Stranglers ,Richard Hell , Nash the Slash . You had to keep moving or your feet would stick to the floor Used to go to the Tally Ho a lot as my girlfriend/ Wife lived very near by in the smallest one bed flat known to man
The Half Moon was great...and The Greyhound in Croydon, I saw my first gig there - The Ramones and Talking Heads.
