I used to go to Wyke Youth Club when I lived on Fairfax Ave, and attended the school (77-80) before Grammar.
Punk was still going strong in 1981, infact it was more working class by then as the art school pretenders and middle class('look at me i'm so outrageous') posers had moved on to the next fad. I remember christmas 1981 there was a big Punk alldayer at Queens Hall, Leeds in which the Exploited and The Damned were the headliners. I was on one of 5 coaches that travelled up from London.
Futurama 2 in Leeds in 1980 was better(in the old bus station) - U2 Echo & The Bunnymen Soft Cell Siouxsie & The Banshees The Psychedelic Furs Modern English Gary Glitter Altered Images The Durutti Column Classix Nouveaux Young Marble Giants The Soft Boys Clock DVA Naked Lunch Flowers Wasted Youth Y Blurt Blah Blah Blah Artery Vice Versa The League Of Gentlemen Vena Cava Desperate Bicycles Notsensibles Frantic Elevators The Mirror Boys Hazel O' Connor Music for Pleasure Athletico Spizz 80 I'm So Hollow Brian Brain The Distributors Boots for Dancing Tribesmen Megahype Eaten Alive By Insects Guy Jackson Acrobats of Desire Danse Crazy Boko Bobos Household Name Or Was He Pushed? and the 4be2's.
I used to go to Wyke Youth Club when I lived on Windsor Road. I left Kelvin in 86. My Aunty was a punk in late 70's early 80's and used to work in a punk shop in town down Saville St called Wild Cherry. She was my 'cool' Aunty and I always looked up to her.
Right on Ringo.If there is anything worse than a middle class poser!I suppose you were related to the Krays you diamond geezer
I live off Spring Bank.It is now the best it has been for years.Many of the shops had closed and too many people with "social"problems.Now a good mix.I would recomend the Kurdistan if you like lamb kebabs and clean premises.
Went to this all-dayer myself - I think it was called "Christmas on Earth" - and seem to remember it was very snowy outside and near to flooding inside! Off the top of my (now bald) head, some of the bands I remember were The Damned, UK Subs, GBH, Exploited, Anti-Nowhere League (they flogged "So What/Streets of London" to death over the PA all day), Charge, Chelsea, Lama (from Finland), Trockener Kecks (?) (from Holland, I think), Anti Pasti, Vice Squad (I would imagine) and a rare UK appearance by Black Flag who went down like a lead balloon because they didn't conform to the leather jacket/spiky haired stereotype (I seem to recall Hawaiian shirts and long hair). Happy days!
Thats the one i was referring too King Tubby, remember the snow steadily getting worse the further North the coach went and wondering whether we would make it to the gig. Somewhere at home i have the t-shirt of that gig, if i ever find it it will make a great photo with me holding it up to myself in a sort of Weight-Watchers type photo in reverse
I ran/organised a double decker corperation bus from Hull to that at Queens Hall ,bout 70 of us on it, it nearly never turned up after the gig to pick us all up becuase the roads were snowed under !
please log in to view this image Sorry, the Glenda Jackson thread was closed! She'd have got it back in the day.
Between 77 and 81 I must have seen every group going most of whom with hindsight were utter ****e. You name them I saw them. Did Futurama 79 with JD, Pil, Punilux, PragVec and the rest. At the Wellington Club, Block, University, Tech etc in Hull saw everyone from ACR to the Z men. First night at welly was kleenex, spizz and the raincoats. Mensi, Slaughter, Charlie Harper, Pink Military Stand Alone, The Fall followed. Much of a muchness after a while. Very very few stand the test of time. Almost none (at the time) would have wanted to be feted 30 years later in some hagiographic haze of musical halcyon. I didn't ask them but I took them at their word in keeping with the spirit of the times.
You wouldn't have said no..... Her lad is Dan Hodge - a DT columnist, Labourite and now a talking head on Newsnight although understandably not broadcasting the family connection.
