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Ol' Wacko did end up working with Eddie van Halen for real, of course.

 

Dedicated to the Spurs transfer window.

 

I have just come off of my night shifts, and when I am on nights I am lucky enough to be able to play my music all night. I do try to play a varied mixture from my extensive collection and tend to stick the 'poppier' end of my taste. Sometimes I play very odd stuff to elicit a reaction normally something like 'what is this ****'

This week for something different I decided to revisit my trips to the' Bridge Country Club' a genuine cattle market style nightclub that I frequented in the 80s,where the beer was so watered down you could have 10 pints and get up stone cold sober for work after a couple of hours sleep.

Not my favourite genre but here's a taste

 

And some of the stuff that they used to play that I didn't mind

 

Ah, the days of indie nightclubs and this stuff...

 

Thirty years ago today...

 

Back home too late this morning and too disappointed to post about the Royal Albert Hall Buzzcocks gig.

Unfortunately, it wasn't the great night that I'd hoped for. Penetration and The Skids were great. Regrettably, that was it. Most of the guest vocalists didn't work and Buzzcocks without Pete Shelley, were unrecognisable musically as the same band. They seemed to have decided to play more like a thrash band with 2 drummers and losing pretty much all of the poppy elements that made them so appealing.

Dave Vanian pulled off the best number of the night (and it ain't near perfect)...

apart from that, it just didn't work...and Paul Morley can go **** himself with something that has lots of sharp edges....multiple times.

Addendum: We were approached by The Skids photographer before the show to have our pics taken, so fame (of a sort) may yet be coming my way................

 

Also, there is regrettably no report from the Nick Lowe gig on Friday.

I moved my tickets on to a mate in exchange for his tickets to see the B52's final London performance a week on Sunday. Also, a fair bit of money changed hands......not in my direction.

Don't tell Mrs B.....please?

 

A review from Friday night confirming my thoughts...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/c...-albert-hall-review-under-rehearsed-tuneless/

Apparently, Steve Diggle's going to keep the band going. The choice of vocalist is key to that. I hope he gets it right.

 

Get your credit cards out...

 

Such a great album but god do I feel old now... Had that blasting out in the car last week. Think I prefer it to Angel Dust nowadays. Crying out for a remaster though. The production is pretty tinny. Zombie Eaters would be so much better with some tweaks to the production.

 

Excellent Damned gig last night. **** it was hot!

First up, a minor moan...they played all of MGE, except Liar. As discussed previously, it's the weakest track on the album but...if you're gonna play the album in order, play it warts and all!

No Eloise, which is fine. 13th Floor Vendetta and Twisted Nerve both of which Mrs B can't stand. However, searing versions of Street of Dreams, Looking at You, Nasty and an insanely good version of the final song of the night, White Rabbit.

Concorde is a good venue in a great spot and the sound was spot on...shame about the pillars up one side of it. Shelf aficianados will relate to the inconvenience of having a bloody great steel girder get in your view regularly, so it brought back a few memories..

Hopefully, some Youtube footage to follow...

 

For our resident punks:

Yep, that's a Skrewdriver cover...

 

And just to upset some people:

 

Skrewdriver are a bunch of ****ing racists. Their very early work didn't portray this but by the time Oi! appeared, they were outspokenly pro-NF and ****ing despicable.

Not punk.

 

Strictly speaking Skrewdriver aren't anything any more, as their singer and founder is dead.
Mark Radcliffe (of Mark and Lard) was once their drummer, rather bizarrely.
Quite funny to see them being covered in a way that would make them furious, though.

 

From '76 -'79, they were much the same as 100's of other punk acts, with little to indicate the change that came later. Radcliffe belonged to that earlier incarnation and isn't tainted by what came later.

The 2 main members are dead, but the band's loathsome back catalogue, 'legacy' and followers live on....."Do rock band ever really die?"

I've very little time for Oi! and most of the people that follow it and I come up against them on a fairly regular basis, more's the pity. They're not punk in my book.

 

Jesus Christ, when did Miley Cyrus become acceptable?!

 

Their record label was the precursor to one of the terrorist groups that Canada put on their list today.
Quite bizarre that this has become relevant again, really: