What are you listening to, right now................
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Anyone remember Feargal Sharkey?
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A lot of people do not realize this was him ,years earlier , was a punk anthem
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@Snowy said in What are you listening to, right now................:
RIP Mr Greenfield. The lyrics and song are great, the vid isn't.
Saw the stranglers maybe 10 years ago , not quite the same , different singer , and heaps older
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@kiwiinmelb Yeah I mentioned the "new" singer earlier and they really have been around for ever. Eclectic bunch over the years. One of them was a classical guitarist that played with symphony orchestras, a couple of jazz guys and they end up in a punk band that was originally the Guildford Stranglers, but none of the are from Guildford.
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@kiwiinmelb said in What are you listening to, right now................:
A lot of people do not realize this was him ,years earlier , was a punk anthem
Punk anthem?
Just a great song, full stop. First (only?) song that John Peel played twice in a row when he first heard it.
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Back to the Stranglers though and they used to have a reputation of being complete tossers to deal with. I only learned recently that the whole thing was a deliberate ploy by their manager as he wanted to ride the coat tails of the punk movement and the best way to sell what was a rough but avant garde band at the time was to dress them in black and lump them in with the image of being obnoxious anti-establishment types.
Guildford's finest band. Guildford's only band really.
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@kiwiinmelb said in What are you listening to, right now................:
A lot of people do not realize this was him ,years earlier , was a punk anthem
Punk anthem?
Just a great song, full stop. First (only?) song that John Peel played twice in a row when he first heard it.
It is a great song ,
but it was one of the massively popular songs in the punk crowd around that 78 period,saw it first hand , I was 16 and going to the parties
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@kiwiinmelb said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@kiwiinmelb said in What are you listening to, right now................:
A lot of people do not realize this was him ,years earlier , was a punk anthem
Punk anthem?
Just a great song, full stop. First (only?) song that John Peel played twice in a row when he first heard it.
It is a great song ,
but it was one of the massively popular songs in the punk crowd around that 78 period,saw it first hand , I was 16 and going to the parties
Punk had already finished by 78
But yes, the kids and movement it inspired we’re going strong for a while still and this was part of the soundtrack.
Actually a good example of what punk changed. A couple of years before and bands like this didn’t even get noticed -
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@kiwiinmelb said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@kiwiinmelb said in What are you listening to, right now................:
A lot of people do not realize this was him ,years earlier , was a punk anthem
Punk anthem?
Just a great song, full stop. First (only?) song that John Peel played twice in a row when he first heard it.
It is a great song ,
but it was one of the massively popular songs in the punk crowd around that 78 period,saw it first hand , I was 16 and going to the parties
Punk had already finished by 78
But yes, the kids and movement it inspired we’re going strong for a while still and this was part of the soundtrack.
Actually a good example of what punk changed. A couple of years before and bands like this didn’t even get noticedYeah , I think It did take off a little late in Nz though , as far as a wider crowd getting involved , compared to the uk ,
Wasn’t much happening in 76 like england , but by 78 there were heaps wanting to be a part of it,
So I guess In hindsight I am talking about how popular is was in Nz Or Auckland around that time With that crowd
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Hell yeah! 78 and 79 were Auckland punk years. Scavengers, Reptiles, Proud Scum, Toy Love....
I was a bit younger than you but from about 80 on was sneaking into places like Reverb Room, Rumba Bar and Mainstreet.
Strangest gig I look back on was Toy Love playing on what must have been a summer tour at the already closed down Marineland at Orewa. I’m guessing the summer of 79/80. Climbed the fence with some mates and stolen beer. -
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Hell yeah! 78 and 79 were Auckland punk years. Scavengers, Reptiles, Proud Scum, Toy Love....
I was a bit younger than you but from about 80 on was sneaking into places like Reverb Room, Rumba Bar and Mainstreet.
Strangest gig I look back on was Toy Love playing on what must have been a summer tour at the already closed down Marineland at Orewa. I’m guessing the summer of 79/80. Climbed the fence with some mates and stolen beer.Hahah I remember all those bands , then a few ska bands emerged , and the skin heads
The Windsor Castle was another good venue,
In that late 70s period in NZ ,
it seemed like there were only two music scenes , punk or disco ,and they were polar opposites , and you had to pick onefunny looking back
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@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial I was 3 you old fluffybunny
Well you missed out on an awesome period of change in music and youth culture and got a flannel shirt instead.
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@kiwiinmelb said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Hell yeah! 78 and 79 were Auckland punk years. Scavengers, Reptiles, Proud Scum, Toy Love....
I was a bit younger than you but from about 80 on was sneaking into places like Reverb Room, Rumba Bar and Mainstreet.
Strangest gig I look back on was Toy Love playing on what must have been a summer tour at the already closed down Marineland at Orewa. I’m guessing the summer of 79/80. Climbed the fence with some mates and stolen beer.Hahah I remember all those bands , then a few ska bands emerged , and the skin heads
The Windsor Castle was another good venue,
In that late 70s period in NZ ,
it seemed like there were only two music scenes , punk or disco ,and they were polar opposites , and you had to pick onefunny looking back
Don't forget reggae. It was punk or disco for the pakehas, tea cosies for the brown fellas.
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@R-L You know your (sorry, you're) audience don't you.
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@Snowy said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Guildford's finest band. Guildford's only band really.
Except that none of them are from Guildford, so Guildford is tragically bandless.
Which is really surprising as it is such an inspirational place.
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@R-L now if you had put this in the HAWT thread it would have won Post of the Year hands down