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Post by dorf on Feb 4, 2015 7:01:36 GMT
"Not sure, Jimmy Piercy's from Walton on Thames and my mate Dave Treganna was from New Malden, both suburbs in Chelsea/Wimbledon/QPR/Brentford ( ***** are we spoilt for choice in London or what?) areas. The West Ham thing..."real diamond working class geezers" attracted a lot of political punk bands but Sham 69 were cynical rather than political...when they were coherent at all." I didn't want to derail the questionnaire thread so started this one. I thought they were all West Ham. Was having West Ham and their lovely, welcoming fans  just a sort of image thing. It would make them seem tough and rough? |
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Post by 3in11 on Feb 4, 2015 20:30:05 GMT
Jimmy Piercy was a bit of a hard case but only in a Suburban context..he had been a quasi-Skinhead and hung around the Disco that Jonathan King used to run in Walton....says a bit if you ask me.
Dave, the Bass player, well, I knew him as 'Little Dave'....5ft 4in of elf-like Hippy who Jimmy heard doing Neil Young songs on his guitar when walking past his house one day.
Given Jimmy's home town and his lack of serious injuries I'd say he was Chelsea or nothing. Dave had as much interest in Football as I have in Sky Diving - none. The other members I couldn't even name now, let alone say what their football interest was.
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Post by 3in11 on Feb 4, 2015 21:27:40 GMT
Just to kinda 'round this out' a bit:
I missed the start of Punk as I was living the genteel life of a shop manager in Bath when the cultural goalposts were moved in London, Manchester and elsewhere. Returned to London in '80 but had seen a bit of the Bristol punk scene before that.
Best Punk gigs - and as I said there weren't more than a handfull - were The Raincoats and Theatre Of Hate. Saw Killing Joke and I'm told I enjoyed it but I really have no recollection of that night at all.
I'm not going to post up links to Youtube or suchlike - I'm going to have to let someone else use the computer for a bit - but my fave (non-hit ) Punk tracks are:
In Love - The Raincoats
Legion, Rebel Without A Brain and Original Sin - all by Theatre of Hate
Requiem - Killing Joke
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Post by dorf on Feb 4, 2015 21:48:24 GMT
Never pictured you as a Punk fan. I do like the odd Punk song but Sex Pistols and the Buzzcocks are the only ones I can honestly say are decent, in my opinion. Not sure if you can count siouxsie and the banshees but I like them too. PIL are also my fav but they're more 'new wave' if that's even a genre.
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Post by 3in11 on Feb 4, 2015 22:41:04 GMT
I would not say I was ever a punk fan but 'good' music knows no distinctions.
Last time I did myself a little playlist it went like this (if you'll indulge me while I read it off):
Elbow "One day Like This" -David Byrne "Help Me Somebody"-Simple Minds "Waterfront" - John Cooper Clarke "It Man" - David Byrne & Brian Eno "The Carrier" - John Martyn "One World" - Joy Division "Decades" & "The Eternal" - Echo & The Bunnymen "The Cutter" - Dream Academy "Life In A Northern Town" - Pink Floyd "Summer of '68", "Painbox" and "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast - Neu! "Weisennsee" - Kraftwerk "Europe Endless" -Psychedelic Furs "Heaven" -Talking Heads "Heaven" - Beatles "Blackbird" & "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" - Nick Drake "Hazy Jane II" - Kinks "Death of a Clown" - King Crimson " In the Court of the Crimson King" and finally Narareth " This Flight Tonight".
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just a sort of image thing. It would make them seem tough and rough? 
