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The Cramps captured by Chester Simpson while getting ready to bring down the house at the Mabuhay Gardens, SF, in ‘79.
Calmness before the storm, since by the end of their performance, tables and chairs were usually broken.
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After their infancy as Johnny And The Self Abusers,toddlerSimple Minds can be seen here performing in 1978atMars Bar, Glasgow (where they held a residency during their early days), as shot by Laurie Evans who was the in-house photographer for theEdinburgh listing magazine City Lynx at the time.
In that capacity she was able to capture some of the earliest images of Simple Minds at various gigs at Glasgow and the band’s previously unseen images from those early days were put together in a little photobook entitled “Pleasantly Disturbed”(2020) available via Hanging Around Books or by DM her on her social media accounts on FB&IG.
“The embryonic Simple Minds quickly became the resident band at Glasgow’s Mars Bar (it was the only pub fearless enough to book reformed punks). They played every Sunday night. The band would come on with their backs to the audience, to a tape of weird sounds put together by David Henderson, with a revolving police light in a perspex head casting a blue beam around the cramped environment.
They were writing new songs every week, with tracks appearing and disappearing throughout the year. Some of the songs played never made it to official release, only existing on scratchy bootlegs. By the end of the year, they were under the watchful eye of Bruce Findlay, had signed with Zoom Records, were a support band in demand (having supported The Only Ones, Ultravox, Generation X and The Strangers) and were ready to cut their debut album…”
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Patricia Morrison in a Dolly Parton wig during a Fur Bible gig she did with Kid Congo Powers inStockholmonOct. ‘85, when they both toured as backup band for the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, captured by Carl Abrahamsson.
Fur Bible was the short-lived band she formed with The Kid after their time in the Gun Club. They released a 7″ and soon called it quits. Not long after, Powers would join The Bad Seeds and would spend the next few years playing with Nick CavewhilePatricia Morrison would go on to play with the Sisters Of Mercy.
According to Kid Congo PowerstheFur Bible/Legendary Stardust Cowboy tour (Legendary Stardust CowboyakaThe Ledge was an incoherent r’n’r performer who is said to have invented an early form of the genre that came to be known as psychobilly in the ‘60s, while often considered a novelty artist):
“…I really loved it. It was a real fun thing and it really broke up this whole seriousness about The Gun Club breaking up and this thing with Tex not working out. It was like, ‘OK, we can be totally ridiculous’. It came at the right time.”
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The night Joe went from StrummertoPunk Rock Warlord:
Joe Strummer, then frontman of pub rock band The 101ers, photographed by Joe Stevens with bassist Dan Kelleher onstage at The Nashville Rooms, London, on April 23, 1976.
The recently formed Sex Pistols had also played in the same venue that night supporting his band for the second time -this was the infamous show where provocateurs Malcolm McLaren & Vivienne Westwood instigated a fight with audience members which got the band the publicity they needed. Seeing their performance was a life-changing experience for Joe Strummer the moment he realized he was looking at his punk rock future:
“They were like a million years ahead,” he later told his biographer Chris Salewicz. “I realised immediately we were going nowhere, the rest of my group hated them…”
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DIY #Hello2016 @ Old Blue Last
The second free DIY Magazine #Hello2016 gig at The Old Blue Last in Shoreditch on 12 January 2016, with Trudy, Willie J Healey, Bruising and Diet Cig.
