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THINGS
AND
WONDERFUL
So
chuffed to have stumbled across this blog.
Whoever does this is
really across their subject, as
they say in the meeja.
Lost of snippets about the many unsung heroes
(always the best
heroes) of the scene.
Just
enough info to set you off on your own little research roadtrip.
It often gets really frustrating, when you're an old punk to have to endure
yet
another retelling of the legend ...
tired old cliches of the official
history that always get things wrong.
It was a grass-roots movement
- meaning
people without money or power,
in small communities across the world,
banded together, in the 70 and 80s,
to create a new reality.
It
was never meant to be historic ... or picked over by Phd students
- it was meant to be lived.
It is still the biggest thing to have
happened in
my lifetime ...
everything that has happened since has been just
so much static ...
MIXTAPES
FOR EXAMPLE ...
I had been doing a whole load
of travelling ... exhausted and penniless,
I remembered a mate had told
me he was doing the sound for a band called
Dub Sex that night at Leeds
Polytechnic.
If I made it, I could get a lift with him and the band
back home to Manchester.
I hitched up there, blagged
my way in and was exposed to the band that they were supporting -
the
Butthole Surfers. They blew my mind.
They had all their best tricks
out that night - great sound,video backdrops,
fire, a phenomenal
laser light show ... but perhaps the best thing,
for me, was Kathleen
Lynch.
Seeing
her dancing under a bed-sheet, beneath an intense strobe-light was
just one of the best things ever.
By the time I got backstage,
I was pretty drunk, so it all gets a bit hazy,
but I think I must've
complimented her on her dancing ,and got no response
'cos someone in the band came
up to me and said
"Don't take it personally - she's decided
not to speak for the next 6 months"
Later, I noticed her
passing notes to the rest
of the band.
It really made my day to see
this
piece about
her on the underestimator.
Couldn't resist a quick look and found
this
and this
And that's what it was all
about, to me.
A cocktail of serendipity, adventure, inventiveness,
a splash of crazy and more than a dash of bravery.
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