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ALL
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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