Always at the footy, never late
Disco music's what we hate!
Good old-skool punk rock is all that ya need
A pint full of lager and two pills of speed!
Cockney Rejects - "TNT" (1982)
So...spent the weekend doing a mix of drinking, shopping, leafletting, shifting gear and the first rehearsal for me and primate's new band which went surprisingly well.
I decided to re-write this next bit as I originally wrote it in the throes of a hangover and it came out seriously venomous (always quite fun writing stuff like that but it is possible that it could've got me into serious shit so...)
Basically, the gist of what I was saying was that this new band is gonna be a punk band. A proper punk band. A lot of things I've seen in music both on a personal level and in the press over the last couple of years have depressed me. It's the way that groups of spoilt little rich boys in leather jackets from New York are deemed to be "punk". It's the way that a bunch of thirtysomething guys in big shorts singing about how the girl they fancy won't go to the high school prom with them is considered "punk". It's about how every band I've auditioned for in the last few months doesn't seem to have its sights set any higher than becoming a badly faded monochrome copy of Nirvana, the Chilis, Korn or Hundred Reasons. It's about feeling as if a change is needed but nobody else seems to see it.
I'm hoping that this band will do just that. We're working on some covers by bands like the UK Subs, the Pistols, the Rejects and SLF (good old-fashioned late '70s/early '80s Brit street punk) and getting some songs of our own written along the same lines. It amazes me how attitude-free (with a few notable exceptions - the Distillers, Ikara Colt, Winnebago Deal, Jarcrew etc) punk has become over the last few years. Our plan is to change that. We may not succeed but we're gonna give it a damn good go. In the immortal words of Spike from Buffy - "If you're gonna make a go of it, there's death, there's glory and there's pretty much bugger all else."
Keep rockin' in the free world & speak to you all later,
Yorkie \m/
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Disco music's what we hate!
Good old-skool punk rock is all that ya need
A pint full of lager and two pills of speed!
Cockney Rejects - "TNT" (1982)
So...spent the weekend doing a mix of drinking, shopping, leafletting, shifting gear and the first rehearsal for me and primate's new band which went surprisingly well.
I decided to re-write this next bit as I originally wrote it in the throes of a hangover and it came out seriously venomous (always quite fun writing stuff like that but it is possible that it could've got me into serious shit so...)
Basically, the gist of what I was saying was that this new band is gonna be a punk band. A proper punk band. A lot of things I've seen in music both on a personal level and in the press over the last couple of years have depressed me. It's the way that groups of spoilt little rich boys in leather jackets from New York are deemed to be "punk". It's the way that a bunch of thirtysomething guys in big shorts singing about how the girl they fancy won't go to the high school prom with them is considered "punk". It's about how every band I've auditioned for in the last few months doesn't seem to have its sights set any higher than becoming a badly faded monochrome copy of Nirvana, the Chilis, Korn or Hundred Reasons. It's about feeling as if a change is needed but nobody else seems to see it.
I'm hoping that this band will do just that. We're working on some covers by bands like the UK Subs, the Pistols, the Rejects and SLF (good old-fashioned late '70s/early '80s Brit street punk) and getting some songs of our own written along the same lines. It amazes me how attitude-free (with a few notable exceptions - the Distillers, Ikara Colt, Winnebago Deal, Jarcrew etc) punk has become over the last few years. Our plan is to change that. We may not succeed but we're gonna give it a damn good go. In the immortal words of Spike from Buffy - "If you're gonna make a go of it, there's death, there's glory and there's pretty much bugger all else."
Keep rockin' in the free world & speak to you all later,
Yorkie \m/
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bahahahaha!!!
[Edited on Mar 09, 2004 3:01AM]