Posts Tagged ‘rock n roll’
Joyriding in the Docklands
published in Red Mist, 8th May 2011 The Bermondsey Joyriders and John Sinclair live at London’s 100 Club “Where are they now?”, asked a 1982 song by South-East London band Cock Sparrer, lamenting the faded and lapsed heroes of the British punk revolution. The answer was simple. Some of the addressees of the lyric, such […]
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Tags: Cock Sparrer, gentrification, John Sinclair, Marx, oi, Punk, punk rock, rock n roll, The Bermondsey Joyriders
7 reasons why I like The Clash
I like The Clash because… … the over-privileged Joe Strummer spent his whole life impersonating what he imagined an authentic working class person would be like: bad teeth, unintelligible speech, chain smoking.
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Tags: 77 punk, Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, morning star, Punk, punk rock, rock, rock n roll, the clash
In the mid 70s, the fairly repulsive svengali producer Kim Fowley picked up five teenage girls at Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco – the glam rock place to be in Los Angeles – to form the first all-female, all-teenage hard rock band The Runaways.
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Tags: cherie curry, glam punk, glam rock, joan jett, los angeles glam, proto punk, Punk, rock n roll, the runaways
New York Dolls to play 100 Club
If the Rolling Stones built rock ‘n’ roll Babylon, then the New York Dolls turned it into a rock ‘n’ roll Sodom and Gomorrah. Formed in the early 70s in the post-Warhol-Factory milieu, they were the most happening and most decadent act on NYC’s trash glam circuit.
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Tags: 100 Club, glam punk, glam rock, new york dolls, ny punk, proto punk, Punk, punk rock, rock n roll
