…if so, be sure to be at The Old Blue Last on Monday night. 80s Japanese hardcore-thrash survivors Crucial Section will be playing a rarer than rare UK show. Not to be missed, once in a lifetime opportunity, etc. Seriously though. Support comes from Wigan punks Bail-Bond and Deptford thrashers Colt Seavers. Entry is only a fiver and there are no advance tickets because using Ticketmaster isn’t very punk is it? So, be there early or judging by last month’s Insect Warfare show you won’t get in at all. Click on for details and a video of what to expect. Read more »
Posts Tagged ‘Punk’
Another kick in the shins of Old Man Tory
Right now everyone’s totally pissed off with the Conservative Party’s Members of Parliament because they’ve been spending all their money on grooming their reindeer cavalry, building silver coffins for their favourite elderly man-servants, and exchanging cherry stones with diamonds to surprise the Countess of Cappadocia when she tucks into her fruit basket. What makes them look even more out-moded and aristocratic is the ever-more-right-on and cool Labour Party. Why, just today Culture Secretary Andy Burnham expressed his long held beliefs in the anti-establishment message of first generation punk with a situationist performance designed to upturn the pretensions of the bourgeoisie. Screw you Tories! Cool Britanians never never never shall be your slaves!
Obituary - Ron Asheton, 1948 - 2009
The engine house of The Stooges, Ron Asheton, always maintained he knew what it was like to be Muddy Waters. Ensuing generations would tell him what a hero, what an inspiration he was, among them the likes of Steve Jones and Kurt Cobain. But like the original bluesmen who influenced Clapton, Hendrix, et al. at the time they existed, The Stooges had been roundly ignored. Indeed, Asheton found himself suffering financially for years in the wake of their demise.
Mob Rules Are Not a German Power-Metal Band
Leeds, for me, is a horrible place. Cold, grey and grim. Both my parents worked all day every day during the week so when I was a kid I got carted off to my auntie Jane’s place near Chapeltown in Leeds for large chunks of the summer holidays every year. To this day, the drive up the M1 fills me with dread. It came as little surprise to me when I discovered that the MP3s circulating on punk forums by a band called Mob Rules were the product of the city of Leeds. Powerviolence might have originated bathed in West Coast sunshine but its unrelenting, uncompromising brutality and anger perfectly reflects just how grim and fucking depressing the north of England can be. It has helped make Mob Rules the best punk band in the UK, though, so maybe it’s not all bad.
