One of my presents this year was the box set re-issue of Sheep Farming in Barnet by Toyah. A bit of a nostalgia-fest, but actually I don’t think I actually had this LP despite being a fan. Actually I don’t think I had this LP because I was a fan.
Entries Tagged as 'Punk'
Old tunes
January 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Jane, Music
While I was in town to get my eyes seen to I did some browsing. I had a little time to kill before my appointment, and then more time afterwards while waiting for Jayne to finish work and come down to help me choose frames. (I don’t really care what glasses look like: I only […]
Rock The Casbah
November 11th, 2008 · Comments Off on Rock The Casbah · Music
From Wikipedia’s entry on Punk Rock: Punk rock (often referred to simply as punk) is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, Bahrain, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the […]
I wanna be sedated
June 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Music
The Ramones have been described in many ways, but I wonder if the best word to sum them up would be “aspirational”? For reasons we don’t need to go into now, I was looking through the track listings of their albums and was struck by the number of song titles that say “I wanna” in […]
Tags: Punk
Make an old man happy…
June 6th, 2008 · Comments Off on Make an old man happy… · Music
Vote For SPIZZENERGI To Play At Green Man Festival 2008!!! The Green Man Festival ((a great web site design – check it out)) is running a competition, well a couple of competitions really. They are letting bands who are not on the bill register on the site so that Joe Public can vote for them. […]
A concert in a shoebox
December 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Music
More YouTube goodness, this time from Spizzenergi rehearsing for this weekend’s show.
Tags: Concerts·London·Punk·Spizzenergi·YouTube
84MM
December 12th, 2007 · Comments Off on 84MM · Music
Another attempt at posting a youtube clip of Crawley’s favourite band. The first test really screwed up the page format!
Report from the Pistols’ front line
November 20th, 2007 · Comments Off on Report from the Pistols’ front line · Music
I got a slightly miffed e-mail from Spizz today. He tried to leave a comment here but it kept being rejected as spam. I'm guessing it was because of all the links in it – anything with more than 2 links is assumed to be spam. Rather than turning off security for a while I […]
Tags: Concerts·Punk·Spizzenergi
Spizzenergi v Sex Pistols
September 21st, 2007 · 4 Comments · Music
The Sex Pistols are playing at the Brixton Academy on November 8th. I toyed with the idea of trying to get tickets in the 5 minutes between them going on sale and all selling out tomorrow morning, but I think that £37.50 is a bit steep, even before you add on all the spurious booking […]
Tags: Concerts·Punk·Rip-Off·Spizzenergi
Shameless plug
April 6th, 2006 · Comments Off on Shameless plug · Music
Last night I downloaded the new World Cup song from Spizzenergi, and I have had it playing on constant rotation here ever since. Well worth a download (or buy the CD with a T-shirt from eBay) It starts off with a sort of Beatles/Jam vibe, like a cross between Taxman and Start!, and has a […]
