The Official Punk, Indie, Goth, Alternative 1976-1986 thread

[SusieMac]

https://youtu.be/zcerrePN_fQ

[SusieMac]

I do enjoy a Starjets cover.
https://youtu.be/ya57WoIbclg

[SusieMac]

Blondie on the top of their game.

https://youtu.be/eCcjLh9GPJc

[vixen1700]

http://www.punkfm.co.uk/

Punk FM internet radio station with random tunes from '76-79 and no talking or adverts.

Managed to give iit a listen each night for about a week and a half.

Some forgotten gems and cool little discoveries though.

[SusieMac]

I listen to Punk FM when I'm working. Brilliantly wide ranging.

[lockhart flawse]

Anyone remember the Russel Club in Hulme? It didnt last very long but a lot of what turned out to be significant bands played there.

[StanleyT]

lockhart flawse said:

Anyone remember the Russel Club in Hulme? It didnt last very long but a lot of what turned out to be significant bands played there.

Lived just by where it was as a student! Amazing even years after you'd get people looking for it. I suppose though with no internet then / google maps if you'd come out of town you'd not know it wasn't there. Without google maps directing people to Whitworth or International 1 and 2 was a bit of a hope and a prayer.....

Macc Lads. Think they just fitted in this era. Missed a JAMC concert as wasn't well, got told I'd missed a right riot (somewhere along the arches near Manchester Oxford Road). A few nights later cheered myself up with a trip to Blackpool and ended up seeing the Macc Lads, Jesus, the poor singer was covered in blood by the end from glasses thrown, and god knows what else. (I think the drummer puked in a glass and threw it back over the crowd).

Loved the SOM as well, but for some reason just never got to see them tour. Early 2000s my sister moved to Leeds, one day I noticed her opposite neighbour had a big SOM poster in her kitchen up against the window. Spoke to her and apparently she had some "dalliances" with Eldrich at some point and never quite got over them, this was her signal if he was in the area to come and do "his favourite" to her (urgh, OK love, your bottom, your business). She did say, that if we ever did get to meet him, on no account were we to mention to him how small he was in height (5'4") or she would never see him again.