You may have noticed the media like to look back over past events when the year ends, and so from the pages of a Cranked Up festive issue, here is an account of what was going on in the local music scene during 1981.
Click on the image to view the large version and read about bands such as - THE MEGAZONES - SCROTUM POLES - STREET LEVEL - ALIEN CULTURE - MAFIA - ST ANDREW & THE WOOLEN MILL - LONDON BROADS - THE GRIP - THE BLUSH - PARADES - VEX - WAITER WAITER - NO FIXED ABODE - PUSH - MISBEHAVIN' - SYNTHETIC DREAMS - PULSEBEAT PLUS - PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORIES - STRUTZ - ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN - APB - THIRTY BOB SUITS - NEW LONDON - FRENZY - JAZZ TOO - STREET URCHIN - BLIND PEW AND ASGARD.
Phew!...and they even managed to squeeze in a Rockpile ad as well..!!
A salute to "The Major" for getting all that info down in print.
I thought we did "leave music well alone" !!!
ReplyDeletewas fun to read that whole review again, so many bands !
Noooo way, I played with Alien Culture - they were surreal. What was the hippie singers name? My memory fails me. What a blast from the past reading the fanzine. Still looking for Swing Club, but then we came later.
ReplyDeleteHoly shit. I just found this blog.This is Paul, I used to play guitar (I use the phrase loosely) in Alien Culture. DJ'd at the art college and Dance Factory.
ReplyDeleteSeems like yesterday. Ewan, hope your doing well - and everyone else - Mike Kane, Jock Longhorn!
No idea where, Brem (sax), Mo (vocals) are. I think Steve Gearty (bass) is in Edinburgh.
I've still got four copies of Cranked Up from way back.
I've been in New York for twenty years now. Gerri, that used to work the door at Fat Sams/Dance Factory has been here for even longer.