all my old mates were in all the classic unsigned late 80s / early 90s punk / metal bands, heres a list, plus theres other bands ive been to see etc too, not a definitive list, but still very interesting to read and remenisce if you were part of the scene between those years..........all these bands normally get missed in books and history write ups on the sheffield scene so i thought id right the wrong :)

also a few indie / folky / dancey / traveller bands too

anybody remember

dog soldier
bad blood
truth decay (toured with government issue in america at least once)
bastion
systematic annexe (my first ever gig, back in 1986 at the hallamshire hotel, they also featured on a motorhate comp album)
G.G.F
Moral justice
the bland (from chesterfield - went to a party once at theres, thats when i first met jools, see the dwarf and a clipboard man thread)
deathtrash
goodbye toulouse (jools was the roadie)
amnesia
face first
slopdosh bobar and ivan crump
midnight choir?
muzzle club / bendy monsters
bad taste
radiacs
bedlam choir
lilac confusion
human perogrative
plague dogs
corpse grinders?
slbc psychoterrorism research unit
media premonition
FCS (F*** City S*******)
durango 95?
ed 209?
blind mole rat
astrids?
food
various vegetables
head
smokescreen soundsystem
dr restart ant wrapsmiths (wath upon dearne band)
dog on a rope
elfin
longpigs
wax lyrical
ju ju city
me
freezer
brained
cus cus
shell
drug free america


DISCUSS :)

I've updated the list with as much info as i can remember all the bands i've added info on i've made bold

dog soldier - kev became a p/t lecturer at sheff uni..
G.G.F - john (singer) has some merry go rounds n kids rides i think....
bad blood / face first were the same band they just swapped instruments and renamed themselves ( they not truth decay toured with government issue on the UK tour and crashed their van, hence the next GI album being called crash!)
those three bands split up early 90's and one member from each formed
truth decay which i joined in 93 (i think?!)

bastion
systematic annexe (my first ever gig, back in 1986 at the hallamshire hotel, they also featured on a motorhate comp album)
Moral justice
the bland (from chesterfield - went to a party once at theres, thats when i first met jools, see the dwarf and a clipboard man thread)
deathtrash - murray fenton is in the ****wits now
goodbye toulouse (jools was the roadie)
amnesia
slopdosh bobar and ivan crump - i've still got their demo, you came to wath and saw em with us didn't you??
midnight choir?
muzzle club / bendy monsters - bendy monsters still exist i think...
bad taste
radiacs
bedlam choir
lilac confusion
human perogrative
plague dogs
corpse grinders - a couple of em went on to form WORM, who still exist to this day...
slbc psychoterrorism research unit
media premonition
FCS (F*** City S*******) - moses is still around
durango 95
ed 209
blind mole rat - became spitboy didn't they?
astrids
food
various vegetables - signed to warp did a single and promptly split up
head
smokescreen soundsystem
dr restart ant wrapsmiths (wath upon dearne band)
dog on a rope - were from Leeds, though Rob lead singer now lives in sheffield
elfin
longpigs - one of em joined joe strummer and mescaleros
wax lyrical
ju ju city
me
freezer
brained
cus cus
shell
drug free america

others you forgot
cosa nostra
exit
the grind
dollar babies

ah cheers stu for the extra info :)

i dont think ive ever seen slopdosh in wath tbh .........most of the bands ive listed are in my gig book - list of bands, dates, venues ive been to :) bad memory you see.

i still see moses around sheff when i get back to the motherland ......and marmite andy i email occasionly.......very occasionly.
ta for the info on truth dacay etc ........yes very incestious those bands / guys :P
not sure on what became of blind mole rat tbh, i think i was told once........but still forget :P

bendy monsters are still going, sort of ........in long term hibernation at the mo...........their websites still up however ........i have a couple of the guys email addys.......i went to school with 4 of em

well next time your back in sheffield if you come on a weekend most of the newer punks will be at the doven rainbow.... unless theres bands playing,

this sunday most of the bands are at the DnR live, which means quite a few old faces will be out n about....
otherwise come to the city invasion for a full on nostalgia fest, i'm sure froggy and pat can chuck you around a bit to make it feel like the old days...

i'll dig some old photo's i've got of chaos uk at the hallamshire cos i know your in a couple....

Mel sent you a PM

Originally posted by analogkid
Mel sent you a PM
recieved :)

ta stu :)

ill have to go through all my old demo tapes and see which i still have ...........bet stus got thousands tho :P

i haven't actually, i've obviously got all the Truth Decay ones, the Slopdosh one, i think i've got a couple more knocking around but that's it, i'll have a word with Jake and Rich see if they have any....

Originally posted by no_rules
i haven't actually, i've obviously got all the Truth Decay ones, the Slopdosh one, i think i've got a couple more knocking around but that's it, i'll have a word with Jake and Rich see if they have any....

i have one truth decay one, one slopdosh one and various others.......ggf, human perogrative, most of the muzzle clubs / bendy monsters, think i have a dog soldier one, bastion

What about:
Chunk
Trolley Dog Shag
Kiss Me Deadly
Personality Crisis
Bride Wore Black
Hole In The Wall Gang
Absolute

oh yeah, i remember trolley dog shag and hole in the wall gang :)

how about dumpys rusty nuts too for an older one, always used to see their posters on walls everywhere

Originally posted by melthebell
how about dumpys rusty nuts too for an older one, always used to see their posters on walls everywhere

I only saw them the once at the Uni - can't remember who they supported, just that it was really loud!

just been and had a nosy round the batfink site :P
interesting, im not a goth but do listen to abit here and there.
see some whitby pics too :) ...........i live just outside whitby

jeezus that took some finding..........yup elfin was listed thought they were :)

ooh just found these albums listed on a site, that i seemed to have missed :(

http://www.pasc.co.uk/comp.html

on the first album i know Hed, Smokescreen, SLBC,

on the 2nd album listed i have a tape of food?, i knew members of elfin and blind mole rat, and obviously ive heard of durango 95 and caberet voltaire :)

wouldnt mind getting those albums hmmmmm

and i have this slbc 12" :)
http://www.pasc.co.uk/un001t.html

i was in fcs, nihilistics, ggf, exit, bear cage, media premonition, psychoterrorists, slbc, pasc, agartha, rookie, maniac and tarana

i was asked to join slopdosh bobbar and ivan crump, and dead by friday

but i didn't!

i used to know longpigs, plague dogs, truth decay, midnight choir, blind mole rat, durango 95, death trash, dog soldier, human prerogative, trolley dog shag, mr morality, the detail, wealthy texans, masons, nearly band, bedlam choir, haze/crf, dollar babies, happening men, all seeing i/melt, dig vis drill, hula, the gallery/secret of life, the bland, blammo/speedy, flexible penguins and all that lot!

still in touch with or have news on some of em if anyone's interested!

There was a Sheffield rock/metal band called NIGHTRUN circa 85/86....they played a band competition gig at the City Hall in 86 and came 2nd.....anyone know what happened to them?

no, but i remember the winners in 1986 were "spring heel'd jack", and also on stage were "the flexible penguins", who's bassist paul went on to play keyboards in "blammo!" who became "speedy" and had a hit in 1997 with "boy wonder"

more anorak facts in the pipeline

Good day all.
Anyone know how I can get it touch with ex Blind Mole Rat members??
Cheers,
Jason

yes, i can give you one or two email addresses if you let me know who you are, and p.m. me!

:)

Many thanks for your speedy reply Pete, but I'm now intouch with Dan from BMR as of yesterday. I sent a **** load of e-mails out on Friday requesting BMR info. And there was mail waiting for me first thing Monday morning! Int the internet brilliant?! Out of interest do you know geezer called Glenroy who used to be in a bass heavy, AR-Kane style band (late 80's - can't remember the name - think it begins with an 'A').
Thanks again.
Cheers,
Jason

yes i remember fcs very well mick singer/songwriter and mega p***head and ben drummer and shy lothario great some1 else remembers too

Originally posted by XXXX
....do you know geezer called Glenroy who used to be in a bass heavy, AR-Kane style band (late 80's - can't remember the name - think it begins with an 'A').

sadly the glenroy i knew died in 1997. he was in "in a belljar", and also "media premonition" and "psychoterrorists" and "slbc", the last three of which i played keyboards for from 1992 to 1996.

all my bands are listed on this link...be warned, there are 33, and some have rude names!

http://www.sheffieldarchives.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

Originally posted by syeclops
yes i remember fcs very well mick singer/songwriter and mega p***head and ben drummer and shy lothario great some1 else remembers too

wow! you must have seen fcs late 87 or early 88, shortly before the end of part one.... i was the drummer and left in october 87 before ben joined.

mik was an AMAZING singer, best voice in sheffield by far, and his lyrics were fantastic. not seen him for about 12 years...

Very sorry to hear that Glenroy has passed away. I had a nagging feeling that you were gonna back to me with that news. If you don't mind, could you tell me the circumstances? If you'd rather, use my e-mail: jason.smith@boidesign.co.uk. I used to know Glenroy about 1989-92 in and around Broomhall, and him breaking out in song all over the place! (i have no head for dates). And am sure I saw him play at the Hallamshire (wicked venue as I remember). 'Psychoterrorists' that was it. Don't know where the "it starts with an 'A'" came from...
Once again Pete, many thanks.
Cheers,
Jason

xxxx, i have sent you an email about glenroy

I love this forum, purely for nostalgia value! :D

I can't believe people still remember slopdosh.. :loopy: :gag: :hihi: I still cringe when I hear the name (I guess certain experiences stick in my memory...) :P

I read your list Pete, there's loads of names on there I remember. Does anyone have any pics lying around from those days? I loved the old punk days but sadly most of it is committed to memory as I never carried a camera back then.

I often read these posts and wonder how many old friends are hiding behind these nicks...

Thanks for the memories ;)

Originally posted by Binky
...

I read your list Pete, there's loads of names on there I remember. Does anyone have any pics lying around from those days?...

i have a few old pics, these will eventually appear on my site (see www link below), but i would rather get permission off the people on the photo's before i post 'em! :)

Originally posted by pete_fcs
sadly the glenroy i knew died in 1997. he was in "in a belljar", and also "media premonition" and "psychoterrorists" and "slbc", the last three of which i played keyboards for from 1992 to 1996.

all my bands are listed on this link...be warned, there are 33, and some have rude names!

http://www.sheffieldarchives.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

haHAHA nice one ......cant you stay in a band longer than 10 minutes?
i cant remember you in GGF i saw them loads, used to know john a bit........i have all my gigs ive seen written down with dates / locations :) and ive seen GGF loads....i still have a demo tape too somewhere

media premonition i have a demo of
slbc i have a 12"

carpainters? aaaaaah i never knew what bands mixmif was in after slopdosh bobbar etc, i hung around with mixmif loads

Originally posted by XXXX
Good day all.
Anyone know how I can get it touch with ex Blind Mole Rat members??
Cheers,
Jason

now theres a blast from the past blind mole rat : what a band, what a bunch of people :)
i still have a few BMR demos, and a t shirt (bit past it now tho :( )

blind mole rat came to my leaving party when i left sheffield :)

Originally posted by pete_fcs
i was in fcs, nihilistics, ggf, exit, bear cage, media premonition, psychoterrorists, slbc, pasc, agartha, rookie, maniac and tarana

i was asked to join slopdosh bobbar and ivan crump, and dead by friday

but i didn't!

i used to know longpigs, plague dogs, truth decay, midnight choir, blind mole rat, durango 95, death trash, dog soldier, human prerogative, trolley dog shag, mr morality, the detail, wealthy texans, masons, nearly band, bedlam choir, haze/crf, dollar babies, happening men, all seeing i/melt, dig vis drill, hula, the gallery/secret of life, the bland, blammo/speedy, flexible penguins and all that lot!

still in touch with or have news on some of em if anyone's interested!
im interested, as i knew the odd member or whole bands of some of em :)

The Bland?
did you go to the blands party in chesterfield?
that was a laugh, first time i ever met jules that R.I.P

Originally posted by melthebell
haHAHA nice one ......cant you stay in a band longer than 10 minutes?

i was in most of them for about three or four years, sometimes three at once, although ogi mcgrath of dig vis drill says i'm a "band slut"

i cant remember you in GGF i saw them loads, used to know john a bit........i have all my gigs ive seen written down with dates / locations :) and ive seen GGF loads....i still have a demo tape too somewhere

i joined them end of 1988, did one gig at the lower refec with "slammer" (feb 89 i think) then i left as bassist ben moved to london and wanted us to rehearse there!

media premonition i have a demo of
slbc i have a 12"

saw slbc play their final gig last week, they are still recording

carpainters? aaaaaah i never knew what bands mixmif was in after slopdosh bobbar etc, i hung around with mixmif loads :)

went to mixmif's last night to pick up the dolebusters 86 video!

Originally posted by melthebell
...

The Bland?
did you go to the blands party in chesterfield?
that was a laugh, first time i ever met jules that R.I.P

you mean they had a party and didn't invite me?! lol...not seen them for years, the last i heard rat was working in virgin megastore according to the word on the streets...

i even unofficially played for the bland once too! their drummer fell off his stool at the maze bar...to p..ssed to drum, so it had been pre-arranged that i would take over on the night!

:)

Originally posted by pete_fcs
you mean they had a party and didn't invite me?! lol...not seen them for years, the last i heard rat was working in virgin megastore according to the word on the streets...

i even unofficially played for the bland once too! their drummer fell off his stool at the maze bar...to p..ssed to drum, so it had been pre-arranged that i would take over on the night!

:)

c00l lol

next time you see mixmif tell him im around on here (sean who HAD the green mohican and his mum worked with yours) see if he appears on here, dunnoif he has access tbh

i will tell him, he comes on here alot too so he will see your message soon! :)

just to fill a few bits in ...


plague dogs
lou left went to manchester became sound engineer and moved again
to macclesfield ... charlie went on to do several different jobs
and i ran away with swamp circus, and did a few bands as drummer
meld, the brew, shadwell's coat, tablet
and then joined
blind mole rat - became spitboy didn't they? two of us joined spithead
chris later played a while with a circus band ice cream men, the selecter and
chu nah mi .
after more circus with chris i started tarana which is going to go on til my tattoo wears off.

another band from those times was dead by friday who are back on the go and one of the best you could see.

just to fill a few bits in ...


plague dogs
lou left went to manchester became sound engineer and moved again
to macclesfield ... charlie went on to do several different jobs
and i ran away with swamp circus, and did a few bands as drummer
meld, the brew, shadwell's coat, tablet
and then joined
blind mole rat - became spitboy didn't they? two of us joined spithead
chris later played a while with a circus band ice cream men, the selecter and
chu nah mi .
after more circus with chris i started tarana which is going to go on til my tattoo wears off.

another band from those times was dead by friday who are back on the go and one of the best you could see.


i have a spithead tape, used to have an album i think, saw em a few times
used to write to john abit, are they still going?

Went to school with Murray Fenton. His first band was called "RAF" after the band member surnames: simon Rippon, tony Armitage And murray Fenton. The bass player was called Dean Buxton he must have joined later i suppose.

I was in Blind Mole Rat (mandolin & guitar) from 93 to 95 when the band split up. (Actually we 'reformed' for a one off surprise gig the following year for Ken (who ran the old Independent Bookshop opposite the Town Hall.) who was a great friend of the band. I've not heard from anyone else in the band for ages. I think Rob Overdrive and Robin Down are still in Sheffield, though. Rob plays violin in Tarana.

I know one of the lads out of the Bendy Monsters.

I'll point him this way when I'm next in work.

I know one of the lads out of the Bendy Monsters.

I'll point him this way when I'm next in work.

cool

i used to go to school with dom bradshaw, jim herring, Pat Hancock and Andy Fjord?? i think, wasnt he also called andy peacock i believe???

i was in contact with dom and pat via email for a while
i really want to contact jim herring tho, i was his best mate at school, not seen him in about properly in well over 10 years maybe more, apart from the odd bendys gigs........last time i heard from dom he said jim was trying to get a pc, not heard owt since

Doe anybody remember Eric and the Frantics. They were rally a Hayfield/Hope Valley band bt did gigs in Sheffield too. They were superb. Often pogoed in the street to their open air gigs. Had a sense of humour too, no set was complete without a rendition of their all time classic 'For Ken Hill'

hi my name is jon as you most likey guess i was in a band called self-inflicted from 93-05 played with truth decay and all the other bands from that time.other ****ing class bands u missed were bleeding principle,too little too late and sherbet burp but to name a few,i use to put gigs on with stu from truth decay and jon who runs the pub next to bankers and argos in town i also use to put bands on at the hallamshire

hi my name is jon as you most likey guess i was in a band called self-inflicted from 93-05 played with truth decay and all the other bands from that time.other ****ing class bands u missed were bleeding principle,too little too late and sherbet burp but to name a few,i use to put gigs on with stu from truth decay and jon who runs the pub next to bankers and argos in town i also use to put bands on at the hallamshire

c00l

tbh i cant remember any of those bands :( and not sure ive seen em.
apart from truth decay...obviously

i saw loads of bands at the hallamshire so prolly went to gigs you put on

seen midnight choir got mentioned a couple of times...

i play in a band with two ex-MC members, nick and ziggy

I sang in Meld, rob overdrive drummed with us for a while, and then after I was in 2 til 10.
I knew jon who played bass in GGF through my brother's collega mates.
I still see robin downe knocking about, and as well as having joined a bit of a sheffield institution ( sharp cuts) I have recorded an album of all new original material with James Bacon, who was in Mindfeel with Robin and Simon Hinkler.
I always have loved the scene here in sheffield, so intertwining and really very supportive of each other... bands would always helo wach other out in a fix, and any rivalry was always friendly and usually ended up in a few beers down the washington and then a night at drop or step on.

I know Mixmif, used to get tattooed in the same place as him (designer skin, west bar, now shut). Last time I saw him was on the moor, just as he was putting the carpainters together. And I used to work with Jon from Bedlam Choir, who went on and joined Freekspurt, and is now in a band called Sukmunki. Has anyone got any slopdosh stuff they can put online as mp3s? Havent heard them for ages.

I know Mixmif, used to get tattooed in the same place as him (designer skin, west bar, now shut). Last time I saw him was on the moor, just as he was putting the carpainters together. And I used to work with Jon from Bedlam Choir, who went on and joined Freekspurt, and is now in a band called Sukmunki. Has anyone got any slopdosh stuff they can put online as mp3s? Havent heard them for ages.

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?p=1102394#post1102394

Come and check out Sukmunki (recently nominated for best live band in Sheffield)

FREE ENTRY :)

I know Mixmif, used to get tattooed in the same place as him (designer skin, west bar, now shut). Last time I saw him was on the moor, just as he was putting the carpainters together. And I used to work with Jon from Bedlam Choir, who went on and joined Freekspurt, and is now in a band called Sukmunki. Has anyone got any slopdosh stuff they can put online as mp3s? Havent heard them for ages.

hopefully ill be ripping my old sheff bands demo tapes to mp3 in the near future, might knock up a website to showcase the odd tracks if the bands dont mind

i used to know jon from bedlam choir /freekspurt..........long black hair, thinnish
sukmunki hm have to look out for them

great live band, the 'munki:)

we've played with em quite a few times, nice lads

hopefully ill be ripping my old sheff bands demo tapes to mp3 in the near future, might knock up a website to showcase the odd tracks if the bands dont mind

i used to know jon from bedlam choir /freekspurt..........long black hair, thinnish
sukmunki hm have to look out for them

hey i know jon too...and mixmif!

do i get a prize?!

:banana: :banana: :banana:

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?p=1102394#post1102394

Come and check out Sukmunki (recently nominated for best live band in Sheffield)

FREE ENTRY :)

i saw 'em at grapes, thought they were good!

:)

hey i know jon too...and mixmif!

do i get a prize?!

:banana: :banana: :banana:

NO

EVERYBODY in sheff knows mixmif :P

Went to school with Murray Fenton. His first band was called "RAF" after the band member surnames: simon Rippon, tony Armitage And murray Fenton. The bass player was called Dean Buxton he must have joined later i suppose.

....they could'v'e become....BARF!

:suspect:

NO

EVERYBODY in sheff knows mixmif :P

okay lol

i'll just have to make do with the dancin' bananas

hey i know jon too...and mixmif!

do i get a prize?!

:banana: :banana: :banana:


Hi everybody, nice to see you're all still around. I'm still playing in more bands than i should. Sukmunki is Freekspert but without a certain mad scot. I'm also playing for This Floating World, Michael Eden, Winter North Atlantic among others.

We're (Sukmunki) playing at the bedroom on west street this wednesday and it would be great to see some faces from the past (hi Pete!).

It was a nice surprise to be nominated for best live band in the sheffield soundaloud awards. Why not come and see if we're worth voting for? :)

I remember Brained and the longpigs. Weren't Cabaret voltaire form sheffield, and Chakk, or am I confused?

yes they were; chakk's drummer was in longpigs at one point...

i knew crispin! do i get a prize now?

:hihi:

....

We're (Sukmunki) playing at the bedroom on west street this wednesday and it would be great to see some faces from the past (hi Pete!).

....

which, where, who's, how much?

oh i see...the bedroom!

enjoyed c.d. by the way!

:)

yes they were; chakk's drummer was in longpigs at one point...

i knew crispin! do i get a prize now?

:hihi:
I knew him too, and the others and Brained - can I have a prize too please? I'm not very well at the moment and a prize would cheer me up no end!

Great website btw pete_fcs

I had a tattoo removed opposite kelvin flats years ago, for a fiver.

......

Great website btw pete_fcs

I had a tattoo removed opposite kelvin flats years ago, for a fiver.

thanks honkytonk!

the longpigs bassist (simon i think) bought my bass amp from me when i lived on kelvin. he wheeled it along edith walk and was too scared to tell the kids not to take rides on it!

:hihi:

the longpigs bassist (simon i think) bought my bass amp from me when i lived on kelvin. he wheeled it along edith walk and was too scared to tell the kids not to take rides on it!

:hihi:

Ha ha, yeah, that doesn't surprise me! He had an old fridge freezer off me for nowt! Better not say any more, might reveal my identity! He sometimes doubles up as Santa at Meadowhell too.

i knew crispin and simon from the longpigs too now wheres this prize? :P

i think simon must be the most popular name of people i knew / know in sheffield
with andy and john/jon a close 2nd

which, where, who's, how much?

oh i see...the bedroom!

enjoyed c.d. by the way!

:)
The Bedroom...West Street... Sukmunki and 3 other bands...all for Free. Check post below. doors at 8pm :)

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=105903

The Bedroom...West Street... Sukmunki and 3 other bands...all for Free. Check post below. doors at 8pm :)

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=105903

thanks for that mtheo!

i might even break my curfew and go down there!

:)

p.s. another longpigs story

bumped into crispin hunt in crookes valley park in 1990, seven years before chart success.

he was lounging on a park bench, surrounded by three lasses.

me: "what you up to thesedays?"

crispin: "i'm packing in university. gonna form a band. we're gonna be famous."

me: "right."

:hihi:

p.s. another longpigs story

bumped into crispin hunt in crookes valley park in 1990, seven years before chart success.

he was lounging on a park bench, surrounded by three lasses.

me: "what you up to thesedays?"

crispin: "i'm packing in university. gonna form a band. we're gonna be famous."

me: "right."

:hihi:

you: well im gonna join me 374th band

we're gonna be famous."

me: "right."

:hihi:

Well, at least one of 'em is, finally. He could certainly pull, though, could Crispin!

Did you know The Longpigs once appeared on 'This Morning' I know this because I was a cameraman on the shoot.

the longpigs also supported U2 on a major stadium tour.

blammo became speedy and if i am right they appeared on the 1st national lottery show performing their 'almost' hit - boywonder

anyone remember a barnsley band called 'british racing green'? i used to see them regular in the late 90's. great band!

the longpigs also supported U2 on a major stadium tour.


They were signed to their label "mother", i believe.

Alevans - you didn't used to live in Muswell Hill did you? Is This Morning the same as GMTV? I used to know someone who did the lights on GMTV is all.

you: well im gonna join me 374th band

lol melthebell!

although back then i was only on my 19th or so!

:thumbsup:

[QUOTE=Honkytonk]Well, at least one of 'em is, finally......QUOTE]

that's just my point! :)

my other two failures in spotting pending fame:

scene: limit club 1987

me: "why do you have that tin foil stuff hanging around the stage?"

jarvis cocker: "'cos it looks better than nothing".

me (thinks): "you'll not get anywhere p...ing about like that!"

scene two: park hill flats 1997 watching "common people" video.

me (on own and not famous): "hmmmm i recognise that tin foil backdrop!"

:(

scene: surrey street 1993

dean honer (fan of my sampling work): "come round and record with me if you want, pete."

me: "yes okay."

scene two: studio somewhere, dean honer producing a britney spears track and buying a house in hathersage with the proceeds.

scene three: me living at parson cross wondering if i should've gone round dean's when i had the chance....

:hihi:

Did you know The Longpigs once appeared on 'This Morning' I know this because I was a cameraman on the shoot.

they were also on the big breakfast, 'live' from weston park at about 7am in 1996!

and local band speedy (formerly blammo...philip b. watson, paul ex-flexible penguins et. al.) were on "live and kicking" at about 9a.m. in 1990-something!

:)

they were also on the big breakfast, 'live' from weston park at about 7am in 1996!

and local band speedy (formerly blammo...philip b. watson, paul ex-flexible penguins et. al.) were on "live and kicking" at about 9a.m. in 1990-something!

:)

hmmmm 2 early for us lot to watch then :)

hmmmm 2 early for us lot to watch then :)

too early? i was at the park!

:)

scene two: studio somewhere, dean honer producing a britney spears track and buying a house in hathersage with the proceeds.

scene three: me living at parson cross wondering if i should've gone round dean's when i had the chance....

:hihi:

D'Oh!!! You could always wander round Hathersage on the offchance of bumping into him again. Is he single d'you know?

D'Oh!!! You could always wander round Hathersage on the offchance of bumping into him again. Is he single d'you know?

lol!

not seen him for years, although he sometimes plays gigs at clubs in sheffield....you could ask him!

i have a photo of him p...ed in 1995! anyone wanna see?!!

:hihi:

YES!

I do. Go on go on go on go on! (I just want to say yes, but you've got to give more than one word answers on this forum)

YES!

I do. Go on go on go on go on! (I just want to say yes, but you've got to give more than one word answers on this forum)

ok.....

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b171/sheffieldarchives/people/DEANHONERallseeingiamdrunkbypeterjo.jpg

:thumbsup:

one word

wasted :P


anybody have those pulp / longpigs tv appearences on video or computer?
i can feel a website coming on

one word

wasted :P


anybody have those pulp / longpigs tv appearences on video or computer?
i can feel a website coming on

i've got a very bad photo of it in the background to kylie minogue, who was presenting at the time!

:)

i've got a very bad photo of it in the background to kylie minogue, who was presenting at the time!

:)


hmmmmmmmm
not quite the same

one word

wasted :P


anybody have those pulp / longpigs tv appearences on video or computer?
i can feel a website coming on

i've got one of the longpigs on TFI Friday about 11 yrs ago...somewhere. tee hee.

.....


anybody have those pulp / longpigs tv appearences on video or computer?
i can feel a website coming on

i've got some of longpigs on top of the pops and the chart show!

melthebell, do you recognise these people?:

http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b171/sheffieldarchives/people/

:)

i know mozaz, plague dogs, kev the lead singer from dog soldier (cant see his mohican very well on that pic :P),


ive seen omith mukherjee before
i remember the guy from the 2nd to last pic ziggy senkans of midnight choir, berserker joe and dog canute

there was 2 from slbc on there, both i dont remember, i remember another one :P with the funny name

i've got some of longpigs on top of the pops and the chart show!

melthebell, do you recognise these people?:

http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b171/sheffieldarchives/people/

:)

I've got several clips of the Longpigs from the mid 90s on video somewhere.... not quite sure where though....

StarSparkle

Well, at least one of 'em is, finally. He could certainly pull, though, could Crispin!

Well, he was FABULOUSLY handsome with sex appeal in spades. :love: :) And he obviously knew it too!

StarSparkle

He's married with a baby and working in the City nowadays, so i hear.

Like your signature btw, very true.

They were signed to their label "mother", i believe.

Alevans - you didn't used to live in Muswell Hill did you? Is This Morning the same as GMTV? I used to know someone who did the lights on GMTV is all.
No This Morning comes on after GMTV, but after I was a cameraman and before I became a lighting director and then studio manager and then I retrired I knew John who used to light GMTV, and probably still does as far as I know.

Like your signature btw, very true.

Awww, cheers Honkytonk - that's good of you to say so :)

StarSparkle

Hello everyone. I found this quite by chance! Stu is correct I am now playing bass in The F***wits. Gonna have to nosey beyond peoples screen names see if I can suss who some of you are :)

hi muzz

i take it you are muzz fents of death trash?

i am pete_fcs of fcs!

pete

:thumbsup:

hi muzz

i take it you are muzz fents of death trash?

i am pete_fcs of fcs!

pete

:thumbsup:

why not just come out with it

your pete of the **** city ****ters :)


didnt death trash and fcs both play that western park gig?
was abit before my gigging time i think, 1986 was my first gig, my mates band from woodhouse.....systematic annexe (anarcho punk) at the hallamshire hotel

hi muzz

i take it you are muzz fents of death trash?

i am pete_fcs of fcs!

pete

:thumbsup:

aye thats me

......


didnt death trash and fcs both play that western park gig?
was abit before my gigging time i think, 1986 was my first gig, my mates band from woodhouse.....systematic annexe (anarcho punk) at the hallamshire hotel

i think we did...i still have the poster (which i designed!) so i can check!

my fondest memory of death trash is at the gig we did with them at the leadmill in 1986.

they turned up unannounced, as another band had dropped out.

scene: leadmill cafe

murray (carrying guitar): we've come to do a gig!

nick reynolds: you can't, a decision has been made.

me and lou "two-guitars" gilbert: aw, come on nick, let 'em play, don't be such a rotten spoilsport! (or summat)

result: the fcs are highly esteemed by death trash despite the fact that we couldn't play.

I think you 3 should have a meet somewhere and toast the old days. might join you!

I think you 3 should have a meet somewhere and toast the old days. might join you!

good idea!

although pity anyone who joins us....they will be bored to tears, listening to story after story after story!

:hihi:

was that 'head' with barcode and dave?

Does anybody remember Eric and the Frantics.
Hiya Al! "Eric and the Frantics"! Is that for real? LOL!

that leadmill gig was only DTs second ever gig. trolley dog shag (i lived with ian) had been up all night and gayered out of playing that night cos they all felt rough but we knew they hadnt officially withdrawn. so we just turned up and kind of refused to not play :-) with a little help from FCS and steve mackie's mum, who was something to do with it! nick r was a bit snotty but we soon won him round ;-)

Hey all - I just joined this forum, after having Pete_fcs over to stay for a night in Leeds - and help me out with some music stuff.

Cheers Pete (when you get home and see this).

Really amazed to see that there is a handful of people out there discussing Sheffield bands of the 80s (I was in Nihilistics, Media Premonition, Feral and a couple of others - Iskra, for a while, a Blues Sisters gig...) - but I was always the talentless one on stage just because I was persistent.

Rob - Tarana - I was saying to Pete that next time I can get to Sheff for one of your gigs I will be there.

Terry

eeeyup terry

i was back home by 9.20 last night after leaving your house at 7.05.

leeds might not rock 'n' roll, but at least it's clean!

:hihi:

glad so many old musicians are coming out of the shadows to join in my thread :)
*feels proud*

glad so many old musicians are coming out of the shadows to join in my thread :)
*feels proud*

we're not old musicians....we're chuffin' ancient :thumbsup:

I feel a gig coming on....

You can't be as old as the Rolling Stones...

I feel a gig coming on....

You can't be as old as the Rolling Stones...

funnily enough, part of the reason i went to see terry was to arrange a 20th anniversary gig of the nihilistics, contemporaries of the notorious f... city s....ters.

i played in both bands as a teenager, so that puts me just younger than keith richards but older than the reynolds girls...

:hihi:

my entire band history is here (please note there's some swearing!):

http://sheffieldarchives.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

:)

im still toying with the idea of doing a website for this era in sheffield music, the bands never featured in the same breath as pulp, abc, human league etc

what do you musicians think about a page with a short history, discography maybe, a few mp3s?

the bands featured in my first post on here, others if ive forgotten any :P

sounds like a great idea!

look at how many posts and views this thread's got!

poach 'em all and take 'em to a proper site! i have a huge archive of sheffield bands from the eighties (mr morality, bedlam choir, slopdosh, plague dogs, trolley dogshag etc....although these would need permission...) which could go on as mp3's!

and of course i'd let you put on my own old bands....all 35 of 'em....

:hihi:

But we look it!

im still toying with the idea of doing a website for this era in sheffield music, the bands never featured in the same breath as pulp, abc, human league etc

what do you musicians think about a page with a short history, discography maybe, a few mp3s?

the bands featured in my first post on here, others if ive forgotten any :P

Check the homepage website in my "info" for everything you could possibly want to know about the Nihilistics (although some details are possibly slightly out due to my withered memory).

Not a punk for metal band but....Are Pig 64 still about?

But we look it!

terry, if this is a reference to our ages, i reckon twenty years of rock 'n' roll keeps you looking younger than twenty years real work!

Not a punk for metal band but....Are Pig 64 still about?

i remember them!

jelly etc?...and what was that violin player called? was in matt?

:)

Yes,it was Mat.

mat used to busk on chapel walk in the 90's when pig 64 were in a quiet phaze....

and didn't he go out with his attractive female bass player?!

:)

He did indeed.

was it you?!

No....I was just wondering if there still doing the music.

terry, if this is a reference to our ages, i reckon twenty years of rock 'n' roll keeps you looking younger than twenty years real work!

That's all very well for you to say. I've been the one working.

Jackson Station - Here....

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=142739

That's all very well for you to say. I've been the one working.

yeah but with a bit of bass-guitar smashing at home time and you can't go wrong!

:thumbsup:

Jackson Station - Here....

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=142739

i can't play sound right now....but it looks impressive! how did you get the site up and running?

:)

Hello melthebell et al

I work in same building as Pat Hancock, and used to work with Dom Bradshaw although dont see him much these days. Not sure if Bendy Monsters are still a going concern.

For short while I used to play in bands in and around West street(rehearsal rooms just down from dole office) v.briefly, my mates were in 'Hole in the Wall'

I also used to play down at the 'Basement' at Darmall, where if you were skint, they'd let you practice there for nowt.

Hello melthebell et al

I work in same building as Pat Hancock, and used to work with Dom Bradshaw although dont see him much these days. Not sure if Bendy Monsters are still a going concern.

For short while I used to play in bands in and around West street(rehearsal rooms just down from dole office) v.briefly, my mates were in 'Hole in the Wall'

I also used to play down at the 'Basement' at Darmall, where if you were skint, they'd let you practice there for nowt.


cool, i think the bendys are still there, well their website is, i just think theyre on longterm hibernation

i see you live at handsworth too, thats where dom and pat lived in the 90s anywayif i remember rightly

i think i still have doms email, but it might have changed recently, if you can let pat know about this thread / forum / me sean from school :)

i can't play sound right now....but it looks impressive! how did you get the site up and running?

:)


Just register and upload your MP3's and images - it free too.

will do.

Pat and his crowd I think were Beaver Hill types I think, I was a Brookie.

n.b. should have mentioned my band days were early 80's upto about 85/86.

We used to rehearse at a place just off near Devonshire Green too, cant remember name of the place though- an old engineering works(now student flats).

will do.

Pat and his crowd I think were Beaver Hill types I think, I was a Brookie.

n.b. should have mentioned my band days were early 80's upto about 85/86.

We used to rehearse at a place just off near Devonshire Green too, cant remember name of the place though- an old engineering works(now student flats).

yeah i went to beaver hill with pat, dom and jim herring

engineering works? ive heard of it cant quite remmeber the name, pete will lol
im sure loads of bands rehearsed there

media premonition did?

As we played in thrown-together ad-hoc bands we'd rehearse where Mat(bass player) could find us a room. Think we used at Stag Works, and somewhere off Brammall Lane for a while. A lot of established bands rooms, when they weren't using them midweek etc.

There was another one we used once behind the Beehive used by the Mau-Mau's.

We also used a practice room regularly at Hillsborough Barracks and that was about 1987-ish.

i like the mau maus :)

yeah i went to beaver hill with pat, dom and jim herring

engineering works? ive heard of it cant quite remmeber the name, pete will lol
im sure loads of bands rehearsed there

media premonition did?

I can only vaguely remember practicing somewhere round Devonshire Green - was it behind the Washington somewhere?

I think we mostly used the Mason's room down the Wicker.

I remember going to a play drums for a punk/skateboard band up some outdoor rickety old wooden stairs somewhere off West Street - I wasn't good enough though. The one bloke I can remember was Glen - and I met him doing hunt sabotage.

Yo Brother M, thanks for pointing me to here.

Glen the hunt sab is still in Sheff - he helped me celebrate my 40th by getting beaten up in the Red Lion at Heeley.

Just down the road from where Matt the violinist from Pig64 lives actually.

Mersbrook Bank Schoolyard's probaly the best place for anybody who wants to take up this thread in the flesh.

Off topic, I know, but mention of Meersbrook reminds me that Don Valley and the Rotherhides were in that neck of the woods, and, I think, The Beloved.

Yup, I know of at least one Rotherhide with kids at the school.

Off topic, I know, but mention of Meersbrook reminds me that Don Valley and the Rotherhides were in that neck of the woods, and, I think, The Beloved.

HOW DARE YOU GO OFFTOPIC

1000 lines




erm i come over all schoolteachery then

Sorry - wrists slapped.

But, DV and the Rotherhides were more "punk" than some of the bands around at the time - "Waiting for the Day that Margared Thatcher's Dead" = a timeless classic.

Good to read that Glen is still rocking - and that the Red Lion is still a pub. I remember the anarchist meetings in there in the 80s.

Sorry - wrists slapped.

But, DV and the Rotherhides were more "punk" than some of the bands around at the time - "Waiting for the Day that Margared Thatcher's Dead" = a timeless classic.



Bloody hell, i remember Don Valley and the Rotherhithes. And i remember that song. They used to busk on Fargate, and i'm sure I saw them at the Leadmill. i thought they were more "Psycho Billy" - don't know if you had that expression up here.

Red Lion might still be here, but it's a right dump!

You're right about the Red Lion - I only went in for the meetings on Sunday nights in the back room.

White Lion - much better, or better still the Broadfield - I played pool for the "third" team - along with Wak and the actor who really shot Ernie Bishop.

yeah im quite into a bit of psychobilly :)

Hello melthebell et al

I work in same building as Pat Hancock, and used to work with Dom Bradshaw although dont see him much these days. Not sure if Bendy Monsters are still a going concern.

For short while I used to play in bands in and around West street(rehearsal rooms just down from dole office) v.briefly, my mates were in 'Hole in the Wall'

I also used to play down at the 'Basement' at Darmall, where if you were skint, they'd let you practice there for nowt.

hi

i remember bendy monsters and all that lot...one of those bands did a song about slade. i also remember hole in the wall....got a few tapes i think, or at least a track on a comilation. didn't they have something to do with the dylans and later the happening men?

pete formerly fcs and ggf etc

hi

i remember bendy monsters and all that lot...one of those bands did a song about slade. i also remember hole in the wall....got a few tapes i think, or at least a track on a comilation. didn't they have something to do with the dylans and later the happening men?

pete formerly fcs and ggf etc

please dont start signing off with all your bands listed


the forum aint big enough :)

lol

Dave and Matt from Hole In The Wall joined Quentin and Andy (who both later played in The Dylans) to be in Crispin Hunt's second backing band The Happening Men.

And very privileged they were too.

Just register and upload your MP3's and images - it free too.

thanks for that seriessix!

i've been looking for a site to put my archives on for ages

:thumbsup:

.....cant quite remmeber the name, pete will lol
im sure loads of bands rehearsed there

media premonition did?

stumped me! unless it's the band co-op off west street but that one wasn't around back then.....

....

I remember going to a play drums for a punk/skateboard band up some outdoor rickety old wooden stairs somewhere off West Street - I wasn't good enough though......

that was bailey street, terry, run by tommo.

i think he managed the happening men. he took them to london to see go discs, and they were asked about the f... city sh...ters, 'cos it was "the best name we've ever heard"!

the happening men mutated into longpigs

:thumbsup:

please dont start signing off with all your bands listed


the forum aint big enough :)

lol

well i could give 'em all abbreviations...

pete of fcs, ggf, pasc, slbc, m:p, dms, lg, cr, jdb....etc

:hihi:

Warra bout mi lads...Phil Murray And The Boys From Bury.....................still going strong!

Pete

What news?

Terry

Dave and Matt from Hole In The Wall joined Quentin and Andy (who both later played in The Dylans) to be in Crispin Hunt's second backing band The Happening Men.

And very privileged they were too.

what was the name of that drummer in the dylans with curly hair?

Warra bout mi lads...Phil Murray And The Boys From Bury.....................still going strong!

nah then!

there's a band i remember....a lad called mixmif was a fan if i remember right!

:thumbsup:

what was the name of that drummer in the dylans with curly hair?

not dylan?

*gets coat*

Warra bout mi lads...Phil Murray And The Boys From Bury.....................still going strong!


I remember being in the boozer on Fox Hill in mid 80's when Stan was running it. PM and the BFB were playing and allowed my very drunk mate who was our ad-hoc singer on stage to do "Twist and SHout" with them, he kept forgetting the words and repeating same verse over and over until we draggd him off- Laugh? I nearly passed me fags round!

Andy Cook was the Dylans drummer with curly hair.

I think the practice rooms we're on about were behind the shops just down from the Limit -they're all demolished now.

I don't remember any of Pete's bands rehearsing there but I still imagine I can hear The Plague Dogs every time I come out of The Dog and Partridge.

To get into those rooms you went through an archway next to a late night chippy that sold sloppy curry and chips which everybody then spilled falling up the very dangerous stairs.

They were owned by an albino fella who also had the jewelers on the front.

I remember the smallest practice room door in the world up on the roof - just big enough to get a 4x12 cab through.

It was obligatory for all bands rehearsing there to do an "urban decay" stlye photo amongst to bits of rusty broken manchinery in the yard and there were rats too.

Until Geg ate them all.

Funnily enough I was in Pig 64 as well, playing guitar.

They mutated into a band called Sticki, and might have had a couple of other names after that. Matt (violin player) now plays solo with loops etc under the name Sieben, and Jane (the aforementioned bass player) is now playing bass for Chicken Legs Weaver.

Matt's put some nights on at the Lantern Theatre in Nether Edge recently - I remember him from The Glass Hammers - pre-Pig64 but already that swirling violin sound.

check this out...........www.boysfrombury.co.uk

....
.....

To get into those rooms you went through an archway next to a late night chippy that sold sloppy curry and chips which everybody then spilled falling up the very dangerous stairs.

They were owned by an albino fella who also had the jewelers on the front.

.....

sounds like a different room!

fcs (and plague dogs) rehearsed at bailey street in the attic, and the happening men/ dylans crowd were on the ground floor for a while.

:)

Matt's put some nights on at the Lantern Theatre in Nether Edge recently - I remember him from The Glass Hammers - pre-Pig64 but already that swirling violin sound.

the glass hammers!

i remember them. never liked the name! didn't they play the leadmill in 1989?

sounds like a different room!

fcs rehearsed at bailey street in the attic, and the happening men/ dylans crowd were on the ground floor for a while.

:)

re;Practice rooms behind Limit, I been up those rickety stairs and accross the roof with a Carlsboro cab that weighed more than I did:help: , and all the time expecting roof to cave in. Also there was no mortar between the bricks in the practice rooms, which was a bit worrying when the wind got up.

What was the name of that Bass player from glass Hammers anybody?- he was good.

Ha ha!

I bet the Glass Hammers loved the names of all your bands Pete.

Ha ha!

I bet the Glass Hammers loved the names of all your bands Pete.
lol
specially the **** city ****ters and go get ****ed :)

*sees how many of those words he can read*

lol! point taken about my band names.....

but the glass hammers made me imagine buying a hammer from wilko's, getting it home, finding it was made of glass, getting very annoyed and having to take it back!

:hihi:

anyway i think i'm too old and boring to play in bands now.

i've switched from drums to piano and i am halfway through memorising 30 harpsicord suites by purcell.

as of today (i've just this minute tried it) i can play 15 of them blindfold.

it will be my new party trick!

;)

lol! point taken about my band names.....

but the glass hammers made me imagine buying a hammer from wilko's, getting it home, finding it was made of glass, getting very annoyed and having to take it back!

:hihi:

anyway i think i'm too old and boring to play in bands now.

i've switched from drums to piano and i am halfway through memorising 30 harpsicord suites by purcell.

as of today (i've just this minute tried it) i can play 15 of them blindfold.

it will be my new party trick!

;)


you mean your stopping the carrying a pint glass on your dick one?

you mean your stopping the carrying a pint glass on your dick one?

yeah. it just falls off these days...

:|

Out of interest any of you guys know the whereabouts of Wanga who was the guitarist in Dog Soldier?

Pete

Still trying to contact The Grapes - I have a mobile number for Ash.

In the meantime, I've done a new song - have a listen on the Nihilies website - on the "other music" page - I've put it on there for you because of your problem with e-mails.

T

Out of interest any of you guys know the whereabouts of Wanga who was the guitarist in Dog Soldier?

dont think ive seen wanga since i left sheff in about 92 im afraid

you typed wanga into friendsreunited?

lol

Only just seen this thread and read it all.
RE. The practice room at the bottom of west st. we used to share a room in the top of there with Rough Copy, who i thought were pretty good. A few other dodgy practice rooms i can remember were:-
Somewhere near Bramall Lane, a rabbit warren owned by the guy who bought the Arc Roral for scrap, i think we shared with the warning.
Scam - this was near where the new court house at west bar is , it was full of rats.
Back of the Wicker, where Broad st carpark is, Willey st or something used to share with a few bands but can only remember Cosa Nostra because the entire walls werw covered in there posters.

Nihilistics reunion gig

The Grapes - 13 September.

Featuring the original 1980s line up, including:
Pete f_c_s,
Paul of SLBC, Media Premonition etc, and
Tim - AKA Techno Ken

We're looking for another band to do the gig - preferably someone who was around in the 80s and fancies doing a reunion gig for a laugh.

More information from: nihilistic.mail@ntlworld.com

or on the website: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bingo.master/

Hi all.

I must admit, this is a) my first time on this site, and
b) I feel quite intimidated by the musical knowledge between you!

Anyway, if this works, I shall be indebted to you for ever.

I am looking for the (unreleased) album by Speedy (formerly Blammo). There is slim pickings to be found on the web, and a google of the name brought me to your thread.

Now, I know I had a copy of this about 10 years ago, until my little bro (god bless him) left it to melt on the parcel shelf of our mum's car.

Coulod anyone point me in the right direction? I have one of their songs in my head and am quite certain it will not be shaken out until I hear it again.

Would anyone mind putting their thinking caps on for a man in need?

Thanks for your help in advance.

Richie

not seen wanga since i left sheff dont think

last time i met kev was at one of the leeds heineken free festivals back in the early 90s.....think it was the one i was with jools at (stranglers played)

dont think ive seen wanga since i left sheff in about 92 im afraid

you typed wanga into friendsreunited?

lol

is this him?

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b171/sheffieldarchives/people/DOGSOLDIERSINGERbypeterjones.jpg

if not i have a photo also of the short guy with long hair and a beard.

it might be him but i don't know where he is!

:) :(

is this him?

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b171/sheffieldarchives/people/DOGSOLDIERSINGERbypeterjones.jpg

if not i have a photo also of the short guy with long hair and a beard.

it might be him but i don't know where he is!

:) :(

No, thats Kev the singer. Is that a recent photo? If so he aint changed at all!

The other photo you have sounds like Wanga tho. Any chance you can post it?

Analogkid: if you PM me with your contact details (and real name) :hihi: I'll pass them on to Kev and Wanga for you. Dunno if either have got time for that kind of shenanigans these days but you never know. :thumbsup:

ETA: Kev still works in Sheffield and visits fairly often but is living in the Peak District now. Imagine eh?

is this him?

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b171/sheffieldarchives/people/DOGSOLDIERSINGERbypeterjones.jpg

if not i have a photo also of the short guy with long hair and a beard.

it might be him but i don't know where he is!

:) :(
kevs that photo

wanga was long hair / beard.....................gingery if i remember right

Analogkid: if you PM me with your contact details (and real name) :hihi: I'll pass them on to Kev and Wanga for you. Dunno if either have got time for that kind of shenanigans these days but you never know. :thumbsup:

ETA: Kev still works in Sheffield and visits fairly often but is living in the Peak District now. Imagine eh?

if they have access online, would be c00l to see em on this thread :)

Analogkid: if you PM me with your contact details (and real name) :hihi: I'll pass them on to Kev and Wanga for you. Dunno if either have got time for that kind of shenanigans these days but you never know. :thumbsup:

ETA: Kev still works in Sheffield and visits fairly often but is living in the Peak District now. Imagine eh?

Roobarbpie, PM sent

kevs that photo

wanga was long hair / beard.....................gingery if i remember right

ah yes, i have a photo of him too!

i used to take my camera to every gig and take a picture of every punter!

:)

Hi all.

I must admit, this is a) my first time on this site, and
b) I feel quite intimidated by the musical knowledge between you!

Anyway, if this works, I shall be indebted to you for ever.

I am looking for the (unreleased) album by Speedy (formerly Blammo). There is slim pickings to be found on the web, and a google of the name brought me to your thread.

Now, I know I had a copy of this about 10 years ago, until my little bro (god bless him) left it to melt on the parcel shelf of our mum's car.

Coulod anyone point me in the right direction? I have one of their songs in my head and am quite certain it will not be shaken out until I hear it again.

Would anyone mind putting their thinking caps on for a man in need?

Thanks for your help in advance.

Richie

i've got some old blammo tapes, but can't post them/ copy them without permission!

:(

ah yes, i have a photo of him too!

i used to take my camera to every gig and take a picture of every punter!

:)
why arent i on any then?


:P

Pete of the F**k City Sh*****S????

The mans an Animal

....but he bought me a drink once so he's ok I suppose? :thumbsup:

This is a great thread and its good to see folk still around after all these years.

Tommy (Bass) - SLOPDOSH BOBBAR & IVAN CRUMP

PS. Pete....If its ok with you I have a pic of you and me at a GGF gig at the Hallamshire in July 1987 I can put up (oooer!!) and a few SLOPDOSH ones if you want to see them?

HAHAHA welcome tommy

good to see all these musicians from back in the forgotten era posting in this thread :)

Thanks MTB

.........now does anyone remeber that fella with a beard called Richard who used to photograph us? He was a mate of Smiffy (manager). Hes got some great pics but I have no idea what happened to him and some copies would be nice :D

The last time I heard from Pete (FCS) he sent me a 12" of something he was involved with called SLBC or summat like that around 1993/94 time.

Oh and if anyone does put the SLOPDOSH stuff on MP3 can I have a copy cos I dunno if I still have that tape which we did in October 1988 called 'Two Cartons of Yougurt and a Trumpet'.

Just to save any confusion as well, there was only ever one SLOPDOSH BOBBAR & IVAN CRUMP

Mixmif - vocals and sexual breathing
Dave 'beyond reach' Oates - Geetar
Tommy - Bass
Ral - other geetar
Mick - Drums

I saw a post where someone mentions the gig at Wath? That was a good gig. Didn't someone smash a door or something?

RE: The Bland
Another well recieved gig was supporting the Bland at Chesterfield Arts College. I know the first band got a slagging off in the papers for being **** which was bang out of order in our opinion even if they were :D

My personal favourite gig?

The Hallamshire Hotel in 1989. I think one of the bands was called 'ferrel' or summat like that? I know they had a bird who seemed a bit stuck up but she was well worth a jolly good rogering. Infact we only had 24 hours notice before we were due to play that gig and we was the first band on and it was said that the other bands were not keen on having us there because we had no manners and a sense of humour. Its was ****ing brilliant, the place was packed, Plug and John were keeping the crowds moving, we sounded good, the whole band were on top form. We went off and the place emptied, which ****** off the other band and the headline band even more, but we were polite and stayed till the end to make up the numbers :D This is one gig I'm not sure if there are any pictures of, if someone does have pictures from the HALLAMSHIRE gig in '89 can I see them? If your female I might even allow you to sleep with me before you hand them over if you like? :D:D:D

Thanks MTB

.........now does anyone remeber that fella with a beard called Richard who used to photograph us? He was a mate of Smiffy (manager). Hes got some great pics but I have no idea what happened to him and some copies would be nice :D

The last time I heard from Pete (FCS) he sent me a 12" of something he was involved with called SLBC or summat like that around 1993/94 time.

Oh and if anyone does put the SLOPDOSH stuff on MP3 can I have a copy cos I dunno if I still have that tape which we did in October 1988 called 'Two Cartons of Yougurt and a Trumpet'.

Just to save any confusion as well, there was only ever one SLOPDOSH BOBBAR & IVAN CRUMP

Mixmif - vocals and sexual breathing
Dave 'beyond reach' Oates - Geetar
Tommy - Bass
Ral - other geetar
Mick - Drums

I saw a post where someone mentions the gig at Wath? That was a good gig. Didn't someone smash a door or something?

RE: The Bland
Another well recieved gig was supporting the Bland at Chesterfield Arts College. I know the first band got a slagging off in the papers for being **** which was bang out of order in our opinion even if they were :D

My personal favourite gig?

The Hallamshire Hotel in 1989. I think one of the bands was called 'ferrel' or summat like that? I know they had a bird who seemed a bit stuck up but she was well worth a jolly good rogering. Infact we only had 24 hours notice before we were due to play that gig and we was the first band on and it was said that the other bands were not keen on having us there because we had no manners and a sense of humour. Its was ****ing brilliant, the place was packed, Plug and John were keeping the crowds moving, we sounded good, the whole band were on top form. We went off and the place emptied, which ****** off the other band and the headline band even more, but we were polite and stayed till the end to make up the numbers :D This is one gig I'm not sure if there are any pictures of, if someone does have pictures from the HALLAMSHIRE gig in '89 can I see them? If your female I might even allow you to sleep with me before you hand them over if you like? :D:D:D

dont think i saw that hallamshire gig, however i saw conflict and the plague dogs at take 2 that year and theres a band indeed called feral. also saw them in 1990 again with the plague dogs
i have a book with most of the gigs i saw written down so i actually remember :P
looks like i saw slopdosh 6 times (just holler if you want details of date, venue and bands :P)

the 12" is by slbc psychoterrorism research unit, i have 1 too, could be the same 12"

i believe i still have slopdosh on tape somewhere, if i can dig it out i might record onto cd and then rip onto the puter :)


by the way tommy you know me

Sean (who had green mohican, later in dreads) from the peace gardens, fountain, lived with stevo and that at holtwood road for a bit
i believe we had a falling out once which lead to fisticuffs in the peace gardens :P

good to see you still about, upto much musically still?

Shaun you ugly ****er, how you doing? Its been a long time mate. Don't think I ever came to 'fisticuffs' with you though??? Thats definately a new one on me, but I'm sure if we had you'd still be feeling it even today?;)

I was actually asking about you a while back but all I was told was you moved out of Sheffield a few years ago. Yeah you were DEFINATELY one of us. I have a pic somewhere of you at the front of the gig with Tadz and you turned up with the green hair wearing a flowery night shirt, I doubt you've ever seen the pic? Its not very clear but its enough for you and those who know you to agree it is you.....something I bet you would be more than happy to confirm anyway ya mad git :D Didn't you knock about with Smithy (from Rotherham) and Angela? I used to go out with Angie but I think Smithy was seeing her last time I heard? But thats going back about 15 years.

Tell you what Shaun it would be good to see you again mate. You was definately one of 'our lot'.

BTW.......Tadz also did the backing vocals on 'Sunday Sport' he's the one making the authentic orgasm sounds towards the end of the song and I thought you were there as well? I can't speak for the rest of the band but if you could put a link up to a 'Sunday Sport' mp3 thats ok with me cos lets be fair theres alot of ladies out there who deserve it :D

lol
yeah i was smiffy all the time
and marmite andy and that

as far as i know i never went to any recordings
i do vaguely remember the gigs with the nightshirts :P


its stange, theres that many people on here from the peace gardens etc
you, me, i believe mixsmiff is, although we aint talked as yet, i talked to slopdosh daves ex missus (i believe) the other week, mohican stuart, froggys missus

i need to get down to sheff for a week, dunno when tho works abitch att he moment :( not been down for aaaaaaaaaages

i moved away in about 92 / 93
now seen terrorizing the countryside :)

Theres nowt wrong with the countryside mate. Sheep worrying is still my second favourire thing.

Theres nowt wrong with the countryside mate. Sheep worrying is still my second favourire thing.
talking of which, you see one of the macc lads died a while back?

the macc lads at the take 2 was prolly the fullest gig ive ever seen, the only way to move was via crowd surfing lol

The two dayer? Yeah it was good. They were supported by Peter (of the Test Tube Babies) other band THE MASKED RAIDERS. I did read about their loss as well, twas bad. I think Chip Shop Phil was actually two thirds of that crowd? :D

.....


its stange, theres that many people on here from the peace gardens etc
.......

...and here they all are:

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b171/sheffieldarchives/people/MIXMIFFSLOPDOSHcentrePLUSFANSbypete.jpg

:thumbsup:

.....

PS. Pete....If its ok with you I have a pic of you and me at a GGF gig at the Hallamshire in July 1987 I can put up (oooer!!) and a few SLOPDOSH ones if you want to see them?

hi tommy

yep, anything ferra laugh! i have one of you stood in a shop doorway on london road waiting for a bus in 1989!

:thumbsup:

why arent i on any then?


:P

you might be!

i'd have to go through them all and post 'em without asking everyone who's on them!

already posted one without checking (group photo) so anyone who wants to remain anon please let me know and i'll remove it!

:thumbsup:

oh yeah,

and i'm starting to put the story of the f*** city s***ters on line:

http://www.freewebs.com/story_of_the_fcs/

:)

...and here they all are:

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b171/sheffieldarchives/people/MIXMIFFSLOPDOSHcentrePLUSFANSbypete.jpg

:thumbsup:
mixmiff and thats mohican nick in front, rememeber the lass but no idea her name

oh yeah,

and i'm starting to put the story of the f*** city s***ters on line:

http://www.freewebs.com/story_of_the_fcs/

:)

lol, nice read :P
cant wait for the rest.......eee its like a soap opera

lol, nice read :P
cant wait for the rest.......eee its like a soap opera

....yeah, "dog-enders", the everyday story of s***ter folk

:hihi:

just been checking out 3 new songs by Chris of blind mole rat

hes now in a country punk band called sundown sinners, thanx taxman for the heads up :P
it still sounds very bmr to me, sounds good.

the site says from cash to the clash....sums up his influences a lot i think

just been checking out 3 new songs by Chris of blind mole rat

hes now in a country punk band called sundown sinners, thanx taxman for the heads up :P
it still sounds very bmr to me, sounds good.

the site says from cash to the clash....sums up his influences a lot i think

When I heard "I hear that train a coming" I thought of BMR's seminal work "Freight Train Guitars"

just having a go at recording some demo tapes to cd, then ill rip onto the puter
ive started with systematic annex cos it was already out :P the others are in boxes under piles of other boxes :( suppose ill get em out at some point
not sure on copyright tho, specially like this systematic annex one, no ide on finding out where the members are now let alone contacting em

hm just dug out another demo tape by a sheffield band id forgotten, sorry guys

No response - 30 second head war.

the contact address was crooksmoor
and is dated 95

Just a couple more bands who I liked back then

DEATH TRASH
Bolweevles (**** knows about the spelling? :D )
SLUG
GGF
(I think) REPTILE HOUSE had Jayne on Bass?
COSA NOSTRA Jayne played for them as well?
DURANGO 95
The Radiacs

Just a couple more bands who I liked back then

DEATH TRASH
Bolweevles (**** knows about the spelling? :D )
SLUG
GGF
(I think) REPTILE HOUSE had Jayne on Bass?
COSA NOSTRA Jayne played for them as well?
DURANGO 95
The Radiacs
hmmmm
bolweevils ive never heard of
slug i think i have


i have an old ggf demo im gonna record and rip :)


by the way tommy i always remembered you were into horse london?
i have a horse london 12" i found in a charity shop, all because of you ya ******* :P

hmmmm
bolweevils ive never heard of
slug i think i have


i have an old ggf demo im gonna record and rip :)


by the way tommy i always remembered you were into horse london?
i have a horse london 12" i found in a charity shop, all because of you ya ******* :P

Horse London eh? Wow, thats going back to 1989. I remeber them playing the TAKE TWO CLUB and I liked 'em so much they invited me down to their gig at the MARQUEE in London. Death Trash were supporting and went down like a lead balloon when Murry thought it would be very original to set fire to his guitar. HL were also mates with ZODIAC MINDWARP and used some of their equipment, so I got to twang a couple of Zodys guitars. I remeber Punky Clive being there and his mate called Gary I think?

just ripping the 1987 ggf demo onto the puter

just totted up how many times i saw them
13

must be the band ive seen the most

just ripping the 1987 ggf demo onto the puter

just totted up how many times i saw them
13

must be the band ive seen the most

Nice one, will you be able to post them on here?

Unfortunately I lost that demo years ago along with all the others.

Nice one, will you be able to post them on here?

Unfortunately I lost that demo years ago along with all the others.

tbh thats what i wanna do, stick em on a website with a bit of info etc
ive just done ggf, dog soldier (only 4 tracks the others were knackered), no response (mark who was in human perogrative, i have their demo somewhere too), media premonition, the dogs ******** (mohican nicks band), systematic :annex: (anarcho punk band from woodhouse) and ive just done a single various vegetables song and just doing a food? demo

trouble is i wouldnt know how to start getting in contact for permission

i also have 4 muzzle club / bendy monsters
4 blind mole rat
1 elfin
demos
aswell as bastion, moral justice i think, truth decay, human perogrative
if i can dig em out :)

To be honest Mel I don't think anyone would mind you posting these songs as you'd be archiving them from a historical perspective and not for monetary gain.

Thanks for the GGF link, how good is that demo eh? Excellent songs forgotten how good they were. Nice guitar work Mr Barber :thumbsup:

By the way Mel, does the Dog Soldier demo have 'I Love Uranium' on it?

By the way Mel, does the Dog Soldier demo have 'I Love Uranium' on it?

yup it does, however thats a song that wont play :(
its strange cos its recorded on the bside of the ggf demo, and that plays perfectly, you play the bside and most of the songs keep stopping due to a tight tape???? strange

To be honest Mel I don't think anyone would mind you posting these songs as you'd be archiving them from a historical perspective and not for monetary gain.

Thanks for the GGF link, how good is that demo eh? Excellent songs forgotten how good they were. Nice guitar work Mr Barber :thumbsup:

yeah thats what i thought :P
but i dont wanna be getting into trouble :P
the muzzle club, blind mole rat, i can prolly get contact for, and maybe richs bands cos hes got a website for his new band bickles cab

some of the other stuff i wouldnt know where to start :P
in the meantime ive got to work out where to host it all

yeah that ggf demos prolly the best punk stuff from that period, awesome, i love the banter inbetween.....poor bill lol

Stick them on this site.

http://www.soundclick.com/


It's free. No money to be made - just sharing music, and that is what it's all about....

ah but it is still supposed to be your own music not somebody elses :P

hmmmm bit of a grey area

just to thread steal, im looking for a punky singer for a new band... wildhearts kinda punky rock style. :) pass on any details if you know anyone. ta!

p.s. do WORM fall into the bracket of pre 1996?.. i saw them last week at rother valley and apparantly they av been around a while..much better live then on their myspace i thought

just to thread steal, im looking for a punky singer for a new band... wildhearts kinda punky rock style. :) pass on any details if you know anyone. ta!

p.s. do WORM fall into the bracket of pre 1996?.. i saw them last week at rother valley and apparantly they av been around a while..much better live then on their myspace i thought

well theres no hard or fast rules :)
as long as theyre forgotten in the great scheme of things...ala human league, pulp, artic monkeys type fame

Hi Mel, can you respond if online?

I found your thread on punk bands in the 80's and your mention of systematic annexe....

i was the bass player and mark the guitarist is my best mate to this day. sadly, all we have to show for our work, is a copy each of the conflict compilation album we are on... i saw a thread where you said youd put some of our stuff onto cd... is it live ? anything you have, i will gladly pay you for the trouble, miffy will be well chuffed as well....

ade

Hi Mel, can you respond if online?

I found your thread on punk bands in the 80's and your mention of systematic annexe....

i was the bass player and mark the guitarist is my best mate to this day. sadly, all we have to show for our work, is a copy each of the conflict compilation album we are on... i saw a thread where you said youd put some of our stuff onto cd... is it live ? anything you have, i will gladly pay you for the trouble, miffy will be well chuffed as well....

ade

woooh lol
when i saw the name death trades i thought, nah cant be
but it is...systematic annex related :P
ade ive pmed you.......with a link to the demo i uploaded a while back :)
seems strange giving a member of the band back his own demo lol, suppose thats what you call legal uploading?
anyway if you wanna contribute to my punk metal bands history thread feel welcome, and if you have any photos of the band, i wouldnt mind seeing em :P

I last saw Kev in St.Ives around 1995, just bumped into him ... I know Mark still sees Shaun around Sheffield at weekends, did you know Mark miffy Smith as well then?

i tried the link to that zip file, but my download manager's telling me it doent exist....thanks for offering though

LOL... sorry, but my keyboard is playing up so i cant type brackets , exclamations etc...

yep, the username was hopefully a giveaway, i was trying too choose from the songs i remember:

death trades
resist to exist
i wonder

by 1986, i'd left the band and Kev stopped talking to me up until i bumped into him in 1995... i live in devon now, but i keep in touch with mark and have a boozy session everytime i visit him.

hmmmmm
those kind of sites dont like download managers
i use the one with firefox, works fine, keep trying
if not let us know and ill try and get it to you again

not sure i knew mark, maybe
tbh this should all be in the punk metal thread in the history section :P

is there anychance you can do us a bit of history on the band that you can remmember.
as its a band i remember but dont know much about
line up changes, any gigs you remember, any other bands shared the practice room (behind the com centre in woodhouse if i remember rightly) i remmeber being scared as a kid and seeing in their with all the punk posters all over the walls :P

I'll try firefox... mmm I'm gonna have to kickstart them memory a bit here...just for starters, i remember Mick from the centre driving us to London, where we did a gig with around a dozen other bands. It had been organised by CONFLICT and i think it was in Gloders Green? or Lewisham? the pub was the Togers Head anyway.

After our set, Mark and Shaun went to the toilets and a couple of big guys dressed in black came in behind the, first they thought they were gonna get a kicking, until one of them introduced themselves as members of conflict and that they wanted to put us on their Mortarhate compilation.

I also remember being offered a slot at a festival at the marcus Garvey centre in Nottingham , by Flux of pink indians....as me and kev were well into them, i was wetting myself about doing a gig with them...Mark was more a Rudimentary Peni fan. We sat in a corner of the hall all day, sat with the poet Joolz, buit no-one approached us....watched Flux do their bit... watched a few more...Crass came on...Chumbawamba went on....then Kev got peed off and went to find Colin from Flux...only to be told that unfortunately, the owners had been asked to wind the event down and no more bands were going on.....aaaaaaghhhhhhhh.

We used to support Chumbawamba, before they went Tubthumping and occupied the peace church just up from Sheffield cathedral ...I remember a reggae band going on before us and shorting out the P.A LOL... then a guy turns up and gets a silver foil wrapper from a Wrigleys and rolls it tight....then puts it in the plug for the P.A- then we went on...i was cacking myself.

Golders Green and Tigers Head LOL...told you i was having problems...

cool thats the sort of stuff :)
a proper history from a lost band

a small bit of history about systematic annex by death trades who played with em, hope you dont mind me copying that here, but i think the mods will moan if we keep off topic in that other thread :P

"just for starters, i remember Mick from the centre driving us to London, where we did a gig with around a dozen other bands. It had been organised by CONFLICT and i think it was in Golders Green? or Lewisham? the pub was the Tigers Head anyway.

After our set, Mark and Shaun went to the toilets and a couple of big guys dressed in black came in behind the, first they thought they were gonna get a kicking, until one of them introduced themselves as members of conflict and that they wanted to put us on their Mortarhate compilation.

I also remember being offered a slot at a festival at the marcus Garvey centre in Nottingham , by Flux of pink indians....as me and kev were well into them, i was wetting myself about doing a gig with them...Mark was more a Rudimentary Peni fan. We sat in a corner of the hall all day, sat with the poet Joolz, buit no-one approached us....watched Flux do their bit... watched a few more...Crass came on...Chumbawamba went on....then Kev got peed off and went to find Colin from Flux...only to be told that unfortunately, the owners had been asked to wind the event down and no more bands were going on.....aaaaaaghhhhhhhh.

We used to support Chumbawamba, before they went Tubthumping and occupied the peace church just up from Sheffield cathedral ...I remember a reggae band going on before us and shorting out the P.A LOL... then a guy turns up and gets a silver foil wrapper from a Wrigleys and rolls it tight....then puts it in the plug for the P.A- then we went on...i was cacking myself."

oops, sorry...

oops, sorry...
np
im trying to get the posts moved here :)

right i think were settled, all systematic annex posts have been merged together :P

or rather systematic :annex:

Mod note: Threads moved and merged.

so far the only bit of systematic annex i know is this

GIGS
FRI MAR 23RD: SHEFFIELD - ???? Peace Squat Squat gig with Passion KIllers, chumbawamba
24th april 1986 sheff hallamshire hotel with toxic toys, and no dead meat - my first ever gig, i only knew systematic annex then :P


--------------------------------------------------------

death trades featured on the motorhate label comp lp
Various Artists
We Won't Be Your ****ing Poor! 2x12"
Label(s): Mortarhate
Format: 2x12"
Tracks: 32
Year Released: 1985
Catalogue Number(s): MORT 13

i know mad mickey flannagan was thanked on systematics bit of that album, if i remember rightly (i used to own it, i dont now :( )
we used to play that album all the time at the youth club in the community centre purely cos systematic annex were on it :P

Mickey Flanagan, I would love to know what he is doing now...he did loads for us.

Just finished downloading the file, can't thank you enough...

I feel saddened and elated at the same time... resist to exist was wriiten around my bass line, but this recording isn't me....most weird.

Who? however, definetly IS ME and I'd forgotten all about it LOL...

even Miffy will have trouble remembering it.

Oh... Death Trades, that's me as well.. bass a bit out of tune... done at a bloke's house in Woodhouse, i seem to recall he was called Ken hargeaves, sadly, he's probably not around, he was getting on then...

I remember Mark laying a second guitar track down and I was sat next door listening with Kev and Shaun...

there was a convection heater on the wall and Shaun told me to just tap my forearm on it... I asked why and he just said: just do it... so i did - Doh... he jumped on me and held my arm on it....a mass of raised red dots that stung like crap for the next two days....cheers williams, you cock, LOL

OH,by the way, you mentioned you had contacted someone who had a Chumbawamba gig recorded? were we supporting? if so, can you get me the recording? NAME YOUR PRICE SIR...

LOL...I forgot to mention.. when i left systematic annexe, i auditioned for HULA... I went to Nort's place up Abbeydale Road and jammed with the band in Nort's basement... they then gave me all their red Rhino label EP's to learn the bass lines... i chickened out, cos Nort had loads of polaroids in his house sporting erections/ loads of bowls with cat food and loads of bedside clocks all stuck at 2 o' clock... my mum drove me down to leave the ep's on his doorstep saying i had joined another band.... 6 months later, i read the NME to discover that HULA supported Depeche Mode and even played Wembley...AAAAAGGGGGHHH

LOL...I forgot to mention.. when i left systematic annexe, i auditioned for HULA... I went to Nort's place up Abbeydale Road and jammed with the band in Nort's basement... they then gave me all their red Rhino label EP's to learn the bass lines... i chickened out, cos Nort had loads of polaroids in his house sporting erections/ loads of bowls with cat food and loads of bedside clocks all stuck at 2 o' clock... my mum drove me down to leave the ep's on his doorstep saying i had joined another band.... 6 months later, i read the NME to discover that HULA supported Depeche Mode and even played Wembley...AAAAAGGGGGHHH

LOL

which leads us nicely onto media premonition :P
i have a demo tape of them that nort co produced
which ive ripped, not sure im supposed to share that tho tbh

by the way i always remember shaun and kev (i think) used to walk round dressed as adam and the ants in the real early eighties, did you too?
i know its a bit of an embarrassing question, sorry :P



on the sleeve of the demo it says copyright 1984/1985
ive always believed anathema was 1984 and systematic annex was 1985
correct? obviously youll only know when you guys recorded yours
1985 wouldve been the year i left school :P

lol ive got so many questions about systematic, sorry dude :P
just a band ive always loved but dont know anything about, even tho i knew members of (mainly cos i was a bit young, you guys were a few years older than me)

could you type out the list of songs and put which songs you actually played on and which you know the others were on?

ill try and compile as much info about systematic and make a webpage if thats ok?

LOL, really? I joined them in 84, so I only knew kev and shaun with mohawks...they had an interview in the sheffield star music section and they said they were looking for a bass player. i rang kev and he got mick to come and pick me up in the community centre van, me living all the way out in burncross...i wsh i had mor recordings and photos ...i imagine kev has loads. shaun went onto join a psychobilly band that had a huge following, but none of us are playing in bands. when i get together with mark, we end up jamming to RHCP, pearl jam, STP, soundgarden etc...BUT NOT ADAM AND THE ANTS LOL...

shaun went onto join a psychobilly band that had a huge following,

the radiacs?



when i search for systematic annex on google, theres 1 tape that comes up on peoples trades lists..........a demo with mdc live on the other side, dont have a clue if its the acceptance demo or something else, dont think theres any live systematic out there either :( shame
ive only ever seen one copy of the acceptance demo and thats what i have


aaahhhh your not a woodhouser like the rest of em then?

that was them i think...yep, i was the outsider

...and here they all are:

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b171/sheffieldarchives/people/MIXMIFFSLOPDOSHcentrePLUSFANSbypete.jpg

:thumbsup:

doh-the one and only A.L.F :love: :love: :love:
R.I.P in doggy heaven x

LOL

which leads us nicely onto media premonition :P
i have a demo tape of them that nort co produced
which ive ripped, not sure im supposed to share that tho tbh

As a former member of Media Premonition - I'm about 100% certain nobody would mind.

Also - I read an earlier post about Feral - I did that gid at the Hallamshire as the drummer (the bass pedal broke half way through, which buggered me a bit as I couldn't really play drums in the first place). I remember the plague dogs were in the audience. The singer was Simone. I didn't last long with them.

Also - The Nihilistics just had a weekend get together to practice for the reunion gig at the Grapes on 13 Sept. Will be a good night for all Sheffield 80s band nostalgics - we'll have plenty of local old stuff on in between bands.

cool thats 2 demos i may be able to share :)

its the nitro karaoke ep tape, if that makes a difference?
any ex ggf members in the audience? :P

ive seen feral twice according to my book, cant remember if ive already said, said it again just incase :)

anybody know owt about swampwalk? are they a sheff band? i seem to have seen them...with truth decay once, i cant remember em tbh

If you are in contact with BMR Chris - tell him hey up from Terry. We were in the ill-fated Steel City Anarchist Group together, about a generation ago.

Wow...this thread stopped dead in its tracks. I can now assume that Slopdosh were actually the sexiest of all the bands and every one else was just second place? :D:D:D

You're probably right Tommy. I don't think we (The Nihilistics, or Media Premonition, or Feral for that matter) were up to much in the sexiest band stakes - unlike the FCS, who may have just nicked it.

If you are in contact with BMR Chris - tell him hey up from Terry. We were in the ill-fated Steel City Anarchist Group together, about a generation ago.

Chris and his new band will be up in Sheffield 19th October doing a gig at the Red House

sounds like a different room!

fcs (and plague dogs) rehearsed at bailey street in the attic, and the happening men/ dylans crowd were on the ground floor for a while.

:)

Christ(TM) knows how many bands have practiced on Bailey Street! Lost count of how many times I fell out of Rebels and ended up in there ........ anyway, a couple of metal bands I remember from the (very) early 90's were Systematic Insanity and Reprobate, a very dodgy indie/rock band called Fool's Gold (ahem), and (I'll get slaughtered for this) Candy Paige from the late 80's ..........

Christ(TM) knows how many bands have practiced on Bailey Street! Lost count of how many times I fell out of Rebels and ended up in there ........ anyway, a couple of metal bands I remember from the (very) early 90's were Systematic Insanity and Reprobate, a very dodgy indie/rock band called Fool's Gold (ahem), and (I'll get slaughtered for this) Candy Paige from the late 80's ..........
think i knew members of those, forgot about em tbh
anybody got any info, band members etc?

think i knew members of those, forgot about em tbh
anybody got any info, band members etc?

Can't remember the names from Systematic Insanity, but I know most of them used to live in Firth Park/Shiregreen, and used to go in the Wharncliffe. Can see the guitarist clearly in my head ....... I think Lee (who's now a glass collector in t'Corp) used to knock about with them too. I think they played a few gigs with Boltthrower??????

Somewhere I've got Reprobate's demo on tape - I did have the original, but that went west a long, long time ago ........

think i knew members of those, forgot about em tbh
anybody got any info, band members etc?

Matt and Wes seem to ring a bell with Systematic Insanity ........ and a short ginger guy with a dodgy 'tache and beard ........

Actually it might have been Wit, not Wes ........

Just one week to go till the Nihilistics 19th anniversary reunion gig at The Grapes - featuring Pete fcs, Paul of SLBC/Media Premonition and Tim - AKA Techno Ken etc.

Just £3 on the door.

Will play old tracks by lots of old Sheffield bands between bands.

Latest news - Dog Canute are going to play this night as well - anyone who liked Midnight Choir will enjoy them.