If ILE was '76/'77 English Punk, Who Would You Be?

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You must tell all once you've seen it before I drag LC off to see it and spend the evening ranting about how WRONG WROMNG WRONG it is...or is it?

DG, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Well, points in its favour include the full cooperation of everyone involved in Manc scene. I won't pass judgement on the Coog as Tony Wilson until after the fact.

suzy, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Who plays Vini Reilly is what I want to know.

Sean as Marc Bolan...hanging around with all the sweet young punk rock things...yes, that works. ;-) But surely you don't want to end up running into a tree?

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That's what I thought as well. Surely Sean doesn't wish he hadn't outlived the Year Of Punk?

Robin Carmody, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

David - I reckon we know the same person, because he told me that he was at Sussex Univ too. And he mentioned Gene October.

His name is Steve Upstone. I've worked with him for 10+ years and only found this out last month.

Dr. C, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i'd be either Dennis Bovell, Epic Soundtracks, or all of Kleenex. i'd say Pete Shelley but someone else already took him, so i couldn't possibly... if i were american i'd probably be Jad Fair, though that'd be around '79-'80...

i've noticed a lot of answers, mine included, started leaning towards post-punk... which is much more exciting anyway.

good thread, this one.

mike j, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Who plays Vini Reilly is what I want to know.

Not The Pinefox, apparently. Therefore, entire project = worthless.

Michael Jones, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

His name is Steve Upstone.

Not the person I know, but he must have been in the same band as the person I know (Rob Harper - who later joined The Clash as drummer, after Terry Chimes...before Topper Headon).

David Inglesfield, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hey, I want to be Vini Reilly

electric sound of jim, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ian Curtis.

I was going to say that I should be Poly Styrene seeing as I've got pilot goggles, but having thought about it (and googled) I can't find any evidence that she did wear any herself. Surely I'm not just mad? Does anyone remember if she did?

emil.y, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Well, points in its favour include the full cooperation of everyone involved in Manc scene.

Well we both know ONE angry punk dyke — w.her own fac number no less — that that ain't so of, suzy!!

mark s, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Andy Gill?

Andy K., Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

David - there's a website with photos of the pre-Gen X/Chelsea folks on it. I'll check it out.

Dr. C, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Mark's right!

suzy, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'd want to be Linton Kwesi Johnson

suzy, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

No, I'd want to be Linton Kwesi Johnson.

Ed, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The body swap experiments continue.

Ed, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It really pays to actually read closely the thread header. Esp. since neither of Messrs. Mothersbaugh or Harrison are Brits.

I'll pick either Jon King or Pete Shelley. Covers the same ground as Mothersbaugh/Harrison though on different turf (I think?)

Tadeusz Suchodolski, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Gary Numan pretending to be punk just to get signed

Alan Trewartha, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Jilted John.

Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Mark Perry, 'cos we come from the same neck of the woods...

Andrew L, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

David - this is the link. (http://www.billyidol.com/Rockettes.html). The band was called the Rockettes - no mention of Rob Harper, but I'll ask him.

The bloke at the next desk to me used to be in the Frantic Elevators, and now plays in a band with Idol's old mate. They play stuff like Cray/Clapton/John Martyn etc, so not of interest. I'm the only true punXOR round here!

Dr. C, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I be Derek Bailey coz hes the BOSS the DON he be hipper than all that punk shit an he aint never changed never sold out for the benjamins and he be hip forevah he be hippest fuckah in '77 as he be now DB RULES YOU FAGGOT PARKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lung Topo, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

David - this is the link. (http://www.billyidol.com/Rockettes.html). The band was called the Rockettes - no mention of Rob Harper, but I'll ask him.

Delving deep into trivia now. I'm almost certain that that's Rob Harper's white Premier drum kit with 'customised' bendy cymbal stands that he still had when I first met him. But it's somebody else actually playing the drums in the photos.

David Inglesfield, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

five months pass...
I don't know her name... In "The Filth & the Fury", there's a blonde girl in what appears to be a black rubber dress, dancing on the stage & holding a pint. She looks likes she's having so much fun!

Miss Laura, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Donny Osmond!

jel --, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Captain Sensible. (Although if Tom's Mark Perry I'll be his Danny Baker).

Pete, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

John Lydon, whinging and cranky, increasingly so as I get older, and I get to sing "taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake down tinseltown" in about 20 years time.

Ronan, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link


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