Look at the funny old ladies, they’ve started a punk band. And they’re all, like, 55 years old.
Honestly, who writes this sh*t?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-leicestershire-59206723
Old punks never die
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Hong Kong Garden Centre
Anarchy In The Darby and Joan Club
Alternative Leicester
(White Man) in Hammersmith Aldi
Stiff Lidl Fingers
Julie’s Been Working For The Women’s Institute.
Oh Whist Drive, Up Yours
Deeply sexist and patronising. The world that the Slits were kicking against is alive and well 40+ years later.
@fentonsteve
Who writes this shit?
Phil and Philippa Space, a married couple who are both freelance journos
I can’t remember if I posted this before but I was on the seafront a while back and there was a lady of about 60 with a chic, short, grey hairstyle, sedately riding one of those Dutch style bikes, wearing a Stiff Little Fingers t-shirt.
Last time I was in Whitby a wonderful goth couple came down the steps from the Abbey, in the full gear: leather coats, dog collars, dyed long black hair, stovepipe hat (for the fella), massive boots. In their late seventies if not older.
(Now someone will probably reply they are/were a well known couple who fell to their deaths, from the top in 1905……. ooo-eee-ooo)
Quiet Riot
Chairlifts of the World Unite
Nice Man in Hammersmith Palais
Lost In The Supermarket…
If you were a 16-year-old in the summer of ’76 you must be 61 now.
If you still think of yourself as a punk, then you’ve been stuck for 45 years.
I think “old” people sticking with whichever youth cult that they were attached to in their teens is as ridiculous today as the sight of a 60 year old punk would have been in 1977.
I recall walking through Bradford in the seventies and seeing a chap in his sixties dressed in the full bay city rollers gear. Very strange.
awful reporting, but absolutely fair play to the ladies in question. Got to be better than the WI
Pretty dreadful all round IMO.
The reporting & the group. If they felt the need to wait over 40 years until ‘punk’ was completely safe and irrelevant, I’m not sure it’s really been bubbling under the surface all that time.
It’s good to have a hobby, but bell ringing or growing veg for competitions is far more ‘punk’ than Punk these days.
Get off your high horses. It’s fun. Give them the headline spot on the main stage. All power to them – I fancy the keyboard player
The reporting sucks, but the idea behind the band and the band itself rules. Sounds like they’re already winding people up! Great fun.
My goodness there are some sour responses here! They look like they’re having an absolute blast, and why not. Looks like terrific fun to me, and remember, they’ve got off their arses and done something musical, which I bet the majority here never have.
It’s the condescending tone of the article that gets my goat, not the band.
Wot ^ ee sed.
What’s condescending about this fairly flat statement of the facts about the band?
“An all-female garage punk band whose members have an average age of 55 are trying to encourage more middle-aged women to play instruments.
The Verinos, who formed as Leicester’s extended lockdown measures were eased, perform songs which address age and gender stereotypes.
The five-piece act has auditioned to play at next year’s Glastonbudget music festival in response to the male-dominated line-ups at other UK festivals.
“Often there’s that idea that you’re just going to dig your garden and go to Zumba or visit a National Trust property,” songwriter and guitarist Ruth Miller said.
“We want to be in a punk band. We don’t want to just watch daytime TV.”
And the video clip is mainly the band speaking for themselves.
What am I not seeing?
Probably that it is newsworthy at all? I hope these youngsters go far ….
Compared to a lot of Afterword favourites, these people are whippersnappers.
It says it’s an all-female garage band, but the pic in the article linked in the OP – isn’t that Graham Parker?
@Simpering-wreck
Yes, but he now apparently identifies as Gloria Graham-Parker
Up yours, grandchild!
An opportunity to play this rather lovely song from the under-appreciated Darren Hanlon.
Punks not dead. She’s just gone to bed.
a mate supported the UK Subs the other night with the 77 year old singer Charlie (nicest man in the biz) Harper