A decent video clip from Punk on the Peninsula recently, with Stinky Turner introducing the new Cockney Rejects (albeit with a stand in for the permanent new fellow on drums).
(video in comments)
Meet the new Rejects
Cock Sparrer – time for a reappraisal?
Someone from this crew has recently joined the reformed Cockney Rejects. This is their new single. Do any of us have ‘previous’ with the ‘Sparrer?
999 – time for a reappraisal?
I made a field trip into the world of 70s punk last night for a triple bill of Petesy Burns’ Hoakers (actually, a new power trio performing entirely new and fabulous repertoire), Henry Cluney’s XSLF (i.e. the guitar player from SLF’s first three albums plus some other guys – including a blistering drummer from the Defects on this occasion) with a guest appearance from a man from the Defects singing ‘Alternative Ulster’, and then the legendary 999.
It was good fun. Perhaps we need to help 999 get to that 50th anniversary (four years away) but seeing their shows and buying their t-shirts? One tip, though – have the right money at the merchandise stand. 😀 Nick Cash seemed to go into some fugue state when the matter of three quid change for a T shirt purchase came up. But maybe that’s why they call him ‘Nick Cash’… We got there in the end. 🙂
The last days of punk – the Outcasts, live on BBC NI 1985
I’ve digitised a few local music TV things recently, mostly from the mid 90s, but here’s one from 1985, which was probably the Outcasts’ last throw of the dice (before their revival in the last seven or eight years).
Any other fag-end-of-original-era-punk clips you’d like to share?
The Outcasts: Time for a reappraisal?
Here’s a fun new video by Ulster punk legends the Outcasts, for the lead track on a new EP. I have no idea where it’s available, but I’d buy one if I had… 🙂
Amazingly, although they’ve been ‘back’ and active for the past few years (after about 20 years of inactivity), frontman Greg Cowan was adamant that he didn’t want to record anything new – that fans only wanted to hear the classics. They’ve played all over Europe and Japan and the Blackpool Rebellion thing every year with more or less the same well-honed 45-minute set for ages, but a year or so back Martin Cowan and Petesy Burns convinced Greg to give it a go and record a new EP – three new songs and a cover of an old Rudi classic (another Ulster punk band). It’s finally sneaked out.
Their Christmas 2018 (yes, the one before last) Belfast concert at the Black Box debuted all four ‘new’ tracks, and I understand they’ve featured one or two at shows over the past year.
It’s often the case that acts flood the market with stuff, or outstay their welcome. The UK Subs recently put out TWO 15CD box sets » Continue Reading.
999 – time for a reappraisal?
In a successful bid to procrastinate doing something more useful, I thought I’d check out what 999 were up to. Here they are a couple of weeks ago, apparently felling alright with the crew.
Anybody seen them in action recently? Or back in the day? I noticed there was a 4CD box set of their post-heyday albums on Cherry Red out recently…
Old Punks
My friend Kyle, one of two individuals who jostle for the soubriquet ‘Godfather of Punk’ in Belfast, popped round yesterday and told me he’d been at a Clash-related event the day before (an anniversary of them not playing in Belfast – yes, really). He’d bumped into a local character called Petesy Burns, who’s been a member of revived 70s Belfast punks The Outcasts in recent years. Apparently, in some kind of fall-out over T-shirt sales, Petesy’s now formed his own act called A.R.S.E. – presumably it stands for something, but who knows.
Still, it allowed me to ask the Kylemeister an obvious question: ‘So, have you seen Petesy Burns’ ARSE?’
Even better, I met another old punk associate for coffee this morning and asked him the same question – to which he could answer, ‘Yeah – and it’s pretty good.’
I must admit, this sort of thing tickles me. I can see me getting a lot of fun out of it in my coffee shop encounters with such cronies for some time…
Here’s Petesy (with beard) onstage with The Outcasts. Let’s rock!
