Mate yeah I was there at the Palace as well. They played Friday and Saturday, I was having beers at the beers at the Espy Fri and stumbled down. Like you said it’s was heaving and C*nts were going crazy. Was that good I went the next night. Sold out and a cuzzy bro at the door lead us to the car park for tickets, legend! Fuckn mad gigs and yeah I saw them at the BDO and didn’t cut it. But for me pun gigs ■■■■ on outdoors.
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Some other options.
Dicks
Big Boys
The Comes
Blitz
Necros
The Kids
Negazione
Poison Idea
Gauze
The Fix
best punk record from Australia : Razar Stamp out disco/Task Force.
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I reckon Duane Peters is the quintessential skater punk, possibly the blueprint. A complete dirt dog squatting in loose 80’s San Francisco with a narcotic habit of some description, home made tatts, a man child carving reckless lines primarily in the pool above any other form, complete with a pain in the ■■■■ attitude.
Jay Adams was punk in his own way kinda, TA and Steve Cabalero, Valely were of the early years.
Skating and punk really was a marriage made in heaven in every way. Other angles would come in a decade later skateboarding having a good tie in with say hip hop, being a creative, graff or artsy, being a muso yet never the rave scene never quite clicked with it. Punk and skating were kindred.
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Dunno every band that’s been mentioned but:
The Adolescents
Screeching Weasel
Propagandhi
Void
DOA
MDC
Lots of Reagan era stuff, 80’s D Beat and crusty bands
and yes, Poison Idea are some that come to mind.
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Having skated since 1971 and still going I never really got the seppo angle. I’m a massive Duane Peters fan as a skater but his punk is trash. Simililarly Jay Adams was boss but a mess psychologically. All the BS about seppos inventing the flat ground ollie in 1984 is farcical; I did them in 1976 on a flat board barefoot without griptape. I hate it when the seppos appropriate other peoples cultures; it’s not yours. It’s grouse seeing kids (and their parents) out and about skating with each other right now. It’s awesome, the next wave is coming and it will be little aussie girls and boys riding skateboards.
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Haven’t bothered with his bands either, I think he was part of that evolution from Cali surf and sun to more urban.
Strangely, I read he went through a new wave phase too back then, I guess many did but it was a bit like how strange it seems that during that early to mid 80’s period, punks and metal heads did not like each other at all. Bit before my time of being interested in either, but have heard that from both a UK and American perspective. They would eventually fuse together of course.
I hope we can include Post-Punk?!
In no particular order, these are my favourites:
- The Gun Club
- Tropical ■■■■ Storm
- The Clash
- Wipers
- Wire
- Ramones
- Joy Division
- Fontaines D.C.
- The Fall
- IDLES
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No GG Allin?
There are some great acts listed in this thread but Jesus Christ was no act.
Discretion required.
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For this kind of outlandish stuff I think Wesley Willis is miles in front of GG and AC.
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had tickets for Fontaines D.C in April. It’s been postponed til December.
Don’t think it will happen though.
The majority of Punk/Hardcore acts probably start off sincerely but most grow out of it or realise the earning potential and become performers or employees of their image but few if any were as full on as GG. He was a genuine extremist who lived and died what he preached.
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One of the scariest bands I’ve seen live. Do not stand in the front row if you like your teeth.
6 ft Hick
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And the only reason that he didn’t kill himself on stage on the 31st of October as promised year after year was because he most likely was in prison. You can only imagine how irritated he would be if he only knew that his demise was brought about in that typically conformist ‘rock star’ way, via OD.
My buddies and I used to read about his antics a bit back in the day. Seemed to be pretty average musician and the suicidal thing was his Schtick.
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Agree. The american slash and die version of punk with rubbish music was poor compared to the UK punk of the time. It saddens me that Sid Vicious fell for that malarkey.
I really wanted to see that show, but I was quite poor when tickets were on sale.
Got tickets to see Amyl and the Sniffers (who I have seen before) which has also been postponed.
■■■■ I CAN’T WAIT FOR THE RETURN OF LIVE MUSIC!
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Deserves a mention
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Great bands them last couple