On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:36:31 +0000 (UTC), A.Clews@DENTURESsussex.ac.uk
wrote:

>Thus spake Mike Plowman (mike.plowman@mydomain.net) unto the assembled multitudes:
>
>> inevitable happened. 10 of us cast off our flares, went into town one
>> Saturday and returned home with very short spiky haircuts, After 2
>> years of moaning about my hair, the first words out of my father's
>> mouth was: 'What the bloody hell have you done to your hair?'
>
>> Over the next few months, the various colours, the mohicans, the
>> earings and eyeliner nearly saw the lot of them in the coronary wards.
>
>Sadly, the nearest to punkdom I ever got was a T-shirt with the words "Oral
>sex: a taste of things to come" written on it.  Oh yes, and I did once wear a
>rather crumpled orange linen jacket with safety pins all through the lapels,
>and even that was enough to get me thrown out of a pub in Brighton. 
>Corblimey, I could 'ardly Adam and Eve it.

Indeed. being a punk in mid to late 77 after the Sex Pistols sweary
telly stuff and GSTQ was an invitation to a good hiding from right
minded individuals. Friars club in Aylesbury was where we saw bands
and gigs would usually end about 11, which as the pubs closed at 10,30
gave the local teddy boys, grebos and rockers enough time to drink and
be waiting for the gig goers to run the gauntlet from the venue to the
taxi rank on the market square. Heaven help you if you were daft enugh
to go down into the underground bus station.

Happy days.

Mike Plowman wrote:
>
> Indeed. being a punk in mid to late 77 after the Sex Pistols sweary
> telly stuff and GSTQ was an invitation to a good hiding from right
> minded individuals. Friars club in Aylesbury was where we saw bands
> and gigs would usually end about 11, which as the pubs closed at 10,30
> gave the local teddy boys, grebos and rockers enough time to drink and
> be waiting for the gig goers to run the gauntlet from the venue to the
> taxi rank on the market square. Heaven help you if you were daft enugh
> to go down into the underground bus station.
>
> Happy days.

Happy days are here again, Mike. There have been a couple of Friars gigs 
this year at the Civic Centre and there's another one later in the year. 
"The Roxette" has resurfaced as "The New Roxette" 
(http://www.thenewroxette.com/) and, if you haven't seen the retrospective 
website yet, check out http://www.aylesburyfriars.co.uk/ for some memories!

On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 00:26:32 -0000, "Jack Taylor" 
wrote:

>Mike Plowman wrote:
>>
>> Indeed. being a punk in mid to late 77 after the Sex Pistols sweary
>> telly stuff and GSTQ was an invitation to a good hiding from right
>> minded individuals. Friars club in Aylesbury was where we saw bands
>> and gigs would usually end about 11, which as the pubs closed at 10,30
>> gave the local teddy boys, grebos and rockers enough time to drink and
>> be waiting for the gig goers to run the gauntlet from the venue to the
>> taxi rank on the market square. Heaven help you if you were daft enugh
>> to go down into the underground bus station.
>>
>> Happy days.
>
>Happy days are here again, Mike. There have been a couple of Friars gigs 
>this year at the Civic Centre and there's another one later in the year. 
>"The Roxette" has resurfaced as "The New Roxette" 
>(http://www.thenewroxette.com/) and, if you haven't seen the retrospective 
>website yet, check out http://www.aylesburyfriars.co.uk/ for some memories! 
>

I was at the Stiff Little Fingers/Penatration gig Jack and a keen
visitor to the site which, as you say brought back many memories. I
went to literally dozens of gigs there from 1976 to the early 80's.

Alas, the knees are not what they were in 1978 and my pogoing was
downgraded to some gentle head nodding after only five minutes. :-)

Thus spake Jack Taylor (Jack@carney.co.uk) unto the assembled multitudes:
>> be waiting for the gig goers to run the gauntlet from the venue to the
>> taxi rank on the market square. Heaven help you if you were daft enugh
>> to go down into the underground bus station.
>>
>> Happy days.

> Happy days are here again, Mike. There have been a couple of Friars gigs 
> this year at the Civic Centre and there's another one later in the year. 

Huh, I bet there isn't the chance of getting a good kicking like in the good
old days though, eh?
<thinks: actually, I expect there is>



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                                 Andy Clews
                            University of Sussex
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Thus spake Mike Plowman (mike.plowman@mydomain.net) unto the assembled multitudes:

> Alas, the knees are not what they were in 1978 and my pogoing was
> downgraded to some gentle head nodding after only five minutes. :-)

There was a gig by my GF's son's band down at one of my local pubs a few
weeks back.  There was quite a tall chap exuberantly near-pogoing to the
band, and he was *that* close to hitting a wooden beam running across the
ceiling.   People kept warning him of the constant danger of cracking his
skull or breaking his neck.  By some minor miracle he managed to avoid doing
so, but it was very close thing.

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                                 Andy Clews
                            University of Sussex
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On 3 Nov, A.Clews@DENTURESsussex.ac.uk wrote:

> There was quite a tall chap exuberantly near-pogoing to the band, and
> he was *that* close to hitting a wooden beam running across the
> ceiling. People kept warning him of the constant danger of cracking
> his skull or breaking his neck. By some minor miracle he managed to
> avoid doing so, but it was very close thing.

I was once at a gig where a guy was pogo-ing underneath a large 
ceiling fan. He came *this close* to decapitating himself.

I was all set to contact the Darwin Awards committee...
-- 
Brian Howlett - Email to From: address deleted unseen
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There is a little known psychological theory that all women
subconsciously want to be piano players. Pianist envy.

Thus spake Brian Howlett (news-spamtrap@brianhowlett.me.uk) unto the assembled multitudes:

> I was once at a gig where a guy was pogo-ing underneath a large 
> ceiling fan. He came *this close* to decapitating himself.

Have you noticed how people almost always duck their heads when walking under
the rotating blades of a helicopter, even though the blades are about 10 feet
above them?

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                                 Andy Clews
                            University of Sussex
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On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 09:44:29 +0000 (UTC), A.Clews@DENTURESsussex.ac.uk
wrote:

>Thus spake Brian Howlett (news-spamtrap@brianhowlett.me.uk) unto the assembled multitudes:
>
>> I was once at a gig where a guy was pogo-ing underneath a large 
>> ceiling fan. He came *this close* to decapitating himself.
>
>Have you noticed how people almost always duck their heads when walking under
>the rotating blades of a helicopter, even though the blades are about 10 feet
>above them?

Do you know that if you type your name in Facebook, the first person
that comes up is dressed as a lobster? Please tell me you're not that
one!:-)

Thus spake Mike Plowman (mike.plowman@mydomain.net) unto the assembled multitudes:

> Do you know that if you type your name in Facebook, the first person
> that comes up is dressed as a lobster? Please tell me you're not that
> one!:-)

I don't use Facebook, nor Twitter for that matter.

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                                 Andy Clews
                            University of Sussex
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On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:30:54 +0000 (UTC), A.Clews@DENTURESsussex.ac.uk
wrote:

>Thus spake Mike Plowman (mike.plowman@mydomain.net) unto the assembled multitudes:
>
>> Do you know that if you type your name in Facebook, the first person
>> that comes up is dressed as a lobster? Please tell me you're not that
>> one!:-)
>
>I don't use Facebook, nor Twitter for that matter.

Ugh! You mean you have..... a life?????? :-)

Thus spake Mike Plowman (mike.plowman@mydomain.net) unto the assembled multitudes:

>>I don't use Facebook, nor Twitter for that matter.

> Ugh! You mean you have..... a life?????? :-)

Yeah, weird innit?  :-)

I still store CDs and LPs in alphabetical order though, so I'm not entirely
normal.  I'm thinking of buying one of those Brennan JB7's, though, so that
might put paid even to the CD nerdiness.

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                                 Andy Clews
                            University of Sussex
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