As punk music changed and evolved over the UK, it also did in Carlisle in its own way. People who were one time Punks/Mods/New Wave formed ..
Line ups of the band were: Jan-88 to July 88 (rough dates) Dung – guitar and vocals Smoo – Guitar Will Greenwood – Bass ..
Hidden away in Ellie’s cuboards were a few cassettes from the 1980s, I am sure there are more cassettes out there in attics all forgotten ..
The Reunion of the Red Aligatorz at the Old Fire Station was more than what we (the band) expected. The music, the venue were good but the crowd ..
Here is the recording from the previous blog where I mentioned The Red Aligatorz rehearsal, leading up to the reunion gig at the Old Fire ..
Nick Scott – vocals / guitar Dunoe – vocals Liz – bass Simon Blackshaw – Drums I knew of the Wishing Chair when ..
Did you ever make anyone (or yourself) a music cassette? If you did, did you take the time to design it? To spend time and thought into ..
A few days ago I read the news of the death of Sid, the singer in the Carlisle band ‘D.O.S.’ (see ‘D.O.S. page’ ..
It has been ages since I was at a punk gig, I can’t even remember when it was? The other week I went to see 3 punk bands in Carlisle’s ..
Dung – vocals Dung – acoustic guitar Dung – electric guitar Dung – keyboards Dung – drums Dung – bass ..
Bass, Vocals – Scog Misfit Drums, Vocals, Written-By – Keir Husband Guitar – Paul Henshaw Keyboards – Simon Horobin ..
I have edited and uploaded Sean Todhunter’s radio show “Radio Frequency”. The 3 programmes features various music from ..
Bass – Chuck Drums – Terry Clark / Dee Dee Guitar, Vocals – Andy Semple vocals – Tam An early punk band from over ..
Nigel touched upon the history of D.O.S. in Carlisle giving mp3’s and photos. I would like to include an additional posting about ..
As I was starting to research for this blog I came across info about the “Chevettes”, the “Sconeheads”, “Aftermath” ..
Due to more info (photos/mp3) I have created a page for the band “The Beguiled”. Many thanks to Pod and Sean Todhunter for the added ..
I found these video recordings recently of the last gig done by the Carlisle punk group “Havana Affair”. I got the video of Johnny ..
I don´t know much about this band either! (O’dear, not much I do know, waiting to hear from you to educate me!) Duncan Todhunter ..
Pod and I copied The Beguiled’s demo cassette “Clowns” (1985) onto my computer the other day, as well as another Live ..
I was able to track down the cassette covers of 2 of the Workington bands I had from the 1980s. I had given the Kevin Akitt cassette, “Reel ..
I uploaded to the page (Carlisle bands) a CD I was given by Dung many years ago, from his band “Every Smiles a Lie”. Being a friend ..
The name Kevin Akitt, crops up now and gain but it is very hard to pin him down. There is a few references to him in various punk blogs ..
I have a cassette of a band from Workington/Cumbria, and I have no idea who they were, does anyone know? I got it given to me when Frenzy ..
The Skeletol Family from Bradford, performing at Carlisle, at Mick’s 1, possibly in 1983. This is the gig where there was a mini riot! ..
Here are some photos I took from the gig at Carlisle’s Market Hall in 1979 of Stiff Little Fingers. It was an excellent gig. More ..
I finally extracted The Red Aligatorz video from my VHS. I found 2 songs we did on Border TV “Border News and Look Around” or to give ..
Fib loaned me “The Decline of Western Civilization” by Penelope Spheres, a video collection about Punk/rock music in L.A./USA. ..
I uploaded some mp3s of my band “Frenzy”, which I will insert in that page. A rough cassette recording possibly in 1983, done ..
Today I had a pleasant meeting with an old friend from Crofton. Today, Fib and I are “musical neighbours” but back in the 80s I guess ..
Turncoat Collective – Turncoat Collective You get a feel of an alternative USA sub-culture with this music. He sings about not the American ..
Recently someone called this blog a “platform for my own material”. Nothing is more far from the truth. As it says in the introduction…well, ..
Sean Todhunter, gives a radio show every week, a mixture of great sub-cultured music. have a listen: Sean says “Over 2 hrs of high-octane ..
The blog is just about ready to publish amongst various web sites/social media. It is by no means finished, perhaps only half way through. ..
I was browsing through the bands in Bancamp and I typed in “tag Carlisle” lots of bands came on-screen. After browsing through ..
Researching for this blog has been enjoyable. Thanks to the internet I am seeing old familiar music for the first time. There are lots of things ..