Highlight: Purple – ‘Bodacious’

Life on the road touring their first album has taken its toll on Purple, like it does so many bands – rather than letting this get them ..

8 years ago
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“No Thrills” in concert

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 ..

8 years ago
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Within the Walls (Sunday)

Sunday session of “Within the Walls” with local groups of Carlisle, was equally as good as Saturday. Here are some photos of the bands ..

8 years ago
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Every Smile’s A Lie

Every Smile’s A Lie

Dung – vocals Dung – acoustic guitar Dung – electric guitar Dung – keyboards Dung – drums Dung – bass ..

9 years ago
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UK Charts, 1978

UK Charts, 1978

If we are to believe the hype from the TV and various documentaries today about Punk in the 70s and 80s we would think punk had saturated ..

9 years ago
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Whitehouse Blue

Whitehouse Blue

John Ferguson: guitar, vocals Pete Smith: bass, vocals Jeremy Robinson: drums, backing vocals Tony Styles: lead guitar I was interested ..

9 years ago
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The Pedestrians

The Pedestrians

Bass, Vocals – Scog Misfit Drums, Vocals, Written-By – Keir Husband Guitar – Paul Henshaw Keyboards – Simon Horobin ..

9 years ago
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The Limps

The Limps

Bass – Chuck Drums – Terry Clark / Dee Dee Guitar, Vocals – Andy Semple vocals – Tam An early punk band from over ..

9 years ago
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D.O.S. / I.B.S.

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 ..

9 years ago
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Penrith’s Bands

Penrith’s Bands

As I was starting to research for this blog I came across info about the “Chevettes”, the “Sconeheads”, “Aftermath” ..

9 years ago
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The Exiles New Single

A new release from the Carlisle punk band “The Exiles – From Nowhere to Nowhere”, some great music here with a cleaver ..

9 years ago
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Havana Affair’s Last Gig

Havana Affair’s Last Gig

I found these video recordings recently of the last gig done by the Carlisle punk group “Havana Affair”. I got the video of Johnny ..

9 years ago
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Cold Angels

Cold Angels

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 ..

9 years ago
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The Beguiled

The Beguiled

Pod and I copied The Beguiled’s demo cassette “Clowns” (1985) onto my computer the other day, as well as another Live ..

9 years ago
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Workington Demos Update

Workington Demos Update

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 ..

9 years ago
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Pod & Cassettes

It is always nice to have a visit from my mate Pod. As i mentioned in the introduction for this blog that he and I had this project in mind ..

9 years ago
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Punkdora’s Box

After watching a couple of YouTube documentaries on the Dead Kennedy’s last night, I decided to find a few of their LPs for my mate ..

9 years ago
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Every Smile’s a Lie CD

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 ..

9 years ago
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Kevin Akitt “Reel 2 Reel”

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 ..

9 years ago
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Suspicions Confirmed (demo)

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 ..

9 years ago
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Red Aligatorz Border TV

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 ..

9 years ago
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Frenzy’s Mp3’s

I uploaded some mp3s of my band “Frenzy”, which I will insert in that page. A rough cassette recording possibly in 1983, done ..

9 years ago
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Op stoom… #MANKES

Er vliegt weer van alles voorbij op onze Facebook-pagina en persoonlijke Twitter-profielen. Het leek ons daarom een goed idee om hier op onze ..

10 years ago
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Volta! #MANKES

Zoals je eerder kon lezen zijn we nog volop bezig met de stop motion-video van ‘Snow’. We zitten in de edit-fase en ondanks ..

10 years ago
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Stop-motion in beweging #MANKES

Een verwarrende titel, maar het dekt de lading: de afgelopen weken zijn we volop bezig met het maken van een stop-motion voor het nummer ..

10 years ago
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CD, radio, video… #MANKES

We moeten hoognodig even bijpraten, want de afgelopen periode is er weer van alles gebeurd in de wereld van MANKES. Het mini album was al via onze ..

10 years ago
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MANKES mini album: digital release!

Zoals beloofd, is ons mini album nu ook digitaal te beluisteren en te koop via e t f records. We konden het niet laten om voor deze bijzondere ..

10 years ago
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Voorlopige releasedatum… #Mankes

Als eerste: bedankt voor jullie support! In de afgelopen week is zes avonden op rij ons nummer ‘Snow’ tijdens diverse radioprogramma’s ..

10 years ago
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