In the early 1980s, possibly ’81, I saw a film on day time TV, what I thought was called “Cleaning Up the Streets”. It was a Canadian ..
When gigs turn out to be better, much better, than what we hoped it makes it all the more special to play together again. From meeting up with ..
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 ..
I have been meaning to guy a new guitar for sometime; the old acoustic I have has a big crack down its body and does not stay in tune for long. ..
Nick Scott – vocals / guitar Dunoe – vocals Liz – bass Simon Blackshaw – Drums I knew of the Wishing Chair when ..
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 ..
John Ferguson: guitar, vocals Pete Smith: bass, vocals Jeremy Robinson: drums, backing vocals Tony Styles: lead guitar I was interested ..
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” ..
A new release from the Carlisle punk band “The Exiles – From Nowhere to Nowhere”, some great music here with a cleaver ..
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 ..
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 ..
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 ..
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 ..
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 ..
I was browsing through the bands in Bancamp and I typed in “tag Carlisle” lots of bands came on-screen. After browsing through ..
I worked on Audiomulch more this evening, trying different effects and ideas. It is a learning curve. I know I am making things too busy ..
Today I tried to get to grips with Audiomulch, the music creator software. You can manipulate sounds: drum samples, instrument samples with ..
I have been working really hard on getting the new blog started (this blog). I left the old one due to google messing me about and not letting ..