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1980s Liverpool Bands, Eric’s and Indecipherable Diaries
Valentine’s Day 1979 was a very special day for me. I had recently turned seventeen and I had decided to keep a diary, which, thirty-four years later, I still do, although obviously not the same one....
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1980s Liverpool Bands: EXCLUSIVE: Pink Military Rehearsal, Audio Track 1
Pink Military onstage at Eric’s Club. Liverpool, 1979 (Jayne Casey, Peter Lloyd and John Kirkham) It seems like only yesterday that I was struggling under the weight of my bass guitar and a dirty great...
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1980s Liverpool bands: The Teardrop Explodes and Serendipity
From the title, you could be forgiven for thinking that ‘Serendipity’ was another preposterously named 1980s Liverpool band (along with The Teardrop Explodes, Echo and the Bunnymen, Pink Military Stand...
View ArticlePenetration, Eric’s Club, Liverpool 1978 & Free Money
Pauline Murray, Lead singer, Penetration. As I progress my 1980s Liverpool band screenplay and memoir of that time in Liverpool, I read in my band diary that I’d seen Penetration at Eric’s (2 shows) in...
View Article1980s Bands: Gang of Four – Armalite Rifle (And Why The IRA Liked It)
Photo Caption: Shoots for miles. I have always wondered why, out of all the weapons in the world, the IRA are so linked to the use of Armalite rifles (AR-18s) – or at least they were in the 1970s and...
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1980s Liverpool Bands – Pink Military Rehearsal Audio Track 2 – Spellbound
Photo Caption: Liz Stanton and I in Eric’s Club, Liverpool, late 1979 I have just been reading my diaries from the time I made this audio recording in Pink Military’s rehearsal space inside a warehouse...
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1980s Liverpool bands: Eric’s, Ex Post Facto and Christine Clarke
Christine Clarke of Ex-Post Facto, on the Cover of ‘Oceanic Explorers’ As I progress my Liverpool Band/1980s writing, I fondly recalled my first girlfriend, Christine Clarke. We were the same age, our...
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NOT A Perfect Day: Lou Reed Dies.
I was sorry to hear the news of the death of Lou Reed. His influence was immense, especially on most people whose music tastes were developing in the 1970s and ’80s in the UK, and much later in time....
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1970s Punk Bands: The Stranglers versus Dionne Warwick.
The Stranglers live, circa 1978. If you knew what this article was about just from the title, then you were almost certainly “There” or thereabouts, and will know that there could never really be a...
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A Link Between 1980s Liverpool Bands and Britpop’s Shampoo Single “We’re In...
Above photo, the two singers from Shampoo, Jacqui Blake and Carrie Askew. Another still from the “We’re in Trouble” video Reader of a certain age and cultural background may remember the 1990s...
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1980s Liverpool Bands: Bent Police and 999 at Eric’s Club, Liverpool.
Above Photo from dddocproductionsmusic.blogspot.com I had to smile this morning when I read a great article in the UK’s Independent newspaper about how bent the Metropolitan Police force are in London...
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Bombed Out! – Punk, Liverpool and ‘A Scouse 8 Mile…’
Part of the book cover – we were going for an ‘In Your Face” punk design, and think we nailed it. I was talking to someone yesterday about my forthcoming memoir, Bombed Out! which is about growing up...
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Bombed Out! 1980s Liverpool bands. What does this Echo and The Bunnymen Track...
Echo And The Bunnymen onstage at Eric’s Club, Liverpool. My favourite 1980s Liverpool band track is called Broke My Neck, by Echo and the Bunnymen. This is the Youtube link to it. I guess you’ll just...
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Bombed Out! 1980s Liverpool Bands and Eric’s Club – A Rapidly Disappearing...
Above Photo: Peter Alan Lloyd (l) and John Kirkham (r): Pink Military Stand Alone onstage at the OLD Eric’s Club in Mathew Street, Liverpool. During the writing of my ’70s-’80s Liverpool, Bands and...
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Bombed Out! 1980s Liverpool Bands, Eric’s, Punk Poster Art and Facebook.
Poster for Bombed Out! designed by former Eric’s regular and graphic artist, Martin Why of Bombsite Magazine. It features me and Margaret Thatcher (I’m the one on the right…) I’ll be featuring Martin...
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Bombed Out! 1980s Liverpool Bands – The Eric’s Diaries.
Above Photo: Bombed Out! Punk Art Poster by Martin Why of Bombsite Magazine, referencing Margaret Thatcher and one of her favourite slogans of the time. Back in 1979 and 1980 when I was in Liverpool...
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Call 999 – Bent Police at Eric’s Club, Liverpool.
Above Photo: 999 actually onstage at Eric’s Club, Liverpool. (Lofty Varsteiner). I was at this gig. In Bombed Out!, my 1980s band/Liverpool/Eric’s/music memoir, the antics of Merseyside Police in the...
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BUSTED: An Eyewitness Account of the Police Raid That Closed Eric’s Club,...
Above Photo: “We swear to see no evil – well, ours at any rate…” Everyone who went to Eric’s or who hung around Liverpool city centre in the late 1970s and early 1980s will have their own tales to tell...
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Iggy Pop, Punk and the Vietnam War.
Iggy Pop and Glen Matlock on Iggy’s New Values tour in 1979. (Punk 70′s Tumblr) Iggy’s New Values album released in April 1979. Full article and photos here:...
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Bombed Out! 1980s Liverpool Bands and Eric’s Club: A Rapidly Disappearing...
Above Photo: Pete Burns and Paul Hornby (drums) of Nightmares in Wax onstage at Eric’s Club. Elvis Costello onstage at Eric’s Club, Liverpool (RF Lewis flikr) Full article and photos here:...
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