As raw as it gets. SLF in a shitty dirty club with crap sound but it excites me like hell. Absolutely brilliant. Music today is missing this kind of electricity.
That's a good thing. It's studying, learning & trying to understand their subject rather than just judging them & expressing their opinion to control the narrative like todays corrupt media does.
Great to see a young Aiden Murtagh and Mcfadden (the lovely Grania's wee brother) from Protex being interviewed all those years ago. Protex still going strong just finishing a tour of the USA (2024). Check them out.
Where are the grassroots youth style and music nowadays? We haven't seen any new movements, from the streets, in more than 20 years...and i wonder if there will ever be again.
Sex Pistols started wearing the tartan bondage trousers it was Vivian Westwood who designed them& did you never see the sex pistols also wearing the leather biker jacket? Sid V wore one all the time.. Also Joe Strummer was the first Punk I seen with the Mohawk hair cut.... So what you on about?
@@StevieZero The trousers Westwood designed were well out of the price range of most young people. Only when they were mass produced did they become a common sight. Sid's leather jacket was an idea he got from the Ramones, who in turn got the idea from The Dictarors. None of these people had their jackets covered in studs or badly painted band names. And Joe Strummer's hair do was from a time when The Clash had left punk behind and were in danger of becoming another U2. By about 1980 punk style was just another uniform of tartan trousers, studed leather jackets and mohicans. The spirit of 1976 was long gone, but for whatever reason it hung around for a few more years in Nothern Ireland before it too became just another uniform. That's what I am on about.
@@shack7631 The clash were never in any danger of becoming the next U2 ,U2 were still a nomark band when the clash were on it's last legs.Tartan bondage trousers were worn by the first wave of London punks...SV copying the Ramones with the leather jacket tells us that the leather biker jacket was being worn by first New York punks....These things were rooted in Punk from day one...The 2nd wave of punks took them and did their own thing.... I know what you are saying about the whole thing becoming what it became though.It lost everything individual it's ideas and uniqueness by 79 and everyone put on a pair of Doc Martens and gave themselves stupid hairdos.... I was an old Punk but never had the Mohawk or a pair DMs.....Punk went from bands who sounded different from each other and Looked different from each other to a bunch of clones shouting into mics and playing hard core..
Their fashion seems to be more Beatles in Hamburg 1959 than 1979 punk, - not even spiky hair. I think they were under more conformist pressure than they cared to admit - just sayin'. What really gets me though is the attitude of the TV and regular newspapers of the time, they had no idea of the value of what was happening, they just covered it from the perspective of "kids playing up" and noisy music (which they didn't like) - they had no idea of the talent under their noses - The Undertones, SLF, Boomtown Rats - maybe you could even add U2 to the list, would in decades to come be revered as some of the best music from Ireland of the 20th century, and much of the music they (the media) thought good or current at the time, has been largely forgotten. They failed to properly document or promote it.
I'm just sayin, you didn't live through a vicious terrorist campaign and you know fuck all about us. So don't compare us to the Beatles and accuse us of being conformist. It took a lot of balls for bands like SLF to stand nose to nose with Loyalist and Republican paramilitaries and tell them to fuck off through their music. That could have ended badly for every punk walking the streets of Belfast and Londonderry. And before any idiot contradicts the name of the city i grew up in, i call it Londonderry, you call it what the fuck you want. You'll never change my mind.
@@RUDI-UK fUCKING HELL! so PARANOID & "PRECIOUS" you are.!! All I said was that I suspected the kids were under some malicious pressure not to go full on Punk fashion, but that the music they created was fantastic and of great value. Actually - your reply speaks volumes about Northern Ireland .... touchy paranoid hot heads.
@@stevehastings5161 OK - well you obviously know FUCKING NOTHING about me - the last time I saw SLF was this year in Sydney! And yes I grew up near London, I'm 56 - I was very much into the scene - and I'm not going to brag about all the gigs I went to. "Somebody who never grew up?" - no somebody that never grows up is somebody that makes DUMB presumptions about somebody with zero knowledge or evidence ... yes, I'm talking about YOU - fuck face. So what did I say that was so offensive??? - I said the teenagers were probably under some vicious social pressure not to go full-on punk with their fashion - but the music they produced was of immense value and not properly recognised at the time. - that's all I said.
Zac Lang - you claim to be 56 ?? 🤣🤣stop lying you clown! you are nearer 70 you rock bore, but if not you look it coming out of that place with your ladywife. i seen you in your state endorsed face muzzle so stop pretending 🐑 DON'T FORGET THE HAND SANITISER
