Nail Soup

Basically a straight cover, but good fun, and much better than I expected. I found this on youtube a few days ago - Vice Squad, who are a bit more metal these days it seems. The drummer certainly seems to be enjoying herself.

I think there is some redundancy in your set up and you could do it more simply. I think the main options have already been mentioned above …. I would follow one of those. Good luck with the jam, hope you get what you want from it.

Andy should get the same acclaim as Johnny Marr IMO

On the plus side I was quick as a flash to figure out that Johnny Fingers name was because he was a piano player 😉

I like the Smiths, but not enough to post them in threads like this. Morrisey's solo material is not so great.

I think the Dog Faced Hermans qualify as post-punk, even though a bit later than the first wave, more like Sugarcubes time. Although much lesser know than the Sugarcubes. Here is their best known song (although not representative IMO except the last minute or so) 'Beautiful', plus one of my personal (more representative IMO) faves 'Ballon Girl'

Yes…. I knew from about 1979 that he was called Pete Briquette. I also knew that the Rats were Irish and I knew that peat was used as a fuel in Ireland. I didn’t know that peat was sold in brickets. The penny dropped a couple of years ago!

True….. and it only took me about 40 years to realise the joke😊

They ripped up some 'Grease' pics at the beginning. I think the slap mime may have been a similarly two-fingered (one-thumbed?) salute to the then-unknown Level 42.

I think the main one would be "posting without reading ".... but we need a list of the others

'Like Clockwork' is a fantastic track, goes against the bad rep that they have. We cover that in my punk/new wave covers band and it's a great song to play.

Hadn't heard this before, but it was in a TV program tonight (Professor T) and properly caught my ear. I think this is the version... Peter, Paul and Mary - 500 Miles away from Home. Been giving it a couple of plays on Youtube:

Didn’t they demote their original keys player to a non-full member?

According to one of the comments on YouTube it’s Norman Wisdom’s Invaders of the Heart.😃

Just for fun - cover of PIL's Death Disco by the Top Of The Pop album people I guess this is the most post-punk song they ever did......

Thanks - I had reverb down as the prime suspect…. but I’m not often correct in these matters!

Yes, and an example of how slap can be done with taste - and does not need to be hundred notes per second .

Out of interest, what has changed from the WOS version to make it sound clearer?

Just saw this with 5 mins to spare- recorder set.

To be fair, that joke is normally told the other way round😃

It’s going into my sarcasm bank too.

I saw a clip of a Daryl interview. He related that at the first rehearsal/meeting with the band Keith came up to him and said something like " So you're one of Mick's boys". Sounded like Daryl took it in good humour and actually gets on fine with Keith.

I think SJ fits with band politics too. Daryl came from Jagger’s solo band, which rankled with Richards. Now Richards gets to bring in one of ‘his’ guys.

Good luck…. My covers band has wound down post-COVID and originals band sounds like a good path👍

This is the kind of “levelling up” that the politicians are all talking about 😀