Leonard Smalls

First time we played the old Powerhaus in Islington we did our soundcheck, discovered we were all starving so headed round the corner to an all-you-can-eat Indian buffet. In order to get out moneysworth we took them at their word and ate more than we thought possible. Which turned out to be foolish as none of us could move and had to have chairs on stage. This might have been OK if we were a jazz band, but we were a high-energy punk-funk band, complete with two painters who painted us with fluorescent paint as we tried to play and not to gag... And we got grief for the painty chairs - we had to scrub 'em! Still, we played there again and at all the other mean Fiddler venues...

Police Truck - Dead Kennedys

We used to have a roadie called Paul who had a hand-painted black transit van that had a top speed of about 50mph... We were playing in Exeter, iirc, and drove back to London slowly. All of us were a bit knacked (and possibly lubricated - there'd been a couple of cases of beer for us!) so the band all fell asleep on top of the amps'n'cabs in the back. I woke up quite a while later to discover we were in the middle of nowhere, no motorway anywhere in site, just very dark countryside. Turns out that Paul, who looked a bit like Camberwell Carrot man in Withnail and I (and usually had something similar in his mouth) had this thing where he'd follow the line on the left of the road. With us all asleep he'd done that and now we were on a single track lane somewhere in Oxfordshire. From then on we made sure someone was always awake to keep him on the correct road!

There's loads of bands. You just have to go out and find 'em! We're playing Rebellion this year, there's well over 300 bands playing ranging from 60+ OG punks to spotty 18 year olds. And that's just one punk fest - check all the others, there's a few more than plenty! As for charts, we haven't even registered our songs - you have to pay extra!

Deep in the woods - The Birthday Party

Overkill - Motorhead

Rocks, Pebbles And Sand - Stanley Clarke

Physical Love - Bootsy's Rubber Band

Hasn't worked at all for me - still trying to reset the security question that I can't remember the answer to!

Definitely! 😁 We're far too old to be up to our elbows in tappits on the side of the M1... However, the whole song is up for a sneaky peaky: https://weeds2.bandcamp.com/track/angels-one-five

Red Frame White Light - OMD

I used to work with him in BBC sound! Anyway: Big Spliff - Black Uhuru

Maggie - The Exploited (NB is a bit sweary )

Alles Arschlöcher - MEGAHERZ

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I'm a great fan of Dumstaphunk and Eric...Funky as!

It must have been years - Tubeway Army

Toilet on the sea - Stranglers

Not the liquid, the rather crazed band... Though Mikey would have found some interesting uses for the detritus found in his array of pipes, condensers and distillation columns!

Including Larry Lalonde from Primus...

21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson

I remember our old manager (RIP Mikey!) had an ancient 2CV which he'd painted fluorescent cherubs and angels on any inside surface with a uv lamp so they'd glow as he was driving along. His bumper sticker said "I only brake for Bongwater".

We had this as well! IIRC it was Gloucester (or perhaps Exeter?) town hall, we were supporting Carter USM and had a proper dressing room that wasn't just a dirty basement lined with pint glasses full of piddle. There were sandwiches and beers! Either we bumbled about for quite some time sniggering about how next Guy's guitar would pick up signals from the local taxi firm...

It's only 90bpm, but the bass and backbeat go to 180... Any faster and the world would explode!

Atomic Dog - George Clinton