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BBC4 Friday 1st June : "Punk Britannia" & "We Who Wait: TV Smith & the Adverts"
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Edited Jun 07, 2012, 17:08
Re: BBC4 Friday 1st June : "Punk Britannia" & "We Who Wait: TV Smith & the Adverts"
Jun 07, 2012, 17:04
Moon Cat wrote:
One thing (of the many) I liked about that TV Smith docu was how he seemed to look so resolutely 'Unpunk', apart from maybe a few jacket modifications, compared to his peers. I admired that.


My recollection of that time is that most people didn't look like Sid or Paul Simonon or, worse still, some Kings Road caricature with a mohican. The male members of the Adverts or the blokes out of say TRB or The Vibrators were much more typical of what real people looked like and even that was the glamorous end! I think that Janet Street Porter footage of the Pistols and the audience misrepresents what it was really like on an average night at the Nashville or the Marquee or whatever. From what I remember there were more long hairs with beards at punk gigs than people with our version of the Richard Hell look and most of the people on stage looked like what they were - chaps who had cut their hair and cut their solos to try and get a record deal.
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