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Caught some tiresome woman dj on bbc 6 this morning (ok, perhaps I should listen to it more; and I will, they've moved to her some spot in midweek) whingeing on about not being hungover (funny, I'm sure the last time I caught her she was going on about rushing home to her new born baby. I now have visions of some poor addled baby falling from her gin-flecked bosom, like in that Hogarth print 'innit). Anyway, I digress. Anyway, she was prattling on about punk (and used that Oasis/Monkeys comment above - it must be on the bbc6 play/quote-list) and then - I can still hardly believe I heard this - she went on to say that one of the greatest punk bands of all time was...Sham 69.
Christ, I nearly choked on me gob; I 'd rather have The Undertones admitted into the Hall of Punk then that bunch of Cartoon (Hersham) Cowboys. Really, it was bands like them (eg The Members) that 1) made punk more mainstream and 2) a bloody mockery. And now Jimmy Pursey is being wheeled out on BBC TV London news going on about the real punk and how Sham never sold out blah blah blah and how they speak to the one boy and his whippet in the street. Didn't the rest of Sham become skinheads and rename themselves Skrewdiver or sumfink? Oi oi!
Mind you, she did go on to play John Cooper-Clarke's Reader's Wives, and I filled a man-size tissue with tears of gratitude.
Sorry, dunno why I gets so angry. Where's me meds? Move on, nothing to see or hear here.
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