That's me at the front. Ham Hill Free Festival c.1980. You may also recognise Dom Zero and Kek-W swigging from plastic cider bottles in the background.
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Is it just me, or does everyone leave posts on their own blog, to appear more popular than they are?
While I'm here, the veterans among you might help me with a problem. I've been trying to load a picture into my profile, but it keeps telling be it's the wrong file format, not JPG or GIF, even though I've tried both, and it has no problem uploading them as a post. Any suggestions? I'm new to this shit.
I KNEW you loved The Stones really!!!
(Guess who)
Nice!
Welcome to the world.
I would help with the whole loading a pic thing, but, as everyone knows, I'm Shit At Everything.
I don't even know how I did it, in fact I think my cat did it for me.
Looks more like Glastonbury last year. Main Stage Crew, I believe.
Human Debris ish #1....
"are you my Mummy?" etc
hold on - hold on - I played at that gig - and I know for sure that the one on the left is in fact none other than Steve Vaughn - and behind him Smiffy ... I know it was years ago - but come on man - get the fact right - this is blog-land and there ain't no room for mistakes !!
If you're getting your pic from your docs, I think Blogger is playing silly buggery at the moment. Try taking the URL from the internet instead. It's easier.
Hello el d. It is not wrong to write comments. It is the way of all flesh.
I like that pic of you lot together. Have a long and lovely time blogging.
"I played at that gig - and I know for sure that the one on the left is in fact none other than Steve Vaughn - and behind him Smiffy..."
Was that the legendary Box Combo...?
Or rename, resize, change the case, try to upload from a different drive...?
'Tis true though - probably is blogger buggering around...
Anyhow, welcome to the interweb - you seem to have fallen in with a bad crowd already.....
Nah - as far as I can remember The Box Combo (legendary is another matter for discussion) - only played 1 gig - Hinton Hall - reviewed somewhat negatively in All the Madmen (but heck - what did they know ?) - the Ham Hill gig was a Vaughny/Daffy/Smiffy/Ivesy thang - audiance consiting of some stray dogs - a few grannies and the obligatory gaggle of punx-n-hippies, on a balmy Sunday afternoon !!
Ah, I was def. there, but my memory wasn't...
Can't remember if I came under the punk, hippy, granny or the stray dog category...or all of the above.
Aha! I tried it again and it worked! Thanks for the advice, guys. My abiding memory of HHFF, apart from Spare Cells' debut (and only?)gig, was some fucked-up Yank hippie playing a guitar solo on stage for about 2 hours, until he was forcibly removed, complaining loudly that they were Nazis and it wasn't "free" at all. Good times.
Didn't The Box Combo support The Cure when we all got seriously duffed up?
Funny you should mention the two hour guitar solo...someone reminded me about that only a couple weeks ago...
I missed the Yeovil Cure gig 'cause I was in Bristol (that was the infamous Yeovil Mafia running riot duffing up local 'Punks', weren't it?) . Saw them on the same tour though (supporting Generation X, was it?).
Lurch saw the infamous beer-can hitting the back of Billy Idol's head during intro of "King Rocker" incident (at The Forum?).
Nah, there were other Spare Cells gigs...there was one in yr living-room in Snowdon Heights, I'm sure. (Possibly summer of '79?) I remember "They Don't Like me" was played. And there was one in Hinton Village Hall with Christ Knows how many of us on stage...Stodges did his "Sex Farm Stories" schtick at that one. And there was a version of "Jugheads", and I think the "Batman" theme-tune too (bass-line played by Vaughny).
Spare Cells supported The Mob at the Ham Hill Festival. I believe that was the debut.
One song, but it went on for 15 minutes.
I think the Hinton gig for Spare Cells was also the on that Box Combo did ... I also remember seeing something resembling Spare Cells perform at Ash Village Hall near Martock - at least most of you lot were on stage doing something Spare Cell-ish ... mind you my mind is completly fried these days - so I probably dreamt that last night !!
The Box Combo supports the Cure gig was again a Vaughny/Daffy/Smiffy/Ivesy thang - first gig and all .. my lasting memory of that was driving Sue back to Crewkerne completly pissed up then crashing the car into the pavement in Stoke-sub-Hamdon on the way back home - rock-n-bleedin-roll hey !!
Ha, brilliant!
Yeah, I've got some faint memory flash of Ash Hall too, but buggered if I can get past the mental static. Must be the metal plate in me head.
Looking back, that whole small town/rural village Punk scene was blinkin' mental; it spawned a half-fogotten Somerset scene of cider and mushroom-fuelled bedroom and village hall bands: them big city folk dunno what they missed out on...
Your are Excellent. And so is your site! Keep up the good work. Bookmarked.
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Your are Nice. And so is your site! Maybe you need some more pictures. Will return in the near future.
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