BOOK ON NORTH EAST PUNK 1976-80 : CONTRIBUTIONS WANTED!

• Gob On The Tyne  (working title!)
  The North East Punk scene 1976-1980  
  
  Gob On The Tyne' chronicles many of the bands from the North East's first wave of Punk and includes photos, articles, discographies,  memorabilia and interviews with some of the major names as well as the also-rans, plus various nuggets gleaned along the way.
• 1976 saw a revolution in music, fashion and culture. A new generation of kids who'd been raised on a diet of blandness grew tired of being force-fed the same old garbage year in, year out. Originally influenced and motivated by bands of the '60s / '70s such as The Stooges, New York Dolls and The Ramones in the US and Pub Rock bands Dr. Feelgood and Eddie & The Hot Rods in the UK, disaffected youth all over the UK , kick started by the Sex Pistols in 1975, started forming their own bands, begging, stealing and borrowing whatever gear they could lay their hands on.
  
  Bands sprang up over night, making their voices heard and causing the dinosaurs of yesteryear to pack up their flares, patchouli and joss sticks and run for the hills. Unemployment, not to mention boredom, apathy and alienation were high in the UK in the mid '70s, none more so than the North East where the Sex Pistols cry of no future was the stark reality for many, which made it the perfect spawning ground for Punk to flourish, and flourish it did. Bands such as Penetration, Angelic Upstarts, The Big G and Blitzkrieg Bop led the way, followed in their wake by the likes of The Condemned, The Proles and Murder The Disturbed (to name a few) as well as Prog Punks such as Punishment Of Luxury and Crawling Chaos. Oh, and not forgetting the legendary Dog Dirt featuring Bob Mortimer, later to attain TV fame as one half of Vic & Bob.
  
  'I was sitting in a pub in Newcastle in 1976 when somebody put a record on the jukebox that changed everything. The track was 'Anarchy In The UK.' The band was the Sex Pistols. I was thrilled there was a movement whose prime motivation seemed to be 'wreck and destroy,' and I bought into it with the zeal of a religious convert, but my 'FUCK OFF!' T-shirt was a statement too far for most of the pubs on Tyneside!' Jimmy Nail
  
  'Gob On The Tyne' will be approx 100 pages (paperback) in an edition of 1,000 - 2,000 (depending on costs.) It is a non-profit project. It will be distributed throughout the North East via local newspapers, music and book shops.
  
  We've made a start and would like as much input from anyone who was involved in any way with the NE Punk scene '76 - '80 (whether in a band or if you ran a fanzine or were simply a fan) with information, stories, anecdotes, quotes, photos, reviews, memorabilia (scans of fanzines, press clippings, flyers, posters, tickets, etc.) Anything at all relating to the NE Punk explosion!
  
  Of course, all contributors will be credited.
  
  Thanks, Martin / Michael / Richard.
  
  
  Please contact us / send everything to: gobonthetyne@hotmail.com
  
  
  Tel. (Martin): 01670 354669 or (Michael): 07598 796912
  
  Here is a list of all the bands / artists, fanzines, labels and venues we are aware of, if you know of others please let us know.
  
  * Denotes not strictly Punk. Curiously the only bands to fall under this category are those fronted by none other than Sting, Jimmy Nail and Annie Lennox! The Police's debut 7" 'Fall Out' could be classed as Punk and Jimmy Nail's Pub Rock band King Crabs had something of a reputation, not least due to the fact that he often wore a dress on stage! The Tourists started as a Punk band but quickly became 'New Wave.'
  
  Aaargh!
  The Abortions
  Acid Nose
  Acid Rain
  Alien Stains
  Amazing Space Frogs
  A Movement With No Name
  Angelic Upstarts
  Anti Pop
  Arthur 2 Stroke
  Bad Breath
  The Barbarians
  The Beetles
  Bell End
  Billy Oblivion & The Oblivious
  Bladze
  Bleak Future
  Blitz
  Blitzkrieg Bop
  Blue Lights Flashing
  Bombay Drug Squad
  Bored Stiff
  Breakout
  Brendan Bullfrog & The Rushes
  The Bunker
  Butcher
  The Carpettes
  Chaos
  Cliche
  The Coils
  Commander Sparrow  The Cruise Missiles
  The Condemned
  Consumed
  Crawling Chaos
  The Crazed
  The Crime
  Crucified By Christians
  The Cult
  Damage
  Danger In Paradise
  The Daze
  The Deafanators
  The Defects
  Deja Vu
  The Demented
  Dementia Praecox
  Dependable Bodies
  Deviation Street
  Discharge
  Disguise
  Disorder
  Dog Dirt
  Domestic Appliance
  The Drop
  The DTs
  The Electrons
  Electrosexual Sewing Machine
  Emergency Exit
  Epileptik Fitz
  The Family
  Fanheater
  The Fashionable Impure
  The Filth
  Flaccid
  Foetus Products
  The Four Plugs
  Frank Blank & The Planks
  Frenzy Batallion
  Fucked Up Youth
  Funeral Directors
  Fungus & The Bogeymen
  Gabba Gabba Hey
  The Garage
  Garage Land
  Gelatine Lens
  Genocide
  Genocide Exit
  Go Round Records
  Graffiti
  Green-Eyed Children
  The Group
  Gun Court
  The Haemorrhages
  Harry Hack & The Big G
  Hitler
  If The Face Fits
  The Infected Dead
  Jeff Jinx & The Jems
  Johnny 7
  Killer
  King Crabs*
  The Lice
  Listen Ear
  Madame Guillotine
  The Maid's Neck
  Manic Rhythm
  Model Workers
  Monitor
  The Monotonous Two Chord Bastards
  The Motherfuckers
  The MPs
  Mr. Myers Place
  Mucus From Mars
  Murder The Disturbed
  The Mysterons
  NATO
  Negative Throb
  Neon
  Nicky Beat & The Beatniks
  The Nil
  No Comment
  Nod
  No Cover
  The Noise Toys
  The Noisy Bricks
  The Noisy Experimentalists
  No Problem
  Nothin'
  No Way
  The One Offs
  Wavis O'Shave
  Our Own Records
  Paralax
  Passion Trade
  Pauline Murray & The Invisible Girls
  Penetration
  Penis
  Phantoms Of The Underground
  Pig Sani
  The Pits
  The Plebs
  Plus Guests
  The Police*
  Pork The Pies
  Post Mortem
  Prayer Before Birth
  The Prefabs
  Press Studs
  The Prigs
  Private Eye
  The Proles
  Protesting Children Minus The Bondage
  Protex
  Psycho
  Public Toys
  Punishment Of Luxury
  The Putrid Morons
  RAF
  Rampant Nasties
  Raw
  Raw Power
  Reality Control
  Red Alert
  Red London
  The Rebels
  The Reformers
  The Rejects
  Remnants Of Warsaw
  The Revolving Doors
  Rhythm Clicks
  Rhythm Methodists
  Ribbett Records
  Rival Savages
  Robot Youth
  Rubber Connection
  Rycroft's Review
  Sadistic Slobs
  Scared Bananas
  Scottish Polis Inspectors
  Scrap Metal
  Sex Clash 69
  Shoe String
  Shoot The Lights Out
  Showbiz Kids
  The Silencers
  Silent Mafia
  The Sines
  The Slaves
  The Smartys
  Smashed Hits
  Smelly Tapes
  The Somme
  Spare Pair
  The Spares
  Foffo Spearjig
  Speed
  Spit
  Spit The Pips
  The Squelch Vaginas
  State Of Emergency
  The Station
  Steve The Goon
  The Stilettos
  Stranded
  Straw Dogs
  Straw Mats
  Streetlevel
  The Stretcher Bearers
  Strictly Rockers
  The Submersibles
  The Surge
  The Suspects
  Suspect Device
  Tabula Rasa
  Teenage Rebels
  Teen Junkies
  Teesside Smells
  Terry Trans & The Vestites
  The The And
  Them Wifies
  Tic Tic
  Total Chaos
  Total Oblivion
  The Tourists*
  Toy Dolls
  TPA
  Treatment Room
  24 Hours
  Ugly Reptiles
  The Unexpected
  The Unknown
  Village Idiots
  Viper
  The Vomits
  The Vultures
  The Wall
  Ward 34
  The Weights
  The Wretched
  Xtreme
  Yak
  Zilch
  Zilcho Babies
  Zulu & The Heartaches
  Zyclon B Zombies
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