Punk night at one of Camden's best venues. Amazingly, I manage to get to the legendary Dublin Castle in time to see The Outbursts.
This lot are always good fun. Excellent musicians with some decent songs and a large dollop of humour thrown in - always entertaining!
The next two bands are new to me. First were The Filth - a Teeside punk band from 1978.
This lot are tight, tuneful, and punchy - definitely worth seeing.
Next is
Johnny Seven - also from 1978, but from Middlesborough. A bit more aggressive and in your face but very good at what they do.
It's a while since I've seen the headliners the
Bermondsey Joyriders. There seem to have been some changes since I saw them and frontman Gary Lammin is now the only original member.
Gary Pearce (also to be found playing guitar in
The Vulz) has recently taken over bass duties, but the two guys at the front of the stage still look as well dressed as ever - the gangster theme of Flamboyant Thugs also being the title of their latest album. It's not just the image that's striking - the music grabs you by the wide lapels and gives you a good shaking too! Like the other bands on tonight's bill this is very much punk rock attitude, but given a different twist. The often strict punk rock rulebook is thrown away by this mob - you can't dress sharp if you are punks? Think again. You can't play slide guitar if you are in a punk band? Oh yes you can. The songs are good too, but the band seem to moving away from the earlier rough and ready roots of their first album and you aren't likely to hear old favourites like 'The Cafe Racer' or 'Who R Ya' these days. The second album 'Noise And Revolution' is better represented with songs like 'Rock Star', 'Proper English', and 'Rock N Roll Demon'. Unfortunately I'm not familiar with the songs on their latest album yet, but I hope that will change soon...
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