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This Sig htas heLd at Blimps club, a small room at the back of the DoE and Pheasant pub on the outskirts of Campridge. Itfs itre snallest place I t d ever 6een, it t s about half the size of the cosy Red Deer in Croyd.on- its so smal-L that the band tl[a]ce up'the whole width of the room. Expensive (a quid to get in, 44P for a pint of bitter) Uut stays open til1 f, a ? every night. The Lurkers didnS.t come on stage until IO.JO. There was no

support band. If youfve heard their single youf11 know what kind of music they play- fast laud and simPle. TonY D. of RiPPed & Torn (tUe Lurkers No.1 fan) says it takes a few listens before You start to rrrlirr appreci.ate the subtleties of

their music...tonight (tfre second time I I d seen them) I thought they were as subtle as a kick in the balls. I liked them a lot better tonight than I did last time I saw them (supporting Gen.X

at the l,larquee ) probably cos I knew what to expect this time. They pLayed a halfhour set, went away for half an hour and then came back to play some oorer That I s one of the things I liked about them, they really care about their fans, which is more than I can say about groups like the C1ash, Damned etc. Their set included: No clue, On heat, Love dark, Pills ( ttre I'{. Y. Dolls song ) ; Love story, Cyanide, Total brar, SeIf destruct, Then I kissed her ( ttre Crystals song I think) , Freak shown Flass media, Prisoner, and Shad.ow. Ity favourite was Tota1 idartbat !,ras bloody briLl-iant t That slrould have been their next single (Uut it isntt gonna be).

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j.nsaw: What about the r icher , successful bands? Cha

Manic Esso: Most of them arenrt genuine. Generation X are thougb, Bil3-y I s a good bloke. But the fuckin r Sex Pistols-- theyrre a fuckint joke. We were quite friend,ly with them Last year but not oolrrro They couldn I t give

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Chainsaw: Do you think youf 1L ever get aa rich and famous aa them?

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not really. Do you tbinl't that when the sunday papers and, the nusic press Lose interest in punlct a Lot of the fans will lose interest as Chainsaw: No,

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for a little chat, this is more or less urhat was said ( or, what I can remember of ,if it ) : ( If\. I t ve got

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Manii Esso: No f think itt1.L stay. What all the publicity has done is to nake people come and see punk bands to Fee what it r s Like. .. it r E here to stay IIOWr

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Chainsaw: t'Ihy werenrt you wearing your Esso overalls on stage tonight? Manic Essb: Who told you

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Manic Esso: Ifve only worn them once or twice. You must have seen us when we pLayecl, the &larquee. Itts nuch too hot wearin I that bl.oody thing. Anyway we

don|t believe in dressint upl aL1- we do is get up on stage and p3-ay. I mean now you get bLokes that 6et up oa stage wearint dog colLars and stuff like that. Dog collars are for fuckint dogst aren I t they? You get Punk bands on

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Chainsaw; I'Jere you

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I'lanic Esso: No. A few months ago we changed bassists. We used to have a bassist caLled Nigel who left to join Snank.'Glen Matlock hras gonna join u6 after he left the Pistols but he went and formed. his own group instead. (Fu-u-u-uckinteLlt ! ) Actually werve been playing the kind of nusic we do now for four or five years. But it I s Et only been recently when punkrs come along that we I ve been able to play gigs and release singJ-es.

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Manic Esso : I'lo . The product ion was !r very bad. Our next singles a lot better, tt I s produced by Ed Hol1is ( ttre Hot l?ods producer ) .

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I,ianic Esso? Freakshow, with Mass Media on the B-side. The Lurkers are: Howard Wallr/Vocals. Pete Stride/Guitar.,A.rturo Bassick/ Bass. l"lanic Essor/Drurxe e

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of the neu on the Roxy albun. They were faataEtic. nuzz"o"t<" Go.aaal 6ee then at your earlieet oppot;;-;;---aai, thev ;;;; ;; ;;d; ffiljilr'j"*lioilli' "ou'"" """"' :l"il;f'"nueic couralntt have been better. The worst cane oB 6tage at auout 8.5o and for about r2O ninutJs th€y Just '-,The and tight. they aiA aii Y"t 91.Tr -t: E4eLr favouriteeseered. to be a nediocre puak eeaeon at the Greyhouitt ana tUe were great. But tie Woret ii"ed

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Cant-B-Bad. Poxy nane theyrve got for thenselvâ&#x201A;Źo1 but they werenft too bad. They weren|t punks, they Looked like mum6 & dads like their teenage sona to look- Donny Osmond, haircuts etc. Their music was a sort of cro6a between punk and heavy-metaL. They were fairly fast, with a good solid rhythn. Next on trere the Skunks ( forraerly known a6 DoLe queue. ) They played. some good. powerful stuff. They rere foungexcept for tbe drummer who wa6 bearded and balding. There lras a rather rcierd atmosphere here tonight. There were no punks at all ( apart from rnembers of the bands ) - it se emed l-ike about 6O Daily Telegraph and Guardian journalists cane along to 6ee what Bunk rock was all about. (I knew it wasnrt gonna have that many punks there, cos both Gen X and X-ray Spex were playing down the road, but this wa6 rid.iculorso ) There was no pogoing- and, obviously they were expecting this so--- they put out tbree rows of chairs in front of the staget And to think, this used to be one of the country t s most inportant punk venuesl o XTC themselves you could hardly call punk. In fact f I ve never heard any band that sound.s like this. They

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keyboard player. They play fast, J erky songs ; each one conpl-etely different from the last. fhey werenrt very heavy- they rely on their own style of music rather than a wall of noise. Theyrre not the lind of band to go and 6ee if you ruaat your a brain blasted out. They t ve been together il for 6ome time D,owo Two years ago ( then known as the Belium Kidz) tUey were featured in the NMEfs Roadrunner series for up and coming band.s. T1:e1,' I Oolied rea,l.1:. r,iiord, they h,.C their ha.ir 'dor,,n to the 3rOrmd- A.'l ",rost. The Ni{l ea1lerl then the ul tinate E:l Dorado cl unlir:iteC f-:ner fertune.and filth- it s:.id thelr on^e thre.ror a eo] orrr TV out of the windor: of ?,n arreriea4 hotel rnd nobo<ty eomplr_ined. ft also says they nerforrn a nixerl prograrrlne of hard roek (=o I )::ope thq' dont u-'re the old el-iehe rtl,,/erve 'lreen f.r1a-;.rip.t this kind of nusie for ;rer,r^: now.tt), anC *kry tha,t the;,'r:e Fonnr oind the g'oing IIXT'-],jFI[TY

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Theyrve hacl their hair cut since

then of course. Being different fron everyone else is sure to get then a dedicated fo11owing. If they donrt get very rich and successful they I 11 get their own hard-core of fans- that I s what you get for being original.

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this to be a great gig. Unfortunately it wasart - I didntt think 999 vefie nuch better than an average support band. True, they did some good things but srr on the whole it wa6 the usual three-chord stuff that has been done ten tines better. Ir11 give a mention to the support band ( as always ) tney were called the Tools. They had a loony-bin job of a singer who kept ot1 f a Lling over. They was eprpecting

were alright I apose r Back to 999 again folks...

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groups that had ttesent tunes..Thatrs DID have tunes. But,..this gig wae Just so BORING, tunes or no

iro", tt"y tunes !

This could have been one of their off

suppose- I hope it was r for s sake. After the gig when bardlY anyone clapped I the DJ shouted out X Come or r you can do fuching better than that lrl True. But maybe they didnrt want to. G99 rrf, were brave thoughr they did three 6ong6 for an encore after that!')

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in the first 9 quite easy to see whYof 19?? theY I ve released four singles ( five if you include the free one they gave avray rrith Rattus Norvegicus) and two albuns. So this has been ruehed. There are a couP1e of great tracks on thie but a lot of it is very very boring. A littLe more tine and it lould have been a lot better. Another tbing this lacks is the ssrl colour t inaglnation and. variety the firg! album had. Just about everYthing on this t album is a rehash of what they ve d'one before (on1y not aa well). Ifl]. give a mention to the nore memorable tracks: rrBit chingtf ie one o f the good' t uns ' It I s typical strangl€?s- one of their fasterr more direct songs. I! does 8o on a Uit too long though. This has been one of their favourite stage numbers' Dagenham Dave is another goodie t it sounds fresh and' innocent' I dont Like

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already. Well in short this is the ultimate LP that should. have been an EP. Stranglers fans night Like it but I I m not very impressed. I await their next albuna and siagle I they t ll probably be out in

December of January knowing them. One dprs i I m puzzled about- why do they now cbff themselves Stranglers TV???