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For sure. Boasts some damn fine Shepherd Neame pubs that have been there forever. Which is odd as nobody ever seems to go in them :lol:

Yup, they played the Brighton centre in about, oh, 1982. Went to that one. SpecTACULAR!

Parkwood estate in Rainham, then a village called Lower Halstow just outside Rainham. Used to be open season on punks if you dared stray into Chatham or Gillingham. Dockyard at one end, army barracks at the other end, normal mass of neanderthal chavs (before the word was invented) in the middle...

This thread reminds me of exactly why I moved to Brighton after spending just about every weekend escaping down here from the Medway Towns to see a fantastic array of punk bands in a fantastic selection of venues.

90 Buckingham Road is indeed the full address in my scabby address book (I didn't post it in case he still lives there!). Pretty safe to post his old phone number tho eh - which was 21713 :lol:

Not to mention the legendary CHEFS :love:

Is your dad Tony Byford? That's the name in my ancient manky address book as a contact for the Piranhas along with an address in Buckingham Road and a five digit Brighton phone number! Also got the phone number for the Buccaneer (606**6) in there. Maybe time to think about getting a new address...

I'm not. It was the only venue in town for naff heavy metal bands, hence was studiously ignored all throughout the punk years and well beyond :lol:

Roast Ox crisps were the BEST! :thumbsup:

Stretching the thread a bit, there's a book out mid-Feb on the Kent punk scene called The Kids Are All Square. Should include at least one Piranhas story... Speaking of the Piranhas, does anybody remember the wankers that were The Anti-Piranha League? Their main gripe seemed to be that the...

On the plus side, this dreary state of affairs will only need to drag on into the doldrums like that for a year or two more before the 21st Century equivalent of punk comes along and wipes the floor with the manufactured dross. We don't know what form that musical revolution will take yet, but...

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Anybody know if Charlie Harper is still flogging that UK Subs dead horse around the country? He was about sixty if he was a day during the punk era, must be getting on for treble figures if he's still alive, and probably feat. his grandkid on lead guitar. Shit one-dimensional caricature of what...

Was lucky enough to see The Ruts doing Babylon's Burning on TOTP when I worked at the BBC. Bumped into Malcolm Owen in the bar. Said something like cracking single, shame about the cover (it was a white sleeve with red triangles, a bit average for the time). '**** off' he said 'I designed that'...

Anyone else remember a sweet pop combo called The Red Squares? Seem to recall having a post-Chefs crush on them at one point late seventies/early eighties.

New Regent was brilliant. Long thin wine bar (ish) venue down West Street on the left if memory serves. Anyone remember seeing the splendid (non-local) YACHTS there?

Most pretentious unlistenable local band I ever did see.