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The 101ers, including singer and guitarist Joe Strummer, play at The Nashville Rooms, West London, UK. Support band The Sex Pistols. Also in the audience are Mick Jones and Paul Simonon, who will later form The Clash with Strummer.Full article:
Joe Strummer (guitarist The 101ers) : I knew something was up, so I went out in the crowd which was fairly sparse. And I saw the future - with a snotty handkerchief - right in front of me. It was immediately clear. Pub rock was, "Hello, you bunch of drunks, I'm gonna play these boogies and I hope you like them." The Pistols came out that Tuesday evening and their attitude was, "Here's our tunes, and we couldn't give a flying fuck whether you like them or not. In fact, we're gonna play them even if you fucking hate them."
John Giddings (music biz agent) : It was an incredible time to join the music business because I rented a flat in West Kensington, walked across the road to a pub called The Nashville, and The Sex Pistols were playing. I’d never seen anything like it in my life. The power coming off the stage was extraordinary.
Up to that point it was all Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd … and suddenly I found myself working with X-Ray Specs, The Adverts, The Ramones, The Stranglers, Iggy Pop … I became the agent for all of them. At MAM we had The Clash, The Stranglers, The Damned, The Jam. It’s funny to think back to then, because people thought The Jam was a punk group. They were not. They were a mod group.
You could get a hit single very quickly, and do lots of gigs very quickly, because everybody was turning the back room of their pubs into a gig.
I was a prog rock fan but I found punk really exciting. There was obviously something going on.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black for Audience magazine, April 2016)
John Giddings : I went to a pub called The Nashville – which is now called The Three Kings – just on Cromwell Road to see a band recommended by a mate of mine. They got on stage, and the lead singer had on a Pink Floyd t-shirt, which he’d written across the top ‘I Hate’. He was stubbing out cigarettes on his arm, and the audience were bouncing up and down in front of the stage, which I later found out was called pogoing. That band was The Sex Pistols. They were amazing. The audience reaction was just incredible. You just knew they were going to be successful, even though they were shit. You knew they would be successful just because of their presence – they had such belief in themselves, and they projected that.
(Source : http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/interviews/john-giddings-interview - 2015)
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John Giddings (music biz agent) : It was an incredible time to join the music business because I rented a flat in West Kensington, walked across the road to a pub called The Nashville, and The Sex Pistols were playing. I’d never seen anything like it in my life. The power coming off the stage was extraordinary.
Up to that point it was all Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd … and suddenly I found myself working with X-Ray Specs, The Adverts, The Ramones, The Stranglers, Iggy Pop … I became the agent for all of them. At MAM we had The Clash, The Stranglers, The Damned, The Jam. It’s funny to think back to then, because people thought The Jam was a punk group. They were not. They were a mod group.
You could get a hit single very quickly, and do lots of gigs very quickly, because everybody was turning the back room of their pubs into a gig.
I was a prog rock fan but I found punk really exciting. There was obviously something going on.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black for Audience magazine, April 2016)
John Giddings : I went to a pub called The Nashville – which is now called The Three Kings – just on Cromwell Road to see a band recommended by a mate of mine. They got on stage, and the lead singer had on a Pink Floyd t-shirt, which he’d written across the top ‘I Hate’. He was stubbing out cigarettes on his arm, and the audience were bouncing up and down in front of the stage, which I later found out was called pogoing. That band was The Sex Pistols. They were amazing. The audience reaction was just incredible. You just knew they were going to be successful, even though they were shit. You knew they would be successful just because of their presence – they had such belief in themselves, and they projected that.
(Source : http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/interviews/john-giddings-interview - 2015)