Fact #74520
When:
Short story:
The Clash, The Jam, Buzzcocks, Slits and Subway Sect play at The Playhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Full article:
Edwyn Collins (audience) : The Clash were more like a traditional rock group, but Subway Sect made a glorious racket. We found it all very inspiring.
Johnny Black (audience) : This was the north’s first real exposure to punk rock bands en masse, and they faced a sceptical, often hostile, audience. With typical Scots’ humour, one wag yelled at The Slits, “Keep ‘em on.” One difference between The Clash and The Jam, however, was starkly underlined when Paul Simonon broke a bass string. He floundered around, neither him nor the Clash roadies seeming capable of re-stringing or re-tuning the instrument. Joe Strummer kept the crowd amused by tuning a ghetto blaster to a local radio station and piping it through his mike, but the situation wasn’t resolved until Bruce Foxton of The Jam ran onstage and handed Simonon a properly tuned bass.
Marti Pellow (Wet Wet Wet) : That's the music we listened to when we were growing up. That's what was relevant at the time: The Slits, The Fall, Magazine, The Clash and Joy Division. That was what we all went to see and that was the music we also listened to. But even through all that there was a big connection with R 'n' B music - Otis Redding, Al Green and Carla Thomas - mainly through brothers and sisters who were a wee bit older than us who turned us onto that music."
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Johnny Black (audience) : This was the north’s first real exposure to punk rock bands en masse, and they faced a sceptical, often hostile, audience. With typical Scots’ humour, one wag yelled at The Slits, “Keep ‘em on.” One difference between The Clash and The Jam, however, was starkly underlined when Paul Simonon broke a bass string. He floundered around, neither him nor the Clash roadies seeming capable of re-stringing or re-tuning the instrument. Joe Strummer kept the crowd amused by tuning a ghetto blaster to a local radio station and piping it through his mike, but the situation wasn’t resolved until Bruce Foxton of The Jam ran onstage and handed Simonon a properly tuned bass.
Marti Pellow (Wet Wet Wet) : That's the music we listened to when we were growing up. That's what was relevant at the time: The Slits, The Fall, Magazine, The Clash and Joy Division. That was what we all went to see and that was the music we also listened to. But even through all that there was a big connection with R 'n' B music - Otis Redding, Al Green and Carla Thomas - mainly through brothers and sisters who were a wee bit older than us who turned us onto that music."