[kj] Post punk? UK Decay

[god botherer]

If it's still up on the site, I STRONGLY recommend anyone unfamiliar with UK 
Decay to rip Unexpected Guest. I remember that being NME single of the week. 
Where did it all go wrong?

Si



>From: <antoni at clara.net>
>Reply-To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
><gathering at misera.net>
>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
><gathering at misera.net>
>Subject: Re: [kj] Post punk? UK Decay
>Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:53:06 -0000
>
>Post punk?Try www.ukdecay.co.uk - it's been up for a while now & the old A 
>Night For Celebration tape has been re-released on CD ... also an imminent 
>compilation CD to be released of all their stuff (bar their part of the 
>Split Single & the Black Cat EP) ... maybe I will suggest they release 
>those on a CD with the 2 John Peel sessions
>
>----- Original Message -----
>   From: vanessa luff
>   To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
>   Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 6:38 PM
>   Subject: Re: [kj] Post punk?
>
>
>   UK Decay huh?  Not heard anyone mention them for aeons, saw them 
>supporting Classix Nouveaux at Lincoln Drill Hall in...oooh 1982ish.
>
>   And I can NEVER ignore a mention of The Chameleons.  I was soley 
>responsible for them splitting up a couple of years ago...their Athens gig 
>coincided with my hols so I booked flights....say no more!
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: Dave Noonan
>     To: gathering at misera.net
>     Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 5:55 PM
>     Subject: [kj] Post punk?
>
>
>     Post punk is another one of those media instigated banners that allows 
>them to economically chop up the music scene into bite sized couplets, what 
>a relief it was when bands (such as KJ/Pil/The Clash) started to break out 
>of their allotted areas into dance/metal/dub... (hence the reason so many 
>people seem to have strong dub tendencies in their musical tastes on this 
>list)etc...which also confused the media into a panic of...'well what are 
>they?'...I guess in my mind post punk is virtually everything after the 
>summer of '77 up until the very early eighties, I would include all the 
>usual suspects Joy Division/Magazine/Wire/New Order/KJ/PiL/Siouxsie/The 
>Fall/UK Decay/Chameleons/Teardrop Explodes/The Bunnymen/ACR et al but when 
>do you stop? - I think it was a term coined with little thought to when it 
>might end (despite the name) - maybe it was anticipated as another 
>magnesium flash - as punk was...
>
>     Dave
>     Leeds
>
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