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Post by terrichka on Apr 1, 2013 12:06:52 GMT -5
Hi,
My introduction to the Poison Girls was through Persons Unknown. After that I tried to get everything you released: even managing to get a very scratched Piano Lessons in exchange for the Damned's Black album - I got the better deal! Hex was really something to listen to as a 14/15 year old. Quite scary in its emotional honesty. Where's the Pleasure was brilliant and such a departure from the orthodox sound in the scene. I never got to see you live: the closest I got was drinking in a pub in Gloucester around 1986 (I think) and bumped into a couple of people I knew who'd just come back from seeing you on the Barge Semington. I didn't even know the gig was on! Glad you've set this site up - you've been neglected on the web!
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Post by richardfamous on Apr 7, 2013 4:28:30 GMT -5
welcome Terrichka
Very glad you liked the music. 'Hex' still gives me the shivers, a very very intense record. And as I have said before I think 'Wheres the Pleasure' is my favourite album, somehow encapsulating everything that we were. I am very proud of those recordings.
Keep in tune
Richard
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Post by bosshammer on Jun 26, 2013 11:32:32 GMT -5
Hi Richard
Thanks for the loan of £20 (via Henno Eggenkampf" that got me home from the Netherlands in 1981.
I did pay the money back to Gary, but he didn't let the rest of you know for some strange reason!
Still wierd, just no longer bothered.
Lots of love
Peg
PS Thanks for all the beer and stuff!
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Post by richardfamous on Aug 15, 2013 9:12:40 GMT -5
Hi Peg
Better late than never!
We were always so amazed that people like your good self would follow us around. Made life on tour a bit special for everyone. There were times when we asked ourselves if there was any point in carrying on, and it was the always the warmth and emotional generosity of the people we met, got in touch with us, and came to the gigs that gave us strength.
I was just looking through some old gig diaries of the early days, and it is full of comments like ' got hit by a bottle, somehow spoilt the event', or 'everyone left!', or 'paid £20, broke down going home'
Those were the days
Richard
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Post by bosshammer on Aug 24, 2013 8:50:42 GMT -5
Those were the days indeed Richard! I was 16 at the time and had never even been to London before, let alone abroad.
Out of the three of us who came to The Netherlands from Bradford, I am the only survivor.
Dave Wilcox (front left in the photo), died some time ago and "liberty" (second from left at the back) fried his brain, teeth and skeleton with amphetamines. :0(
Whatever happened to the lads from Stockton, Andy and Pete?
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Post by pm on Aug 25, 2013 10:58:39 GMT -5
I was just looking through some old gig diaries of the early days, and it is full of comments like ' got hit by a bottle, somehow spoilt the event', or 'everyone left!', or 'paid £20, broke down going home' Those were the days Richard Richard Maybe one day when you have the time or have nothing better to do you could upload this info and start a PG day by day section on the site - where you played on what date and what happened? |
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Post by richardfamous on Aug 26, 2013 14:51:49 GMT -5
Hi pm
Yeah well you never know! It is a long dark winter where I live at the moment and maybe something will come of it all. I am trying to flesh out the 'history' section of the website with some pithy and inciteful observations of
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Post by richardfamous on Aug 26, 2013 15:11:14 GMT -5
Hi Peg
Yes, a lot has happened in 30 odd years. It is always shocking to hear of casualties. I was just thinking about Liberty the other day. If I remember, on that tour he was on the run from the cops in Britain. At the end of the tour he was travelling back on the ferry with us in our old ambulance. We got through customs and passport control at Harwich OK, but were eventually stopped outside Chelmsford and he was escorted off and into police custody. Life on the road huh.
Andy from Stockport has written something on this forum somewhere I think. And who can forget 'Bootleg Pete', who for years travelled to all the Poisons/Crass gigs with a reel to reel tape deck and a pair of microphones strapped to a hat. If he kept the tapes he is sitting on a fortune! Last I heard of him he was living in Hackney
Keep writing
Richard
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Post by dameisen on Sept 6, 2013 12:40:34 GMT -5
hi,i was the second bass player.how is everybody?i have lost touch with richard a long time ago.and i think vi and lance have left spain.
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Post by dameisen on Sept 6, 2013 13:05:47 GMT -5
hi richard,seems everyone is offline,you can contact me at my email address if you have access,if not let me know here.scott.
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Post by richardfamous on Sept 9, 2013 8:56:53 GMT -5
Hi Scott (No.2!)
Nice to hear from you. Long time and all that, though I did know that you had made contact with Vi and Lance. Vi has left Spain though as far as I know Lance is still there.
i think about Burleigh House every time I go through the Bell Common tunnel (not often these days). There was some energy in that place.
Keep in touch (can you still play Cats Eye)
Richard
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Post by dameisen on Nov 25, 2013 15:56:17 GMT -5
hi richard,i just popped back here to see if i could find any zombies lurking about.seems quiet,shhhhhhhhhhhhhh what was that? i could prolly play our whole set with a bit of prompting.i have not stopped playing at all and play now with my own band, the opium buddhas,we do 60s covers,stones,who,you get the drift.its not very creative but the money helps keep the wolf from the door.i also play freeform asian jazz in india every winter so that keeps the creative juices flowing.what you doing now?
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Post by Pete Fender on Dec 2, 2013 14:14:00 GMT -5
Aaaah, Scotty-Boy (or should I say Scotty-old bugger)! Yippa me old son  Xxxx |
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Post by mattprobert on Nov 8, 2014 16:55:33 GMT -5
Good evening!
I discovered the Poison Girls through a liking for Crass. I was never so much a music fanatic, more a 'political' animal. I greatly admired the philosophy propagated by Crass and their colleagues, such as the Poison Girls. To look at you'd pass me in the street without a second glance. Very boring, very staid. Perhaps I am just that! I have spent my entire life bucking the system, trying to make the world a better and fairer place to live. Opposing police brutality, the corruption of politicians, the exploitation of ordinary people by corporates, the 'factory-fodder' approach of schools etc. This has won me no friends, and even less admiration! But I can look myself in the mirror and take reassurance that altruism is its own reward.
My favourite Poison Girls track is 'Persons Unknown', which I encountered along side 'Bloody revolutions' by Crass on the single released by Crass Records back in the early 1980's. Sadly I no longer own the vinyl, but I have them both as MP3s and yes I still play them in my boring Ford Mondeo, and sing along!
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Post by banjopoison on Nov 9, 2014 14:59:12 GMT -5
Hi folks.
Just joined this site.
Saw Poison Girls frequently in late 70s and early 80s.
I hope Vi is in good health these days.
Is she still giving interviews?
Thanks,
Jon, Hove
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