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Post by richardfamous on Jun 26, 2012 10:03:56 GMT -5
So any questions you want to ask Poison Girls - The music, ideas, influences, favourite colour, shoe size, etc - and we will try to give you an honest and vaguely coherent answer. Use your imagination
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Post by back2front on Jun 27, 2012 7:32:00 GMT -5
The boards won't recognise my email - even though I have an 'activate your account' email from the boards - I love technology me... any ideas... oh and great to see this forum happening...
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Post by webmonkey on Jun 27, 2012 10:01:00 GMT -5
The boards won't recognise my email - even though I have an 'activate your account' email from the boards - I love technology me... any ideas... oh and great to see this forum happening... Your account doesn't seem to have registered. Please try registering again afresh with a different username. |
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Post by back2front on Jun 28, 2012 4:30:57 GMT -5
Would the band be interested in doing an interview for back2front magazine?
Bit more in depth than the usual fare - previous issues featured Noam Chomsky, Penny Rimbaud, Chumbawamba, Peter Singer, Oi Polloi, Citizen Fish and should you wish I can send you an issue to give you an idea.
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Post by back2front on Jun 28, 2012 4:32:44 GMT -5
Are there any plans to reissue the back catalogue? The Cooking Vinyl box set is still available but doesn't have all the original booklets while there was a number of things which didn't appear on it originally. Be lovely to see new issues out there especially in these times when there's not enough intelligent music to inspire the times...
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Post by richardfamous on Jun 28, 2012 5:59:48 GMT -5
Hi back2front
Hope you got the computer glitches sorted. Thanks for your posts
Sounds like a good magazine you have going. I will ask VI and Lance if they would like to do an interview, or whatever, for the mag. It is a long time since we did any 'media' and I know we have not wanted to do interviews in the past. But who knows!
As for re-releasing the back catalogue. We had a good hard look at the logistics of it all a while back, with the idea to release the albums in their original form (on CD of course) and artwork. This is still work in progress, and, as usual, depends on having enough spare cash to see the project through. All the tracks are available as downloads from the website
Richard
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Post by back2front on Jun 28, 2012 10:36:32 GMT -5
Richard, thanks for getting back to me. We (Stuart Christie and I) did ask Vi to contribute to a recent book: issuu.com/skateraw/docs/arenapromo3But we didn't receive anything by deadline - I think the book is sold out now so would consider a second expanded edition and be great to have a contribution from Poisons. With the magazine I've tried to do in depth interviews with bands, individuals and libertarians alongside well researched pieces on historical anarchism and critique and various reviews. We've had everyone from the CNT to Ian Bone! Active Distribution should have copies or Houseman's if you're in London: www.activedistributionshop.org/shop/zines/2019-back2front-6.html I do feel Poisons were just as integral a part of the founding of the subculture than Crass, but have been disappointingly overlooked - would be keen then to make amends on that front. I almost ran a retrospective feature a few issues back. In regards to the back catalogue my own label and several others I know would no doubt collaborate on making this happen. |
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Post by richcross on Jul 2, 2012 14:31:43 GMT -5
If it's OK to form a (dis)orderly queue for interviews, I'm researching and writing various things on punk, anarcho-punk, anarchism and the counter-culture in the 1970s and 1980s and would really love the chance to interview members of Poison Girls too. It would be fantastic if band members would consider the idea - maybe if 'media availability' was initially for a fixed period rather than open ended, might that be more attractive (or less unattractive!). Just a thought.
And as I'm already behind them in the queue, I might add that back2back is a really great magazine!
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Post by richardfamous on Jul 4, 2012 15:12:07 GMT -5
Hi Rich
I have added yor name to the still imaginary and very disorderly queue for interviews. You must realise that we are all in far flung places these days, so a sit down interview would be unlikely. Still you never know.
Richard
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Post by avi on Jul 5, 2012 5:35:53 GMT -5
Hi Richard! some questions about the band -
1. Was Vi doing any music before Poison Girls?
2. Why did Poison Girls stop touring/playing live with Crass at some point?
3. What exactly are the family ties between Poison Girls and Fatal Microbes/Rubella Ballet/any other bands?
4. Are there any old PG songs 'in the vaults', never released etc?
Many thanks!
Avi
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Post by richardfamous on Jul 5, 2012 11:38:08 GMT -5
Hi Avi, and welcome. Thanks for your contribution on the 'Introduction' thread. It's good to know that we were part of your life in some small way.
But back to your questions
1. Vi started singing as part of 'The Body Show', which was a semi-improvised theatre piece put together for the Edinburgh Festival in 1975. The nucleus of Poison Girls were all involved in this production, but the first gig under the 'Poison Girls name was in March 1977
2. This is a big and complicated question. The short answer is that Crass got too big, and so the gigs were no longer Crass/Poison Girls gigs but Crass supported by Poison Girls. We thought it was a good time to try to reach a different, or should I say wider, audience, and the split gave us space to do that both politically and musically
3. Pete Fender and Gem Stone are Vi's kids. Pete and Gem played with the original Microbes, and Rubella Ballet. Pete also played with Poisons, Omega Tribe, Charlie, and various other bands in the East London scene, as well as running a very important recording studio.
4. No. Though there are a whole host of songs from 77-78 that never got recorded on anything but dodgy cassette tapes (and believe me they are pretty unlistenable), and also most of the last set of songs 87-89, that exist on an unmixed live 16 track recording from Berlin in 1989, which has unfortunatly gone missing.
Hope this clears some things up!!
Richard Famous
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Post by avi on Jul 5, 2012 20:09:48 GMT -5
Thanks so much! Here's a couple Qs more...
1. Is there any video documentation of PG concerts/interviews/otherwise?
2. Hope this isn't already answered elsewhere but what is each ex-PG member up to currently? Read something about Vi in a band called Ruins?
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Post by richardfamous on Jul 11, 2012 14:43:55 GMT -5
Hi Avi
Apologies for the delay answering, just seems to be a busy time of year,
So to the questions
1) There is precious little video documentation of the band at all. The 'Real Woman' vid was the only one that we made at the time, and whatever live footage there is, is in the hands of the people who shot it!.I have a poor quality DVD of a very late show from the band (87?) and I know odd bits keep turning up from shows that were filmed. A German video called 'Rebel Rockers' has a couple of songs of ours on ift taken from a gig in Berlin. There is no early footage as far as I know, and certainly non of 'broadcast' quality. We only ever did one TV recording, of 'Menage abattoire' for a local tv station in England, on some daytime magasine programme (don't ask me how we got that - very weird) and we never got to see it either (though we did get paid!!), pre digital and we were in the wrong geographical area!
2) Vi has retired from live performances and is currently spending time with her shaggy dog in the mountains of Spain.
Lance is busy working on other parts of the website, get him on his facebook page, and creating the Impossible Dream 5
I am living on a small croft in Shetland (between Scotland and Iceland) and still writing and recording songs.
Hope this answers some of your questions
Richard Famous
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Post by avi on Jul 12, 2012 14:04:46 GMT -5
Never been to Shetland Islands but I know it's beautiful up there! Thanks for answering - would love to hear the stuff you're doing!
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Post by richardfamous on Oct 2, 2012 14:32:37 GMT -5
Hi PJM
Apologies for the delay in answering, I have been out of contact for a while.
You are right that the master for 'One Good Reason' is missing! For some reason it got left off the 4 CD boxed set when all the digital transfers were made. For the life of me I can't remember why. We did transfer 'Cinnamon Garden', the b side of the single, taken off a 7" vinyl single, but, again I say that I don't know why we didn't dub off 'One Good reason'. Maybe it was because it was originally released through Illuminated Records and the track was theoretically still under contract to them. We will try to get a copy on line if we can, as it is the only gap in the studio releases.
And I will look into the artwork situation for Happy Now (there was also an American release of Happy Now with, I think, a different sleeve too). Again, if we can get it sorted out we will.
Richard Famous
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