I have been writing about The Buzz Club, going into detail about each gig, with fliers, photos, memories and music on this blog. I’ve decided at this stage to publish the definitive list as I have it. This has taken AGES to compile. At the time, in the early years, I wrote down the gigs […]
The first song I really got into by The Close Lobsters was ‘Never Seen Before’. A cracking 7″ single released on Fire Records in 1987, just before this Buzz Club show and the reason we booked them. I was aware of them as they were on the original N.M.E. C-86 tape with ‘Fire Station Towers’ the […]
This was a great night, really good line up. First on was a work-mate from Our Price Records – Tony Duckworth and his band The Rain. Tony and I worked together in a few different shops and we had a healthy musical rivalry. I was jealous of him because his band, The Rain were signed […]
I recently saw there was a Twitter account @C86Show and so tagged it in when I was writing about the Mighty Mighty Buzz Club show a couple of weeks ago. That resulted in David Eastaugh, the man behind the C86 show contacting me and asking if he could interview me. Obviously I was delighted and […]
Danny was working in the Camberley Our Price Records, so we decided to hire Camberley Football Club for this Buzz Club. We were both really into Bristol’s The Brilliant Corners and he had been selling a few of their records in his shop, so it made sense. They had played before, earlier in the year, […]
I’ve just remembered this Buzz Club! It’s not written down anywhere in my notes so I’m not 100% sure when it actually took place. This review from ‘Sounds’ reminded me of it. Breaks my heart a little bit to read the review, ‘So that big time, small-brained music business no marks can forget to turn […]
“If I could be in any other band, it would be BMX Bandits” Kurt Cobain BMX Bandits were formed in 1985 by songwriter and lead vocalist Duglas T Stewart out of the ashes of The Pretty Flowers, a short-lived group that featured Duglas alongside Frances McKee (The Vaselines), Sean Dickson (The Soup Dragons) and Norman […]
