Business Controlled’s “Cleaning Up the Streets”

In the early 1980s, possibly ’81, I saw a film on day time TV, what I thought was called “Cleaning Up the Streets”. It was a Canadian ..

5 years ago
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Red Aligatorz/The Girls @ The Warehouse

When gigs turn out to be better, much better, than what we hoped it makes it all the more special to play together again. From meeting up with ..

5 years ago
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Grinning In the Graveyards: “The York Tapes”

Hidden away in Ellie’s cuboards were a few cassettes from the 1980s, I am sure there are more cassettes out there in attics all forgotten ..

6 years ago
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Red Aligatorz: Reunion Video

The Reunion of the Red Aligatorz at the Old Fire Station was more than what we (the band) expected. The music, the venue were good but the crowd ..

6 years ago
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Red Aligatorz: Kitchen Reunion Demo

Here is the recording from the previous blog where I mentioned The Red Aligatorz rehearsal, leading up to the reunion gig at the Old Fire ..

6 years ago
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Home Recording

I have been meaning to guy a new guitar for sometime; the old acoustic I have has a big crack down its body and does not stay in tune for long. ..

6 years ago
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The Wishing Chair

Nick Scott – vocals / guitar Dunoe – vocals Liz – bass Simon Blackshaw – Drums I knew of the Wishing Chair when ..

7 years ago
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“No Thrills” in concert

It has been ages since I was at a punk gig, I can’t even remember when it was? The other week I went to see 3 punk bands in Carlisle’s ..

8 years ago
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Every Smile’s A Lie

Dung – vocals Dung – acoustic guitar Dung – electric guitar Dung – keyboards Dung – drums Dung – bass ..

8 years ago
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Whitehouse Blue

John Ferguson: guitar, vocals Pete Smith: bass, vocals Jeremy Robinson: drums, backing vocals Tony Styles: lead guitar I was interested ..

8 years ago
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The Pedestrians

Bass, Vocals – Scog Misfit Drums, Vocals, Written-By – Keir Husband Guitar – Paul Henshaw Keyboards – Simon Horobin ..

8 years ago
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Sean’s Radio Frequency

I have edited and uploaded Sean Todhunter’s radio show “Radio Frequency”. The 3 programmes features various music from ..

8 years ago
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The Limps

Bass – Chuck Drums – Terry Clark / Dee Dee Guitar, Vocals – Andy Semple vocals – Tam An early punk band from over ..

8 years ago
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D.O.S. / I.B.S.

Nigel touched upon the history of D.O.S. in Carlisle giving mp3’s and photos. I would like to include an additional posting about ..

8 years ago
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Penrith’s Bands

As I was starting to research for this blog I came across info about the “Chevettes”, the “Sconeheads”, “Aftermath” ..

8 years ago
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The Exiles New Single

A new release from the Carlisle punk band “The Exiles – From Nowhere to Nowhere”, some great music here with a cleaver ..

8 years ago
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Havana Affair’s Last Gig

I found these video recordings recently of the last gig done by the Carlisle punk group “Havana Affair”. I got the video of Johnny ..

8 years ago
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Cold Angels

I don´t know much about this band either! (O’dear, not much I do know, waiting to hear from you to educate me!) Duncan Todhunter ..

8 years ago
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The Beguiled

Pod and I copied The Beguiled’s demo cassette “Clowns” (1985) onto my computer the other day, as well as another Live ..

8 years ago
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Workington Demos Update

I was able to track down the cassette covers of 2 of the Workington bands I had from the 1980s. I had given the Kevin Akitt cassette, “Reel ..

8 years ago
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Punkdora’s Box

After watching a couple of YouTube documentaries on the Dead Kennedy’s last night, I decided to find a few of their LPs for my mate ..

8 years ago
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Every Smile’s a Lie CD

I uploaded to the page (Carlisle bands) a CD I was given by Dung many years ago, from his band “Every Smiles a Lie”. Being a friend ..

8 years ago
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Kevin Akitt “Reel 2 Reel”

The name Kevin Akitt, crops up now and gain but it is very hard to pin him down. There is a few references to him in various punk blogs ..

8 years ago
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Suspicions Confirmed (demo)

I have a cassette of a band from Workington/Cumbria, and I have no idea who they were, does anyone know? I got it given to me when Frenzy ..

8 years ago
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Red Aligatorz Border TV

I finally extracted The Red Aligatorz video from my VHS. I found 2 songs we did on Border TV “Border News and Look Around” or to give ..

8 years ago
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“The Decline…” (video)

Fib loaned me “The Decline of Western Civilization” by Penelope Spheres, a video collection about Punk/rock music in L.A./USA. ..

8 years ago
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Frenzy’s Mp3’s

I uploaded some mp3s of my band “Frenzy”, which I will insert in that page. A rough cassette recording possibly in 1983, done ..

8 years ago
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Turncoat Collective: Review

Turncoat Collective – Turncoat Collective You get a feel of an alternative USA sub-culture with this music. He sings about not the American ..

8 years ago
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“The Drunken Wobblies” and Band Reviews

Recently someone called this blog a “platform for my own material”. Nothing is more far from the truth. As it says in the introduction…well, ..

8 years ago
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Sean’s Radio Show: Jukebox

Sean Todhunter, gives a radio show every week, a mixture of great sub-cultured music. have a listen: Sean says “Over 2 hrs of high-octane ..

8 years ago
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Carlisle & Bandcamp

I was browsing through the bands in Bancamp and I typed in “tag Carlisle” lots of bands came on-screen. After browsing through ..

8 years ago
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Audiomulch “Arpeggiator”

I worked on Audiomulch more this evening, trying different effects and ideas. It is a learning curve. I know I am making things too busy ..

8 years ago
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Audiomulch, drum loops & Audition CS6

Today I tried to get to grips with Audiomulch, the music creator software. You can manipulate sounds: drum samples, instrument samples with ..

8 years ago
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Fiction and non-fiction writing

I have been working really hard on getting the new blog started (this blog). I left the old one due to google messing me about and not letting ..

8 years ago
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