from the press release:
London's legendary punk icons, The Spunk Lads, will reunite to raise money for the fight against Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project. Joining the lads on the bill is Irish hip-hop band Seanchai & The Unity Squad, The Choke, and the Blackout Shoppers.
London's legendary punk icons, The Spunk Lads, will reunite to raise money for the fight against Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project. Joining the lads on the bill is Irish hip-hop band Seanchai & The Unity Squad, The Choke, and the Blackout Shoppers.
Formed at the outset of punk's London heyday, the Lads -- singer Nick Knickers, guitarist Bloody Dick, bassist Prince Albert and drummer Jackson Bollocks -- influenced every great Western punk band, and a few Eastern ones as well, plus a handful of Northern acts and at least one really fab Southern band. The Lads' original tenure as punk luminaries ran from 1976 through 1979.
Twenty years later, the Lads discovered they had all relocated to Brooklyn, New York. In 2000, the band reunited, and over the next five years released the seminal albums Paddington Station, G.M.T. and Girl At The March. The Lads called it a day in 2005.
"Ratner's bollocks, he is" says Knickers. "Cities grow one punter at a time. London's not great 'cause of the Millenium Wheel or Big Ben -- it's great 'cause of the chippie, the corner shop, the people who make it breathe one thread at a time. Same with Brooklyn -- it ain't for limo-chauffered developers, it's for the rest of us."
"Ratner's bollocks, he is" says Knickers. "Cities grow one punter at a time. London's not great 'cause of the Millenium Wheel or Big Ben -- it's great 'cause of the chippie, the corner shop, the people who make it breathe one thread at a time. Same with Brooklyn -- it ain't for limo-chauffered developers, it's for the rest of us."
The event will raise funds for Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn's legal fund. DDDB is currently fighting legal battles in state and federal courts to prevent Ratner's Atlantic Yards development from moving forward. DDDB, part of a coaltion of over 50 community, religious and grass roots groups and elected officials, is working toward honest development of the Vanderbilt rail yards that benefits all New Yorkers.
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I've seen The Spunk Lads before, and they are a riot. You'll think you're at the Hope & Anchor drinking your lager out of a tall tin back in '77. Good cause, too.
The Spunk Lads with The Choke, Seanchai & The Unity Squad, and the Blackout Shoppers at Southpaw, 125 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY (718) 230-0236 $15 -- proceeds go to DDDB's Legal Fund Doors at 7pm, show promptly at 8pm.
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