Comments on: Cramps? Best Brum gig evah?

By: Straka Starr

Straka Starr — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:33:15 +0000

Hi George. Straka Starr - Bass Player from the reformed 1977 SHAG NASTY here. Check us out on http://myspace.com/shagnastyuk and drop us a line. Good to talk.

By: George_Daley

George_Daley — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:30:22 +0000

Nowhere near the best gig musically, but a great piece of street theatre – The Clash at Barbarellas in 1977. There was supposed to be a punk festival at the Rag Market but it was banned when all the row started after the Pistol's appearance on teatime telly. Me and a mate went along anyway to see if anything was going to happen. It was a Sunday afternoon so it was either that or the Muppet Show. A crowd of people of varying degrees of punkiness with my mate at the lowest end of that cos he had hair like Robert Plant. Loads of Old Bill looking for somebody to nick. Car pulls up, out pops Mick Jones – 'Barbarellas later' he shouts and gets back into the motor. Barbarellas later is a weird mixture of heavy metal fans, punks and the curious. There was a local punk band called Shag Nasty playing in the Pose. A metal band whose name I can't remember played the main stage. Fair play, they let the Clash use their gear but there was no sound check and it was rough, gloriously rough. Their set was most of the first album. London's Burning became Birmingham's Burning. Strummer was berating the gobbers as he would do each time i saw them, twice more at Barbs.

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The Big Paws - The Big Paws - Stuff we talked about 11/04/04 — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:30:23 +0000

[...] What was your best ever gig in Birmingham? [...]

By: MidgeD

MidgeD — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:03:55 +0000

I still have the ticket dated MAY 30th 1986, it was when Poison Ivy took a hell of a swing at a stage invader with her guitar and Nick Knox did the whole gig unflinchingly gazing into the middle distance from behind his shades while not missing a single tribal beat :).