The women in punk – and the girl I was In the summer of 1977, Caroline Collett found punk because of a boy – and stayed because of the women. From Caroline Coon and Vivienne Westwood to Poly Styrene and Patti Smith, this is a love letter t...

Supercool women’s music site @thefortyfive.bsky.social asked me to write about the women in punk who influenced me the most - and I did!
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Great article as expected pal. Hopefully a taster for the soon come book(c'mon publishers!).
Of the women you mention it's The Slits that left the biggest impression on me. I still play Cut regularly to this day.
I loved The Au Pairs and Delta 5 too, not punk but inspired by the women before them.

I remember in the late 70's/early 80's the last few days before payday it was a toss up whether to go to Tescos for pasta, soup or bread, a couple of pints in the pub, or to buy the likes of Closer, the new Bunnymen LP, Fear of Music or Metal Box on release day. The music usually won!

And in another vague connection I see @carolinebinnie.bsky.social has posted that Cale's Paris 1919 was released on Feb 25 1973.

I would never had heard of Chipping Sodbury if it wasn't for the song "Graham Greene" on John Cale's magnificent LP Paris 1919. Although the lyric says"Oh welcome back to Chipping and Sodbury...."
Vague Welsh connection there between Cale and Cath.

Only 7 for me. Which I'm actually immensely proud of😀

Good night at Baftas for One Battle After Another , I Swear and Sinners. Robert Aramayo worthy winner of best actor and Sentimental Value best foreign language was film good to see. Hamnet not my type of film but great winners speech by Jessie Buckley for best actress.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Music for people who don't like music.

I get you, you've a lifetime of movies behind you, like all of us of a certain vintage have. Given that I have that 7 day free trial of Mubi that means I can watch Die My Love, so I'll give that a watch next midweek perhaps. I see it's directed by Lynne Ramsay.

This has just come up on Amazon Prime Movies as a free 7 day trial on Mubi. That's tomorrow's film night with me and the mrs sorted. Cheers CC, might have not twigged it if you hadn't mentioned it.

Au Pairs is terrific. Powerful band, regret not seeing them live back then.

Didn't go to any art museums in Copenhagen, but we were lucky enough to time our 2018 visit to Stockholm with the 50th anniversary of Warhol 1968. Held at Moderna Museet, loads of his 60's classics like the Brillos, Campbells soup cans, Marilyn etc.

Yeah, the Norse/Scando's are cool if my visits to Gothenburg and Copenhagen are anything to go by. Not the cheapest places mind you. The Carlsberg factory tour is really entertaining and lots of cool micro/craft brewerys & pubs.

Speaking of the Falkirk branch of Boots. On release day I asked my Gran to buy me Buzzcocks debut LP from that shop. I couldn't have asked her to say the band name so wrote it down for her to hand over! Today's Grans probably wouldn't be fazed by saying the name but wasn't the done thing in '77!! 😀

Fascinating. Interesting to see Yiddish branching off Germanic. I always wrongly assumed it was an ancient language from Israel, a subset of Hebrew or something.
Italo-Dalmatian sounds wonderful - "a group of Romance languages primarily linked to the regions of Italy and Dalmatia".

Yeah, I'm no expert but think some of these Norse words have direct line to Germanic language.

Think this is all coming from old Norse words CC, so both Danish&Norwegian. When I was in Copenhagen noticed words like Bairn used by Scots., other examples below
Bairn (Child) - Norwegian: barn. Kirk: Church (from kirkja). Gloaming: Twilight (from glómungr). Muckle/Mickle: Large/much (from mikill)

19 for me, in 79.
80 was another great year, 72-82 was an amazing period. Not as great since unfortunately. Obviously there was great music but just not the same volume as there was in the preceding 10 years. All subjective of course.

NME's best albums and tracks of 1979 Discover NME's best albums and tracks of 1979. Featuring albums from Talking Heads, Joy Division and PiL

Played Fear of Music today funnily enough. 1979 is my favourite year for albums released and that LP might be the best of the lot.
Tough competition mind you - Unknown Pleasures, Metal Box, Armed Forces, London Calling, Entertainment etc.
What a list, got well over half.
www.nme.com/features/197...

Big Jim Sullivan - Wikipedia

Here's a link to all of those No 1 singles. You can just imagine him having a quiet pint on a Friday night.
"Hi Jim, any records in the charts this week?"
"Yep, No 1."
"You say that every week"
"Yep"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Jim...

Anybody who doesn't own this album has an incomplete record collection.
I must look out the Microdisney doc from a few years ago, essential viewing.

Not very often you get the best band on the bill being bottom. Not like they'd just started out either. By that point they'd released three classics according to Fall devotees.

Yeah, think it was mainly because there were no punk musicians with bald heads so he was a bit of a novelty. And the Apollo crowd were unforgiving at the best of times. Thing was he was perhaps one of the greatest guitarists in the punk movement ,but we were all too young and stupid to realise.

Saw them supporting The Clash at Glasgow Apollo in October 77. The Blank Generation LP did not get released till after the gig I'm sure so nobody had heard it(unless they had the import). My recollection is they didn't go down well, and poor Robert Quine was pilloried mercilessly for being bald.

With Irish (Celt) and Danish (Norse) DNA in your genes pal, you were always going to be a punk!

I often wonder about the past in Ireland. Did many of my ancestors die in the famine, why they came to Scotland and was that the first port of call in the UK, could it have been the USA instead, did any fight and die in the battle for Independence?
No matter where you're from it's the same I guess

"Reggae"

Marcus Garvey – Burning Spear
King Tubby Meets... – Augustus Pablo
Blackheart Man -Bunny Wailer
Pick A Dub - Keith Hudson
Super Ape - The Upsetters
Right Time - Mighty Diamonds
Conquering Lion - Yabby You
Satta Masagana - Abyssinians
Screaming Target - Big Youth
War Ina Babylon - Max Romeo

"Rock"
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic.
Superfly - Curtis Mayfield
No 1 Record - Big Star.
Shiny Beast - Capt Beefheart
Iggy - Raw Power
NY Dolls - NY Dolls
Man Machine - Kraftwerk
Eno - Warm Jets
Neu! 75 - Neu!
Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers

Nobody's really sure if it was Castlebar (distance to Foxford 22km!),or Westport in Mayo for my Dad's family. Myself and my then g/f did a tour of ROI in 1984 and we stopped off in Castlebar before heading further south. Population back then between 5-6,000, but it's now doubled apparently.

100% Irish on my Dads side, from Co Mayo. There is reckoned to be Irish on my Mums side but thats unclear, otherwise mostly Scottish. Which as far as I know means I'm 100% Celt by ancestry, and by football team!