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Re: Photography at Dingwalls Nov 12th

  • Subject: Re: Photography at Dingwalls Nov 12th
  • From: "Neville Street" <nevstreet@ho...com>
  • Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 16:47:29 -0000
I was there Rocker - right at the front. It was a fantastic gig. I believe 
Wojtek used a Stanley knife to slice the plastic. I tried the same thing 
with my band a few years later, with a razor blade attached to a bamboo 
cane. The razor blade pinged out after the first 'slash' so we had to hang 
off the (industrial) plastic until it eventually started to rip. The 
audience weren't too impressed but we were laughing so much we buggered up 
the opening song - Hangin' Round by Lou Reed. 

"You keep hangin' round me
and I'm not...... so glad you found me
You're still doing things that I gave up years ago"

Aaaah yes, sigh.... the rock 'n roll years... :-)


Neville
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rockerq@ao...com 
  To: blueplanes@bl...org 
  Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 2:48 PM
  Subject: Re: [BluePlanes] Photography at Dingwalls Nov 12th


    <<my first BA gig at  the Hope Centre in Bristol in the 80’s (starting 
their set behind a backlit polythene sheet and cutting it to pieces with 
guitars )>>


  I remember the band came on and played their first number behind the 
polythene - Wojtek held a blade of some sort, and as he danced in his 
usual maniacal / balletic way he would occasionally slash out at the 
polythene, which became cut to ribbons, and eventually when the bulk of it 
was shredded, the band joined in and pulled the remainder down - the NME 
reviewed it with the strapline "Exploding! Plastic! In Bristol!"

  I wonder how many on this list were there? Or if it was videod? 
(Possibly a bit early for that sort of technology at a gig - but am sure 
Gerard would have wanted the work of art preserved for posterity - or 
maybe its very transience was part of its appeal)

  Rocker (pretentious, moi?)




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