Nymphomania split and Virus record their first demo I don’t really have much recollection of Nymphomania splitting up – after the gig in Marnhull in March (1984), I only remember us doing one more gig, […]
Crabby upsets The Unit and Marnhull Village Hall. After the debacle that was Sherborne Digby Hall, we were left licking our wounds a bit. Our live debut as Virus had been pretty much a disaster […]
As told by Jaz Wiseman – many thanks to him for giving us the text and images for this great serialisation of the Virus story. Chapter 3 – ‘1984 and Sherborne Digby Hall’ 1984 had […]
As told by Jaz Wiseman – many thanks to him for giving us the text and images for this great serialisation of the Virus story. Chapter 2. “Our own space” In September 1983, we started […]
As told by Jaz Wiseman – many thanks to him for giving us the text and images for this great serialisation of the Virus story. For those of you who are unaware here, this has […]
No matter how hard they tried, the Stasi were unsuccessful in quashing the various punk movements popping up all over East Germany. In fact, it’s been suggested that these pissed off unruly kids were one […]
Punks were not looked favourably upon by the East German state. They represented everything that the government stood against. Punk was violent, volatile and chaotic; the complete opposite of the rigid uniformity trumpeted by authorities. […]
In East Germany, official media showed that there were no depressed or unhappy people. However, the reality was that people were anything but happy in the GDR. Under state surveillance, creativity, curiosity, and free thinking […]
Will Binks is one of those people who, when you see him at a gig, you just know that there is going to be a great set of pictures appearing on social media. In fact, […]
Rodney Shades, vocalist of the Scottish D-Beat (or should that be G-Beat?) band Thisclose, gives us an insight into the ‘Grave New Beat’… Tell us a bit about yourselves… @R: Thisclose formed in 2012 and […]
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