I was too busy visiting “The Very Bazaar” on Silver Street to bother with those type of shops
31 October 2013
Dave Wiggins
Purchased many a card there, around 1981/1982, for a particular lady-friend. Sadly, ‘friend’ was the operative word, as far as she was concerned, and all the Athena paraphernalia in the world was never going to change that. The bitch.
I’ve also spent my fair share of time in Athena shops – there’s one still going near us, even though the company went into administration in 1995. I’ve never before noticed the peculiar typography in their logo (the sloping bar in the H, H and E sharing a stem), though.
31 October 2013
Bobby SVARC
I went in once to see if they had any posters of Grids, preferably 56134 ‘Blyth Power’ on MGR Coal. The young lass told me to piss off!
31 October 2013
Bobby SVARC
And a Bike is a Grid in Leicestershire as well, or was Rosie the bike?, …I dunno…I’m all of a go now. Rosie went with me to the Half Time Orange to see The Biscuits in 1998, I remember we got kicked out of the Kohinoor Indian after the show for singing Fred Titmus, Cops were called. Ah them were the days, GEOFF, A LEICESTER GIG IF YOU PLEASE
31 October 2013
G100
I was young then but for some worrying reason, most clearly remember their poster of a naked bloke holding a baby. Awful. I guess nowadays Ikea has taken over the ‘Buy your taste in art here’ mantle, what with their framed photos of pebbles and people building skyscrapers.
1 November 2013
Bobby SVARC
Nuff said really, But one other thing about these ere grids, do you lot have bacon rolls or cobs like we do?…. Up The City!!
Ha yeah, but happy memories in a way ‘cos nearly all 80’s college girlfriends had that poster in their rooms.
1 November 2013
EXXO
The one of the bloke and the baby I mean, not the locomotive.
So that’s what that fine old band Blyth Power are named after is it?
1 November 2013
EXXO
The locomotive I mean, not the bloke & the baby.
1 November 2013
Bobby SVARC
Yes Exxo, I saw Blyth Power at the ‘Pump and Tap’ in Leicester circa 1991, Had a good drink with them and they were all into trains and named the band after t’loco.
Ah, glad you’re familiar with their work, Micky, and I’m sure the Controller won’t mind if we shunt this thread down a branch line… do you know of the band Eastfield as well? The Midlands’ finest.
I think although Blyth Power can be seen as founders of yer ‘rail punk’ genre, it is actually Eastfield who first coined the term in an album title and on a sew-on patch for sewing on yer black tour jacket sleeves.
1 November 2013
Bobby SVARC
Now then Exxo this is spooky stuff, I was just looking at Eastfield’s website and, lo and behold, they play Wellingborough on 6th of December. Then on my return to this site you’ve posted about them! I’m going deffo, a week after The Roadmender.
1 November 2013
SIMON P
Aaaah … I saw a guy at Beautiful Days with a t-shirt with Eastfield and the BR logo with something like “Rail Punks” on it and wondered what the hell that was all about (I am familiar with Eastfield as a rail depot as I worked in Glasgow for a while) … it all makes sense now
1 November 2013
BrumBiscuit
I shall tell Jessi (Diesel to his mates) that he has been mentioned here! He’s Eastfield’s singer.
1 November 2013
Bobby SVARC
Well I’ll not hold that against him, After all I’ve a few Cov mates and my band played the Wolfe a few times way back when
1 November 2013
EXXO
Jessi is a mate of a few mates of mine too, not to mention a mate of the bloke who sometimes does the PA for my footy club, who also is a sometime member of Blyth Power. Small world eh, Biscuiteers?
Saw an excellent Eastfield set at Rebellion back in August, which stood up well alongside some much bigger name punk outfits.
Just my Sunday team I meant Bobby, with a PA for events, gigs, fund-raisers, etc…. didn’t mean a proper team with a PA at the matches!
1 November 2013
Bobby SVARC
OK Exxo, nice one. I help to run a messageboard called Bentleys Roof, We’ve run yearly fundays and hit 15k for LOROS (Local Hosspice) over the last 5 years, We’re having a year off now
It’s OK Micky/Bobby, it’s Chris’ match night we can take this thread wherever we like (for now). Come on Barnsley!
Here’s one to show what a great live act Blyth Power still are, great keyboards making them very tuneful these days, and to show that NB57 isn’t the only one to witter about 1970’s footballers between songs.
Cheers Mate, I love AtS. got a few albums. And seeing Blyth Power has convinced me that the Funday must remain and “Book them and they will come”.
1 November 2013
EXXO
Errrk, Barnsley grab a draw, Siteowner be home in an hour or so, he’ll kick the cat, and then we’re in for it (sticks magazine down back of pants and hopes CtS too angry to notice).
While there’s still time here’s the lyrics to that BP song in my vid above, read them first and the song is just so powerful at debunking the nostalgia.
(Don’t want to debunk the nostalgia of that book though, oh no, looks good, can’t imagine I’ll ever have £19.99 to spend on a book so good job I remember it all like it was yesterday)
1 November 2013
John the shorts
Exxo your mention of Rebellion made me wonder why the Biscuits never do it – it would be awesome if they came on after Geoffrey Oi Cott and started the set with “Fucking Hell It’s Fred Titmus”
4 November 2013
littlegrafter
Blyth Power (the locomotive) used to go past my school on route to Blyth Power Station none the less. Sadly the power station is no more, but is immortalised on the inner of the gatefold sleeve of Alnwick and Tyne (I think). Told the singer this at the Charlotte after a gig and he seemed dead jealous of my north east upbringing. Poor them, in their Dorset slums….
Jessi has been in touch and Eastfield have a new album. If it’s OK, Chris, here are the details (the record label name is a very rude word in Hungarian…):
PEACE. LOVE. FIRE. CD (Baszdmeg 26017, December 2013)
£6 (including postage in the uk) before 31.12.13 from: EASTFIELD, 43 COVERDALE ROAD LANCASTER LA1 5PY (Additional address that can be used for orders, the usual one below still stands, but this may be quicker. Cheques – UK only – payable to ‘A. ADAMS’). £7 after 31.12.13 from: EASTFIELD, c/o THE BASEMENT 78a PENNY STREET LANCASTER LA1 1XN
CD Track listing: Railyard Blues Hucknall! Get out of my car! Jesus Christ! Turbostar! Amuse Me Chili Line Straight outta Santa Fe Sky Burial on Warton Crag You Can’t do that on the Moon There’s a Bavarian in the back of my Car Angoisse des Gares
(If you want to take advantage of 3 CDs for £12 there are limited stocks of ‘One Wrong….’, ‘Loadhaul to Lhasa’, ‘Songs from the Scrapyard’, ‘Detonation Junction’ and ‘Middleground’. Some will be sent in slip cases. cheers).
15 December 2013
Bobby SVARC
Thanks for that, I was going to Wellingborough last week but I had to look after my grandkids who are possibly as loud as Eastfield!!
15 December 2013
Name Required
Rebellion’s sold out – sold its punk heart and soul to the devil that is mainstream capitalist consumerism. You just watch it – couple of years from now, it’ll be all pop-punk shite and just another branch of the Warped Tour.
Of course I don’t really give a flying Scotsman because it’s in Blackie – and I’m stuck down in the bastard Home Counties, full of Tories, Daily Heil and Torygraph readers, and other – FAR less sanitary – things…
This is not my natural habitat; I’m a northern lass, and I feel lost, bewildered, scared and alone down here (even though I’ve been down here nearly 30 years and I feel bewildered, scared, lost and alone just about everywhere).
Nah, I couldn’t give a….ARGHAWASP!GETAWAYFROMMEYA….ARGH!!!!
HA! Squashed the fucker on my arm and it didn’t get to stab me first! I am Vespania, Wasp Warrior!
Er, where were we again, before the demons that inhabit my cranium took over…?!
Ah, yes, Rebellion – loada shite. Biccies should play Latitude, or Beautiful Days, or 1000Trees or summat; summat nice and intimate with good beer. And decent grub – not £8 for summat not even MuckyD’s would sell…
And mud. For nude mud wrestling, and bog snorkelling (and I mean snorkelling in an actual bog, not a Port-A-Loo).
(One day, I’m gonna pen a Port-A-Loo themed parody of… well, think for a sec…).
Don’t worry, Internet, I’ll never get round to it… probably…
Bobby SVARC
I was too busy visiting “The Very Bazaar” on Silver Street to bother with those type of shops
31 October 2013
Dave Wiggins
Purchased many a card there, around 1981/1982, for a particular lady-friend. Sadly, ‘friend’ was the operative word, as far as she was concerned, and all the Athena paraphernalia in the world was never going to change that. The bitch.
31 October 2013
neil g
I always associate Athena with the picture of the female tennis player scratching her bare arse. Very romantic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_Girl
31 October 2013
Dr Desperate
I’ve also spent my fair share of time in Athena shops – there’s one still going near us, even though the company went into administration in 1995. I’ve never before noticed the peculiar typography in their logo (the sloping bar in the H, H and E sharing a stem), though.
31 October 2013
Bobby SVARC
I went in once to see if they had any posters of Grids, preferably 56134 ‘Blyth Power’ on MGR Coal. The young lass told me to piss off!
31 October 2013
Bobby SVARC
And a Bike is a Grid in Leicestershire as well, or was Rosie the bike?, …I dunno…I’m all of a go now.
Rosie went with me to the Half Time Orange to see The Biscuits in 1998, I remember we got kicked out of the Kohinoor Indian after the show for singing Fred Titmus, Cops were called. Ah them were the days, GEOFF, A LEICESTER GIG IF YOU PLEASE
31 October 2013
G100
I was young then but for some worrying reason, most clearly remember their poster of a naked bloke holding a baby. Awful. I guess nowadays Ikea has taken over the ‘Buy your taste in art here’ mantle, what with their framed photos of pebbles and people building skyscrapers.
1 November 2013
Bobby SVARC
Nuff said really, But one other thing about these ere grids, do you lot have bacon rolls or cobs like we do?…. Up The City!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-K54JPPn0o
1 November 2013
EXXO
Ha yeah, but happy memories in a way ‘cos nearly all 80’s college girlfriends had that poster in their rooms.
1 November 2013
EXXO
The one of the bloke and the baby I mean, not the locomotive.
So that’s what that fine old band Blyth Power are named after is it?
1 November 2013
EXXO
The locomotive I mean, not the bloke & the baby.
1 November 2013
Bobby SVARC
Yes Exxo, I saw Blyth Power at the ‘Pump and Tap’ in Leicester circa 1991, Had a good drink with them and they were all into trains and named the band after t’loco.
1 November 2013
Bobby SVARC
There you go, Superb.
1 November 2013
EXXO
Ah, glad you’re familiar with their work, Micky, and I’m sure the Controller won’t mind if we shunt this thread down a branch line… do you know of the band Eastfield as well? The Midlands’ finest.
I think although Blyth Power can be seen as founders of yer ‘rail punk’ genre, it is actually Eastfield who first coined the term in an album title and on a sew-on patch for sewing on yer black tour jacket sleeves.
1 November 2013
Bobby SVARC
Now then Exxo this is spooky stuff, I was just looking at Eastfield’s website and, lo and behold, they play Wellingborough on 6th of December. Then on my return to this site you’ve posted about them! I’m going deffo, a week after The Roadmender.
1 November 2013
SIMON P
Aaaah … I saw a guy at Beautiful Days with a t-shirt with Eastfield and the BR logo with something like “Rail Punks” on it and wondered what the hell that was all about (I am familiar with Eastfield as a rail depot as I worked in Glasgow for a while) … it all makes sense now
1 November 2013
BrumBiscuit
I shall tell Jessi (Diesel to his mates) that he has been mentioned here! He’s Eastfield’s singer.
1 November 2013
Bobby SVARC
Well I’ll not hold that against him, After all I’ve a few Cov mates and my band played the Wolfe a few times way back when
1 November 2013
EXXO
Jessi is a mate of a few mates of mine too, not to mention a mate of the bloke who sometimes does the PA for my footy club, who also is a sometime member of Blyth Power. Small world eh, Biscuiteers?
Saw an excellent Eastfield set at Rebellion back in August, which stood up well alongside some much bigger name punk outfits.
1 November 2013
Bobby SVARC
A very good website for you, especially Simon P.
1 November 2013
Bobby SVARC
Your footy club Exxo, Who are they then?
1 November 2013
EXXO
Just my Sunday team I meant Bobby, with a PA for events, gigs, fund-raisers, etc…. didn’t mean a proper team with a PA at the matches!
1 November 2013
Bobby SVARC
OK Exxo, nice one.
I help to run a messageboard called Bentleys Roof, We’ve run yearly fundays and hit 15k for LOROS (Local Hosspice) over the last 5 years, We’re having a year off now
1 November 2013
Bobby SVARC
Please don’t ban me Chris, You’ll love the intro!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsva3OdKZWw
1 November 2013
EXXO
It’s OK Micky/Bobby, it’s Chris’ match night we can take this thread wherever we like (for now). Come on Barnsley!
Here’s one to show what a great live act Blyth Power still are, great keyboards making them very tuneful these days, and to show that NB57 isn’t the only one to witter about 1970’s footballers between songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_ghR3VEBHs
And here’s something by Attila about BP front man Joseph Porter, at a gig in my local, well one of them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpsWNFt92H8
1 November 2013
Bobby SVARC
Cheers Mate, I love AtS. got a few albums. And seeing Blyth Power has convinced me that the Funday must remain and “Book them and they will come”.
1 November 2013
EXXO
Errrk, Barnsley grab a draw, Siteowner be home in an hour or so, he’ll kick the cat, and then we’re in for it (sticks magazine down back of pants and hopes CtS too angry to notice).
While there’s still time here’s the lyrics to that BP song in my vid above, read them first and the song is just so powerful at debunking the nostalgia.
(Don’t want to debunk the nostalgia of that book though, oh no, looks good, can’t imagine I’ll ever have £19.99 to spend on a book so good job I remember it all like it was yesterday)
1 November 2013
John the shorts
Exxo your mention of Rebellion made me wonder why the Biscuits never do it – it would be awesome if they came on after Geoffrey Oi Cott and started the set with “Fucking Hell It’s Fred Titmus”
4 November 2013
littlegrafter
Blyth Power (the locomotive) used to go past my school on route to Blyth Power Station none the less. Sadly the power station is no more, but is immortalised on the inner of the gatefold sleeve of Alnwick and Tyne (I think). Told the singer this at the Charlotte after a gig and he seemed dead jealous of my north east upbringing. Poor them, in their Dorset slums….
4 November 2013
Bobby SVARC
Blyth Power on the white powder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI8L9q3pVLg
4 November 2013
Brumbiscuit
Some of Eastfield will be at the Northampton gig, I’m told.
5 November 2013
Bobby SVARC
Excellent News BrumBiscuit, And yes, Port Talbot Transport Police are scum, scum, scum, scum, scum!
6 November 2013
John the shorts
Bobby Svarc – don’t even start on Port Talbot Transport Police, I could tell you a few stories….
10 November 2013
BrumBiscuit
I’d forgotten that Eastfield did a song about Ted Moult, post-suicide. Rather less subtle than D’Ye Ken Ted Moult.
11 November 2013
Bobby SVARC
Bury Vic Berry
11 November 2013
Brumbiscuit
Jessi has been in touch and Eastfield have a new album. If it’s OK, Chris, here are the details (the record label name is a very rude word in Hungarian…):
PEACE. LOVE. FIRE.
CD (Baszdmeg 26017, December 2013)
£6 (including postage in the uk) before 31.12.13 from:
EASTFIELD,
43 COVERDALE ROAD
LANCASTER LA1 5PY
(Additional address that can be used for orders, the usual one below still stands, but this may be quicker. Cheques – UK only – payable to ‘A. ADAMS’).
£7 after 31.12.13 from:
EASTFIELD,
c/o THE BASEMENT
78a PENNY STREET
LANCASTER LA1 1XN
CD Track listing:
Railyard Blues
Hucknall! Get out of my car!
Jesus Christ! Turbostar!
Amuse Me
Chili Line
Straight outta Santa Fe
Sky Burial on Warton Crag
You Can’t do that on the Moon
There’s a Bavarian in the back of my Car
Angoisse des Gares
(If you want to take advantage of 3 CDs for £12 there are limited stocks of ‘One Wrong….’, ‘Loadhaul to Lhasa’, ‘Songs from the Scrapyard’, ‘Detonation Junction’ and ‘Middleground’. Some will be sent in slip cases. cheers).
15 December 2013
Bobby SVARC
Thanks for that, I was going to Wellingborough last week but I had to look after my grandkids who are possibly as loud as Eastfield!!
15 December 2013
Name Required
Rebellion’s sold out – sold its punk heart and soul to the devil that is mainstream capitalist consumerism. You just watch it – couple of years from now, it’ll be all pop-punk shite and just another branch of the Warped Tour.
Of course I don’t really give a flying Scotsman because it’s in Blackie – and I’m stuck down in the bastard Home Counties, full of Tories, Daily Heil and Torygraph readers, and other – FAR less sanitary – things…
This is not my natural habitat; I’m a northern lass, and I feel lost, bewildered, scared and alone down here (even though I’ve been down here nearly 30 years and I feel bewildered, scared, lost and alone just about everywhere).
Nah, I couldn’t give a….ARGHAWASP!GETAWAYFROMMEYA….ARGH!!!!
HA! Squashed the fucker on my arm and it didn’t get to stab me first! I am Vespania, Wasp Warrior!
Er, where were we again, before the demons that inhabit my cranium took over…?!
Ah, yes, Rebellion – loada shite. Biccies should play Latitude, or Beautiful Days, or 1000Trees or summat; summat nice and intimate with good beer. And decent grub – not £8 for summat not even MuckyD’s would sell…
And mud. For nude mud wrestling, and bog snorkelling (and I mean snorkelling in an actual bog, not a Port-A-Loo).
(One day, I’m gonna pen a Port-A-Loo themed parody of… well, think for a sec…).
Don’t worry, Internet, I’ll never get round to it… probably…
25 July 2014