The Heretics – Private Tape – 1980
Stepping Stone / Nazi Born And Bred / Mania / Napalm Babies / Death Or Glory
Indebted to Chris Low for lend of this tape, in turn indebted to Sii from The Heretics for taping it for Chris and sending him photos in the first place.
As you can imagine, the master tape of this bedroom / practice / live session, after almost 30 years is a little knackered, but still shows signs of some kind of musical (in)ability now and again!
This band I know very little about apart from the name, which has hovered in my conscience for decades. In fact apart from the Toxic Grafity piece which will be uploaded shortly (when Chris finds his copy in all the shoe boxes he seems to keep this kind of stuff in), most of the info I have cobbled together in my mind recently, is from reading Rich Kids (Jake, the growler on these tracks), Sams and Sii’s numerous comments on another post (The Chris Low Obscure Punk Tape Post HERE ) mixed up with stories from Andy Martin of The Apostles told to me decades ago.
Could this band be as legendary as The Turdburglars, another band that people know the name of, but who never released anything or know little of…?
I hope someone will enlighten me more on this band via the comments.
Toxic Grafity interview below.
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April 29th, 2008 at 8:11 am
Nice one Sii, Chris and Penguin….
‘Mania’ has the same riff as ‘Ha Ha Ha’ by Flipper (not intentional, I’d imagine)…
(Would Chris’ shoeboxes be Prada?)
The interview is a CLASSIC! It’s put a smile on my face for the rest of the day…
Top quality quotes:
Sgt. H: “I wanna cut me ‘head off”…
Sgt.H: “By being myself, I’m anti-everything”…
Sgt.H: “They should wander about, see what’s going on, then go back to their poxy offices and work it out for about 10,000 years and by then they’ll all be dead, and that’ll be good”…
Jake: “I’m a personal anarchist. I couldn’t give a shit about the world. The world could blow up as far as I’m concerned: I don’t give a fuck”…
Sam: “I don’t believe in anything unless I’m speeding, then I just believe in enjoying myself”…
Jake: “The Heretics are a bunch of…I don’t know, I’m fuckin’ knackered”…
(Very important information: “Tape fault, about 12 mins”…thanks for that)
Absolute genius…
April 30th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Great efforts all round.
Hilarious
cheers .
April 30th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
4 Skins getting an early name drop…! Before even Bushell maybe?
If you can navigate this site old man Rich Kid, there is the debut release by the
4 Skins uploaded somewhere near…
April 30th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Er Bushell, he was a bandwaggoner.The 4 Skins were great , they just hung around with the wrong crowd…
I gotta say that moment in Southall at the Hanbororgh Tavern was THE moment that the NF got defeated.
April 30th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Couple of stories of that gig in Southall. Supposedly the sound guy chained his backine up to avoid any boneheads nicking the stuff. He regretted that decision when he failed to get most of it out when the pub went up in flames. Also, supposedly the manager of the 4 Skins at that time also hassled the pub landlord for payment for the band’s performance for that night, whilst the landlord’s pub burned around him. Suppose a contract is a contract!
April 30th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
OK rerecorded this with dolby off, sounds a little better now. Anyone who downloaded it should delete the old download and download it again, well worth it.
May 1st, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Hot News: Jake cutest of The Heretics (the guy with the spikes anyway – TG may be wrong!) This is official from some girls at my work who looked at the pics.
I had to let these early 20 somethings down lightly by reminding them that the photo is 30 years old. Sorry mate.
Nice spikes by the way. From a can of hairspray, soap or glue? Prey tell us…
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:51 am
He is dreamy isn’t he?
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:35 pm
P:
Spikes? whatever was there at the time.
Girls at work? Give em me email…
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:08 pm
I was going to get all Steve Jones on the Grundy show with you, but forgot the quotes…think it ended up with “fuckin rotter” and had some “diiirrrty old man” thrown in, anyway will pass the message on…you gonna be able to handle them? Both there ages together get to about 41!!!
Keep smiling Jake, I am enjoying these posts, it is nice to get old comrades back together again.
Tony D will be chuffed. His absence on this site is down to working 16 hour days this week. It will ease up for him by the weekend, and hopefully have more time to get involved on these threads…
Hows about commenting on some of the other music downloads put on by myself, or essays written by Al or Bob. They are good reads. Check them out in squatting section and anarcho punk section or just plain AL section.
All top right of page written in blue below the C60 cassette tape.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:42 am
Will do mate when I got a minute.Or like in my case the hours I needs to find all the various bits of this site.
Also been engaged in a historical disccusion with Chinese ‘Netizens’ on the ‘Tibet issue’ till quite recently.so me heads full of it all…
But in the meantime i found this.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=26404638
They need to be told…
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Hey they are pretty good! No just kidding, they should be told…
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:35 pm
What is the phantom voice in Nazi B + B saying ‘Samantha’ in a posh voice?
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Jake’s hair was spiked with soap. I know that because my mum once refused to let him crash at her place after a gig until he had a bath. Gave him a bath robe on the doorstep.
May 4th, 2008 at 11:58 am
And the classic “Squatting is a thing of intelligance… we’re all gonna be squaters soon…”
May 4th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Pork is that U?
May 4th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
…of the plague dogs ‘pork’
May 4th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
whatever its spiked with its bloody funny…
May 5th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Yep, that’s me. A bit older, slightly more bipolar and the hair doesn’t have the mohican in the middle any more.
May 5th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Blimey .Hello jah pork.
Check the other ‘chris low rare tape’ heretic thread for long discussion between sam & me & others about those times.Talked for the first time for 25 years …
May 5th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Excellent – I will do mate! Chatted to Sam 4 or 5 years back but my brain was on holiday at the time! Too many of them speckled blues and the old black bombers in my youth, I reckon, plus a shedful of E in the 90s…
Great to see the pictures and hear some of the stories. I was thinking of writing up a few of my stories, but I see Bob has already gone into print with his stuff!
May 8th, 2008 at 12:32 am
@Jake -> What’s the site you’ve been chatting about Tibet on?
My girlfriend (am I too old for that now? Is it “partner”?) has been quite involved with the Free Tibet movement over the years and I’m sure she’d be interested.
May 31st, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Enjoyed the download of the elusive Heretics nearly 30 years after reading about them in Toxic Grafity! If i still did a fanzine I’d describe it as something like “So punk they make the Eratics sound like Weather Report!”
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Another photo of the beautiful young men of The Heretics courtesy of Phil Ritchie on this post above now. Think Phil is in this shot with a load of other characters.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Phil youre a star.
Snipers got my jacket on as he was cold.I had to wear that poncy leather that I’d nicked from ‘Stark Naked’, Camden.
Great pic.
June 6th, 2008 at 11:42 am
just out of interest, where were these photos taken? top ones kinda look around Camden Road and the new one looks around the Denton estate near Chalk farm? I’m probably well wrong and it’s somewhere around Portobello or something.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Near Archway i think
June 6th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Yeah its Archway. This guy took shit loads of photos that day. I googled him but didnt find anything
June 6th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Jesus!! You’re right! Looking at it again, I think it’s just off my bloody street in Archway and the one with loads of other folk in it looks like the ‘modern’ flats near the Hospital. By coincidence, that’s where Martin Wright’s dad lived in the seventies and is mentioned in Danny, his brother’s, book as the ‘Aladdins Cave’ of stolen gear.
Sad to say but you just don’t seem to see the same class of finely turned out chap on the streets around here any more
June 6th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
PS: I really think it’s about time you lot started up a Heretics Myspace page!! The way this thread has been going i think you’ll have more fans than the Sex Pistols one in no time!
June 12th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
So has anyone out there got any Plague Dogs material I can upload if any exist?
June 12th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Joyfully, none exists as far as I’m aware. Though I am laying myself open to Gerry Thing turning up with a shedful, I suppose.
Though if anyone wants to try it for themselves:
PLAGUE DOGS RECIPE (Serves 3)
Take 15 grams of speed and whisk into a crate of Pils which has been marinated in vodka overnight. Keep agitated at all times.
Using a pad and pen, write the first 50 words that come into your heads, then combine them as quickly as possible while trying not to let the other band members get a word in edgeways. It is important at this point that you do not allow the mixture to settle, as the idea may go off quite quickly.
Transfer the mix to the Wellington Pub at Waterloo and marinate further. If the mixture is not sticking by this time, add liberal amounts of glue, then pour into Alaska Studios. Using a guitar with 5 strings and a fuzz pedal set to maximum to establish the room temperature, turn up the bass guitar until the PA amp simmers gently with feedback.
Turn the heat on the guitars and PA up to maximum, encouraging your vocalist to scream like he has just vaulted a tennis net topped with razorblades. Don’t stop for breath or broken strings. Leave for 3 hours or until the studio tells you the money’s run out, and then allow yourselves to slide gently into obscurity after a mention in a ‘zine or two.
Garnish with acne, crazy colour and a mohican… and there we have it – a perfect, tasty and nutritious Plague Dogs for 3, in the original styleee.
June 13th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Tried this ‘receipe’ last night and all I ended up with was nausea followed by black outs, a tug by the plod, a night in the cells with a someone booting me around the floor, and then when finally released I got sectioned?
I did however swap the Waterloo bar with my local brand in North London. Is this where I went wrong Pork?
June 13th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Yes. Be very careful to follow the recipe EXACTLY next time or you risk forming a great band who have several number one albums and become horribly rich
Take it from a Plague Dog who knows!
July 18th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Is The Heretics Wii game still being considered Pork? And will it be available for xmas?
July 18th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
does Wii have the technology to cut someones head off?
July 18th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Absolutely it has, also the Wii handles can be used for mainlining anything you can get your hands on, and punching your way out of a differcult spot with some mod gangs.
July 18th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Oh, I can see this one going bad. Somebody is *bound* to start on about computer games being “Spectaculars” and how people should take up the revolution with balls of turnips and bats of woven alder roots!
Still, in the spirit of the whole shenanigans…
I foresee the boys being body-scanned and represented as themselves in the upcoming “Super Barrio Brothers”… a funfest of tricks, fixes, nicks and pixels set in Beautiful Downtown Lambeth circa ’79 and featuring a new Wii peripheral being designed especially for the game which will have a cannula in each arm of the player, constantly pumping concentrated mixtures of Harpic, strychnine, talcum powder and blackboard chalk all cut with tiny amounts of smack, speed and Tuinal – accurately re-creating the drugs of the period. Buprenorphine will be administered as a punishment for failing to achieve the intermediate goals of the game, which will include poncing cash and fags up the Station (extra smack points for Dunhill Internationals), projectile vomiting strongly alkaline mixtures onto Old Bill from rooftops (extra Barb strength) and “just wandering about” (midnight speed bonus). St Thomas’ clap clinic and drug dependency unit have allowed us to digitise all of their facilities for various aspects of the game involving pus.
A mask will also be included, giving the user a flavour of St Monica’s open toilet, a blast of Zoff every now and then to liven things up, the all-pervading scent of hairspray, the incrediblly potent and hard-worked-for farts of junkie vegetarians, plus the near-genuine reek of despair (which has been created especially for the game by a team of crack odorologists at Lancôme’s Peckham branch).
The suit will include a large hammer attached to the player’s head which can be activated by Vikings, Sammy The Skin, various angry roaming parents and the real villains of the game, Kennington Old Bill and Scousers ((c) Harry Enfield Licensing, Inc). Hammerings cannot be avoided, and the real trick of the game is to be so out of it all the time that one simply doesn’t notice the blood and loud ringing sounds in the ears, instead mistaking them for the after effects of a New German Movement gig.
Running throughout the game will be a version of Monopoly in which contestants will be paid for landing on houses rather than being charged. There will be bail hostels rather than hotels, and the properties will range from Old Street Fire Station to 66a Lymington Road. Any attempt to buy property will result in going directly to jail (as all property is theft). Passing “GO” will gain a bonus of 200mg of the substance of the player’s choice. All of this will be completely academic, however, as all of the players will constantly be “Just Visiting”.
“Evade the Scousers and the bugs, concentrate on drugs and mugs”. Mmmm, catchy!
First one dead wins. But it ain’t as easy as you think.
July 18th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Oh Pork, with the Heretics game, the Barons book and the Opera on your plate…imagine The Daily Mail headlines. Has got to be bigger than Jerry Springer The Musical.
Actually you could use Monopoly as a template and just copy it with squats that you know off, get some well stinky figures to finger (!) around the board and take a chance or com chest of something mentioned in these posts. For instance – six day old milk run out, take a chance of going to a late night shop to get a fresh bottle, meet a dealer on the way. Go to sleep for two days in King Cross Station. Miss next go…
…or take a punkette to the sunday night punk gig at the music machine, bunk in, meet a male friend, forget about the punkette and go and sniff glue in Somers Town with your mate instead, go back three spaces. (Three spaces back would land you smack in the middle of Somers Town)etc etc etc.
The winner will not be the first to die with badly cut gear or a beating, but the one who gets out of the mess and 30 years later gets to write it all up uncensored on dodgy blogs…
July 19th, 2008 at 12:50 am
@Pengy->”Three spaces back would land you smack in the middle of Somers Town”
I think you’re wrong there mate, it was at least twenty quid!
“The winner will not be the first to die with badly cut gear or a beating, but the one who gets out of the mess and 30 years later gets to write it all up uncensored on dodgy blogs…”
…Then, without being too sentimental about it all, we’ve got a lot of winners on here. A thing of which I am very glad indeed.
I’m up to part 3 of the book at the moment, nearly got that edited and set. Updates to follow, everyone!
September 26th, 2008 at 12:59 am
Anyone remember this thread? Christmas is coming and we still need to get the Heretics Monopoly game into the shops for the rush. Oh and the Wii of course. Pork will need some pointers!
September 26th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
its over there if at all.
but Porks turning the book into something as we speak.
October 19th, 2008 at 6:54 am
Why am I here? What did I do wrong? I was innocently reading about The Partisans and there was a big flash of light and a strange metallic whirring noise … HELP I have been abducted by aliens!…. either that or it is a side effect of that Burial cd I have been listening to.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Purgotary Alistair
October 20th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Partisans? Pah! Provincials if you ask me.
October 20th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Ah, but Baron, if I am to keep faith with my ancestors who were but ” A Poor, wasted, misrepresented, Remnant of the Suffering, Anti-Popish, Anti-Prelatick, Anti-Erastian, Anti-Sectarian, True Presbyterian Church of Christ inScotland, United together in a General Correspondence”
belief in purgatory would be a HERESY [Roman Catholic/ Popery ] as this Introduction to An Informatory Vindication from 1687 explains…
NONE that ever heard of the Church of Scotland, can be altogether ignorant, how, when the Lord was graciously pleased, to confer upon this Land the inestimable benefit of the pure & clear shining light of the Gospel, & to advance the Reformation therein begun to a very high degree from mere Heathenism, even to the extirpation of Popery, Prelacy, & Erastianism (which our Church hath had chiefly to wrestle against) & the Abjuration of all Heretical & Sectarian Errors, whether in Doctrine, worship, Discipline, or Government) that then all ranks of the land were brought into Holy & Solemn Covenants with God, the Church did enjoy her power & privileges; Then, when our ministers were clothed with Righteousness & salvation, their faithfulness to God, & zeal against Sin & all lukewarmness in the Lord’s cause, were so much seen and shown, that Ministers for their not applying their doctrine against the corruptions of the time, were to be censured, & if obstinate they were to be deposed, according to the Act of the General Assembly Aug. 3, 1648, Sess. 26. & likewise Compliers with the public Enemies of this Church & Kingdom, were according to the degree of their offence to be rebuked & censured, by that Act of the General Assembly, June 17, 1646, Sess. 14. In those days the work of the Lord prospered; His Gospel flourished; & Iniquity was made to stop her mouth; Our Church was glorious to all beholders, & terrible to her Enemies as an army with banners; the Lord delighted in us, & our Land was married unto him; Salvation was written upon our walls, & praise upon our gates. But alas! we did quickly turn away from following the Lord, forgetting what great and eminent privileges He had bestowed upon us; how He had subdued our Enemies under us, & made them to yield, & prospered us in what we did put our hands unto: We did, alas! soon fall from our first love, the edge of our zeal became blunted, & our eyes were darkened that we could not see: {5} so we have gone further astray, from one degree of defection unto another, until we have brought ourselves into such misery of dissolution & desolation, division & confusion, reproach & contempt, that our case is now as deplorable & despicable, as ever it was formally admired & envied.
Full text (very long) at
http://www.truecovenanter.com/societies/informatory_vindication.html
October 21st, 2008 at 9:27 am
Al i’m a yid, by birth. We dont have either heaven, hell or purgatory, so I learned recently.
Cheers for the history. What do I know?Its all christianity to me. A religion based on one of our lot who went east, learned some techniques and came back a preaching jewbu.
October 25th, 2008 at 4:59 am
Someone wrote to me to tell me we’re on a Japanese website somewhere. Can’t find it though.
October 25th, 2008 at 5:08 am
I bet yer Jap knows very little about The Varukers.
October 25th, 2008 at 9:42 am
We got 3 threads init!
October 25th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Perhaps Chris Low can help you find The Heretics japanese thread. He is in Tokyo quite a bit and is learning the language. Chris??? Can you or your friends help??? It is his name on the ‘big thread ‘ as you all know. I wonder if he thought his tape would draw so much attention when he lent it to me to upload?
October 25th, 2008 at 11:30 am
As far as I know, the Varukers are very popular in Japan and tour there with some regularity…
If anyone can find the Far East connection, Spike can…
October 25th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
“As far as I know, the Varukers are very popular in Japan”
As is octopus porn. They got some mighty strange tastes over there.
But knowing how devoted to searching out the most obscure punk stuff they are over there no doubt The Heretics could reform now and fill Tokyo stadium. Will do my best to try to find out about this japanese thread. BTW, I think a Heretics myspace and facebook is now well in order.
October 25th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Are we getting evicted ?
The thing is unless were hiding under the K Y P P banner the interest will be rather less.
Neither Sammy or I will ever risk only having 2 freinds and 5 hits a month . .
January 3rd, 2009 at 3:22 am
56 responses to: The Heretics – Taught The Doors decadance.
January 3rd, 2009 at 5:39 am
They were truly the architraves of their time!
January 5th, 2009 at 12:11 am
gents that andy martin thread now has almost 200 posts, dangerously near our 700 I feel
January 5th, 2009 at 12:34 am
500 less in my ‘rough’ calculation Baron Von Crazyperson, and if you add this post, your book post, plus the Chris Low Obscure Tape post, not even near mi breddah…BTW Did you ever get any lady action with that spiky hair and those shabby clothes?
Reason I ask is cos some girls at work (some time ago now it must be said) thought you looked cute! Poor souls, obviously mentalist. And before you ask, yes, you ARE far too old for them, sorry geez.
January 5th, 2009 at 1:14 am
I got more action than one could reasonably shake a stick at for a week or two with that nice mohican that Wank Stain did for me round at his folks’ place, Bic-stylee. Trouble was, when I went back to my mum’s she saw me asleep in bed, thought I’d sold my door keys to a little old bald man and very nearly called the old bill on me!
Then, after that week or two, the gurlz realised that I was the same old twat underneath it all and the long arid years revisited the desert that was my pants!
January 9th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Lady action? It came my way so I almost got it together with a few but…
I was unfortuanately
a) in a relationship (with my mum)
b) too drugged up or down (on pro plus)
c) socially inept. (couldnt tie me laces…)
Sam & Jah Pork were the casanovas.
We all fancied Lady Liz but how many of us even dared?
Sorry to disappoint.
January 13th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
“Sam & Jah Pork were the casanovas”
Can I have that in an actual proper written-down letter to show the missus? She’s only known me since my looks and my brain went
January 15th, 2009 at 9:26 am
Hey! Pork, Jake, Sam, Pip’s just turned up on facebook!
January 15th, 2009 at 11:20 am
“Pip’s just turned up on facebook”
Nice one mate – can you post either a link to it or his full name so I can search for him?
January 15th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Hey Pork search me out on face book..There’s a few of us old punks on it…Or maybe Penguin can give you my email or he can send me yours.
January 15th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Phil
My facebook page is:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=feed&id=1041885766
January 19th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Yep you can have that in writing mate!
Oh crickey .Just as I got away and deleted me self from the insidious evil that is facebook it starts to get interesting…
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:57 am
This thread has been left unattended for the best part of a year and is beginning to gather dust. Shame on you all.
November 24th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
every dog has its day boss..
November 26th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Went for a blood test this morning and was reminded of the Velvets’ Sister Ray…
The nurse tried both my arms 3 times with the vacuum needles, got nothing out and actually *did* resort to hitting my mainline sideways (then pulling the needle back through into the vein) in the end. She’d never have stood the pace in ’79!
November 26th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Funny how needles give me the horrors. If there’s a shooting up scene in a movie or documentary I find myself sitting there with my hands over my eyes. I always dread blood tests as I’ve got a very visible abcess scar on my inside left elbow.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
I got into body piercing 13 years or so ago and got up to about 27 holes in me. However, since becoming a grumpy old curmudgeon I come over all jelly-kneed at the sight of the things. Weird!
I wouldn’t feel self-conscious about your scar though – they say that a scar is worth 10 tattoos every time, and they’re right mate!
May 5th, 2010 at 12:39 am
Achtung Heretics!!
Hello Sam and Jake, I don’t know if you’ll receive this or not, the t’interweb remains a mystery to me. I have a favour to ask, my firstborn Marlonski is trying to set up a little one man t-shirt venture on ebay and eventually at Camden Market and for some bizarre reason wants to knock out some t’s of the Heretics (I pointed out that at best maybe 50 people had ever hear of us) but he foolishly seems to thinks the photos are what the Young Bucks of Camden would love to adorn their slender young chests. Obviously as he’s my lad I don’t give a monkey’s, but I told him I would have to ask you before I gave him the go-ahead. Sam it’s basically the t-shirt he did I sent you (Jake if you give me your address I’ll post a copy for your approval, I know you will will want to consult your team of lawyers to make sure it doesn’t infringe on your strict image rights deal!!).
Obviously once the T-shirts hit HMV and feckin’ Top Shop we will have to put our foot down, but unless you have any strong objections, i’ll give the young fella the go-ahead?
Jake if you can mail me your real address I’ll have the lad send a t-shirt down for your approval.
Apologies to KYPP but I haven’t got Herr Baron’s e-mail address.
Fantastic site by the way, I can’t believe Pat Dasso has cropped up on here! A true 70′s character, who from what I gather from a mutual family friend is fit and well, married with sprogs and a dog and doing very well. Maybe just maybe Thixofix wasn’t just a glue…
May 5th, 2010 at 4:41 am
Hello Si. Fine by me. Hate to be petty (as you well know) but personally I’d go with the crap magic markered lettering from the fanzine. I actually wore mine to work the other day though. Pat Dasso is enjoying his second career on here. From man-with-scales to 70s icon.
May 5th, 2010 at 9:51 am
Cheers Sam,
I’ll suggest the hand scrawled lettering to the lad.
You petty?…Never.
May 5th, 2010 at 6:33 pm
never sell my soul so that the neutered youth of today can exploit something they can never understand.
in other words yeh, no worries good luck to him. if it ever does get onto the high st then maybe its the avenue out of penury that i know is my right…
i’ll mail ya
July 3rd, 2010 at 12:19 pm
Sniper from The Heretics drumming for Black Cross in 1982 if anyone wants to assault there ears.
http://www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk/news/?p=4390
July 27th, 2010 at 4:25 am
(repost from Gary’s thread)
*All* you guys – Jake and Dave especially:
Circle Line Pub Crawl for the Gary Critchley Fighting Fund…
Get in a very reasonable state of refreshment and help a mate who needs you too..
Saturday August 21st. Starts at the Wetherspoons Pub in Victoria Station. 10.00 in the morning. £20 to participate -buy a T-shirt for another tenner if you like. Beer should cost about fifty quid. Factor in food for another tenner or so (unless you’re particularly posh, in which case bring a butler, hamper and a rack of Waitrose organic marching powder for the rest of us).
Continues around the Circle Line quite literally ad nauseam a half pint at a time until we get to Sloane Square around about 11pm, at which point anyone who is completely compost mentis (sic – check your “Jah Porg is quide liderally shit at Ladin, made” textbook) is welcome to pile down the King’s Road shouting at all the shops that used to be like magnets to us when we were children.
I think that in between, we could have rather a good time. I’m planning to, anyway!
Can I remind you all that it is only a half pint in each boozer. Everyone who does any of the pubs is making money for Gary if they get sponsored. Let’s face it, all your friends have an idea about how much you can drink. If that idea is three halves and you manage six, then we’re that much nearer to getting Gary a walk.
Please, all of you guys who know me and are still in the UK, come along. If you can’t make it, then get in touch with Tony or Penguin and stick a few quid in (if you’re betting, my tip is Porky Boy to go a bit green around High Street Ken).
Gary’s team need the money. He’s one of us. Don’t let the man down. Even if you’re not going to have a drink, please come along and support the day – dish out some flyers, talk in a sober way to some people who do’t know about Gary’s plight.
Please come along, or sort out some way of sponsoring your favourite drunk per pub via Pengers or Tony if you really can’t make it. Don’t let us down: I’m risking a lower intestine for this
August 7th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
Hope u all enjoyed muchly.
its garys birthday soon and he wants cards.
also the heretics have gone global !!
thers now a t shirt.
when i know where to buy them from, ie when si lets us know, i think e bay and camden, i’ll let you all know.
its Si’s sons idea, maybe we can persuede him to donate some funds to the campaign.
September 1st, 2010 at 3:15 am
Let us know about the shirts, can’t find them anywhere on Ebay.
And thought you slackers would have had a Heretics facebook ‘fan-site’ up by now? There’s already three other impostors who need to be shown the door…
Last time I was at the Vice magazine office one of the guys there was saying something about doing a piece on the Gary Critchley campaign. Does anyone know if that happened? If not i’ll get on the case.
October 14th, 2011 at 1:02 am
Just found this: http://full-frokkul.blogspot.com/2010/02/punkest-band-ever.html
“The punkest band ever”
October 14th, 2011 at 10:12 pm
Punkest band ever. I love this. Cheers Chris.
October 16th, 2011 at 1:01 am
Come on people…where’s the adulation?
November 2nd, 2011 at 9:47 am
‘punkest’ = least likely to believe in superlatives and the hierarchies which they describe.
=> The punkest band = the band least happy to be so described?
November 4th, 2011 at 10:49 pm
At the time or now Pork?
January 4th, 2013 at 11:10 pm
Shirt available here:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-Heretics-T-Shirt-Punk-Band-Anarcho-1970s-All-Sizes-Colours-/251145932748
February 18th, 2013 at 12:42 am
I feel like no one will read this but….I think this is ‘the lovely Liz’ from Campbell Buildings. Robbo hunted her up and she’s now a famous author. Elizabeth Fremantle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m6Rv_KL2qI