Another tape that is very old so only plays on one speaker. Honestly it is not my equipment, that all works fine, just seem to be getting to some weirdly recorded ones at the moment. Ahh eureka – this tape is the same make as the Black Flag / Apostles one. Actually this tape I believe begun life at Andy Martins place all those years ago and he recorded it and sent it to Chris Low, who lent the tape to me. I would not be surprised if Andy recorded them from a mono player through a lead to another mono player. No one I knew had those double tape ‘Ghetto Blasters’ in those days , in the punk scene anyway! The B-Boys and Rastas had them…
Anyway technical stuff aside, here is a recording of Assassins Of Hope in the summer of 1982. An OK quality audience tape, would be better coming out of two speakers! The set list is exactly the same as the track listing on the released demo somewhere else on this site, which is odd. Picture above of Andy Martin recording with the Assassins Of Hope by Chris Low.
GABE
March 1, 2008 at 9:05 pmIT SOUNDS LIKE YOU NEED TO BUY A DEMAGNATIZER FOR YOUR CASSETTE PLAYER
Penguin • Post Author •
March 1, 2008 at 9:23 pmNah Gabe, my gears fine, all good on other cassettes, cheers.
Chris
March 2, 2008 at 2:20 amgabe, i’m sure Micky is right as i know for a fact that Andy DID often use to use two mono tape recorders connected with a jack lead to copy tapes.
the results being garbage, though as he would have taped over the original copy often these mono duplicates are the only ones left.
Pete
March 2, 2008 at 8:38 pmHi
I’m Pete I was lead (male – as there were also two female vocalists Jo and Chantelle) vocalist with the Assassins. We recorded the original tape on a mono tape recorder at Alan Gordon Rehearsal Studions in Leyton just before New Year’s Eve in 1981 hence the crap sound (although many would say our sound was always crap which, I guess, was part of our appeal). If any of my former Assassins colleagues read this I would love to get in touch with you so please contact me via this website.
John No Last Name
March 3, 2008 at 10:40 pmHi Pete,
Ex of the famous Highbury hit squad, good to hear you are still around. This is John here ex of Petherton Rd where We all lived with Pixie Pete, Josie, Mike, Chantel, Leon, Tufti, Nig and all of the Harrow crew. Good times, great to hear you are still around.
John
Nic
March 4, 2008 at 9:51 amThere’s some more info on the other A.O.H. post on this here site about the whereabouts of members of the band, if that helps…
I have a few pages on A.O.H. from fanzines ‘back then’ (including one I did): I’ll see about getting them scanned in at some point…
Any copies of Protest knocking around, Pete, that you could scan for the site?
Pete
March 4, 2008 at 7:23 pmJohn
Excellent to hear from you, as I recall we used to share a room in the famous Petherton Road squat. Really good times, glad to hear that you are still around too. What are you up to these days?
Do you remember the time A.O.H did that gig at Skunks that you and Mitch (of Flack fame) bravely attended (you may recall we had to leg it all the way back to Highbury).
Nic
Please can you direct me to the other A.O.H post on here as I can’t find it. Would love to know the whereabouts of the other band members.
Which fanzine did you do? I would love to see the articles that you have on A.O.H.
No copies of Protest unfortunately (I am impressed that you remember it) but if anyone out there has any copies I would be interested in copying them.
Best regards to you both.
Pete nee Pe@t
John No Last Name
March 4, 2008 at 8:29 pmHi Pete,
I remember that Skunks AOH show well, though I don’t know if it was bravery or just the stupid bravado of youth that made me and Mitch insist on going. I used to run into Mitch in New York when he was touring with various band and we used to laugh about that night amongst other things. I live in Los Angeles now and acording to Nic I produce ‘hairy bollocked Rockery’ music for a living. Anyway it’s great to hear that almost everyone is still around and I wonder how many others from those days are lurking around considering posting?
Pete
March 4, 2008 at 8:34 pmJohn
Wow, hairy bollocked rockery music? tell me more!
John No Last Name
March 4, 2008 at 8:37 pmHere you go Pete, http://www.johntravis.net and while you’re at it my e-mail address is on there, so drop me a line when you get a chance. That also goes for anyone else that knew me back then and want to say hi.
Nic
March 4, 2008 at 9:45 pmYou may be interested to know that the Primal Chaos ‘Fightin’ for a Future’ tape is also floating about on the net now (at Nuzz’s blog), Pete…
and there’s also a version of ‘Systems Slave’ lurking here as well…
No escape on the ‘net…
🙂
simon
March 6, 2008 at 12:04 pmIn the process of emailing you, John make your mind up about your last name, taking forever to do it… no change there then on the letter front eh :->
Pete
March 6, 2008 at 7:45 pmNic
I bumped into nuzz the other day and have seen the Primal Choas posting on his blog. It was Nuzz who directed me to the KYPP site.
I’m impressed that you remember Primal Choas and AOH and even more so Protest Fanzine.
Did you say that you did a fanzine? Which one?
I guess we knew each other back then but the ol’ memory is not what it was can you remind me?
What are you up to these days?
Chris
March 6, 2008 at 10:35 pmPete , I used to share a flat with Ian Slaughter and still see him quite regularly. he always spoke highly of you so will tell him you’re still around.
Nic
March 7, 2008 at 2:15 pmWe didn’t know each other, Pete: I met you a couple of times at gigs in London (at the Centro), but I wouldn’t expect you to remember that!
🙂
I was interested in all the manifestations of Punk back then: being a schoolkid (in 1982), I had a lot of time on my hands to send off for tapes and fanzines which is why I remember Primal Chaos / AOH, etc…
(I had an AOH t-shirt from Ivan – maybe the only one in the Midlands! hehehe)…
🙂
I changed the name of my fanzine each issue so it went through a few permutations…I suppose that the main ‘thing’ I did was start the band Napalm Death…
Pete
March 7, 2008 at 7:25 pmNic
I think I remember you. Didn’t you go for a beer before an AOH gig with Ivan, Leon and I in the pub just down the road from the Centro Iberico once? If I remember rightly you were talking about a band called Bible of Sins at the time.
Its good to be back in touch with you. Got any Napalm Death on MP3 at all?
Chris
Ian Slaughter is a top guy, next time you see him give him my best regards. What’s he up to these days?
Brian
March 8, 2008 at 10:43 amAlright Pete, good to see you’re still around. I still remember Sweet Revenge too, and a night out in Stevenage with you back in about ’84
Pete
March 8, 2008 at 11:39 amHey Brian
Good to hear from you, what are you up to these days? I remember that night out in Stevenage in 1984 well. That was the night that Neil (aka Ivan Oxo, Assassins of Hope guitarist) quit being a veggie after consuming sausage and chips after downing a copius quantity of alcohol. Didn’t you used to hang out at the flat in Chingford too?
Brian
March 8, 2008 at 11:54 amPete, I lived in Leytonstone and was a 15/16 year old punk at the time. Was at Allan Gordon a couple of times when you tried recording the demo along with Deaffy, Dan and Tarquin and various other people who turned up to piss you all off during the course of the day!!! 🙂
Was at that Skunkx back in ’82 as well as hanging out in Wapping/Centro Iberico at that time too.
Seems like a lifetime ago.:-)
Brian
March 8, 2008 at 12:08 pmBy the way I think I first bumped into Mike & Leon at the Flux of Pink Indians gig in Leytonstone back in September ’81. What a mad night that was getting up on that ‘stage’ and screaming along to ‘Tube Disasters’ into the mic and eventually falling into the drum kit! I’d just turned 15 then too!
simon
March 9, 2008 at 12:50 amDon’t think I knew you Brian, maybe? But sure knew Deaffy (he of the leopard print jacket!), Dan, Tarquin, Sally, Carl, I lived in Newbury Park and was a regular to Wanstead, Leytonstone etc… John (no last name) knew Dan and Tarquin too… whatever happened to those guys?!
Nic
March 10, 2008 at 12:55 pmYes, that was me Pete – I’m amazed you can remember…
🙂
Had a really good time that night…
What have you been up to in the intervening years?
nee/len the dog
April 1, 2008 at 2:33 pmi remember alot of the above names through a cidery haze. brian does your surname begin with a p? i also remember mike ,leon ,chantal ,josie ,peat, deafy , tarquin the centro and red lion gigs
oh happy daze!
Pete AOH
April 2, 2008 at 8:45 pmHey Len, Peat here, I remember you, it’s good to hear that you’re still around.
Those certainly were happy daze! 🙂
Brian
April 14, 2008 at 9:22 pmHello Len. Yep my surname does begin with a ‘p’. We’d see you a lot around the Green Man roundabout with a bottle in yer hand. I was going out with Dora at the time, you may remember her.
Do you still see D, the big skinhead bloke?
Glad to hear you’re still around 🙂
nee/len the dog
May 1, 2008 at 4:21 amhi guys , glad you’re both still around and still subverting ,i hope. wow time flys eh! we’re now talking decades since the old days of protest zine,the autonomy centre,and the infamous leytonstone red lion gig etc.
i’ve not seen big d for years brian i’ve moved around a lot since then and lost touch with most people from that era. still it’s mighty good to hear from you both. drop the odd message on here from time to time and we’ll keep in touch. up the punx!!!
Sally
May 12, 2008 at 8:34 pmHey Hey! I’m trying to get in touch wiv Leon, Jenny, Mike, Peat any of the old crowd really. Its Sally here. I miss everyone like crazy. Kinda lost touch wiv everyone thanks to my bastard ex. I’m still really into punk, industrial, rock, electro etc. My kids are carrying on the alternative mantle for me wiv their mohicans & tattoos lol. If anyone remembers me, drop me a line eh?
Much love
Sal xxx
simon
May 12, 2008 at 9:11 pmHey Sally,
Which Sally are you?! You didn’t by any chance live in Wanstead, Leytonstone or Hackney? Or share a squat in Hackney with me and Mick? Victoria Park Road I think, oh my memory is shot…
If so how the devil are you after all these years? If not, how the devil are you anyway?!
:->
Simon.
Sally
May 12, 2008 at 9:13 pmJust reading thru the messages above & discovered Pete! & is that you Simon Collins? Hey guys drop me a line – sally@grumblefish.com. It’s great to remenisce about the old days lol
Sal xxx
Sally
May 12, 2008 at 9:16 pmYeah its me, late of Wanstead/Leyton/Victoria Park Rd etc. I lost touch with everyone for about 15 years while with my ex. Fortunately I’m back to my old self & would love to get together with old mates.
Living in Huntingdon at the mo with my 3 kids.
How are you Simon? last time I saw you was at some festival or other with your baby. Must have been about 20 years ago JESUS!! lol
Sal xxx
simon
May 12, 2008 at 9:58 pmLol Sally, yeah long, long time, but great to hear you’re ok. Will drop you a mail shortly… 🙂
simon
May 12, 2008 at 10:49 pmSally you have mail 😀
John No Last Name
May 12, 2008 at 11:18 pmNice one Simon, I see Sally gets an e-mail within 5 minutes, I’ve been waiting for about a month. Thanks!