A recording from the crowd of the normally chaotic Hagar The Womb live experience, lent to me by Mr Sparkle himself, Chris Low. Bit rough the sound on this recording, not a brilliant advert for the band, but hey it all has ‘historical value’ now.
Hagar the idea, originally evolved in the Wapping Autonomy Centre where the band performed several times. Kill Your Pet Puppy live favorites and also housemates on various occasions, Hagar The Womb eventually ended up releasing two rather fine 12″ records which no doubt will be uploaded at some point. The band went through loads of line up changes and disbanded in 1987.
One of the bands connected with Hagar The Womb, Cold War have their single uploaded somewhere on this site if you search for it.
Kill Your Pet Puppy’s very own Tony Puppy with the blond hair and armband in the photographs having a mooch about!
Blimey guvna!
August 23, 2010 at 10:41 amNic said ” A question which my friends and I have ruminated over in an idle moment:Why did everyone cut the sleeves off their T-Shirts / Shirts / Blouses / Dresses / Jackets in the 1980’s? I know I did, but why?
I can’t remember the logic behind it…”
Heh heh heh, very funny and very very true ! You’d get a great new T shirt — then remove the sleeves ! The same was true for leather jackets…heh heh…we all did it…
I dunno why, but I dimly remember seeing pictures of Steve Jones with that ‘look’ first, and he seemed to set the tone…I also remember by 1979 seeing Geordie from Killing Joke with that look…
Anyone else any ideas? I have to say, I really think it was that shallow — we saw pictures of others looking cool doing it — so we followed suit…
Here’s another question — why did Youth from Killing Joke go through a stage of wearing a plastic eye shade/peak cap ? I think I actually saw people copying the look too, white dinner jacket ( grubby ) , studded arm band, and ….err……plastic peak cap….
Another question…why did our girlfriends of the time tolerate us being so smelly ? Heh heh….I can honestly say me and all my mates barely EVER washed those ripped sleeve T shirts….Go on, you know it’s true….Most girls nowadays would tell such smelly characters to shower quick, or ship out…heh heh….not in 1979 though….
Blimey guvna!
August 23, 2010 at 11:32 amHeh heh…Chris on the drums looks so young in those pictures !
Does anyone remember a guy called Luke ( Fagan ) who always went to Hagar gigs ? He was a printer I think.
Luke, are you out there?
Memories, memories….
Graham Burnett
August 27, 2010 at 1:31 am“Another question…why did our girlfriends of the time tolerate us being so smelly ?”
Heh, been looking at the photo archives on the Southend Punks website, why do all the women look utterly gorgeous and stunning but all the blokes look like grotty little herberts???
http://www.southendpunk.com/html/thepunks.html
With exception of these 2 of course…
http://www.southendpunk.com/html/punks40l.html