Motherfucker \/ London Bridge \/ Being With You \/ Search And Destroy \/ Let It Rot \/ Wasteland \/ Ripped And Torn<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/pengy1966095\/KYPPBR7_zpsc2fd39c9.jpg\")
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A handful of bands seem to have been connected with Kill Your Pet Puppy fanzine by forces so strong that one finds it hard to imagine one without the other. Adam And The Antz, The Mob, Blood And Roses, Sex Gang Children, Southern Death Cult\u00a0and Brigandage\u00a0are examples that I can think of. Quite obviously these bands would have existed without the fanzine, but a\u00a0bond, I feel, did exist. The UK Subs, Crass\u00a0or The Ruts, fine bands as they were,\u00a0could not, I feel, get such a strong bond with the fanzine.<\/p>\n
I suppose it probably helped that most of the ‘KYPP type’ bands above also had a history of sharing squatted houses, drugs, gig experiences in similar venues, hairspray, magick\u00a0and (maybe) even boy\/girl friends with the Puppy Collective of the day.<\/p>\n
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Brigandage were one of the fine bands that I first\u00a0heard on the John Peel show. The session the band\u00a0recorded was seriously taking the piss. It was so good that nothing I thought at the time could ever touch it. It must be said at this stage that this session was recorded by the original line up that originated in 1982 and was featured in\u00a0an early\u00a01983 volume of \u00a0‘Punk Lives’ magazine. That\u00a0interview is up in the photo gallery if you care to see it under ‘Punk Lives’ sub album along with a heap of other relevant stuff from that magazine…<\/p>\n
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I saw the band\u00a0live and they were great, but then they split up..!<\/p>\n
The band were quickly resurrected in 1984 with the help of Richard North (who wrote and edited the excellent Kick fanzine and also did reviews, essays and interviews\u00a0for the N.M.E) and two other members, joining Michelle from the original line up, the band that recorded the tracks on this\u00a0tape.<\/p>\n
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Step back to 1983; Richard\u00a0North was already a fan and friend of the band and\u00a0it turned out a good time to have a journo friend on the ‘inside’ as a scoop was written up on the newly named ‘Positive Punk’ movement which commanded a front page and center spread\u00a0in the N.M.E. during that year. Also featured heavily in this article were Blood And Roses, and several other bands were name checked during the piece, Southern Death Cult, The Mob and so on.\u00a0Shortly after\u00a0The Face magazine got involved in the rush to feature the movement in nice glossy pages, and even Michael Moorcock set up his TV cameras and\u00a0got busy…<\/p>\n
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What happened?<\/p>\n
Nothing…most the band’s at the forefront of this little scene\u00a0split up by the end of 1983 including of course, as previously mentioned, Brigandage themselves. There were not a lot of bands to replace the disbanded groups like The Mob, Southern Death Cult and Blood And Roses,\u00a0that\u00a0were of the same quality to carry this small scene on effectively, but the ‘Positive Punk’ movement left in it’s wake some great live experiences, some great records and tapes, and some obscure literature in a few magazines including of course Kill Your Pet Puppy.<\/p>\n
Nowadays of course\u00a0this stuff is gold dust with interest from all over the world, not just for a bunch of punkers in London, Bradford and Leeds\u00a0during the period from the middle of\u00a01982 to late 1983.<\/p>\n
Brigandage were really great, this tape is a mixture of live and demo material recorded and released in 1984\u00a0that rocks on with\u00a0just enough 1976 punk spirit to overtake the opposition by several yards.<\/p>\n
My Brigandage John Peel session cassette (with loads of other stuff on it as well because it was a\u00a0C90)\u00a0was either nicked or lost, probably nicked though, cos I do not lose a lot of tapes or records, as some of the posts on this site would testify!<\/p>\n
If anyone can sort me out on this session I would be chuffed.<\/p>\n
Rot ‘n’ Roll punkers…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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