{"id":8629,"date":"2016-03-19T00:52:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T00:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=8629"},"modified":"2016-03-19T01:13:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T01:13:43","slug":"tony-d-talks-with-thurston-moore-on-b-b-cs-artsnight-programme-march-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/tony-d-talks-with-thurston-moore-on-b-b-cs-artsnight-programme-march-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony D talks with Thurston Moore on B.B.C&#8217;s Artsnight programme &#8211; March 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/2016\/TONYD_zpsrs1goyld.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"379\" \/><\/h1>\n<p>M: Hey Tony, hello there. So is this the first issue of RT you did in 76?<\/p>\n<p>D: Yeah, it\u2019s the first one. Nov 76, it came out.<\/p>\n<p>M: In Nov 76. So what\u2026 what made you do this? I mean, you obviously\u2026 How old were you in 1976, if you don\u2019t me asking?<\/p>\n<p>D: I was about 17 then, 17 or 18<\/p>\n<p>M: What year were you born?<\/p>\n<p>D: 1958<\/p>\n<p>M: So was I. What month?<\/p>\n<p>D: April<\/p>\n<p>M: July \u2013 so you\u2019re the old man here\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/2016\/TONYD2_zpshrm65kln.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>D: So what used to happen \u2013 I was living in Glasgow, reading the music press and avidly following music and they started writing about this punk rock experience. Punk rock\u2019s happening in London. And I thought this sounds like my kind of thing and I\u2019d get a bus from Glasgow \u2013 there\u2019s a bus at 11 o clock on Friday night. I\u2019d get back Monday morning to Glasgow at 8 o clock in the morning. I\u2019d often be on the bus, leave work, leave the work I was doing, go to London, come back on the bus, go straight into work in the morning, having seen punk rock bands and what was happening on King\u2019s Road, not what was happening compared to later on, but there was enough people hanging around in shabby clothes, with funny haircuts. I thought this was it.<\/p>\n<p>M: And were you by yourself? Did you have a mate that you\u2026?<\/p>\n<p>D: A mate back in London, but he never got into this idea of going down and back. So I\u2019d go down by myself, stay at people\u2019s houses \u2026<\/p>\n<p>M: Do you remember the first bands that you had seen in 76?<\/p>\n<p>D: I\u2019m trying to remember if the Damned is the first time I actually saw a band in 76 \u2013 I\u2019d go down there, but there weren\u2019t any playing. I\u2019d just go down there just to see what was going on.<\/p>\n<p>M: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>D: Because London is a bigger place than you realise. Before you go to London, it\u2019s this giant city.<\/p>\n<p>M: Were you aware of Rough Trade which opened in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>D: Yeah, they used to have stalls at gigs again \u2013 I found out at the Damned gig, they had a stall there. Again you\u2019d go there; they didn\u2019t have that much stuff. Rock and Roll off Carnaby Street was more a place to go \u2013 they had more Stooges, more punk garage selection. I remember going there and Metallic KO and Nuggets, and things like that\u2026<\/p>\n<p>M: To start a fanzine \u2013 was there any other fanzine that you saw at the time? That would have existed?<\/p>\n<p>D: I suppose there was Sniffing Glue<\/p>\n<p>M: That was the one?<\/p>\n<p>D: And I found that on Kings Road, which again I\u2019d read about that in the papers, the music papers \u2013 I knew it existed. I got hold of it and thought this is it \u2013 it doesn\u2019t look very good. It\u2019s just this columns, not much graphic style going on, and then when I met at the Damned gig, I met Mark, said to him \u2018 Can I write about, can I write for Sniffin Glue\u2019 cause I loved writing, as long as, the only thing I was good at at school was writing. I said to him \u2018Can I write about this \u2013 I\u2019m down from Glasgow \u2013 <em>Down fro\u2019 Glasgae \u2013 Cannae wrigh bout the Damned<\/em>\u2019 and he said &#8216;No, do one yourself, go back to Glasgow, and do one yourself&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>M: So you did!<\/p>\n<p>D: And so I spoke to the band \u2013 cause the Damned at that stage went into the bar and said \u2018<em>I\u2019m down from Glasgae tae see ye\u2019 <\/em>and went back and put it together really quickly, put it together with my mate, Skid Kid \u2013 I mean seeing the actual Damned, it blew my mind. Everything I thought was happening with Punk Rock\u2026 It was actually better. The reality of seeing the Damned, it was better than I could possibly imagine. So fast, I never believed the songs could actually be so fast \u2013 hypnotic almost. And so this was my kind of\u2026 I gotta do something, that was my reaction to this. All I can do is write, I can\u2019t sing, I can\u2019t play guitar. All I can do is write. And so I put this together.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/2016\/TONYD9_zpsg8lnzhex.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p>M: Can Rich Stars Rock? (TM reads article)\u2026 That\u2019s Rock and Roll<\/p>\n<p>D: It\u2019s poetry \u2013 pure poetry.<\/p>\n<p>M: Were you, eh, so how much did you charge for this when you did this? So this is Nov 1976\u2026<\/p>\n<p>D: There\u2019s no actual price for this. I didn\u2019t know what to charge. Let me tell you a little bit of the backstory \u2013 when I did go back and created ten pages, there\u2019s ten pages here. At the work, I managed to photocopy ten copies of each page, so I\u2019d ten issues. I\u2019d ten copies of it stapled together. What was I going to do with it? I think, almost in a sense that was it. I\u2019d done ten issues, I was fine, I was replete, and my creative impulses were done. I\u2019d sent a copy to Rough Trade and a copy to Compendium Record, bookshop in the days when people used to write. Rough Trade wrote back to me and said \u2018Great, can we order 200 copies\u2019 and the next day Compendium wrote to say \u2018Great, can we have 200 copies\u2019 and I would have had to photocopy 400 copies, that\u2019s 4000 on this work photocopier, and I thought I can\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n<p>M: Stapling alone is a kind of\u2026<\/p>\n<p>D: But I managed to\u2026 it\u2019s leapt to another level. So I had an order 400 copies, and again I hadn\u2019t put a price on it at that point. They said How much are you charging for it \u2013 and so I think I only charged 20p or 25p, and I said it to the shops they\u2019d buy it for 15p and then sell it for 20p, 25p, and then I had to go to another printer, and the level just rose suddenly, who said he could print it and he did. And I had to sit and staple it all, and post these bundles down to London.<\/p>\n<p>M: One sided, what size?<\/p>\n<p>D: A4<\/p>\n<p>M: A4? Sorry, I\u2019m an American, we don\u2019t all these sizes \u2013 it\u2019s 11 x 14. Those are our two standard sizes, so the A7, A4 thing is like\u2026 it\u2019s like Fahrenheit and Celsius. Yeah, I\u2019ll give you 50p for this one!<\/p>\n<p>D: I think they go for hundreds of pounds now\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/2016\/TONYD5_zpsdnb9yzbq.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>M: Well, all of these fanzines we have here \u2013 do you have recognise some of these? Were you a fanzine collector at all?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/2016\/TONYD1_zpssqorjq7t.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>D: I do, yeah. People used to swop \u2013 you\u2019d do a fanzine, you\u2019d swop fanzines. Everyone would be at a gig, by the\u2026 a bit later on, you\u2019d have seven or eight people at gigs. And everyone used to swop\u2026 You\u2019d go back with more than you\u2019d turn up with\u2026<\/p>\n<p>M: I recall\u2026 \u2018Cause fanzines would always have addresses of other fanzines in their fanzines, so you\u2019d\u2026<\/p>\n<p>D: Once you got one, you could find more\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>M: You\u2019d throw a note inside the letter and hopefully a fanzine would come. Usually it would\u2026<\/p>\n<p>D: I\u2026 what I used to get is requests to buy records. People would write to me, saying can you buy me this?<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/2016\/TONYD12_zpswrqkunbz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>INTERRUPTION<\/p>\n<p>M: How many copies of RT did you make?<\/p>\n<p>D: I made 17 in the end, and then I passed it on to lady called Vermillion. She did the 18<sup>th<\/sup>. I moved on. I went abroad, and she was\u2026 the idea was that she was going to carry on through. There were 17 at that point. And it grew quite dramatically, graphic wise and design wise, probably writing wise, the bit you read out. The bit with less swearing in it.<\/p>\n<p>M: A bit less swearing.<\/p>\n<p>D: Sentences probably got longer as well. So, we moved from A4 single sided to A3 \u2013 we started having A3, started having colour on the cover. And you see more\u2026 more inventive lay-out style. Of course there are more bands to write about, so a new world was coming up. New bands discovering things. It got quite big towards the end; it was quite a big seller. Quite good alternative to the music press. As I was saying about it to somebody\u2026 when the music press was saying that punk rock\u2019s dead, the music press was saying that punk rock was over, they certainly went on a whole music press agenda that punk rock\u2026 So fanzines became really important, because they\u2019re the only ones writing about,\u00a0 because we never questioned whether punk rock was dead or not, we just knew it was alive, just write about the bands as we were doing in 77, 76. And so it then became important\u2026 A lot of it was much localised as well in different cities, writing about their local bands.<\/p>\n<p>M: Did you ever think that you\u2019d want to be in a\u00a0 band? Did you ever have any aspiration to have a punk band? As much as you love punk\u2026?<\/p>\n<p>D: If I would have had a band, a band round about the David Bowie era, when I first got into music, roundabout 72, 73, when I was listening to the Stooges, the Velvets, started\u2026 then you\u2019re hearing that stuff. You don\u2019t have to be an accomplished guitarist to play\u2026 I just couldn\u2019t fathom it. I think I tried. I got an acoustic guitar\u2026 And I can\u2019t sing, even to punk rock standards \u2013 I haven\u2019t got the strength of lungs for it. I admire, I really admire people\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/2016\/TONYD13_zps92d1ez67.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>INTERRUPTION<\/p>\n<p>D: I was very good at writing in school, my only skill was writing. So it was natural for me to think this was the way I was going to go. If I had formed a band, it would have been before punk rock, and unfortunately it didn\u2019t happen. Also I didn\u2019t know enough people who liked that type of music\u2026<\/p>\n<p>M: Living in Glasgow in 1976, discovering punk rock in that community there, did you have other friends who also were where you were or did you feel pretty much that you were on the margins?<\/p>\n<p>D: The ones who liked Mott the Hoople, liked Roxy Music, liked short songs, were ready, were primed for this style of music, this look. Those of my friends who liked Yes, Deep Purple, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin was huge in Glasgow \u2013 those people just didn\u2019t get it all, and thought it was pop, punk\u2026 I remember playing Anarchy in the UK to some people and they said it\u2019s just glam rock. And I thought, that\u2019s probably why I like it.<\/p>\n<p>M: I think in 76, a lot of people probably felt, hearing the Ramones or the Sex Pistols, that it was an extension of glam, but with leather jackets, jeans, and so it still had this kind of high concept in a way, but it was more into this street rock thing, which in a way, maybe you saw it a bit with Slade, or even Mud or these kind of bands. There was something a bit &#8216;street&#8217; about it. Maybe\u2026<\/p>\n<p>D: In England we had the Bay City Rollers, who had the short trousers and scarves. And that look was taken off football hooligans. The short trousers maybe flared up to the calf.<\/p>\n<p>M: They weren\u2019t singing about anarchy or sniffing glue or\u2026<\/p>\n<p>D: And the spiky hair they had\u2026<\/p>\n<p>M: Or smashing things up. The\u2026<\/p>\n<p>D: Saturday night\u2019s quite raucous.<\/p>\n<p>M: Definitely. It\u2019s alright for fighting. But, those sentiments needed to get real. And there was a certain sort of, EM, reality in what was being sung in the punk bands in 76 that sort of attracted us.<\/p>\n<p>D: What I found was that I was going down to London and coming back was that London seemed more like my home and going back on the Monday, I was entering an alien land. I was entering more and more sort of seeing sort of friends. It was more my neighbourhood as it were, they were my people. Everything\u00a0 back in Glasgow was just more and more alien and irrelevant. You know, I spent most of my time there, but I felt I was alive at that point.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/2016\/TONYD3_zpsdknhz3rs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"369\" \/><\/p>\n<p>M: So you relocated to London at some point?<\/p>\n<p>D: At some point. I was still working at my job; where I did issues number 1 to 4. And by number 4 I actually put Glasgow\u2019s Only Fanzine and straight in Tony Moves to London full sordid details. So you can see its right at the cross over point.<\/p>\n<p>M: Did you have any foresight at the time about what was going to happen after 76, cause 77 everything explodes. Records, fanzines, everything sort of comes out. And more and more people are just like joining the league of punk. Did you feel that happening or did you just think it was going to be like this weird little thing? Cause in 76 it was a little bit transitional in a way\u2026<\/p>\n<p>D: I thought it was going to be a weird little thing, a little sub cult. I never thought of this explosion. Of course, Bill Grundy\u2026 the interview changed everything overnight.<\/p>\n<p>M: And did you watch that?<\/p>\n<p>D: It wasn\u2019t on in Scotland. But every local, every paper, all the red tops, called the tabloids had it front page. It used to have\u2026 A tiny small TV show with a small interview on it, completely out of proportion. Because punk had all this filth and fury \u2013 the Pistols that was set up, was mostly cancelled, all the dates were cancelled. And that\u2019s how it changed from being a little subculture \u2013 it could have just been loads of bands playing around. Small little groups of punks in different cities suddenly became them. Certainly punk exploded, a lot of people became punks after that. But really the first reason for being a punk \u2013 they became punks more for Sid Vicious and the Dead Boys. So it\u2019s a shock thing now, rather than a lifestyle, an alternative lifestyle. I saw it as a lifestyle \u2013 a breakout of a boring reality. And people saw it as a shock, which then they kind of thought Saturday night\u2019s all right for punking. Cause you have then to go back \u2013 they\u2019re quite happy to work, and then the release.<\/p>\n<p>M: Were bands coming up to Glasgow \u2013 did the Pistols come up there?<\/p>\n<p>D: Well, the Pistols were cancelled \u2013 In RT 2; I\u2019ve got the ticket stub in.<\/p>\n<p>M: Oh, you\u2019ve got the ticket stub in RT 2?<\/p>\n<p>D: It was cancelled, because that was almost three days after Bill Grundy. The tour had started, when the Grundy issue had happened.<\/p>\n<p>M: Oh, so that must have been really upsetting for you.<\/p>\n<p>D: Yeah, it was\u2026 And I told so many people this is it \u2013 this is it. This is what I\u2019m talking about. This is what I do on the weekends. It\u2019s coming to Glasgow. No, it\u2019s not coming to Glasgow. Then the Damned came supporting T Rex shortly after that.<\/p>\n<p>M: Cause Marc Bolan was really pro-punk rock.<\/p>\n<p>D: Because he had his TV show and he got bands on TV. So he got the Damned on TV. It was the first band to play a big venue \u2013 I think any band really. I think the Vibrators came up; Iggy Pop I think stopped at Newcastle wouldn\u2019t come upwards! So as far as I know, the Damned supporting T Rex was the first London punk band to play Glasgow. We had the Runaways. The Runaways played that summer.<\/p>\n<p>M: Did you go to see that?<\/p>\n<p>D: Of course! It was huge!<\/p>\n<p>M: Was that with Cherie Curry or was that?<\/p>\n<p>D: Cherie was still singing then. The first album had just come out. That was actually \u2013 it sounds ridiculous \u2013 but that was the first time we saw people were interested in punk. We had people like Alex Ferguson, Sandy Robertson, SR went on to write for Sounds, and Alex Ferguson went on to write for ATV and Psychic TV. I met these people at gigs like that. And they had friends who became Orange Juice, Postcard Records. The Jesus and Mary Chain, they were at that gig. So all these kind of people you never really saw. This was the first time there. And unfortunately there was nothing again to really bring that side\u2026<\/p>\n<p>M: Was there a record store in Glasgow that people could socialise in?<\/p>\n<p>D: Not really. The shops were very good \u2013 there were these independent shops that sold all this stuff. And had Anarchy in the window \u2013 the Damned, New Rose \u2013 promoting this stuff.<\/p>\n<p>M: Which place was?<\/p>\n<p>D: I can\u2019t remember the names of the record shops. There were three really good independent shops. So Glasgow was really lucky\u2026 But there\u2019s no\u2026 You went in there and you wouldn\u2019t see another punk hanging around. It wasn\u2019t like Rough Trade sort of ambience. There wasn\u2019t a pub you\u2019d go to with them.<\/p>\n<p>M: Do you have a complete run of RTs?<\/p>\n<p>D: Apart from Issue 4 \u2013 we have a 4 here from the LCC. They\u2019ve actually got one of the last copies of RT4\u2026<\/p>\n<p>M: How much for this?<\/p>\n<p>D: I think they\u2019re selling it\u2026 a three figure sum I think it is. It\u2019s not 1999.<\/p>\n<p>M: Yeah, we\u2019re looking at this catalogue \u2013 it comes out of the Netherlands and France, there are two dealers. And it\u2019s rife with, eh, punk fanzines from 76 onwards\u2026<\/p>\n<p>D: And prices\u2026<\/p>\n<p>M: Well prices are extraordinary. There\u2019s nothing hardly below \u20ac300.<\/p>\n<p>D: So what\u2019s this table worth do you reckon?<\/p>\n<p>M: This table, I would imagine this table would be worth about maybe between ten and twenty thousand pounds.<\/p>\n<p>D: We\u2019re rich!<\/p>\n<p>M: We\u2019re rich in fanzines. But the thing is that we don\u2019t want to sell our fanzines because money is for squares. We\u2019ll take the fanzines to our grave.<\/p>\n<p>D: That\u2019s my problem. That\u2019s why I never made it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/2016\/TONYD7_zpsgxqkpbb7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<p>M: So in each of the RTs you had a chart which is not your chart, but is a chart from readers, they\u2019d send in their favourite records.<\/p>\n<p>D: That\u2019s right. Send in your top ten favourite LPs and singles \u2013 a list of them. Not a list of them. If I\u2019d been sent lists. I\u2019d compile the charts \u2013 for RT1\u2026<\/p>\n<p>M: So RT1 must have just been you.<\/p>\n<p>D: Me and the Skid Kid put it together. We had Ramones Number 1, Jonathan Richmond Modern Lovers album number 1.<\/p>\n<p>M: And New Rose by Damned is number 2, eh. And did you own all these records? And how else would you hear them? Was much played on the radio at the time?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/2016\/TONYD8_zpsplak4jzt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>D: No, I think I put something in RT1 here about the BBC<\/p>\n<p>M: The BBC? Did they have a clue?<\/p>\n<p>D: John Peel did a sort of punk night one night. He took some stuff off Live at CBGBs, Kansas City\u2026<\/p>\n<p>M: That must have been pretty exciting to hear that.<\/p>\n<p>D: It was a whole two hours I taped the whole show. I played that every day. And, em, I put on here \u2018We Vibrate\u2019 by the Vibrators was played on the Simon Bates show, which was a mainstream morning show.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/2016\/TONYD6_zps9w0sypjg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"369\" \/><\/p>\n<p>M: <em>THURSTON READS ARTICLE. <\/em>What do you think?! 2016 \u2013 forty years later, you\u2019re actually on BBC Two, talking about 1976 punk rock.<\/p>\n<p>D: Unbelievable. I wrote that, I would never have thought it possible.<\/p>\n<p>M: Well maybe you should do a new issue of RT, to serve, maybe\u2026 I take it all back [laughs]<\/p>\n<p>D: The director\u2019s cut of this one. What it really meant, and what happened afterwards.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/pengy1966159\/scans202_zpsadfichak.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"592\" \/><\/p>\n<p>M: After RT you did KYPP.<\/p>\n<p>D: Yeah, I moved on to KYPP.<\/p>\n<p>M: In \u201980, I think it was?<\/p>\n<p>D: Dec 79 I think. So the last RT I did was April 79 and KYPP came out in\u2026 December\u2026. It was sold at an Ants NYE gig. So\u2026<\/p>\n<p>M: So Vermillion continues RT and you have a whole new\u2026<\/p>\n<p>D: I wanted to try something different. I went in a different direction.<\/p>\n<p>M: And what was the aesthetic difference in a way? It looks a bit more\u2026 I don\u2019t know, kind of wilder or something.<\/p>\n<p>D: Yeah, I think the printer Joly. He had some\u2026 he sort of approached me about doing something. He had some new printing presses. He wanted to try something to experiment with.<\/p>\n<p>M: So Jolly at Better Badges was really important to fanzine culture in the 70s wasn\u2019t he?<\/p>\n<p>D: He was, certainly in the 80s, around all the country at gigs with his Better Badges stall, and then he\u2019d go back to London and go to Rough Trade\u2026<\/p>\n<p>M: He had a presence at the RT store where he would help fanzines be printed and assembled\u2026<\/p>\n<p>D: Well, he was working at Better Badges up the road. On Portobello itself. RT is on Kensington Park Rd. So you\u2019ve got badges made elsewhere. He could start to print A4 fanzines. And then you had this idea of doing colour on colour. He did a lot of flyers for gigs at this time. This style of rainbow printing, it became his look, his way of doing things. And so he used to print a lot of fanzines, cornering the market really.<\/p>\n<p>M: Do you keep in touch with Jolly?<\/p>\n<p>D: He\u2019s moved to NYC.<\/p>\n<p>M: Yeah, I would see him all the time in my NYC years. He\u2019s great; he\u2019s still setting up all these\u2026 Sells some badges at gigs. And he\u2019d ask and he has this long hair and smoking spliff and selling badges. And he was fabulous in the sense that that\u2019s what he does and he does it perfectly. But the fact that he lends his knowledge of craft to anybody who wants to do something, and do it themselves. So he\u2019s kind of the DIY king.<\/p>\n<p>D: He didn\u2019t go back into printing then? Cause he does a lot of audio stuff, doesn\u2019t he?<\/p>\n<p>M: I think so.<\/p>\n<p>D: A lot of events and conferences.<\/p>\n<p>M: He does. He\u2019s a great archivist. Of his own accord obviously.<\/p>\n<p>D: He used to help people, fanzine writers. If you wanted some spare cash, you\u2019d go around to his over a weekend and make badges. So that means you\u2019d have to pull the thing down. All these punk rockers would be in his basement churning out badges for \u00a320 or \u00a35 a day. So if you were stuck for cash, you\u2019d go down to his dungeon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/2016\/TONYD14_zpsjkp9k6cd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"439\" \/><\/p>\n<p>INTERRUPTION<\/p>\n<p>M: So were you into pit punk? Were you at the front of gigs pogo-ing? Gobbing?<\/p>\n<p>D: Not gobbing. I think gobbing was a bit of a myth.<\/p>\n<p>M: Really? Sometimes I read a lot of interviews about fanzines where they just talk about being gobbed on and how it\u2019s a bit of a bummer.<\/p>\n<p>D: It may have been outside London, but I\u2019ve never seen it. In London, I saw pogo-ing friends. It wasn\u2019t violent\u2026 We used to call it chicken dance later, because people used to swing their elbows out to scare people off. But the actual pogoing, jumping up and down, I think that was a bit of a myth as well. We used to dance kicking their legs together like that.<\/p>\n<p>M: Like skank dancing!<\/p>\n<p>D: Yeah! That sort of space but a bit more militaristic if you like. Clearing a space. But\u2026<\/p>\n<p>M: So what made you\u2026? Did you feel you\u2019d been led out of punk, or did you feel like punk was changing into different things?<\/p>\n<p>D: I think it developed. To me, I think punk never died, it\u2019s evolved and things have come out. And sometimes you have old school punk band like Flowers and the Dustbin. So I\u2019m going to see a band in a small venue. But I think it just developed \u2013 people developed their own worlds really.<\/p>\n<p>M: Did you continue to follow a lot of the music like PiL and going into bands of that era, going into My Bloody Valentine, Nirvana, the 90s \u2013 what was your trajectory of music listening?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/pengy1966184\/scan530_zps7laituov.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"441\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>D: I call it my gestalt\u00a0 movement. When Crass appeared, 79 or 78 I first got the cassette. It was like this is what we were meant to be doing in the first place. I just got\u2026 This is it, and all the hard core anarchists writing and all the paraphernalia that went with Crass. It was a full on package of saying \u2018In all your decadence people die\u2019. Punk\u2019s gone decadent \u2013 all the alternative lifestyle\u2019s gone decadent. And that just like why \u2013 this is it. And Puppy and everything that came with it, after that is all there. Ants, Crass, Juno \u2013 that became the lifestyle. And the Ants at that point were still an unsigned band. Very very powerful music. But decadent. That\u2019s the decadence, that\u2019s the all your decadence people will die. So it\u2019s combined \u2013 a lot of leather jackets would have Crass and Ants combined. There was no contradiction in liking both of them at all, which is all fanzine led information about them. And that became anarcho punk \u2013 and anarcho punk came out of that Crass chasm and ability to produce so much stuff. And quality stuff. After that, I think it became more interesting, all the psychobilly, and Goth stuff. All the Batcave stuff. Alien Sex Fiend. Taking the edges of the Ants world a bit further. On that side, I really liked the gun club, all that swampy, gothic, psychobilly stuff, and then you had the Crass stuff. My record collection\u2026 A bit like when new wave came out, and The Clash, Blondie, Pretenders, Elvis Costello.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/2016\/TONYD4_zpsen85vqnj.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"368\" \/><\/p>\n<p>M: At some point you stop publishing KYPP and you go off into your life, whatever you do.<\/p>\n<p>D: Do you want to know what happened after? We went into festivals. The Stonehenge festival and things like that were starting to become punk infiltrated. There was a band called the Mob from the West Country. They knew all the festivals, they played them all and introduced bands to play the festivals. Poison Girls played the festivals. We started going to them. And at the festivals, they started fire=breathing, juggling, the Tibetan-Ukrainian\u2026 LIFE STORY.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>VIEW THE WHOLE B.B.C ARTSNIGHT PROGRAMME ON THE YOUTUBE POST HERE<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ozztLrrgUmI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M: Hey Tony, hello there. So is this the first issue of RT you did in 76? D: Yeah, it\u2019s the first one. Nov 76, it came out. M: In Nov 76. So what\u2026 what made you do this? I mean, you obviously\u2026 How old were you in 1976, if you don\u2019t me asking? 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