Punk Snot Dead

[Jeff]

A new topic brought about by trailing MySpace in search of old mates and punks to see what they have been up in the past 30 odd years.

Please post links to music and videos featuring old punks, especially those that frequented the Bridge. this could save us all time Googling, typing and relying on blurred memories.

I will kick things off by listing the projects that i have been involved with post-bridge days as a few (well 2) people have asked. I have always been involved in creating music since i got the bug at the Bridge. Starting with a few projects at the Bridge with my dear departed mate Paul Jeffreys from Warm Jets. Anyone remember the Sperm Wails and Reagan's Aids?

Watch out for my latest project with Lee Drury of Erazerhead comin' soon!!!

Lov' & Anarchy,
Jeff

[Jeff]

The first project i'm going to promote was created in 2007. Realising that it had been 30 years since punk made the headlines i got a few old mates together to write some new material based on our experiences of livin' a life of punk (attitude not music).

It ended up basically being two of us, Pete (Mr.E) and myself (Dr.Edd) writing the material and waiting for others to get it together to turn up and contribute.

The results are still waiting for a final release, but recent efforts are bringing this to fruition.

Meantime here are the demos for DigiDogz. A digital reincarnation of previous bands and projects.
The name is derived fom a previous band and the fact that we have moved into the digital domain, a long way from our roots of recording on cassette based 4-tracks.

Here are six songs documenting a life of punk & disorder.

[Jeff]

In the 80's i got a band together with a bunch of mates that lived on Clays Lane in Stratford. Our affinity being a love of mischief and a hate of Thatcher.

Dead Dog Mountain spent most of it's decade in existence playing benefits, squat gigs and festivals. Our main base of operations being pre-yuppie Stokey. Hi to the Three Crowns/Beckett mob. All this hard work was undertaken between frequent clashes with the states own bully boyz.

The name of the band may relate to the victorian mound of rubbish where we all lived or it may relate to some unkown utopia or even the pile of dead dogz that was featured on a RSPCA poster, who really knowz???

Our influences were drawn from our peers at the time, shouts to Back to the Planet, Ruff Ruff & Ready, Tofu love Frogs & Chumbas and street comrades Dik Ugly Ensemble & Blaggers ITA. As you can guess it was mainly festie based rhythms for cider drowned crusties but we had our own musical agenda that hopefully shines through.

Here are six songs for ACAB crews everywhere..

[Jeff]

Well the dogz name reappears for a 2008 project that gets back to the roots of the subject.

The DogDubz are basically me and my long time mate Pete from Plaistow. Having been longtime fanz of dub and always including some skank in our sets, we set out to create some new dubz specifically to promote the genre and not be tagged on to other styles of muzik as has happened with past projects.

DogDubz is a new project and we haven't completed enough tracks to finish the album, but we have a good name for it. Welcome to the Dub Side of the Room.

It is no co-incidence that this project came about at the same time as i was being evicted from my long term home/studio/growroom by the LDA with the paltry excuse that the land was needed for an olympic village (hi to the homeless in Beijing/peking).

As well as being a Myspace site, our intention was to be a hub for all artists on myspace promoting dub, reggae & bass.

[Jeff]

At the end of the 90's the weed and lucy ran dry and we all looked at the new designers on the street. Many a punk almost turned hippy during the new summer of lov as all the festies turned into raves.

Being too old and lethargic to turn onto techno, i set my sights on the funky side of the house. More pretty women and less sweaty pre-pubescent males (bigger fish/little fish). Having always had an eye on the funk (respect to Parliament, Funkadelic, P-Funk) the remnants of DDM took on the influences of our fave DJ (Little Louis Vega) and started to create our own deep and funky house flava from the mysterious east (end).

Motherboard Connection is a journey that took us four years to complete and although far from being punk still has that attitude interwoven between the deep bass and hypnotic percussion.

Munawwa is an arabic term for something unclassified, that is what we felt about the music we created at that time, unlike the chemicals that influenced many of the rhythms. These are soundscapes to films never made.

[TerryMurphy]

This is sensational Stuff,but who are these people,this is my web site and i do not know who they are,can anybody help,T.M

[TerryMurphy]

How about some old punk music,played on the forum,i have recording from the Bridge house Days.any one interested T.M

[Jeff]

Have just finished mixing the tracks that i have been doing with Lee Drury.

Six tracks in a similar style to Erazerhead.

Check them out at;

www.myspace.com/leedrurymusic