Steve Diggle from the Buzzcocks and Flag Of Convenience
Turned Out A Punk
Turned Out A Punk
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2021
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
There's no boredom around here! On this episode, Damian is joined the LEGEND: STEVE DIGGLE from the godly Buzzcocks! Listen in as the two discuss the birth of punk in the UK, Krautrock, Gorilla Biscuits, touring with Nirvana & tons of other goodness! From "A conscientious objector to work" to punk icon: NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also, grab that ESSENTIAL Buzzcocks singles boxset out now on Domino Records!
Also Touched On:
Influencing everybody
Sick of Yes
The Pistols and the Ramones
Forming two days before the Clash
The R and B influence of Pub rock
The slowness of everything in 70’s music
the Kraut rock influence
Thrift store punks
Malcolm McLaren’s mistake completes the Buzzcocks
Promises was a political song
pre-Buzzcocks’ Buzzcocks demos
The Buzzcocks’ practice space becomes Joy Division’s
Jamming for the first album in a rehab centre
Autonomy: An English person trying to sound like a German person singing English
“The riff of Manchester”
“I love those weird little bits you do in those songs!” - Joey Ramone
“We aren’t entertainers!”
Getting paid not to play a biker bar
the 100 club
the Screen on the Green
the kids in Slaughter and the Dogs
Morrissey cribbing notes
Hearing the Gorilla Biscuits’ cover for the first time
Flag Of Convenience
Meeting with Seymour Stein and saying you wanna sound like the Stooges
reforming the band
Touring with Nirvana
AND SO MUCH MORE!!!!
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