Sonntag, 7. April 2013

Living with unemployment


Today's track is from The Neurotics, a band I loved in my younger days. This is what Wikipedia knows about them:


As The Newtown Neurotics, the band began their career playing punk heavily indebted stylistically to The Clash and The Ramones. Over the course of the 1980s, the band dropped the "Newtown" from its name and simply became The Neurotics; along with the name change came a stylistic broadening, including slower tempos and horn arrangements. They released several albums on noted UK postpunk label Jungle Records. Lead singer and guitarist Steve Drewett took openly socialist stances in his lyrics throughout the course of the band's career and currently displays an anarcho-syndicalist sticker on his guitar. When the bassist, Colin Dredd, came down with pleurisy, he left the band; Mac (Travis Cut /The Pharaohs /The Skabilly Rebels)was brought in to play bass for some farewell shows (at which the band's entire catalogue was played), and the band called it quits in October 1988. Drewett went on to form an Afro punk band called the Indestructible Beat. Although the Indie Beats were disbanded in 1995, Steve Drewett is known to do occasional solo gigs.


Living with unemployment was recorded life on their farewell tour in Munich. Me and some other guys made a day off to drive 200 km to see them for the last time. And I remember very well that it was more than worth to see them.

Enjoy and have a good week people.

The Neurotics - Living with unemployment

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