Punk / metal bands from Sheff between 1986 - 1996

[pete_fcs]

hey i've managed to upload an fcs track!

 

this is circle, written by ziggy and mik diggin, recorded badly at rehearsal at darnall music factory in winter 1986...long before we'd learnt how to play!

 

http://www.freewebs.com/f...citys...ters/music.htm

 

you HAVE to add the full band title to the address above! so cut 'n' paste then add the swearing!!

[pete_fcs]

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And have we mentioned Slug? .....

 

brilliant band!

 

they even did a song called major chords: tribute to the fcs, and another about nick's belly called big beer belly.

 

songwriter tom joined fcs two years later on guitar.

 

he has his own site:

 

http://www.myspace.com/wwwmyspacecomtomgeorgeness

 

he was drummer in slug, and his guitarist, arnold, joined g.g.f in '88, and i played drums for them (g.g.f.) for a bit too!

 

*gets anorak*

 

[pete_fcs]

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Did FCS play Weston park festival? Or was it plague dogs? Can remember Lou on stage and think I can visualise Mick Diggin denim clad.

 

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yep!

 

september 12th 1987....got a poster and a few photo's of it too!

 

the park keepers were a bit annoyed with us pesky kids, and promised to go on strike if those dolebusters layabouts ever darkened their quiet park again.

 

the children's hospital across the road weren't too pleased either, but phil oakey and the girls enjoyed it.

 

see this chapter here for the full story!:

 

http://www.freewebs.com/story_of_the_fcs/chaptereight.htm

 

[pete_fcs]

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Oh and Pete you're not allowed to cite every single performance by FCS ever!

 

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ok here are my top five gigs in sheffield ever attended, not counting any bands i've been in!

 

1: vicious circle, hallamshire, late 1986

 

reasons...the singer was as scary as ****.....leering at members of the audience like a madman, whilst bass and guitar pumped out a menacing sound that only hull could produce. it was part of paul mill's premonition tapes art contruct promotions i think.

 

2: media:premonition -the original 1986 version - maze bar - late 1986

 

this was the band that should have taken over where joy division left off....instead of wasting our time with new order. like terry says below, the line-up was different to the m:p of the nineties, and the songs were more depressing than the sight of george formby in a mental hospital.

 

3: the masons, october 1986 dolebusters gig, nmb

 

the first band in sheffield i asked to join, on account of nick reynold's genius comedy lyrics, delivered in his unique cynical deadpan cockney style.

 

4: secret of life, 1996, the grapes

 

i listened to these heartbreaking songs over and over, all alone in my flat on park hill in 1995. then i went with my ex to see them. "this one's for those two lovebirds in the corner", said songwriting genius pete gibbons, and proceeded to greatly influence the growth of my son in his mother's womb....

 

5: eddie and the hot rods, the boardwalk december 2006

 

best punk band of the seventies besides of course the pistols. original singer and drummer, great attitude, brilliant performers, and no egos.

 

[Terry_Latic]

Pete - some mistake surely.

 

Media Premonition, originally (ie in about 1980) constituted just Tim and Paul, and had a handful of brilliant songs that I can still remember. Such titles as: The End of Coronation Street; All the Young Pseuds; Physical Impossibility (which was about the pointlessness of hiding under your kitchen table to avoid being killed during a nuclear holocaust, almost what the Government was suggesting in its "Protect and Survive" leaflet - a song of its time indeed).

 

By 1986, MP would be in its third or fourth line up (was this when I was playing with them? - if so, I am very flattered to be counted in your top five gigs, and will trade you a "FCS at Frecheville in front of five people" as one of mine)

 

Terry

[waddy]

Not a well known band but my friend went out with a member of a rock band called teaser.They did a lot of covers and played in clubs and pubs bout 1990

[Terry_Latic]

I did a few gigs with Ian Spence (AKA Sid Snot Ian because of his leather jacket and leather cap). Ugly Americans was one band name, This Machine Kills another. We entered the battle of the bands a few times, just to get up on a stage in front of an audience - no matter how rubbish we were.

 

One memorable thing we did though, was organise a band night in the Maze Bar, where lucky punters got to see 16 bands for 50p (unless they performed, and got in for nowt).

 

I couldn't name any of the bands now, but I think I performed in three of em.

[pete_fcs]

Pete - some mistake surely..........

 

By 1986, MP would be in its third or fourth line up (was this when I was playing with them? - if so, I am very flattered to be counted in your top five gigs, and will trade you a "FCS at Frecheville in front of five people" as one of mine)

 

Terry

 

yes, the line up was you and paul, and a keyboard player, tim i think and maybe someone else.

 

i bought the demo and played it to death in my first ever rented room, in a house on khartoum road.....tracks like church of pain, targets, trends in advertising etc

 

[pete_fcs]

anyone who wants to hear an early fcs rehearsal, recorded on mik's girlfriend's binatone tape recorder, can upload here:

 

http://www.freewebs.com/story_of_the_fcs/music.htm

 

click the link on this page...it's a three minute track written by fcs....with introductions to all the band members from mik diggin!

 

keep on rockin'

 

[Terry_Latic]

yes, the line up was you and paul, and a keyboard player, tim i think and maybe someone else.

 

i bought the demo and played it to death in my first ever rented room, in a house on khartoum road.....tracks like church of pain, targets, trends in advertising etc

 

 

That would be when we started with a rip roaring Scapegoat ("Are you scapegoater or scapegoatee?") which I could never quite get my fingers around.

 

As well as the four you mentioned (Tim played lead guitar, the keyboard player was called Matt something (Priestley??)) there was a drummer - who was using M:P as a convenient practice band before going off to bigger and better obscurity.

 

He had a little van though, which was useful.

 

I think we only did two gigs in that guise, but it did lead to the birth of the Atheist Militia, when Matt P and the drummer left, and Matty K joined. We had a gig commitment as M:P and had to fill it so we wrote 8 songs on a Sunday, played them on the Monday (or in my case, played 7 of them, but played one of them twice because I played a whole song playing the wrong riff without knowing it), changed our name to the Nihilistics the week after and eventually dragged you in to make us sound half decent.

 

T