march on its way last Saturday.
rhythm guitar, vocals;
bits weliked. Here they are.
How long have you been Frazer: Since April 1977Were you in any other bands Lester: Tony and Doug were.
they weren't committed ough.
songs?
Frazer: We write all our songs.
Doug: Iggy Pop wrote a song called "Search and Destroy and we have a song of the same The title really is based on Leasham, because we had a contingent there and during the fighting it got so we had been fighting for five hours, and af the end were around, linked arms, chanting Search and Destroy'; as soon as we saw the nolice of inc National Front it was: 'Scarch and Destroy"
Were then Socialet Worken Party: Doug: Tony Binthe SWP. 1am in the International Marxist Group. Likethe Clash say, they write about life as they see it through their eye.
So you would say that the group is a political bund?
Doug: We are pleased to be a Tony: Every band is political.
The Bay City Rollers political in a sense that they don't want to change anything If you are not against it, you are for it.
Insect Robin.
They sent us an interview they did with the American 'Slash' magazine and asked us to print the -but enare come up with a solution, they always said, 'Oh, Front, they're really nasty, or "I don't like the Labour Party, drums. Tories or Liberals", but they haven't come up solution to solve this problem. They go to tbe National Front because it soems like a National we see the solution. with "any CORT immigration control of demos.
mules and hieh rise in their dads" cars at 16.
Soul there.
there.
E1,000 apiece saying, goes poody-spouyI know that we haven't got the answers to everything under the sun but we are going to pour forward a socialist principle basically because that is the way We're not going to tell the kids to join up bere, just tel them to bloody start reading sume papers and get educated themselves because West Ger many has got it bow, and we Bander Meinhof methods and all that but Heavy Manners, to usc a nice cliche. is going to come to this country What they have done Ireland they are going to apply bere, they are already practis ing it. Despite all the crap tha the Labour Party will hall on, they won't, the Tories will get hack in and they will have harsh control, harsh The origins of English pank seems to be me to be dole flats, social pressures which I don' think are so apparent in the LIS. Doug: They're driving around I's nothing to do with money just boredom. And they have got a lot to be bored alout when pon think that Peter Frampton und Doug: I saw a progranune with Rod Steward and Brit Ekland in Paris and he went into a shop and bought two candlesticks al The was -Just think, in three years they'll be worth three times us much". And everyone Tony: He was Ok when be started, but now he is a shit.
And then there's Elton John. about Elton Joln was that he came out and admitled that he Bisexual, and when someone tamous admits it, it always makes it far casier for Tony: Like David Bowie Doug: But he denied it since.
Tony: But he denies everything.
Tom: It Their When he last came to Eagland he sald England was reads for a fascist government, bot on the radio the other day he said it just uppeared that way aries he dheee travelling Doug: I coed a fascist dictator aster this trin.? He did say on the radio that it is the last thing we want and probably the last ching we would ger. I don't know about that, though.
really dangerous when people Eke that say things like that. someone like Elton Jolt got urg and said he was pro-NE it really would get big.
Some people are doing sig Liberal Party cos the Liberal Party has promised to lower the rux race, and if you keep going in that dirootion...
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Their line-up is: Tone Deaf, bass; Frazer Razor, vocals; Lester Pick-it, lead guitar; Doug Pearce,