John grew up in Anchorsholme and attended Collegiate and Blackpool Sixth. After reading about the emerging punk rock scene in the music press in 1976 he was inspired to start his own band. He supports BFC stating in January 2013, “I was born in Blackpool and supporting your local team is one of those things that gets …
Today it’s the Rolls Court in London …… As it turned out to be it was the start of the end ….. we had a few laughs a few beers and celebratory night with 2 great punk bands The Great St Louis and Dillinger 4 .. My Thoughts and Recollections from April 28th 2016 … …
Another Day in Court …. courtesy of those Lovely Oystons ! Read More »
We are so pleased to play a very small part helping with this excellent release from Tired Radio. The original CD and download was released in August 2020 and this follow up 12” on pink vinyl is spearheaded by the relentless David from the excellent Engineer Records along with seven other labels Sinking Ship Records, …
Unim- Press Release September (2005) (Catalogue Number – JSNTGM 018) The Ugly Truth About Blackpool CD Volume 1 of the Ugly Truth About Blackpool – released on Sunday, 28th August 2005 at a free all day launch event (Summer Daze 2) featuring 13 local bands at Stanley Park. An 80 minute historical odyssey of 27 …
What Is The Blasted Festival? The festival was the idea of Craig Halliday and ukNige on a cold winters night down at the SICK56 rehearsal room. Having decided we wanted to put Craig’s rather large band rehearsal PA to some better use we thought it would be a good idea to put on a small …
I was recently doing an interview for the Punk Rock Show on ‘Halton Community Radio’ when the interviewer Peter Ridealgh remarked how, as an outsider, he always looked upon the town of Blackpool as a really significant location for punk, both past and present. After the interview his comment got me thinking and when I …
Punk in Blackpool …. Rebellion Programme – Article 2015 Read More »
It’s amazing to me how quickly the festival seems to come around each year so for someone of my advancing years it was good news to discover that with the assistance of the venerable Jonny Wah Wah, Rebellion and I will be putting together a CD to document new bands to the festival ….. so …
Rebellion 2016 – Festival Programme – Article by Andy Higgins Read More »
SS – why did you start JSNTGM (Just Say No To Government Music) Records and how has this evolved since you started in 1990? Originally it grew out of the activities surrounding putting on punk gigs in Blackpool. Blackpool has always had a pretty good little punk scene and when my crowd got active in …
