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SHORT BUS WINDOW LICKERS

LONDON'S 6 FOR A FIVER PUNKROCK SCUMBAGS!!!

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The Short Bus Window Lickers are:
Mark - Vox (ex Agrogasm/Peer Pressuse/Human Sewage)
Robin - Guitar & Backing Vox (also plays in The Restarts )
Szmalec - Drums (ex Dirty Love )
Txema - Bass (also plays in Cellbound and in the UK Subs )
The Short Bus Window Lickers started up in 2000 when they kicked a DJ off the stage at the Button Factory squat in Brixton (south London) and played their then only 10 minute set 3 times back to back introducing the London punkscene to their fast and furious scumbag hardcore punk. After a few initial changes they ended up with a steady line up consisting of Mark, Pete, Robin and Darragh and started gigging in and around London almost every weekend playing benefits, squats, pubs and clubs. They quickly built up a reputation of being fast, tight as fuck, always up for playing and most importantly: havin a sticky sense of humour.
In February 2004 the Short Bus Window Lickers recorded their demo CD 'St.Vicky' of which Mark must have flogged about a million on the Camden Lock bridge. Unfortunately in May that year Darragh had to leave the band as he was too busy with his study and didn't have the time to carry on playing in 2 bands. His last gig with them were the 1st Hackney Punx Olympix on May 28 that year at the (late) Poison Club squat on Dalston Lane, which by then had almost become a second home for the band. Szmalec then joined the band on drums and the Short Bus Window Lickers started extending their playground to the rest of the UK playing gigs with bands like the Varukers, Discharge, Icons Of Filth, Sick On The Bus, UK Subs, Riot/Clone, Disorder, Broken Bones, Oi Polloi, Inner Terrestrials, The Restarts and P.A.I.N. to name a few.
In January 2006 the Short Bus Window Lickers independently released their first full length album '6 For A Fiver' on CD and in March that year they did their first European Tour, the '6 For A Fiver' tour, to promote their new album playing gigs in Holland, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Belgium and France and in September that year in Mallorca.
Unfortunately in late 2006 P-tex decided to call it a day after playing in the band for 6 (for a fiver?!) years but of course remains close friends to them; once a Licker, always a Licker! His last gig was on January 20th 2007.
In June 2007 the Short Bus Window Lickers fucked off to Europe again for a 2 and a half week tour with Kats (Intensive Care) on bass together with Armed Response Unit covering Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic and France and in September the Lickers played 2 gigs in Bretagne (F).
2008 will be a busy year for the Lickers as they're writing material for a new album with Txema from Cellbound as their new bassist which will hopefully be out this year on vinyl (Brain Damage Records) and on CD (DIY).
Another European tour is in the planning for September, which will be taking place in southern Europe this time, covering France and Spain!
Watch this space!!
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playing this year's
@ Winter Gardens - Blackpool - Aug 8 till Aug 10

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/4/2005
Band Website: windowlickers.com
Band Members:

Influences: Poison Idea, Zeke, The Accused, G.I.S.M., Discharge, Varukers, Motorhead, GG Allin, Dayglo Abortions, rebellion against the punkrock establishment, cos the rules are made to be broken...

Sounds Like: yer mum
Smells like:
yer uncle
Looks like:
yer dog

Distorted Magazine
April issue :

Our '6 For A fiver' CD and
T-shirts are also available at:

Pratt Street, NW1,
Camden, London

and at:

34 Sydney Street,
North Laines, Brighton

and at:

Kreuzberg, Berlin

and on:

which will be the easiest
way for US and Canadian
punx to order our CD.
Record Label: DIY and Brain Damage Records
Type of Label: None

My Blog

new 7" to be released in June on Brain Damage records!!!

We're in the middle of recording 5 brand new spanking songs to be released on a 7" in June this year on Brain Damage Records.hopefully before our France/Spain tour we'll have a new full length out whi...
Posted by SHORT BUS WINDOW LICKERS on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:43:00 PST

Birmingham and Newport last weekend

So last friday we met up at the Dame Colet squat in Stepney Green at 2.30pm to load our gear from our studio there into Szmalec's van and by 3.30pm we were on our way to Brum. There was 7 of us: the b...
Posted by SHORT BUS WINDOW LICKERS on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:05:00 PST

T-shirts: "I had one of those but the print came off"

Unfortunately we had to send back our new batch of T-shirts and hoodies to Poland as the prints came off in the wash. If you have one of those shirts (the ones we were selling on our last Europe tour ...
Posted by SHORT BUS WINDOW LICKERS on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:39:00 PST

WE'RE BACK FROM TOUR!!! merch/news/gigs updates

Yesss, we got back yesterday evening.We had a great time and would like to thank everyone who helped us getting gigs, who fed us, who gave us places to crash and w...
Posted by SHORT BUS WINDOW LICKERS on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:34:00 PST

FRIENDS REQUESTS!!

Sorry about the delay, I get a bit lazy adding friends sometimes as I go through all profiles to check if they ain't dodgy. I'm just adding people now, got 8 pages to do, about 80 profiles to read!To ...
Posted by SHORT BUS WINDOW LICKERS on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:17:00 PST