THE SKUNKS (also know as The Craze) Official Site

About Me

THE SKUNKS - Also KNOWN AS The CRAZE ..."We played the Roxy in 1977/78 supporting The Buzzcocks amongst many others. We then reformed as SKUNKS (London was full of the graffiti), supported XTC at the 100 Club, The Police at the Vortex, The Buzzcocks at Manchester Free Trade Hall.We were spotted by Pete Townshend and Keith Moon at a Vortex gig supporting Generation X ala Billy Idol. Basically started when the 3 of the walked in to the middle of the packed crowd and " YOU STINK "!, Moonie started it, Gerry said fuck off taking off his guitar, Lambe said who the fuck are you? Pete Y shouted , were the WHO !!! who the fuck are you??? No Answer to that ) we had been going to the Marquee for 4yrs before and Baba O Reilly was the song) We were 16 , in the dressing room Keith did Long John Silver you know break the stool etc, Pete T was in awe of us, basically because we were the WHO in78 we basically did what they did , and for us it was from the heart too, it might not have been well orchestrated, but it was high energy on the heart attack mode. We got on so well, Pete signed us. Looking back in all honesty I speak for all of us, The nicest, people you would ever meet were / are Pete Townshend, and all of that era.They took us on to Eel Pie Island records. Our 1st single Good from the Bad / Back Street Fighting (Eel Pie 1978) sold 2000 copies. Played on John Peel show etc. We then went on to Cobra records, a subsidiary of EMI, and released Motions and Lucy as Craze."Dole Q / The Skunks were: Gerry Lambe - Guitar, Franco Cornelli - Guitar, Hugh Ashton - Bass and Pete Sturgeon - Drums. MyGen Profile Generator

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Member Since: 1/21/2007
Band Members: Gerry Lambe - Vocals and Rhythm Guitar, Franco Cornelli - Lead Guitar, Hugh Ashton - Bass and Pete Sturgeon - Drums. ( Colin Ward was the original singer for The Murderers and Dole Q but left just before the band changed the name to the Skunks ). Clive Pierce took over on drums when the band became the Craze ).
Influences: The Who Pete Townsend, Keith Moon. Wayne County The Electric Chairs ( John Johnson ) Woody Woodmansey ( U Boat ) Television Hard Corps UK Subs Clash The Spitfire Boys Stranglers Jim Covington ( Machine Gun ) Girlshool The Merton Parka’s Jack Parnell ( used to meet him on Saturdays at Rose Moriss - Shaftsbury Avenue. ) ! Patti Smith Stones Beatles of course !!
Sounds Like: The Who, Clash, Quo, Beatles,high energy melodic power punk.
Record Label: EMI
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Skunks, well I did tell you

Oh shit !! They have sold out!!! Already, if you want to come and see us send me your names and Ill add them ti the guest list otherwise im afraid forget it! Sorry Gerry Lambe...
Posted by THE SKUNKS (also know as The Craze) Official Site on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:05:00 PST

Check out this event: The SKUNKS are back !! London Callin

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Posted by THE SKUNKS (also know as The Craze) Official Site on Sat, 24 May 2008 02:22:00 PST

Skunks Lyrics and Songs

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Posted by THE SKUNKS (also know as The Craze) Official Site on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:06:00 PST

Skunks support Buzzcocks , Liverpool Poly 1977

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Posted by THE SKUNKS (also know as The Craze) Official Site on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:34:00 PST

o yeah weve played with the best of em! lol

yes, check out flyers we found knocking around of some of the gigs we did.. who would have thought back then that what we were part of was one of the biggest music movements of our time. Respect...
Posted by THE SKUNKS (also know as The Craze) Official Site on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 02:18:00 PST