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Feed The Enemy

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About Me

Hibernian FC. Punk Rock. Port o' Leith AFC (1986). Edinburgh Marathon. London Marathon. Stella Artois. Bollocks.

My Interests

Punk Rock - the whole lot from 76 to today. Love reading biographies and historical accounts, trawling throough old records, sleeves, flyers, books, discographies, websites and stuff. Football all over the world but particularly at it's best, the Hibernian Football Club. Modern History & Pop Art. Cutting about. Breathing and stuff.

I'd like to meet:

Nurse Rosetta

Music:


Punk Rock - 77UK: The Clash, Damned, 999, Adverts, Nips, Buzzcocks, 999, THE VALVES, Slaughter & The Dogs, FUN CITY, X-Ray Spex, ATV, Lurkers, Starjets, Only Ones, TWISTED NERVE, Alberto Y Los Trios Paranaoias, through to 82 stuff like the Angelic Upstarts, Last Resort, Blitz, 4 Skins, Professionals. Powerpop / Mod shit like The Chords, The Jam, Purple He**ts (FUCK THE HEA*TS), The Cars, Jam, Rich Kids, The Boys and all the US stuff from the MC5 through the Ramones, Dead Boys and Black Flag / Bad Brains / MDC / Dicks,Dils, Avengers, Naked Raygun through to Action Swingers, Butthole Surfers and all the DC shit like Government Issue and Minor Threat / Fugazi up to the present day like Fucked Up, Giant Haystacks, Career Suicide and everything from Scandinavia, Mainland Europe, Brazil, planet punk. And the garage stuff from Billy Childish / Thee Headcoats, Armitage Shanks, Fire Department to the US gear like the Dirtbombs. Also like a bit of Dexys, Specials, 60s mod/beat/psyche, some Northern. Also Lee Perry / King Tubby / Dr Alimantado. Did I say The Who? And the Small Faces. The Kinks. And post punk like The Fall, Magazine, PIL, Josef K, Joy Division, Associates, The Fire Engines & The Scars. And electro stuff like early Human League, Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle. And Indie poop like the Weddoes and Pixies, The Cocteau Twins and more recently those Pigeon Detectives boys, British Sea Power, The Others and I dig the Cribs LP.

Movies:

Trainspotting. The Godfather. Billy Liar. Twin Town. Pulp Fiction. Saturday Night Sunday Morning. Anything with De Niro or Jack Nicolson.

Television:

Early Doors (both series 1 and 2). The Likely Lads. Steptoe. Coronation St. Match Of The Day.Monty Python / Ripping Yarns. Still Game. Gavin & Stacey. The Partridge Family.

Books:

Puckoon and all of the Spike war series. All of Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, Stewart Home, Ian Banks, Roddy Doyle, John King, Keith Waterhouse and Alan Sillitoe. Some Ben Elton / Stephen Fry. Tom Sharpe. Maximum Rock n Roll and Viz.

Heroes:

Canon Edward Hanon. Rat Scabies. Pat Stanton. John Peel. Keith Wright. James Connolly. Michael Sweeney. Joe Strummer. Arthur Duncan. Spike Milligan. Johnny Rotten. Arthur Duncan. Steve Marriot. Sir Paul Smith. Albert Kidd.

My Blog

Edinburgh Punk Record Stores And The Dearth Of Them Now

So I touched on Edinburgh's record shops of the past in one of those other Blogs about fucking gigs in Edinburgh last century...... Where the fuck are they? You look all over MySpace, any part of the ...
Posted by Feed The Enemy on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:35:00 PST

Hibs v Stoke City and discovering Racism

Not really punk rock at all but a football fixture that had a deeply profound effect on me for a number of reasons. Stoke City have had a wee bit of coverage recently with some decent performances inc...
Posted by Feed The Enemy on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:32:00 PST

The fucking Ramones Museum!

Interrupting the enthralling account of Edinburgh punk rock gigs for a moment - Just back from a trip to Berlin. Found a Ramones museum in Kreuzberg. Check out some of the pics I've posted here. You c...
Posted by Feed The Enemy on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:33:00 PST

My Life As A Closet Edinburgh Gig-Goer Part 2

...course, what I'd failed to mention before running out of time during Part 1, was that ANOTHER PRETTY FACE were fronted by future Waterboy Mike Scott. Much as I liked APF and thier pre-powerpop soun...
Posted by Feed The Enemy on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:44:00 PST

My life as a closet Edinburgh gig-goer

With much reluctance I've signed up to Myspace. Succumbed to the clamour. Now that I'm here I see it's a good way to get in touch / stay in touch with bands/scenes/happenings and maybe grab the odd do...
Posted by Feed The Enemy on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:49:00 PST