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The Gonads

The Magnificent Gonads!

About Me


Oi, Oi, Oi, who’s that there? Combat jackets and short cropped hair. Men of iron, men and muckers. The real red army Tucker’s Ruckers!

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The Gonads started life as Pink Tent in 1975, but were kicked up the jacksie by The Clash and The Sex Pistols a year later. Inspired by Strummer, Lydon and the Ramones, with a subtle hint of Ian Dury and not so subtle hints of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, The Gonads exploded onto the South London Punk scene like an agitated pint of lager on a warm Summer’s day...which is about as long we stayed together the first time round. "We could have been massive," says Si Spanner. "If only we’d played outside of SE7." Founder member and punk zine writer turned Sounds rock scribe Garry Bushell (alias Gal Gonad) reformed the band in 1979 with a Cockney Reject here and a member of the Business and The Blood there for support...and Hoxton Tom on backing vocals. At the time, Gal was fighting what often seemed a lone battle for bands like the Ruts, the UK Subs, the Skids and the Members in the increasingly jaded UK rock press. Gal’s Gonads were were instrumental in defining the Oi music genre and pioneered StreetPunk as well as the now over-looked style known today as "Punk Pathetique." The band’s legendary early songs include ’I Lost My Love To A UK Sub’, ’The Joys Of Oi’, ’Got Any Wrigleys John’, ’Jobs Not Jails’, ’Punk Rock Will Never Die’, ’Stroke My Beachcomber Baby’, and ’Tucker’s Ruckers Ain’t No Suckers.’ Contemporaries of, and often sharing liner notes with (as well as a few band members) such groups as the Cockney Rejects , the 4-Skins, The Business , Max Splodge , and Oi poet Garry Johnson , the Gonads appeared under various guises and incarnations including the Magnificent Gonads, Gary & the Gonads, the Brothers Gonad (w/ Max Splodge) the Orgasm Guerrillas, Prole and Lord Waistrel & The Cosh Boys. They added humour and passion to the original series of Oi albums, which Gal also compiled.

Today, after some 31 years, The Gonads are still going strong with Garry Bushell , now an accomplished author and media personality, on lead vocals, along with long time first mate Clyde Ward , a much sought after producer and studio musician on Bass, and American member André Schlesinger, formerly of NYC Oi legend The Press and currently heading Maninblack , on guitar synthesizer, and others. The Gonads are currently in the studio recording tracks for their upcoming full length CD "Back To Boots" which will include guest appearances from Steve Whale of the Masons, Jennie Bellestar, Tony Van Frater of the Cockney Rejects, Liberty Hayes, Paul Haslin of Waysted and Terry Hayes of the East End Badoes. We are also touring again, with Tony Feedback on guitar, Andy Nicholas on bass and Manic Esso on drums. .

Gonads fans (and groupies and hanger-ons too!) can show their appreciation by visiting the official Gonads website and leaving their comments in our guestbook .

The Gonads would like to thank all their fans, groupies and hangers-ons for their continuing support. This page will be constantly updated with news about the band, drunken ranting blogs from Gal and Lord Waistrel, and myself, and alternating MP3 files of all the Gonads hits so check back often! You can cop hold of most of our latest CDs from Amazon or direct from Captain Oi. And if you’d like to book us email Dale ’The Beast’ Beeson - [email protected]. To book Gal as a punk and ska DJ, or for PAs, email The Bishop - [email protected]. Serious requests only, please. They’re busy chaps. If anyone has any other questions or comments that need immediate attention, or if you just want to talk to a Gonad, please feel free to bother Gonads’ road manager Fat Col by raising him on AIM (user name: FatCol) Ha ha!


Gal Gonad’s personal MySpace page

Clyde Gonad’s MySpace page

André Gonad’s Maninblack MySpace page


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Music:

Member Since: 9/19/2004
Band Website: the-gonads.co.uk
Band Members: Touring band
Gal: Lead Vox
Clyde: Rhythm Guitar
Tony Feedback: Lead Guitar
Manic Esso: Drums
Andy Nicholas: bass
Zoe Anderson and Vikki Thomas: Backing Vox
Studio band members
Gal, Tony Van Frater, Paul Haslin
Floating or AWOL members
Casanova Kev: Bass
André Schlesinger: SynthGuitar
Andy Kilminster: Drums
Chinese Tim: wok

Influences: Malt, Hops, Barley, Fermented Grains and Various Vegetable Matter and the rare but occasional Grape.
Sounds Like: "A great lusty raspberry of creative excess." Lord Waistrel.
"Revolution." Russell Brand
"The pure gold of the Music Hall." Terence Hayes (Jolly Prankster, MPL)
"What we would sound like if we were pissed." The Libertines
Record Label: Captain Oi!
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

merch

We've got some merchandise in stock, which you can buy direct from [email protected]. There are a few copies left of 'Old Boots, No Panties' (£9 including postage and packing), some limite...
Posted by The Gonads on Sat, 17 May 2008 01:47:00 PST

Hot News

Hot Gonads news. Check this out. 1) Our England ep is available as an iTunes down-load NOW. The three songs are ’England, My Land’ by the Gonads with Sarah Vezmar; ’Line In The ...
Posted by The Gonads on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:42:00 PST

Gig postponed

Stop press. Apologies but due to "operational difficulties" the April 20th punk & ska gig has now been postponed until June. Details to come asap
Posted by The Gonads on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:01:00 PST

New album

Well it's done! The new Gonads album is finished and it's a belter. Steve Whale joined Gal, Pat Collier and Dale "The Beast" Beeson at the historic mix in South London this week. The album title is st...
Posted by The Gonads on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:02:00 PST

Bridgehouse Gig

Advance warning for next Saturday, the Bridge only holds about a hundred people so get there early to avoid disappointment. You will be in the presence of punk royalty: guest of honour is Sandra Bigg,...
Posted by The Gonads on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:58:00 PST

End of Year Report

 2007 was a productive year for the Gonads. The most important news is we're gigging again regularly (if you want us to play in your town, contact Dale 'The Beast' Beeson on [email protected])...
Posted by The Gonads on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:45:00 PST

BACK TO BOOTS!

Our new album 'Back To Boots' album is finished all bar the mixing and it's absolutely the business. It's our punkiest album since 'Live & Loud'. The full track list is likely to be: Valhallaballo...
Posted by The Gonads on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:05:00 PST

pod alert

Gal's new podcast is up and running at totalrock.com. Guests are Manic Esso, Talita Jenman and a proper pair of herberts from Riders Of The Night (Monkey, and Mick the Bins of Gooners i...
Posted by The Gonads on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:21:00 PST

mansfield minxes required

Calling all Mansfield punkettes, Modettes, glamour models, barmaids and skinhead birds! Our normal Gonadettes can't make the show on Friday so we're looking for a couple of local woman of high mo...
Posted by The Gonads on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:50:00 PST

Gonads go back to boots

The new Gonads album is written. We should be in the studio recording it next month. Brand new tracks include 'The Growler', 'Cemetery Of Lost Souls' and 'Attack Of The Zombie Skinheads'. It will als...
Posted by The Gonads on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:50:00 PST