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Captain Sensible, pictured backstage at the Dec 2007 Damned gig in Newcastle... Support band that night was a certain bunch of miscreants from Glasgow known as Kick To Kill...
48 THRILLS LAUNCH
FlowersInTheDustbin are proud to announce the launch of new novel 48 THRILLS – A Glasgow Punk Tale by Stephen McKee.
The launch takes place at Barfly, Glasgow, on Saturday 21st April (8pm) featuring:
COUNTERFEIT CLASH (Clash tribute)
THE FILTH AND THE FURY (Sex Pistols tribute)
THE ZIPS (Scotland’s original punk band)
INTRODUCTION by ZIPS front man jonzip
“When young kids ask me, what it was like to be part of the punk music scene, the first time around, glibly, I retort - you had to be there. Well, now you can. Read 48 Thrills and be transported back to the mean streets of late-Seventies Glasgow. To a soundtrack of Sex Pistols, Clash and Banshees, re-live one of the most vibrant and violent periods of popular history. You had to be there...but this is the next best thing.â€
48 THRILLS
A GLASGOW PUNK TALE
by Stephen McKee
48 THRILLS tells the story of 4 teenage punks – the first punks in Glasgow. It’s about the music, the fashion, the girls, the fights. 4 desperadoes making a potentially fatal fashion statement in a city which had still to gain its trendy tag.
Parents, family, friends, acquaintances and complete strangers have got it in for them. Meanwhile the boys discover love, or lust at least.
The book is crammed with legendary Glasgow and Paisley gigs: The Rezillos at Shuffles, The Adverts at the Silver Threads (Paisley), Clash, Stranglers, Siouxsie and The Banshees, and The Damned at the Apollo, The Buzzcocks, Jam, 999 and more. Glasgow readers of a certain age will also recall locations featured throughout the novel including Satellite City, Chivagos, the Bath Hotel, Vintners, Shuffles, Listen Records, Bruce’s Record shop. And Dino’s café!
It’s about the thrill of hearing New Rose by The Damned and early releases by the Pistols, Clash, Banshees etc.
If you were around during punk, you’ll remember punks appearing like aliens in city, town and village streets across the UK. The world was changing. Wasn’t it?
A fictional Anarchy In The UK. Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s 48 THRILLS!.
THE SCENARIO
Teenage punk kid Jamie is travelling to see the legendary Sex Pistols reform for a one off gig, ‘Pistols At The Palace’. On the way he meets 4 original punks in Glasgow Airport. Two generations collide. ‘The Originals’ tell their punk stories, from it’s origins in 1976, to it’s messy conclusion.
Three decades on. Who’s still punk?