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Punker Bunker

'I like turtles!'

About Me

My names buz! I, along with my girlfriend Em, run possibly the smallest specialist punk record shop in the world (about the size of an average kitchen), the Punker Bunker, in Brighton, England. Here- http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=531255&y=104755& amp;z=0&sv=bn14ep&st=2&pc=bn1+4ep&mapp=newma p.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf ) I based the shop on places I used to go in my 'youth' (Kennsington Market, Kings Road, Soho, Brighton's North Laines in the 80's etc). We sell new (and some used) cd's and vinyl along with T-shirts, zines, tickets and the usual punk rock crap!
We are here- ... and look like this- Punker Bunker Record Shop Brighton
.. Just 3 minutes walk East of Brighton Station.Under Immediate Clothing, 34 Sydney St, North Laines, Brighton, BN1 4EP.
Open 11am-5.30pm Mon-Thur. 10am-6pm Fri and Sat. 12pm-5pm Sun.
I've also, for the last ten years or so, put on punk, and related genres, shows at various venues around Brighton. See below for details of shows coming up....
News
Tickets for the Vic Ruggiero have started selling with very little advertising! Once again there will om;y be 50 of these tickets available. We’ve just confirmed a show for our old friends the Pine Hill Haints it’ll be at the Albert in January. More details to follow.
The ‘Tickets Selling Fast You Have Been Warned’ Dept- King Blues, Zodiac Mindwarp, Hanson Brothers.
Coming up…
Sunday 19th October @ Digital, 187-193 Kings Arches, Brighton seafront. BN1 1NB. 01273 227767. Advance tickets £6.50 available from- Punker Bunker, Resident and Rounder records. Credit card sales on 01273 325440. Online from – www.gigantic.com. Or £8 on the door on the night. Door 7pm-10.30pm. Show finishes before last trains. Over 18’s with I.D.
PLEASE NOTE THIS SHOW HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO THE DIGITAL VENUE NEXT DOOR TO THE BRIGHTON COALITION
THE KING BLUES (A welcome return visit from one of our favourite bands. Right from the off King Blues music has defied convention. Unafraid to mix up dub, doo-wop, a cappella, ska, skiffle, folk and gritty poetry. Theirs is a stripped down hot wired world where ukuleles, acoustic guitars and melodicas feature heavily. It is punk rock as it was intended: engaging, forward thinking and very, very exciting. http://www.myspace.com/thekingblues
+ THE RESTARTS (First Brighton show in several years for South Londons premier street punk crew http://www.myspace.com/therestarts
+ TOP CHESS (Near legendary punk/hip hop outfit playing Brighton for the very first time. Features members of The Steal and Twofold. http://www.myspace.com/topchess
+ DIZZY HEIGHTS (Brighton female fronted ska-pop outfit kick off a mixed evening of loveliness http://www.myspace.com/dizzyheightsmusic )
Tickets on sale now and going fast
Thu 23rd Oct- The Copyrights (U.S.) + The Zatopeks + Blank Heads***©.
Fri 31st Oct- Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction + Enos + The DeRellas**©.
Sat 1st Nov- Vic Ruggiero (U.S.)***.
Wed 5th Nov- The Hanson Brothers (Canada) + Terminal Heads + Shitty Limits + Los Mendozas (Hassocks)***©.
Mon 17th Nov- Genghis Tron (U.S.) + Behold The Archtopus (U.S.) + t.b.a + Easy Hips**©.
Fri 21st Nov- The Peacocks (Switzerland) + King Salami and the Cumberland 3 **©.
Sun 23 Nov- Git Some (U.S.) + t.b.a + North Pole **©.
Sat 29th Nov : Small Town (Sweden) + Serf Combat + tba ***.
* All ages show. ** Over 16’s show. *** Over 18’s show. © Tickets on sale now. F Free show.
Hopefully, possibly, maybe coming soon…. Bomb The Music Industry, The Manges, Surfin Lungs, Pine Hill Haints, Griswalds, Milloy, The Maccalites, Mono, Mike Park, Jesse Michaels, Flav Giorgini, The Razorblades, The Stupids and many, many more….
Advance tickets from Punker Bunker, 34 Sydney St, Brighton. Further details on www.punkerbunker.co.uk (gig section) or email [email protected] to be added to our mailing list.
As if that wasnt all I also hurl money into the abyss that is my record label, Killer Records. Still no site yet but I'll get around to a Myspace sooner or later. In the meantime checkout the awesome Spookey at - www.myspace.com/spookeyrock.com
Bands looking to get signed can send promos/press packs etc to- Fat Mike c/o- Fat Wreck Chords, California, USA 'cos I dont fuckin' want 'em!
I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

My Interests

Breathing.....put that fag out!

The following, beyond awesome, videos sum up my life .. .. .. .. ......>
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I'd like to meet:

Henry Rollins, Greg Ginn, Anthony Martinez, Chuck Dukowski, Brian Migdol, Keith Morris, Chavo Pederast, ROBO, Dez Cadena, Bill Stevenson, Kira Roessler, Chuck Biscuits, Emil Johnson, C'el Revuelta, David Horvitz and William Muthafukkin' Shatner

Music:

ramones, black flag, cramps, motorhead, damned, supersuckers, 7seconds, dead kennedys, rez/villos, stupids, descendents, turbonegro, felchers, d.o.a, misfits, toy dolls, dickies, adicts, minutemen, big boys, really red, minor threat, youth brigade, rubella ballet, subhumans, nomeansno, hanson brothers, queers, briefs, epoxies, priscillas, from monument to masses, godspeed you black emporer, isis, bucket full of teeth, orchid, bridgeburner, as friends rust, jchurch, fatday, scared of chaka, xrays, lighting bolt, polysics, devo, atomsmasher, d.j.speedranch, deadline, endstand, newborn, asschapel, atom and his package, deadpets, fiveknuckle, imbalance, urko, the peacocks, avail, sainte catherines, combat wounded veteran, gunmoll, bananas, oi skall mates, mu330, just a fire, lack, kaospilot, nekromantix, reverend horton heat, mojo nixon, sadies, hard ons, brezhnev, the apers, juicy zooters, random heroes, spookey, phoenix foundation, mad sin, mens recovery project, biddy biddy biddy, horse the band, grizly twister, new mexican disaster squad, woggles, ghost mice, japanther, lava lava, four eyes, onion flavor rings, dauntless elite, planet smashers, holy mountain, enablers, trencher, beauty school dropout, barefoot, travis cut, toys that kill, nerf herder, armalite, regulations, suicide bid, torche, randy, legendary shack shakers, chop sakis, king blues, tranzmitors, the steal, abandon ship, cordwood draggers, black heart procession, hostage life, strickland, cute lepers, marked men, the muumies, king salami and the cumberland 3, the hip priests.... and many, many more

Movies:

Any Terry Gilliam (even the Brothers Grimm), anything with Gene Wilder, some Troma, Blade Runner (better than Star Wars), Beneath/Planet of the Apes, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Bad Boy Bubby, Goodbye Porkpie, Razorback and most Antipodean cinema in general, El Mariachi/Desperado/Once Upon A Time In Mexico, Chucky films, Jaws, Deep Rising, Lake Placid, Frankenfish, Reign of Fire, Dog Soldiers, The Descent, Phantasm 1-4, Karloff's Frankenstein, Lugosi's Dracula, Coen Brothers (up to and including O Brother after that they went to shit), Will Hay, Laurel and Hardy, Harold Lloyd, Norman Wisdom, the Ealing comedys, St.Trinians films, Babe 2-Pig in the City, Boa, Anaconda 1 + 2, Python and all big rubber snake films in general, Blade 1-3, American Splender, Rhythm Thief, Wild Zero (and any film with Guitar Wolf in it), Electric Dragon 50.000 Volts, Godzilla movies, any Jackie Chan film with at least half a plot or ones where he gets fucked up, Day The Earth Stood Still, Them, Village of the Damned, Man Bites Dog, Escape From New York, The Thing and all John Carpenters early stuff, Animal House, Blues Brothers, Vacation, Fletch/Lives, The Mummy 1 + 2, Scorpion King, Steam Boy, El Santo and all luche libre movies, Accion Mutante, Day Of The Beast, Perdita Durango, Steven King mini series, Elling, Matador, Transamerica, Tremors I-IV, Early John Walters (the new ones are a bit weak though still funny), early Kevin Smith, Serenity (better than Star Wars 1-3), She-Freak and any films about carnies, Doom, X-Men 1-3, Slither, Grizzyman, Pirates Of The Caribbean 1 + 2, Borat, Crank, Iron Man....

Television:

Anything with Spike Milligan (except Curry and Chips), League of Gentlemen (Season I and II. III sucked!), Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and most Gerry Anderson, King of the Hill, Futurama, Dr.Who (up to, and including, Tom Baker, then gibber Eccleston. The new cunt is rubbish!), Torchwood, Sgt. Bilko, Clangers, Channel 4 news, Tom and Jerry, Monty Python, Royle Family, Shameless, Everybody Loves Raymond (for Peter Boyle R.I.P), My Name Is Earl, Star Trek (all, even Voyager! how sad is that?), Firefly, Buffy, Lost, House, Life On Mars, Battlestar Gallactica, The 4400, Carnivale, early Vic and Bob, Fawlty Towers, Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (a crime nobody has ever heard of this in the UK), wildlife shows (Big Cat week, Bear week, Monkey week, Earwig week you name it!)and anything with dawgs in it!(R.I.P Eddie/Moose), Dexter, Trailer Park Boys....

Books:

All the usual shit that makes you look clever in things like this-Bukowski etc. Some Stephen King, early Clive Barker, William Gibson up until the last one which was shite, Iain Banks until he went boring, all Alan Bennett, Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse still the best 'British' novel ever written, Comics/Graphics- Joss Whedons Astonishing X-Men, Preacher, Hate, Punisher, Hellboy, BPRD, Walking Dead, early Hellblazer, Tom Strong, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Top Ten, Y the Last Man, 100 Bullets, the new Superman comic that looks like Moebius drew it!, anything by Seth and Tony Millionaire.

Heroes:

and great bands who carry on playing for the sheer love of it despite not getting the attention they deserve. While lesser, mediocre bands become huge....oh! and William Muthafukkin' Shatner

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