Buzzcocks

And then that's the name that stuck.

So Susie and Severin's musical career started when the Sex Pistols manager, Malcolm McLaren, put together the 100 Club Punk Festival, consisting mostly of unsigned bands like The Clash, The Damned and The Buzzcocks.

Mike, it's just Buzzcocks.

Nobody calls them Buzzcocks.

And then I'm sure it'll spill into who knows what else.

I know she didn't pick any Buzzcocks songs for today and the new Buzzcocks songs for this episode.

surprise surprise no yeah anyway anyway

listen so i went and saw the frank carter pistols and uh the opening band was one that i'd heard a lot of good things about i'd never seen before they're called bad nerves and if you actually listen my voice still isn't back entirely because i sang my ass off of this show obviously not the bad nerves but the pistols but uh yeah this is you said this is a new bad nerve single new

12 years telling us what it was always like once again

And it's funny, I don't remember that many political punk bands in 77.

I don't think the Undertones or the Buzzcocks were political, were they? Or the Vibrators? No, I don't think they were.

Slaughter and the Dogs? No, not really.

I suppose this is a record I bought when it came out when I was 13 or 14.

I love the Buzzcocks.

And I like magazine, but I think...

Actually, I like magazine a lot less than the Buzzcocks.

When those records came out, I just didn't really...

I didn't understand them, I think, in a way, or I didn't connect with them, which is weird because I really, really loved Wire.

And when I listened to Wire, you know, there's all sorts of things happening in Wire that I wouldn't have been aware of as a 14-year-old, you know, so...

Aren't

Important.

You know, like the Buzzcocks, the Sex Pistols, the Damned.

Then if you went into the rack, I remember the first punk rock album I purchased was the first Buzzcocks album.

with fast cars, I

believe.

So, of course, we got to hear the Ramones.

We got to hear Blondie.

We got to hear all of the British, the first wave of British punk rock bands, the Damned and the Buzzcocks, the Clash.

The show was organized by two local college students, Howard DeVoto and Pete Shelley.

They'd seen the Pistols and had been inspired to form their own nascent band that they called the Buzzcocks.

Less than 50 people were at that gig.

Admission was 50 pence, and in the crowd were Morrissey, Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook, later of Joy Division and New Order, Mark E. Smith, soon to form The Fall, Mick Hucknall, later of Simply Red, and TV presenter Tony Wilson.

He talked Malcolm McLaren into getting the Sex Pistols to headline on the first night.

They were joined by The Clash, Suzie and the Banshees, and a group called Subway Sect.

The second night had the Buzzcocks at the top of the bill.

They were joined by The Damned, Chris Spedding, and The Vibrators, also a group called Stinky Toys.