Poison Girls

Cause like, I think about like, I don't know.

Are you familiar with that, like, anarcho band Poison Girls? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Poison Girls, she got into it, like, later in life.

There's all sorts of stuff in the 80s where older people got into the punk thing, not when they were teens, not in their impressible years, and they contributed greatly to punk music.

Sure.

wow.

Yeah, which hosted Crass, Poison Girls, The Exploited, Discharge, all these punk bands.

The legendary ones, wow.

Yeah, all these bands.

I think it's a two-song EP.

And we finish with Poison Girls and Closed Shop.

from complete recordings 1977 to 1980.

All right.

But, um, and then you became sort of a manager agent?

Poison Girls asked me to manage them, and, uh, I had no idea what I was doing, and I, I, I remember them buying me a suit from a secondhand shop that looked like the test card.

[laughs] But, uh, it- 'cause they thought I should wear a suit, which for an anarchist punk band-

Yeah

I mean, The Prodigy sold the most records, although Michelle Shocked sold nearly as many.

There's so many that, that I've loved working with, you know, um, and have become, you know, really close to.

You know, I'm still working with Poison Girls who I worked with in 1980.

Um, I loved working with Dolores, and I've got so many happy memories of her.

There you have it.

All right, Poison Girls.

Yes.

We'll see you all later.

So he, he's, he, he's not the main feature writer for the NME at the time, but he is a feature writer and a reviewer.

He reviews the Poison Girls, Chumbawamba, Gang of Four, you know, blah, blah, blah.

Um, so he's, you know, he's a well-known face in terms of the NME, um, staff at the time.

Blimey, that's so strange, isn't it, really? To think he'd already-

... southeast of England.

They, what they create, they do their own artwork.

They then have other bands like Conflict, Discharge, Poison Girls.

They have a whole kind of periphery around them, and although they don't ever get as far as they want to, they are part of the kind of revival of anarchism in the 1980s when you had things like Stop the City marches, um, which tried to basically say that the city of London, as in the kind of, um, uh, you know, the, the obvious symbol of, of capitalism is something that is, um, uh, you know, is nefarious and, and detrimental to, to most people in Britain.