I remember Brigandage very well, via both John Peel and António Sérgio, down here in Portugal. Very expressive and well-done late 2ndWave UKP82 - actually my remembrances go as far back as 1985, before PFT was released as an album, so the sounds i was listening to were most certainly from the FYM tape-album. True Radio pioneers mind not the means to convey the sensation. As it were... Very nice to meet Michelle on one of your visits.
Wonderful! As usual, I sat here hoping you were going to keep the segment going for 2 hours. You and Joe have become a Sunday afternoon staple in my music room. Huge love, massive respect.
Thank you so much Tommy! You're so sweet to watch my videos and comment. I really appreciate it. I said to Joe last night that it's such an honor that my videos are part of your weekly routine. It gives me extra motivation to keep doing them. Have a great week!
Thanks for watching it! I had to twist her arm a bit, but it was a lot of fun just hanging out and catching up. She has seen so much early punk history. I'm sure she has more stories that we failed to get to.
Great to see a legend like Michelle is still looking great and going strong ...I've bought quite a few shirts and t-shirts off of her - I can urge any like-minded latter-day punks from the 1977 days to get online look at her gear and treat yerself ! You KNOW'S it clart... Geno x
Thought Derek, the geezer at the beginning with the pint, was going to gob over your lens in a re-creation of his photo on the cover of the New Wave punk compilation from '77.
Those those two guys outside the Dublin Castle were so funny! I like it when he shows his nipple to the camera. I think they thought Joe and I were a couple of "squares" and they liked acting up in front of us. They look like they've been punks for decades and will never change. I love it. Thanks for watching!
Thanks again for watching Mark! I have seen a few short clips of how he ended his speaking shows, where everyone sings Anarchy and Rise together. That's great that you went! I still love Lydon.
Wow! You two ladies have a beautiful energy together! What an interview I’d like to meet the both of you! Love your videos my new favourite channel! You’d make an amazing podcast interviewing punk guests ❤❤ 🧷🤘☮️
Thanks so much for tuning in! I would love to do more interviews if I can. I was lucky to be in London when Michelle played a gig, her first in over 25 years. I had to twist her arm a little to do this interview, but it was fun and I hope that comes across. Thanks again for watching!
It's fascinating to hear the stories behind photographs I've seen in books, the music press, and online. I'm drawn to the bloke with the tash and flairs. Obviously not a 'punk' sartorially. He looks pretty typical for the time. But the movement was new and attracted the curious, I'm guessing.
I'm drawn to him too! I love that photo because it captures the different types who went to punk shows in the early days. The kids like Michelle and her boyfriend were picked out of the audience because they dressed punk, but my guess is that a large portion of the audience looked like the "mustache guy". When I saw the Pistols on American Tour in Jan. 1978, most guys looked like him. Thanks for watching!
A lot of people still looked like that up to about 1984, particularly up north in the uk. As someone who went up north to away football matches in the eary 80s I can confirm flared trousers, perms and taches stood their ground up north long after 1977. In 1980 I went to Manchester to follow my team and it was dangerous as us Londoners stood out like a sore thumb. I found it funny when the Madchester scene revived big baggy flairs in the late 80s into the early 90s and they became hip again as it seems those Stones Roses generation kids just took their elder brothers old pairs out of the loft.
I think of Punk Rock as very much like wine - '76 is a very good vintage. Where is the scan of the Stig at the gig? What was Michelle's impressions of the infamous glass throwing? Not that I like to dwell on such things, but no one seems to tell the same story. Many thanks, great fun to eavesdrop and never tire of tales of Punk London and elsewhere. Glad you're a Prisoner fan too! Very apt that rude language is punishable in that establishment. Unmutual! BCNU!
Thanks as always for watching! Do you mean the photo of Michelle at the 100 Club? I couldn't find it online but apparently it's in a Clash pink coffee table book. The photo I thought was at the 100 Club was actually at the ICA clash gig. I'm guessing that's in the same book. I forgot to ask about the glass throwing incident! Darn! That was the 2nd night when The Damned headlined. In Viv Albertine's book, she talks about it. She was very close to Sid. She said that at first Sid said he didn't throw it, and then he admitted to her later that it was in fact him. All this is in her autobiography "clothes, music, boys." It's a great book on the early scene. Yes, I love the Prisoner. One day I'll make it to Port Meirion. I did visit the flat in the beginning scene where he drives up in his yellow sports car. That was a thrill. Be seeing you! Maggie
That club was Jazz Heaven , we used to go there every Friday at Midday in the 1990s and it would be old guys doing jazz with a few of us 28 year old jazz kids ha ha . I did used think about the Sex Pistols gig and inside there were photos of The Rolling Stones jamming with Eric Clapton on the walls . Think I played there in 1999, think the Stones played there in 1986 . I saw fusion groups there in 1986. Great club
Thanks for watching another video Mike! How great you got to play the 100 Club! I think they still have lots of jazz concerts there. When we went on the Original Soho Punk Tour (which was very good) the tour director said it's worth it to go inside for a concert just to see the space and the pictures on the walls. I'm glad it's still an active club. So many in the area are now gone, including the Astoria where I worked in the 1990s.
@@WhyNotGoPlaces yes, I'm certain of it. I was in the first year and was getting beaten up for wearing narrow trousers instead of flairs. Seeing Michelle and Bruno was like seeing angels. We started hanging out with the punks in Bromley that were still so proud of their Bromley Contingent fame but by then, most had moved on or got signed onto labels. Amazing, creative times, so sadly lacking in todays youth.
I think so too. It's such an iconic shot of an important moment in time. I even like the guy with the mustache and long hair in the photo - he shows that most people had not cut their hair yet. When I saw the Pistols on Jan. 1978 American tour, most of the guys in the audience looked like him.Thanks for watching!
Yes, punk seems like it will go on forever, doesn't it? I remember when I moved to London in August 1978 and a new crop of bands were coming up, like Joy Division, I thought that punk might be over. Far from it. Thanks for watching.:)
@@WhyNotGoPlaces malcom mclaren was going to manage east end band cock sparrer but never bought a round in a meet a t a pub so went on to manage pistols ,cock sparrer are an amazing band go listen to shock troops the album by them
Two sides of the same coin, with much healthy convergence and some equally surprising misrepresentation. Neither side would have prospered in isolation.
I actually liked their songs, especially Borstal Breakout and If The Kids are United. If I could turn back time, I would have corrected myself in the video. I think what I didn't like at the time, and what Michelle was referring to, was their skinhead fans at that time - they scared me a little. But musically I did like them and I thought Jimmy Pursey had a lot of charisma.
All festivals are very expensive these days, but I think the Rebellion is not too bad compared to others. Glastonbury is $355 for a full ticket, while Rebellion is $230 for a full-package ticket- 4 days. If I lived in England I would probably go. Thanks for watching the video.
@@WhyNotGoPlaces Farce fest is just over £400 now & I hate festivals anyway no way to see bands it needs to be in decent size venue with a room & not big venue like Blackpool that is a family entertainment & ballroom dancing venue its 99% nostalgia how 💩 is that when it was called holidays in the sun(the original name for it) I was in a band that played it few times when Daz(promoter) put few on in Morecambe/London/ Germany/usa(we didn't play usa one) when he changed the name of festival we played then he changed it to FARCE Fest we played twice(there's no rebellion at rebellion) & don't know how old you are/music your into etc but punk doesn't belong like that in uk
As did we all - so what? They were on an established circuit by 1977, which included (in my hometown) a venue part-owned by Jimmy Saville - and many had signed to major labels. Comparatively few saw them in their earliest incarnations, however, as part of a tiny underground movement.... so maybe that's the distinction you should be drawing?
I know it's subjective, but I think of her that way, since she was such an early fan, and one of very few females, and because she is featured in the iconic photos outside the 100 Club Punk Festival, Sept. 1976.
Great video, I've got a cupboard full of Michelle's shirts!
This channel is a gem gotta keep these old memories alive for the younger generation like myself to learn abt it.❤️
Thank you for watching! I'm glad that younger people are interested in early punk. That makes me very happy.
I remember Brigandage very well, via both John Peel and António Sérgio, down here in Portugal. Very expressive and well-done late 2ndWave UKP82 - actually my remembrances go as far back as 1985, before PFT was released as an album, so the sounds i was listening to were most certainly from the FYM tape-album. True Radio pioneers mind not the means to convey the sensation. As it were... Very nice to meet Michelle on one of your visits.
Thanks for watching! I'm glad you're a Brigandage fan too. I think their songs really hold up after all these years.
There's a classic face from the early days of punk. All were such great iconoclasts and personalities. She's keeping it alive.
Great interview what a lovely lady! Don't forget Sex Pistols played Liverpool at Eric's as well
I was fully aware of punk in 1976 and I was 9 ha ha . There was stuff about it on tv and in the newspaper every week
What a Great Interview! Nice one, I've seen the picture of Michelle outside the 100 Club for the Punk Festival, Wow you were there!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it! It's such an iconic photo, I'm glad Michelle got a chance to tell the story behind it.
As ten year olds we knew the Sex Pistols were the best . We loved that Steve talked like us ! London accent.
Oh there's me too! 😀
Brigandage were Brill that night 🎶
Yes, they were! I was lucky to be in London to see their only gig in decades. Thanks for watching.
Wonderful! As usual, I sat here hoping you were going to keep the segment going for 2 hours. You and Joe have become a Sunday afternoon staple in my music room. Huge love, massive respect.
Thank you so much Tommy! You're so sweet to watch my videos and comment. I really appreciate it. I said to Joe last night that it's such an honor that my videos are part of your weekly routine. It gives me extra motivation to keep doing them. Have a great week!
Lovely lady and interview.
Thanks for watching it! I had to twist her arm a bit, but it was a lot of fun just hanging out and catching up. She has seen so much early punk history. I'm sure she has more stories that we failed to get to.
Great to see a legend like Michelle is still looking great and going strong ...I've bought quite a few shirts and t-shirts off of her - I can urge any like-minded latter-day punks from the 1977 days to get online look at her gear and treat yerself ! You KNOW'S it clart... Geno x
Thought Derek, the geezer at the beginning with the pint, was going to gob over your lens in a re-creation of his photo on the cover of the New Wave punk compilation from '77.
Those those two guys outside the Dublin Castle were so funny! I like it when he shows his nipple to the camera. I think they thought Joe and I were a couple of "squares" and they liked acting up in front of us. They look like they've been punks for decades and will never change. I love it. Thanks for watching!
Many thanks to Michelle for making those amazing T shirts.
Michelle, you look great both sides do not fret 😅 Great interview, beginning to enjoy this channel.
Btw what make of jean jacket is that? I like.
She does look fantastic. Not sure about her jacket, but she's always been a great dresser.
Great interview, i went hammersmith gig amazing, saw them five times, saw john lydon 2 weeks back question and answers it was decent.
Thanks again for watching Mark! I have seen a few short clips of how he ended his speaking shows, where everyone sings Anarchy and Rise together. That's great that you went! I still love Lydon.
@@WhyNotGoPlaces thanks.
I have a few of her T-shirts .Excellent quality .
The best inna the business!
@@williamdew7143 I have got loads- all still in great nick -as soon as I lose a few tons I might try squeezing back into them.....
Wow! You two ladies have a beautiful energy together! What an interview I’d like to meet the both of you! Love your videos my new favourite channel! You’d make an amazing podcast interviewing punk guests ❤❤ 🧷🤘☮️
Thanks so much for tuning in! I would love to do more interviews if I can. I was lucky to be in London when Michelle played a gig, her first in over 25 years. I had to twist her arm a little to do this interview, but it was fun and I hope that comes across. Thanks again for watching!
I didn't go to art school i worked in factory,so there blimey!
So good!
It's fascinating to hear the stories behind photographs I've seen in books, the music press, and online. I'm drawn to the bloke with the tash and flairs. Obviously not a 'punk' sartorially. He looks pretty typical for the time. But the movement was new and attracted the curious, I'm guessing.
I'm drawn to him too! I love that photo because it captures the different types who went to punk shows in the early days. The kids like Michelle and her boyfriend were picked out of the audience because they dressed punk, but my guess is that a large portion of the audience looked like the "mustache guy". When I saw the Pistols on American Tour in Jan. 1978, most guys looked like him. Thanks for watching!
A lot of people still looked like that up to about 1984, particularly up north in the uk. As someone who went up north to away football matches in the eary 80s I can confirm flared trousers, perms and taches stood their ground up north long after 1977. In 1980 I went to Manchester to follow my team and it was dangerous as us Londoners stood out like a sore thumb. I found it funny when the Madchester scene revived big baggy flairs in the late 80s into the early 90s and they became hip again as it seems those Stones Roses generation kids just took their elder brothers old pairs out of the loft.
I got my dad the Clash book about 10 years ago :) it’s got pictures from a Brixton Academy gig he went to in the 1970’s 👌
How nice! I did not know of the book until Michelle mentioned it in the interview. It must have some amazing photos. Thanks again for watching!
Oh Wow, I'm so diggin' it Man. Acid and Punk Rock so go together.
haha, not everyday you see yourself on youtube! great gig, lovely woman :)
Awesome 👍 another great one for us yanks over here in States.....
I'm glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.
I think of Punk Rock as very much like wine - '76 is a very good vintage. Where is the scan of the Stig at the gig? What was Michelle's impressions of the infamous glass throwing? Not that I like to dwell on such things, but no one seems to tell the same story. Many thanks, great fun to eavesdrop and never tire of tales of Punk London and elsewhere. Glad you're a Prisoner fan too! Very apt that rude language is punishable in that establishment. Unmutual! BCNU!
Thanks as always for watching! Do you mean the photo of Michelle at the 100 Club? I couldn't find it online but apparently it's in a Clash pink coffee table book. The photo I thought was at the 100 Club was actually at the ICA clash gig. I'm guessing that's in the same book.
I forgot to ask about the glass throwing incident! Darn! That was the 2nd night when The Damned headlined. In Viv Albertine's book, she talks about it. She was very close to Sid. She said that at first Sid said he didn't throw it, and then he admitted to her later that it was in fact him. All this is in her autobiography "clothes, music, boys." It's a great book on the early scene.
Yes, I love the Prisoner. One day I'll make it to Port Meirion. I did visit the flat in the beginning scene where he drives up in his yellow sports car. That was a thrill. Be seeing you! Maggie
That club was Jazz Heaven , we used to go there every Friday at Midday in the 1990s and it would be old guys doing jazz with a few of us 28 year old jazz kids ha ha . I did used think about the Sex Pistols gig and inside there were photos of The Rolling Stones jamming with Eric Clapton on the walls . Think I played there in 1999, think the Stones played there in 1986 . I saw fusion groups there in 1986. Great club
Thanks for watching another video Mike! How great you got to play the 100 Club! I think they still have lots of jazz concerts there. When we went on the Original Soho Punk Tour (which was very good) the tour director said it's worth it to go inside for a concert just to see the space and the pictures on the walls. I'm glad it's still an active club. So many in the area are now gone, including the Astoria where I worked in the 1990s.
I'm sure she used to go to my school... Langley Park in Beckenham
Could be! I think she's from Chislehurst area. Thanks for watching.
@@WhyNotGoPlaces yes, I'm certain of it. I was in the first year and was getting beaten up for wearing narrow trousers instead of flairs. Seeing Michelle and Bruno was like seeing angels. We started hanging out with the punks in Bromley that were still so proud of their Bromley Contingent fame but by then, most had moved on or got signed onto labels. Amazing, creative times, so sadly lacking in todays youth.
Great story behind that photo. 😎
I think so too. It's such an iconic shot of an important moment in time. I even like the guy with the mustache and long hair in the photo - he shows that most people had not cut their hair yet. When I saw the Pistols on Jan. 1978 American tour, most of the guys in the audience looked like him.Thanks for watching!
@@WhyNotGoPlaces Often wondered who she is, totally unfamiliar with her band, & still going strong! Must buy some of her clobber!
The 100 club , think Victor Feldman parents were involved in that club ? And he played on AJA by Steely dan
Hello a candle lit table for 2, yes for the sex pistols shock horror😅
Strikes odd that of all the trends that have come and gone this Punk Rock trend never went away as did Beatnicks and Hippies
It was the youth movement to end all youth movements, containing within it a shrewd awareness of all previous efforts.
Yes, punk seems like it will go on forever, doesn't it? I remember when I moved to London in August 1978 and a new crop of bands were coming up, like Joy Division, I thought that punk might be over. Far from it. Thanks for watching.:)
Go listen to brigandage peel session youll hear the pistols influence
Yes, you are right! I played a Peel session the other night. They sounded more Pistols-like in the beginning. Thanks for watching.
@@WhyNotGoPlaces malcom mclaren was going to manage east end band cock sparrer but never bought a round in a meet a t a pub so went on to manage pistols ,cock sparrer are an amazing band go listen to shock troops the album by them
Sham 69 were working class Punk. Not Art school punk. So there.
Two sides of the same coin, with much healthy convergence and some equally surprising misrepresentation. Neither side would have prospered in isolation.
@@williamdew7143 true I guess
I actually liked their songs, especially Borstal Breakout and If The Kids are United. If I could turn back time, I would have corrected myself in the video. I think what I didn't like at the time, and what Michelle was referring to, was their skinhead fans at that time - they scared me a little. But musically I did like them and I thought Jimmy Pursey had a lot of charisma.
@@WhyNotGoPlaces Yeah some of their fans were on the lively side.
Sue Pollard's looking well
Sham ya bam
Cockney rejects real working class band
30 minutes with a phone/camera bouncing all over the place! cmon man!!!
😂
Shame your playing at posey FARCE fest in Blackpool & found out its over £100 more expensive than Glastonbury ffs
All festivals are very expensive these days, but I think the Rebellion is not too bad compared to others. Glastonbury is $355 for a full ticket, while Rebellion is $230 for a full-package ticket- 4 days. If I lived in England I would probably go. Thanks for watching the video.
@@WhyNotGoPlaces Farce fest is just over £400 now & I hate festivals anyway no way to see bands it needs to be in decent size venue with a room & not big venue like Blackpool that is a family entertainment & ballroom dancing venue its 99% nostalgia how 💩 is that when it was called holidays in the sun(the original name for it) I was in a band that played it few times when Daz(promoter) put few on in Morecambe/London/ Germany/usa(we didn't play usa one) when he changed the name of festival we played then he changed it to FARCE Fest we played twice(there's no rebellion at rebellion) & don't know how old you are/music your into etc but punk doesn't belong like that in uk
How pretentious......
I saw alot of those bands too.....
As did we all - so what? They were on an established circuit by 1977, which included (in my hometown) a venue part-owned by Jimmy Saville - and many had signed to major labels.
Comparatively few saw them in their earliest incarnations, however, as part of a tiny underground movement.... so maybe that's the distinction you should be drawing?
A legendary fan ? Fucking hell . Legendary ? What are the requirements to make a “legendary” fan ? 🙄ah well they isn’t last long
I know it's subjective, but I think of her that way, since she was such an early fan, and one of very few females, and because she is featured in the iconic photos outside the 100 Club Punk Festival, Sept. 1976.
Good interview - but it is a shame how far England has fallen to fascism.
LOAD OF SHITE. 😂. I SAW THE CLASH IN 77. SO WHAT.
Which Notting Hill hostelry has banned swearing? How utterly ridiculous.
That's what Michelle said at the time. We were at the Earl of Lonsdale in Notting Hill Gate. Beautiful pub and they have a great patio.