I met a couple of them, the one that died lived near me and was very quiet , and well spoken middle class . muttley the lead singer seemed like a gentle sweetie , it was all a hilarious act which gave them a fun way of life for a while , and the songs piss takes of course but God sooo funny
@Eliza Coleman I was only born in 1985 so was still a relatively young pup in terms of Macc lads years but have just sort of become more famliar with them over the last decade or so learning my herotage as a macclesfield degenerate. Love them all the same.
I'm a total bleeding-heart liberal but, in the eighties, that meant joining picket lines and gobbing on Tories. Getting offended by just about anything was for blue-rinse cemetery-dodgers on the South coast, not lefties. I think these lads are the best thing since a pie between sliced bread - and so does me splitarse, Fluffy Pup.
you will never see a better band , clever , talented and a complete piss take. Still love it - they entertained and found there niche ! Long live the lads .
we luuuuuuuuuuuurve the Macc lads , and you could get more macc than us! They are full on petes chippy pie and chips with graaaaaavy! Bring em back .........Up yours Altrincham!!
the macc lads were one of the few bands with a sense of humour. Music nowadays is contrived, humourless and banal. The macc lads, judge dread and bad manners all had humour about them. Now what do we have?.......*tumbleweed*
I did sound for this band a couple of times, in the Greyhound in the Fulham Palace Road, London, Not only were they a fantastic act, they sounded good, great musicians, great prescence on stage !, and they gave 100%. A cross between Chas N DAve, VIZ, and the Sex Pistols !!! Why NOt ? Off stage, nice Lads, all the best fellas !!!
Thats Quality. you get to see some old video footage of macclesfield. Oh and i think the Macc Lads are great and as they point out in the video, you hear swaring everywere.
I'm gutted i missed em in Preston back in the day being too young to attend. My dad went and said it was awesome. Would love to see a reunion tour and i'm sure it would be massive! 'Depends on what mind ya got'
These gentlemen are artists, setting in song a portrait of an entire way of life that's rapidly being swept away by the tide of political correctness (and perhaps it's just as well). It isn't a laudable (posh word for good) way of life, but thousands of us grew up that way and it deserves to be commemorated and no one does it better than the lads. Dickens brought us Victorian England the way it really was and Muttley brings us late twentieth century northern England as it really was.
Happy happy days ... seen em loadsa times mates band (slopdosh bobbar and ivan crump) supported em ...some of the best yrs of my life ,dont fear the sweeper and apprentice dentist still amongst my fav all time tracks along with budgie bill and dobermanns are puffs (slopdosh)... Russ
Fair call... But I still don't understand why it should matter how they were supported. OR whether it was just a bit of a laugh for them while they were young. How many other small bands quit after a few years and go into regular work/careers? What do they do now as 'pre destined professional careers'?
Banned everywhere except the thatched house in stockport! Where up until it closed in 2010 there was even a tribute band to them called imaginitively "the thached lads!"
Used to play at the thatched house loads of times with the micradotts... a mod covers band playing a rock biker pub!! Banjo was the landlord if I remember..
Is this someone I know?? I used to go in there a lot in the noughties! Watched anti nowhere league and angelic upstarts there, doing warm up gigs before their “proper” tour at bigger venues!!!!
It just so happens that there is an outfit just starting out in Sheffield as a Macc Lads Tribute band. They're called the Macc Dads. I'll post more when I know more :)
Me and us mates used to mimic them, I was vocals, not very good mind, being 18 my voice was nowhere near as rough as Mutley's. Favourite song? Fluffy Pup. Only time I've sang in front of (about a dozen) people - wouldn't do it again. Our drummer was good though.
Too right mate, only problem is I don't think any venue/council would allow them to play in this PC age, they'd be too shit scared! They were barred enough times in the 80's + 90's!!!
Speaking as a woman I love the Macc Lads. Don't find thier songs offensive at all. My kids have been raised listening to them. I believe they were formed to show how the younger blokes etc viewed women/gays etc at the time. As a piss take basically but as always people took them seriously.
Saw the band live in Brum back in the early 90s. Great concert in stiffling heat. Crowd was mixture of students, national front nutters..and me! Funniest thing was the support act; a guy called "Eddie Shit" who dressed in a pink jump suit and whose guitar squirted milk (I hope) into the crowd. He ended up covered in gob and bag burns - like everyone else as the ceiling was so low the ohlegn hit the roof and dripped down! All this very ironic as no one bats an eye at rude lyrics these days!
they were fucking ace. Just the song feed your face was a bit tight. But it was tongue in cheek. Still could get rowdy at gigs, Muttley used to wind up the audiences, and tell foul jokes. Very very entertaining. Time for another tour methinks
Keep on Offending Macc Lads.I went to Kings School as well,as did Ian Curtis and John Mayall...My Dad was a Methodist minister and I write Filthy songs as well!
bladman99.i saw the interview and was not surprised that muttley going by his eye expressions,he seemed really uncomfortable about being interviewed.I have always found the music very tongue in cheek and not to be taken seriously,unfortunately having been in the punk scene people did take it seriously because they were too political (sad!),life is too short ok most of the songs were offensive to women,but they had songs when the tables were turned too,i am the wife of the kilnman,Kilnman
@seaeagle47 met sum mates in wakey one day dec 87, one singing sum of there songs. turns out they playin leeds that nite. I went and quite a punk crowd. saw em mid 88 and suddenly full of football fans. went to notts to study(?) 88 and saw em at rock city. AWESOME. went to Manchester a few days later aswell. also saw em rock city in 90? one of the best ever!!! An iconic band and a shame the establishment closed ranks against em.
Best publicity ever is to ban a band for being offensive. They ended up playing everywhere anyway (I saw em a couple of times in Derby) and probably made a shed load of money - they've got some of my money anyway, I bought all their albums! Sup up lad, av spilled more ale darn mi wes'cut than you've supped the night!
best fucking band ever, they told it like it actually was and not the fucking fairytale shit most other bands feed you. Here's to the freedom of speech our grandfathers fought for.
im a woman (pancake geos mother) i love the macc lads have done for 20 years yes, its good to laugh at oneself occasionally!! more than occasionally... did they make ANY money>? and where are they now???!!!! A Boddingtons rehab clinic or syphilitic and crazy?!
@pisartist They're even worse now, what with political correctness. Now I think of it, maybe that's why the Lads haven't reformed! And now I think of it, that's why they need to reform right now. British society needs the Macc Lads more than ever!
The Lads have probably mellowed from the 80's/90's ,but one last tour now would be fucking awesome - just to piss the PC brigade off and show up the shite that is Scouting for Girls,Keane..etc
the last good punk band out of england! i grew up on bands like the clash, the pistols, the ruts, the damned and the macc lads bested all of them by being not only talented but really fucking funny! we had a miserable time getting their records in the states as they'd been banned!
It's fortunate for Geoffrey Dickens that when he did the press conference admitting to the extra-marital affairs or said "I want to do a favour for every woman in this country" in the House of Commons, that some berk did not pipe up with "...surely it must be illegal". And I don't think the Macc Lads' flat and record label office was involved in expenses scandals, unlike some property belonging to a twat whose name is an anagram of Wicholas Ninterton.
I met a couple of them, the one that died lived near me and was very quiet , and well spoken middle class . muttley the lead singer seemed like a gentle sweetie , it was all a hilarious act which gave them a fun way of life for a while , and the songs piss takes of course but God sooo funny
There should be a movie made about the Macc Lads.
@BestCanKeanRob2 They did for Anvil, and it was a cult docu.
im from macc, They are class
I'm.from the states & they were one of the first bands from UK I F* love!
@Eliza Coleman sorry im not sure
@Eliza Coleman I was only born in 1985 so was still a relatively young pup in terms of Macc lads years but have just sort of become more famliar with them over the last decade or so learning my herotage as a macclesfield degenerate. Love them all the same.
From the states & heard these guys in ‘92 when I was sixteen . Love em!!!
Is that true
I'm a total bleeding-heart liberal but, in the eighties, that meant joining picket lines and gobbing on Tories. Getting offended by just about anything was for blue-rinse cemetery-dodgers on the South coast, not lefties. I think these lads are the best thing since a pie between sliced bread - and so does me splitarse, Fluffy Pup.
You think you hate media enough, you don't! Macc Lads rocked
you will never see a better band , clever , talented and a complete piss take. Still love it - they entertained and found there niche ! Long live the lads .
I'm from Macclesfield,Ian Curtis and Muttley Mclad, brilliant
Never had the chance to see them live, but I find their songs absolutely hilarious... And I'm a woman.
Gotta laugh at oneself sometimes!
it wasnt the swearing that got them banned. it was just the fact they were pure english jokers
The most honest band since the Pistols. Viz summed up as a band. No room for them in these P.C. times...
juveale29 finally someone who agrees with me
we luuuuuuuuuuuurve the Macc lads , and you could get more macc than us! They are full on petes chippy pie and chips with graaaaaavy! Bring em back .........Up yours Altrincham!!
I bought the "Beer and sex and chips and gravy" album when it was first released and fell in love with them.....PS I'm a cop from Scotland......
i like that their singer is actually quite posh in his speaking voice
Best band ever fucking love em
They were the best bloody thing that ever came outta the North ! Where are they now when we need them more than ever??
the macc lads were one of the few bands with a sense of humour. Music nowadays is contrived, humourless and banal. The macc lads, judge dread and bad manners all had humour about them. Now what do we have?.......*tumbleweed*
Some people have no sence of humour, I love the Macc Lads
a band before their time. need a new album guys, missing you loads :)
Seen the Macc lads 4 times , been to bears head , only wish i knew these guys yrs ago ...
Beer Beer Beer we want more Beer all the lads and cheering the fucking beer in .... NOW!!!
I did sound for this band a couple of times, in the Greyhound in the Fulham Palace Road, London,
Not only were they a fantastic act, they sounded good, great musicians, great prescence on stage !, and they gave 100%.
A cross between Chas N DAve, VIZ, and the Sex Pistols !!! Why NOt ?
Off stage, nice Lads, all the best fellas !!!
Thats Quality. you get to see some old video footage of macclesfield. Oh and i think the Macc Lads are great and as they point out in the video, you hear swaring everywere.
Saw em live in Limit Sheffield top night.
i wasn't alive then!!! look at the shops!!! wow......i love macc too!!!
Wow, I didn't expect Mutley to be so well spoken, sounds like quite an intelligent guy
"Pertinent points about society" - priceless!
I'm gutted i missed em in Preston back in the day being too young to attend. My dad went and said it was awesome. Would love to see a reunion tour and i'm sure it would be massive! 'Depends on what mind ya got'
EXCELLENT band! love every song ever made!
The kid at 2:27 is the most sensible punter they talked to.
Oh please take me back to those times 🙏🍻.
Me too
eh up were the Macc lads!REUNION!CMON LADS!!
there is, this year.
Crowdfund a movie
They should tour in the US....Macc Lads are stictly just a good punk rock band...love it
hahaha i punched the c.vnt out of one of them in newcastle when he tried to give it the bigun 😂
The newcaster is trying really hard not to piss himself laughing. Thats the effect this band had on most adolesent boys up and down the land.
Thanks for putting this up; what year is it from? I remember seeing the Macc Lads in the early '80's at 'Uddersfirld poly and they were brilliant!
You do all know this video is 10+ years old now don't don't you?
Love em!
Tyrants hate the sound of laughter
I can't wait to see them in the states in a few months
😂😂
Wheres the video for Germans gone, i love Germans but that was brilliant
Never barred from Shelley's which is where I saw them
Failure with girls at 2:12
These gentlemen are artists, setting in song a portrait of an entire way of life that's rapidly being swept away by the tide of political correctness (and perhaps it's just as well). It isn't a laudable (posh word for good) way of life, but thousands of us grew up that way and it deserves to be commemorated and no one does it better than the lads. Dickens brought us Victorian England the way it really was and Muttley brings us late twentieth century northern England as it really was.
Typical politicians dont like em cuz they have no sense of humour, ffs if that was nowadays starmer would have them In jail
Is the chap in sunglasses the singer on Failure with Girls?
Happy happy days ... seen em loadsa times mates band (slopdosh bobbar and ivan crump) supported em ...some of the best yrs of my life ,dont fear the sweeper and apprentice dentist still amongst my fav all time tracks along with budgie bill and dobermanns are puffs (slopdosh)... Russ
Fair call...
But I still don't understand why it should matter how they were supported. OR whether it was just a bit of a laugh for them while they were young.
How many other small bands quit after a few years and go into regular work/careers?
What do they do now as 'pre destined professional careers'?
just got my compilation on the old ipod. Regardless of anything else - lyrics are just very very funny..
Banned everywhere except the thatched house in stockport! Where up until it closed in 2010 there was even a tribute band to them called imaginitively "the thached lads!"
Fuck me, 2010 - was it really that long ago?
Used to play at the thatched house loads of times with the micradotts... a mod covers band playing a rock biker pub!! Banjo was the landlord if I remember..
Sadly yes it was!!!!
Is this someone I know?? I used to go in there a lot in the noughties! Watched anti nowhere league and angelic upstarts there, doing warm up gigs before their “proper” tour at bigger venues!!!!
Agreed. ONE MORE TOUR!!!!!!
That was one funny day..riots outside..fuckin' mental inside, i was upstairs hangin' over the balcony chuckin' me plastic pint pots..haha
Best band ever
It just so happens that there is an outfit just starting out in Sheffield as a Macc Lads Tribute band.
They're called the Macc Dads. I'll post more when I know more :)
You must be who Burnistoun modeled the Quality Polis' on....
Me and us mates used to mimic them, I was vocals, not very good mind, being 18 my voice was nowhere near as rough as Mutley's. Favourite song? Fluffy Pup. Only time I've sang in front of (about a dozen) people - wouldn't do it again. Our drummer was good though.
They were a joke basses on a very misogynistic and brutish, laddish North culture in the UK is funny they were a comedy act
Lov the macc lads
Too right mate, only problem is I don't think any venue/council would allow them to play in this PC age, they'd be too shit scared! They were barred enough times in the 80's + 90's!!!
they should have done what fellow macc resident ian curtis did
Yes, Shirtenly unusual oorlrite!
Wouldn't it be great if we saw the beater on X factor.
Eggs fuckter?
Macclesfield is missing the Macc Lads, lets have a reunion
I reckon Macc lads are mad just like me but we are rather well educated in this town 😂
anyone know what muttley's Sun t shirt says?
Incidently when's this report from?
Speaking as a woman I love the Macc Lads. Don't find thier songs offensive at all. My kids have been raised listening to them. I believe they were formed to show how the younger blokes etc viewed women/gays etc at the time. As a piss take basically but as always people took them seriously.
mutley is a chairman of a football club called mary dendy!
i love them
Saw the band live in Brum back in the early 90s. Great concert in stiffling heat. Crowd was mixture of students, national front nutters..and me! Funniest thing was the support act; a guy called "Eddie Shit" who dressed in a pink jump suit and whose guitar squirted milk (I hope) into the crowd. He ended up covered in gob and bag burns - like everyone else as the ceiling was so low the ohlegn hit the roof and dripped down! All this very ironic as no one bats an eye at rude lyrics these days!
10 years on since this comment, and now people are losing their minds over rude lyrics and trying to ban everything in sight.
Now That's another example why change is not good!
I WONDER WHAT THE TWO MPS WERE UP TO.
Geoffrey Dickinson: "Surely it must be illegal". Yeah, if you don't like something, make a law against it - makes a lot of sense.
Time for a "Reunion Tour" i reckon
Quality these guys
Hail Mutley - come on lads one more tour!
they were fucking ace. Just the song feed your face was a bit tight. But it was tongue in cheek. Still could get rowdy at gigs, Muttley used to wind up the audiences, and tell foul jokes. Very very entertaining. Time for another tour methinks
Keep on Offending Macc Lads.I went to Kings School as well,as did Ian Curtis and John Mayall...My Dad was a Methodist minister and I write Filthy songs as well!
legends 🏆
bladman99.i saw the interview and was not surprised that muttley going by his eye expressions,he seemed really uncomfortable about being interviewed.I have always found the music very tongue in cheek and not to be taken seriously,unfortunately having been in the punk scene people did take it seriously because they were too political (sad!),life is too short ok most of the songs were offensive to women,but they had songs when the tables were turned too,i am the wife of the kilnman,Kilnman
yep :D join the macc lads group everyone!
legend
@seaeagle47 met sum mates in wakey one day dec 87, one singing sum of there songs. turns out they playin leeds that nite. I went and quite a punk crowd. saw em mid 88 and suddenly full of football fans. went to notts to study(?) 88 and saw em at rock city. AWESOME. went to Manchester a few days later aswell. also saw em rock city in 90? one of the best ever!!! An iconic band and a shame the establishment closed ranks against em.
Best publicity ever is to ban a band for being offensive. They ended up playing everywhere anyway (I saw em a couple of times in Derby) and probably made a shed load of money - they've got some of my money anyway, I bought all their albums! Sup up lad, av spilled more ale darn mi wes'cut than you've supped the night!
Correction: Dickens not Dickinson, well least I got the Dick bit right.
best fucking band ever, they told it like it actually was and not the fucking fairytale shit most other bands feed you. Here's to the freedom of speech our grandfathers fought for.
im a woman (pancake geos mother) i love the macc lads have done for 20 years yes, its good to laugh at oneself occasionally!! more than occasionally... did they make ANY money>? and where are they now???!!!! A Boddingtons rehab clinic or syphilitic and crazy?!
@pisartist They're even worse now, what with political correctness. Now I think of it, maybe that's why the Lads haven't reformed! And now I think of it, that's why they need to reform right now. British society needs the Macc Lads more than ever!
you used t'bring us flowers, i said shut your fuckin GRID!
They just sing funny songs the many of the MP's and TV celebrities were sexual abusers
Still are fella.
best band i never did see cos of em being banned from Rock and Blues at Pentrich
fucking too right mate were not moving anywere i now this is a old comment but i thought it was great MACC LADS FOREVER YEEEEEEAAAAAH
and oneday i hope they will be the most infulencial band of a generatiion because they say whats going on without fucking about
The Lads have probably mellowed from the 80's/90's ,but one last tour now would be fucking awesome - just to piss the PC brigade off and show up the shite that is Scouting for Girls,Keane..etc
Would be better now than ever. No worse than some of the misogynistic things heard in rap music.
@reelhausmuzik Of course he is! Someone unintelligent could never be as funny as the Lads. They were genius.
the last good punk band out of england! i grew up on bands like the clash, the pistols, the ruts, the damned and the macc lads bested all of them by being not only talented but really fucking funny! we had a miserable time getting their records in the states as they'd been banned!
Very funny, the maccs were the best of a bad time.....happy days
It's fortunate for Geoffrey Dickens that when he did the press conference admitting to the extra-marital affairs or said "I want to do a favour for every woman in this country" in the House of Commons, that some berk did not pipe up with "...surely it must be illegal". And I don't think the Macc Lads' flat and record label office was involved in expenses scandals, unlike some property belonging to a twat whose name is an anagram of Wicholas Ninterton.
it would be great if macc lads did one last gig at there local pub "nags head" think how packed it would be if they played there lol :P