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| TOXIC GRAFITTY #4 Late 1979 INFLICT PAIN THROUGH NOISE... RUBELLA BALLET ARE... ZILLAH MINX.. .VOCALS PETE FENDER..GUITAR, VOCALS GAMMA RAZE...BASS, VOCALS SID...DRUMS........ SID: WE STARTED FROM THE TRIAD, REALLY, THEN IT WAS ME, WOMBLE, GAMMA, PETE, PETE AND GARY, ANYWAY, WE WERE AT THE TRIAD AND WE GOT A GIG THERE WITH THREE OTHER BANDS, THAT COME OFF REALY WELL. CRASS COME UP TO SEE WHAT IT WAS LIKE, AND THEY SAID THEY MIGHT LET US PLAY WITH THEM, GARY BUTTERFIELD WAS GONNA BE IN IT, BUT HE LEFT TO FORM HIS OWN BAND. SO THERE WAS ME, GEMMA, PETE AND WOMBLE, AND ANNIE WHO USED TO BE IN THE ASEXUALS IN NEW YORK,...BUT SHE LEFT ABOUT A WEEK AND A HALF AGO, WE DON'T LIKE TO DO EVERYDAY, RUN OF THE MILL, FUCKIN' SHIT PUNK. ZILLAH: WE LIKE VARIETY. SID: ONE OF THE SONGS IS AN EX-FATAL MICROBES SONG, THE LAST SOW WE DO, 'T' IS REALLY DIFFERENT, WE'VE GOT A LOT OF INFLUANCE FROM CRASS AND THE POISON GIRLS. THEY'VE HELPED US A LOT. THE POISON GIRLS ALLOWED ME TO MOVE INTO THEIR HOUSE, I USED TO PRACTICE THERE, WE DONE A COUPLE OF CONWAY HALL GIGS. AFTER THAT IT'S COOLED DOWN A BIT. I'M NOT TOO SURE WHO ARE FOLLOWING US. AFTER THE AGGRO AT CONWAY HALL, WHETHER THE SKINS COME TO ATTACK THE ANARCHISTS, OR THE BAND, OR WHETHER THEY KICK THE FUCK OUT OF EVERBODY, OR IF THEY COME TO SEE US? I'M REALLY FUCKIN' AGAINST PEOPLE IN HIGH PLACES, LIKE MANAGERS AND LIKE PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY'RE BIG, WE'VE GOT A SONG CALLED 'BIG BOYS', ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ACT BIG AND BEAT LITTLE KIDS UP, AND MAKE OUT HOW BIG THEY ARE, WHEN YOU COME DOWN TO IT THEY'RE JUST FUCKIN' NOTHING. THERE WAS A BLOKE COMING DOWN FROM FRICTION RECORDS TONIGHT, IF THEY LIKE US THEY'LL LET US KNOW, AND WE'LL TAKE IT FROM THERE, ......WE COULD DO A RECORD ON XNTRIX, WHO DO THE POISON GIRLS. WELL THEY ARE THE POISON GIRLS, BUT IT'S PRETTY EARLY DAYS TO DECIDE WHAT RECORD CCMPANYS TO HAVE AND ALL THAT. WE DON'T MIND PLAYING IN LONDON, 'COZ A LOT OF PEOPLE LIKE US, AND IN BRIGHTON A LOT OF PEOPLE LIKE US, WE GOT OUR FIRST ENCORE THERE. WHEN WE SAY 'INFLICT PAIN THROUGH NOISE' WE DON'T MEAN INFLICT PAIN ON THE AUDIENCE, I MEAN A LOT OF OUR SONGS REALLY MEAN SOMETHING, LIKE PEOPLE DO GET KILLED WITH GUNS AND BOMBS AND THINGS. WE CAN TELL PEOPLE ABOUT IT THROUGH THE MUSIC. LIKE 'UNEMPLOYED' IS ABOUT HOW BAD IT'S LIKE BEING UNEMPLOYED,...'LET US OUT'... GEMMA: LET US OUT IS A SONG WRITEN BY HONEY BANE WHEN WE WERE IN FATAL MICROBES, ABOUT ST. CHARLES TREATMENT CENTRE WHERE SHE WAS LOCKED UP FOR 2 1/2 YEARS WHERE SHE ABSCONDED FROM. PETE: ABOUT 9 TIMES, BEING LOCKED UP FOR A WEEK WHEN SHE WAS CAUGHT. SID: WE'RE GETTING TOO MUCH INTO HER, SHE'S ON HER OWN, SHE'S A BITCH, SHE JUST SHITS ON US ALL. WE WANT MORE GIGS, MORE GOOD GIGS... WITHOUT VIOLENCE, BUT YOU CAN'T PUT UP A POSTER SAYING NO VIOLENT SKINS, NO VIOLENT PUNKS, NO VIOLENT MODS, NO N.F., NO S.W.P., NO ANARCHISTS. ALL YOU'D HAVE IS THE BAR STAFF AND THE PEOPLE AT THE DOOR. WE DON'T LIKE VIOLENCE.... LIKE WE FUCKIN' HATE BOMBS..WE MADE THAT SONG UP AT OUR FIRST GIG AT THE TRIAD, WHAT WE FELT JUST CAME OUT IN THE SONGS....IF THERE IS TROUBLE WE DON'T WANNA BOTTLE OUT OF IT, OR WE'D LOOK A RIGHT LOAD OF CUNTS. I REALLY FUCKIN' HATE THE OLD BILL, I THINK THE OLD BILL ARE A RIGHT LOAD OF CUNTS, AND YOU CAN WRITE THAT DOWN WHEN YOU DO THE INTERVEIW. THEY COME IN AND NO ONE CAN FUCKIN' STOP 'EM. AT THE CRASS GIG AT EALlNG THAT GOT BROKE UP BY THE N.F., THE CRASS WANTED TO PLAY, AND THE AUDIENCE WANTED THEM TO PLAY, BUT THE POLICE WOULDN'T ALLOW IT THEY CHUCKED EVERYONE OUT AND QUITE A FEW PEOPLE GOT ARRESTED, OR GOT BEATEN UP, SOME OF MY MATES GOT BEATEN UP, AND ONE OF MY MATES TOOK A LOAD OF PICTURES, AND HE GOT A LOAD OF FILM TAKEN OUT OF HIS CAMERA. THEY HATE US COZ A LOT OF US ARE ANARCHISTS. A LOT OF US ARE NIHILISTS, AND THEY HATE US 'COZ OF IT. I WISH PEOPLE WHO RUN VENUES WERE'NT SUCH A LOAD OF CUNTS, I WISH THEY WOULDN'T KEEP BANNING EVERYONE, WE WANT AS MUCH PUBLICITY AS POSIBLE, THEIR JUST CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR LICENCE AND ALL THIS CRAP. AMD MAKEING MONEY. GEMMA: IF THEY GIVE SOMEONE A GIG, AND THEY'RE WORRIED ABOUT THEIR LICENCE, THEY MIGHT AS WELL NOT BOTHER. SID: ONE DAY WE WERE LOOKING FOR A NAME, WE THOUGHT OF 'RUBELLA BABYS', AND 'DECOMPOSING PIGS', THEN RICHARD (Famous - Poison Girls) COME UP WITH RUBELLA BALLET, WE'VE BEEN PLAYING ABOUT 4 MONTHS. OUR SONGS ARE WEIRD - ANNIE, OUR EX SINGER WAS REALLY INTO ARTY STUFF, AND ALL FOUR OF US HAVE THE RIGHT FRAME OF MIND FOR THE BAND AT THE MOMENT, WE ALL AGREE THAT LIKE 'UNEMPLOYED', AND 'T' ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SONGS. PETE: WHEN WE'RE ON STAGE IT'S JUST US, WE DON'T TRY AND PUT AN IMAGE OVER, WE NEVER PLAYED ON OUR OWN, THERE WAS THE 'EAGLE CLUB' GIG, BUT THAT FELL THROUGH, A LOT OF PEOPLE TURNED UP BUT IT GOT FUCKED UP OVER THE 'PHONE. SID: IT WAS A BIG COCK UP. ZILLAH: WE DO ALL SORTS OF STUFF, THERE'S STUFF FROM THE FATAL MICROBES FROM PETE AND GEMMA, THERE'S SUCH A VARIETY. SID: IT'S NOT JUST ROCK 'N' ROLL PUNK STUFF. ZILLAH: 'T' IS ONE OF OUR BEST SONGS, IT'S LIKE SOME OF THE FAST PUNK SONGS. PETE: AND IT'S AN ANARCHIST SONG. ZILLAH: PEOPLE LIKE 'TOMORROW', COZ THEY DON'T HEAR STUFF LIKE THAT VERY OFTEN, AND WE DO MORE BASIC STUFF. 'BIG BOY' IS ABOUT HOW WE DON'T LIKE VIOLENCE, AND WHEN THERE IS VIOLENCE, THAT IT'S FUCKIN' STUPID,.. IF WE DONE A RECORD WE'D LIKE TO DO AN E.P., 'COZ IT WOULD SHOW A LOT MORE VARIETY, 3 OR 4 SONGS. SID: PEOPLE USUALLY BRING OUT AN E.P. WITH 4 SONGS THAT ARE THE SAME, BUT WE COULD PUT 'TOMORROW' ON IT, 'UNEMPLOYED', 'T' ON IT. 'UNEMPLOYED' AND 'T' ARE DIFFERENT, AND THEN SOMETHING LIKE 'LET US OUT', AND THEY'RE ALL FUCKIN' DIFFERENT, THATS THE ADVANTAGE, WE'VE ALL GOT DIFFERENT TASTES IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS,.. .I THINK AS A BAND WE'VE ALL GOT A GOOD SENSE OF HUMOUR, AND WE STICK TOGETHER... AFTER LAST NIGHT.. (AGGRO).. A LOT OF BANDS WOULD'VE SPLIT UP. PETE: PSYCHOLOGICALLY WE'RE REALLY FUCKIN' STRONG, WE HAVE OUR DIFFERENCES. ZILLAH: IT WAS A HARD GIG TO PLAY LAST NIGHT, BUT WE GOT THROUGH IT. SID: THE LAST CONWAY HALL GIG WE DID THERE WERE SOME MODS, WE LIKE TO PLAY TO DIFFERANT PEOPLE. THE WORD GETS AROUND THAT WE'RE NOT JUST THERE TO PLEASE PUNKS WE'RE THERE TO PLEASE PEOPLE WHO WANNA BE PLEASED. WE DON'T SAY 'WERE A PUNK BAND SO PUNKS SHOULD COME AND SEE US, SKINHEADS CAN COME, MODS CAN COME AND IF THEY WANT MENTALLY RETARDED PEOPLE CAN COME, AND JUDGING BY LAST NIGHT THEY DO COME. PETE: I'D REALLY LIKE TO PLAY SOMEWHERE LIKE LIVERPOOL, WHERE PEOPLE DON'T GET GIGS ALL THE TIME. SID: BIRMINGHAM IS A POVERTY AREA FOR FUCKIN' BANDS, I USED TO LIVE UP THERE, IT'S A REAL FUCKIN' HOLE, CRASS PLAYED THERE AND KIDS WERE COMING UP, DRESSING UP FOR THE NIGHT, AND THEY REALLY FUCKIN' LIKED IT. ZILLAH: WE ENJOY DOING THE SET , AND WE ENJOY SEEING EVERYONE ELSE DOING IT AS WELL. SID: IF PEOPLE GO THERE TO JUST FUCK THE SET UP THEY CAN JUST GO AND FUCK OFF AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED. WE JUST DON'T WANNA KNOW PEOPLE LIKE THAT. IF PEOPLE WANNA DO WHAT THEY WANT, WHY CAN'T YOU JUST FUCKIN' LEAVE 'EM ALONE TO GET ON WITH IT. WE'VE HAD A LOT MORE HELP THAN MOST BANDS 'COZ OF CRASS AND THE POISON GIRLS, MAINLY 'COZ OF THE POISON GIRLS, 'COZ THEY'VE HELPED US MORE THAN CRASS. AND CRASS HAVE HELPED US A HELL OF A LOT. PETE: SID GOT HALF A FUCKIN' DRUM KIT FROM THEM. SID: THEY'RE ALSO VERY KIND PEOPLE, AND IF THEY THINK IT'S SHIT THEY'LL TELL YOU. WE'D LIKE MORE VENUES TO PLAY AT, SO PEOPLE COULD RECOGNIZE US. GEMMA: WE NEED AN AMP FOR MY BASS, WE WANT A BASS AMP. 40/50 WATT, ABOUT �60, GOOD NICK. SID: WE NEED IT PRETTY DESPERATELY. FOR INFO, GIGS OR AN AMP CONTACT RUBELLA BALLET AT BURLEIGH HOUSE, EPPING, 72538. |
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