2001 punk greats: UK Decay

UK Decay, Clarendon hotel

Im pretty proud of this photo, in the bad old days before digital you'd be lucky if you got one good shot from a roll of film , seems like that night I got two : One of Abbo and the Clarendon Chandelier and one of Blood and Roses. Keith reckons Sisters of Mercy played too but I didn't get a photo of them, too much dry Ice probly.

The image that stays with me is the UK Decay posse going mental under that chandelier, studded belts removed and swung arond their heads like football scarfs, there must be people who still have scars from those nights at the klub Foot.

Sexual - UK Decay

This is my copy of a recording of the last show released by the band as the "night for celebration" cassette and its a bit weird to think that UK decay had called it a day when "Positive punk" was still fresh and the term "Goth" hadn't been coined.
Of course now they are recognised as the godfathers of the movement and their sound appropriated by the black clad legion that followed them. But when you listen to these songs and put them in the context of what else was happening musically in 1981/82 you can appreciate what a special band they were.