The Membranes

The Cricklewood Hotel, is it still there? probably the place was built like a castle, built to last. Anyways we were excited cos everyones favorite blackpoolians The Membranes were going to play a show in our back yard at ye olde Cricklewwod hotel...super!!! You gotta understand however that C'wood was really Kilburn North and that pub was a Guiness swilling -card carrying - nest of republican sympathy, they had an IRA collection box on the downstairs bar ferchrissakes.....so why not book Skrewdriver to play with the Membranes?  'Stroke of friggin Genius - Works for me!!!The Skrewdriver fans, as expected, fulfilled every stereotype of the not-so master race but luckily didnt perceive John Robb and his boys as a threat and the visitors got through their set (nervously and rapidly ) without incident : and , as always they were superb.

This vid (not of the cricklewood gig Im afraid) is from a top notch copy of the commercially available (back then) Jettisoundz release...

Tree and me hung around for the main feature. Aparently half the band didnt turn up but luckily (!) one of the audience (who didnt appear to have a neck) knew the words to Skrewdrivers hit:  "White Power" and they happily played that, like 4 or 5 times.
In a completely unrelated incident the pesky IRA bombed a road bridge just north of this pub , big bomb, much damage but it famously didnt even wake me up...... I got my hearing aid soon after.

Jesus Lizard

David Yow

One day I will find the original of this photo (this is from a photo copy) its Mr Yow at Reading festival 1993 or 4, I wasnt that near to the front and he got a long way before the mike cable ran/got pulled out...dont under estimate the luck of getting an in-focus picture of an airbourne psychopath with an old school SLR...from underneath.

Might be due to over exposure , but I have to say I feel the same way about Jesus Lizard as I do about Shellac: yep great, yep cool, yep do the job, yep yep...but...they aint no Scratch Acid ( or Big Black).

The Video is another from the Hunter Compo, filmed  at the Underworld Camden. We were probly there (Note to Keith: check diary) and and if so Cindy (mother of my children) would have been up front perilously close when the inevitable wardrobe malfunction occurred. That guy was simply unable to keep his dick locked up for a whole set..