Buzzcocks and Lambrini Girls are the latest acts to sign up with the unbelievable line up at Crystal Palace Park on Saturday first July. They sign up with headliner, the godfather of punk Iggy Pop for the unique one-off outside program, along with New York legends Blondie and hard rock supergroup Generation Sex (Billy Idol, Steve Jones, Tony James, Paul Cook) and more for an extraordinary summertime night in the business of music royalty. Tickets are available here
This unique statement required a few of the initial punks to collect for an event at a location they all understand very well, the renowned 100 Club on London’s Oxford Street. At the main press launch occasion on the night of Tuesday 7th March, Blondie’s Clem Burke, Sex Pistols’ Glen Matlock (now playing cope with Blondie), Generation X / Generation Sex’s Tony James and Buzzcocks’ Steve Diggle signed up with a panel conversation along with Solo Agency promoter John Giddings who made the statement, hosted by Absolute Radio’s Claire Sturgess.
The conversation brought a flood of anecdotes back to life almost 50 years on. The panel members reflected on the memories of the famous place 100 Club, the relationship in between UK and United States punk, the impact of headliner Iggy Pop and a lot more.
Generation Sex including Billy Idol and Tony James of Generation X and Steve Jones and Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols will make their very first UK look at Crystal Palace Park playing a set of punk classics from both band’s substantial brochures.
Other VIPs in the room consisted of: Brighton punk trio Lambrini Girls who have actually been recently revealed on the costs, plus Roxy club promoters Andy Czezowski and Susan Carrington, star Phil Daniels, The Filth and the Fury director Julien Temple.
The 100 Club occasion on Tuesday night was a genuine minute to review the specifying age of punk and eagerly anticipate what will be a once in a life time gig, the godparents of punk from both sides of the Atlantic coming together one last time at Dog Day Afternoon on first July.
Buzzcocks sit appropriately where they belong as they sign up with the Dog Day Afternoon costs. Formed in Bolton in 1976 by co-founders Pete Shelley, Howard Devoto and Steve Diggle, they are extensively considered as an influential impact on the Manchester music scene, the independent record label motion and hard rock category in itself.
They keep progressing too – the latest single ‘Manchester Rain’ sees the now frontman Steve Diggle flying the flag with the renowned noise of the group that has actually had many versions. The single is punchy, punky and maintains that timeless Manchester noise. Most punk bands reoccured in the timeless year of 1977 however Buzzcocks constantly kept going, altering the noise as they went along, short lived from quick pop punk to the ground-breaking Spiral Scratch EP that was a kept in mind criteria taping in the punk and new age age.
