Welcome to Humdrum Hardcore Punk Photography! After much humming (oops! Bad pun) and haring I came to the idea that keeping the name of the blog and Facebook Page was to be kept simple and therefore hopefully something that can be remembered. coming up with a title that is going to do a blog justice is never as easy as one might think on many levels. first there's the typical issue of who reads Blogs anymore? Not as many as there used to be that's for sure! Everything has migrated towards Social Media such as Twitter and/or Facebook. Good for getting the 'word' out there but horribly difficult to find any meaningful expression as their formats lean towards brevity and rarely acquiesce towards expression. I had thought of Darrell Hindley Photography, then thought again. Why? OK, too much ego in that one. Hideyoshi Darrol Photography; the same. I am after all merely documenting the bands and venues and not having to put all the blood, sweat, tears and laughter a band goes through simply to get to the stage where they can play live. I know- I've been there- several times. It's only my camera folks. a bit of technical shit and one click is all it takes. More on the absurdity of some of my name choices later.
So, now onto the requisite bio. I've been into Hardcore Punk since I don't know when. I'll come back to that. At 13 I was lucky enough to catch AC-DC at the zenith of their powers and Hawkwind as their power waned. They were still wonderfully weird, not in the way the Butthole Surfers would be at the Bunker, Sunderland a few years later but equally as powerful, magick (worth using the 'K' with Hawkwind ;>] ), haunting, eccentric and off the wall.
Therefore, with a head full of 'straight' rock music enter stage right Tull Aldgridge and Tom Shankland into the schoolyard with one of those mono tape recorders folk of my generation will know (and probably hate) blasting out to the point of absolute distortion some new punk band going by the name of the Dead Kennedys playing California Uber Alles and Holiday in Cambodia (If you're not familiar with these two song titles you're on the wrong page my friend!). It was early 1978. My life changed with one huge tremendous emotional jolt that day. Gripped and hooked for life. It was like nothing I had ever heard before. Aggressive, intelligent. wild, articulate and political to the point of no mercy given, none taken. I think I was lucky with future hardcore punk purchases. Following on from Crass and Conflict etc were the Bad Brains album (Present homage to SoiA's new "Crazy white Boy shit" tune) which was very soon to follow along with the (to this day!) massively underrated Crucifix, Dehumanisation album; both records hold themselves up to the highest of standards today and have rarely if ever been touched by any other band IMHO. Tull and Tom will never know the debt of gratitude that I owe them.
The rest, as they say is History.
Hope you enjoy the pics. sometimes they will be accompanied by text, sometimes not. It depends on my disposition and mood. "That's the humour of it" as the bard would hard said on many an occasion.
homage pics nicked from the net. Bad Brains pic taken from the brilliant Afropunk site.
Dead Kennedys:
The Mighty(!!) Bad Brains:
The (Mighty!!) Crucifix:
Cheers,
D
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