Tuesday, 20 April 2010

Baby Honey #005. Vic Godard, The Hardy Boys, Blood Oranges


Come one, come all to Baby Honey #005. This month we're over the moon to present a living, breathing legendary art-punk, bohemian and ex-postman genius in Mr Vic Godard and his Subway Sect, the great 'lost' band The Hardy Boys and young upstarts The Blood Oranges.

As ever we will play the very best in indiepop, post-punk, northern soul, and girl-groups for a clued-up and appreciative dancefloor 'til the wee small hours.

BANDS:

VIG GODARD & SUBWAY SECT

Malcolm McLaren eh? Whether you think the man was an iconoclastic visionary who bent pop culture to his own mighty will, or simply a scruffy looking bloke who hung around with the Sex Pistols, it's an incontrovertible fact that one small act of his at a Sex Pistols show in 1977, changed the face of Indiepop forever. Spying a young punk fan called Vic Napper in the audience with his pals, the impressario called them over and told them, "you lot look like a group - you should form one." They did. And the rest isnearly History.

Vic Napper, of course, became Vic Godard - and his pals The Subway Sect. Within two weeks of that fateful meeting they'd been recruited for the 100 Club punk festival alongside The Sex Pistols (and a nascent Siouxsie and the Banshees) and signed up for The Clash's infamous White Riot tour. Subway Sect went on to record the punk anthems 'Nobody's Scared' and 'Ambition' and then promptly split up during sessions for their intended debut LP.

Since then Vic has carved out a career of startling uniqueness. A huge influence on the likes of Orange Juice, The Television Personalities and The Jesus and Mary Chain (as well as pretty much every one of the original C-86 bands), he's re-invented himself by turns as a rockabilly rebel, big band leader, and swing balladeer; all the while maintaining a level of song-writing genius that would have most of today's bands spitting out their M-Cat in slack-jawed wonder.

In this special show Vic will perform mostly material from the Subway Sect's prime. Don't miss.



THE HARDY BOYS

Sometimes pop music is just about being in the right place at the right time. Greenock in 1985 wasn't it. Sometimes it doesn't matter how good you are, how you pour your heart and soul into your songs. Sometimes pop music is just happening somewhere else. But then, thankfully, sometimes people come round. Sometimes it takes a new decade, heck, a new century for pop music to realise that you'd been great all along. As good, if not, better than Aztec Camera or Blue Aeroplanes, or whoever all the young turks seem to be name-checking in interviews these days. The Hardy Boys for instance, only learned of their 21st century cult status when a friend alerted them to the fact that their 'Wonderful Lie' single was changing hands for exorbitant amounts on ebay. So now; London in 2010. Blogs are being written, anthologies compiled, gigs booked. Sometimes the right time and the right place are 400 miles away and 25 years in the future.



BLOOD ORANGES
Blood Oranges are four Leeds University students aged 20, 20, 20 and 21 and make sparkling boy/girl pop music with hanclaps and stylophone. Sounding like a more relaxed Los Campesinos!, they've recently signed to Dance To The Radio and are about to support The Primitives!


Baby Honey. Friday 14th May 2010
The Buffalo Bar, 259 Upper St, London N1 1RU. 020 7359 6191
9pm - 4am. £6/5 (flyer/concs) £3 after bands have finished.

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