Anthrax - Welcome - The Red Lion Gravesend (Video)

Recorded live at The Red Lion, Gravesend on 29th January 2011.
Video and still taken by The Welsh Tart & put together by Urban Fallout.
All other images come from Anthrax MySpace

Welcome is the second track on One Last Drop CD single

This was the welcome return home to The Red Lion in Gravesend for Kent Anarcho band Anthrax after a triumphant night at The Winter Of Discontent.




This gig was also the last gig of reformed Sheerness band - The Commited who had played thier last gig before they originally split with Anthrax at this venue in 84/85 - see "Dictated Life " video for the first song they ever wrote played at the last show.

The Commited - Dictated Life (Video)

The Commited - Dictated Life

Filmed at their last gig at Gravesend Red Lion on 29th January 2011 by The Welsh Tart.

Daz Champ from The Commited writes a bit about The Commited's recent history and also talks about Dictated life. (see below video)



The Commited – Recent History

The lyrics to “Dictated Life” were the first written by me. Although it’s a very basic structure, the words sum up the feeling of adolescent life at the end of the 70s. It’s about the lack of true choice in life (especially for the unemployed). Days of boredom watching crap telly; the rip-off prices of fags, booze & food; the need to steal (“liberate”) goods because dole money is so shit; getting nicked for trying to survive; standing before the pompous, well-off magistrate & being told you have to pay a fine, leading to a greater need to “liberate”; & the soul-destroying depression which can come from a long time being treated as a non-entity.

As all of the members had somehow survived, we decided to reform in the summer of 2009 for a one-off gig to mark the 30th anniversary of the recording of the “Fast Lane” EP (19th October 1979). We thought about maybe updating some of the lyrics to make them more relevant to the state of society today, but soon realised that the original words are as relevant today as they were when we first wrote them, so we left them alone. The response to that first reunion gig was so positive that we decided to do another. That led to another gig, then another, and then to the final one at The Red Lion, Gravesend on 29th January 2011 where we had last played in about 1984. Playing again with Anthrax was a fitting finale to our reunion and the other great highlight was supporting the UK Subs. We had followed the Subs since the late 70s & would never have believed then that a) they would one day play on the Isle of Sheppey or b) that we would support them.

A few weeks before the Red Lion gig, one of the band announced that he would be leaving the band after that gig. Life sometimes has a habit of getting in the way of things we really want to do so, as gutted as we all were, we accepted that this would be the final fling for the band.

I think I speak for the whole band when I say that each one of us really have had a great time over the last 18 months. It’s too soon to know what direction things will go now, but several ideas are about. Watch this space.

Keep the Faith & Keep on Rockin’
Daz

Bollox To The Wedding - April 29th Gig - Free Entry

All Flags Burn - Heart Of A Riot (video)

All Flags Burn - Heart Of A Riot
AFB from Sheppey featuring members and ex members of The Commited, Filthy Stay Puft Marshmallow Men, Betty Swollox and others.
We made this video for All Flags Burn because there was nothing even halfway reasonable on the web, apart from a live video shot by Librasnake.
Enjoy

All Flags Burn - Heart Of A Riot (H.O.A.R)

Punk / Alternative Gigs - Kent Bands

Sat 15th Jan - Tragic Millenium +Khthon + Embryon @ Club Q Ashford
Sat 22nd Jan - Anthax @The Winter Of Discontent - @ Gaff Club London
(3 Day Fest)
Sat 22nd Jan - All Flags Burn + Criminal Brainstorm + Filthys @The Castle Sheerness
(As support to Short Bus Window Lickers)
Sat 29th - Anthrax, Liberty, Commited, Condition Dead @ Red Lion Gravesend
Sat 5th Feb - The Warriors @ The Gaff
with Support from Booze & Glory (London) + Horroshow (Poland)
Sat 12 Feb - Surgery Without Research + Crimewave @Horse N Groom, Ramsgate
(Supporting Flatpig)
Sat 12th March - Surgery Without Research +more @Fiddlers Elbow Cambden
(Supporting Shag Nasty)
Sat 19th March - Surgery Without Research + more @ Bridgehouse 2
(Supporting English Dogs + Sick On The Bus)
Fri 29th April - Bollox To The Wedding @Horse N Groom Ramsgate (Bands TBC)
Confirmed Crimewave + SWR (get in touch if ya want to play this gig

More to come

2011 And All That Bollocks

Cheers to everyone over the last week or so that this blog has been up and running, in this incarnation, that has reposted, facebooked or tweeted post from here. Cheers.

In 2011 we will be launching the website (Feb hopefully) selling T-shirts, CDs, Vinyl and badges among other things as well as doing merch deals for people in the Kent area. This does not mean that we will be ignoring the rest of the UK, it just means we will be concentrating our efforts in Kent.We will also be turning up to gigs with a distro if anyone is interested in having their merch sold for them.
Thats just the begining - More things to come including a special - Fuck The Royal Wedding Gig - more details on this later - e-mail us if interested in playing.

This blog has lots of excusives coming in 2011 including interviews, videos, mp3s and a lot more from bands such as Jesus Fix, All Flags Burn, Surgery Without Research, The Commited, Aurora, The Starfighters, The Warriors, Crimewave, These Murders and Haisley Snook among others.
So lets say goodbye to 2010 with these. (not all from 2010.)

From Sheerness
All Flags Burn - Fast Lane (a cover of The Commited)
Unfortunately this video has been removed

From Thanet
Crimewave - I Wont Vote (Recorded especially for the general election)



From Dover / Deal
The Submission - Revolution



From Canterbury
Belinda Carbuncle - Hold Your Own



From orpington
The Griswalds - She Ran Away


Thats all for 2010 - see ya in the next decade

Foreboding Ether - Tuna Bhuna

And now for something completely different. A bit of death metal in the shape of Foreboding Ether. Hailing from Thanet they have a new EP coming out in february and as a taster here is an unfinished demo from their forthcoming release

Listen to it here

And below is a live performance of "Tuna Bhuna" recorded at the Ivy Leaf in Sheerness for the Sound Of Violence tour



More from FE in the new year