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- How did you come to
start. What music did you listen to before ?
- Personally I
listened to people like Slade, Iggy,
Stooges, etc. Just noisy stuff. Mark
(Rocket) pretty much the same with some dodgy old
things thrown in, Simon (singer) - don't know, Gez
(drummer), Classical !!
- What made you get
into punk ?
- Mark lent me a
record by the Ramones (their first) and it was
love at first song. We then went to see the
Vibrators and the Damned who were pissed and
loving it. Simon went along the lines of 'I like
the Pistols' and he dragged Gez in
- What was the punk
scene like in Hitchin ?
- At the time crap -
there were a few people who had played for years
in other bands who suddenly became punk (or new
wave - they felt better with that name). After us
came Chron Gen who were ok and had success - we
still managed to blow them off stage. Right now,
there is a band called Flacid who are pretty good
- How did you end up
on Tramp records with 'Chloroform'
- Tramp
was not our label - it was owned by a guy called
Terry Friend who was/is still a grave digger in
Letchworth. He used to put out folk but saw us
and decided it would be fun to do something else.
Hmmm. 'Bleach Boys as modern folk' -
no, lets not go there !! He
didn't see the value of a picture sleeve and we
were too dumb to insist after all he was paying.
I don't know how many were done maybe a couple of
thousand. We sold many mail order with
an ad in NME and were pretty busy with
sellotape for a while.
- Is it true one of
the bands parents destroyed some of the copies of
Chloroform ? What did they think of Nazi Death
Squad ?
- It was my mother - I
had left home several years before and she
decided to clear up !! 25 records at £20 ( I am
told). I could have been rich. Stocking clad- my
Dad likes it cos its got guts - my mum has never
heard it (cos she would chuck it out if she did!)
- What's the band up to
now ?
- Still - playing but
with no plans to become rich and famous. Too many
people sink into sitting in front of the TV - us
we still making noise and pissing people off. In
recent years we have blown a few one hit wonders
away and finished a few bands who realised they
were crap!!
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