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Following this first taste into rock'n'roll the band acquired
Alan Anger writer of Live Wire fanzine as manager who got them
rehearsal space and who regularly featured then in his fanzine
Live Wire (Kaye left).
Alan got some
people down who were from a dirty film company and they
signed us! I seem to remember that they did a film called
Star Whores (not starring us). They leased the old cinema by
platform one on Waterloo Station and gave us a key. All the
seats had been taken out and there was a platform in the
middle covered in black velvet and surrounded by film lights
and we used to rehearse there. Playing there, the place was
full of our friends and it really was just us mucking about
– we were absolutely crap except for Dok.
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had a residency in the Man in the Moon at Worlds End for about four
or five weeks, Hope and Anchor, Roxy, can’t remember. We went on
tour to Erics in Liverpool, Sheffield University, York University.
When we got to Liverpool it was freezing and snowing and some
students took pity on us and let us sleep on their floor over a
second hand TV shop in Penny Lane, as we huddled together for warmth
Dok told bed time stories to his ‘lovely princesses’. We actually
got a really good reaction, one night we finished and some boys
collected £10 to persuade us to go back on again. Then there
was the time we were at the Hope and Anchor and a really
crap band were playing and we just took over – whole place
chanting ‘give her the bass, give her the bass’ when the
original bands bass player wouldn’t hand it over.
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Fiona Dutton: Photo
booth. It was on the way to the 100 Club but it was later that
year (1977) because I remember it being really really cold. I
was waiting for Kaye who always used to phone her mum to see
what was for tea before she could decide whether or not to
come out - which is why we were too late to get into the Notre
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We played the Roxy the
night Elvis died (I think the Buzzcocks were playing the
Vortex so a lot of people were there that night). There was a
terrible storm that night and we got absolutely soaked on the
way home. I thought we supported a band called The Violators
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Songs in the set
included
One good
song, Telephone, by Dok, a load of self-penned absolute crap like
Throwing Up, London Transport, Words and we used to do Come
on Everybody and Roadrunner.
In the end
Defiant were together for about a year and in the end just
drifted apart.
Dok played in much better bands, he was
actually talented unlike the rest of us. We did have other bands
later and played at the Notre Dame and a few other places, Moonlight
Club, Nashville, Rock Garden.
Dok later
played in the bands Car Crash and Self Control.
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DIJ,
Sharon Spike (editor of fanzine Apathy In Ilford) and Pape.
Photo courtesy of Adrian Fox. |
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Thanks to Fiona
Dutton & Alan Anger
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