The legendary Gang of Four. RIP Andy Gill.
There was terrible violence. [There were] pitched battles between students and British Movement members on the university campus. We could see the struggle between the Socialist Workers’ Party and the BM capturing the straying youth. We were sympathetic to the SWP. We had done some benefits, but we didn’t make our own approach in those broad political terms. It was more to do with living in a late capitalist society; we were also very concerned about the spectre of Thatcherism and what it was going to do to the people in this country.
– Gang of Four guitarist Andy Gill, England’s Dreaming, Jon Savage, 1991
[…]bunch of miserable northerners walking round indoors with their overcoats and Doc Marten’s on. Take your bloody coats off! No, manically depressive sixth form common-room music.
– journalist Robert Elms, Punk: The Definitive Record of a Revolution, Stephen Colegrave and Chris Sullivan, 2001
Out-Clashed-The-Clash BONUS:
- From Entertainment, 1979 - 5:45
- From Entertainment, 1979 - Natural’s Not In It
- From Solid Gold, 1981 - He’d Send In The Army
- From the criminally-overlooked gem Shrinkwrapped, 1995 - Tattoo, video here
- From Second Life, 2008 - Second Life
- From Content, 2011 - She Said ‘You Made a Thing of Me’
- From Content, 2011 - Who Am I
- From Complicit EP, 2018 - Ivanka (Things You Can’t Have)
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