Hi Dizzy
I must commend your effort with the site and also the fact you have taken the trouble to write.
A labour of love I bet!
Anyway the amazing thing is that the people my mum sold the house to, still lived there and they tracked down my mums current address and forwarded the letter.
 
So geNocidE has its place in punk history and I am delighted you have made it happen. Although 50 this year it seems like yesterday that me and the missus were sat in Rehearsal Rehearsal talkin with Joe Paul and Topper.
There was a right close knit lot of us in Newcastle back then as the place was still a rock and mainstream city.
London was a safe haven for 5 or 6 trips a year for clothes and music - Beaufort Market, Kensington Market R.I.P.
If you were in it say mid 76 to probably 78 then it was the only thing to do.
Me and the wife (of nearly 30 years) were more like the Bromley Contingent - avant-garde, Bowiephile, Northern Soul.
It was an eclectic mix early days until the Clash tore my life apart on the White Riot tour in 77.
Even in Dec 78 we saw them for our honeymoon night.
My style was definitely avant-garde/Clash City Rocker at the time.
After that it quickly became 'postcard punks' and the intelligentsia moved on yet again.
 
I hope my words bring some of my passion to you and I tell you what - a tear to my eye as I think back!
 
Kind regards
Tony Fiddes
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Saturday 28th June 2008

 

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