Anyone here into hardcore/punk?

hahahaha, joker

its all true

I like Screwdriver

I went to a swervedriver show at CBGB's once and all these racist skins showed up because they thought it was a screwdriver show. Needless to say the went completely apeshit when a bunch of shoegazer indie kids started showing up and they realized their mistake.. Chairs a flying it was!

i could waffle on and on in this thread.
but it would be dull.
instead i'll just contribute:
textbook traitors.

FUCK YEAH! (i actually just said that outloud, to myself)

was absolutely blown away by them at macrock 2003(?). so good, and such a ashame they were so short lived.

yep.
their record on magic bullet and the combat wounded veteran discog are my work stereo picks for the day.
feelin' good

i know a girl who develops crime scene photos is stunning.

very good work choices

Song of Zarathustra, you pair? This morning's bus music.

joshua fit for battle is my choice of the day.

vic- never listened to them properly, though have been recommended on a number of occasions. i guess i have to go hunting for it now... is the great longing a good album?

I don't know Hassan - I have the disography, which is awesome, but I couldn't separate it into albums. I couldn't find anything else by them so I figured ok that's everything on one CD, might as well. I don't know what distros are around nowadays, but I always found Stickfigure and X mist really good for bands like that. There used to be a cool guy in Leeds who ran a distro called Rhythm Thief, always had brilliant music, but I'm not sure if that's still going.

ha in my nieve days of thinking the world was worth saving i listened to them a bit, they played unplugged in my house once before a show. propaghandi was allways better, but i never got laid at any of their shows so i rember anti-flag.

You remember the right band for the wrong reason!

Does anyone else remember when Capdown were called Soap?

And does Lil still run HHN?
They named themselves after shite 'cannabis' resin

who sung kicking pidgeons it wasn't capdown i swear? ah fuck was it sponge or sumin like that? wicked ska band but broke up

definitely not capdown

spunge were shit

capdown were good, but gradually became shit

zarathrustra are great!
although my opinion of them is always coloured by the split they did racebannon who are shit. Although their side project, rapider than horsepower are great.
er additionals:
400 years
cobra kai
tipping canoe (for the first quater of their 12")
trencher
arab on radar
ampere

someone mentioned no idea records and 12 hour turn. i reckon this record marked the turning point for that record label. Everything after the victory of flight was on the downslide into what has become a pretty attrocious label. examples: 12HT's following records being ultra dull. true north following "we speak in code" with some hideous second album i dont even want to think of the name of, and the rest of the unspeakable dross the put out. but there are diamonds in the shit - i.e burnman/die hoffnung/i hate myself and new wave blasphemy but all told pretty dire.

You remember the right band for the wrong reason!

you didn't meet the girls.

ha in my nieve days of thinking the world was worth saving i listened to them a bit, they played unplugged in my house once before a show. propaghandi was allways better, but i never got laid at any of their shows so i rember anti-flag.

Ive always liked them. the 'right-on' american super leftist save the world attitude is a little much to stomach at times, but I enjoy the positivety at least and catchy songs which are still distinguishable as punk in the 77 sense with walking basslines and interesting varied drumming.

Lived in London for 2 years now and not gone to a single hardcore show, i hated it when i was in Canterbury. We used to have a pretty good think going on there at the start of 2000 till 2005.

and yeah, i have a craving to listen to that Barfight 7" now.

www.myspace.com/NGHCpresents

I must be old as I don't know any of the bands in this thread, my only recollection was the Paul Cook and Steve Jones went to my school and my mate was the bassist in Southern Death Cult ;o((((( Call me Grandad..........

Me and my mates from school used to drive all over the place following UKHC gigs. Happy days, like 10 years ago when we first learned to drive. I remember an all day big bill at the Red Eye in Islingtonwith bands like Knuckledust, Freebase, Lockdown. Some lad got thrown right over the perspex screen of the mixing booth, straight on to the desk and put a halt to the gig for half an hour. Freebase were quite influential at the time and they're from my home town Northampton, so it was all going on around us.

Others like Tribute to nothing, Medula Nocte and Pulkas spring to mind too. There was a lot of that straight-edge carry-on but everyone used to be perfectly happy pushing each other around whether you were a non-drinking vegan virgin or a vodka swilling stoned lush. Bright times.

I suspect it was all pretty crap music-wise but we fucking loved it. Slags.

@diable - Hey Grandad - Great i thought - a punk thread as I was probably a punk before anyone else here but children today huh? A passing reference to the Dead Kennedys and THAT IT! Very very disappointed.

...Knuckledust, Freebase, Lockdown... Tribute to nothing, Medula Nocte...
Ahhh memories

I've only ever seen Knuckledust out of them 5 bands, but used to listen to all of them courtesy of Household Name mail order....

Aren't Knuckledust still around?

I remember seeing them a couple of times back in my chuggachuggahardcore days about 5 years ago and it being insane every time.

yeah theyre still going. have a look on m*space

Me and my mates from school used to drive all over the place following UKHC gigs. Happy days, like 10 years ago when we first learned to drive. I remember an all day big bill at the Red Eye in Islingtonwith bands like Knuckledust, Freebase, Lockdown. Some lad got thrown right over the perspex screen of the mixing booth, straight on to the desk and put a halt to the gig for half an hour. Freebase were quite influential at the time and they're from my home town Northampton, so it was all going on around us.

Others like Tribute to nothing, Medula Nocte and Pulkas spring to mind too. There was a lot of that straight-edge carry-on but everyone used to be perfectly happy pushing each other around whether you were a non-drinking vegan virgin or a vodka swilling stoned lush. Bright times.

I suspect it was all pretty crap music-wise but we fucking loved it. Slags.

Dude, I'm from Kettering! Is the Racehorse still going? Cheesus I remember Freebase and Knuckledust, absolutely not my thing, pretty sure Freebase were one of the first bands I saw at the Racehorse, probably with Silencer 7 (now that's a disparate pairing...). I also remember Assert, and one of them getting naked a lot.

Good times, bad times, looking back.