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Wed 28th Complete Control presents SPIZZENGERGI + Cop on the Edge + Eastfield
Doors 7.45 Spizz is, if such a thing exists, a bona fide member of Punk’s aristocracy. 1979’s 'Where’s Captain Kirk?' was the No.1 on the very first published independent chart and stayed on it for literally years. That song and the band's cult legend status was sealed for good years later when a little group from Georgia called REM covered it. More massive selling indie singles, Peel sessions, sell out tours, major label albums, line up and name changes and the rest of the mad rock 'n’ roll circus followed. Through tours with the likes of Siouxsie and the Banshees and friendships with The Clash and The Pistols, life’s been a massive adventure. An adventure which took an exciting twist in 2006. Spizz Energi’s World Cup anthem 'We’re The England' caught the imagination of radio and TV everywhere and our hero became the subject of a series of mini documentaries for Channel 4. Just on the verge of a new career high what happens? In an unimaginably cruel and ironic twist of fate our hero sustains a horrific arm injury PLAYING FOOTBALL. This puts him out of live action for months. You can’t keep a good man down though and we’re honoured and delighted that Spizz Energi have chosen to get back into the saddle, unbowed and with their incendiary Warp 9 sci-fi Punk energy fully intact, with us. Cop On The Edge remind us of Pulp, Magazine, Can, Gang of Four, New Order and any number of the great underground Euro-Funk acts of yore without actually sounding like anyone but themselves. Truly original and very exciting. See them now. By the end of the year they’ll be huge. We begin with a mighty urban rail punk knees up from Complete Control’s dear friends Eastfield. Noisy hardcore with something to say but never forgetting how to have a brilliant time, they’ve honed themselves through years of hard graft and constant gigging into one of the best live punk bands in the country.
They’ve become such legends in their native East Midlands they’ve even had a Real Ale named after them. It’s a high strength, nutty bitter brew which must be treated with respect. Those brewers up there got it just right we say. |
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