The last couple of years has seen the passing of quite a few musicians and people from the '77 era due to cancer, from Malcolm Mclaren, to Paul Fox (the Ruts), the Rich Kids guitarist Steve New,X-Ray Spex's Poly Styrene (who's sudden passing makes the last X-Ray Spex's gig sound mans fuck up all the worse, fucking up the last gig of a dieing person, shame on him!), to Dr Feelgood's singer who also lost his fight the same way, also Ari Up's sudden recent death was from the same illness.
Along with some more '77 band members who have lost out to cancer it seems like there really is a cancerous Punk whacker out and about, with molecular ill intent.
I'm not trying to say that someone from the CIA (MI5 or whoever you choose) is behind the deaths of so many people from the same scene at such a relatively young age in such a short space of time, it was too slow a method for a start for them so no conspiracies there as with the 1960's 'counter-culture' was flooded with Herion (that was Johnny Thunders fault in UK Punks case!), but the cluster of deaths of those '77 era people does seem strange, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if there was a common outside factor.
I know Dame Lydon gets the blame for many things but even he can't be responsible for this, despite being someone who connects them all, there must be another common denominator.
All the people mentioned played at the Vortex, which makes me think that Asbestos may be the cause of the cancers that has taken them, the London West End is still full of the stuff and is being taken away, slowly. Another cause could be the old Roxy club, I remember that its 'first' manager Andy Chezowski (you know who I mean so it didn't seem worth looking up the proper spelling of his mouthful of a name) once talking about bands smashing the Asbestos ceiling tiles above the stage as they jumped about while playing their sets, that could account for the close cluster, even if some bands didn't have it together yet as bands many future band members were still there as members of the audience and it was a small venue.
All those from the '77 scene do seem to have died in a reletivly close cluster, they must of had more than one connection, the question is what and where?
The week before last I was even told about other band members who've died, but who's names Ive forgotten because I was on a serious Whiskey razzle at the time, but there was at least three other bands I know of but can't remember their names who had lost members to cancer recently and I know of one member of a band who has recently beaten the big 'C' himself, thankfully he got lucky (for now, because if Asbestos is the reason it could return any day in another form).
The Roundhouse was also a connection between the bands & people who all played or went there more than once, but they all also played at the old Marquee club (my best bet along with the Vortex because of the fact that the West End was utterly painted in Asbestos).
Those old enough to remember might recall that the campaign to keep the Marguee open was a worse than useless waste of time, despite the petition being signed by many famous musicians who cut their teeth there over 40 years. A place of such pop cultural importance getting knocked down so fast puzzled me at the time but I just thought "typical care nothing developers". The Marquee getting knocked down would of been like turning Abbey Road studios into a rubbish dump but it was, and fast.
The club and the building above it were taken away, down to the last brick and rebuilt completely in a very short time, was that because it had gotten a badly done refit or decorators job in the 1970's that exposed loose asbestos dust to the air where it was breathed in? The stuff was everywhere in most public buildings at the time after all.
The Kensington pub near Olympia station was also closed for a while for that reason if I remember rightly.
Poly Styrene's death coming so soon after Steve New and Ari Up, and from the same illness as well, that took me by surprise and got me thinking about the odd loss of so many people from one scene so closely so young(ish), I doubt we will ever find out the connection or if there really is any but I'm sure there will be some more passings coming soon and it will be a form of cancer I'm sure.
I'm not hoping I'm proved right though.
P.S it was John (wanker) Wayne who coined the term 'big 'C'', his cancerous cause was the radiation that has filled every molocule of the desert he made his dumb Cowboy films in, because it was also where the U.S military arses tested their bombs.
Along with some more '77 band members who have lost out to cancer it seems like there really is a cancerous Punk whacker out and about, with molecular ill intent.
I'm not trying to say that someone from the CIA (MI5 or whoever you choose) is behind the deaths of so many people from the same scene at such a relatively young age in such a short space of time, it was too slow a method for a start for them so no conspiracies there as with the 1960's 'counter-culture' was flooded with Herion (that was Johnny Thunders fault in UK Punks case!), but the cluster of deaths of those '77 era people does seem strange, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if there was a common outside factor.
I know Dame Lydon gets the blame for many things but even he can't be responsible for this, despite being someone who connects them all, there must be another common denominator.
All the people mentioned played at the Vortex, which makes me think that Asbestos may be the cause of the cancers that has taken them, the London West End is still full of the stuff and is being taken away, slowly. Another cause could be the old Roxy club, I remember that its 'first' manager Andy Chezowski (you know who I mean so it didn't seem worth looking up the proper spelling of his mouthful of a name) once talking about bands smashing the Asbestos ceiling tiles above the stage as they jumped about while playing their sets, that could account for the close cluster, even if some bands didn't have it together yet as bands many future band members were still there as members of the audience and it was a small venue.
All those from the '77 scene do seem to have died in a reletivly close cluster, they must of had more than one connection, the question is what and where?
The week before last I was even told about other band members who've died, but who's names Ive forgotten because I was on a serious Whiskey razzle at the time, but there was at least three other bands I know of but can't remember their names who had lost members to cancer recently and I know of one member of a band who has recently beaten the big 'C' himself, thankfully he got lucky (for now, because if Asbestos is the reason it could return any day in another form).
The Roundhouse was also a connection between the bands & people who all played or went there more than once, but they all also played at the old Marquee club (my best bet along with the Vortex because of the fact that the West End was utterly painted in Asbestos).
Those old enough to remember might recall that the campaign to keep the Marguee open was a worse than useless waste of time, despite the petition being signed by many famous musicians who cut their teeth there over 40 years. A place of such pop cultural importance getting knocked down so fast puzzled me at the time but I just thought "typical care nothing developers". The Marquee getting knocked down would of been like turning Abbey Road studios into a rubbish dump but it was, and fast.
The club and the building above it were taken away, down to the last brick and rebuilt completely in a very short time, was that because it had gotten a badly done refit or decorators job in the 1970's that exposed loose asbestos dust to the air where it was breathed in? The stuff was everywhere in most public buildings at the time after all.
The Kensington pub near Olympia station was also closed for a while for that reason if I remember rightly.
Poly Styrene's death coming so soon after Steve New and Ari Up, and from the same illness as well, that took me by surprise and got me thinking about the odd loss of so many people from one scene so closely so young(ish), I doubt we will ever find out the connection or if there really is any but I'm sure there will be some more passings coming soon and it will be a form of cancer I'm sure.
I'm not hoping I'm proved right though.
P.S it was John (wanker) Wayne who coined the term 'big 'C'', his cancerous cause was the radiation that has filled every molocule of the desert he made his dumb Cowboy films in, because it was also where the U.S military arses tested their bombs.
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