"Throbbing Gristle - Live At Oundle School 1980
Recorded live at Oundle School in Peterborough, England 16th March, 1980. Aside from two school staff, the audience consisted of school boys between the ages of 8 and 16."
Recorded live at Oundle School in Peterborough, England 16th March, 1980. Aside from two school staff, the audience consisted of school boys between the ages of 8 and 16."
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Always wanted to see this.... i seem to recall reading about in the news pages of a music paper at the time, maybe Sounds... or perhaps it was a few years laters when doing research for a Monitor piece in the Bodleian Library circa 1985 that was about postpunk/new pop and that entailed me getting them to pull up great clumps of old inkies from the stacks... at any rate i'm sure i read about it long before embarking on the research for Rip It Up... it really stuck in my memory as "what the fuck, how on earth did that ever happen?"... Oundle being a public school, i.e. a private school, with boarders and "day boys" and quite probably all the same stuff as at my school (tuck shops, 'fagging', corporal punishment, ink wells in your desk, the cadet corps, rugger, swimming baths with 'no trunks', horrible food.... the whole Molesworth/If... drill, basically ... and in 1980 I would still have been at it
Hmmm. I'd long since left by the time this happened, but ~10 years earlier I saw the following in Oundle Great Hall:-
ReplyDelete- Magma
- Arthur Brown
- Trespass-era Genesis complete with Gabriel dressed as a flower.
- Wild Turkey
- Steamhammer
ISTR we missed Thin Lizzy as Whisky in the Jar was charting with a bullet and they cancelled. RocSoc were pretty good at blagging in those days.
Presumably you know Van De Graff Generator was started while the guys were still in the 6th form?
Of course the rest of the experience was just as shit as you describe it.
ps. That'll be 12-19 years old, not 8-16.
no way!
ReplyDeletemagma and arthur brown at your public school....
there would have never happened at Berko School for Boys
they did once have a very crap (but very loud) rock band formed schoolboys perform at my house (ie. my house at school, not my house where i lived)
did not know that about Van Der Graaf
TG being old hippie proggers at heart it sort of makes sense there'd be this freak-rock continuity