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At last! The gig you've all been waiting for...
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PunkBrighton Alldayer at the Albert
Sunday 17th October 2010
Come on down to the Albert and see some of the top bands from the late 70's Brighton punk scene plus lots of punk memorabilia, click here for the full Alldayer programme
10 years of punkbrighton.co.uk
punkbrighton is an online museum created and maintained by it's creator and curator, punkdaddy. I started off with a tatty old box file supplied to me by one Rick Blair, an amiable fellow, a man of integrity and a personal friend. That was in February 1999. I asked Rick if he could let me have any old photos and press cuttings from his days as creator and boss of Attrix Records, Brighton's first truly independent record company, set up in 1977, and as ever, he was obliging.
Rick offered to write the first article for the spawning punkbrighton site and I was about to
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lend him my old Olivetti typewriter when he died suddenly in May 1999. It was such a blow to everyone who knew him, but it made me all the more determined to get all his Attrix Records stuff online so that it wouldn't die with him. Over the years, site visitors have supplied hundreds of additional photos, press cuttings, mp3's and their own recollections to help make the site what it is today.
Launched in January 2000, punkbrighton was pretty soon nominated for a Yahoo Web Award, which was a bit of surprise because although the site functioned properly and had quite a bit of content, I thought the layout was shite. I've tried to improve it over time but it wasn't until ten years later, this year, that I finally felt able to let rip with some artistic input.
I hope punkbrighton does justice to all the bands and everyone else who was involved in the mighty upheaval that kicked off with the advent of punk. if you've got stuff, send it in.
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What's new in August 2010
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Added a new batch of redesigned pages and listed the links below:
Home page (this is it)
Archives
Attrix Records & Shop
Attrix Memoirs
The Bands
punkbrighton jukebox
The Vault
Read Our Mail 2010
Jamie Barnard
Complete Attrix Discography
complied by Jon Betteridge
created a new page for the Smartees
created a page about the APL
punkbrighton 10th Anniversary Alldayer
at the Albert, Brighton
Sunday 17th October 2010
kick off at noon
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Added Bright Girls mp3 to the jukebox
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More free downloads
The Attrix Calender 1981
by David Roughton
PunkBrighton CD sleeve
Print your own
Coming soon
I stopped archiving the live front pages in March as I'm in the process of setting up a PunkBrighton blog, so that site visitors can communicate directly and I can waffle on about everything and nothing, whenever I feel like it, just like real bloggers. Go to Archives
Also look out for Situation Butane No.2, featuring the second part of Joe Strummer's interview with Stuart Jones. In the meantime, have a read of Situation Butane No.1
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This site is dedicated to the memory of Rick Blair
The Punk History of Brighton © punkdaddy 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009 • 2010 • All Rights Reserved
The Punk History of Brighton Acknowledgements
Rick & Julie Blair, Stuart Jones, Suzy Horne, Dave Barnard, Ken Hogg, Barb Wilson, James Byford, Mark Walling, Mike Dunford, Robin Banks, Terry Newbery,
Rod Johnson, ComputerBox, Jay Derrick, Mick Perrin, Alan St.Paul, Paul Bonham, Paul Kaczmarek, Paul Martin, Alex Ogg, David Roughton, David Peacock, Dick & Mary Chapman,
John Pender, Simon Woolven, John Betteridge, Bexhill News, Brighton & Hove Gazette, The Leader, The Argus, Sounds, NME, Surrey Daily Advertiser, Daily Mirror
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