tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post8201235582620138361..comments2024-03-28T09:33:26.444+00:00Comments on No Rock And Roll Fun: Journobit: Steven WellsSimon Hayes Budgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07084524317888577404noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-20001119910836209632009-06-26T10:55:02.828+00:002009-06-26T10:55:02.828+00:00I first saw him on the way down Clarendon Road to ...I first saw him on the way down Clarendon Road to Belle Vue House in Leeds in 1979 to see Jon Langford out of the Mekons. I had been in the Fav and it was about 7pm. I saw this ugly skinhead and I was wearing my drapes. "Come here you fucking skinhead, I'm not having skinheads on my patch round here" I shouted at him, and started running down the road. He scarpered. I later came across him in Belle Vue House, ligging round the Meeks and the Gang of Four and said "You're that fucking skinhead" and he said something like "And you're that fucking Ted". How we laughed when Pete (Guitarist, Pink Peg Slax) told us he didn't know what Muesli was and tried to eat it with water. He later used to put various flattering and unflattering things about Pink Peg Slax in NME. I think his nom-de-plume at the time was Susan Wells.<br /><br />He used to think the Slax were death-obsessed and thought it funny that I'd carried out a "King Herod-style assault on the children of Grimethorpe", and that I'd tried to sell a story to The Sun in May 1982 about people in Leeds who lived on Argie Road. <br /><br />He was such a class warrior and anti-racist, but it's all shit as I managed to knock about with him for years as a right-wing Ted.<br /><br />I'm sorry he's died and I have prayed for his soul and his family, but ultimately he was a foul-mouthed gobby bastard.<br /><br />Vince Berkeley, singer, Pink Peg Slax, MekonsViridishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07537461696140053842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-67975906136013829992009-06-25T20:35:51.417+00:002009-06-25T20:35:51.417+00:00He was always the odd man out, and I liked that.He was always the odd man out, and I liked that.PeterDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03025669661226533627noreply@blogger.com