“The Priestess of Punk didn’t get our sense of humour! We found rock star pompousness offensive. She banned The Damned from the storied New York punk citadel CBGB’s dressing room… On the last night of our 1979 tour, they’d had enough of us playing Led Zeppelin through the monitors while they were playing and sauntering across the stage eating ice creams during their biggest song so they bought sacks of horse manure and threw it over the stage while we were playing. “ The Ruts were up for a laugh and would get their own back frequently.
Some bands took your antics better than others… I couldn’t get it off and said: ‘Chuck some beer on me – put it out!’ He just laughed and replied: ‘What? Waste good beer?!’ Chatting to Dave Vanian in a pub one time, I realised my fluffy jumper was in flames. “We carried tins of lighter fluid around, which came in handy for setting people on fire! We were fair game as well. “That was old Four Eyes, wasn’t it? ”ĬORRECT. So I had to sit watching bloody Luftwaffe videos!”ģ Which sleeping new wave star did you once tie the shoelaces together of, stuff cigarette butts in his mouth, then set fire to his shoes? Now this is the real deal Captain!’ I protested: ‘Lemmy, it’s the fucking Nazis!’ And he replied: ‘Not for the politics Captain, just for the style!’. The problem was, every time you’d fall asleep, he’d nudge you awake again, offer you a line of speed and say: ‘Look, I’ve got a great video here of the Luftwaffe. When I missed the last bus home, Lemmy put me up on several occasions on his sofa. “I lived in Croydon and would go watching gigs every night in the West End. You played a number of shows with Lemmy on bass as The Doomed in the 1970s. The late Motörhead legend was excused on account of having a verruca. Was it Lemmy who turned up with the doctor’s note?”ĬORRECT. “Christ almighty! I remember Hugh Cornwell was out for a duck and he said: ‘Cap, I’m going to bat again ‘cause they’ve come to see me play!’ Talk about bending the rules! It was a grudge match between The Strugglers – as I call them – and the press. But which heavy metal icon turned up with a doctor’s note excusing him from playing? 1 In 1979, you took part in a charity cricket match alongside the Stranglers.
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