![]() ![]() These days, life is a bit less rock-and-roll for frontman “Harry Hack” aka Rob Dixon, singer Jane “Kid Mutant” Wade, guitarists Mick “Red Helmet” Emerson, Anth “E H Flash” Martin, and drummer Norman “Mean Average” Emerson. “They were rubbish,” Peter remembers, but later Warsaw renamed themselves Joy Division and won world-wide fame. Sixth on the bill were the little-known band Warsaw, formed the previous year in Salford, Manchester. In July 1977, the band were billed third at the Guildhall on Newcastle’s Quayside, supporting County Durham’s Penetration and punk pioneers The Adverts. ![]() “But some of the students who’d been watching invited us to finish the gig over the road at the Coach Lane Campus union.” “There was another gig in the Newton Park Hotel where after the first song the manager marched up and pulled the plug. At the Prince of Wales pub, on the West Road, we were all banned for life because one of us was wearing a skeleton earring. “Punk was a bit of a shock to a lot of people in the North. “We couldn’t afford Vivienne Westwood up here and the whole punk thing was far more of a home-made affair than the London scene. “We were one of Newcastle’s first punk bands in 1977,” said Peter, now 54. Now, 35 years later, the band have finally released their first-ever album after rediscovering ageing master tapes of a Wallsend studio session. “Walter Hack” was the system-smashing, establishment-shocking bassist of anarchist North rockers Harry Hack and The Big G.Īnd while the Sex Pistols were banned from the airwaves, The Big G were banned from most of Newcastle’s bars. TODAY Peter Howard restores antique books.
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