FUNGALPUNK GIG REVIEWS

 

I am met in London by Alex Lyng from Oiz ii Men and Punk 4 The Homeless then we turn up at the splendid but small venue which is The Stags Head.

The Outbursts, who are a four piece of old punks who don't take themselves too seriously despite being expert musicians, kick off the evening with a half hour set of irreverent late 70's sounding punk with touches of 60's garage. The guys don't mind offending and have a wonderfully dark sense of humour. Experience tells with The Outbursts in two ways, firstly they play three chord punk as tight as anyone, secondly they have been involved in the music world so long that they know what a load of bollox the music business is so they chill out anyway and enjoy what they do for the sole purpose of enjoying what they do. The Outbursts are fun, enjoy them.

Eagle Spits spat some poetry and talked about street children (see below).

The Lone Groover - Acoustic folk punk? Protest music? A love relationship with The Clash? Probably all of the above and more. The Lone Groover played with passion and commitment. Dressed sharply and machine gunned us with his Gibson. Finely tuned craftsmanship and song writing. Tales of social revolution and a love for subculture. Tonight the groover rocked, turned out some sweet vibes and covered ‘Career Opportunities’, what more could anyone want?

Alex Johnson - Wonk Unit are popular with good reason, they put on a great show and churn out some wonderful tunes. Tonight we are treated to some of those songs but stripped down to one man and his guitar. The set is kicked off with ‘Horses’, a surreal number about staring out the widow at horses in their winter clothes and being glad you’re not a pony - SWEET. Later on listening to the man Alex lament the fact that he is the donkey of the damned, it is clear that there are elements to being a builder that he doesn't like. He does however like following cute bottoms with his eyes up escalators. Un-PC- yes, yes, thank goodness yes! His set is gripping, quirky, talent full and way too short. But hey its Sunday and we have to stop the live music by 10pm so a 30 minute set will have to suffice but we look forward to the next time.

So another good evening followed by a very long day. I am shattered. I haven’t been well. So why bother. We have choices, street children seldom do. Casa Alianza give them a chance, a home, a future. So we continue and help where we can. Despite what the authorities may think, children are children - not vermin. So download our massive compilation and come to a gig. Here’s some info about the comp and charity, followed by a link to download the thing - cheers

Punk Rock is another word for freedom,
Freedom to say what we want to say with whatever we got at hand to say it with, and the homeless need a voice on their side shouting to the rooftops. We can "Start Again”!
Ghost (Gerry Leonard contributor Start Again)


Since Punk 4 The Homeless was established we have had many great bands play shows for us up and down the United Kingdom and had a compilation released on Stoneage Records, Indonesia. We have stuck to our ideology that anyone can assist in our mission regardless of religion, sexuality, nationality, sex, creed, colour etc. but we will not tolerate prejudice. We have always been about unity not uniformity and a desire to help has always been the only qualification needed to get involved.

It's been many more years since Sham 69 first sang “if the kids are united they will never be divided” so what we have here is people from many different countries, cultures and backgrounds helping kids, street kids who are much less fortunate than the rest of us.

Punk has always been difficult to define but basically Punk 4 The Homeless has always been of the view that if anyone wants to play a gig for us or donate a track and they are punk enough to do so we are punk enough to accept. So with the release of these massive compilations we maintain the same attitude. Many of the tracks the general public may well consider to be of the punk genre, a few they wouldn’t, but it’s all punk to us.

Most of us involved with Punk 4 The Homeless are no longer kids but we still have the attitude that we CAN change the world and we are determined to make a difference “be the change you want to see in the world” (Ghandi).

So we have got punk, ska punk, ska, folk punk, non punk, horror punk, etc., all to help our friends Casa Alianza help the kids. These bands come from all over the place, some names you will recognize some you won’t, here’s a handful from the compilations containing over 120 bands, Sex Presley’s, London, Grave Robber, Gerry Leonard, Spooky Ghost (also from David Bowie s band), Skinwalkers, Zooparty (feat Glen Matlock from The Sex Pistols), Wonk Unit, Billy Karloff, Subculture, Leather Zoo, Drongos For Europe, The Nags, The Reverends, 2 Sick Monkeys, Shag Nasty, plus absolutely loads more.
If there’s not something on here to offend someone for some reason then this probably isn’t punk rock.
All proceeds go to Casa Alianza UK Charity dedicated to the care and protection of street children for their Arts, Culture, Recreation and Sport Project which will benefit over 300 children a year. www.casa-alianza.org.uk

Thank you for your support ……enjoy!

Eagle & Fred Shortland Casa Alianza 

http://www.punk4thehomelesscompilation.co.uk/

Bands on the comp-

SKINWALKERS
ZOO PARTY (feat GLEN MATLOCK)
GRAVE ROBBER
SYSTEM OF HATE
ALL THE DEPARTED
BILLY KARLOFF BAND
LUDDITE BASTARD
THIRTEEN SHOTS
LOWLIFE UK
REV DREAD
KISMET HC
SAINT HOOLIGAN
WRECK THE PLACE
C.S.O.D.
TRUE LIBERTY
BANDIT THE PANTHER
ROGUE ANTHEM
WONK UNIT
MANTA BIROSTRIS
TEMPLE MUSIC
BROCKER
ABSOLVED
LAY IT ON THE LINE
ROOTS TO NOWHERE
MONKISH
HOSPITAL FOOD
DESTROY NATE ALEN
INFIRMITIES
JUST ADD MONSTERS
THE GLORY
A SUDDEN VENGEANCE
JUMP SHIP QUICK
SOUL EMBRACED
THE DUEL
FREEDOM FACTION
THE MISPELT
SUBCULTURE
SUBVERSIVE FIRE
THE HOAX
TOTAL BLOODY CHAOS
FOXPUNCH
ATOMBUZZ
NEVER BURIED
LEATHER ZOO
MAYHEM FREAK
THE WAY
DWANE READS
THE NERKS
FINAL SURRENDER
DRONGOS FOR EUROPE
THE BLACK LION PROJECT
METANOIA
100,000 BODY BAGS
RADICAL FUN TIME
STATIC KILL
CONDITION:DEAD
FALSE IDLE
CODE BLUE
MILDURA
THE BARMY ARMY
SKURVI
SAVING STRIKE
ASBO PEEPSHOW
JUGGANAUT
THE BLISSETTS
THE NAGS
BUCHA EFFECT
UNSHACKLED
CHRIS MCREA
APOCALYPSE BABYS
ABATED MASS OF FLESH
"FUNKY" LOL ROSS
THE REVERENDS
THE KINGS KIDS
2 SICK MONKEYS
SHAG NASTY
NO NEED TO BE
IT'S NOT OK
40 OZ. FOLKLORE
180 OUT
P.D.W.
CARL AND THE NEUTRONS
AMBASSADORS OF SHALOM
PARANOID
ADDICTIVE PHILOSOPHY
RACHEL MIZPAH
AROBED
SENSELESS
HIPPOS OF DOOM
REBEL CITY RADIO
THE LONE GROOVER
THE COSMIC FINGERS
3 STONE MONKEY
LIVING FIRE
VITRIOLIC RESPONSE
JOSEPH BEGGS
THE DETUNERS
CHANGE OF PLAN
THE POOR GEEZERS
HOTWIRED
LONDON
DEFCON ZERO
OIZ II MEN
THE OLD TIMERS
ATHRITIC FOOT SOLDIERS
VOMIT feat. LEE CAMPBELL
GOODNIGHT WEDNESDAY
POINTY BOSS
BEHOLD THE KINGDOM
SICK NOTE TEZ
FEEB
THE ORDER OF ELLIJAH
EAGLE & HORSE
FIRE EXIT
A COMMON GOAL
REVENGE OF THE PSYCHOTRONIC MAN
PLATOON 1107
PEDAGREE SKUM
EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW
ATOMIC BOMBS
BLOODSPORT
THE OUTBURSTS
THE END OF HISTORY
SEX PRESLEYS
FORTY FIVER
ATTI THE TOODIES
FEAR GOD
RUDE AND RECKLESS
UNISEF
BORN TO DESTRUCT
SPOOKY GHOST (GERRY LEONARD)
WRECKS

review by Eagle Spits (16 December 2013)