Posts tagged with: Stunt Kites

Stunt Kites - 4th March 1980. I'm So Hollow - 11th March 1980. Both at the Blitz club, George IV pub, Sheffield.

“Well, it’s taken them a powerful long time to get onto record, but they’ve done it at last. ClockDVA, one of those names you’ve seen, I bet you’ve seen around for…

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They Must Be Russians - Blitz club at The George IV, Tuesday 29th January 1980

“I got fined forty quid for putting a poster up. The bloke who beat his wife up was only fined thirty.” Steve Chapman fought the law, and the law won. The Stunt Kites’ guitarist is…

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Vendino Pact || The Stunt Kites - The Penguin Pub, Shiregreen, Sheffield. Thursday 25th October 1979.

The pub is called The Penguin; it is so far off our usual patch that we might as well be hanging out with the Emperors and Rockhoppers down at the South Pole. Lower Shiregreen might…

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The Stunt Kites. Nine gigs at various venues in Sheffield, Retford and Barnsley. April to September 1979.

Monday 9th April. The Easter school holidays, and a teenage gathering for Stunt Kite co-founder [https://www.mylifeinthemoshofghosts.com/2015/04/18/the-stunt-kites-st-cuthberts-church-hall-fir-vale-sheffield-25th-november-1978/] , school pal and punk-rock charmer Steve Chapman’s eighteenth birthday. The evening…

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The Stunt Kites, Saint Cuthberts Church Hall, Fir Vale, Sheffield. 25th November 1978.

A drab, grey plastic mould chair, scuffed black metal legs akimbo, spins through the air above the ready-rubbed tobacco floor - an unhinged Apollo lunar lander in search of its own Sea Of Tranquillity. Its…

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