RIP Pete Shelley

[lordgalvar]

RIP Pete Shelley.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HwmO_GZfzI[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HwmO_GZfzI

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=terg_LPT3X0[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=terg_LPT3X0

I'm glad we got out to see the Buzzcocks at the Fonda.

[lordgalvar]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4X2FG9Jbqw[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4X2FG9Jbqw

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnB5vxIIt1c[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnB5vxIIt1c

[Chankgeez]

I hadn't heard.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXxqeWpqoc0[/youtube]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXxqeWpqoc0

[Paul_C]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxO1SBWumsw[/youtube]

[Chankgeez]

[youtube][/youtube]

[Pepe]

Homosapien is a great song. I like Simple Minds' cover version which led me to Pete Shelley's rather disturbing looking video.

[lordgalvar]

His synth stuff was pretty great...I didn't even know about it until a few months back.

A different one off project:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdT34D69BxM[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdT34D69BxM

This is a zine piece he wrote years ago that's being passed around my punk groups:



[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDf-nnH_YTY[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDf-nnH_YTY

Posted that in another thread...just adding it here.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hox93DETbGo[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hox93DETbGo

It's kind of weird. Buzzcocks were always there, you know? Pete Shelley was an amazing song writer in our little part of the world. But reading what all the old punks I talk to in the groups*, I don't even think they realized (like I didn't) how much influence his personal and style kind of influenced punk and independent music.

There was no gimmick or anything like that...just a new kind of liberation/being yourself. It's an odd feeling that he's gone. Moreso than I or anyone I know felt when any of the Ramones or Kawakami or somebody like that...

Not to mention, Buzzcocks are one of the few bands that the wife and I share haha. "Crass or Buzzcocks?" "Buzzcocks"

* Yea, I'm part of some networks of professors and punks that publish and stuff.

[Chankgeez]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vgXjFN3wac[/youtube]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vgXjFN3wac

[coupleonapkins]

This one kept popping up during the end credits of tv shows (post Netflix boom era), but it never fails to punch me right in the gut:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1G0jl0Vc64[/youtube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1G0jl0Vc64

[Chankgeez]

I generally don't like videos of this ilk, but, you know, Pete Shelley…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVi0AWg0OhE[/youtube]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVi0AWg0OhE

[Dandolin]

Mancunian Homosapien in excelsis farewell
Forever love for buzzcocks, though i admit i was more devoted to devoto (band name for my never launched buzzcocks/magazine tribute band)
instalove for Sky Yen