Todays Punk Flashback Plastix The Plastix one vinyl contribution to the world of punk rock comes on the Farewell To The Roxy album with their song Tough On You. Their story is typical of the many hundreds of bands that formed in the wake of punk and while success may have eluded them at the time, every member later tasted it to varying degrees. Plastix formed in early 1977 and were allegedly named after someones dad who ran a plastics factory in Hastings! Mark Wilmshurst their bassist/guitarist takes up the story.. We were all from round the same area which was Bexhill/Hastings and I originally came from Brighton. We were in various bands at school but we got to know each other after we left school at 16. Musically we all had different tastes. Mine was Bowie and Bolan; Nicks was Lou Reed. Musically it was a mix of heroin music and rock and we thought we were a rock band rather a punk rock band. It was only as the punk thing began to happen that it dawned on us that actually we were a punk band. It kinda all started in Nicks garage. We were genuinely a garage band. His mum was pretty cool. He was on the dole and we used to practise there. Nick Sayer was on guitar and he was the shining light of the band who wrote songs and was the band leader. I also played guitar. I played bass on the guitar because we didn’t have a bass guitar! When we first formed Mick was our original singer but couldn’t sing. Our drummer Mark Hoggins couldn’t play drums either but he learnt very quickly! . Then we met Huggy at a Jam gig at Eastbourne Winter Gardens. He was kind of a roadie or hanger on of the Jam. Afterwards Nick knew Huggy and we met him and he joined the band after we kicked our old singer out. There was also a guy called Simon Watson who was almost in the band for a while. Newspaper articles allude to him being in the band but he was our notional manger. Simon was the get things done manager and had a transit van. He came from quite a wealthy family but was living in his transit van on his parents drive with a mattress in it! Songs in the set... Nothing 2 Do, Fleet Street, Terminal TV, Cheap Copy, Politics and 9 Till 5. 9-5 for the rest of my life. were the only words in that song and it was only one chord and we would do that for 3-4 minutes. If you were lucky there was a lead guitar break. It was pretty aggressive. We were filmed with the UK Subs in the Buccaneer for a television feature on punk rock and the song 9 Till 5 was used as the intro for this. It was the only one we made any money from. It was advertised as being on telly so you got every wannabee turning up and it was packed. We got paid twice! Once for the gig and once for royalties. https://youtube/watch?v=5CwY_kzBkug
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:50:52 +0000
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