What else do you collect?

[Michael B]

Originally Posted by Orioles1954

Really awesome experiences! I grew up a mid-90s indie kid who also loved punk, newwave, darkwave....all that good stuff. With that said, I still have so much love for late 70s/early 80s material. My collection has recently been focusing on late 70s/early 80s UK girl punk/new wave groups (Mo-Dettes, Raincoats, Dolly Mixture, X-Ray-Spex, Marine Girls, etc). Cool to see baseball card collectors also digging great music.

I do not collect cards. I collect Olympic photography and items related to Olympic photographers along with some tickets, programs and autographs. This is the only site where I can enjoy looking at others collecting interests and ocassionally contribute to the conversation.

If you are looking at girl groups from that period you may want to check out The Slits ("Typical Girls" & "I Heard it Through the Grapevine"). The lead singer Ari Up (Arianne Forster) was Johnny "Rotten" Lydons' stepdaughter. She died in 2010 in LA. The original drummer Palmolive (Paloma Romero) left before their first album and formed the Raincoats. She now lives about 2 miles from my wifes stepmother on Cape Cod in Mass. I just found her address and may have to send her the CD booklet from the John Peel sessions to sign if I can find a copy.

There is a good documentary on Poly Styrene called "Poly Styrene: I am a Cliché" narrated by her daughter Celeste Bell. I saw it sometime last year on tv. Lora Logic, the sax player on the singles "The Day the World Turned Day-Glo" and "Oh Bondage, Up Yours" left before their only album though they used her sax arrangements. She formed her own band Essential Logic. She also played on the Raincoats album. She is now a film maker.

For a non female band check out The Ruts ('Babylon's Burning', 'Jah Wars', 'Staring at the Rude Boys')

I believe I saw Kula Shaker 'Taatva' on your list. The lead singer/guitarist, Crispian Mills is the son of actress Hayley Mills. They are touring in the U.K. this year.

It is interesting to see 'youngsters' wearing t-shirts of the early punk/new wave bands. Plenty of Ramones shirts (Saw them 5-6 times and met them almost as many). The funniest one for me was seeing a teenager wearing a Dead Kennedys tee. I said casually "I saw them in 1980". The kid started bowing. In 2008 my wife and I were in Cabo San Lucas walking back from dinner. A guy was walking towards us wearing some punk/new wave band t-shirt, maybe Iggy/The Jam. I mentioned that I liked the shirt and saw/met/photographed the group. He asked if we wanted tickets to his bands show at Sammy Hagar's club The Cabo Wabo Cantina. Free tickets, sure. It was the band Slightly Stoopid who play a lot of festivals.