Bastard Kestrel - Classic or Ultra classic???

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oh so good.
better than spacemen 3
better than loop beeter than faust better than DNA.
cos they didn't get cosmic (or if they did they were taking the piss)

― bob snoom (vestibule), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

I had whatever record it was that had 'Hooligan VD' on it. Can't remember all that much about it to be honest though. Probably better than the Wasp Factory, but not as good as Terminal Cheesecake. Is that about right? Who were they exactly anyhow?

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

Probably better than the Wasp Factory, but not as good as Terminal Cheesecake.

Unlikely as it sounds, this exactly what I was thinking when I saw the thread title and though "Bastard Kestrel - how good were they again?"

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

well- ok they sounded like crap but at least they sounded like crap in their own personal way, unlike terminal cheesecake who seemed to be the worst butthole surfers wannabees ever. ergo kestrels win

― bob snoom (vestibule), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

I kept thinking this said "Barney Kessel"

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

were they like the walking seeds?

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Probably better than the Wasp Factory, but not as good as Terminal Cheesecake.
Unlikely as it sounds, this exactly what I was thinking when I saw the thread title and though "Bastard Kestrel - how good were they again?"

Scary. As I opened it, I thought "the very first response to this thread will contain the words 'Terminal Cheesecake'". Not wrong.

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Friday, 11 November 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

were they like the walking seeds?

I always thought the Walkingseeds were a bit more straight-up heavy psych in a Blue Cheer vein. I always tended to associate them with stuff like BALL, but maybe that's only cos of the Kramer involvement. Weren't Bastard Kestrel more into just making a horrible racket?

(Didn't some IPC hack come up with the horrible term 'lurch' for stuff like this or am I dreaming?)

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 11 November 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

I remember when US Am-Rep group the Bastards were going to be touring Britain there was going to be a 'Night of the Bastards' with The Bastards, Hellbastard and Bastard Kestrel, but then the tour got cancelled bcz one of The Bastards had to sit their medical exams.

I've never heard Bastard Kestrel but if I remember correctly one of them did a pretty good fanzine, one issue of which came with a mask. I also have some fanzines that the bass player from Silverfish did.

No one uses bastard as a term of abuse any more do they? in fact the word has pretty much died out in the last twenty years.

The Walking Seeds rule.

― Raw P at work, Friday, 11 November 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

I remember the US Bastards well. The first single they did ['Shit For Brains'/'Loser'] was superb, but nothing else I heard ever really lived up to that grubby little gem.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 11 November 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

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