Has anyone heard the band GASKIN, allegedly in the "New Wave of British Heavy Metal" genre? I found their record No Way Out (1982) at a shop last year and I love it. They're apparently from a town called SCUNTHORPE, a name that's almost comically evocative of a post-Industrial desolate English North that I've never actually visited. This is a little first-Def-Leppard-record-ish (well, okay, a lot), but less flashy and rougher... Workmanlike and really fun. I love how, whether it's postpunk or NWOBHM or whatever, music from the North of England made in this era all just bleeds grey, grey, grey. I sell obscure French and Italian wine for a living, and the credo of my small company is "sense of place above all"... The sense of place permeating this stuff is staggering.
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 May 2011 16:41 (fourteen years ago)
sounds interesting
― Blink 187um (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 18:37 (fourteen years ago)
scunthorpe is as the name suggests
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/7/9/1247145711871/Corus-plant-at-Scunthorpe-001.jpg
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:14 (fourteen years ago)
lets try that again
Holy shit!
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:20 (fourteen years ago)
I'm looking at Scunthorpe on Google Maps. To be honest I was hoping for something more dystopic.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:31 (fourteen years ago)
it's pretty fucking dystopic believe me
― Deeez Nuuults (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:32 (fourteen years ago)
nah i think the iron works got closed down or drastically cut back, now it's just a grim little decaying town in the middle of nowhere
― Deeez Nuuults (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:33 (fourteen years ago)