To hell with America....


Slade - Alive!

According to the internet, it was Friday 17th December 1982 when I saw Slade live at the Hammersmith Odeon.

They were in the midst of one of their revival periods. They were great. Must’ve been bloody fantastic back in October 1971 when this album was recorded.

Years later, when I moved to South Australia, I discovered that people were into an 80s pub rock band called Cold Chisel. Local legends and all that.

I happened across the little school exercise book that I used to write all the gigs I’d been to in. Turns out the Chisel had been the support band that night. I wrote ‘Cold Chisel * [1 star] Shit’.

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in reply to John Spithead

I suslect ive told this story before - My former botique manager was the sister of one of the founding members- Les Kaczmarek. He left before they became famous and i suspect it kinda ate away at him. My collegue and I went to the funeral to support her. The entire chisel crew were there. It was a bit surreal watching them stand up sut down for a full polish catholic ceremony. Jimmy did not break out in song 😆