Preston Punks (1976 - 1982)

Preston Punks (1976 - 1982) Were you a Preston punk in the late 70's - early 80's, or do you recognise someone who was? Were you a Preston punk in the late 70's - early 80's? location 3.

Did you hang out at the Palace Cafe, Cenotaph, The Warehouse, The Sun Hotel, Dog & Partridge, Gaiety Bar, Jalgos, Toms tavern, or spend a Saturday getting kicked out of as many cafes as possible....? If so then this is the page for you! If you have photos to add, anything fom 1977 to 1884 ish email them to [email protected] and I'll add them to the relevant folders. Please provide as much info as

possible ie location, date, names of persons in photo

If you prefer to post them direct to the wall, please add as much info as possible as it puts them in context for other people. 1. date or at least the year 2. people in the photo

14/09/2024



You can now advance order your copy of the ‘Dark Matter / Dark Energy’ Vinyl Reissue.

The vinyl will be available in two editions:

Clear Vinyl – 200 copies
Coloured Vinyl - 100 copies

The album will be released on Friday 29th November 2024.

Shop: https://membranes.bandcamp.com/

Jane...still awesome
01/08/2022

Jane...still awesome

https://youtu.be/hCeXozE0Zf0
31/07/2022

https://youtu.be/hCeXozE0Zf0

Brass Tacks was a current affairs programme shown on BBC2 between 1977 and 1988. On this episode called Punk Rock, broadcast on 3rd August 1977, it focuses o...

Blank Students supporting Scars at Jalgos Preston 1980. Does anyone have any memories to share of being there?Thanks to ...
28/01/2020

Blank Students supporting Scars at Jalgos Preston 1980. Does anyone have any memories to share of being there?
Thanks to Lizzie Biggs for sharing this wonderful piece of Preston Punk history with us.

07/05/2019

UPDATE:
Despite Miles emailing:
"Sorry to unform you that Blanks drummer, Andrew Lawrence (Dog), has passed away.....".
We can confirm that he is in fact very much alive!!

A guy called Chris Connelly has set up a website for the old Cargo Studios, where, amongst others, the Blank Students an...
27/03/2019

A guy called Chris Connelly has set up a website for the old Cargo Studios, where, amongst others, the Blank Students and X-Cells recorded. He's also collecting memories of the place for a book he's writing.
http://www.cargostudios.co.uk
Cargo Studios

In 1978 Cargo Studios opened in Rochdale. A 16 track studio owned, built and managed by John Brierley. With John and second engineer Colin Richardson engineering and also co-producing many of the bands the studio became world renown for and synonymous with an indie sound that changed the face of mus...

This photo is from the same LEP series, though the actual clip seems to have got lost with time.This is Ingrid (alias Se...
27/02/2019

This photo is from the same LEP series, though the actual clip seems to have got lost with time.

This is Ingrid (alias Sexton Pistol) who said of it:
The true horror can’t be conveyed in black and white because there was a lot of day-glo mismatched in this outfit....and I remember the infamous quote from the article “some people think I’m a moron but I don’t care!”

After this photo was published in the paper, giving Ingrid's full name and the street where she lived, she started to get inappropriate calls for unknown men, who'd tracked her down through the Phone Book. She was only 15 at the time.

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