
Sinisterines,
The Duke mentioned Vic Godard briefly, so this gives me a somewhat
lame excuse to tell a Pop anecdote. My friend Martin, who taunted me in
the sandwich shop the other day by saying "Guess who phoned me on
New Year's Eve - Stuart Murdoch", (it was true - he's working on YTV's
documentary about the NME) once met the Venerable Vic. He told him
that at the 100 Club's legendary punk rock all-dayer in 1976, a journalist
was interviewing Vic's famously ramshackle combo Subway Sect when
he asked them if any of them had played an instrument before joining the
band. None of them had except the drummer who said he'd once played
a drum in The Scouts. The journalist was stung by not having heard of
this obviously seminal pre-punk outfit and asked him what The Scouts
were like. The drummer replied "Oh, you know,  green jumpers, badges,
neckerchiefs, founded by Baden Powell." 
I thank you.
Adam.
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