No Nonsense /3rd Wave Ska, 80s, from Australia/

[Mad Beet]

No Nonsense

No Nonsense began as a gang of mates hanging out together
from Oak Park High School in Melbourne (Australia).
At the time, Ska meant dancing and comradeship,
and their first shows were all about dancing,
sweating, getting drunk, throwing up . . . all
the right ingredients for having a good time.

But boys grow up,
and somewhere along the line they started listening to pop music
and Ska became outdated for them. There was a time when the first seven rows of their
Melbourne shows were filled with skinheads.

At their first Sydney show there were 750 of them, Seig-heiling, shoving and grinning evilly.
No Nonsense outgrew them very fast. “Why don’t you fuck off – we don’t want you here”,
Richard Bruce roared at the skinheads in the crowd one night early in 1983 at the Central Club.
“We’ll give you your money back, just don’t bloody come back here!”.

Crowds dropped off drastically for a while. Then the word got out that you could go to a
No Nonsense gig and not get hassled by a coconut head and crowds swelled in hometown
Melbourne until the first seven rows at their shows were filled with suburban girls.

Richard Bruce
Vocals
Rod McQueen
Guitar
Morrie Arigio
Bass
Graham Sullivan
Sax
Tony Walton
Sax
Tommy
Drums

Нашел случайно эту группу, и у них больше ничего нет. В последствии, если я не ошибаюсь, кто-то из этой группы ушел в The Porkers.

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