Totally

hard

When I was 14, my parents went on holiday to Greece. I didn't want to go to Greece, so instead opted to stay with my friends Tim & Nick at their house in Datchet, near Windsor. I slept on Nick's floor on a blow-up bed and every morning their house rabbit 'Rover' woke me up by hopping on the mattress and letting forth a thick stream of rabbit urine. We spent a lot of time skateboarding in Windsor town centre, pretending to be cholo-gangsters doing bb gun drive-by shootings on neighbours windows with t shirts over our faces. We also made a band that lasted for the duration of my stay called 'Abusive'. Keyboard drums, guitar, vocals.

Sample lyrics -

"stupid cat went wandering the streets, he did something brainless, went up to a gang of geeks who put fireworks up his anus"

I feel like Total Abuse is going for something like that.

FUCK YR MYSTIQUE

SICK OF BLACK FLAG, SICK OF CRO-MAGS

I never really took any notice of this band, even when The Steal played with them at the last show, but Ceremony's new album 'Rohnert Park' is real good, and nothing like their old stuff - the last song sounds like a Fucked Up version of Weezer and there's also a spoken word thing about an elderly neighbour dying. Real-life creepy surburban dread. (not reggae).