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Neil
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 7:59 pm    Post subject: Just joined - punk shop in Luton? Reply with quote

Came across this site during an idle moment at work and recognised some familiar names and faces. I grew up in Luton and was in the anarcho-punk scene in the mid-80s before moving down to London. Strangely, another Luton and Dunstable veteran lives in the next road to me and I met him through our kids going to the same school - 'Richard North', sometime of Brigandage and NME, whose interview with UK Decay is somewhere else on this site. Does anyone remember that short lived punk record shop behind Luton Arndale Centre? I remember buying 'Love will tear us apart' there. so it must have been 1979/80. What was the shop called?
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

richard north came from luton?? hey , i never realised that. kick was an excellent fanzine to be sure , and i always had a soft spot for brigandage. saw some great gigs but they never really did themselves justice on record.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 1:55 am    Post subject: Welcome Neil Reply with quote

Welcome Neil
Great to see you here mate, have been aware of the 'Straight Outta
Luton' article for a while. Having first come accross it on a flyer ( I think)
at one of the 'Free the spirit' festivals.
So you live near Richard North, whats he up to these days?
The record shop you asked about was I am pretty sure called 'Matrix',
ran for just under a year, as you quite rightfully worked out, was based at
46 (or 40) John st. Luton...demolished now!
The front of the shop was featured on the inner cover of 'For my Country'
single..and elsewhere on this site

'Matrix' with Abbo behind the counter.
'Matrix' finished somewhere around the time of the Dead Kennedys UK
tour in 1980 (Sept?} although not before hosting a terrific 'end-of-tour'
party, which included the 'D K's' entire 'entourage'. Leading to party
members 'running amok' in the arndale carparks. A week or so later
there was a storm which led to the bottom floors becomming flooded!
that sealed the fate of 'Matrix'!
Oh well, thats life!
its now a student block for the University!

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Neil
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 8:54 pm    Post subject: Just joined - punk shop in Luton? Reply with quote

Jello Biafra in Luton Arndale - that's something to treasure. Up there with something I read once about Diana Ross and the Supremes playing in Luton and wandering into a coffee bar for a drink.

The artist once known as 'Richard North' now writes as Richard Cabut for
http://www.3ammagazine.com/
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 11:30 pm    Post subject: Dead Kennedys in Luton! Reply with quote

Dead Kennedys in Luton!
yep thats terribly true!
Also rumours have it, 'The Damned' after playing their tenth gig at The
Royal hotel in a post gig frenzy 'ran-amok' in Luton town centre..running
over cars and eventually raiding an Off-Licence and Chemist in Farley Hill .
Also I know of a local bod who in the sixties when the
Tamla Mowtown tour came to town. Jammed with none other than
Stevie Wonder in Gordon Street, Luton Town Centre.

He was in the queue to get in and got his 'blues' harp out and started
playing .. a window in the nightclub above opened, and out leaned mr
Wonder with his own 'harp' and together they jammed!
True story honest guv!


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