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A real old blast from the past - Kaspers Engine!
Sometimes Police Officers give more than just speeding tickets!
It�s hard to be fit as a fiddle when you�re shaped like a cello!
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great band wench used to watch them at stairways with the crazy drummer ?
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The lead singer was my older brother's brother-in-law. I believe they went everywhere in a fire engine (not sure if that's just legend or not). Made up about Cat Scratch Fever & HMHB. I've not seen Mixie for years! Last time I saw him was a lock-in gig in Birkenhead. Can't even remember the name of the pub - I could sink a fair few in those days & regularly did 
Sometimes Police Officers give more than just speeding tickets!
It�s hard to be fit as a fiddle when you�re shaped like a cello!
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OMG!! i used to watch Mister Zero and Alternative Radio. In fact I was humming a tune the other day and realised it was a Mr Zero one. haha - showing my age now!!
We used to watch them in the Leasowe Pub in Reeds Lane.
I also liked half man half biscuit - but never watched them live. A lad I worked with used to play their tapes in work and I got to know the music through him. Memories!!
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Pegasus - with a hippie Andy McCluskey
Radio Blank - First Punk Band in Wirral
Next - Phil Jones's prog rock band
Attempted Moustache - other early Punks
Strife - Big hair prog rock
All wirral bands 74-77
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Don't remember them - mine were in the 80s. Maybe I'm not as old as I think I am haha
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The foundry are still about yeah, not sure where their next gig is tho! There's not all that much live music going on nowadays, unfortunately 
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I saw most of those bands regularly at The Dale mostly, & Id like to add some of the bands Ive been in & associated with in around that time & played the same circuit. Dirty Eddy, Brook Band Tips, Legsakimbo, Know The Code, XS Baggage. Also Great bands missing off that list, Thunderboots, Export, Scharnhorst, Bunter, Prey, Next, Dante & many more I will remember later...ah happy days! I remember most of those mentioned & mostly from the Dale too .
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Half Man Half Biscuit are still going strong, selling out the likes of the Manchester Academy and Shepeherd's Bush Empire. They recently released their 12th album "90 Bisodol (Crimond)".
The band with the "mad drummer" was undoubtedly Engine (as opposed to Caspar's Engine, different band). The mad drummer has been playing in The Jalapenos for 15 years. Despite being a Wirral-based band, they hardly ever play around here but still manage 3 or 4 gigs a week elsewhere. Great band.
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ANOTHER I REMEMBER BUT NEVER SEEN WAS PICTURES OF INNOCENCE THINK THATS RIGHT
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ANOTHER I REMEMBER BUT NEVER SEEN WAS PICTURES OF INNOCENCE THINK THATS RIGHT your shouting again
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sorry for shouting again I text quick as I am in work and forget the caps lock is on
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The Lodge used to have loads of groups on, mad nights.
Birkenhead........ God's own Room 101.
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All far too recent for me - the 1960s were my era! Interesting, though to see how many (fairly) recent local groups there have been. When my local started having 'live music' in the 80s it was always a guy singing along to backing tapes and I thought that signalled the end of the road for groups.
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