So, here& #39;s a thing I& #39;ve decided to do, having stolen and adapted the idea from @CheapPanini who are doing daily football shirts. For every day on lockdown I& #39;m going to wear a different band tee-shirt. This could be amusing after a while as many of them in the pile are medium. 1/
I recognise the danger of revealing some less than cool bands I like...so I& #39;ll start with one of the best. Today, I& #39;ve got on an @idlesband shirt. 2/2
So today I& #39;m going with @twentyonepilots and a shirt based on their excellent Car Radio. #BandTeeShirtChallenge #Lockdown
It& #39;s Sunday and clocks have gone forward, but I& #39;m going back in time - today I& #39;m sporting a Stiff Little Fingers shirt with their first single, Suspect Device, emblazoned on it! Choooon! @RigidDigits
@BSPOfficial gets the nod today. To be honest I could probably do the next two weeks with BSP tee shirts alone!
Welcome to Tuesday and the next band shirt. Today is @mysteryjets who are probably the loveliest and friendliest bunch you could hope to meet. Since the days of the Tea Time Forum through gigs and festivals they& #39;ve been great friends. Zootime!!!
Another day in lockdown. Another band tee. @vaporsofficial get the nod today. The song News at Ten always reminds me of a canal boat holiday and of my bro @matt_dodeska and me discovering Carlsberg Special Brew!
Another #lockdownuk day, another lockdown tee. The next four are linked - all the bands at one of the best gigs I& #39;ve ever been to! Kicking off with @KaiserChiefs who opened the night. Yes, it& #39;s the @NME Awards Tour 2005, 9 Feb in Brixton. 1/
I took a lifesize cutout of the head of @LucasRadebe and waved it during the set. Ricky crowdsurfed out to me and took it, placing it in front of the drums and worshipping it! What a gig that was! #lufc @Rickontour @KaiserChiefs 2/2
It& #39;s @NME Awards Tour. The second band on, following @KaiserChiefs was @BlocParty It was the first time I& #39;d seen them but knew every single song of their unreleased album (dodgy download...). And yes, that& #39;s an original @pistolsofficial hanky I got Xmas Day 1977!
Third band on the bill at the #nme awards tour was @thefutureheads , the band who always have excellent support bands! I discovered @mysteryjets and @theenemyband amongst others thanks to them. Can& #39;t wait for the rescheduled Bedford gig!
Headliners were of course @thekillers who opened with Late Show then Andy You& #39;re a Star, then blasted an incredibly classy set at the packed Brixton Academy. At the end, all 4 bands came and took a bow together. I& #39;ve seen them all many times since. One of the very best gigs ever!
*Midnight Show. Doh!
The lockdown is 2 weeks old today. But, as @christt quite rightly sang, we can still win, so it& #39;s a Chris T-T tee today. If ever there was a time his songs are needed, it& #39;s now. #LockdownTeeShirts
It goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on, how I wish it would STOP! Today& #39;s #LockdownUK tee is of course @Buzzcocks . I was going to wear the Orgasm Addict one but my kids are here so it& #39;s Autonomy, with handwritten lyrics by @stephen_diggle behind me.
Here& #39;s a closer view of that montage with @stephen_diggle penned lyrics for Autonomy.
Shouldn& #39;t have gone to the Forbidden Zone, it& #39;s too late now and I& #39;m all alone... Where& #39;s Captain Kirk? In isolation because of that trip to Tesco! Yes, today& #39;s #LockdownUK tee is @spizzenergi & the Spizz77 shirt from the 2012 lineup I was in. Brilliant bloke and so hard-working!
Behind me is another hand-written lyric, this being Where& #39;s Captain Kirk? And here& #39;s the tee shirt in action at the Enterprise in Camden. https://youtu.be/Xxn4TYdtbjc ">https://youtu.be/Xxn4TYdtb...
#LockdownUK tee shirt today is @NineBlackAlps - saw them a good few times back in the noughties, the best of which was at the Leicester Charlotte, a venue that hosted some astoundingly top gigs.
Another #LockdownUK day and it& #39;s @theenemyband today - another band I saw multiple times. My favourite moment was pranking them at HMV Northampton when, as local police sergeant, I went and "briefed" them before a signing event. They didn& #39;t know I was a cop prior to this... 1/
2/... so they stood there listening and nodding until Andy slowly recognised me under the police cap and sussed it out! I wish I had photos of that - perhaps @tomclarkemusic still has them? Anyway, brilliant band, amazing live energy and really really nice blokes!
I& #39;m not sure it& #39;s going to be a constructive summer, but I& #39;ve got to hope that is only @theholdsteady that almost kill me. Yes, today& #39;s tee is in tribute to the best band out of the twin cities and features a line from Stuck Between Stations. Remember, words won& #39;t save your life
I& #39;m on the fiddle today with @the_levellers and the oldest tee I can find. Got it at the Aston Villa gig in 1995. It was so loud my wife& #39;s ears were ringing for days afterwards! Didn& #39;t stop us seeing them many times since though. Roll on the new album & rearranged Aylesbury gig.
I& #39;m going missing for a while - as we all are.I always feel a bit like Dennis the Menace when I wear my MaxĂŻmo Park tee! Yes, @maximopark are today& #39;s band. Fabulous live act, such energy and class! Here& #39;s to The National Health!
And in the death, as the last few corpses last rotting in the slimy thoroughfare... Cheerful post-apocalyptic bantz from the subject of today& #39;s #LockdownUK tee, none other than my all-time fave @DavidBowieReal Only saw him once, MK Bowl, but he was such a life influence for me.
It& #39;s another #LockdownUK day and we& #39;re miles apart so I& #39;m going to kiss away the sun cos we& #39;re all gonna die anyway. Yeah, a little more obscure than yesterday& #39;s Bowie, this is @lostsoulsclub - splendid but defunct shoegaze band I saw at @Blissfields back in 2012 - happy days!
Plenty of smokers outside the hospital doors at the moment, but the racing rats in this light and on this evening eat raw meat... @editorsofficial are today& #39;s #LockdownUK tee! Love this shirt, as you can see it& #39;s well worn and washed!
And until the sun is over the yardarm, it& #39;s more sedate liquids in the appropriate @BSPOfficial mug and the excellent autobiography of @AstroMCollins - a hero of my life!
Stay home ya fuckers! Another @RigidDigits Stiff Little Fingers shirt for today& #39;s #LockdownUK tee. Remember, be safe as houses and stop this turning into a state of emergency! You& #39;ll be nobody& #39;s hero of you have a wasted life. (Don& #39;t) Go for it!
I once appeared in the background of a BBC news item in this tee - of course it& #39;s the mighty Joe Strummer! So yes, @TheClash is today& #39;s #LockdownUK tee. It& #39;s an old shirt, showing the ravages of time, but then, that& #39;s me too..
@idlesband make another appearance on today& #39;s lockdown tee, and to add to the whole moment I& #39;m listening to the live at Le Bataclan album! Splendid!
We are back to @Buzzcocks today, with the Orgasm Addict shirt, and a sunny morning in the back garden. I love this shirt - the design is excellent but rarely get to wear it as my family socially distanced themselves if I did, years before it was a thing!
@twentyonepilots again today for my #LockdownUK tee. This one was a limited Trench edition. It may not be very punk, but I love this band! I have to thank my two youngest for making me take them to see ToP in 2016 and becoming their newest fan 30 seconds into the first song!
Zoot I& #39;m Zoot I& #39;m Zoot... Yes, it& #39;s another fun-packed day in my house and today is my lovely @mysteryjets Zootime tee. Zootime is one of my most fave MJs songs and I even had the thrill of Henry getting me onstage to bash tambourine to it once!
I picked up the poster on the last night of their Eel Pie Island tour back in about the mid 15th century I think... They hadn& #39;t even seen it themselves when I got them to sign it! @blaineharrison @KAAPSLOCK @MRREES_
It& #39;s Friday, so my #LockdownUK tee is from @BSPOfficial as it& #39;s #timstwitterlisteningparties with British Sea Power at 7.30pm. Man of Aran is tonight & is a new soundtrack for a very old documentary. Btw this tee is supposed to be a cypher but I& #39;ve never worked it out. Anyone?
Waking the world up to how we need society to change - @the_levellers feature again on my #LockdownUK tee. This one is a little on the snug side it& #39;s fair to say! Must have shrunk in the cupboard... Roll on the new album and rearranged Aylesbury gig!
A real pang of missing normal life (whatever that is) with today& #39;s lockdown tee. The absolutely brilliant @MurderCapital_ was the last band I saw live before this all started to go tits up and I should have been seeing them at @TruckFestival but there& #39;s no chance it& #39;ll happen.
Still, I have the setlist from it and some photos.
This thread has become the chronicles of a Bohemian middle-aged man rather than Sam Duckworth& #39;s teenager of his Get Cape Wear Cape Fly days. But the songs are more than self indulgent rants, as is this thread! @forgetcape
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