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Punkrock HistoryHappy Birthday to Howard Devoto, English singer, songwriter and frontman for the punk rock band the Buzzcocks, former member of the post punk band Magazine, born on this day in 1952Photo by Ebet Roberts <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/punk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#punk</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/punks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#punks</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/punkrock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#punkrock</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/howarddevoto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#howarddevoto</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/punkrockhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#punkrockhistory</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#otd</a>

Roman ALAN"School Days" for Jukebox Friday Night, and some of those days are filled with ennui …Buzzcocks, "Boredom" (1977)This is the band fronted by Howard Devoto, before he went off to form Magazine later the same year.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLN8k2SvtXc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLN8k2SvtXc</a><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/JukeboxFridayNight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JukeboxFridayNight</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/SchoolDays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SchoolDays</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Buzzcocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Buzzcocks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/HowardDevoto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HowardDevoto</a>

Bishop Joey (he/him)<a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/NowPlaying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NowPlaying</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmListening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmListening</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Luxuria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luxuria</a> Live in 1988 <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/HowardDevoto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HowardDevoto</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Noko" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Noko</a> I'd forgotten how good this pairing was. Beast Box was in heavy rotation for me when it came out. And one can't complain about any rendition of The Light Pours Out Of Me, especially with the original singer belting it out and the bass right at the front.<a href="https://youtu.be/NUMLDfxu1_M" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/NUMLDfxu1_M</a>

Roman ALANSo what was I to read as a teenager? All sorts of bookish people managed to get me curious about certain titles, like Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Notes from Underground" –Magazine, "A Song from Under the Floorboards" (1980, live 1980)<a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/JukeboxFridayNight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JukeboxFridayNight</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/BookishBeats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BookishBeats</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Magazine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Magazine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/HowardDeVoto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HowardDeVoto</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/FyodorDostoyevsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FyodorDostoyevsky</a>"I am angry, I am ill and I'm as ugly as sin, my irritability keeps me alive and kicking …" (Just great lines for your suburban teenage angst!)<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EWyLnKbPyo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EWyLnKbPyo</a>

Dan Kletter 🥑<a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/NowPlaying" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NowPlaying</a> <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/TheSpindle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TheSpindle</a> Marc and John delve into what may be the first true post-punk single: <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Magazine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Magazine</a>’s 1978 7-inch “Shot by Both Sides” backed with “My Mind Ain’t So Open.” Led by <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/HowardDevoto" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#HowardDevoto</a>, the former Buzzcock who was already disillusioned with punk, Magazine truly ripped it up and started again, pulling the music of late 70s UK into the future. <a href="https://wastoids.com/2023/09/07/magazine-shot-by-both-sides-b-w-my-mind-aint-so-open-the-spindle/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://wastoids.com/2023/09/07/magazine-shot-by-both-sides-b-w-my-mind-aint-so-open-the-spindle/</a>

Punkrock HistoryHappy Birthday to Howard Devoto, English singer, songwriter and frontman for the punk rock band the Buzzcocks, former member of the post punk band Magazine, born on this day in 1952Photo by Per-Ake Wärn<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/punk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#punk</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/punks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#punks</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/punkrock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#punkrock</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/howarddevoto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#howarddevoto</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/punkrockhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#punkrockhistory</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#otd</a>

KealohaSome brilliant and temperature relevant Howard Devoto (one of my absolute favorite witty lyricists) to start this cold and snow buried day in the Rockies. “Hey, I'm freezing Icicles are on the vine This ice age It could finish off Frankenstein”<a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#music</a> <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/vinylcollection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vinylcollection</a> <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/howarddevoto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#howarddevoto</a> <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/coldimagination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coldimagination</a>

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