In defense of Bolle

[Chris Bates]

Martyn Lawrence wrote of HW support acts:

> Well from memory        1977    -       Bethnal
>                         1978    -       Patrik Fitzgerald/Somebody else
>                                         Pf was support @ Portsmouth,but
>                                         later @reading someone else.
>                         1979            Doll BY Doll
>                         1980            Vardis

Awful. Truly awful. Weren't they from the north east? I always sort
of associate them with Venom, don't know why. Best thing about 'em
was that the guitarist put talc in his hair and would shake it out in
a big cloud at the start of the set. This was moderately effective
indoors but totally useless when they supported Motorhead at an all
dayer at the Port Vale ground.

>                         1981            Mama's boys
>                         1982            Baron Rojo

Now if Vardis were awful, then this lot made me ashamed to be a heavy
metal fan. I wonder what I would have said if anyone had said to me:
*that Baron Rojo are a heavy metal band aren't they? How can you like
that stuff?* Could I, I wonder, legitimately have claimed that they
were excused by dint of being Spanish? Maybe just as the French are unable
to Rock and Roll (allegedly), maybe the Spanish can't....

Ah, but my Euroscepticism must fall apart, for what of Judas Priest or
Witchfynder General (album on red vinyl, cover of woman being ravaged in
churchyard if memory serves, music of no notable value!)?


Chris Bates