#joboxers

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JoBoxers, 80's

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The Metro #687

This week on The Metro, Rev. Jeff Ivins brings you the following bands for your weekly time travel to the 1980s: Air Supply, M, Toni Basil, The Style Council, Yazoo, Tom Tom Club, Mental As Anything, Bad Manners, Falco, Pat Benatar, Kenny Loggins, Glass Tiger, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Joboxers, The Police, and finishing up with Phil Seymour. Stream The Metro #687. Download The Metro #687.

[80sbandsandmusicians]

PARTY ON BOXING DAY ft The Dark Destroyer from The Chase TV

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The Subway Sect Mark II shattered after performing their Club Left 'Songs For Sale' set in Paris in 1981 as captured by Sarah Partridge (photo no.1).

So what did punks do after the early days of filth and fury? By ’78, the early UK punk scene was already fracturing: after the Pistols crashed & burned, a fraternity of post punk musicians attempted to break from punk clichés and experiment with non-rock styles, Crass declared that punk was dead, as did Pete Shelley with Buzzcocks entering their pop punk formative phase while street punk and Oi! Bands attempted to redefine punk.

Vic Godard was there right from the very start, since his Subway Sect were among the performers at the legendary 100 Club ’76 Punk Festival sharing the bill with Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Clash and the Sex Pistols.

theguardian.com/ : “Vic, in league with Bernie Rhodes, was thinking of an even more shocking revolt against conventional taste: cocktail jazz. Rhodes persuaded Godard to ditch the original Sect and hired a fresh group of musicians with a little more swing than the original band. One of the first public expressions of this was Club Left, a regular night that ran at the Whisky a Go Go in Soho as the ‘80s began. The idea was to annoy everyone. But this sonic handbrake turn went on to point a lot of music – and a lot of punks – in a very different direction.”

The Clash’s manager Bernard Rhodes recruited keyboardist Dave Collard (photo no.2 by Coneyl Jay), bassist Chris Bostock (photo no.3 by Ian Usher), guitarist Rob Marche (photo no.4) and drummer Sean McLusky (photo no.5), key members of various Bristol groups, who along with Vic Godard formed a new incarnation of Subway Sect with a completely different sound influenced by ’40s-style crooner music mixed with jazz, soul, rockabilly and skiffle, which was referred to as ‘Cool Bop and Swing’. These cool cats, a London ‘Rat Pack’ with Johnny Britton as the regular Club Left DJ, even toured extensively and their refined set became the “Songs for Sale” album.

“I remember looking down from the club’s floor-to-ceiling window one night just before opening, and seeing a queue stretching round the corner into Shaftesbury Avenue. We attracted an amazingly eclectic crowd, and you never knew who would turn up together with our hard-core regulars…”. Rob Marche “Club Left hosted a weekly array of great performers. If it had an ethos, it was a simple nod to the Beatnik past of Soho and Paris of the 60's”. Sean McLusky

The far-retro Club Left project reintroduced various people to easy listening. Artists such as Sade or the group of young women, who had supplied occasional backing vocals for the likes of Shane McGowan’s first band, the Nipple Erectors, and went on to become Bananarama. When Vic Godard got married and took a break from music in ’82, the rest of the band with the addition of Dig Wayne became the JoBoxers, fusing elements of northern soul, rockabilly, NY disco and funk.

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[flagrantflower]

Title: “Jojo Kaisen”

Book cover excerpt: “Appreciates Gojo because it's just one word different from Jojo. J also sounds like G. Coincidence? I think not.”

If you scroll down long enough you will see some Jujutsu Kaisen nestling between the Jojos. Can I interest you with a pair of JoBoxers?

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“The amount of Jojo amidst the Kaisen will blow your mind!” — The Guardian

"Certified yapper!" —The New Yorker Book Review

"AAAAHH SATOSUGU AAAHHHH" — Rea Pearson, The Observer

[ayo I just learned of your blog last month so I hope my summary is apt enough...?]

the summary is very apt excluding the non fandom reblogs which most sly consist of random animals/humans doing weird stuff

this truly was our jojo kaisen

[punk-chicken-radio]

joboxers - boxerbeat

-ax and TOS

[nojarama]

Happy anniversary to JoBoxers’ single, “Just Got Lucky”. Released this week in 1982. #joboxers #justgotlucky #likegangbusters

[whydotheheathenrage]

Dig Wayne, of JoBoxers. Illustration by Ian Wright, in NME 17 Sept, 1983

[churchofsatannews]

The Metro #671

This week on The Metro, Warlock Jeff Ivins brings you the following bands for your weekly time trip to the 80s: Miracle Legion, Joboxers, Echo & The Bunnymen, Greg Kihn Band, The Motels, Corey Hart, Cyndi Lauper, Fun Boy Three, A Flock Of Seagulls, Howard Jones, Depeche Mode, Rave-Ups, Paul Hardcastle, and ending off with Billy Idol. Stream The Metro #671.Download The Metro #671.

[so-this-is-my-blog-i-guess]

JoBoxers - Just Got Lucky (1983 - Like Gangbusters)

Been in my head for the last two days. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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X-CERTS - Queen And Country

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JoBoxers - Is This Really the First Time

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Just Got Lucky - JoBoxers (Like Gangbusters, 1983)

[nojarama]

Happy 40th anniversary to JoBoxers’ single, “Don’t Try To Stop It”. Released this week in 1983. #joboxers #donttrytostopit #cookingontheroof