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Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Things of Interest # 3:
Meet the Renees.
Sorry for the brief hiatus in posting – just moved house and am busy with all manner of related and unrelated craziness.
Never mind that though: meet the Gymslips! Brought to my attention via Girls Can Tell, they’re the most thuggish, drunken '80s girl-punk band I've ever heard;
It seems that a few years later a couple of Gymslips, plus one of Delta 5 and a few other folks, regrouped as The Renees, and tried to make it big with a synth-heavy Human League styled single entitled "He Called Me A Fat Pig". Both song and video are brilliant, and completely mental;
I think the bit where the little girl starts stabbing a monstrous, deflating foam rubber policeman with a pitchfork stands as an all-time classic “and they wonder why they didn’t make it to Top of the Pops” moment.
Enjoy, or just feel faintly disturbed!
Labels: aggro, Delta 5, Gymslips, punk, The Renees, things of interest, videos
