FRIDAY 11 & 12|Ian Anderson, bleached-blond frontman from Stiff Little Punks and Lazy Drunks, is back! During the ‘80s, before he quit the UK, Anderson’s Leicester-based band Crazyhead had opened for none other than Iggy Pop, The Cult, the Ramones and the Sex Pistols. Singer of everything ‘from trenchant social commentary to the surreal, but always with an underlying vein of black humour’, Anderson is back from his new Thai home for two nights of noise only. Did he have any idea, during the ‘70s, that punk rock would prove so enduring? “No, I’m pleasantly surprised. I didn’t know what to think. I thought by the year 2000 we’d all be flying around on spaceship skateboards and wearing silver suits…”
WHO: Ian Anderson with Stuff Little Punks and Lazy Drunks
WHAT: Punk, innit?!
WHERE: Sharky Bar, Street 130
WHEN: 9pm April 11 & 12
WHY: Punk’s not dead, it just needed a nap!