10 more unusual covers

I was at the Futurama 2 festival at the Queens Hall in Leeds in 1980. Virtually bottom of the bill was Soft Cell, who did a cover of Black Sabbath's Paranoid! Obviously the general reaction to the opening line was "you're not fooling anyone Son". That said they did a great set and won the crowd over. Wierdly the vast majority of the crowd that day were "alpha male" punks in Biker jackets, Jeans and Doc's. Most of them also had Adam And The Ants sprayed on the back of their jackets! Funny old world!
 
Squarewheelbike said:
I was at the Futurama 2 festival at the Queens Hall in Leeds in 1980. Virtually bottom of the bill was Soft Cell, who did a cover of Black Sabbath's Paranoid! Obviously the general reaction to the opening line was "you're not fooling anyone Son". That said they did a great set and won the crowd over. Wierdly the vast majority of the crowd that day were "alpha male" punks in Biker jackets, Jeans and Doc's. Most of them also had Adam And The Ants sprayed on the back of their jackets! Funny old world!
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I think, from memory, that was the one where the Smiths refused to play cos Bay City Rollers were on the bill???
 
Squarewheelbike said:
Not in 1980! Must've been few years later, 83/84?
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Ahh, was that the year PiL played behind the white sheet??? I went to two from memory, but can't have been as late as 83/4 as I'd moved to London by then...
Gotta say though the streams of pish running through the Queens Hall during the festivals will always stick in the memory
 
bungydinsdale said:
Ahh, was that the year PiL played behind the white sheet??? I went to two from memory, but can't have been as late as 83/4 as I'd moved to London by then...
Gotta say though the streams of pish running through the Queens Hall during the festivals will always stick in the memory
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Had a rummage around on the net, Smiths/BCR's 1983 apparently! PIL '79.

When I was there Banshees were headliners, Bunnymen pretty high up too, a largely unknown U2 about halfway down the bill! Personal highlights for me were Clock DVA and like most teenage lads in the place falling in love with Clare Grogan the moment she skipped onto stage!
 
I'd never heard of this woman til about a month ago when I came across King Hannah's cover of Springsteen's State Trooper and through that this. Besides The Kills she's done lots of collaborations plus some pretty cool covers inc this

 
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