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Member Since9/19/2004
Band Websitehttp://the-gonads.co.uk
Band MembersGal: Vox
Tony Feedback: Lead Guitar
Andy 'Scoops' Gonad: bass
Gentleman John Woodward: Rhythm Guitar
Wattsie Watts: Vox
Slim Jim Gonad, aka The Piddler: Drums

Floating or AWOL members
Clyde Gonad: Rhythm Guitar
Casanova Kev: Bass
Steve Bishop: Lead Guitar
André Schlesinger: SynthGuitar
Bobby Gonad: harmonica
Sarah Vezmar: Drums, backing vox
Andy Kilminster: Drums
Chinese Tim: wok
Flag girls: Wattsie Watts, Abigail Print, Charlton Lisa, Chelsea Lisa, Rashida Way

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InfluencesMalt, Hops, Barley, Fermented Grains and Various Vegetable Matter and the rare but occasional Grape.
Sounds Like"A great lusty raspberry of creative excess." Lord Waistrel.

"Revolution." Russell Brand

"The pure gold of the Music Hall." Terence Hayes (Jolly Prankster, MPL)

"What we would sound like if we were pissed." The Libertines

Record LabelCaptain Oi!/Empty Records/Soitainly Records
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Dec 5 2009 8:00P
The Garage LONDON
Jan 8 2010 8:00P
tommy-weissbecker-haus BERLIN
Jan 9 2010 8:00P
Drums Weimar (Bootboys Weimar) Weimar, Thüringen
Jan 29 2010 8:00P
Ivory Blacks, Glasgow Glasgow, Scotland
Apr 24 2010 8:00P
Circus Tavern Essex, London and South East
May 1 2010 8:00P
TJs, Newport Newport, Gwent, Wales
May 29 2010 8:00P
Total Oi! Festival Torgau, Sachsen

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   About The Gonads - Live Free, Die Free
Download our Ska EP featuring 'Oi Mate', 'South London Aggro Girl' and 'Charlton Tel's Stag Weekend' from i-tunes at just 79p a track. Click here to buy.


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Oi, Oi, Oi, who's that there? Combat jackets and short cropped hair. Men of iron, men and muckers. The real red army Tucker's Ruckers!


You can buy Gonads stuff here: BUY HERE

The Gonads started life as Pink Tent in 1975, but were kicked up the jacksie by The Clash and The Sex Pistols a year later. Inspired by the Small Faces, Max Romeo and the Ramones, with a subtle hint of Ian Dury and not so subtle hints of Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Gonads exploded onto the South London Punk scene like an agitated pint of lager on a warm Summer's day...which is about as long we stayed together the first time round. "We could have been massive," says Si Spanner. "If only we'd played outside of SE7." Founder member and punk zine writer turned Sounds rock scribe Garry Bushell (alias Gal Gonad) reformed the band in 1979 with a Cockney Reject here and a member of the Business and The Blood there for support...and Hoxton Tom on occasional backing vocals. At the time, Gal was fighting what often seemed a lone battle for bands like the Ruts, the UK Subs, the Skids and the Members in the increasingly jaded UK rock press. Gal's Gonads were were instrumental in defining the Oi music genre and pioneered StreetPunk as well as the now over-looked style known today as "Punk Pathetique." The band's legendary early songs include 'I Lost My Love To A UK Sub', 'Jobs Not Jails', 'Sandra Bigg (Really Big)', 'The Joys Of Oi', 'Got Any Wrigleys John', 'Punk Rock Will Never Die', 'Eat The Rich', and 'Tucker's Ruckers Ain't No Suckers.' Contemporaries of, and often sharing liner notes with (as well as a few band members) such groups as the Cockney Rejects, the 4-Skins, The Business, Max Splodge, and Oi poet Garry Johnson, the Gonads appeared under various guises and incarnations including the Magnificent Gonads, Gary & the Gonads, the Brothers Gonad (w/ Max Splodge) the Orgasm Guerrillas, Prole and Lord Waistrel & The Cosh Boys. They added humour and passion to the original series of Oi albums, which Gal also conceived and compiled.

Today, after some 31 years, The Gonads are still going strong with Garry Bushell, now an accomplished author and media personality, on lead vocals, along with long time first mate Clyde Ward, a much sought after producer and studio musician on Bass, and American member André Schlesinger, formerly of NYC Oi legend The Press and currently heading Maninblack, on guitar synthesizer, Tony Feedback (formerly of the Angelic Upstarts and Joe Public; also with Long Tall Shorty), Gentleman John on rhythm guitar, Jim Gonad on drums, Andy 'Scoops' on bass and Wattsie Watts on vocals. The Gonads have just finished our brand new 18-track studio album 'Glorious Bastards' which should be released in December 2009 by Contra Records; it includes guest appearances from Steve Whale of the Masons, Kiria, and Leah McCaffery. .

Gonads afficiandos can show their appreciation by visiting the official Gonads website and leaving their comments in our guestbook.

Oi! – A statement from The Gonads: Brothers, sisters and friends...we are an Oi-Tone band; we mix street-punk, Ska and Cockney humour. We are Londoners, we are English and we are working class – and we are rightly proud of being so. But we're not obsessive about it. All are welcome at our shows. The Gonads started as a street socialist punk band and became one of the leading first generation Oi! bands. We’re about “having a laugh and having a say.” We have strong views on individual liberty. But we don’t preach politics. We are patriotic but for the benefit of halfwits, cultural snobs and lazy newspaper hacks let us state that we are not now, have never been and will never be a racist band. Ska is part of our musical and cultural heritage, along with the Music Hall, rock, punk, The Long Good Friday, Spike Milligan and Carry On films. And if you dig that, you will probably dig us.

The Gonads would like to thank all their fans, groupies, minders and hangers-ons for their continuing support. This page will be constantly updated with news about the band, drunken ranting blogs from Gal and Lord Waistrel, and myself, and alternating MP3 files of all the Gonads hits so check back often! You can cop hold of most of our latest CDs direct from us; go HERE And if you'd like to book us or Gal as a punk and ska DJ email waistrel@the-gonads.co.uk and our tour mistress shonagroves@aol.com. If anyone has any other questions or comments that need immediate attention, or if you just want to talk to a Gonad, please feel free to bother Gonads' road manager Fat Col by raising him on AIM (user name: FatCol) Ha ha!

GONADS - The Complete Discography

Singles and eps

1977 Stroke My Beachcomber Baby (Scrotum Records)

1982 Pure Punk For Row People (Secret Records); ep

1982 Peace Artists (Secret Records); ep

1983 Delilah – The Punk Epic (Razor Records); ep – as Max & Gal, the Brothers Gonad

1997 Oi Nutter (1,2,3,4 Records, UK; Pub City Royal, USA)

2006 Oi Mate (Soitainly) – download single

2008 Punk Is Back (Havin’ a Laugh Records) – split vinyl ep with Klasse Kriminale

2008 Go Ska With The Gonads (Soitainly) – download ep

2008 St George’s Day ep (Soitainly) – download ep

Albums

1983 Live And Loud - The Official Bootleg, The Gonads (Syndicate Records), double album

1987 Full Time Result (Link) – split album with The Blood

1989 The Revenge Of The Gonads (Street Link)

1994 Punk Rock Will Never Die (Harry May)

1999 Oi! Back & Barking (Captain Oi)

2001 Schitz-oi!-phrenia (Captain Oi)

2006 Old Boots No Panties (Captain Oi)

2008 Live Free, Die Free (Empty)

2009 Live Free, Die Free (Joe Pogo) - vinyl double album

* NEW ALBUM DUE DECEMBER 2009 - WATCH THIS SPACE!*

Tracks and oddities

1981 Tucker’s Ruckers Ain’t No Suckers – track on Carry On Oi (Secret)

1981 Oi Christmas – track on the Bollocks To Xmas ep (Secret)

1982 TNT – track on the Total Noise ep (Total Noise)

1982 Getting Pissed – track on Oi Oi That’s Yer Lot (Secret)

1983 Jobs Not Jails and Lager Top Blues – tracks on Son Of Oi (Syndicate), (we also appeared as Prole and the Orgasm Guerrillas)

1984 SE7 Dole Day – track on The Oi Of Sex (Syndicate), (we also appeared as Prole and the Orgasm Guerrillas)

1984 The Joys Of Oi and Eat The Rich on The Joys of Oi (Syndicate - not released until years later). And we think, although the memory is going with old age, that this is the comp that featured Gal's 'Reg & Ron' by Lord Waistrel & The Cosh Boys with Mark Brabbs from Tank as Waistrel.

2002 Unky Bunk – track on Addicted To Oi (Captain Oi)

2007 Hey You – track on Oi! Fuck You (Ascalon Records)

2008 Alconaut and Valhallaballoo – tracks on The Kings Of Streetpunk (GnR Records), (we also appeared as the Orgasm Guerrillas and The High Priests Of Mong)

 

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Lucy Chicken

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Nov 13 2009 7:05 PM

Hahaha.... Had a really great time at the gig. Got some smashin' pics. Just a small problem... My brother doesn't believe that the man in the pics, Is Garry Bushell. He thinks the man in the pic is one of those look-a-like, imposter people! The cheeky fucker! Hahahahaha.... What is one to do? And how the devil is the gorgeous Fat Col? I miss the old git! Send him my love and a couple of chicken wings. XXXX




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Nov 12 2009 7:31 PM


*You Made A Deal With The Devil*.
Thanks a lot for your support!

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Cheers & Beers, Andre
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Nov 12 2009 7:31 PM

THE FINAL ATROCITY!
Club Hell is closing its gates!
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This'll be quite a thing...


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Nov 11 2009 4:53 PM

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Nov 11 2009 4:53 PM

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Nov 11 2009 4:53 PM


 

BOOZE&GLORY (new songs!)

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Nov 11 2009 4:52 PM

New song on our website! Temporary version without final mix&mastering... Check this out!

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Nov 11 2009 4:52 PM

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Nov 11 2009 4:51 PM

Hey you gonads! NeVEr MiNd ThE Bollocks!
GreaT ENERGIE yOU GoT ,

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Nov 7 2009 11:19 AM

Have a great weekend!!!!

All the best to you!!!!!!!!

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Nov 7 2009 11:19 AM

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Nov 6 2009 7:45 PM

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